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An interesting comment from Abbas Kadhim:

As I recall it from my days in Mosul, Al-Ghizlani is one of the largest military facilities in Iraq. It has all kinds of places to have a dining room. Why would anyone have a tent for such gatherings?

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According to Mark Kassis’ letter to the editor of Ames, IA’s Tribune newspaper (12/9/04, print edition), the “economic draft” is gaining strength. Kassis writes that his son, a college student, recently received an offer from the US Army of “up to $20,000 enlistment bonus, up to $70,000 for college…and the choice of more than 150 careers.” This offer comes the same year that Kassis and his son have been notified that Pell student grants will be cut, causing as many as 1.2 million low-income students to have their grants reduced. There’s no cited proof of a correlation between these two events, but it’s difficult not to see the indications: As subsidies are moved from one low-income area to another, more and more potential students will see no better choice for their futures than to fight US wars, whether or not they agree with the reasons for these wars. Even when those in the US government insist a conventional draft will not be necessary, the system will find ways to fill the endless need for more bodies to fight its open-ended wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond – with or without public support.

Multiple casualties being reported. Atrios posts that CNN says 22 killed. Developing.

UPDATE: Reuters: The Pentagon says 22 people have killed in a blast at a U.S. military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, CNN has reported.

UPDATE: (Reuters) – At least 22 people were killed and 50 others wounded in a rocket and mortar attack against a U.S. military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a defense official at the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

UPDATE: AP – The Ansar al-Sunnah Army claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on the Internet. It said the attack was a “martyrdom operation” targeting a mess hall in the al-Ghizlani camp.

Most reports claim that the dining hall came under rocket or mortar attack, so it’s unclear how this was a “martyrdom” operation.

A unknown Russian firm called Baikal Finans Group won the auction for a subsidiary of the giant oil firm Yukos. The sale has become more suspicious as new information about the company surfaces

The Baikal Finans Group, which listed its address as the same as that of a cellphone store in Tver, won a controlling stake, or 76.79 percent of the shares, in Yuganskneftegas with a bid equivalent to about $9.35 billion.

Who knew that there were billions in owning a tiny phone store 130 miles outside of Moscow…

Last April, Russ Kick of the Memory Hole broke the embargo on showing the flag-draped caskets of America’s war dead as they return home.

Now, in his series The Purple Heart Project, Aaron Huey tells the rest of the story.

Bookmark the Purple Heart Project because it is an ongoing project which will be updated as Aaron takes new photographs.