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Date: Apr 21, 2009 11:27 AM
Subject: news articles for 4/21




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Engineers Tutor Iraqi Soldiers in Heavy Equipment, Work-site Skills
BAGHDAD, April 21, 2009 – Clearing rubble at the northern end of the Baghdad International Airport runway, soldiers of the 277th Engineer Company leveled the ground to expand the safety distance zone.


Coalition Forces Help Iraqi Police Earn People’s Trust
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2009 – The Iraqi Interior Ministry is making progress toward minimizing corruption and maximizing the trust of the Iraqi people, a military officer involved in the effort said April 17.


U.S., Afghan Forces Kill Four, Detain Four
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2009 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least four militants and detained four more in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported.


Afghan Women Find Support in Wardak Province
WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 21, 2009 – The Afghan National Police worked with U.S. soldiers serving in Task Force Spartan recently to provide 25 women and their families here with humanitarian aid packages.


Face of Defense: Civilian Layoff Led to Colonel’s Military Career
CAMP HANSEN, Japan, April 21, 2009 – Twenty-five years ago, Chris A. Lamson was just an average Texan in his early 20s with an average job at an oil refinery supporting his family.




Computer Spies Breach Strike Fighter Jet Project
Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department’s costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.


SPIN METER: Saving federal money the easy way
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cut a latte or two out of your annual budget and you've just done as much belt-tightening as President Barack Obama asked of his Cabinet on Monday.


Official: Chrysler Turned Down Loan Over Exec Pay Limits
WASHINGTON — Chrysler LLC's financial arm turned down additional government aid after some top executives refused to accept new limits on executive pay, according to a government official with knowledge of the negotiations.


National service bill to get Obama's signature
WASHINGTON – The AmeriCorps program started by President Bill Clinton will triple in size over the next eight years, and tens of thousands of other Americans will soon see new opportunities to give back to their communities.


Obama proposes $100 billion U.S. loan for IMF
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $100 billion U.S. loan to the International Monetary Fund to boost the IMF's resources and urged a bigger stake in the IMF for emerging powers.


Treasury asset plan vulnerable to abuse: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury's plan to purge toxic assets from banks' balance sheets is vulnerable to fraud and abuse and needs tough rules against conflict of interest, the government's bailout watchdog said on Tuesday.


Key Obama Climate Change Exchange Being Swayed by Top U.N. Officials
A greenhouse gases trading system funded with the support of then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, which is likely to play a major role in his $650 million cap-and-trade initiative, lists five present or former top-ranking U.N. officials on its advisory board who've had enormous influence over climate change matters -- including one who received $1 million from a convicted South Korean lobbyist.


Iran could commute US reporter's jail sentence
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday an appeals court would reconsider US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi's eight-year jail sentence on spying charges, the state news agency IRNA reported.


Here is today's break from all the serious stuff.

Woman survives driving over cliff, climbs out three days later
A woman climbs to safety after surviving for three days at the bottom of a cliff near Ragged Point. 31-year-old, Amy Lynn Boger of Cardiff, California - an area near San Diego - told California Highway Patrol officers she was driving along Highway 1 Friday morning when she failed to see a turn and went over the side of the road.




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