Iraqi tribesmen preparing for life without U.S. aid

 
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Published: June 30, 2008

RADWANIYAH, IraqCapt. David N. Simms wanted the tribal sheiks to have no doubts — the $500,000 his unit spends every month to pay and equip local tribesmen to keep peace here will soon run out and they had better be ready when it's gone.

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Slain State Department worker to be remembered in Edmond
A funeral is planned Wednesday for a State Department worker from Guthrie who was killed by a bomb in Iraq last week.

Services are planned at the Henderson Hills Baptist Church in Edmond at 9 a.m. Wednesday for 57-year-old Steven Farley. A full military ceremony will follow at his burial at 2 p.m. at the Fort Sill National Cemetery in Elgin.

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