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Sep 21st, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Sep 19th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that two car bombs tore through Baghdad, killing more than 30 people and wounding dozens more as tensions simmered six months after an inconclusive election and three weeks after U.S. troops ended major combat in Iraq.


Sep 18th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that, amid Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament — the first election since a fraud-marred presidential ballot in 2009 cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government.


Sep 17th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman commemorated the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787 — one of the most significant and momentous events in American history.


Sep 15th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was caught in a lie — saying she opposed the so-called Legacy Amendment, which raised Minnesota sales tax by 3/8ths of 1 percent, despite previously having pandered to outdoorsmen and conservationists by publicly endorsing the measure in appearances before the Game Fair in Anoka, Minn.


Sep 10th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Americans approached the ninth anniversary of 9/11 with a lower-than-usual sense that the country was any safer than it was before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, with just 48 percent of Americans saying the country was more secure than it was before the terrorist attack, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.


Sep 8th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 8, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that an Iraqi soldier sprayed gunfire at American troops guarding one of their commanders as he visited an Iraqi military base, killing two and wounding nine.


Sep 7th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 7, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Sep 6th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 6, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan up to that point in 2010 had reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009.


Sep 5th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 5, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iran allegedly was paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, according to a report in the London Sunday Times.