AWOL soldier gets reassigned to fort
DENVER -- Spc. Simone Holcomb, a National Guard medic who defied orders and stayed home with her children after a custody battle rather than return to duty in Iraq, has been reassigned to Fort Carson, Colo. But she still faces possible court-martial.
"The National Guard was working on a resolution to this problem," Giorgio Ra'Shadd, Holcomb's lawyer, said Tuesday. There was "a monkey wrench thrown into the works," he explained, when Holcomb's commander in Iraq called and insisted on a punishment.
D.C.
Poll shows majority of Iraqis doubts U.S.
WASHINGTON -- More than half of Baghdad's residents said they did not believe the United States would allow the Iraqi people to fashion their political future without the direct influence of Washington, D.C., according to a Gallup poll.
Only 5 percent of those polled said they believed the United States invaded Iraq "to assist the Iraqi people," and only 1 percent believed it was to establish democracy there.
Recent analyses of the poll data, which were gathered three months ago, highlight the roots within that city's populace of many of the concerns the U.S.-led coalition now faces there.
The Toll
As of Tuesday
Service members who have died in Iraq-related military operations since March 20:
United States 394
Great Britain 52
Denmark 1
Spain 1
Ukraine 1
U.S. service members injured in Iraq-related operations:
From hostile action 1,938
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