http://troops.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Troops en Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:10:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2047284 unknown@Netscape.com Legislation passed by Congress would require all federal agencies in a state to comply with a governor's request that they fly their flags at half-staff to honor a fallen service member. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:10:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2047284billOksLoweringflagsTroopsdieNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2045045 unknown@Netscape.com The U.N. Security Council agreed Wednesday to an Iraqi request to extend the mandate of the U.S.-led multinational force after the country's foreign minister said the troops were "vitally necessary." Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:41:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045045U.N.supportsU.S.TroopsiniraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2042013 unknown@Netscape.com In an audio report, Koppel points out that in a recent debate Senator Hillary Clinton said that her first priority if elected would be to "bring our troops home." She did not say ALL our troops, Koppel points out, and she does not mean ALL our troops. Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:15:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2042013ClintoniraqTroopsoccupationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2027428 unknown@Netscape.com How he and his cohorts have been able to successfully convince the American public, and cow the Democratic Congress, into believing that one supports the troops by having a war for them will never be explained; it is absolutely inexplicable. Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:51:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2027428congresswarTroopsbushNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2024523 unknown@Netscape.com As U.S. jets roared overhead, Mahdi Army militiamen on Sunday battled with Iraqi troops and local police searching for two militia leaders in the southern city of Diwaniyah. At least three people were killed and 24 wounded, official Iraqi sources reported. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:41:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2024523MahdiMilitiairaqiTroopsusBattlesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2018101 unknown@Netscape.com Turkey has sent large contingents of reinforcement soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers to its border with Iraq as debate heated up over whether to stage a cross-border offensive to hit Kurdish rebel bases. Wed, 30 May 2007 21:11:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2018101TurkeyiraqTroopskurdsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2017193 unknown@Netscape.com Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order. Wed, 30 May 2007 21:01:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2017193iraqbushwarTroopssupportNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2012828 unknown@Netscape.com On his 3rd deployment in Iraq, he is no longer a believer in the mission. The pivotal moment came this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they searched the bomber's body, they found ID showing him to be a sergeant in the Iraqi Army. "I thought, 'What are we doing here? Why are we still here?'" Sun, 27 May 2007 22:53:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2012828TroopsiraqiraqiarmydeploymentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2011741 unknown@Netscape.com Iraq's prime minister and two top American officials flew to the blistering western desert Saturday in a rare joint outing to highlight gains there in the fight against insurgents, hours before the military reported the deaths of eight U.S. troops. Sun, 27 May 2007 12:37:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2011741military8U.S.TroopskillediraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2011404 unknown@Netscape.com Parents who lose children, whether through accident or illness, inevitably wonder what they could have done to prevent their loss. When my son was killed in Iraq earlier this month at age 27, I found myself pondering my responsibility for his death. Sun, 27 May 2007 11:57:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2011404iraqwarPoliticsbushadministrationTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2010254 unknown@Netscape.com The president doesn't support a draft, but the Army was simply not built to fight protracted ground wars like the one in Iraq. After the draft was ended in 1973, the current all-volunteer system was created out of the mind-set of "no more Vietnams." Sat, 26 May 2007 10:52:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2010254bushiraqDraftTroopsPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2009354 unknown@Netscape.com WASHINGTON, May 25 The Bush administration is developing what are described as concepts for reducing American combat forces in Iraq by as much as half next year, according to senior administration officials in the midst of the internal debate. Sat, 26 May 2007 05:24:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009354Troopscut2008News http://web2announcer.com/go/2009893 unknown@Netscape.com Family, friends, and sometimes even troops themselves send I-Report salutes nearly every day to U.S. military serving their country away from home. Listen in as family and friends share stories of the troops they love, and click through the archive below... Sat, 26 May 2007 02:46:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009893TroopsiraqAfghanistanmemorialdaywarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2009232 unknown@Netscape.com Creepy Cleric guy tries to tell the troops to get out of Iraq. Hours later, the notorious leader of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in the city of Basra was killed in a shootout as British and Iraq troops tried to arrest him. Sat, 26 May 2007 02:03:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009232AlsadrwantsTroopsToPulloutNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1882585 unknown@Netscape.com An Iranian woman, Masoomeh Khatam-Panah, was killed after being shot in the head and chest by British troops on Sunday. Mon, 14 May 2007 09:28:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1882585ukTroopskillwomanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1875454 unknown@Netscape.com Barbara Boxer responded, "Lindsey, just be careful what you say. The bottom line here is that the losers are the ones who have engineered this war, made a huge mistake - Dick Cheney we're in the last throes, the war will last six months - and all of you who have supported this escalation and ... putting us in the middle of a civil war". Sun, 13 May 2007 20:26:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1875454lindseyGrahamBarbaraBoxeriraqEscalationTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1871818 unknown@Netscape.com An al Qaida-led group said on Sunday it was holding "crusader" soldiers after a clash with a patrol in Iraq on Saturday. Sun, 13 May 2007 15:37:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1871818iraqwarMissingTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1874227 unknown@Netscape.com Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and NATO troops, officials said Sunday. Dadullah was killed Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, said Said Ansari, the spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service. Sun, 13 May 2007 07:55:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1874227MullahDadullahTalibanleaderNATOTroopsAfghanistanfightingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1862074 unknown@Netscape.com KABUL, May 12 (Reuters) - Western and Afghan troops have driven the Taliban from a southern area after a week-long battle in which more than 70 militants were killed, an Afghan security official said on Saturday. Sat, 12 May 2007 20:21:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1862074TalibanKabulafghanTroopsAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1832156 unknown@Netscape.com The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $96 billion war spending measure, despite a veto threat from President Bush. The bill, passed 221-205, would send the Pentagon about $40 billion up front to fund U.S. combat operations into July. Additional funding would be dependent upon progress in the four-year-old war, based on a review of how well the Iraqi government was meeting a series of benchmarks. Fri, 11 May 2007 05:40:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1832156iraqTroopsvetobushwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1836750 unknown@Netscape.com The top U.S. commander in Iraq reminded troops Thursday they must fight by the rules after a Pentagon survey found many of them support torture in certain cases and would not report a comrade for killing or wounding civilians. Fri, 11 May 2007 00:05:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1836750PetrausmoralityethicsusTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1792140 unknown@Netscape.com They call it the coming tsunami, veterans returning from Iraq who will suffer chronic pain years from now. Get ready, military doctors are warning pain specialists - even as they hope that slowly improving battlefield pain control may stem the tide. Mon, 07 May 2007 21:14:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1792140ImprovingpainCareReturningTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1787647 unknown@Netscape.com Almost one in ten US combat troops deployed in Iraq have mistreated a civilian, according to a new survey conducted by an army mental health advisory team. Mon, 07 May 2007 20:25:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1787647TroopsiraqimistreatAdmitNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1768682 unknown@Netscape.com BAGHDAD - A roadside explosion outside the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed six American soldiers and a civilian journalist, the military said, among 12 U.S. troop deaths reported on a day when two car bombs killed at least 44 Iraqis at a Baghdad market and a police headquarters. Sun, 06 May 2007 22:22:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1768682iraqwarbaghdadamericansoldiersusTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1747165 unknown@Netscape.com WELL over a third of US combat troops deployed in Iraq condone torture to obtain information from an insurgent and nearly one in 10 acknowledge mistreating civilians, said a survey released today. Sat, 05 May 2007 03:03:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1747165torturemilitaryTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1725552 unknown@Netscape.com Parliament on Wednesday approved an agreement allowing the U.S. to use four Romanian military bases and station up to 3,000 troops in the former communist country. Thu, 03 May 2007 05:31:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1725552RomanianparliamentapprovesU.S.TroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1661647 unknown@Netscape.com The troops bear the brunt as Shiite factions fight for power and oil. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:31:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1661647iraqwarcivilbritishTroopsbasraNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1657707 unknown@Netscape.com Blame it on the military but make it look like you're supporting the troops. That's been the convenient gambit of failed emperors throughout history as they witnessed their empires decline. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:55:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1657707wariraqTroopsmilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1585792 unknown@Netscape.com Some of the deadliest attacks and air disasters suffered by U.S. troops in Iraq since the war began in March 2003: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:13:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1585792DeadliestattacksonusTroopsiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1544647 unknown@Netscape.com Dustin Brim, a 22-year-old Army specialist had collapsed three years ago in Iraq from a very aggressive cancer that attacked his kidney, caused a mass to grow over his esophagus and collapsed a lung. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:27:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1544647depletedUraniumduTroopscasualtieshealthNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1524732 unknown@Netscape.com The 215-199 roll call Thursday by which the House voted to uphold legislation that would require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops by by September 2008. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:02:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1524732housevoteiraqbillwithdrawTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1457687 unknown@Netscape.com Dustin Brim went into the Army a healthy man. A year later, he returned home. His body was riddled with incurable cancer. Could his own weapons and armor - made with a byproduct of enriched uranium - have been the cause Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:16:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1457687militarydepletedUraniumTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1448309 unknown@Netscape.com Injured soldiers returning home for medical treatment face an unacceptable maze of paperwork and bureaucracy, leaders of a presidential commission on veterans' health care said Saturday. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:17:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1448309ReturningTroopsfaceObstaclesToCareNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1395477 unknown@Netscape.com Australia plans to nearly double its forces in Afghanistan, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday, describing the dispatch of 450 soldiers as an attempt to check the swelling Taliban insurgency. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:41:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1395477AustraliaTroopsAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1380827 unknown@Netscape.com Australia is to deploy a 300-member special forces task group back to Afghanistan to help counter the expected Taliban summer offensive, Prime Minister John Howard has announced. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:59:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1380827AfghanistanTalibanAustraliaTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1321787 unknown@Netscape.com Several National Guard brigades are expected to be notified soon that they could be sent to Iraq around the first of next year, according to a senior Defense Department official. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:27:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1321787pentagonalertnationalguardTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1276331 unknown@Netscape.com Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:26:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1276331ReidTroopsiraqwarterrorismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1269284 unknown@Netscape.com For just the second time since the war began, the Army is sending large units back to Iraq without giving them at least one year of rest at home between deployments, officials said Monday. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:19:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1269284StretchedarmySendsTroopsbackToiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1235121 unknown@Netscape.com Suspected Taliban militants attacked a checkpoint manned by Afghan troops and the clash left eight insurgents dead and one Afghan guard wounded, a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said Saturday. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:13:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/12351218SuspectedTalibankilledbyTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1174901 unknown@Netscape.com Iran said Tuesday the 15 British sailors and marines it detained last week are healthy, have been treated in a humane manner and that the only female sailor among them had been given privacy. Hosseini would not say where the Britons were being kept and reiterated that their case is under investigation. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:23:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1174901iranbritishTroopsDetainedtreatmenthumanrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1174581 unknown@Netscape.com With the USO short on big-name acts and the military trying to entertain troops in remote bases, unknown bands are braving battle zones to build their fan base. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:17:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1174581bandsarmywarmilitaryUSOTroopsindierockNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1146626 unknown@Netscape.com Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat -led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:46:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1146626cheneyhouseisUnderminingTheTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1139992 unknown@Netscape.com VP Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger. "They're not supporting the troops. They're undermining them," Cheney told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the oceanside Ritz-Carlton hotel in Man Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:37:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1139992VPcheneyterrorismNonsupportofTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1061146 unknown@Netscape.com The Iraqi patrol walked quickly through the dark and empty streets of Sadr City - too quickly for the soldiers to spot signs of trouble. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:39:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1061146iraqiForcesonTheJobtrainingU.S.TroopsRealMissionssadrcitymentorNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1016476 unknown@Netscape.com The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq has asked for an additional 2,500 to 3,000 troops to be sent to Iraq as part of the Bush administration's military buildup to crack down on rising sectarian violence and insurgents, The Boston Globe reported. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:28:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1016476reportgeneralrequestsmoreTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1003683 unknown@Netscape.com UNITED States soldiers sent to Baghdad's notorious Shiite stronghold of Sadr City arrived ready for a fight with the al-Mahdi Army militia. Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:35:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1003683sadrcityU.S.TroopsmiserybaghdadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/985242 unknown@Netscape.com A free and courageous press is an invaluable national asset. Our press has not yet succumbed to the terrorist hysteria or been swallowed up by the Patriot Act despotism. It is still capable and able to shine a light into the dark corners of our government. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:23:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/985242TroopsslogansupportThewarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/972076 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush confirmed Sunday that he would be sending thousands of new support troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to the previously announced "surge" of 21,500 combat troops. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:38:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/972076warAfghanistanTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/912958 unknown@Netscape.com Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that he would examine "some months" from now whether to seek an extension of the administration's troop increase and that he had no plans "right now" to request additional forces. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:08:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/912958TroopswarpropagandaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/899612 unknown@Netscape.com The Pentagon has approved a request by the new U.S. commander in Iraq for an extra 2,200 military police to help deal with an anticipated increase in detainees during the Baghdad security crackdown. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:51:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/899612pentagonDeploysmoreTroopsbaghdadNews