Summary: Dateline October 3, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 3, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 tanker trucks carrying oil for NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan — the third such strike inside Pakistan in as many days.

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Summary: Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Muslim cleric who played a significant operational role in al-Qaida, plotting and inspiring terrorist attacks on the United States, has been killed in a drone missile strike in Yemen. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 2, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the U.S. State Department, responding to credible al-Qaida threats, issued a travel alert urging American citizens to be vigilant if they planned to travel in Europe. Officials did not identify specific targets, but thought terrorists might launch Mumbai-style “swarm attacks.”

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Summary: Dateline October 1, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 1, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical, anti-American Muslim cleric — whose Mahdi Army militia once fought U.S. occupation forces in Iraq — positioned himself as a big winner in Iraq’s months-long political deadlock when his Sadrist party threw its support behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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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 September 30, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops.

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Summary: Dateline September 29, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 29, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad had come under an intensifying barrage of rocket attacks in recent weeks, with a senior American military commander suggesting that Iranian-backed militias were behind the attacks in an effort to influence the formation of a new Iraqi government.

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Summary: Dateline September 28, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 28, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: Dateline September 27, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a U.S. soldier, Army Spc. Neftaly Platero, had been taken in custody in connection with the shooting deaths of two fellow service members, Spc. John Carrillo Jr. and Pfc. Gebrah P. Noonan, in Fallujah, Iraq.

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Summary: An Afghan employee of the U.S. government opened fire inside a CIA office in Kabul, killing an American and injuring another in the second major breach of embassy security in two weeks. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a Kurdistan Workers Party-linked group it said was involved in the previous week’s bombing of a military parade in Mahabad, situated in Iran’s northwestern Kurdish region, which killed 12 women and children.

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Summary: Dateline September 25, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured the five-member “Red team,” which is rethinking the war in Afghanistan and questioning some of the basic assumptions behind the effort to clean up corruption and gain the upper hand over the Taliban.

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Summary: Dateline September 24, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured NBC News’ Voter Confidence Index (VCI), a measure of the political climate, which uses a combination of three questions commonly asked in national polls: the president’s job approval rating, the direction of the country (right track / wrong track), and the generic congressional ballot.

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