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A Decade Later, Contractor Pays Out Millions for Iraq Prisoner Abuse
It's been nearly a decade since contractors and U.S. soldiers worked together to torture Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, for the first time, one of those companies has been forced to pay the...
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The Cost of War Includes at Least 253,330 Brain Injuries and 1,700 Amputations
Nearly 130,000 U.S. troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and vastly more have experienced brain injuries. That's according to new congressional data hinting at the cost of...
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Over $8B of the Money You Spent Rebuilding Iraq Was Wasted Outright
The history of the Iraq War isn't just a history of a grueling military occupation. As a new report from the government's top Iraq auditor documents, it's a history of financial waste, fraud and abuse....
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U.S. Military Neglects Huge Data Trove of Iraq War: The Iraqis Themselves
Iraq's tribal sheikhs were more important to the Iraq war than the U.S. military suspected. That's just one lesson of Iraq that the U.S. neglects by ignoring how Iraqis lived through the grueling war....
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I Tried to Make the Intelligence Behind the Iraq War Less Bogus
So much of the intelligence behind the Iraq war 10 years ago turned out to be terrible. At the CIA, I tried to make it at least less-bad. The post I Tried to Make the Intelligence Behind the Iraq War...
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U.S. Quietly Ends Iraqi Police Training, Its Last Major Baghdad Project
So much for training the Iraqi police. Less than two years and $700-plus million after taking over police training from the U.S. military, the State Department pulled out its last cop trainer on March...
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The CIA Actually Thought Saddam Had Drones Full of Bioweapons
It feels like a fever dream now, but U.S. intelligence agencies once thought Saddam Hussein built drones capable of unleashing deadly bioagents within the United States. Really. The post The CIA...
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Biggest Threat to U.S. National Security: Wars
In 2004, Osama bin Laden explained how his terrorists were going to win its struggle against a vastly more powerful adversary: al-Qaida sought to “blee[d] America to the point of bankruptcy.” Bin Laden...
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Syrian Terrorists Just Made It Way Easier for Obama to Attack Them
One downside of joining your Syrian extremist entity to al-Qaida's Iraq affiliate: it gives the U.S. a lot of legal leeway to target you. The post Syrian Terrorists Just Made It Way Easier for Obama to...
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Donald Rumsfeld Wants to Give You the Most Ironic Life Lessons Ever
The defense secretary who screwed up Iraq and Afghanistan has some advice for you. Some of it is good! The post Donald Rumsfeld Wants to Give You the Most Ironic Life Lessons Ever appeared first on WIRED.
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