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ERS is still wondering, if its illegal to bring in “looted” items from Iraq, and someone has even been convicted of a crime for doing so -- why is it O-K for Lara Logan to be displaying a few of those same kind of items framed on her office walls at CBS News and have public media stories done about them without any US Customs people paying attention?. We don’t know yet for sure, but we’ll stay on the story until we find out!

CBS news hottie Lara Logan could be in hot water for swiping souvenirs from the wreckage of bombed-out Baghdad. In a video profile of the "60 Minutes" star called "Lara Logan's Spoils of War," mementos from Iraq and Afghanistan are shown in her Washington office. "The prize pieces are . . . pre-Iraq invasion portraits of Saddam Hussein. In one [he's] shown in military fatigues. Logan told us she found it in pieces, in the ruins of the Olympic committee building after it was bombed," reports Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable, the media industry publication that produced the online...

Feds eye CBS steamer Lara Logan 'war crimes'. In upcoming online vid profile of the CBS correspondent Lara Logan's Spoils of War mementoes from her steamy days and nights in Iraq and Afghanistan are proudly displayed in her Washington office. "The prize pieces are pre-Iraq invasion portraits of Saddam Hussein," reports Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable, the media industry pub producing the online streamer

SHE is known to be a brilliant war reporter, one of America's hottest TV journalists. But it was not her reporting that made her page one news for New York's tabloids. Sexy Lara Logan who had been reporting from dangerous Baghdad has been labelled a homewrecker for her tryst with an Aussie newsman and the husband of a US embassy worker. According to the New York Post, the 60 Minutes reporter and former swimsuit model apparently courted two men which led to a brawl. One of her lovers, MrJoe Burkett is an American civilian contractor. He reportedly brawled in a...

Five weeks ago Leila Hussein told The Observer the chilling story of how her husband had killed their 17-year-old daughter over her friendship with a British soldier in Basra. Now Leila, who had been in hiding, has been murdered - gunned down in cold blood. Leila Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror. Moving constantly from safe house to safe house, she dared to stay no longer than four days at each. It was the price she was forced to pay after denouncing and divorcing her husband - the man she witnessed suffocate, stamp on, then stab their young...

'Caveman and the Hottie': U.S. Soldier to Tie Knot With Iraqi Translator Friday , May 09, 2008 AP LACEY, Wash. — Their first real date lasted only 20 minutes. It ended because darkness was falling, when unimaginable new threats and nightmares could emerge on the streets of Baghdad. The American soldier and the Iraqi woman were fighting all the odds. They were in love and wanted to marry. From 2004 to 2006, the two had carried on a friendship followed by a yearlong courtship conducted over the phone. Then one day after rehearsing in Arabic with an Iraqi friend, he...

When 17-year old Rand Abdel-Qader met a British soldier in Basra, she dreamt of romance. But five months later she was murdered in a savage attack by her father. But there will be no trial: this was an 'honour killing'. Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, told her closest friend that she was in love from the moment she set eyes on the young British soldier working alongside her in Basra, and she dreamed of a future with him. It was an innocent infatuation but five months after Rand, a student of English at Basra University, met Paul, a 22-year-old soldier posted to...

By Victoria Ward April 28, 2008 An Iraqi who murdered his teenage daughter for falling in love with a British soldier will not face charges. Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, had grown close to a blond infantryman known only as Paul in Basra. When her father Ali Abdel-Qader found out, he went berserk, beating her and stamping on her throat in an "honour killing". But astonishingly Ali - who has Basra government and police links - was released after being held for two hours. Sgt Ali Jabbar said: "Not much can be done when we have an honour killing. You are in...

A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier when he was in Basra was murdered by her father in an "honour killing", it was revealed today. Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was suffocated and then hacked at with a knife after her family discovered she was friends with the 22-year-old soldier who she knew only as Paul. The pair first met when Rand was working on an aid project for displaced families but it is thought the soldier is unaware of the girl's fate. She was stamped on, suffocated and stabbed - leaving her with puncture wounds all...

RAEFORD, N.C. - Maj. James Ahearn met his future wife during his second tour of Iraq, converted to Islam to marry her and brought her home to the United States. Two years later, the Iraqi woman is mourning his death. Ahearn, 43, was killed Thursday in Baghdad when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb. His widow, Lena Ahearn, said she feels ashamed her husband died in her country at the hands of her people. Ahearn, a member of the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, 95th Civil Affairs Brigade at Fort Bragg, was on his third tour of Iraq when he was...

(Orginal title: "It is love between them") They met on the front, married after the war, and are still together. What was the wedding dress like? He (with a smile:) "There wasn't any wedding dress!" She (without pause): "Pale blue, with short sleeves..." Yesterday's groom is now 83, and the bride 82. "Do you remember how we met?" Blinking, he turns to her. "During the war!" she ferverntly replied. "In 44!" The story of the Miroshnichenko's meeting is told by the couple together. Sometimes they interrupt or add to each other. Mikhail begins the sentence, Aleksandra then grabs it. Surprisingly,...

LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH BERLIN -- American soldiers returning to their German base from Iraq are undergoing their own small "baby boom," becoming parents in such numbers as to strain the resources of the base military hospital. The 1st Armored Division usually produces one or two babies a month at Baumholder in central Germany. But the rate of births is expected to shoot up to 40 a month in the next five months. In all, 400 couples at the base are expecting a child, 350 of whom will be born before the end of the year.

Operation Iron Stork helps hundreds of expectant parents prepare for births BAUMHOLDER, Germany — It was pretty much like any other baby shower — goofy games, cake, fruit punch and lots of mom talk. Except there were hundreds of pregnant women in battle dress uniforms or civvies milling about with men in tow, not to mention dozens of people at dozens of booths and displays giving away goodies, everything from strollers and bath-and-body sets to diaper bags and a new washer-and-dryer set. And there were health care providers on hand with all sorts of information including graphic birth displays that,...

Steve Mraz / S&S Air Force Staff Sgt. Sarah Lukens cuddles with her 2-day-old son, Braxton Hunter Lukens, on Monday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. While Lukens delivered at Landstuhl, some pregnant women are having to give birth in German hospitals because of a rise in military pregnancies. Steve Mraz / S&S Sabine van Riel, chief midwife at St. Johannis-Krankenhaus in Landstuhl, Germany, tends to a newborn at the German hospital. Dealing with the latest baby boom A deployment-related baby boom in the Kaiserslautern and Baumholder, Germany, military communities means many women must deliver their children in German hospitals...

They say all’s fair in love and war; unless, perhaps, it involves the U.S. Army. A year ago, when an American soldier fell in love in Baghdad, his commander ordered him not to marry. What was a heartsick soldier to do? Well, Sgt. Sean Blackwell launched a secret mission to marry the Iraqi woman he loved. That’s when the Army came down with both boots and ordered Blackwell home, 7,000 miles from his bride, Ehdaa, apparently never to see her again. But, as Correspondent Scott Pelley reported last spring, there was one thing the Army didn’t count on. It's something...

American Reservist Marries Baghdad Woman He Met in Iraq The Associated Press PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) - A Washington state soldier has married the Iraqi woman he met and fell in love with while in Baghdad. Robert Hall, 23, says he knew within a month that he would marry Vivian Mansour, 21, of Baghdad, even though at first neither spoke a word of each other's language. Hall, an Army reservist who earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service during his one-year tour, said he's never been happier. The two were married here Saturday. "I never in my life saw this...

Love across the lines It was never going to be easy for the American sergeant and the Iraqi doctor who fell in love in Baghdad - he was kicked out of the army and the country and she was threatened in the street. But now the couple, who married last August and haven't seen each other since, are to be reunited. They talk to Julian Borger Saddam Hussein is reputed to be a big Shakespeare fan. He particularly likes The Taming of the Shrew and, more oddly, Romeo and Juliet. For some reason, the ex-dictator believes the tale of the...

Love across the lines It was never going to be easy for the American sergeant and the Iraqi doctor who fell in love in Baghdad - he was kicked out of the army and the country and she was threatened in the street. But now the couple, who married last August and haven't seen each other since, are to be reunited. They talk to Julian Borger Wednesday February 11, 2004 The Guardian Sean Blackwell and Iraqi bride Ehda'a exchange wedding vows in Baghdad, August 2003. Photo: AP Saddam Hussein is reputed to be a big Shakespeare fan. He particularly likes...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- An American soldier has been reprimanded and will be discharged for taking a break from a foot patrol in Baghdad to marry an Iraqi woman, his lawyer said Monday. Sgt. Sean Blackwell, 27, is being punished for divulging the time and location of the patrol to his bride and the Iraqi judge who married them, his attorney said. The Florida National Guardsman avoided a possible court-martial for dereliction of duty and disobeying orders. Blackwell received a written reprimand in advance of the discharge, attorney Richard Alvoid said. "The more they punish him, the more negative publicity the...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- An American soldier has been reprimanded and will be discharged for taking a break from a foot patrol in Baghdad to marry an Iraqi woman, his lawyer said Monday. Sgt. Sean Blackwell, 27, is being punished for divulging the time and location of the patrol to his bride and the Iraqi judge who married them, his attorney said. The Florida National Guardsman avoided a possible court-martial for dereliction of duty and disobeying orders. Blackwell received a written reprimand in advance of the discharge, attorney Richard Alvoid said. "The more they punish him, the more negative publicity...