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• Who's silencing Guantanamo court audio feed, judge asks
• Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant
• U.S. Women Are Already in Combat; It’s Time to Break the Camo Ceiling
• GAO to Release Report on Wasteful Government Spending
• FACT CHECK: The stretched case against Chuck Hagel
• Preserve CIA prisons as evidence, lawyers for September 11 suspects ask
• Murdoch apologizes for Sunday Times cartoon
• U.S. Drone Base Would Make Africa the New Home of the War on Terror
• Al-Qaida-linked group claims deadly Syria blast
• It’s Time to Treat the War Wounds We Can’t See
• Iran cracks down on media before election
• Wounded soldier gets double-arm transplant in Md.
• Five Best Monday Columns
• Refugees again, Palestinians flee Syria's war
• Desktop Alert Announces Department of Navy/Marines Mass Notification System Type Accreditation Initiative
• Japan voters split on revising pacifist constitution: poll
• Analysis: In Davos, world seeks U.S. engagement

Who's silencing Guantanamo court audio feed, judge asks Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:02 PM PST GUANTANAMO 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 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 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 GUANTANAMO 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 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 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 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 TOKYO (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 DAVOS, 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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