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Why is the DoD Making it Available to Insurgents,Terrorists?
Your IraqSlogger editors are stunned that the Pentagon has released to the entire world and posted on the Web the U.S. military's new 282-page counterinsurgency war-fighting manual.
This is the first post-9/11 "war on terror"-era U.S. military counterinsurgency manual - the long-awaited doctrine meant in part to help turn the tide for U.S. forces in Iraq...
12/16/2006 4:55 PM ET
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Criticizes News Media's Iraq Coverage as Unfairly Negative
Developments
Exclusive
U.S.'s Enemies Dissect 282-Page Counterinsurgency Manual
Jihadists and their supporters are reading and mocking the Pentagon's new
counterinsurgency field manual, which was released publicly and posted on several Department of
Defense Web sites Friday even though it addresses such sensitive topics as
intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting.
One Arabic-language jihadist Web site linking to...
12/18/2006 00:22 AM ET
Media
Watch It Here
WH Spokeswoman: It's Been Three Months Since I Faced Sustained Iraq Questions
03/07/2008 3:30 PM ET
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Internet Giant's Server Relays US-Targeted English-Language Propaganda
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Two Senior Senators Debate the War on Sunday's Meet the Press
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Army Holds Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicle Demonstration
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1994 Interview Clip Causing Headache for Vice President
Opinions
Photo Gallery
Gabriel Buoys/AFP/Getty
A demonstrator marches against the Iraq war 27 October 2007 in Los Angeles, California. Anti-war protestors gathered in 11 cities across the US to rally.
10/28/2007 12:11 PM ET
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Read Full Text of Retired General's Controversial Speech Here
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RAND Study Warns About Assuming Too Much About US Capabilities
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Hill Police Remove Demontrators Who Refused to Keep Quiet
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Former US Official Talks About Petraeus, Vietnam, Allawi, and the Future of Iraq
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Tells Troops AQ in Iraq Part of Network Behind 9/11; Says "Al Qaeda" 95 Times
Policy
The Latest
Reward Offer Quietly Dropped from $5 Mil to $100K in February
Photo via Getty Images
Undated picture released by the US Army in June 2006, showing Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Mohajer.
The bounty for the reputed leader of the al-Qa'ida in Iraq organization, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been quietly downgraded many-fold by US officials. The reward offer for the man who once was among the top...
05/13/2008 4:36 PM ET
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Report Cites Pentagon Data on Active Duty Personnel, Reservists, Troop Rotations
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State Dept Figures Say 60% of 2007 Terrorism Casualties Occurred in Iraq
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Contract Offered to Establish Training Center on Behalf of Iraqi Gov't
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Taking Hits But Relying on The Industry's "Protected Species" Status For Now.
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The Future of Iraq, Terrorism and the Middle East Seem To Be More Fractured
Conflict
Honor for Soldier Who Sacrificed Life for Others in Iraq
Mark Heeter/U.S. Army
Memorial Service at Germany base
Ben Murray/Stars and Stripes
McGinnis just days before his death in Baghdad
The Wednesday edition of "Stars and Stripes" fronts a memorial service for two 1st Infantry Division soldiers, including Ross Andrew McGinnis, who jumped on a grenade thrown into his Humvee, saving the life of the four others in the truck.
The moving story.
EJ
12/12/2006 10:00 PM ET
Reports
Newsweek Exclusive: Crane, Petreaus Produce New Doctrine
"Sometimes the more you protect yourself, the less secure you may be." -- new U.S. military counter-insurgency manual
The Pentagon has issued a 279-page guidebook to counter-insurgency warfare. Here is the story from Newsweek's Dan Ephron.
12/15/2006 9:10 PM ET
News
Transcript
Alleged Contractor Trafficking in Prostitutes, Black Market Guns; Other Abuses
An excerpt of former contractor employee Barry Halley's testimony before a Democratic Senate panel.
US government-funded contractors in Iraq trafficked in prostitutes and black market weapons in addition to committing theft, fraud, and other abuses, American former contractor employees told a Democratic Senate panel yesterday.
The three whistle blowers...
04/29/2008 4:36 PM ET
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Kerry Tops Bipartisan List; Watchdog Fears Conflict of Interest in Iraq Policy
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Allege KBR Fleecing American Taxpayers Out of Nearly $100 Million a Year
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Iraq Experts With Polar Opposite Views Debate the Merits and Results of Surge
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Committee Chairman Questions Whether Contractor is Violating US Tax, Labor Laws
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Angry House Cmte Chmn Demands Explanations, More Documents from State Dept
