Civilian says Va. guardsmen fled convoy
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A Virginia National Guard unit came under scrutiny after a video seemed to show troops abandoning a civilian truck convoy during an attack by Iraqi insurgents, resulting in the executions of three unarmed drivers.
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The Army is investigating reports that several members of a reservist supply unit in Iraq refused to go on a convoy mission, the military said Friday. Relatives of the soldiers said the troops considered the mission too dangerous.
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As it exits Basra, the Army deals with disillusionment, inside and out.
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A civilian U.S. Coast Guard employee was placed on paid administrative leave, threatened with a criminal investigation and confronted by guards at gunpoint in retaliation for disclosing information embarrassing to the service's troubled fleet replacement program, his attorney said.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - An Iraqi civilian testified on  Wednesday that U.S. soldiers forced him and his cousin at  gunpoint off a bridge into the Tigris River and laughed as his  relative drowned.
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An Iraqi farmer said Sunday that he saw seven heavily armed gunmen capture two American soldiers during an attack on a road checkpoint south of Baghdad, while U.S. troops searched for their comrades for a second day. Another Iraqi said the Americans were offering &#36;100,000 for information leading to the abductors, but the U.S. command denied that.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 -- At least eight Afghan civilians were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan when U.S. Marines traveling in a convoy were hit by a car bomb and responded by firing in a way that some witnesses called reckless.
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GOMA, Congo -- Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said yesterday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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By Dave Lieber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 10--From Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sgt. James Valenti of Mansfield wrote to The Watchdog. He is busy training Afghanistan's army and also goes on combat missions.
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By Aqeel Hussein in al-Nouaimia and Toby Harnden in Fallujah. Families fleeing the besieged city of Fallujah say that rebel fighters have slipped through the American and Iraqi military cordon and have been
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The defiant tone was set the moment Boston College's motorcade arrived at the foot of West Virginia's campus yesterday and began chugging its way up the hill on Patteson Drive, escorted by four State Police cruisers, sirens blaring. The caravan of four buses streaked past a queue of cars waiting to make a left turn onto University ...
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AGERSTOWN, Md., Aug. 17 - The Army reservist who tipped off investigators to abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison by his fellow soldiers is in protective military custody because of death threats, family members said on ...
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Amid sobs and waving American flags, hundreds of Maryland Army National Guard soldiers bid goodbye to family and friends yesterday and prepared to deploy to Iraq, part of the Guard's largest deployment from the state since World War II.
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Marines face threats from fake surrenders even as they shift to rebuilding and handing out aid to civilians. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A former Army reservist who served at Abu Ghraib with Maryland&#39;s scandal-scarred 372nd Military Police Company testified yesterday that interrogators at the prison encouraged