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Former governor launches White House bid saying US president "seems firmly, clearly determined to undermine our longtime friend, ally." WASHINGTON – Republican Mitt Romney made the long-anticipated announcement on Thursday that he is running for president, launching his bid in the state that will hold the first primary for the 2012 race. On a farm in New Hampshire, the former Massachusetts governor lambasted US President Barack Obama’s policy on Israel and accused him of having “failed America.” “He seems firmly and clearly determined to undermine our longtime friend and ally,” he said of Obama’s stance toward the Jewish state. “He’s...

WOODBRIDGE, Va., April 9, 2006 – The Landstuhl Hospital Care Project added $4,400 to its coffers April 7 to buy items needed by wounded, injured and sick servicemembers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Karen Grimord, the project's coordinator. Karen Grimord, founder and coordinator of the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project, poses with Ed "Hook" Hidgins - the "Hook" in Hook & C's Karaoke, during a benefit at American Legion Post 364 to raise money to purchase items for wounded servicemembers at Landstuhl and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo by Rudi...

/28/2006 - KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Most medical teams deployed to Iraq treat their patients from the forward operating base, but three Airmen in Kirkuk are taking their knowledge to the streets by providing medical care to security forces troops outside the wire. The 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron boasts a medical cell attached to the unit comprised of a physician’s assistant and two independent duty medical technicians. Airmen train alongside the security forces members in weapons qualification, performing patrols and convoy training. Then medical training takes off in the form of tactical combat casualty care. “Our mission...

2/9/2006 - U.S. MILITARY GROUP QUITO, Ecuador (AFPN) -- It was a busy day for the 21st Medical Group -- 1,501 patients seen in eight hours during a medical readiness exercise here. The constant stream of Ecuadorians moved through the treatment areas like a quiet, but strong steam engine. There was a sense of calm and orderliness as the Ecuadorian Army security team kept the crowds in control, which helped facilitate the number of people seen Feb. 7 in the small village of Otavalo. U.S. and Ecuadorian Air Force doctors worked side-by-side to treat Ecuadorian patients. In four isolated towns,...

Bushmen accuse Mbeki of treating them as 'unpure bastards' By Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg (Filed: 07/10/2005) The ancient Khoi-San people, commonly known as the Bushmen, have accused South Africa's government of implying that they are not African at all but mixed race "bastards". Chief Elwin White said the refusal by President Thabo Mbeki's government to grant his 5,000-strong community official status as the country's earliest inhabitants was insulting. He said the government treated them as "highly-stressed coloureds [mixed race people] who are without a sense of belonging, with any creative spirit, confused, anxious and mostly drunk". "The government officially and...

A DeLayed Response 1 hour, 8 minutes ago Media: The criminal trial of David Rosen, a former staffer of Sen. Hillary Clinton, began Tuesday, but who'd know? Not a public that's been swamped with news of Rep. Tom DeLay's troubles. But what laws has DeLay broken? And what laws has he been accused of breaking? While it's not possible to answer the former with any degree of certainty, the answer to the latter is: none. Rosen, on the other hand, is on trial for filing false campaign-finance statements. The FBI says he deliberately understated by two-thirds the cost of a...

Doctors might be treating Saddam in bunker Tue Mar 25, 6:00 AM ET Jack Kelley USA TODAY KUWAIT CITY -- CIA operatives and Army commandos who are hunting for Saddam Hussein believe that the Iraqi leader could be in a Baghdad bunker receiving medical attention from military doctors, U.S. intelligence and military sources said Monday. ''We know we hit him. We know he was wounded'' Thursday in a missile and bomb attack on a compound south of Baghdad, said a U.S. intelligence official involved in tracking Saddam. ''We also believe he hasn't left Baghdad.'' The assessment came on a day...