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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
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| United States transfers Bagram prison to Afghan control Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT
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| For once, 9/11 attacks play small role in election Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT
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| 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. ... |
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| Iraqi VP rejects 'unjust' verdict in terror trial Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT
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| Budget cuts seen squeezing Marines' capacity, programs Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:32 AM PDT
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| Egypt to host regional meeting over Syria crisis Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:27 AM PDT
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| US, Afghans locked in dispute over detainees Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:15 AM PDT
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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