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• Hasan: 'Illegal war' provoked Fort Hood rampage
• Fort Hood shooter rests defense case without calling witnesses
• For leak, Bradley Manning gets stiffest punishment
• ARAB SPRING: WORST SOAP EVER
• Fort Hood trial: Nidal Hasan rests his defense with no witnesses, no testimony
• U.S. soldier Manning gets 35 years for passing documents to WikiLeaks
• Michael Hastings' Family Wanted Him in Detox
• Iraq vets join ranks of Va's rising craft beer biz
• Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Leaking Secrets
• Afghans tell U.S. court about aftermath of massacre by American soldier
• Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case
• Largest Gathering of Political Scientists Convenes in Chicago Next Week
• Reported Syria attack tests US hope to avoid war
• No defense from suspect in 2009 Fort Hood shooting
• WikiLeaks case: Bradley Manning gets 35 years for leaking classified files
• Dempsey: Syrian rebels wouldn't back US interests
• Manning faces sentencing for WikiLeaks disclosures
• Fort Hood shooting trial focus shifts to suspect
• Bomb attacks halt Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline: Iraq officials
• Autopsy found traces of drugs after Hastings death
• Fort Hood rampage trial shifts to suspect
• The RNC Chair's Horrific Open-Borders Pandering
• On road trip, Obama will try to steer focus back to economy
• Al Jazeera America launches, but AT&T won't carry network

Hasan: 'Illegal war' provoked Fort Hood rampage Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:14 PM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — American soldiers deploying overseas to "engage in an illegal war" provoked the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood in 2009, the soldier accused in the attack said Wednesday after refusing to mount a defense during his trial.

Fort Hood shooter rests defense case without calling witnesses Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:11 PM PDT By Karen Brooks and Jana J. Pruet FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - The U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 31 others in a rampage at Foot Hood, Texas, in 2009 rested his defense case in his court-martial on Wednesday without calling any witnesses to testify. Major Nidal Hasan, acting as his own defense attorney, has remained largely passive in court since telling the jury in opening arguments, "The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter. ...

For leak, Bradley Manning gets stiffest punishment Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:11 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning stood at attention in his crisp dress uniform Wednesday and learned the price he will pay for spilling an unprecedented trove of government secrets: up to 35 years in prison, the stiffest punishment ever handed out in the U.S. for leaking to the media.

ARAB SPRING: WORST SOAP EVER Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:32 PM PDT I didn't care for the "Arab Spring," but the "Arab Summer" is a blockbuster!Liberals' rosy predictions for Egypt's Islamic revolution didn't turn out as planned. Who could have guessed that howling mobs in Tahrir Square in 2011 would fail to produce a peaceful democracy?Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had supported U.S. policy, used his military to fight Muslim extremists and recognized Israel's right to exist. So naturally, Obama told him he had to go. ...

Fort Hood trial: Nidal Hasan rests his defense with no witnesses, no testimony Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:10 PM PDT Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist whom the US military says killed 13 fellow soldiers in a brutal attack at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009, offered no defense in his defense on Wednesday, in essence displaying a willingness to die as a martyr for the cause of radical Islam.

U.S. soldier Manning gets 35 years for passing documents to WikiLeaks Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:03 PM PDT By Ian Simpson and Medina Roshan FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 years in a military prison for turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of secret data in the nation's history. The 25-year-old former low-level intelligence analyst, in uniform, stood quietly and showed no emotion as Judge Colonel Denise Lind sentenced him to less time behind bars than the 60 years sought by military prosecutors. ...

Michael Hastings' Family Wanted Him in Detox Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:40 PM PDT Journalist Michael Hastings Had Marijuana in System During Deadly Crash

Iraq vets join ranks of Va's rising craft beer biz Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:42 PM PDT Two Iraq War veterans eager to slake a growing American thirst for craft beer are setting up a brewery less than a mile from the main runway for the Navy's East Coast master jet base. Their beers have ...

Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Leaking Secrets Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT The Army Private Was Accused of Leaking Thousands of Documents to WikiLeaks

Afghans tell U.S. court about aftermath of massacre by American soldier Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:15 PM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - An Afghan man who lost 11 relatives including all but one of his seven children in a rampage by a U.S. soldier testified on Wednesday at a sentencing trial for the killer about what it was like to lose his loved ones. Haji Mohammad Wazir said he had been away when the attack occurred. When he got home he saw the bodies, which had been loaded into a vehicle. Among them were his wife, mother, brother and six of his children. "If someone loses one child, you can imagine how devastated that person would be," Wazir said. ...

Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:15 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in one of the biggest leak cases in the U.S. since the Pentagon Papers a generation ago.

Largest Gathering of Political Scientists Convenes in Chicago Next Week Posted: 21 Aug 2013 11:35 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the American Political Science Association:(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120604/DC18511LOGO-b)The American Political Science Association (APSA) welcomes the press to the 2013 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Chicago, Illinois, August 29 – September 1, 2013. Please join us for the largest gathering of political scientists from around the world who will present their research at more than 800 panels, poster sessions, and other special events. ...

Reported Syria attack tests US hope to avoid war Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:59 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration searched for answers Wednesday about a reported chemical weapons attack in Syria that would mark the most flagrant violation yet of the U.S. "red line" for potential military action. But the possibility of intervention seemed ever smaller after America's top general offered a starkly pessimistic assessment of options.

No defense from suspect in 2009 Fort Hood shooting Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:57 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The soldier on trial for the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood refused to put up a fight on Wednesday, resting his case without calling a single witness or testifying in his own defense.

WikiLeaks case: Bradley Manning gets 35 years for leaking classified files Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:06 AM PDT The prison sentence given Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for the largest leak of classified information in US history – 35 years – is more than his defense team had recommended (25 years) but far less than the 60 years prosecutors had asked for or the 90 years he might have received given the seriousness of his crimes.

Dempsey: Syrian rebels wouldn't back US interests Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:57 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is opposed to even limited U.S. military intervention in Syria because it believes rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn't support American interests if they were to seize power right now, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Manning faces sentencing for WikiLeaks disclosures Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:55 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — More than three years after his arrest in Iraq, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is set to learn the price he'll pay for leaking an unprecedented volume of classified information to a once-obscure, anti-secrecy website.

Fort Hood shooting trial focus shifts to suspect Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:52 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Inside a Texas courthouse surrounded by bomb barricades, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan hasn't challenged the government's case that alleges how and why he committed the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history.

Bomb attacks halt Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline: Iraq officials Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:59 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bomb attacks halted the flow of crude oil through a pipeline running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey, causing severe damage, two Iraqi oil officials said on Wednesday. One bomb attack took place at around 0100 local time on Wednesday near Hadhar in Nineveh Province, 80 km (50 miles) south of Mosul. Another section of the line was also attacked near Fatha, between Kirkuk and the northern city of Baiji, the officials said. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; editing by Jason Neely)

Autopsy found traces of drugs after Hastings death Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:31 AM PDT After 14 years of sobriety, journalist Michael Hastings had returned to drugs and had traces of amphetamine and marijuana in his system when he drove his car into a tree hours after he was seen passed ...

Fort Hood rampage trial shifts to suspect Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:07 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Inside a Texas courthouse surrounded by bomb barricades, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan hasn't challenged the government's case that alleges how and why he committed the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history.

The RNC Chair's Horrific Open-Borders Pandering Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:00 AM PDT Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus had a message last week for outspoken conservatives who support strict immigration enforcement policies: Shut up.

On road trip, Obama will try to steer focus back to economy Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:04 PM PDT By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shadowed by turmoil in Egypt and domestic controversies, President Barack Obama will seek to regain political momentum on a bus tour during which he will push his plans for stoking the U.S. economy and taming the high cost of college tuition. On a two-day tour this week in the Northeast, where he has a strong base of support, Obama will grab the microphone while Congress is still out on a five-week summer break and cast Republicans as obstructionists. ...

Al Jazeera America launches, but AT&T won't carry network Posted: 20 Aug 2013 07:28 PM PDT By Liana B. Baker and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - New cable network Al Jazeera America introduced itself to viewers on Tuesday with reports on political strife in Egypt and the impact of climate change on U.S. cities, shortly after a major pay TV distributor declined to carry the channel. The decision by AT&T's U-verse pay-TV service stemmed from a contract dispute over terms to carry the new network, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said. Al Jazeera responded by suing AT&T for breach of contract in Delaware Chancery Court. Globally, Al Jazeera is seen in more than 260 million homes in 130 countries. ...

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