Summary: President Barack Obama declared an end to U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 23, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Michele Bachmann had asked the Minnesota Secretary of State to remove her name from the publicly available voter registration records under a legal provision designed to protect past or potential victims of domestic abuse, and commented that the real problem with Michele Bachmann is not her self-centeredness, her unresponsiveness to the needs of her constituents, her meager legislative accomplishments, or even her voting record, but her delusion-like paranoia, her shameless conspiracy-peddling, and her incessant fear-mongering.

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Summary: The 22nd anniversary of the abduction of Jacob Wetterling is being marked with a large donation to the AMBER Alert program, which notifies the community about missing children. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman commemorated the 21st anniversary of Jacob Wetterling’s abduction on October 22, 1989 in St. Joseph, Minn.

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Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed near his home town of Sirte. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 20, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that an internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency documented a litany of intelligence breakdowns leading to the Dec. 30, 2009 suicide attack in Afghanistan by Jordanian double agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi that killed seven CIA employees.

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Summary: Dateline October 19, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Center for Public Integrity revealed that Rep. Michelle Bachmann wrote behind-the-scenes letters requesting stimulus funds from the federal government, even while publicly opposing the economic stimulus package.

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Summary: Dateline October 18, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman announced an informal meet-and-greet around the issue of higher education on behalf of Independent candidate for Minnesota governor, Tom Horner, at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn.

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Summary: Dateline October 17, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that the day marked the second anniversary of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s infamous Oct. 17, 2008 appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, which propelled her into the national spotlight when she called for a media investigation reminiscent of McCarthy-era witch hunts to “find out [which members of Congress] are pro-America or anti-America.”

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Summary: Dateline October 16, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. law enforcement authorities received two separate warnings that an American businessman was plotting a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, with the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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Summary: Dateline October 15, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that unmanned U.S. aircraft launched two missile strikes in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, killing nine people in a continuing escalation of drone strikes targeting leaders of the Taliban insurgency.

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Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 14, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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