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Nidal Hasan Emails Could Indicate Fort Hood Shooting Was A Terrorist Plot

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Pamela Hess, Anne Gearan - Nov. 21 (Breaking News) - WASHINGTON – The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.

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U.S., Japan remain at odds over Marine air station on Okinawa

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - Nov. 17 (News Analysis) - Many Okinawans, after decades of living with noisy American aircraft and rambunctious American troops, have come to associate the U.S. military presence with noise, pollution and periodic crime.

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Obama Receives New Afghan Option

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Peter Spiegel, Yochi Dreazen - Nov. 11 (News Report) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will consider a new compromise plan for adding troops to Afghanistan that would deploy 30,000 to 35,000 new forces, including as many as 10,000 military trainers, over the next year or more. The new scenario combines reinforcements for fighting Taliban insurgents with trainers aimed at rapidly increasing the size and capabilities of Afghan troops to take on more operations themselves. It wouldn't aim to eliminate the Taliban, but weaken it until Afghan forces can secure major population centers themselves.

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Obama’s Top Advisers Lean Toward Plan for 30,000 More Troops for Afghanistan

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller, David E. Sanger - Nov. 11 (News Report) - The president’s national security team is coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan, officials say.

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Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40K More Troops

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By David Martin - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term. The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.

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Scientists: Nuke panel owes Utahns an apology

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Judy Fahys - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Three scientists say federal nuclear regulators owe Utahns an apology -- and a policy change -- for allowing shallow burial of depleted uranium, including the 49,000 tons already at EnergySolutions Inc.'s landfill in Tooele County.

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Female Cop Hailed as Ft. Hood Hero

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - Nov. 06 (News Report) - (CBS/ AP) Updated at 9:45 p.m. EST A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded, Army officials said. Authorities

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Strain of deployments hit base

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ann Scott Tyson - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Fort Hood, the Texas military base that was the scene of a mass shooting Thursday, has been hard hit by the growing strain on the Army from multiple combat deployments -- with its personnel suffering the highest number of suicides among Army

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Seven members of House defense subcommittee scrutinized by ethics investigators

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Carol D. Leonnig - Oct. 30 (News Report) - The investigations by two separate ethics offices include an examination of the powerful subcommittee chairman, John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), as well as others who helped steer federal funds to clients of the PMA Group. The lawmakers received campaign

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US diplomat quits over Afghan war

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Oct. 27 (News Report) - A senior US diplomat in Afghanistan has become the first such person to resign in protest at the war against the Taliban, the Washington Post reported.

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Official resigns over Afghan war

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung - Oct. 27 (Special Report) - A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. But last

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Push for Afghanistan troop increase continues on deadly day

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Laura King, Julian E. Barnes, Paul Richter - Oct. 27 (News Analysis) - On a day when 14 U.S. servicemen and drug agents were killed in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, the largest such toll in more than four years, momentum continued to build to send more troops to the war zone. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a Washington address that he would support a decision by President Obama to "send some additional troops" provided improvements are made in Afghan troop training and government, and civilian aid efforts are increased.

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Troop-Boost Plan Gains Backing

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Peter Spiegel, Yochi Dreazen - Oct. 24 (News Report) - The Obama administration is moving toward a hybrid strategy in Afghanistan that would combine elements of both the troop-heavy approach sought by its top military commander and a narrower option backed by Vice President Joe Biden, a decision that could pave the way for thousands of new U.S. forces.

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Going 'deep', not 'big', in Afghanistan

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Asia Times - By Gareth Porter - Oct. 16 (News Report) - An analysis making waves in Washington by a veteran United States officer calls for the withdrawal of the bulk of United States combat forces from Afghanistan over 18 months, warning against General Stanley McChrystal's counter-insurgency strategy. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L Davis says that it is already too late for US forces to defeat the insurgency.

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We've Seen the Future, and It's Unmanned

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Esquire - By Brian Mockenhaupt - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - Every so often in history, something profound happens that changes warfare forever. Next year, for the first time ever, the Pentagon will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned, line-item proof that we are in a new age of fighting machines, in which war will be ever more abstract, ever more distant, and ruthlessly efficient.

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Lisa Versus Lisa: EPA's Jackson Bests Sen. Murkowski

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Stephen Power - Sep. 25 (News Report) - Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s plan to limit EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases won’t be coming up for a vote after all. This, after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers sent letters to Congress warning that the Alaska Republican’s amendment would prevent the EPA from completing its recent proposal to regulate automobile greenhouse gas emissions. If that had happened, the industry would face “a patchwork of conflicting state and federal regulations,” the Alliance warned in its letter. A Murkowski spokesman said Senate Democratic leaders prevented a vote on her amendment and that the senator disputes the EPA administrator’s view that the amendment would prevent the EPA from completing its vehicle proposal. “They’ve gone out of their way to refuse to debate the merits of this” amendment, the spokesman said.

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McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure'

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - Sep. 21 (News Report) - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.

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McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure'

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - Sep. 20 (Special Report) - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.

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Inquiry Into CIA Practices Narrows

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Carrie Johnson, Jerry Markon, Julie Tate - Sep. 19 (News Report) - On Friday, seven former CIA directors urged President Obama to end the inquiry, arguing that it would inhibit intelligence operations in the future and demoralize agency employees who believed they had been cleared by previous investigators. "Attorney

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Medal of Honor awarded sparsely in Iraq, Afghanistan - CNN.com

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Larry Shaughnessy - Sep. 18 (News Report) - When President Obama gave a Medal of Honor to Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti's family this week, it was just the sixth time the nation's highest medal for valor has been awarded to a hero of the current conflicts. In all six cases, the awards were presented posthumously

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Obama to Scrap European Missile Shield Plan

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear, Ann Scott Tyson, Debbi Wilgoren - Sep. 17 (Special Report) - President Obama said Thursday that he is abandoning Bush-era plans for a long-range missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic, turning instead to a land- and sea-based system of sensors and interceptors that is focused on stopping shorter-range missiles that could be fired from Iran.

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U.S. Will Release More Members of an Iraqi Militia - NYTimes.com

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Rod Nordland, Sam Dagher - Aug. 18 (News Report) - BAGHDAD — The American military commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, said Monday that more members of a radical Shiite militia would be released from United States custody, even though the military still believed that they were responsible for attacks that killed Americans.

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Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Aug. 17 (News Report) - In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met in a secure Pentagon room for their fortnightly video conference with Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top...

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Colombia under fire from neighbours over US ‘military aggression’

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Hannah Strange - Aug. 11 (News Report) - With almost all of his Latin American counterparts signalling alarm at the plan, President Uribe embarked on a whirlwind tour of regional capitals this week in an attempt to reassure them that it was not a threat to their sovereignty and was aimed only at combating the drugs trade, which raises millions of dollars for Colombian paramilitary groups. Colombia says that the accord, expected to be signed within weeks, would allow US troops access to seven bases in the world’s top cocaineproducing nations and increase the number of permanent personnel from the current 300 to about 1,400.

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US Battling CIA Rendition Case in 3 Courts | CommonDreams.org

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Bob Egelko - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The Obama administration is fighting on multiple fronts - in courts in San Francisco, Washington and London - to keep an official veil of secrecy over the treatment of a former prisoner who says he was tortured at Guantanamo Bay.

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