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By Colin McMahon and Colin McMahon,CHICAGO TRIBUNE | October 1, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The last day of the worst month of car bombings in Iraq targeted the most vulnerable and proved the most horrifying. Children gathering for candy from American soldiers at the opening of a sewage treatment plant bore the brunt yesterday of a series of guerrilla bombings that killed at least 35 youngsters and 14 adults. About 200 people - many of them children - were wounded in the attacks. It was the worst single death toll of children since the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003.
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By Borzou Daragahi and Raheem Salman and Borzou Daragahi and Raheem Salman,LOS ANGELES TIMES | July 14, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The American soldiers had come yesterday morning to search for explosives in a neighborhood packed with children. Instead, a suicide bomber found them. In the deadliest insurgent attack in Iraq in more than two months, and the most lethal involving children since September, an explosives-filled SUV killed at least 27 Iraqis and a U.S. soldier. About two dozen of the dead were youngsters who had been playing near U.S. soldiers at an impromptu checkpoint in Jadida, a lower-class residential district of low-lying buildings and rotting water mains populated by Shiites, Sunnis and Christians.
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By Joe Nawrozki and Joe Nawrozki,SUN STAFF | October 28, 2004
A standing joke around the well-appointed office suite of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John C. Doesburg is that he was 4 inches taller when he enlisted 35 years ago. Considering the general's 350 parachute jumps - and the cumulative shock to his body meeting Earth - it is easy to see that the humor contains a large measure of admiration. Doesburg, commander of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, will retire today from the military. At 57, he takes with him the satisfaction of forming and directing a unit that dreamed up and built a new generation of war gadgetry - and of working to better shield American troops in Humvees in Iraq.
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By Todd Richissin and Todd Richissin,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | October 9, 2003
BAGHDAD, Iraq - On the street corner 50 yards from a group of U.S. soldiers, a giggling 10-year-old boy clutched an AK-47 assault rifle, which was fully loaded and ready to fire. The rifle, once the property of the U.S. military, would not be fired in the direction of the soldiers on this night, but soon would be. Muhammad al-Jurany got the weapon from a member of the new Iraqi security apparatus, the Facilities Protection Service, a force of 14,500 armed guards who are to protect hotels, government buildings and oil pipelines, among other fixtures.
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August 19, 2012
Regarding your recent report that more than 250 members of the Maryland National Guard are being deployed to Afghanistan ("More Md. Guard units headed to Afghanistan," Aug. 15): Over the past 10 years hundreds of American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, including 34 this year alone. Yet neither presidential candidate says a word about this lunacy. The presidential dialogue does include charges that Mitt Romney is "deranged" and President Barack Obama is a "liar. " That's hardly the talk of serious statesmen.
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By Georgie Anne Geyer | October 7, 1993
SO NOW that American soldiers are dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and at least a dozen American soldiers are killed in only one sunny weekend on the tropical coast of your friendly Indian Ocean, is there any lesson to be gained by the Great Humanitarian Somalia Campaign of 1993?Yes, there is. It is that the United States should abandon all the fuzzy, imprecise, well-meaning policies of humanitarian intervention, multilateralism and multinational peacekeeping and return to traditional policies of self-interest backed up by overwhelming and unmistakable American and American-led force.