News, January 17, 2010

Iraq, Afghan Wars Costs Top $1 Trillion
US Goal Unmet: Afghan Civilian Casualties Soar

Frontline
A Hidden Toll: 301 Armed Forces Suicides in 2009
Governor: Many Issues Left to Resolve on Guam
Jack Straw's Iraq War Letter to Tony Blair
3 Blackwater Guards Called Baghdad Shootings Unjustified
For Antiterror Chief, a Rough Week Ahead as Hearings Begin
Cindy Sheehan Leads Protest at CIA, Cheney's House
Haiti
Anger at US Builds at Port-Au-Prince Airport
US Pouring 10,000 Troops into Haiti
Navy Preparing for Long Haul in Haiti
Retired General: US Military Aid Effort in Haiti Too Slow
US Diverts Spy Drone From Afghanistan to Haiti
US Takes Control of Haiti Airport to Speed Aid, Diverts Some Planes
Rescue Mission to Haiti Called Off From Wright-Patterson AFB
US Navy En Route to Make Haiti Seaport Usable
US Gives Illegal Haitian Residents Protected Status
Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Offers to Return

US Military
US Vets Return to See Grim Legacy of Vietnam War
North Carolina Prison Releases Soldier Convicted of Desertion
Army Short-Circuits Robotic Future; Axes Drone Helo 'Mule'
Americans Still Dying
Columbus (GA) Solider Dies in Iraq on New Years Day
Kingsport (TN) Soldier Leaves Behind Wife, Three Young Children
Father of Slain Lowell (MI) Soldier: 'I Can't Stop Crying'
  Fallen Illinois Marine Credited With Saving Lives
San Antonio (TX) Marine Killed in Afghanistan Was a 'Model Kid'
Nebraska Soldier With Ties to California Dies From Non-Combat Cause in Iraq
Ft. Atkinson (WI) Community Remembers Fallen Marine
Westwood (NJ) Firefighter, Marine Killed in Afghanistan
Romeoville (IL) Soldier Killed by Roadside Bomb in Afghanistan
Marine From Altoona (PA) Killed in Afghanistan
Weekend Reviews
A Brief for Bush
The Untold Story of Afghanistan
Israel: One Law for All?
How US Set Out to Destroy Iraq's National Identity and Build a Dependent State