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• Bush blames terrorists, former loyalists to Saddam, for surge of violence in Iraq
  President Bush blamed both loyalists to Saddam Hussein and foreign terrorists for the recent rash of devastating attacks in and around Baghdad. "Basically what they're trying to do is cause people to run...That's what terrorists do," Bush told a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday.October 28, 2003
• Pawlenty names Shellito as new Guard leader
  Gov. Pawlenty has appointed Major General Larry Shellito to lead the Minnesota National Guard. Shellito is president of Alexandria Technical College and has 35 years of military experience. He starts his new job at a time when more National Guard reservists are deployed overseas than during any other period since World War II. The deployments have led to frustration among many reservists' families.October 27, 2003
• Post-war Iraq
  President Bush said Monday that U.S. progress in Iraq is making insurgents more "desperate" and spurring attacks such as the bombings at the international Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad that killed dozens of people. We discuss the post-war situation in Iraq.October 27, 2003
• Sioux Falls man helps organize new Iraqi government
  A Sioux Falls man says U.S. troops in Iraq should prepare to leave. Ali Sahli was born and raised in the Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk. He was mayor of that city 30 years ago, and now, he's returning to help set up a new government. He says it's time for Iraqis to take control of their own country.October 20, 2003
• Tragedy of Srebrenica seen from a war hospital
  A handful of doctors and nurses found themselves trapped with thousands of civilians in a town under siege in the former Yugoslavia. A new book raises troubling questions about battlefield medicine and humanitarian aid.October 20, 2003
• Rep. Kline back from Iraq
  Minnesota's 2nd district Republican Congressman John Kline returned from a trip to to the Middle East and Iraq Wednesday. We talk with him about what he saw, and which direction he thinks the U.S. should go to stabilize peace in the region.October 16, 2003
• A Minnesota Marine is home and healing
  A Minnesota Marine just back from the war in Iraq says many residents he encountered welcomed American troops. Jorge Alvarado returned home Saturday after nearly nine months of duty that began with combat and ended with security detail. He faced danger at every turn but the incident that injured him was caused by a car crash.October 15, 2003
• Anne Garrels' experiences in Iraq
  We hear excerpts from NPR foreign reporter Anne Garrels' audio book, Naked in Baghdad. The book journals her experiences before, during, and after her time in Iraq covering the Iraq war.October 15, 2003
• Naked in Baghdad
  Excerpts from Anne Garrels' audio book, Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by National Public Radio's Correspondent.October 15, 2003
• Bush team makes foreign policy adjustments
  The Bush administration plans to ask for a December 15 deadline for the Iraqi governing council to submit election plans to the UN. A draft resolution before the United Nations Security Council is the latest attempt to gain more international troops and money as well as help relieve U.S. frustration with the way the reconstruction is going.October 14, 2003
• The ethics of war
  Chris Hedges, journalist, speaks in a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum at Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis. He has spent fifteen years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. He discusses the ethics of waging war.October 2, 2003
• U.S. troops overseas
  A U.S. military program to give combat troops a few days of home leave sounded like a good thing to some Minnesota families - until they got to the part where the soldiers have to pay part of their airfare. The program was begun after a Florida congressman complained that some troops were being unfairly deployed longer than others. Any service member with a 12-month tour in Iraq and neighboring countries can qualify for up to 15 days of leave. We discuss how troops deployed overseas are doing, and when they could return home.September 30, 2003
• Garrels on foreign reporting
  National Public Radio foreign reporter Anne Garrels spoke Wednesday as part of Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series. We hear her speech, given at Macalester College.September 26, 2003
• 1862 war site being restored
  Rows of corn and soybeans are being replaced by native prairie plants on a historic field in southwest Minnesota. About a dozen settlers and several Indians were killed there during a war 141 years ago. Descendents of people on both sides gathered at the site to dedicate a monument.September 25, 2003
• Is the United Nations facing a turning point?
  World leaders addressed the most divisive issue currently before the United Nations: the invasion of Iraq and the plans to turn control over to Iraqis. They also said they agreed the UN needs to fight the spread of weapons of mass destruction.September 24, 2003

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