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Today's strange story.. Army orders court martials for soldiers who get pregnant in northern Iraq American soldiers in northern Iraq who get pregnant or who impregnate a service member even if they are married to each other face court martial and possible jail time, the military newspaper Stars & Stripes reported Monday. The order effects soldiers in the region that includes Kirkuk, Tikrit, Balad, Mosul and Samarra and applies ...
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20 hours ago ago from Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Stars and Stripes: U.S. personnel in Iraq could face court-martial for getting pregnant , by Teri Weaver: The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command. The policy, which went into effect Nov. 4, makes it possible to face punishment, including a court-martial and jail time, for becoming pregnant or impregnating a servicemember, according to ...
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The U.S. is reaching out to followers of a key Shi'ite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia once battled U.S. troops and who remains a powerful leader, particularly among Iraq's urban poor. A top Sadrist political leader in Baghdad, Qusay al-Suhail, told The Washington Times that he and his colleagues have been approached five times in the last five months by emissaries seeking to arrange meetings with senior U.S. military and civilian ...
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December 21, 2009 by sridhar Filed under World Newz Leave a Comment Iraq has called upon the Iranian government to solve all the border disputes through diplomatic means and to avoid the use of military force. This was said in a statement of Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh after Iraq accused Iran of seizing control of a disputed oilfield along the border between the two countries. According to Iraqi National ...
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U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Could Face Court-Martial for Getting Pregnant
9 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
U.S. military personnel serving in Iraq now face court-martial if they become pregnant -- or impregnate another soldier -- according to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes . Long-standing military policy removes pregnant servicewomen from combat within two weeks, but the new policy makes it a punishable offense -- even for married couples. The major who instituted the ban says that service members should put their love lives "on hold" ...
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1 hour, 49 minutes ago ago from CNN - U.S.
U.S. soldiers in Iraq could face courts-martial for getting pregnant From Barbara Starr and Adam Levine, CNN No pregnancy, general's orders STORY HIGHLIGHTS New order makes getting pregnant, impregnating a fellow soldier an offense Rule meant to prevent losing soldiers when troop strength is stretched thin, general says Of the 22,000 people in the command, 1,682 are women
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