US soldiers sue over extended duty
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ELEANOR HALL: The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has said today that he expects US forces to remain in Iraq for at least another four years.
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Spc. David Qualls, who sued to challenge the Army's policy requiring him to serve longer than the term of his enlistment contract, is back in Iraq.
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Holding troops in place for 120 days is another indication of the strains the drawn-out wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have put on the Army.
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Halliburton HAL.N said on Monday  the U.S. Army had decided to give the company more time to  resolve a billing dispute before withholding payment of up to  15 percent of the company's bills in Iraq and Kuwait.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit seeking more information about a U.S. Army unit that scours the Web looking for sensitive military information posted on blogs and Web sites by military personnel.
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Eight soldiers asked a federal court Monday to prevent the Pentagon from requiring them to continue to serve in Iraq under emergency orders that involuntarily extended their tours of duty.
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An Army captain sued the government Friday to block his pending deployment to Iraq, saying he resigned in June after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve.
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The US defence secretary is under attack over machine-signed letters to the families of US soldiers killed in action.
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Eight soldiers are challenging the Army's policy requiring them to serve longer than the terms of their enlistment contracts.
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WASHINGTON -- A soldier who challenged an Army policy requiring him to serve past the date of his enlistment contract must return for duty in Iraq while his lawsuit is under review, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
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A soldier who challenged an Army policy requiring him to serve past the date of his enlistment contract must return for duty in Iraq while his lawsuit is under review, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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The US army is considering shortening tours of duty for its soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq as a way of persuading them to re-enlist, it was reported yesterday.
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Four British men held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years are to sue the US government.
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Halliburton Co. on Tuesday blamed politics for a US Army decision to not grant the company more time to resolve a billing dispute in which the Pentagon contends the company did not adequately account for some $1.8 billion of work done in the Middle East.
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Four British citizens released from Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States seeking &#36;10 million each in damages for abuse they allegedly suffered at the U.S. military outpost in Cuba, attorneys said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 23 -- An Army captain sued the government Friday to block his pending deployment to Iraq, saying he resigned in June after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve.
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In a Feb. 7 story about a federal court ruling, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Army's right to force soldiers to serve past the dates of their enlistments. Instead, the judge rejected Spc. David Qualls' request for a preliminary injunction that would have removed him from active duty. He and seven other soldiers had filed suit challenging their active duty extensions. That remains before the court.