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• LESSON OF PAST IN CHINA SHEDS LIGHT ON PRESENT
• Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues
• United States transfers Bagram prison to Afghan control
• For once, 9/11 attacks play small role in election
• 9/11 attacks play little role in presidential race
• Brother of French al-Qaeda-inspired killer questioned
• 9/11 Demands Our Vigilance
• Iraqi VP rejects 'unjust' verdict in terror trial
• Budget cuts seen squeezing Marines' capacity, programs
• Egypt to host regional meeting over Syria crisis
• US, Afghans locked in dispute over detainees
• Turkey steps up offensive against Kurdish rebels
• Relating, energizing: Rules of the political road
• US watchdog questions spending for Afghan army
• Snoop Dogg, Brad Pitt Endorse Four More Years of Obama
• Why Romney’s ‘Moon Colony’ Economics Aren’t Selling
• Sectarian fury, Syrian turmoil pressure Iraq's Maliki
• Turkish military hits Kurdish rebel targets in Northern Iraq
• US hands over Bagram prison to Afghans
• UPDATE 1-Soccer-Iraq's Zico promises Japan a fight on return
• Rejecting death sentence, Iraqi VP Hashemi calls for Iraqis to resist
• Iraqi VP says innocent, terror trial a sham
• U.N. human rights chief faults both sides in Syria
• Candidates test their pipes, stamina on the road
• Financial Press: Rio Grande Mining Corp. Pursues Major African Resource Projects
• Fugitive Iraq VP says death sentence "politically motivated"
• Iraq's fugitive VP Hashemi urges Iraqis to oppose Maliki
• Iraqi vice-president convicted of running death squads rejects verdict
• 10 things you need to know today: September 10, 2012
• Iraq: Gunmen kill 3 anti-al-Qaida fighters at checkpoint north of Baghdad
• Iraq: Gunmen kill 3 anti-al-Qaida fighters
• Soccer-Zico confident of Iraq joy on emotional return to Japan
• Arkansas veteran in House race was soldier who upbraided NYT for exposing counterterrorism program
• Timeline: Deadliest attacks in Iraq in 2012

LESSON OF PAST IN CHINA SHEDS LIGHT ON PRESENT Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Attempting to rise above our "inspirational" political conventions last weekend, I gratefully picked up a book by the brilliant Barbara Tuchman that I had not read -- "Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45."This saga would surely carry me away from the increasingly oppressive policy questions of today, from the talk about decline and indecision among our ruling classes. Also, it is a big book, published in 1970; that probably meant that no intellectual smart-aleck friend of mine would argue with me about it.I settled in. ...

Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues:

United States transfers Bagram prison to Afghan control Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - The United States handed control of the controversial giant Bagram prison and its 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates to Afghan authorities on Monday, amid concerns by activists over rights abuses and U.S. questions about Kabul's ability to keep key detainees behind bars. Hundreds of Afghan soldiers watched as an Afghan flag was hoisted in front of the prison at the huge U.S.-run airfield north of Kabul, as part of a plan to withdraw foreign troops from combat operations in 2014. ...

For once, 9/11 attacks play small role in election Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT For the first time in a decade, the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars that resulted are not the focus of the presidential campaign.

9/11 attacks play little role in presidential race Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT For the first time in a decade, the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars that resulted are not the focus of the presidential election.

Brother of French al-Qaeda-inspired killer questioned Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:18 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French anti-terrorism judges interrogated for the first time on Monday the brother of an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in March, including three Jewish children, to determine his involvement in the spate of bloody attacks. Abdelkader Merah, whose lawyer said he planned to request his release from custody, has been kept in jail since March while under investigation on suspicion of complicity in terrorism, murder and theft. ...

9/11 Demands Our Vigilance Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT A soldier whose his firefighter father died in the Twin Towers reminds us to forever honor the anniversary, Michael Daly writes.

Iraqi VP rejects 'unjust' verdict in terror trial Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT From self-exile in Turkey, Iraq's fugitive vice president scoffed Monday at a Baghdad court that sentenced him to the gallows for masterminding death squads against rivals, describing it as a puppet of the prime minister and saying he will not return to appeal the verdict.

Budget cuts seen squeezing Marines' capacity, programs Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:32 AM PDT RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - Across-the-board budget cuts due to start taking effect in January could set back the U.S. Marine Corps' most important procurement programs, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and may cripple the Marines' ability to respond to multiple crises at once, the top Marine Corps general said. "Our ability to field a force that's relevant and capable and ready is going to be impacted significantly if sequestration hits," Marine Corps Commandant James Amos said in an interview on Saturday at the annual Tailhook convention of naval aviators in Reno, Nevada. ...

Egypt to host regional meeting over Syria crisis Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:27 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Officials from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran will meet in Cairo on Monday to discuss the Syrian crisis, but analysts said the regional powers were unlikely to agree on any tangible steps. Iran is a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is fighting an uprising against his rule, while the three other countries have all called for him to quit power. Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran have tussled for influence in recent years in sectarian conflicts across the Middle East. ...

US, Afghans locked in dispute over detainees Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:15 AM PDT President Hamid Karzai welcomed Monday's handover of the main American-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and U.S. officials remain locked in a dispute over the fate of hundreds of Taliban and terror suspects behind bars.

Turkey steps up offensive against Kurdish rebels Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:49 AM PDT DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces have killed more than 50 suspected Kurdish militants in two separate operations over the past week, security sources said on Monday, one of them involving air strikes over the border in northern Iraq. The military said in a statement that Turkish jets hit 14 targets in northern Iraq between September 5-9 and that 25 militants were "rendered ineffective" by the operation, a term it uses to refer to rebels being killed, wounded or captured. ...

Relating, energizing: Rules of the political road Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:37 AM PDT President Barack Obama's challenge in the art of connecting with an audience has always been to meet the high expectations. For challenger Mitt Romney, it has been to exceed the low ones.

US watchdog questions spending for Afghan army Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:19 AM PDT The watchdog for U.S. spending in Afghanistan says lax accountability in a $1.1 billion program supplying fuel to the Afghan National Army needs "immediate attention" before control of the program is turned over to the Kabul government in less than four months.

Snoop Dogg, Brad Pitt Endorse Four More Years of Obama Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:48 AM PDT Rapper Snoop Dogg and Actor Brad Pitt Are Picking Obama in November

Why Romney’s ‘Moon Colony’ Economics Aren’t Selling Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:40 AM PDT Perhaps the most enduring puzzle of this presidential-election campaign has been the prolonged deadlock between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the national polls. Both remain stuck below 50 percent in most surveys, and nothing that's happened in recent weeks—not convention hoopla, fiery speeches, or whirlwind tours through battleground states-- seems to be registering enough with voters to change that dynamic.

Sectarian fury, Syrian turmoil pressure Iraq's Maliki Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:51 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A fugitive vice president condemned to death and rallying opposition to Iraq's "sectarian" prime minister, fresh bloodshed in the streets and the entire Middle East divided by religion over the war across the border in Syria - Nuri al-Maliki has no easy task in holding his government, and his nation, together. ...

Turkish military hits Kurdish rebel targets in Northern Iraq Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:58 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces carried out cross-border air operations into northern Iraq between September 5 and 9, hitting 14 Kurdish militant targets, it said in a statement on Monday. The military also said 25 members of the separatist Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) were killed during the operations. (Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

US hands over Bagram prison to Afghans Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:53 AM PDT U.S. officials handed over formal control of Afghanistan's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Kabul on Monday, even as disagreements between the two countries over the thousands of Taliban and terror suspects held there marred the transfer.

UPDATE 1-Soccer-Iraq's Zico promises Japan a fight on return Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:58 AM PDT * Iraq confident of springing upset * Zico forced to call up seven Olympic players (Adds quotes, details) SAITAMA, Japan, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Iraq coach Zico isbracing himself for an emotional return to Japan for his side'sWorld Cup qualifier in Saitama on Tuesday but firmly believesthe Asian champions can be beaten. The former Brazil great, who coached Japan from 2002-06,said his team would try to tear into the home side right fromthe kickoff (1030 GMT). ...

Rejecting death sentence, Iraqi VP Hashemi calls for Iraqis to resist Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Iraqi VP says innocent, terror trial a sham Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:33 AM PDT Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president on Monday declared his "absolute innocence" in a terror trial that had sentenced him to death on charges of masterminding the murder of rivals, and rejected the conviction against him as a politically motivated sham.

U.N. human rights chief faults both sides in Syria Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:21 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights blamed on Monday both sides in the Syrian conflict for human rights violations and said that justice would eventually catch up with them. Addressing the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Navi Pillay reiterated that the Syrian government's actions might amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. ...

Candidates test their pipes, stamina on the road Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:45 AM PDT President Barack Obama's challenge in the art of connecting with an audience has always been to meet the high expectations. For challenger Mitt Romney it has been to exceed the low ones.

Financial Press: Rio Grande Mining Corp. Pursues Major African Resource Projects Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:05 AM PDT Several resource projects in West Africa are about to get a major boost of capital investment after Rio Grande Mining Corp. announced that it has entered into a binding Letter of Intent with Snowcap Energy Inc. and Segwun Energy Inc. in certain resource projects that Snowcap and Segwun are in the process of acquiring in West Africa.VANCOUVER (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 VANCOUVER, Sept 10 2012 (Financial Press) – Several resource projects in West Africa are about to get a major boost of capital investment after Rio Grande Mining Corp. ...

Fugitive Iraq VP says death sentence "politically motivated" Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:18 AM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Monday denounced a death sentence against him as politically motivated and issued by a "kangaroo court", and said he would not return to Iraq from Turkey within 30 days as demanded. "Yesterday Prime Minister Maliki and his ... judicary concluded the final phase of the theatrical campaign against me using a kangaroo court set up for this purpose. It was really a shambles," Hashemi told a news conference in Ankara. ...

Iraq's fugitive VP Hashemi urges Iraqis to oppose Maliki Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:09 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Monday urged Iraqis to oppose Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who he accused of stoking sectarian tensions, a day after a Baghdad court sentenced him to death in absentia. Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, fled Iraq earlier this year after authorities sought his arrest on charges he ran a deathsquad. He accused Maliki of a politicial witch-hunt and refused to stand trial in a court he said was biased. "My people, don't give Maliki and those who stand behind him the chance," Hashemi told reporters in Turkey. ...

Iraqi vice-president convicted of running death squads rejects verdict Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:43 AM PDT BAGHDAD - Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice-president says the terror trial that convicted him of masterminding death squads against rivals was illegitimate and is accusing the nation's Shiite prime minister of being behind it.

10 things you need to know today: September 10, 2012 Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:30 AM PDT Chicago teachers strike, Obama raises more cash than Romney, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

Iraq: Gunmen kill 3 anti-al-Qaida fighters at checkpoint north of Baghdad Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:52 AM PDT BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead three anti-al-Qaida fighters manning a security checkpoint north of Baghdad.

Iraq: Gunmen kill 3 anti-al-Qaida fighters Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:40 AM PDT Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead three anti-al-Qaida fighters manning a security checkpoint north of Baghdad.

Soccer-Zico confident of Iraq joy on emotional return to Japan Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:53 PM PDT TOKYO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Iraq coach Zico is bracinghimself for an emotional return to Japan for his side's WorldCup qualifier in Saitama on Tuesday but is confident the 2007Asian champions are capable of upsetting the hosts. The former playmaker, who coached Japan from 2002-06, saidthere would be no room for sentiment, however, and his teamwould tear into the home side right from kick-off (1030 GMT). "Japan has been a big part of my life and always will be,"Zico told local media on Monday. "It will be emotional. If I hadthe choice, I wouldn't be in the same group. "That's football. ...

Arkansas veteran in House race was soldier who upbraided NYT for exposing counterterrorism program Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:04 PM PDT TAMPA, Fla. — "I thought I had a path set in life: I was going to be a lawyer," Tom Cotton told The Daily Caller on the last day of the Republican National Convention at the end of the August.

Timeline: Deadliest attacks in Iraq in 2012 Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:22 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Here are the details of major attacks in Iraq in 2012: January 5, 2012 - Four bombs in Shi'ite areas kill at least 73 people and wound about 150. January 14 - A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman kills at least 53 people and wounds 130 in an attack on Shi'ite pilgrims. February 23 - Bomb blasts across Iraq kill 60 people, 32 of them in Baghdad where 10 explosions tear through mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods. March 20 - At least 30 explosions strike cities and towns across Iraq, killing 52 people and wounding 235, despite a security clampdown for an Arab League meeting. ...

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