2013年8月12日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Signs U.S. soldier Manning was unfit for job before leaks: lawyer

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT

U.S. Army Private First Class Manning departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, MarylandBy Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted for giving classified documents to the WikiLeaks website, showed behavior that could have warned he was unsuitable to serve abroad as an intelligence analyst, his lawyer said in court on Monday. As the defense began its case in the sentencing phase of Manning's court-martial, lawyers discussed a psychological assessment report that described him as having "regressed stages of development" and "narcissistic personality traits. ...

Manning defense keys on mental health, leadership

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:35 PM PDT

FILE - Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., in a Tuesday, July 30, 2013 file photo, after receiving a verdict in his court martial. Manning's defense team is opening its case at the soldier's sentencing hearing. Defense attorney David Coombs says he expects to call the first of more than a dozen witnesses Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 in the court-martial at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. He says Manning will give a statement before the defense rests on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their case Monday in the sentencing phase of his trial by attacking commanders' decisions to send the young intelligence analyst to Iraq and let him keep his top-secret security clearance despite emotional outbursts and concerns about his mental health.

Top Syria rebel visits fighters in Assad homeland

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:38 PM PDT

In this image taken from Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, video obtained from the Sham News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria. Rebel military chief Gen. Salim Idris, the military commander of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group, visited rebels in the coastal province that is President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland following recent opposition advances in the area, a spokeswoman said Monday. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — The military commander of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group visited rebels in the coastal province that is President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland following recent opposition advances in the area, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Attacks kill 26 in central and western Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:08 PM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Three blasts including a suicide bomb in a cafe killed 26 people in central and western Iraq on Monday evening, officials said. They were the latest attacks in a months-long surge of violence.

Bombs in cafe, near restaurant kill 21 in Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two bombs including a suicide attack on a cafe killed 21 people in central Iraq on Monday evening, officials said. They were the latest attacks in a months-long surge of violence.

Manning defense focuses on mental health

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Manning defense focuses on mental healthLawyers for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their case Monday in the sentencing phase of his trial by attacking commanders' decisions to send the young intelligence analyst to Iraq and let him keep his ...

Deadly Iraq bombings target cafe, school and playground

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:04 AM PDT

By Sylvia Westall BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed and 41 wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, part of the worst wave of violence in Iraq in around five years. Two roadside bombs - one planted near a playground and another near a school - also killed six people and wounded dozens, some of them children, in the town of Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of the capital. ...

A look behind surging violence in Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:44 AM PDT

Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, was marked in Iraq last week with a string of murders carried out by Al Qaeda's local affiliate, which has driven violence this year in the country to its highest level since 2008.

Suicide bomber kills 13 in cafe in central Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:22 AM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber killed 13 people in a cafe in a Shiite-majority town in central Iraq on Monday, officials said, the latest attack in a months-long surge of violence.

How al Qaeda staged a comeback in Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:16 AM PDT

Residents gather at the site of a massive car bomb attack in Baghdad that killed at least 55 people on July 29.The terror network's local arm has pushed deadly violence to a level not seen in years

Syrian rebel commander visits front in Assad's home province

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:15 AM PDT

Handout taken from social media website shows General Salim Idriss, head of the rebel Free Syrian Army, speaking during a visit to the coastal province of LatakiaBEIRUT (Reuters) - The head of the rebel Free Syrian Army has visited the coastal province of Latakia, according to video footage, a show of force in President Bashar al-Assad's family's home province. Several villages in Latakia, which is a stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect, have been overrun by Sunni Muslim insurgents over the past few days. General Salim Idriss, who leads the rebel Supreme Military Council, was shown in a video uploaded to the Internet on Sunday wearing casual dress and a shoulder-strapped gun holster and standing outside with mountains in the distance. ...

Suicide bomber kills 12 in cafe in central Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:53 AM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a suicide bomber has killed 12 people in a cafe in a Shiite-majority town in central Iraq.

Does Biden have a shot against Hillary Clinton in 2016?

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:45 AM PDT

In this photo taken July 9, 2013, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton applauds international delegates, where she spoke at a women's leadership symposium at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Clinton's effort to carefully craft her post-Cabinet image has hit a few bumps with the latest sexting scandal revelations in the New York City mayoral campaign of Anthony Weiner, the husband of close Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and the SEC investigation roiling the Virginia governor's race of Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, both which recall politically problematic chapters of her past. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)The vice president's trip to Iowa next month gives new life to political junkies' favorite parlor game.

Suicide bomber in Iraqi town of Balad kills eight: medics

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:18 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and 25 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Monday on a cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, medical sources said. (Reporting by Ghazwan Hassan in Tikrit, Iraq; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

The Edge: Rubio and the Romney Effect

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:01 AM PDT

The Edge is National Journal's daily look at today in Washington -- and what's coming next. The email features analysis from NJ's top correspondents, the biggest stories of the day -- and always a few surprises. To subscribe, click here.

Petition backs Manning for Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 08:21 AM PDT

U.S. rights group RootsAction co-founder Solomon delivers boxes of signatures urging the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Bradley Manning, to the Norwegian Nobel Institute in OsloOSLO, Norway (AP) — Nobel Prize committee officials say they have received a petition claiming some 100,000 signatures that endorses awarding the peace prize to U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who faces up to 90 years in prison for disclosing classified information through WikiLeaks.

Syrian rebel leader visits Assad family homeland

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 08:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013, file photo, citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian rebel fires locally made shells made from gas cylinders against the Syrian forces, in Idlib province, northern Syria. For Syria's banned Muslim Brotherhood, the uprising against President Bashar Assad that erupted amid Arab Spring revolts in 2011 provided a long-sought opportunity to stage a comeback after decades spent in exile. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)BEIRUT (AP) — The military commander of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group visited rebels in the coastal province that is President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland following recent opposition advances in the area, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Rouhani defends cabinet choices in Iran parliament debate

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:57 AM PDT

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani gestures to the media during a news conference in TehranBy Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday he had chosen a cabinet to overcome Iran's economic crisis and diplomatic isolation as parliament began debating whether to approve his proposed ministers. A relatively moderate, mid-ranking Shi'ite cleric, Rouhani took office on August 3 after scoring a landslide in the June 14 presidential election over more conservative rivals. He has promised to combat high inflation and unemployment, pursue a more "constructive" foreign policy and allow greater social freedoms than hardline predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...

U.S. rights group urges Nobel Peace Prize for WikiLeaks soldier

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:39 AM PDT

U.S. Army Private First Class Manning departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, MarylandOSLO (Reuters) - A U.S. rights group has collected over 100,000 signatures urging the Norwegian Nobel committee to give this year's Peace Prize to Bradley Manning, a U.S. soldier convicted of leaking classified U.S. government files touching on military policy. Recognizing Manning, the head of the RootsAction group said, would also help repair the Nobel panel's reputation after it chose President Barack Obama for the Peace Prize in 2009, only a few months into his first term of office. ...

Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind Announces 3rd Annual Light the Way 5K

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind (CLB) will host its third annual Light the Way 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, September 28, 2013, at Nationals Park, benefiting programs and services CLB provides to people of all ages who are blind, low vision, and deaf-blind in the Washington, D.C., region.The Washington Nationals and Safeway will again be major sponsors of the event. Mark D. Lerner, one of the principal owners of the Washington Nationals, and Steve Neibergall, President of Safeway's Eastern Division, are co-chairs of CLB's Light the Way 5K. ...

Yemen's al-Qaida leader vows to free prisoners

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 05:22 AM PDT

FILE - This image provided by IntelCenter on Dec. 30, 2009, shows a frame made from video released Jan. 23, 2009 by al-Malahim Media Foundation, the media arm of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, with a man identified as Nasser al-Wahishi. In 2012, a year before a communication was intercepted of him discussing the terror plot that prompted early August 2013's sweeping closure of U.S. embassies abroad, al-Qaida's top operative in Yemen laid out his blueprint for how to wage jihad in letters sent to a fellow terrorist. Al-Wahishi provided a step-by-step assessment of what worked and what didn't in Yemen. He urged his fellow jihadist to provide food, clean water and electricity to the people living in the areas they control. He even offers tips for more efficient garbage collection. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File)CAIRO (AP) — The leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot vowed in a message posted Monday to free fellow militants from prisons and urged jailed fighters to remain faithful to the terror group's ideology.

Ahead of the Bell: US budget deficit

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:00 AM PDT

US budget deficit widens $139 billion in MayThe government is on track to record a significant drop in the budget deficit this year with stronger growth helping to boost tax revenues. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the deficit for ...

Pentagon s Giant Blood Serum Bank May Provide PTSD Clues

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:00 AM PDT

Pentagon s Giant Blood Serum Bank May Provide PTSD Clues

Rouhani defends cabinet choices as Iran parliament starts debate

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:25 AM PDT

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani gestures to the media during a news conference in TehranBy Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday he had chosen a cabinet to overcome Iran's economic crisis and diplomatic isolation as parliament began debating whether to approve his proposed ministers. "Your vote of confidence in the ministers is not just a vote for the individuals, it is a vote for the whole government and its plans," the Iranian president told parliament. Rouhani, a relatively moderate, mid-ranking cleric, took office on August 3 after winning a landslide in the June 14 presidential election over more conservative rivals. ...

Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Iraq attacks

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:49 AM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq has claimed responsibility for attacks that killed 69 people during the Muslim holiday following the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Manila, Washington begin talks to increase U.S. troop rotations

Posted: 11 Aug 2013 11:20 PM PDT

U.S. soldiers ride on an all terrain vehicle (ATV) after arriving at the 103rd Army Brigade headquar..By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The United States and the Philippines begin formal negotiations this week to increase rotational presence of U.S. forces in the former U.S. colony, deploying aircraft, ships, supplies and troops for humanitarian and maritime security operations. The widening military cooperation, that includes the use of local bases for temporary deployment, signals rapidly warming security relations between the allies as the Philippines looks to the United States to help counter a newly assertive China. ...

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