The non-profit organization "Hospital Audiences," which provides hospital patients access to the arts, organized the 3-day escape for the wounded warriors, many of whom will spend between nine months and two years at Walter Reed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

In good times,the desert provides abundant food for goats and camels, which in turn provide the families with surplus milk and meat to sell in local markets.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

So in addition to what each side's own intelligence services are able to pick up, the treaty provides additional information which has always been seen as being of great confidence-building value."

VOA: standard.2009.12.07