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Summary: Taliban insurgents launched a brazen attack in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic and military enclave targeting the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Afghanistan. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 13, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that two protesters died and four were injured as Afghans protested for a third day against a plan by Florida pastor Terry Jones to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran.



Summary: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his militias to halt attacks against U.S. forces until the withdrawal is finished at the end of 2011 as required under a Bush-era status-of-forces agreement between Washington and Baghdad. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 12, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that the Star Tribune — Minnesota’s largest and most influential newspaper — ran an extraordinary editorial that spoke to the core issues in Minnesota’s 2010 gubernatorial race.


Sep 11th, 2011

Summary: Ten years after the United States was unified in horror in the wake of the terrorist attack of 9/11, President Barack Obama, in solidarity with former president George W. Bush, honored the legacy of the victims and heroes of September 11. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 11, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that on a day of mourning for nearly 3,000 9/11 victims on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attack of September 11, President Barack Obama called for national unity as the ‘ground zero mosque’ and Quran-burning controversies threatened to overshadow memorial events.


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 9th, 2011

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 9, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan, the fourth such attack on suspected insurgent targets there in 24 hours.


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.


Sep 4th, 2011

Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 4, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose to 65 as critically wounded people died in hospitals, while a suspected U.S. missile strike killed seven insurgents.