Summary: Three violent strikes against Iraqi security forces killed 19 people and wounded more than 50 across Iraq as the country struggles to protect itself while facing the U.S. military’s departure at the end of 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 14, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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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.

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Summary: A new report by the Wartime Contracting Commission estimates that about $60 billion in taxpayer money has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade of war. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 31, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosque, killing 29 people during prayers, including an Iraqi member of parliament. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 28, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Dan Rassier, a teacher whom police call a “person of interest” in the Jacob Wetterling abduction, was assigned to a different elementary school, provoking an outcry from some parents at his new school. “They’ve brought concerns about placing their children in a potentially dangerous situation,” said Sister Sharon Waldoch, principal of St. Boniface School in Cold Spring, Minn.

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Summary: In the year since the United States formally ended its combat mission in Iraq, 57 American troops have died there, with June 2011 the deadliest month in Iraq since 2008, with the death of 15 service members. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a suicide bomber detonated nail-packed explosives strapped to his body among hundreds of army recruits, killing 61 and wounding 125, casting new doubt on the military capacity of Iraqi forces as U.S. troops began to head home.

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Summary: Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities in apparently coordinated attacks that killed more than 80 security forces and civilians and wounded at least 300. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman commemorated the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II with Japan’s surrender to the allied forces.

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Summary: Christian cleansing continued in post-Saddam Iraq as a car bomb outside a Christian church in the north of the country wounded 23 people and security forces found and disabled vehicles packed with explosives outside two other churches in Kirkuk. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 3, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: Three rockets fired from a mainly Shiite neighborhood hit Baghdad’s Green Zone during Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to Iraq. Panetta said the U.S. is concerned about Iran providing weapons to Iraqi militants and will take unilateral action if needed to deal with the threat. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 11, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 5 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “The Rhetoric of the New Right.”

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Summary: A car packed with explosives and a roadside bomb went off back-to-back outside a municipal building north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 37 people and wounding 54. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 5, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that more than 100 foreign troops died in Afghanistan in June 2010, making it the deadliest month to date in the then nine-year-long war.

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Summary: Shiite militias backed by Iran have ramped up attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, making June 2011 the deadliest month in two years for American forces. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 30, 2010, Aubrey Immelman observed that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s paranoid “One-World” delusion had reared its head yet again. While lunacy has traditionally been associated with the phases of the moon, this particular figment of Bachmann’s paranoia seems to wax and wane on an annual cyle coinciding with the yearly G-20 summit.

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