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Sep 2nd, 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One year ago today, on September 2, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that about $155 million in deposits had been withdrawn from Afghanistan’s largest bank in just two days, spurring fresh concerns among U.S. and Afghan officials that a financial panic could spread through the country and derail the U.S. war effort.


Aug 26th, 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 August 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that insurgents launched more than two dozen attacks across the Iraq, killing at least 56 Iraqis.


Aug 19th, 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 August 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the last U.S. combat brigade in Iraq crossed the border into Kuwait, bringing to a close the active combat phase for Americans of a 7½-year war that overthrew Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush, and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.


Aug 12th, 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 August 12, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Gen. Babaker Shawkat Zebari, commander of Iraq’s military, called for U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, reinforcing his stance that his country’s military won’t be able to secure the nation on their own after U.S. troops leave at the end of 2011.


Aug 5th, 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 August 5, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s gay marriage ban in a strongly worded ruling that could force the U.S. Supreme Court to confront the question of whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.


Jul 29th, 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 July 29, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Tea Party groups in Missouri were furious that national tea party figurehead Rep. Michele Bachmann endorsed Rep. Roy Blunt for U.S. Senate in Missouri.


Jul 22nd, 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 July 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a car bomb outside a Shiite mosque near Baqouba, Iraq, killed 15 people — the third deadly attack in the region in as many days — while a U.S. soldier was killed in a separate bombing in the same province. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the Taliban claimed it shot down a helicopter that crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing two U.S. service members.


Jul 15th, 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 July 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported the passage of two years since launching his campaign against incumbent U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District.


Jul 8th, 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 July 8, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 2 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “A Deep Dislike for Barack Obama.”


Jul 1st, 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 July 1, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that law enforcement converged on the farmstead on the outskirts of St. Joseph, Minn., where a masked man kidnapped Jacob Wetterling at gunpoint more than 20 years earlier.