From the Front, 06-18-10 by David Marron
In today’s From the Front: (Click on link to read stories highlighted below) This post is courtesy of The Thunder Run
Dispatches:
A Little Pink in a World of Camo: A Widow’s View on Not Being Too Proud
Chuck Z: Responding to the Yonbots
Rania Abouzeid: Coddling Pakistan’s Islamists
Katherine Tiedemann: Daily brief: Times Square suspect indicted
Army Live: “eSprit de Corps” through Facebook
FaST Surgeon (in Afghanistan): FOB Friday – Part I of III (Fun Run)
Free Range International: A Trillion Dollars
Home From Iraq: Changes of Command June 13 2010
IraqPundit: Signs of Compromise?
Iraq The Model: Najaf on Vatican’s Steps?
Kit Up!: No Velcro on OEF FR ACU (MultiCam) Pant Pockets
The Kitchen Dispatch: The Teenagers Write Letters
Bill Roggio: Al Qaeda operatives killed in North Waziristan strike
Cindy Archer: You belong to me.
Loving A Soldier Blog: I Am An Army Wife
One Marine’s View: Dads rock-what do you get him?
Thomas E. Ricks: Here’s how screwed up the Army’s Warrior Transition Units are: Genuinely sick soldiers try to get out of using them
Tom Ricks: Former Pentagon personnel official: The warrior units are holding tanks for misfits
Sarah Kendzior: Why Didn’t We See It Coming?
Andi: Before, or After?
The Unknown Soldiers: Stands with a fist
Cassandra: In Afghanistan, Impatience Breeds Confusion and Chaos
News from the Home Front:
Times Square car bomb suspect indicted on 10 counts
Suspect in Times Sq. Bomb Attempt Is Indicted
Two groups of troops back from Iraq
Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base
News from the Front:
Iraq:
A Circle of Comfort in Baghdad
U.S. State Department’s Jeffrey Feltman says new government must be ‘inclusive’
Wounded warriors return to Iraq, find closure
Iraq ill-equipped to cope with an epidemic of mental illness
Turkey: May Air Raid Killed 100 Kurdish Rebels
Police Say Iraqi Interpreter for US Army Killed
Iraqi Sunni Leader and His Family Are Killed in an Ambush
Afghanistan:
Afghan debate spotlights Pentagon’s mixed messages
Afghan mineral wealth worth at least $3 trillion
SA man’s jail term increased in Afghanistan
Taliban ‘weary of war’
Karzai meets Japanese authorities
NATO predicts decades-long battle against corruption
Taliban can keep weapons under new peace initiative
Pakistan hunts for troops missing after Taliban attack
14 soldiers being handed over to Pakistan today
Task Force to Take On Afghan Corruption
In Afghanistan, a waiting game to outlast the Obama administration
Karzai Says Worried About Afghan Minerals Rivalry
World’s Mining Companies Covet Afghan Riches
Pentagon Claims Afghan Strategy Working Despite Problems
Gates Concerned About Pessimism on Afghanistan
Combined Force Captures Key Taliban Operative
Scottish Troops Mentor Afghan Forces in Helmand’s Green Zone
The Thunder Run’s From the Front is a daily series that highlights news and personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
