04/01/2007 |
FBI: Workers saw prisoner abuse at Guantanamo
CNN Staff | CNN
•Detainees seen "chained hand and foot ... with no chair/food/water"
•Prisoners "urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours"
•Witness saw a detainee "with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape"
•Witness saw detainee draped in an Israeli flag ...
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04/01/2007 |
Execution of Former Iraqi Dictator Threatens to Widen Sectarian Divide
Global Insight Staff | Global Insight
The bloody life of the former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, came to an ignominious end this weekend. His execution, which was punctuated by chants in support of the Shi’a cleric and leader of the Mahdi Army militia, Moqtada al-Sadr, will only inflame sectarian tensions in the country. ...
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04/01/2007 |
Skill, luck credited for terror - free year
Paul Haven | Washington Times
Bombs left on commuter trains in a busy station in Germany, a plot to blow up tunnels and flood New York City's financial district, another to bring down packed commuter airliners flying out of London. ...
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04/01/2007 |
Mexican deploys troops to fight Tijuana drug gangs
A.P. | AP
• New movement part of president's expanded war on drugs
• 300 killed in drug-related crimes in Tijuana last year
• Tijuana key point for shipping cocaine, meth into U.S.
• Mayor says city not being militarized ...
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04/01/2007 |
Marine Corps’ Vision for the Future Requires More Training, Technology
Grace Jean | National Defense Magazine
Beginning this month, the Marine Corps will start testing a new war-fighting concept aimed at countering unconventional enemies. The technologies that would support it, however, are lagging, officials said. ...
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04/01/2007 |
Brazil may send troops to quell Rio gangs
A.P. | CNN
• Gang attacks left 19 dead last week, sparking fears of more violence
• New Rio Gov. Cabral will accept crime-fighting troops, unlike predecessor
• Rio preps for Mercosur trade summit, Pan American Games, Carnival ...
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04/01/2007 |
FBI: Workers saw prisoner abuse at Guantanamo
CNN Staff | CNN
•Detainees seen "chained hand and foot ... with no chair/food/water"
•Prisoners "urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours"
•Witness saw a detainee "with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape"
•Witness saw detainee draped in an Israeli flag ...
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04/01/2007 |
Execution of Former Iraqi Dictator Threatens to Widen Sectarian Divide
Global Insight Staff | Global Insight
The bloody life of the former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, came to an ignominious end this weekend. His execution, which was punctuated by chants in support of the Shi’a cleric and leader of the Mahdi Army militia, Moqtada al-Sadr, will only inflame sectarian tensions in the country. ...
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04/01/2007 |
Skill, luck credited for terror - free year
Paul Haven | Washington Times
Bombs left on commuter trains in a busy station in Germany, a plot to blow up tunnels and flood New York City's financial district, another to bring down packed commuter airliners flying out of London. ...
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02/01/2007 |
Don’t Grow the Army: Expansion Ducks the Real Question of Defining the Force’s Mission
Gordon Adams and John Diamond | Washington Post
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pete Schoomaker, The Post, the New York Times, and many Democrats and Republicans have converged over the past month in support of a serious expansion of the U.S. Army -- a permanent addition of 40,000 to 90,000 over the current ceiling of 507,000 troops. ...
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