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Date Sent: 2012-10-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, October 20, 2012 |
US steps up support of Turkey amid Syrian conflict -- Bomb kills 19 Afghan wedding partygoers
3 bank failures bring US 2012 total to 46 -- 9/11 trial: Did US have improper influence? Lawyer asks judge for help -- Judge: George Zimmerman's attorneys can examine Trayvon Martin's school, social media record -- FDR's 1932 Pittsburgh Speech: A Masterful Deception - by Gary North -- A Biker, a Blonde, a Jihadist and Piles of C.I.A. Cash -- Pay gap widens for federal workers, panel says -- Detroit's Heroic Anarcho-Bus Company -- Oct. 18th – Thirtieth Anniversary of Raid on Faith Baptist Louisville, NB -- Is an EU identity card on the cards? -- Israel Threatens Aid Ship Seeking to Deliver Food to Gaza -- Beirut bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence official -- License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Light Cameras -- Elizabeth Johnson’s lawyer: ‘This is clearly a victory for the defense’ -- Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
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News Link • Syria
U.S. steps up support of Turkey amid Syrian conflict
10-19-2012
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Washington Post
The US government is intensifying its intelligence sharing and military consultations with Turkey behind the scenes as both countries confront the Syria’s civil conflict could escalate into a regional war, according to US and NATO officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Bomb kills 19 Afghan wedding partygoers
10-19-2012
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http://www.reuters.com
A roadside bomb killed at least 19 people, mostly women and children, who were on their way to a wedding in Afghanistan's north on Friday, local police officials said.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government
When Will the Voters Learn?
10-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Mann believed "universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens." The whole thing was designed to produce a seething throng of people ready to take orders,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
3 bank failures bring US 2012 total to 46
10-19-2012
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AP
Regulators closed 2 small banks in Florida and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of US bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized GulfSouth Private Bank and First East Side Savings Bank, both in Florida.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
9/11 trial: Did US have improper influence? Lawyer asks judge for help
10-19-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
A defense lawyer in the 9/11 war crimes tribunal at Guantánamo said the former chief prosecutor for military commissions refused at least 25 times to answer his questions about whether there had been any improper influence from senior Defense Departm
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge: George Zimmerman's attorneys can examine Trayvon Martin's school, social media record
10-19-2012
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AP
A Florida judge has ruled that George Zimmerman's defense team can have access to Trayvon Martin's school records and can subpoena his social media posts, CBS affiliate WKMG reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
FDR's 1932 Pittsburgh Speech: A Masterful Deception - by Gary North
10-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell
"Franklin Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for office, would very much like to be President."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A Biker, a Blonde, a Jihadist and Piles of C.I.A. Cash
10-19-2012
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New York Times
Neither Mr. Awlaki nor his prospective wife knew it, but their match was being managed by a Danish double agent as part of an attempt to help the Danish intelligence service and the C.I.A. find the cleric’s hiding place in Yemen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Pay gap widens for federal workers, panel says
10-19-2012
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Washington Post
White-collar federal employees are underpaid on average by about 35 percent compared with the private sector, a widening of the “pay gap,” which stood at about 26 percent last year, an advisory group said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Detroit's Heroic Anarcho-Bus Company
10-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
This year saw the birth of a new, private bus company in Detroit, and it's called the Detroit Bus Company. The owner and founder, 25-year-old Andy Didorosi stated that his company is "trying to change what people think about buses."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Is an EU identity card on the cards?
10-19-2012
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EuroNews
Plans to create a European ID card were dropped in early 2000 due to technical, administrative and political obstacles. Instead, the experimental project STORK (Secure Identity Across Borders Linked) was introduced in May 2008.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Israel
Israel Threatens Aid Ship Seeking to Deliver Food to Gaza
10-19-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Ambassador Demands UN Intervention to Prevent Food From Being Delivered
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News Link • Syria
Beirut bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence official
10-19-2012
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By Oliver Holmes and Mariam Karouny
A prominent Lebanese intelligence official opposed to President Bashar al-Assad was killed in a huge car bomb in Beirut in another sign that Syria's civil war is dragging its volatile neighbor into the conflict.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Light Cameras
10-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jakob Schiller
Traffic-light tickets have ticked off a gazillion drivers, some of whom have had to fork over $500 for running a light. Now there’s a way for you to throw a monkey wrench into that money-making machine.
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News Link • How To
The Wired Guide to the Ultimate High-Tech DIY Haunted House
10-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Hurst
Ten years ago, Timothy Haskell started making haunted houses on virtually no budget.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Elizabeth Johnson’s lawyer: ‘This is clearly a victory for the defense’
10-19-2012
"There's no question about the fact that this is a victory for the defense," he said Friday morning. "It was really our only goal when we started the representation. The kidnapping charge itself was such a heavy charge. That was the one that subjecte
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
10-19-2012
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Will Oremus/Slate
With the rise of the internet reformation, many students are discovering they can educate themselves more thoroughly and cheaply online. Minnesota is looking to put a stop to that by making free online courses illegal.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Police State
A Commissarina Rises: Wendy J. Olson's Reign of Terror
10-19-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The IRS operatives offered to buy 2 vehicles, a Jeep Cherokee and a Mercedes, for $55,000 in cash " if Johnson agreed not to use the customers’ “real” names or file the federal paperwork required for cash transactions over $10,000.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Gulf Oil Spill
The Ongoing Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part 1)
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
This new series will expose the fact that BP, Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, Transocean and David Rockefeller’s and the Queen of England’s New York City for Profit members had foreknowledge and hedged their stock market bets in anticipation of the event
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Arrested at Debate: Why Shutting out Gary Johnson Matters
10-18-2012
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Jia Hui Lee
The arrest of Green Party presidential and vice presidential candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala outside the presidential debate venue on Tuesday night highlights serious questions about the influence of the Commission for Presidential Debates (C
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CEOs warn Obama, Congress to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’
10-18-2012
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Washington Post
The largest US financial firms warned of dire consequences if Washington fails to head off year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, saying they could jolt the economy into recession and prompt a new and dangerous downgrade of the US credit rating.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA seeks to expand drone fleet, officials say
10-18-2012
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Washington Post
The CIA is urging the White House to approve a significant expansion of the agency’s fleet of armed drones, a move that would extend the spy service’s decade-long transformation into a paramilitary force, U.S. officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Suspect in HOA case: 'I had to kill them'
10-18-2012
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Arizona Republic
“I was hoping that I could reason with them,” Hindi said of the Homeowners Association’s president, David Merritt and Marvin Fisher. “But I said to myself, if they are not going to resolve peace with me, honestly, I had to kill them. So I took my gun
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court: Fort Hood suspect can be forcibly shaved
10-18-2012
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AP
An Army appeals court ruled the Fort Hood shooting suspect can have his beard forcibly shaved off before his murder trial. The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the military trial judge's decision to order Maj. Nidal Hasan to
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News Link • Economy - International
Elite pension funds back infrastructure investment vehicle
10-18-2012
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Reuters
A government plan to kick-start the economy by drawing billions of pounds of pension fund money into roads and rail has moved closer to reality after several large pension schemes formally signaled interest.
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News Link • Drug War
NJWeedman found not guilty in pot distribution case
10-18-2012
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PhillyBurbs.com
He almost didn’t get to hear the verdict and his supporters’ applause for the jurors as they left the courtroom. During his closing, Forchion was nearly held in contempt of court for trying to advance his jury nullification argument.
Delehey quick
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court orders Ed Foster seated as Mayor of Quartzsite
10-18-2012
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http://www.parkerpioneer.net/articles
La Paz County Superior Court Judge Michael Burke has granted Quartzsite resident Ed Foster’s request for a Writ of Mandamus and ordered him sworn in and seated as the town’s mayor.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Convening of The International Common Law Court of Justice
10-18-2012
Today is Monday, October 15, 2012, and marks the formal online convening of the five sworn judges of our Court, from Canada, the United States and Belgium. They are joined by fifty eight sworn citizen jurors from Canada, the USA, Ireland, England...
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iran Launches Submarine and Destroyer into Gulf During US Naval Exercises
10-18-2012
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Oilprice.com
This week the US, UK, France, and a few Middle Eastern countries are conducting naval exercises in the Gulf of Persia to practice clearing mines that Iran, or other groups may place around the Straits of Hormuz in an attempt to disrupt the movement o
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Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Forget Libya, The Syrian Conflict Is What's Going To Make The Middle East Explode
10-18-2012
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Agence France Presse
Syria's 19-month conflict could set the entire region ablaze, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Lebanon on Wednesday.
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News Link • Housing
Why The Fed's Plan To Save The Housing Market Isn't Working That Well
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
When the Fed announced QE-infinity in September, it said it would purchase $40 billion of mortgage backed securities per month. The aim was to lower the mortgage rates offered to consumers.
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News Link • Activism
Ademo is out of Jail!! - October 11th, 2012
10-18-2012
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www.libertyontour.com
Ademo Freeman, Founder of CopBlock.org, who was found guilty of “wiretapping” public employees at work. In the interview, he reveals some insights from his experiences on the inside of Manchester’s Valley Street Jail.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens
10-18-2012
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https://www.rutherford.org, By John W. Whitehead
For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther t
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News Link • Homeland Security
Fusion centers: Invading your privacy at your expense
10-18-2012
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http://www.examiner.com, By: Gregory Patin
The U.S. government has spent up to $1.4 billion of taxpayer money since 2003 to create “threat fusion centers” under the guise of fighting terrorism.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Gaza blockade study calculated Palestinians' calories
10-18-2012
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Reuters
Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition under its blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to a study which the Supreme Court forced the government to release.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Boy Scouts' 'perversion' files set to be released
10-18-2012
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AP
Confidential files kept by the Boy Scouts of America on men they suspected of child sex abuse are set to be released after a two-year-long court battle.
The anticipated release of the files on Thursday by Portland attorney Kelly Clark will reveal
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News Link • China
China's economic growth slows to 7.4 percent
10-18-2012
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AP
China's worst slump since the global financial crisis leveled out in the latest quarter and retail sales picked up in a sign an economic rebound is taking shape, adding to hopes for a global recovery.
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News Link • Internet
The Pirate Bay moves entire operation to the cloud, thwarts copyright cops
10-18-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
The Pirate Bay has grown tired of government agents raiding its data treasure trove and is smuggling away all its booty to the cloud. Pirate Bay is moving its entire operation to multiple cloud hosting providers to spread out its resources and thus
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News Link • False Flag Operations
FBI yet again foils their own fake terrorist plot, this time targeting the NY Federal Reserve
10-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
At this point I wish I could laugh at the absurdly obvious nature of the federal government’s involvement in the manufacture of domestic terrorism, but unfortunately it is far too serious a matter.
For those who think the most recent case of 21-ye
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
NDAA critic stranded in Hawaii after turning up on no-fly list
10-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Wade Hicks was en route to a US Navy base in Japan to see his wife when armed military guards informed him that they had other plans. Hicks, an American citizen with no criminal record, had just been put added to a federal no-fly list.
After being
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drug War
Pa. man arrested outside NJWeedman trial
10-17-2012
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PhillyBurbs.com
A Pennsylvania man said he will pursue legal action against the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department and individual officers for his arrest Wednesday while handing out fliers about jury rights outside the county complex.
Fernando Antonio Salguer
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria
10-17-2012
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New York Times
Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the secular groups the West wants to bolster,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
U.S., Israel to stage major defense exercise
10-17-2012
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Washington Post
The United States and Israel are preparing to stage a major joint missile- and air-defense drill in Israel later this month, an exercise that will showcase the allies’ longtime military partnership as they debate how to handle the Iranian nuclear thr
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