2013年8月6日星期二

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Fort Hood gunman meticulously planned attack

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:03 PM PDT

This court room sketch shows Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during his court-martial Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in Forth Hood, Texas. Hasan is representing himself against charges of murder and attempted murder for the 2009 attack that left 13 people dead at Forth Hood. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan fired the last of 146 bullets in his assault on Fort Hood, then walked outside where he met two civilians who asked about the commotion and the laser-sighted pistol in his hand.


Cotton announces bid for US Senate seat in Ark.

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, Republican Tom Cotton participates in a debate at Arkansas Educational Television Network studios in Conway, Ark. Cotton was scheduled to address supporters Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 at a campaign event in his hometown of Dardanelle and was expected to announce that he'll challenge Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor next year. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)DARDANELLE, Ark. (AP) — First-term Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton announced Tuesday he's challenging Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, setting up what's expected to be one of the most expensive and heated U.S. Senate races in the country next year.


US embassy closures a window into threat concern

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 02:56 PM PDT

Police stop cars at a checkpoint near the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country. The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" and said U.S. citizens in Yemen should leave immediately because of an "extremely high" security threat level. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — The map of closed American embassies — and those that remain open — in the Middle East and Africa provides a window into the Obama administration's concern about a potentially imminent al-Qaida terrorist attack on overseas U.S. interests.


Steven Spielberg pulls out of 'American Sniper'

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 02:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 19, 2013 file photo, director and president of the jury, Steven Spielberg, arrives for the screening of "Inside Llewyn Davis" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Spielberg is no longer planning to direct LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steven Spielberg is no longer planning to direct "American Sniper."


Study disputes link between combat and suicide

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 02:31 PM PDT

FILE - A U.S. soldier walks atop his armored vehicle at sunset as he prepares for a nighttime military exercise in the Kuwaiti desert south of the Iraqi border on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2002. Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about war's effects on the psyche published Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)CHICAGO (AP) — Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about war's effects on the psyche.


Can Iran’s New U.S.-Educated Foreign Minister Mend Ties with Washington?

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:49 PM PDT

The U.S. and Iran maintain no formal diplomatic ties. Neither country stations an ambassador in the other's capital nor do their top diplomats talk to each other all that much. Three decades of tensions mean both American and Iranian politicians are far more practiced at demonizing the other than reaching compromise. But Mohammad Javad Zarif has long proven an important exception to the rule: the Iranian career diplomat received a doctorate at the University of Denver, his children were born in the United States and his fluent English carries little trace of an accent. ...

Bombs target Iraqi shoppers, killing more than 50

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Youths survey and take pictures of the debris after a suicide bomb attack at a cafe the night before, in BaghdadBAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of car bombs targeting busy markets and shopping streets in and around Baghdad killed at least 51 people and wounded more than 100 on Tuesday, Iraqi medical and police sources said, part of a surge in violence in recent months. Insurgent attacks have multiplied in Iraq since the start of the year, with more than 1,000 people killed in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008, according to the United Nations. ...


U.S. military judge trims potential sentence in WikiLeaks case

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:25 PM PDT

U.S. Army Private First Class Manning is escorted into court for the second day of the sentencing phase in his military trial at Fort Meade, MarylandBy Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The military judge who last week convicted soldier Bradley Manning of committing the biggest breach of classified data in U.S. history through WikiLeaks on Tuesday trimmed the maximum prison sentence the private first class could face. ...


Car bomb near Damascus kills 18; rebels take base

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 18, 2013 file photo, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian military helicopters at Mannagh air base in Aleppo province, Syria. Syrian rebels captured a major air base in the north of the country on Tuesday after months of fighting, depriving President Bashar Assad's forces of one of their main posts near the border with Turkey, activists said. State TV denied that the base had fully fallen. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC, File)BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb in a pro-regime district near the Syrian capital killed at least 18 people on Tuesday while rebels captured a major air base in the north and swept through a string of villages in the heartland of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect in the west.


Car bomb kills 10 in village north of Baghdad

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:20 PM PDT

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb in a village outside the Iraqi capital Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 on Tuesday, police sources said. The attack in Anbakiya, a mainly Shi'ite village around 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, was the latest in a wave of bombings in and around the capital on Tuesday. (Writing by Sylvia Westall; editing by Mike Collett-White)

Docs can safely treat alcoholism, PTSD together: study

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:06 PM PDT

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite fears that exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) would worsen alcoholism, a new study found that doctors can safely treat both conditions at the same time. Researchers found that people with PTSD and alcoholism benefited the most from the simultaneous treatments to reduce alcohol cravings and lessen distress, compared to people on other treatment regimens. ...

Mental disorders, not combat, tied to military suicide

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:05 PM PDT

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mental disorders including depression and alcohol abuse were linked to a higher risk of suicide among current and former military personnel, in a new study - but combat exposure and number of deployments were not. Researchers said the analysis of 83 suicides between 2001 and 2008 does not support the assumption that experiences in combat - such as seeing dead bodies or firing a gun - and time spent in a war zone are directly tied to a higher suicide risk. ...

A look at Al-Qaida In Arabian Peninsula

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. Al-Awlaki, a key member of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed on Sept. 30, 2011 in a drone strike in the mountains of Yemen. The 40-year-old American-Yemeni cleric emerged as an enormously influential preacher among militants living in the West, with his English-language Internet sermons calling for jihad, or holy war, against the United States. He was in contact with the accused perpetrators of the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people, the 2010 car bomb attempt in New York's Times Square and the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up an airliner heading to Detroit.(AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File)Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the product of a merger between the terror group's Yemeni and Saudi branches, is considered al-Qaida's most dangerous branch of all.


Fort Hood suspect tells court he 'switched sides' in America's war

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:59 PM PDT

The US Army on Tuesday began to try one of its own – Maj. Nidal Hasan – for his role in a deadly attack on deployment-ready soldiers at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009. In his opening statement, Major Hasan, who has long sought to declare his guilt, said that "the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter."

George W. Bush receives stent for blocked heart artery

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:49 PM PDT

By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush underwent successful surgery at a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to place a stent in a blocked heart artery. Doctors discovered a blockage on Monday during Bush's annual physical at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas and recommended a stent, a wire mesh coil used to prop open arteries, a Bush spokesman said. ...

A family dynasty gives up The Washington Post

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 1991, file photo, Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Washington Post poses with her son publisher Donald Graham, left, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the post, in her office in New York City. Donald Graham, whose grandfather bought the paper at a 1933 bankruptcy sale, announced to staff Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, that the paper had been sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, closing the book on the paper's history as a family dynasty after seven straight years of declining revenue. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The newspaper forever known for Deep Throat and the unraveling of a presidency had a quieter distinction, too: a family's ownership through thick and thin, seemingly as immutable as the Washington Monument.


Republicans Find a Senate Candidate They All Agree On

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT

The Republican Party's establishment and activist wings rarely agree on anything. But in Arkansas, the two normally warring factions are united behind one freshman House member.

Syria rebels strike Assad's Alawite stronghold, seize airport

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:22 PM PDT

Men sleep inside a house damaged after what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Azaz, near AleppoBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Mariam Karouny AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian Islamist rebels have killed around 200 people in a three-day offensive in the mountain stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect and driven hundreds of villagers to seek refuge on the Mediterranean coast, activists said on Tuesday. Since launching the surprise assault at dawn on Sunday, the mainly Islamist rebel brigades led by two al Qaeda-linked groups have captured half a dozen villages on the northern edges of the Alawite mountain range, the activists say. ...


Car bombs kill 36 people in Iraq

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Iraqis buy clothes for Eid al-Fitr at the Shorjah market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of bombings, mainly targeting markets in and near Baghdad, killed 36 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has gripped Iraq.


Manning's max possible sentence cut to 90 years

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:07 PM PDT

Manning's max possible sentence cut to 90 yearsArmy Pfc. Bradley Manning's possible sentence for disclosing classified information through WikiLeaks was trimmed from 136 years to 90 years Tuesday by a military judge who said some of his offenses were ...


U.N. aid chief sends Security Council ideas to ease aid distribution in Syria

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:02 PM PDT

Amos, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations' OCHA, pauses during a news conference in GenevaBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. aid chief Valerie Amos has sent the U.N. Security Council a wish list of ways aid can be better distributed in Syria that includes allowing cross-border deliveries, humanitarian pauses in fighting and advance notice of military offensives. In a confidential document given to the 15 council members and obtained by Reuters on Tuesday, Amos outlined 30 potential "measures that could be taken to address current humanitarian challenges in Syria and neighboring countries," and which could be the basis for a U.N. resolution. ...


Officials: Car bombs kill 31 people in Iraq

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:20 AM PDT

Iraqis buy clothes for Eid al-Fitr at the Shorjah market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of bombings, mainly targeting markets in and near Baghdad, killed 31 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has gripped Iraq.


Correction: US-Embassy Security story

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Aug. 5 about U.S. embassy security measures because of an al-Qaida plot, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the U.S. military advises United Nations peacekeeping troops in Somalia. The peacekeeping troops are with the African Union, not the U.N.

Officials: Car bombs kill 20 people in Iraq

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a wave of car bombs, mainly targeting markets in and near Baghdad, has killed 20 people and wounded dozens.

Bush after heart surgery: ‘Get regular checkups’

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:14 AM PDT

Sound advice from the recovering former president.

How trauma could lead to a longer life

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 07:09 AM PDT

Male Holocaust survivors such as Peter Josef Snep, above, may actually be living longer as a result of their experiences.New research suggests the emergence of a phenomenon known as post-traumatic growth


Syrian rebels capture northern air base

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 06:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 18, 2013 file photo, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian military helicopters at Mannagh air base in Aleppo province, Syria. Syrian rebels captured a major air base in the north of the country on Tuesday after months of fighting, depriving President Bashar Assad's forces of one of their main posts near the border with Turkey, activists said. State TV denied that the base had fully fallen. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels captured a major air base in the north of the country on Tuesday after months of fighting, depriving President Bashar Assad's forces of one of their main posts near the border with Turkey, activists said. State TV denied that the base had fully fallen.


Newest Republican Senate Recruit a Uniter, Not a Divider

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:59 AM PDT

The Republican Party's establishment and activist wings rarely agree on anything. But in Arkansas, the two normally warring factions are united behind one freshman congressman.

Bradley Manning play scoops British drama award

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:35 AM PDT

Poster with face of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning outside main gate of U.S. Army Ft. Meade in MarylandBy Ian McKenzie EDINBURGH (Reuters) - A play about Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted by a military judge last week for passing classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, has won a newly created drama prize at Britain's oldest literary awards. Welsh playwright Tim Price's "The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning" became the first winner of the 10,000-pound ($15,300) James Tait Black Prize for Drama at an awards ceremony in the Scottish capital on Monday evening. The play tracks the U.S. ...


Rebel-held Aleppo settles into a routine – but one still defined by bombs

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:18 AM PDT

In Syria's opposition-held areas, aid groups face a bevy of constant setbacks: A grassroots aid organization in Aleppo, for example, recently spent nearly 24 hours preparing a shipment of clothes to distribute to those in need, only to have a government artillery round land in the middle of their supplies, destroying everything.

Activists: Syrian rebels capture northern air base

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:23 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels captured a major air base in the north of the country on Tuesday after months of fighting, depriving President Bashar Assad's forces of one of their main posts near the border with Turkey, activists said. State TV denied that the base had fully fallen.

George W. Bush Undergoes Heart Surgery

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:15 AM PDT

Former President George W. Bush had heart surgery on Tuesday morning after doctors discovered a blockage in one of his arteries.

George W. Bush Has Heart Surgery

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:04 AM PDT

Former President George W. Bush had heart surgery on Tuesday morning after doctors discovered a blockage in one of his arteries.

U.S. and Britain Evacuate Their Embassies In Yemen

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:02 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- The U.S. airlifted all "non-emergency" personnel from Yemen on Tuesday, just hours after it was revealed that an American drone strike killed at least four suspected al-Qaida militants in the same country. The British government also followed suit, withdrawing all of its diplomatic personnel from their embassy in Saana overnight. The State Department also instructed any U.S. citizens in Yemen to leave the country "immediately."

Al-Qaida in Perspective

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:00 AM PDT

Apparently, the threat is both serious and specific.

A family dynasty gives up The Post

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The newspaper forever known for Deep Throat and the unraveling of a presidency had a quieter distinction, too: a family's ownership through thick and thin, seemingly as immutable as the Washington Monument.

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