European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 11 Senate rejects on Forone dwell time plan by Leo Shane in stars and stripes Washington the Senate on wednesday rejected a proposal to Guaran tee All troops a month Home for every month they Are deployed into a combat the Senate fell four votes Short of the 60 needed to end debate on the prevent ing democratic leaders in the chamber from bringing the Issue up for a full vote and effectively forcing them to drop earlier in the Senate majority Leader Harry called the proposal critical for the strength of our military and the Well being of our troops and chastised republicans for blocking the Amend the on Forone proposal was introduced last week by Jim As a Way to ease the Burden of deployments on troops and their proponents said the measure would help preserve troop morale and while opponents said it unfairly restricted military plan earlier this defense Secretary Rob Ert Gates introduced a new dwell time policy requiring that units spend a minimum of 12 months Home after 15month deploy ments the army is using that 1512 while Marine corps unit deploy ments Are typically seven months at Home after seven months the dwell time proposal was part of the senates debate Over the billion 2008 defense authorization which sets Mili tary funding priorities and limits for next the House passed its version of the Bill in the the Senate is expected to approve its draft by the end of the week and begin deliberations with the House on a Compromise email Leo Shane at  released German hostage Hannelore Krause Speaks during a to interview who was kidnapped in has been released after 155 Days in but her son is still being held Germany foreign minister said Al Arabya German hostage freed son still held by Geir Moulson the associated press Berlin a German woman who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released after 155 Days in but her son is still being held Germany foreign minister said Hannelore and her adult disappeared in Iraq on foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier told reporters that the woman had been free since tues Day afternoon and was at the Ger Man embassy in but said he could give no details of How she was for All that we Are relieved about the release of pressing uncertainty remains Over the Fate of her who re Mains a Steinmeier he pledged that Germany would continue to do All it can to secure his a previously unknown insurgent group calling itself the arrows of which claimed on March 10 to have snatched the had demanded that Germany withdraw from in comments to Dubai based Ala Rabiya television after her re Krause urged Berlin to withdraw the voicing fears for her sons i Call on the germans to leave Afghanistan and that the German army withdraws from of she according to an arabic voiceover of her com ments in if they dont respond to this my son will be which opposed the War in Iraq and has no troops has some soldiers serving in natos International Security assistance Force in Afghanistan largely in the relatively Calm North and has made Clear it has no intention of complying with the kidnappers the Mother and son were shown twice in videos released by the in both videos released in March and april the group threatened to kill the hostages if Germany did not comply with an ultimatum to Start withdrawing its troops within 10 German officials have not specified what Krause and her son were doing in German Media have reported that she is married to an iraqi doctor and has Long lived in Conway sees no Iraq civil blasts Media by Scott Lindlaw the associated press san Francisco the head of the Marine corps said he sees some similarities Between the Iraq and Vietnam including dogged insurgencies and an Ero Sion of Domestic support As each conflict dragged but James the Marine corps said he saw As Many most notably the absence of a he criticized the Media for re porting a drumbeat of bad news out of Iraq and theres a level of negativism in our press today that our Young troops find a Little bit disconcert Conway said tuesday night while addressing several Hundred members of the marines memorial Ive talked to very few troops who have come Back from theater who Haven had to go through about a two week Transi Tion of that not what i saw taking but that what the country being shown every Conway terrorists Are using the Western Media to Advance their when they were cutting off the Heads of those unfortunate individuals in the Orange that poor individual was the immedi ate you were the real tar he it is truly a tool in the kit bag of the terrorist to have this repetitive Battle damage assessment broadcast on a 24hour Conway offered an optimistic por trait of the Iraq War even As key allies of presi Dent Bush abandon the White houses Stayt Secour be incremental Conway Progress is being made on a number of including the training of iraqi Security he the fact there is no civil War 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