San Leandro: Home from Iraq -- safe and sound
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The best career opportunity Amanda Sandoval found after graduating from San Leandro High School in 1999 was the Army. She joined up, impressed by such benefits as being able to choose her own duty station.
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For anyone who has agonized on moving day whether to keep that old lamp, leave it for the new tenant or throw it out, be glad you aren't faced with the prospect of getting tanks, troops and Humvees out of Iraq.
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By David Pollak, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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Iraqi expatriates traveled hundreds of miles to cast ballots Sunday in their country's election, joyously dancing in ethnic garb and expressing relief that family members were able to vote safely despite violence in Iraq.
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Shop owners long afraid of Baghdad's bombings and shootings are keeping their stores open later these days on the main street of Jadidah district, saying they feel safer after weeks of a beefed-up U.S. security crackdown.
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.
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After nearly seven months rigging convoys for runs through the desert around this remote base in western Iraq, Lance Cpl. Bobby Elsworth was hoping that returning to his home camp in southern Japan would mean an easier life.
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It&#39;s touted as the safest place in Baghdad, but even the thousands of normal Iraqis whose homes wound up in the US-occupied Green Zone want
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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Recently I had family members over for dinner at our West Jordan home. I pointed out the recycling garbage can for their soda cans. But residents of Cottonwood Heights and incorporated Salt Lake City don't concern themselves with the environment or recycling.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec.
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BAQUBA - The 49 homeward-bound Iraqi Army recruits probably took comfort at the sight of policemen at a roadside checkpoint at night.
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AL-TAJI CAMP, Iraq -- For American soldiers serving in the most dangerous place on earth, Thanksgiving brought gratitude for life's pleasures: an autumn leaf mailed from home, a love note in an e-mail inbox, and the taste of pumpkin pie.
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Rafed al Janabi, an Iraqi refugee living in Gaithersburg, was so grateful for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein that he quit his restaurant job and joined the U.S. Army. He was sent last year to Iraq, to translate for a Special Forces unit.
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Japan&#39;s defense minister was due to return home on Monday from a flying visit to Iraq after declaring the town of Samawa safe, setting the stage for the government to extend its troops&#39; humanitarian mission there.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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Monitoring the recent elections in Bosnia brought home to me in a special way that the United States is indeed a blessed country. The war in Bosnia ended nine years ago.