A collection of stories tagged 'fallujah' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:57:06 EST U.S. Marines are trying a new tactic in Fallujah: cattle. They're providing dairy cows to 50 women widowed in the past few years of fighting. The hope is that the cows will provide a steady source of income for the women. Marine Maj. Meredith Brown and State Department worker Jennifer Vitela talk to host Guy Raz about the project. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/61655 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98995426&ft=1&f=1001 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST A former U.S. Marine and his Iraqi wife, who met when she worked as a translator in Fallujah, are struggling to adjust to married life and raise a family in America. And their future is anything but certain. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/57520 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95799727&ft=1&f=1021 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:46:00 EDT A civilian jury in Riverside, Calif., has acquitted a former Marine on charges of voluntary manslaughter. Jose Nazario Jr. was accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54947 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94095386&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:54:00 EDT In 2004, the battle for Fallujah came at a huge cost. Many of the al-Qaida militants escaped to fight another day, and Fallujah was largely destroyed. The United States had promised that reconstruction would begin immediately. It didn't. But it is happening now. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/44369 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18319948&ft=1&f=1001 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:08:00 EST The Navy has begun a criminal investigation into allegations that Marines killed between five and 10 unarmed Iraqi prisoners in November 2004. The investigation is the third one into possible war crimes by Marines based at Camp Pendleton in Southern California. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/36638 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11783992 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:00:00 EDT Dozens of people are dead and wounded after a suicide bomber detonates an explosive vest at a police recruiting center in Iraq. Insurgents often target police buildings to discourage cooperation with the new government. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/35133 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10577018 Thu, 31 May 2007 11:49:00 EDT U.S. troops in Ramadi and nearby Fallujah find themselves detaining many Iraqi teens -- and even younger children -- who are being recruited for insurgent activities. Many may have lost their fathers or others in the ongoing conflict. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/31468 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7599096 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:00:00 EST Marine Cpl. Kyle W. Powell of Colorado Springs, Colo., died earlier this month in Fallujah, Iraq. The 21-year-old was on his third combat tour when a roadside bomb he discovered detonated, killing Powell and a fellow Marine. Eric Whitney of member station KRCC has this remembrance. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/28053 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6553614 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:00:00 EST U.S. and Iraqi forces go through some of Baghdad's most dangerous districts, seizing weapons, arresting terrorism suspects and hiring residents to clear trash from the streets. The U.S. military describes the sweeps as the most important operation in the country since the 2004 offensive in Fallujah. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/22682 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5665219 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:00:00 EDT U.S. and Iraqi government troops move deeper into the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, as an overnight operation thrusts into the eastern part of the city, an area previously under insurgent control. Since U.S. forces captured the nearby town of Fallujah in November of 2004, Ramadi has been a main base of the insurgency. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/20552 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5496367 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:15:00 EDT Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan McCurdy, 21, died when he was shot in the chest in Fallujah. With a love of action and sports, his friends say that Ryan was born to be a Marine. Karen Henderson of member station WRKF in Baton Rouge has a remembrance. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3063 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5167196 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST Reporters in Basra, Baghdad and Fallujah provide updates on Thursday's voting in Iraq. Turnout was reported to be strong, even in Sunni-dominated areas, where voting in last January's first nationwide election was low. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/5654 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055044 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Across Iraq, voters are turning out at thousands of polling places to elect a new government. Steve Inskeep talks to Jamie Tarabay in Baghdad and Anne Garrels in Fallujah. Renee Montagne talks to Eric Westervelt in Mosul. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/9155 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5054578 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Once an insurgent stronghold, Fallujah is now tightly controlled by the U.S. Marines. Voter turnout there in Thursday's parliamentary elections is expected to be high. The vote will usher in Iraq's first permanent government since the U.S. invasion in 2003. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/9934 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052104 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Last week, 10 Marines were killed in a Fallujah explosion. All were based in the high desert base of Twentynine Palms, Calif. It was the largest loss of life in a single incident for the Twentynine Palms Marine base. From member station KPBS, Alison St. John reports. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/11180 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5038844 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Insurgent attacks appear to be growing in Iraq, less than two weeks before scheduled national elections. Nineteen Iraqis died Saturday in one attack, and 10 U.S. Marines were killed in Fallujah earlier in the week. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/11280 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5038456 Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Ten Americans killed this week in Fallujah, Iraq, were all with the Marine Expeditionary Force based at Twentynine Palms, Calif. It's a satellite base of Camp Pendleton. Marine families are taking the news hard. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/11376 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5038216 Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST A roadside bombing outside Fallujah, about 25 miles west of Baghdad, kills 10 U.S. Marines and wounds 11 others. It is the highest one-day death toll for U.S. forces in Iraq since August. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/11379 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5036582 Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST The Pentagon is defending its use of a toxic agent called white phosphorus to smoke out and capture insurgents in last year's battle for Fallujah. If ignited particles of the chemical land on a human, they can burn through flesh and bone. John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org discusses the controversy. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/8484 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5019073 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Nancy Marshall-Genzer has this obituary of Kirk Bosselmann, a young man from the Washington, D.C., area who was killed in combat near Fallujah, Iraq. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/15336 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4463056 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST NPR's Noah Adams talks with Luis Sinco, a photographer for the Los Angeles Times. He has just returned from Fallujah, where he was attached to a Marine unit that saw some of the most fierce fighting of the Iraq war. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/13486 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4183951 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST