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    Now the Hard Part    Global Security Updates' most recent release entitled, 
Now the Hard Part, looks at why passing sanctions against North Korea was the 
easy part. Enforcing the sanctions will be anything but.   Other Updates 
include:
Iraqi Women Under AttackNorth Korea's Test May Backfire, 
Make US Support ?Conditioned? on Iraqi Compromise ? or Leave
Federalism Under the Radar Screen
North Korea Goes Nuclear
NATO Challenges Musharraf 
  Afghanistan    Taliban Commander, 10 Others, Killed in Afghanistan Air Strike 
 A Taliban commander and at least 10 other insurgents were killed by a U.S.-led 
coalition air strike in Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
said.

    British Troops Leave Afghan District  British troops pulled out of a 
troubled district in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, while a U.S.-led 
coalition airstrike killed a suspected midlevel Taliban commander and up to 15 
other militants, NATO said.

    U.S. Faces Obstacles To Freeing Detainees  Allies Block Returns From 
Guantanamo

  Iraq War    Mandatory Anthrax Shots to Return  "It is an unnecessary, 
unproven and potentially unsafe vaccine," attorney Mark Zaid said. "Everyone is 
concerned as to their health, and the fact is that there is no scientific 
evidence that the vaccine works in humans. . . . I think this program is 
nothing more than a glorified public relations campaign to demonstrate that 
they are doing something."

    U.S. Faces Obstacles To Freeing Detainees  Allies Block Returns From 
Guantanamo

    Soldiers Come Home to No Guarantee of Jobs  John Batiste, a retired general 
who served in Iraq, is also the president of Klein steel.   "Despite laws that 
guarantee work when soldiers and airmen return, that's not always the case…a 
year is a long time…the job was taken by someone else," he said.

    Veterans' Anger Over Iraq War Runs Deep  "I was around during Vietnam and I 
never remember generals coming out and questioning the leadership of the 
military back then," says Joel Rubin, a longtime political observer in Virginia 
Beach, who hosts a Sunday morning political show on WVEC-TV. "The anger, I 
think, is pretty deep, but we won't know for sure until Nov. 7."

    Iraq?s Christians Flee as Extremist Threat Worsens  BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 — The 
blackened shells of five cars still sit in front of the Church of the Virgin 
Mary here, stark reminders of a bomb blast that killed two people after a 
recent Sunday Mass.

    Bush Reassures Iraqi That There Is No Timetable for Withdrawal  WASHINGTON, 
Oct. 16 — President Bush reassured Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq 
on Monday that he would not set a timetable for withdrawal of American troops 
and would continue to support the prime minister, despite recent reports that 
military officials and some Republican lawmakers were dissatisfied with the 
Iraqi government’s performance.

    U.S. Joins Iraqis in City Where 91 Died  U.S. troops joined Iraqi forces 
and police Tuesday in patrolling the city of Balad, where a surge in sectarian 
fighting has killed at least 91 people.

    Families Flee Iraqi River Towns On 4th Day of Sectarian Warfare  Families 
fled in search of safety Monday as open warfare raged for a fourth day between 
Shiite militias and armed Sunni men in Tigris River towns north of Baghdad. 
Militias allied with Iraq's Shiite-led government held sway in Balad city, 
forcing out Sunni families and leaving the bodies of slain Sunni men to rot in 
the streets, according to police, residents and hospital officials.

    Baker's Panel Rules Out Iraq Victory  A commission formed to assess the 
Iraq war and recommend a new course has ruled out the prospect of victory for 
America.

    Senator Obama Proposes Health Plan for Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans  
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is honoring retiring U.S. Rep. Lane Evans, 
D-Rock Island, by introducing legislation to help prepare for the looming 
veterans care crisis as troops deployed in the global war on terror return home.

  Mental Health and War    Iraq War imagery reopens psychological wounds of 
Vietnam  Vietnam War veterans are terrified their treatment will be terminated 
because the returning War on Terror veterans will overwhelm the VA system.

  Prisoner Abuse and Torture    U.S. Faces Obstacles To Freeing Detainees  
Allies Block Returns From Guantanamo

    New blogs on Veterans for America today:  A Private and his Son
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