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After admitting last month that not participating in the elections was a bad move, saying: "Now the Sunni community faces the fact that it made a big mistake and that it would have been far better to participate, " they have had to succumb to the will of the Iraqi people."BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's Sunni Arabs endorsed a list of 15 men Thursday to represent the minority on a Shiite-dominated

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Inside Iraq - What is the age range of the enemy? Have you heard of any women taking up arms against the Coalition?Lt. Rhoads - I don't know what the average age range is. Of the times I was personally attacked in Iraq, I was only able to see my enemy once and I was more concerned about keeping my soldiers alive than taking a census of who was shooting at us. All the other times I was

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"I am a First Lieutenant (1LT), U.S. Army Reserve. I was in Baghdad, Iraq at Camp Liberty (formerly Camp Victory North) from March 2004 to March 2005 with the 411th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy) under the 1st Cavalry Division. The 411th is a Reserve unit from Hawaii that was placed under the 1st CAV for our deployment. I was the Headquarters and Support Company (HSC) Executive Officer (

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By; Lieutenant Rusty Roads - U.S. Army ReserveRusty writes a heartfelt and moving story about a relationship he had with an Iraqi businessman. He is also my first interviewee; coming up in my next post."An Iraqi friend of mine was recently brutally murdered along with some of his family. It upset me quite a bit and I needed a way to vent. My way of venting a lot of times is to write what I'm

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In starting this project, I decided that I would devote whatever time or effort was needed into it, as I see it to be a worthwhile thing. But Michael Yon has gone above and beyond. Although he does not claim to be a "reporter" he is doing a great job. So much so, that reporters in the future may reference his work, so as to emulate it.Here is the link to his blog. But be warned, it is very

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With the onslaught of rapid fire news stories on every car bomb, abuse allegation or mistake by coalition forces in Iraq, in addition to the consistent complaints of returned military personnel that the media coverage seems to ignore the real progress being made there, I feel the need to seek out some other points of view than what we are being fed through the media.I personally feel insulted by

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