masslive.com - 1/22/2009
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By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com A U.S. Army investigation has concluded that Capt. Roselle M. Hoffmaster, a 2000 graduate of Smith College in Northampton, took her own life by shooting herself in the head while alone in her room in Iraq. The voluminous report was released to The Republican ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 1/22/2009
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Graphic by Darkblack In an earlier post I
discussed the startling direct admission that the United States...
tortures terror detainees made public in last Wednesday's blockbuster Bob Woodward piece in the Washington Post . As the Bush ...
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longwarjournal.org - 1/21/2009
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New Iraqi Howitzer. The most significant deficiency of
the Iraqi Security Forces is its missing artillery. Artillery...
is called the "King of the Battlefield" because it is the single largest casualty maker in conventional war. ...
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longwarjournal.org - 1/24/2009
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Iraqi Army Movements in Kirkuk, Salahadin and Sulaymaniyah.
On January 23, 2009, the Kurdish Globe published an...
article titled "Iraqi army moves closer to Kurdistan" . The very first hand-wringing statement was: "Kurds ...
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Greg Mitchell: Tragic Report: U.S. Doctor in Iraq Driven to Suicide
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Last month, her husband notified me privately that he had just received the results of the probe and that, indeed, her death had been ruled a suicide. Now a local paper in Massachusetts, The Republican, has received the report and posted a summary. It reveals that she took her own life by shooting herself in the head while alone in her room. ...
Army report released to newspaper says Smith College graduate shot herself in Iraq
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... of five months of catching up to do with a new Army program that she was completely unfamiliar with." Because Hoffmaster was a last minute replacement for another surgeon who left the unit, she was not able to attend a joint readiness training center in Louisiana, the officer said, or to get acclimated to her new unit. The officer told investigators he felt the Army did Hoffmaster a disservice and called the situation "a 'perfect storm' to create tension and anxiety." Read more: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/army_rep...
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