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Elections held in iraq and the polls closed two hours ago. the president just released a statement on today's events. in a minute we'll be going to the white house with more on that. but first, despite the tight security, insurgents intent on intimidating voters still managed to get off a spate of bombs, rockets and mortar attacks. the vote coming as u.s. troops prepare to leave iraq and it will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 u.s.-led invasion. nbc's richard engel is live on the phone in iraq. richard, with a good mornin...

Daily mortar attacks. as they were controlling the airspace over iraq. during this deployment i was named one of the top officers in my career field for the entire air force. in iraq during the height of the insurgency, the air force conducted a search of my private e-mails solely to determine if i had violated don't ask/don't tell and gather whatever evidence they could use against me. i was relieved of my duties leading nearly 200 airmen. my security clearance was suspended. part of my pay was terminated. i was forced to endure a grueling 16-month legal ordeal before i was ultimately dischar...

Tonight in southern afghanistan taliban fighters are not giving up as u.s. and nato forces try to gain control of helmand province. the operation is in full swing. military leaders say it could take another month to secure the area. u.s. and nato forces facing gunfire, mortar attacks and the spread of taliban spies. what if there were not one or two spies but a dozen? it happened at one u.s. base. the american commander found spies within his midst, to face his biggest challenge yet, finding evidence to hold them. under nato rules, rules most of us never heard of, a commander has just 96 hours...

A trail of death and destruction the thousands of munitions fired by the u.s. led coalition and the i ask car bombs and mortar attacks have turned rocka and what wasteland. guilt has returned to northern syria again and again supporting his colleagues from the kurdish red crescent the battle for rocca is in its final stages but danger is a constant presence i asked fire. yours have been driven out but they mined the city extensively before some days we found a family six people all of them enjoy it too and some of them and those nicks on the bodies but the lakes. i knew offensive against i.a.s...

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