| Manning arguments wrap up; judge to deliberate Posted: 26 Jul 2013 03:39 PM PDT  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's fate was in the hands of a military judge Friday after nearly two months of conflicting portrayals of the soldier: a traitor who gave WikiLeaks classified secrets for worldwide attention and a young, naive intelligence analyst who wanted people to know about the atrocities of war.
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| Husband ordered to trial in Iraqi-American's death Posted: 26 Jul 2013 02:35 PM PDT  EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered an Iraqi immigrant to stand trial in California in the killing of his wife, whose fatal beating prompted international condemnation because it had appeared to be a hate crime.
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| U.S. WikiLeaks soldier is whistleblower, not traitor: defense Posted: 26 Jul 2013 02:20 PM PDT  By Medina Roshan FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in the nation's history is a whistleblower, and not a traitor as the government claims, Bradley Manning's defense lawyer said at his court-martial on Friday. Army Private First Class Manning spilled secrets to the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website because he wanted to provoke a broader debate on U.S. military and diplomatic policy out of concern for fellow Americans, the defense asserted. "That is a whistleblower, period. ...
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| Attorney: Manning did not have 'evil intent' Posted: 26 Jul 2013 01:38 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was negligent in releasing classified secrets to WikiLeaks, but the former intelligence analyst did not know al-Qaida would see the material, a defense attorney said Friday. |
| Christie, Paul highlight GOP debate over security Posted: 26 Jul 2013 01:28 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A rift over national security is developing in the early stages of the Republican Party's next presidential campaign, pitting libertarians who question government overreach against defenders of a more hawkish approach on national security formed after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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| Judge bans Manning supporter from trial for threat Posted: 26 Jul 2013 12:55 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was negligent in releasing classified secrets to WikiLeaks, but the former intelligence analyst did not know al-Qaida would see the material, a defense attorney said Friday. |
| Zeroing in on the zero option for Afghanistan Posted: 26 Jul 2013 12:48 PM PDT A Washington Post/ABC News poll yesterday found that a large majority of Americans think the Afghan War – America's longest conflict – has not been worth fighting. The latest evidence of the electorate's extreme war-weariness will certainly not be lost on President Obama, whose administration has already been floating the notion in the DC press of a "zero option" for Afghanistan that would see US forces leave the country completely after 2014. |
| Iraq's worsening security woes hit local economy Posted: 26 Jul 2013 11:51 AM PDT  Sunni truck driver Obeid Manaa had been hauling goods from neighboring countries to Baghdad for years but won't go near the Iraqi capital after a Shiite militia gave a very specific warning. "If you ...
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| Few satisfied, but US presses Syrian arms effort Posted: 26 Jul 2013 10:55 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly approved U.S. aid package of weapons to Syrian rebels may be too little, too late to reverse recent battlefield gains by President Bashar Assad's government — and few in Washington are enthusiastic about sending it.
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| Al Qaeda Is Back Posted: 26 Jul 2013 10:04 AM PDT  Jailbreaks in Iraq. A surge in Syria. The terrorist group's influence is on the rise, says Bruce Riedel.
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| Lawyers in Turkey seek retrial for Kurdish rebel leader Ocalan Posted: 26 Jul 2013 08:43 AM PDT  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Lawyers for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, serving a life sentence in Turkey for treason, on Friday filed a request for his retrial, arguing recent legislative changes pave the way for new legal proceedings and a fairer trial. Ocalan, 64, is viewed by nationalist Turks as responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in a 29-year war between the army and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) before his capture and conviction in 1999. ...
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| Defense attorney: Bradley Manning a whistleblower Posted: 26 Jul 2013 08:23 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is a whistleblower who wanted to inform the American public about the troubling things he saw in the war zone, and the soldier is willing to pay the price for giving secrets to WikiLeaks, his defense attorney said Friday. |
| Afghan War Fatigue Hits New High, Matching Levels Last Seen in Iraq Posted: 26 Jul 2013 06:22 AM PDT  ABC News' Mike Levine reports: Public criticism of the war in Afghanistan have reached new highs in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with two-thirds of Americans saying the war hasn't been worth fighting and half saying it's failed to contribute to the country's long-term...
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| Defense to give closing in Manning-WikiLeaks case Posted: 26 Jul 2013 02:06 AM PDT  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — The defense gets the chance Friday to sum up its case in the court-martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who sent hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
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