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• Gates seeks 'ground truth' in Afghanistan March 9, 2010
  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is visiting Afghanistan to get what he called the "ground truth" from servicemembers. […]
• Obama praises 'milestone' Iraqi elections March 8, 2010
  President Barack Obama called Sunday's parliamentarian elections in Iraq as a "milestone" event and vowed to keep his pledge to remove all U.S. troops from that country by the end of next year. […]
• Paratroopers escort international team to observe Iraqi polling March 8, 2010
  In the truck was the self-described "last John Denver fan," a mountaineering Frenchman working for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq as a polling center monitor, his colleague from Yemen who normally works with displaced persons, a 36-year veteran rifleman of the Fijian army, his United Nations security colleague, Rob, from Nashville, […]