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Search results for "insurgency" ...
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The Baghdad Job: Iraq's Missing Billions
Revealing that every one of the billion dollar cash airlifts the NY Fed sent to Baghdad was met by the same man. He handled as much as 40 billion dollars in cash in the war zone between 2003 and 2008. On one occasion -- to dupe the insurgents who frequently attacked his currency convoys -- the courier placed a billion dollars in the back of a garbage truck and rolled it down "Route Irish," the unnamed military designation for what was the most dangerous road in the world. The courier accused unnamed Iraqi officials of being involved in theft of millions of dollars of the cash that he delivered into their vaults.
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How the US Funds the Taliban
This investigation uncovered Taliban insurgents reaping millions of dollars in Department of Defense contracts. "These contracts have become an immense boon for the Taliban, as security firms found that paying off the insurgents was the only way to get supplies through hostile territory to US troops." This has become a large part of the Taliban's income.
Tags: Department of Defense; US military; logistics; Afghanistan; contracts; NCL Holdings; contractor; government; security official
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Meeting Resistance
A full-length documentary film, "Meeting Resistance" provides personal narratives of people involved in the resistance in Iraq. The documentary clarifies why, to this day, the violence in Iraq continues. It provides a "deeper understanding of both the toll of occupation and the human condition of resistance."
Tags: Iraq; resistance; Iraq war; occupation; insurgents
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Afghan Poppies and US Policy
"What had been a bright spot in the war on terror, the ouster of the Taliban and the effort to build a democratic Afghanistan, is in jeopardy, partly because an exploding drug trade is funding and fueling the insurgency while undermining efforts to bring order and economic development to Afghanistan. We investigated U.S. efforts to curb the illicit narcotics industry and found major problems, some because of flawed policies, some because of the incredible complexity of the problem, some due to inherent contradictions between fighting terrorism and fighting drugs in Afghanistan."
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Military Outsourcing in Iraq (series)
The author investigated the outsourcing of the Iraqi War by the US government. The reports covered the use of private contractors to train the Iraqi police force, the problems they encountered despite the positive spin from high ranking American military officials and presented a slide show of the training process, giving a visual indication of the difficulty faced by the trainers.
Tags: military; Iraq; Iraqi War; War on Terrorism; Iraqi Police Force; private security contractors; infiltration; insurgents; exit strategy; troop reductions; U.S State Department; SAIC; DynCorp
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Reporting Series on Al Qaeda: Unmasking the Insurgents, Jihad Express, Women of Al Qaeda
This extensive investigation by the Newsweek staff and their foreign correspondents uncovers the evolution of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The series includes a closer look at the world's most dangerous terrorist organization's new followers including Europe-born insurgents and female suicide bombers. The series also looks at the first elections in Iraq and intelligence about Zarqawi.
Tags: al Qaeda; Iraq; War on Terrorism; insurgents; jihad; Osama bin Laden; elections; Zarqawi; CAR
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Trail of Terror: Jihad in Iraq
This story examines the insurgency in Iraq from multiple perspectives. It focuses solely on foreign fighters coming into Iraq to join Abu Musab Zarqawi's forces, but the investigation follows insurgents coming in from Europe, Lebanon, Syria and America. The story explores these fighters' motives and reveals that their convictions are driven by U.S. policy and Muslim solidarity rather than hatred of freedom or socioeconomic factors. It includes interviews with experts, jihadis and their family members, and military commanders.
Tags: terrorism; insurgency; Iraq; Zarqawi; jihad; suicide bombing; U.S. military; radicals
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"Under Fire"
This is a profile of marines in combat in Ramadi, one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq. They face roadside bombs, injuries, difficulty in identifying their enemies, and one marine is killed in action.
Tags: U.S. Military; combat conditions; wounded; injuries; casualties; military strategy; enemy; civil war; insurgency; roadside bombs
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Masters of chaos: The secret history of the special forces
This book recounts the Special Forces missions over the past 15 years, including Desert Storm, Just Cause, Somalia, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. It is based on interviews with soldiers of all ranks, access bestowed upon a reporter with 10 years of experience covering insurgencies in Latin America.
Tags: BOOK; military; Special Forces; Iraq; Desert Storm; Afghanistan; Somalia; Green Beret
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Meet the new jihad
These three stories explore the Iraqi insurgency and the fighting conditions U.S. forces faced. "Meet the new jihad" explains the transformation of the Iraqi insurgency from a guerilla campaign led by former members of the Baathist regime to an international jihadist movement.. "Enemy with many faces" reveals the divisions with the insurgency's disparate members. "Into the hot zone" follows U.S. soldiers as they engage in brutal urban combat.
Tags: Iraq; jihad; insurgency; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; war