2012年8月29日星期三

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Raid book shows bin Laden raid up close

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 05:15 PM PDT

FILE - This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. The firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him. (AP Photo/Dutton, File)A Navy SEAL's firsthand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden pulls back the veil on the secret operations conducted almost nightly by elite American forces against terrorist suspects.


Condi is Bush-era holdout at Republican convention

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:47 PM PDT

Condoleezza Rice delivers a key foreign policy convention speech Wednesday, the lone hold-out from the Bush era to take part in the coronation of Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential candidate.

Syria's Assad acknowledges struggles in civil war

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:25 PM PDT

A Syrian man walks in his house which was destroyed in a Syrian government forces shelling, over looking the rubble of other houses, in Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)In a striking admission, President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that his armed forces will need time to defeat the rebels and addressed the string of defections from his authoritarian regime.


UN chief hits host Iran over human rights

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT

In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Presidency Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Presidency Office, Mohsen Rafinejad)The U.N. chief jolted his Iranian hosts for a nonaligned nations meeting Wednesday by pointing out "serious concerns" in Tehran's human rights record and urging cooperation with the world body to improve freedoms.


Accused Ga. militia leader was still new to Army

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2011 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, left, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19, are led away in handcuffs after appearing before a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office in Ludowici, Ga. Prosecutors say a murder case against the four soldiers in Georgia has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government, The Associated Press reports Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lewis Levine, File)Army Pvt. Isaac Aguigui held the Army's lowest rank, served in the military less than two years and never saw combat. Yet Georgia prosecutors say the 21-year-old soldier from Cashmere, Wash., commanded enough authority to form an anti-government militia within the U.S. military with soldiers of greater rank and experience following his orders — including an order to commit murder.


Judge in WikiLeaks case weighs evidence request

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:15 PM PDT

Military prosecutors argued Wednesday for the right to present evidence of other misconduct by an Army private charged with a massive leak of classified information to the website WikiLeaks.

GOP convention team reaches out to women, vets

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:35 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the American Legion National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)With the Republican National Convention at last in full-throated roar, nominee Mitt Romney and his team reached out Wednesday to critical voting groups — veterans, Hispanics and women — while gleefully mocking the man he is out to defeat in November.


Why no safe zone in Syria, yet? 5 complications

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:21 PM PDT

The idea of a safe zone for refugees in Syria was first proposed several months ago, but the flood of people entering Turkey – as many as 5,000 a day for the past 10 days – has ratcheted up the pressure for such a zone's creation.

Iraq takes delivery of final batch of US tanks

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:57 PM PDT

Iraqi troops fire live rounds during a training session with US forces on using American Abrams-M1A1 tanksIraq's military took delivery of nine American M1A1 Abrams tanks, the last in an order of 140 that it has received over the past two years, the US embassy in Baghdad said in a statement on Wednesday.


Nine dead in Iraq as Qaeda claims attacks

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:35 PM PDT

The latest deaths took to 272 the number of people killed in nationwide attacks so far in AugustAttacks in Baghdad and north Iraq on Wednesday killed nine people, including a general, as Al-Qaeda's front group claimed to have carried out nearly 150 strikes on security forces over the summer.


Obama vs. Romney 101: Where are the sharpest divides?

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:38 AM PDT

Campaign 2012 is more than banners, brass bands, and angry attack ads. There's substance – some – behind the hoopla. The Monitor's series "Obama vs. Romney 101" examines the sharpest differences between the candidates on some of the most important issues facing the United States.

Iran will form troika to explore Syria solution

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:34 AM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will form a team with other non-aligned countries to explore solutions to the crisis in Syria, the Iranian foreign minister said on Wednesday, and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called on Iran to use its influence to help end the violence there. Iran says the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in its capital proves U.S. efforts to isolate it over its nuclear program and support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have failed. A resolution on Syria would help Tehran argue that its ties with Damascus are benign. ...

Live Blog: Republican National Convention Day 3; Paul Ryan, Ann Romney, Mia Love

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Live Blog: Republican National Convention Day 3; Paul Ryan, Ann Romney, Mia LoveRepublican National Convention 2012 Live Blog – Join us for day 3 of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Headliners tonight include Mitt Romney's running mate Rep. Paul Ryan and former Secretary of StateConleezza Rice. Tuesday saw Romney officially dubbed the GOP nominee, a...


Republican convention is in full-throated roar

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:04 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives at the Tampa International Jet Center in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, for a campaign trip to Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)With the Republican National Convention at last in full-throated roar, nominee Mitt Romney and his team reached out Wednesday to connect with critical voting groups — veterans, Hispanics and women — while gleefully mocking the man he is out to defeat in November.


2004: Madonna One Night, Bush Another

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:54 AM PDT

Republicans convened in New York in 2004 to renominate George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Some convention participants shared their recollections with National Journal. Edited excerpts follow.

US welcomes resumed relocation of Camp Ashraf

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:40 AM PDT

The United States on Wednesday welcomed renewed efforts to relocate residents of a camp in Iraq that for years has housed members of an Iranian opposition group.

Obama to play up national security record at party meet

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:37 AM PDT

The Democratic Party will play up what it sees as President Barack Obama's shining national security credentials at its party convention next week, aides to the president said Wednesday.

UN chief urges host Iran to address 'serious' rights concerns

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:30 AM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran - The U.N. chief jolted his Iranian hosts for a nonaligned nations meeting Wednesday by pointing out "serious concerns" in Tehran's human rights record and urging co-operation with the world body to improve freedoms.

Political Convention Speeches in 2032: Starved for Tales of True Hardship

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:29 AM PDT

It's a staple of every stirring political speech: the hardship riff. It could be a parent who worked menial jobs to put his children through school, allowing the new generation to vault ahead of the old. Or an immigrant who rose above racism and abuse. Or a war veteran who returned damaged and spent but somehow kept the family going.

Dems Tap Sen. Kerry for Stadium Speech

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:51 AM PDT

Dems Tap Sen. Kerry for Stadium SpeechDemocrats will make President Obama's foreign policy achievements a major theme of the final night of their convention next Thursday at Bank of America Stadium, ABC News has learned. Today organizers announced that Sen. John Kerry — chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and...


Democrats to stress Obama national security record

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:14 AM PDT

Democrats plan to emphasize President Barack Obama's record on national security and veterans on the night he delivers his address at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

World marks day of the missing

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:57 AM PDT

FILE - This a Monday, April 30, 2007 file photo of Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo hold torches as they rally with torches to mark the 30th anniversary of their first protest around Buenos Aires Plaza de Mayo to demand the return of their disappeared children on April 30, 1977. Tens of thousands of people throughout the world are listed as missing in armed conflicts and after illegal arrests, detentions, abduction or any other form of deprivation of human rights and liberty. On the International Day of the Disappeared on Thursday Aug.30, 2012 the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) called on all governments to provide answers to families on the fate and whereabouts of the missing persons.(AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)Tens of thousands of people around the world are missing today because of armed conflicts or human rights abuses such as abductions and illegal arrests and detentions.


Turkey to press for safe zone in Syria

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:12 AM PDT

A Syrian girl, who fled her home with her family in Marea, due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, looks back while standing next to her family whose taking refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)There is no better lesson about the perils of setting up a safe zone in a country in conflict than Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serbs killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995 in what had been declared a U.N.-protected enclave. Now Turkey is pressing the United Nations to set up a safe haven inside Syria to protect thousands of people fleeing the country's civil war as it strains to shelter an increasing flow of refugees.


Iraq political row threatens future polls

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:47 AM PDT

There are big questions over whether the election commission can really be independentA bitter row between Iraq's political blocs is threatening the future independence of the country's election commission and is casting doubt on whether provincial polls due next year will be held on time.


Attacks in Iraq kill general and 5 others

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:37 AM PDT

Attackers killed six Iraqi security officials including an army general on Wednesday, officials said, the latest wave of insurgent attacks aimed at undermining the central government.

Iraqi officials say 5 dead in series of attacks targeting security forces

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:13 AM PDT

BAGHDAD - Attackers killed five Iraqi security officials including a one-star general on Wednesday, officials said.

US withheld email evidence in WikiLeaks case: defense

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Lawyers for the US soldier charged with passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks accused the military Tuesday of withholding hundreds of emails over fears of a publicity nightmare.

Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind Announces 2nd Annual Light the Way 5K

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Washington Nationals and Safeway, Other Sponsors Support FundraiserWASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind (CLB) will host its second annual Light the Way 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, September 29, 2012, at Nationals Park, benefiting  programs and services CLB provides to people of all ages who are blind, low vision, and deaf-blind in the Washington, D.C. region.The Washington Nationals and Safeway will again be major sponsors of the event. Mark D. ...

Attacks in Iraq kill general and 4 others

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Attackers killed five Iraqi security officials including a one-star general on Wednesday, officials said.

Tim Cahill recalled to Australia squad

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:28 AM PDT

Tim Cahill joined the New York red Bulls last monthTim Cahill was recalled to the Australian squad on Wednesday for next month's friendly against Lebanon and World Cup qualifier against Jordan.


Schwarzer set for landmark Australia century

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:04 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer is set to become the first Australian to win 100 international caps after being named in the Socceroos squad for their World Cup qualifier against Jordan next month. The 39-year-old Fulham goalkeeper could reach the figure in a September 6 friendly away to Lebanon, five days before the fourth round Group B clash. "His contribution has been extraordinary over the years," Australia coach Holger Osieck said of Schwarzer in an interview with the Football Federation of Australia after naming his squad on Wednesday. ...

Soccer-Schwarzer set for landmark Australia century

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:33 AM PDT

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer is set tobecome the first Australian to win 100 international caps afterbeing named in the Socceroos squad for their World Cup qualifieragainst Jordan next month. The 39-year-old Fulham goalkeeper could reach the figure ina Sept. 6 friendly away to Lebanon, five days before the fourthround Group B clash. "His contribution has been extraordinary over the years,"Australia coach Holger Osieck said of Schwarzer in an interviewwith the Football Federation of Australia after naming his squadon Wednesday. ...

Turkish military is key factor in Syria planning

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Turkish Presidency Press Office, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, center, seen during a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. In 2003, Turkey barred U.S. forces from opening a northern front in the war against Iraq in a stunning rebuff to Washington that raised questions about whether the politically powerful Turkish military had undercut a civilian-led initiative to help the Americans. As Turkey and its allies today mull possible intervention in Syria, the Turkish military, broken as a political force, is likely to move in step with the civilian commanders it once viewed with disdain. (AP Photo/Mehmet Demirci, Turkish Presidency Press Office)In 2003, Turkey barred U.S. forces from opening a northern front in the war against Iraq in a stunning rebuff to Washington that raised questions about whether the politically powerful Turkish military had undercut a civilian-led initiative to help the Americans. As Turkey and its allies mull possible intervention in Syria, the Turkish military, broken as a political force, is likely to move in step with the civilian commanders it once viewed with disdain.


Former Decorated Marines Surpass $20 Million in Funding for Lima One Capital, LLC

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Lima One Capital LLC, an Atlanta hard money lender recently surpassed $20 Million in funding. Lima One Capital's mission seeks to revolutionize and stabilize the residential real estate industry by providing first-mortgage loans to real estate investors seeking to purchase and renovate distressed homes. The company offers clients highly competitive rates, transparent terms, unmatched operational efficiency, great customer service, and fast closings. Lima One Capital currently lends in Georgia and South Carolina, with Atlanta representing its largest market. ...

S.Africa's Tutu boycotts seminar in anti-Blair protest

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:47 PM PDT

South African Archbishop and Nobel Laureate Tutu speaks during an interview with Reuters in New DelhiJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nobel peace prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has withdrawn from a seminar in South Africa this week in protest against the presence of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his support for war in Iraq. "The archbishop is of the view that Mr. Blair's decision to support the United States' military invasion of Iraq, on the basis of unproven allegations of the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, was morally indefensible," said Tutu spokesman Roger Friedman. Blair strongly supported U.S. President George W. ...


Khondakar Golam Mowla Presents Analysis on the Prediction of the Occupy Movement

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 09:08 PM PDT

Wealth inequality is but one aspect of European imperialism and usury, claims author Khondakar Golam Mowla in new book "The Judgment Against Imperialism, Fascism and Racism Against Caliphate and Islam".Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 29, 2012 According to author Khondakar Golam Mowla, "the present Occupy Wall Street movement is nothing but the revolution started by Prophet Jesus (Peace be upon him) about 2000 years ago when he drove money exchangers who were doing interest/usury-based business from the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa Mosque/Dome of the Rock. ...

SNOWPLOWING SKILLS

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:59 PM PDT

Senator Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., speaks to delegates during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)Politicians never seem run out of things to boast about when they're telling their personal stories on the convention stage. One New England pol was even touting her snowplowing skills.


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