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Central Intelligence Agency Petraeuss role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
05-21-2013
Washington Post
A close reading of recently released government e-mails sent during the editing process, and interviews with senior officials from several government agencies, reveal Petraeuss early role and ambitions in going well beyond the committees request,
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Police State Court rules bin Laden death photos can stay secret
05-21-2013
Reuters
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them.
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Transportation: Air Travel Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond
05-20-2013
AP
A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond.
Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the airport in Romulus, Mic
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Criminal Justice System Bin Laden son-in-law: Warning issued by NY judge
05-17-2013
Christian Science Monitor
Bin Laden son-in-law warning: A N.Y. judge gave Osama bin Laden's son-in-law a warning that he may have chosen the wrong lawyer to represent him. The judge told Sulaiman Abu Ghaith that his Jewish lawyer may be facing jail time.
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Syria Sectarianism in Iraq stoked by Syrian war
05-16-2013
Washington Post
A recent tide of sectarian tensions that erupted into the worst violence seen in Iraq in five years is testing the government of Prime Minister al-Maliki, whose ability to contain the crisis could hinge on a conflict raging beyond his control in Syri
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Libya Benghazi Emails Directly Contradict White House Claims
05-16-2013
The Weekly Standard
The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislativ
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Libya Benghazi e-mails released by White House
05-15-2013
Washington Post
The Obama administration released 100 pages of emails Wednesday that reveal differences between intelligence analysts and State Department officials over how to describe the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. post in Benghazi, Libya.
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Palestine -- Israel Glenn Greenwald and the Islamists
05-13-2013
The Jerusalem Post
If you are keeping up with news and views about Israel, you will likely know that the very popular and very opinionated blogger Glenn Greenwald has a well-deserved reputation for his intense dislike of Israel and its supporters.
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Syria Syria Not Worth a Crisis With Russia
05-13-2013
Lewrockwell.com
The vicious Syrian civil war has put the worlds two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to go on.
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Torture Afghans Claim to Have Video of U.S. Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians
05-13-2013
Wired.com
Afghan officials say theyve got video of a man overseeing the torture of Afghan civilians. Exactly who ordered the man to torture is a matter of fierce dispute and also helps explain this years erosion of trust between Washington and Kabul.
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WAR Judge: Soldier premeditated Iraq killings
05-13-2013
AP
The shooting was one of the worst instances of soldier-on-soldier violence in the Iraq war and raised questions about the mental health problems for soldiers caused by repeated tours of duty.
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Positive News Bangladesh building collapse: woman rescued after 17 days speaks of ordeal
05-13-2013
youtube
A woman found alive in the rubble of Dhaka's Rana Plaza after 17 days tells of how she got rescuers' attention with a stick as she heard voices above her. Workers were astounded when they found the woman alive so long after the accident, which now ha
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Iran Two divisive candidates enter Iran's presidential race
05-12-2013
New York Times
Iran's presidential campaign took an unexpected turn Saturday, when two game-changing politicians, both opposed to many of the government's leaders, entered the race in the final minutes of a five-day registration period.
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Military US wants 9 permanent bases in Afghanistan after 2014 ISAF withdrawal
05-10-2013
http://rt.com
Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed Thursday to wring concessions out of the United States in negotiations for a security pact for the country, as Washington wants to maintain nine military bases in Afghanistan after ISAF troops withdraw in 2014.
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Drones Drone Strikes Are Winning War in Yemen -- for Al-Qaeda
05-07-2013
Bloomberg.com
It was a contradiction that perfectly captured the essence of the U.S. drone war against Islamic terrorists: Just as we learned that strikes in Yemen had resumed after a three-month hiatus
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Israel Israel Swears Its Missile Defense Can Block Syrian Attacks
05-07-2013
Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
Israel may have attacked targets in Syria and risked a wider war to stop ballistic missiles from falling into the hands of Islamic extremists.
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Syria Spain backs sending defensive arms to Syria rebels
05-21-2013
AP
Spain favors a partial lifting of sanctions against Syria that would allow the delivery of defense material to rebel groups to help protect the population, its foreign minister said Tuesday.
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Libya Petraeus email objected to Benghazi talking points
05-16-2013
MyFoxDC.Com
Petraeus apparently was displeased by the removal of so much of the material his analysts initially had proposed for release. The talking points were sent to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to prepare her for an appearance on news shows on Sunday, Sept. 1
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Israel - Palestine Watchdog: Israel trying to legalize settlements
05-16-2013
Associated Press
An Israeli watchdog group is accusing the government of taking steps to legalize four unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank, days before the U.S. secretary of state is set to arrive on a new peace mission.
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Israel Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny
05-15-2013
Politico
The same Internal Revenue Service office that singled out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also challenged Israel-related organizations, at least one of which filed suit over the agencys handling of its application for tax-exempt status.
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Ron Paul Says... What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi - by Ron Paul
05-13-2013
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Republicans smell a political opportunity....Are we are supposed to be shocked by such behavior? Are we supposed to forget that this kind of whitewashing of facts is standard operating procedure when it comes to the US government?
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Syria Syrian rebel bites heart of dead soldier: video
05-13-2013
Reuters
A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended into sectarian hatred and revenge killings, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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Media: Television Glenn Greenwald Takes Down Bill Maher
05-12-2013
Lew Rockwell blog
Bill Maher is taken apart by Glenn Greenwald for trying to absolve the US from any responsibility for the mass slaughter and destruction in Muslim countries, blaming it on Islamic fundamentalism, as if the Afghanistan and Iraq wars never happened,
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Syria Another Syrian Insurgent Provocation?
05-12-2013
Lew Rockwell blog
2 powerful car bombs have gone off in a Turkish town. It is a dangerous turn of events particularly as Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has dug a deep hole for himself through support for the Syrian insurgents and as his strategy has collapsed,
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Drug War U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies
05-09-2013
Wired.com
Because of the poppies, the raw material for most of the worlds heroin, the list of things 1st Lt. Christopher Gackstatter and his 2nd Platoon cant do in Sartok is far longer than the list of things they can.
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Syria Syrian Internet blackout enters second day
05-08-2013
AFP
Syrias Internet blackout entered into its second consecutive day, which the state news agency blamed on a fault in optical fiber cables. Landline phone services between Syrian provinces have also been down since Tuesday, SANA said.
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Syria U.S. and Russia Plan Conference Aimed at Ending Syrian War
05-07-2013
New York Times
Russia and the United States announced they would seek to convene an international conference aimed at ending the civil war in Syria, jointly intensifying their diplomatic pressure on the combatants to peacefully settle a conflict that
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Internet Syria Traffic Goes "Dark" As Country Disappears From Internet
05-07-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com
While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone "dark"
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