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• Soldier accused of killing teens in Iraq
• Pentagon dossier to detail secretive U.S. Afghan detainee policy
• US soldier accused of killing teens in Iraq
• '1,000 days of summer': An ex-stock broker travels around the world on $10 a day
• Soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case gets new name
• Encircled and alone, Lebanese village braces for Syrian assault
• U.S. soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case granted name change
• First lady announces one-stop job site for vets
• Defense Logistics Agency completes mission in Iraq
• Older Army Recruits Signal Weak Youth Labor Market
• U.S. may charge ex-Blackwater guard with murder for Iraq massacre
• Soldier accused of killing unarmed teens in Iraq
• Officials say car bomb in northern Iraq kills 9
• Iraq officials targeted as violence kills 13
• 3 charged with sending chemical equipment to Syria
• Bahrain moves to deport Shiite cleric
• Car bomb kills 6 people in Iraq
• The Daily Fix: Muslim Wrongly Put on Terror Watch Lists Becomes First to Clear Name, Drug Lord Drones, and Doogie Does Drag
• Bahrain says expels representative of Shi'ite Ayatollah Sistani
• Spy plane outlasts Cold War, but not defense cuts
• Bahrain expels envoy of Shiite Ayatollah Sistani
• Militants returning from Syria pose threat to Europe: Dutch minister
• First lady announcing one-stop job site for vets
• Judge to mull Chelsea Manning name change request
• Syrian opposition asks for more Saudi aid
• U.S. soldier faces hearing in killings of Iraqi boys
• Monitors head into Ukraine's badlands - armed with a sheet of paper
• The Long Flight to Afghanistan
• Jihadists Now Run Secret U.S. Base
• Blair: Radicalized Islam a growing threat

Soldier accused of killing teens in Iraq Posted: 23 Apr 2014 04:48 PM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The two unarmed Iraqi brothers posed no threat as they herded cattle in a palm grove where a U.S. Army reconnaissance team was hidden one day seven years ago. But then-Staff Sgt. Michael Barbera took a knee, leveled his rifle and killed them — from nearly 200 yards away, a former fellow soldier said Wednesday at a preliminary hearing in the case.

Pentagon dossier to detail secretive U.S. Afghan detainee policy Posted: 23 Apr 2014 03:38 PM PDT Some are suspected fighters from Yemen, Russia or Pakistan, arrested by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere. Several have been linked to al Qaeda. As the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan winds down, the White House will soon provide Congress a dossier on about 50 non-Afghan detainees in a U.S. military prison north of Kabul. Their uncertain fate presents sensitive security and legal problems for the Obama administration in an echo of Guantanamo Bay.

US soldier accused of killing teens in Iraq Posted: 23 Apr 2014 03:25 PM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Washington (AP) — Two unarmed Iraqi brothers posed no threat as they herded cattle in a palm grove where a U.S. Army reconnaissance team was hidden one day seven years ago. But a sergeant kneeled, leveled his rifle and killed them anyway — from nearly 200 yards(meters) away, a former fellow soldier said Wednesday as a preliminary hearing opened in the case.

'1,000 days of summer': An ex-stock broker travels around the world on $10 a day Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:49 PM PDT Tom ditched his stockbroker career for the open road.

Soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case gets new name Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:32 PM PDT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — An Army private convicted of providing classified documents to WikiLeaks won an initial victory Wednesday toward living as a woman when a Kansas judge granted a petition to change her name to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.

Encircled and alone, Lebanese village braces for Syrian assault Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT Residents of a tiny, isolated village in eastern Lebanon are bracing for a feared incursion by Syrian troops and Hezbollah, with nowhere to flee because their only escape route has been sealed off.    An estimated 5,000 Syrian refugees and suspected rebel fighters have fled to Tfail from the adjacent Qalamoun region of Syria, which the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently wrested from rebel control. Surrounded to the north, east, and south by Syrian territory and to the west by mountains under the control of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Tfail's Sunni residents nervously await the future. Hezbollah closed all routes into Tfail in the past year, and a week ago the village was shelled by the Syrian Army, wounding several people and damaging houses.

U.S. soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case granted name change Posted: 23 Apr 2014 01:16 PM PDT Former U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who is serving 35 years in prison for turning over classified files to WikiLeaks, can exchange the name Bradley for Chelsea to reflect her desire to be treated as a woman, a judge in Kansas ruled on Wednesday. Manning's name is legally changed to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, according to the decision handed down by Leavenworth County District Judge David King. Manning will be issued a new birth certificate to reflect the name change.

First lady announces one-stop job site for vets Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:53 PM PDT FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — To help veterans leaving the military as it downsizes, the government on Wednesday started a one-stop job-shopping website for them to create resumes, connect with employers and become part of a database for companies to mine.

Defense Logistics Agency completes mission in Iraq Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:47 PM PDT FORT BELVOIR, Va., April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American forces left Iraq more than two years ago, but the Defense Logistics Agency's job there is just now ending. On May 15, the agency will stop providing supplies to the State Department officials who assumed responsibility for U.S. operations in Iraq on Dec. 31, 2011. DLA agreed to supply food, fuel and disposal services until the State Department established its own contract, which was awarded in July 2013. "The new vendor has come on board in phases, and DLA has been gradually transferring logistics support to the new vendor since early this year," said Navy Capt. Jim Liberko, who served six months as commander of the DLA support team in Kuwait, which supports everything in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility except Afghanistan.

Older Army Recruits Signal Weak Youth Labor Market Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:31 PM PDT Army recruits are getting older, with fewer going straight from high school to boot camp. Since the early 1990s, the percentage of Army recruits signing on the dotted line immediately after receiving their high school diplomas has declined from 65 percent to 44 percent, according to a report today from the RAND Corporation. About one-third of RAND's 5,373 survey respondents who delayed enlisting in the Army said no jobs were available to them in the civilian world, while almost 50 percent said their employment situations offered little in terms of career advancement. "For these older recruits, the Army provided a second chance," said Bernard Rostker, the report's lead author.

U.S. may charge ex-Blackwater guard with murder for Iraq massacre Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:27 PM PDT By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is considering charging a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard with murder over his alleged role in a 2007 massacre of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. The Justice Department is weighing "all available options" against Nicholas Slatten including first-degree murder, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Asuncion said at a hearing in federal court in Washington. Three other former Blackwater security guards face manslaughter charges in connection with the September 16, 2007 shootings at Nisur Square in Baghdad, in which 17 civilians were killed and more than a dozen others wounded.

Soldier accused of killing unarmed teens in Iraq Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:23 PM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Washington (AP) — Two unarmed Iraqi brothers posed no threat as they herded cattle in a grove where a U.S. Army reconnaissance team was hidden one day seven years ago. But then a sergeant kneeled, leveled his rifle and killed them anyway, a prosecutor said Wednesday at a hearing in the soldier's case.

Officials say car bomb in northern Iraq kills 9 Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:13 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say a car bomb has killed nine people belonging to an ethnic minority in the country's north.

Iraq officials targeted as violence kills 13 Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:26 AM PDT Militants shot dead an Iraqi provincial councillor and bombed the education minister's convoy on Wednesday, as violence killed 13 people nationwide ahead of next week's elections. Iraq is suffering a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people this year, and the April 30 parliamentary vote -- the first since American troops departed in 2011 -- will be a major test for security forces. In Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on Diyala provincial councillor Ahmed al-Harbi's two-vehicle convoy, killing him and two guards, police and a doctor said. And in Kirkuk province, farther north, a bomb exploded near Education Minister Mohammed Tamim's convoy without causing any casualties, Staff Major General Mohammed al-Dulaimi said.

3 charged with sending chemical equipment to Syria Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:08 AM PDT HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — U.S. prosecutors have charged a Pennsylvania man and two foreign citizens with conspiring to illegally export chemical warfare detection devices and laboratory equipment to Syria, authorities said in a case that was under seal for 17 months until Wednesday.

Bahrain moves to deport Shiite cleric Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the Gulf state has decided to deport a leading Shiite cleric born in the country in a move likely to exacerbate tensions between the government and the Shiite-led opposition.

Car bomb kills 6 people in Iraq Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:46 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a car bomb has killed six people belonging to an ethnic minority in the country's north.

The Daily Fix: Muslim Wrongly Put on Terror Watch Lists Becomes First to Clear Name, Drug Lord Drones, and Doogie Does Drag Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:33 AM PDT But the Malaysian architectural scholar spent eight years fighting to get off the no-fly list and terror watch lists in a court battle that has shone a light on how Muslims were watched and, in cases like Ibrahim's, wrongly demonized after 9/11. Revealed in the case was that "the White House has created at least one 'secret exception' to the legal standard that federal authorities use to place people on such lists," as VICE News reported. For Ibrahim, that possible violation of due process came after federal officials reassured the public that landing on the no-fly list meant the person had met "a reasonable suspicion standard."   It's possible federal agents mistook the women's economic organization she belongs to, Jamaa Islah Malaysia, with the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

Bahrain says expels representative of Shi'ite Ayatollah Sistani Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:25 AM PDT Bahrain expelled a prominent Shi'ite religious figure on Wednesday, accusing him of acting as a representative of influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani without permission. A statement by the interior ministry said it had received information from top Iraqi government officials that Sheikh Hussein al-Najati was Sistani's representative and had carried out activities such as fund-raising in that capacity. Bahrain, which is ruled by the Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa dynasty, accuses Shi'ite power Iran of fomenting unrest in the country since a 2011 uprising led by the Shi'ite Muslim community demanding reforms and more share in running the kingdom.

Spy plane outlasts Cold War, but not defense cuts Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:24 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U-2 spy plane outlasted the Cold War, outlived its successor and proved crucial a half-century ago when two superpowers were on the brink of nuclear war.

Bahrain expels envoy of Shiite Ayatollah Sistani Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:17 AM PDT Authorities in Sunni-ruled Bahrain on Wednesday expelled the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in the latest manifestation of tension with the kingdom's Shiite majority. Sheikh Hussein al-Najati was among 31 Bahrainis who had their citizenship revoked in November 2012 over accusations that they had undermined state security, more than a year after authorities crushed a Shiite uprising in March 2011. Najati "practised unclear activities, without coordinating with authorities which discovered afterwards that he was Sistani's representative," the interior ministry said. "Working as an official representative of any party necessitates a letter of accreditation that specifies responsibilities and planned activities," it said.

Militants returning from Syria pose threat to Europe: Dutch minister Posted: 23 Apr 2014 08:59 AM PDT The Netherlands warned on Wednesday militants returning from Syria posed a security threat to Europe and said two Dutch citizens had carried out suicide attacks in Syria and Iraq in the past six months and about 100 had fought in Syria in 2013. With the Syrian conflict entering its fourth year, governments across Europe are growing increasingly concerned about the number of their nationals heading to Syria to fight. Interior Minister Ronald Plasterk, speaking at the launch of the Dutch intelligence agency's annual report, said one Dutch national had traveled from Syria to Iraq before carrying out an attack with a bomb in a rucksack.

First lady announcing one-stop job site for vets Posted: 23 Apr 2014 08:29 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to streamline employment resources for people leaving the military, the government is creating an integrated website that can help job-seekers create resumes, connect with employers and become part of a database of veterans and their spouses for companies to mine for skills and talents.

Judge to mull Chelsea Manning name change request Posted: 23 Apr 2014 07:18 AM PDT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge will on Wednesday consider Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning's petition to legally change her name from Bradley, as she serves a 35-year sentence for passing classified U.S. government information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Syrian opposition asks for more Saudi aid Posted: 23 Apr 2014 06:59 AM PDT The head of Syria's main opposition group has asked Saudi Arabia to increase its support for the rebel Free Syrian Army, his advisor said Wednesday. Saudi Arabia is one of the main backers of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war increasingly seen as a proxy battle between it and regional rival Iran, a close ally of the regime. Ahmed Jarba, head of the opposition National Coalition, met with Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Tuesday. "The talks focused on continuing the Saudi aid and on the need to strengthen the capacities of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)," Jarba's advisor Monser Akbik told AFP.

U.S. soldier faces hearing in killings of Iraqi boys Posted: 23 Apr 2014 06:48 AM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Washington (AP) — A U.S. soldier accused of deliberately killing two unarmed teenage boys as they herded cattle in Iraq seven years ago is due in military court.

Monitors head into Ukraine's badlands - armed with a sheet of paper Posted: 23 Apr 2014 06:01 AM PDT By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - A small army of international monitors has gone to the gritty lands of eastern Ukraine to persuade separatist militias to lay down their weapons - but for now at least the most they may be able to hope for is to stop a bad situation getting worse. Armed only with copies of a diplomatic communique drafted in a Geneva hotel, about 100 monitors have been posted in 10 trouble-spots in Ukraine with the task of de-escalating the crisis that pits pro-Russian separatists against Kiev's leaders. On the ground, that means trying to persuade armed groups who have seized police and state security installations in towns near the border with Russia to end their occupation. Without a quick success in the badlands of eastern Ukraine, the United States and Europe could go ahead with further sanctions against Russia - a move likely to complicate the monitoring task further.

The Long Flight to Afghanistan Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT On his way to Afghanistan, an officer is surprised by a strange sight at a layover in the middle of the night.

Jihadists Now Run Secret U.S. Base Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT A camp on the Libyan coastline meant to train terror-hunters has instead become a haven for terrorists and al Qaeda.

Blair: Radicalized Islam a growing threat Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:26 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — The West should set aside its differences with Russia and China to focus on the growing threat from radical Islam, Tony Blair said Wednesday, in a speech that included a call to support Egypt's military government against its Muslim Brotherhood opponents.

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