"The Hurt Locker," the story of a bomb team squad in Iraq, overcame tremendous obstacles to win "The Best Picture" of the year at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
The picture was blasted by some angry bomb team vets, but still managed to win.
"The Hurt Locker" didn't do well at the box office. It grossed just $17 million dollars, but it has soldout in military posts all across the nation and around the world.
Catherine Bigelow, who directed "The Hurt Locker," became the first woman in Oscar history to win Best Director.
"The Hurt Locker" also walked off with five other Oscars.
HERE IS A VIDEO CLIP FROM "THE HURT LOCKER"
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
HOOAH! "THE HURT LOCKER" WINS BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR (VIEW VIDEO CLIP)
ROUNDUP OF SECURITY INCIDENTS AND EVENTS SURROUNDING IRAQ VOTE
The following is from Iraq Today and is the latest information regarding security incidents and other events which took place on Sunday while Iraq was holding their national elections.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2010/03/news-of-day-for-sunday-march-7-2010.html
IRAQ HOLDS LANDMARK ELECTION. 38 KILLED IN BOMB ATTACKS
Iraq holds landmark vote, attacks kill 38
(AP, Reuters)
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/index00.asp
7 March 2010, 7:00 PM
BAGHDAD - Bomb blasts and rocket and mortar fire killed 38 people as Iraqis voted on Sunday in an election they hoped would distance their nascent democracy from years of sectarian slaughter as U.S. troops pack up to leave.
The explosions rumbled across Baghdad and other cities after Sunni Islamist insurgents vowed to wreck voting for Iraq’s second full-term parliament since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a vote watched closely by global oil companies planning to invest billions to develop the country’s dilapidated oilfields.
Turnout among the 19 million eligible voters was not clear.
It could take three days to get results in an election that will prove vital to U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to halve U.S. troop levels by August and withdraw completely by end-2011.
“I have great respect for the millions of Iraqis who refused to be deterred by acts of violence, and who exercised their right to vote today,” Obama said in a statement. “Their participation demonstrates that the Iraqi people have chosen to shape their future through the political process.”
Authorities said dozens of mortar and rocket attacks rattled Baghdad during the early hours of polling before ebbing later in the day. In the deadliest incident, 25 people were killed when an explosion blew up a three-storey Baghdad apartment block.
Read more here: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/index00.asp
U.S. TROOPS SEARCH FOR A TRIBE OF NOMADS IN AFGHANISTAN (LIVE VIDEO)
This video was taken on the 27th day of 30 days in Afghanistan as a platoon of U.S. soldiers goes out into the desolate area of the country in search of a Nomadic tribe they had heard about.
Watch and listen as one GI explains what they encountered when they eventually came upon the tribe of Afghan Nomads.
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WANNA KNOW HOW THE ELECTION IS GOING IN IRAQ. READ THIS
The following is a list of violence that took place Sunday all across Iraq while they were having their elections.
Looks like our troops may be in Iraq longer than Obama was thinking.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?cat=47
TRAVELING WITH U.S. MARINES AS EMBEDDED REPORTER
Clayton Swisher, a reporter for Al Jazeera, shows his living quarters as he travels with the U.S. Marines during combat missions in Helmand Province Afghanistan.
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