Nearly 2,700 Lightning Bolts Strike Washington State and Oregon In Two Days

And start 212 fires.

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Bomb-laden 'Reaper' drones bound for Iraq

The Reaper is loaded w/ one and a half tons of bombs, able to fly at 300mph and outfitted with state of the art targeting, but there is no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a console 7,000 miles away in Nevada. The arrival of these outsized U.S. "hunter-killer" drones is aviation history's first robot attack squadron

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Marine says officers ordered to 'crank up' violence in Iraq

A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level."a procedure called "dead-checking" was routine. If Marines entered a house where a man was wounded, instead of checking to see whether he needed medical aid, they shot him to make sure

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Marine: Beating of Iraqis became routine

A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level." He said Marines consider all Iraqi men part of the insurgency.

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