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Charges in Iraqi Assaults |
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Written by Will Dunham
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
The military has charged a U.S. Marine Corps officer with assaulting three Iraqi civilians in April, accusing him of beating and choking them and placing a pistol in one victim's mouth, the Marines said on Wednesday. The officer, 2nd Lt. Nathan Phan, was charged with three counts of assault and one count of making a false official statement relating to the incident on April 10, near Hamdania, a town west of Baghdad. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 November 2006 )
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Pentagon Studying War Errors |
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Written by Bryan Bender
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
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The US military establishment has quietly undertaken a wholesale reassessment of its war strategy with a goal of identifying the mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and remedying them before the next conflict. This summer, high-level Pentagon officials ordered a pair of secret studies to pinpoint the military's failures in the two conflicts, and, according to one of the authors, ``the results won't be pretty" when the findings are produced this fall. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 November 2006 )
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