Posts Tagged ‘attacks’
Lawmakers: Stop insider attacks by Afghan troops (AP)
AP – Lawmakers are telling the U.S. military to do more to screen Afghan security forces to prevent those supposedly friendly troops from killing Americans fighting alongside them.
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Attacks by Afghans on US troops often personal (AP)
AP – Supposedly friendly Afghan security forces have attacked U.S. and coalition troops 45 times since May 2007, U.S. officials say, for the first time laying out details and analysis of attacks that have killed 70 and wounded 110.
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Front-runner Romney fends off SC debate attacks (AP)
AP – Under heavy debate pressure from his rivals, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney defended his record as a venture capitalist, insisted he bears no responsibility for attack ads aired by his allies and grudgingly said in campaign debate Monday night he might release his income tax returns this spring.
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Gingrich tempers Romney attacks in South Carolina (AP)
AP – Under pressure from some in his own party, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Thursday tempered his public attacks on front-runner Mitt Romney while defending his right to question the former Massachusetts governor’s business record.
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Romney defends business record in face of attacks (AP)
AP – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday defended his time in private business and insisted he understands the country’s tough economic times because he once feared losing his job.
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Attacks targeting Shiites kill 72 in Iraq (AP)
AP – A wave of bombings targeting Shiites in Iraq killed 72 people on Thursday, deepening sectarian tensions that exploded just after the last American troops left the country in mid-December.
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Newt Gingrich weeps, Mitt Romney attacks Ron Paul (AP)
AP – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wept Friday as he recalled his late mother’s end-of-life illnesses, a moment of poignancy in a notably negative Republican presidential Iowa caucus campaign with four unpredictable days yet to run.
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