2013年1月28日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Who's silencing Guantanamo court audio feed, judge asks

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:02 PM PST

Ramzi, Walid bin Attash and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, three of the alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks, attend court dressed in camouflage during hearings in Guantanamo BayGUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The sound was abruptly cut in the Guantanamo war crimes court on Monday, prompting the angry judge to question whether someone outside the room was censoring pretrial hearings for five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. In all hearings for the alleged al Qaeda operatives who were previously held in secret CIA prisons, a court security officer seated near the judge controls a button that muffles the audio feed to spectators when secret information is disclosed. ...


Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 02:36 PM PST

FILE - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., wearing a prosthetic arm, poses for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. His father, Alex Marrocco, said Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 that his son had the operation on Dec. 18, 2012 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior...very wounded."


U.S. Women Are Already in Combat; It’s Time to Break the Camo Ceiling

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 02:30 PM PST

When Master Sergeant Kim Lively of the United States Air Force heard that the Pentagon is going to allow women in combat, she was stunned—and excited.

GAO to Release Report on Wasteful Government Spending

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 01:52 PM PST

The Government Accountability Office is due to produce its biannual report on the areas of the government that present the highest risk for squandering tax payer dollars in the next couple weeks. Though the GAO  does not preview this list ahead of time, here's a...

FACT CHECK: The stretched case against Chuck Hagel

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 01:38 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 7, 2013 file photo shows former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican-leaning groups opposing President Barack Obama's choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department have let loose a barrage of claims about the former GOP senator.


Preserve CIA prisons as evidence, lawyers for September 11 suspects ask

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:05 PM PST

Ramzi, Walid bin Attash and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, three of the alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks, attend court dressed in camouflage during hearings in Guantanamo BayGUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - - Lawyers for five alleged conspirators who attacked America on September 11 and say they were tortured in secret CIA prisons have asked a U.S. military judge to order that the prisons be preserved as evidence. The issue is one of more than two dozen on the docket for a week of pretrial hearings that began on Monday in the war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The defendants include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks that killed 2,976 people on September 11, 2001. ...


Murdoch apologizes for Sunday Times cartoon

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:43 AM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly Cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)LONDON (AP) — Media baron Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a Sunday Times cartoon depicting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall using blood-red mortar, an image Jewish leaders said was reminiscent of anti-Semitic propaganda.


U.S. Drone Base Would Make Africa the New Home of the War on Terror

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:43 AM PST

The New York Times reports today that the Pentagon is planning to install drone base in Niger, a move that almost certainly guarantees a long-term U.S. presence in North Africa. The official purpose of the base would be as a launching pad for unarmed surveillance flights to support French forces in Mali. However, it doesn't take much imagination to find other uses for such an outpost or the planes that are based there.

Al-Qaida-linked group claims deadly Syria blast

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:59 AM PST

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings after rockets slammed into them in the rebel-held town of Rastan, Syria, just north of Homs, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Regime troops shelled the city of Homs on Friday as soldiers battled rebels around the central province with the same name, which was a major frontline during the first year of the revolt. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked group fighting alongside Syrian rebels claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide car bombing that reportedly killed dozens of President Bashar Assad's loyalists last week.


It’s Time to Treat the War Wounds We Can’t See

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:44 AM PST

Mental Health Innovation: The Gemini Project

Iran cracks down on media before election

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:21 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have arrested more than a dozen journalists in the past two days over their links to "anti-revolutionary" media, Iranian media reported, in what appeared to be a coordinated crackdown on the press. With a presidential election five months away, Iran's clerical leadership appears to be tightening its grip on the media to avoid a repeat of the widespread protests that erupted after the disputed election in 2009. ...

Wounded soldier gets double-arm transplant in Md.

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:10 AM PST

BALTIMORE (AP) — A soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bomb attack in 2009 in Iraq has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Hospital officials said Monday.

Five Best Monday Columns

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST

Bob Woodward in The Washington Post on why Obama chose Hagel He might have more access to the White House's most guarded conversations than any other journalist, and in today's Washington Post opinion pages, Bob Woodward uses his insight to divine why, exactly, President Obama settled on Chuck Hagel as his next secretary of defense. ...

Refugees again, Palestinians flee Syria's war

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 05:02 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 photo, Palestinian children who fled their houses in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, sitting inside a children library, at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. The Palestinian exodus from Syria has also revived decades-old debate over the Palestine refugees' 'right of return' to their homes that are now in Israel, adding to the complexity the conflict whose sectarian and ethnic overtones have spilled over into neighboring countries raising fears of a regional war. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)EIN EL-HILWEH, Lebanon (AP) — When Syrian warplanes bombed a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus last December, Umm Sami rounded up her three sons, shut the windows and locked the doors so they could neither hear nor heed the call to arms by rebels and pro-government gunmen fighting in the streets.


Desktop Alert Announces Department of Navy/Marines Mass Notification System Type Accreditation Initiative

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 02:18 AM PST

The U.S. Department of Navy/Marines formally requests Desktop Alert to participate in Mass Notification Study and Certification Process. Desktop Alert forwards patent pending 'one minute or less notification' mass notification platform technology for review.Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) January 28, 2013 Desktop Alert Inc., the nation's leading and de-facto provider of 'less than one minute' IP-Based mass notification systems to Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Northern Command, NORAD, the U.S. Army worldwide, the U.S. ...

Japan voters split on revising pacifist constitution: poll

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 05:45 PM PST

Commuters ride escalators at a subway station in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese voters are divided over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of revising the post-World War Two pacifist constitution to ease limits on the military, although nearly 90 percent of lower house lawmakers back the change, an opinion poll showed. Abe, who returned to the premiership after his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a huge election victory last month, has made clear he wants to loosen the constitutional limits on the military. The constitution has never been formally altered since it was drafted by U.S. Occupation forces in 1947. ...


Analysis: In Davos, world seeks U.S. engagement

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 05:41 PM PST

A delegate is silhouetted as she passes by a sign for WEF in DavosDAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama starts his second term, the world's business and political elite pines for greater American engagement to tackle a thicket of security challenges. From Syria to Mali, from Iran to the South China Sea, the United States' reluctance to be drawn into conflicts far from its shores was a leitmotiv of geopolitical debate at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos. ...


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