2013年1月9日星期三

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No indictment for driver of parade float hit by train

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:17 PM PST

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Wednesday decided not to indict the driver of a parade float involved in a crash with a Union Pacific train that killed four veterans, a Midland, Texas, prosecutor said. Assistant District Attorney Eric Kalenak said the grand jury decided not to indict Midland resident Dale Hayden, 50, who was driving a truck pulling a flatbed trailer that veterans and their wives were sitting on during the parade. ...

Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:36 PM PST

FILE - This April 15, 2010 file photo shows Labor Secretary Hilda Solis standing with President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Solis is telling colleagues she is leaving the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The composition of President Barack Obama's second term Cabinet became clearer Wednesday, with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigning and three other members of the president's team deciding to stay on amid concerns about diversity in Obama's inner circle.


Float driver won't face charges in train crash

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:22 PM PST

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict the driver of a float involved in a train collision that killed four U.S. military veterans in a West Texas parade.

US troop plan in Afghanistan follows Iraq playbook

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:22 PM PST

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is escorted by Sergeant of Arms of the Senate Terrance Gainer, left, as he walks to a meeting with U.S. sanators on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the same debate, the same numbers and practically the same plan, but the White House is working harder to keep troops in Afghanistan than it did in similar but failed discussions in Iraq in 2011.


Defense nominee Hagel lays out stand on Iran

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:25 PM PST

President Barack Obama listens in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where he announced that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, center, as the new CIA director; and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, right, as the new defense secretary.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's pick for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, is meeting with senior Pentagon staff to try to set the record straight about his stand on Iran, saying he backs strong international sanctions against Tehran and believes all options, including military action, should be on the table, defense officials said Wednesday.


WikiLeaks case likened to Civil War espionage

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:14 PM PST

FILE - Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, June 25, 2012, after a pretrial hearing. The U.S. Army private charged with sending thousands of classified documents to the WikiLeaks secrets-sharing website faces a pretrial hearing Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 about whether his motivation matters in the largest leak of classified material in the country's history. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors are using a Civil War court-martial to advance their case that an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks aided al-Qaida.


Chuck Hagel, Vietnam vet: Would time as a 'grunt' be a plus at Pentagon?

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:07 AM PST

President Barack Obama shakes hands with choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, center, after announcing Hagel's nomination, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Obama also announced that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, right, as the new CIA director. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)For Chuck Hagel, the day he reported for duty in Vietnam as a young private first class is seared in his memory. It was December 1967, and the heat was oppressive. So, too, were the smells.


Kurds still want more autonomy though say peace effort is sincere

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:23 AM PST

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party said on Wednesday a new push to find a political solution to the long Kurdish conflict appeared to be serious but greater autonomy for the Kurds was still a main demand. The prospect of an end to three decades of war between the Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) surfaced in recent weeks after the government acknowledged it was talking to the insurgents' jailed leader. Turkish media reports this week said a framework for a peace plan had been agreed with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. ...

US may leave no troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:22 AM PST

FILE - In this July 14, 2011, file photo, U.S. soldiers board a U.S. military plane, as they leave Afghanistan, at the U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Obama administration gave the first explicit signal Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to keep a lid on al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces.(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces.


Iraq PM's foes demand he face questioning in parliament

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:01 AM PST

Protesters take part in a demonstration in RamadiBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Opponents of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday demanded he appear before parliament for questioning in a second attempt to force a vote of no confidence, as the Shi'ite leader faced Sunni Muslim protests. Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Sunni strongholds across Iraq for more than two weeks, increasing fears that turmoil in neighboring Syria may help tip Iraq back into the broad sectarian violence it suffered a few years ago. ...


What Zero Dark Thirty Says About How Washington Works

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 08:29 AM PST

Zero Dark Thirty came to Washington on Tuesday night with the kind of premiere Washington loves—canapes at the Newseum and a modicum of controversy. Outside the screening, protesters donned hoods and orange jump suits. Inside you could see Andrea Mitchell and Mark Warner.

Shepard Fairey, Artist Who Created Obama “Hope” Poster, to Design and Paint a Mural at Santa Fe University of Art and Design

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:22 AM PST

Fairey will also participate in a lecture and Q&A conversation for the campus and wider Santa Fe communitySanta Fe, NM (PRWEB) January 09, 2013 Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) announced today that contemporary artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey will visit Santa Fe for a lecture and Q&A discussion and will create a mural design as part of the university's 2013–2014 Artists for Positive Social Change series. ...

Zero Dark Thirty Is About More Than Torture

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:54 AM PST

Zero Dark Thirty came to Washington on Tuesday night with the kind of premiere Washington loves—canapes at the Newseum and a soupcan of controversy. Outside the screening, protesters donned hoods and orange jump suits. Inside you could see Andrea Mitchell and Mark Warner.

The Neocons vs. Chuck Hagel

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:53 AM PST

Among the chicken hawks of Washington, William Kristol is the bantam rooster. Though Kristol never served in the military, for almost two decades the editor of The Weekly Standard has been the true brains behind the neoconservative movement, advocating the aggressive projection of U.S. military might around the globe.

Opponents of Iraq's Maliki seek to question him in parliament

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:18 AM PST

Protesters take part in a demonstration in RamadiBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Opponents of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday they would call him to parliament for questioning in a second attempt to force a vote of no confidence as the Shi'ite leader faces Sunni Muslim protests. The parliamentary measure and popular unrest are turning into a major test for Maliki, a Shi'ite nationalist whom many Sunni leaders accuse of marginalizing their sect and amassing power just a year after the last U.S. troops left. ...


APNewsBreak: $5M paid to Iraqis over Abu Ghraib

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:36 AM PST

APNewsBreak: $5M paid to Iraqis over Abu GhraibA defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at ...


Iraq shuts Jordan border crossing over Sunni protests

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:18 AM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during the opening ceremony of the Defence University for Military Studies inside BaghdadBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq closed a border crossing with Jordan on Wednesday after Sunni Muslim demonstrators blocked a highway to Syria and Jordan as part of mass protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Baghdad ordered troops to shut the Traibil border post in the Sunni heartland province of Anbar, where protests erupted in late December after authorities arrested the bodyguards of a Sunni finance minister, local officials said. ...


What Are Targeted Killings? Their Present and Future, Explained

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:49 AM PST

The United States adopted targeted killing as an essential tactic to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have employed the controversial practice with more frequency in recent years, both as part of combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in counterterrorism efforts in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. ...

WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning was treated improperly in lockup, judge rules

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:32 AM PST

A military judge ruled on Tuesday that a former Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive US documents to WikiLeaks was subject to improper treatment during a portion of his pretrial detention in a US Marine Corps lockup.

Progress in Women’s Rights Creates Backlash, Says Linfield College Professor

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:04 AM PST

A recent surge in violence against women in the Middle East and India may be a backlash against gains in legal rights, education and political representation, says Dawn Nowacki, a political science professor at Linfield College in Oregon.McMINNVILLE, Ore. (PRWEB) January 09, 2013 Women throughout the developing world are assuming more leadership positions, and even some authoritarian regimes have made progress in terms of personal status laws, with more women having the right to divorce, win child custody lawsuits or own property. ...

Should Obama withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan?

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:40 AM PST

Afghan soldiers sit alongside U.S. soldiers during a pre-patrol briefing in Afghanistan on June 26, 2012.America was supposed to leave behind a force several thousand strong to help Afghans provide security after 2014. But now...


Terrorism Expert who Goes Behind the Headlines of an Attack to Reveal What Makes a Terrorist and What Might Prevent One

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:30 AM PST

Advances Press announces the launch of Talking to Terrorists: Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers and "Martyrs" authored by research psychologist Dr. Anne Speckhard (http://www.AnneSpeckhard.com) who spent ten years meeting with terrorists, their families and associates across Europe and the Middle East to understand what motivates a human being to kill themselves and others for the sake of a cause. ...

Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib, other sites receive $5M

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:07 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2006, file photo, an Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell, in Abu Ghraib prison after the Iraqi government took over control from U.S. forces, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to engage in torture at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention facilities between 2003 and 2007. The settlement in the case involving Engility Holdings Inc. of Chantilly, Va., marks the first successful effort by lawyers for former prisoners at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers to collect money from a U.S. defense contractor in lawsuits alleging torture. Another contractor, CACI, is expected to go to trial over similar allegations this summer. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison has paid $5.28 million to former prisoners held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites in Iraq during the war.


Syria's deepening humanitarian crisis: By the numbers

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:18 PM PST

Little Amjad Al-Saleh, whose family fled their home in September, is comforted by his mother after suffering food poisoning.Between the civil war, winter weather, and global indifference, Syria is rapidly sliding toward disaster


Today in History

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 09:01 PM PST

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2013. There are 356 days left in the year.

WikiLeaks soldier's sentence reduced - if convicted

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 05:40 PM PST

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted as he leaves the courthouse after his motion hearing in Fort Meade in Maryland(Reuters) - A military judge on Tuesday reduced by 112 days any sentence that accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning might receive as compensation for harsh treatment he received in military detention, a Department of Defense spokesman said. Manning, a 25-year-old U.S. Army private, faces 22 charges including aiding the enemy, which carries a penalty of life in prison. ...


Review: 'Water By the Spoonful' is vivid, human

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 05:16 PM PST

This theater image released by The Hartman Groups shows Bill Heck, left, and Liza Colon-Zayas during a performance of "Water By The Spoonful," a play by Quiara Alegria Hudes. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Richard Termine)NEW YORK (AP) — Any conquest, however small, can't be fully assessed without considering the cost of achieving it, the failures that preceded it and the environment in which it occurred.


US May Leave No Troops in Afghanistan

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:36 PM PST

Obama administration considers leaving no US troops in Afghanistan after combat ends in 2014

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