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.
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.
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.
Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 3, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, on a visit to Camp Nathan Smith, headquarters for U.S. operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan, said the likelihood of direct U.S. military engagement in Pakistan was very low but that “unfortunately, there are going to be more tough days ahead” in Afghanistan.
Summary: Today in history (on the Immelman for Congress website). … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 1, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a spike in bloodshed in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in just four days, elevating the U.S. death toll for August 2010 to 55, with a total of 76 fatalities for NATO forces.
Summary: Americans are angry at Congress; according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll, approval of Congress has dropped to just 12 percent. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a total of 46 students and nine teachers were treated in a Kabul, Afghanistan, hospital after what an official at the education ministry described as “an apparent poisoning” attack by “the enemies of women’s education.” However, the pattern of the reported illness displayed key diagnostic features of a group psychological reaction known as mass hysteria.
Summary: Harold Camping, the octogenarian multimillionaire preacher who heads the worldwide religious broadcasting network Family Radio, predicted years ago that the End Times — the coming Judgment Day, Armageddon, the Apocalypse, Doomsday, the End of the World — would be revealed today, Saturday, May 21, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a car bomb exploded at an open-air market in the Shiite town of Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, killing 23 people and wounding more than 50.
Summary: “Urbi et Orbi” — Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that an explosion that killed an American and an Afghan soldier on a military base in Kabul on April 19, 2010 was carried out by a suicide bomber, the second time in five months an insurgent had managed to infiltrate a base.
Summary: An Associated Press-GfK poll finds disapproval over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul has subsided, with fewer than one-third of respondents strongly opposed to the law and only about one in four saying they want to do away with “Obamacare” completely. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on January 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that despite Pakistani protest, the Obama administration was ramping up its missile campaign against insurgent targets in North Waziristan along Pakistan’s northwest frontier with Afghanistan, where al-Qaida’s top leadership, possibly including Osama bin Laden himself, had taken refuge.
Summary: Now that they’re freshmen in a GOP-run House, the Tea Party movement’s candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions, and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on January 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Spanish lawmaker Gaspar Llamazares was horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an age-enhanced image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.