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Weary Warriors Favor Obama
ReutersCOLUMBIA, S.C.(Reuters) - Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours...Tags: Physical Disabilities, The Pentagon, U.S. Elections, Chicago, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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U.S. Military Faces Scrutiny Over Its Prostitution Policies
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - No one talks tougher against prostitution than the U.S. military. Even in countries where prostitution is legal, military personnel violating a seven-year-old Department of Defense policy against paying for sex face up to a year in...Tags: Sexual Assault, John McCain, The Pentagon, Prostitution, Ethics
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Subway Terror Bomber Tried In Court
pix11.com | @wpixA former New York City cab driver who pleaded "guilty" in a terror plot to bomb subways took the stand Monday against his friend from Flushing High School as a federal trial starts in the conspiracy case involving 28-year-old Adis Medunjanin....Tags: NYSE, Chicago, Justice System, Suicide, Cook County
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Afghan Policeman Suspect In Killing Of U.S. Officers: Sources
ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities said on Sunday they believe an Afghan police intelligence officer may have been involved in the shooting deaths of two U.S. officers inside the interior ministry a day earlier, prompting NATO to recall all its staff...Tags: Religion and Belief, Taliban, Murder, Islam, Shootings
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Beating The Drum . . . Again
pix11.com | @wpixI feel like I have been beating a drum to the point that I am way past the point of getting attention and I am now officially annoying. But I can't help myself. The war in Afghanistan is THAT important. I believe it is the issue of our time and FINALLY...Tags: The Pentagon, Osama bin Laden, White House
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Shooting Raises Questions About U.s. Course In Afghanistan
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier's shooting of more than a dozen Afghan civilians deepened questions on Sunday about what the United States can accomplish in Afghanistan before it withdraws, as Washington rushed to contain the damage from the...Tags: The Pentagon, Newt Gingrich, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Leon Panetta
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Sixteen Afghan Civilians Killed In U.S. Shooting Spree
ReutersKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - One or more U.S. soldiers shot dead 16 civilians, including nine children according to Afghan officials, in Afghanistan's south on Sunday in what witnesses described as a massacre. NATO said they had detained one U.S....Tags: U.S. Embassy, Islam, Shootings, Armed Conflicts, Hamid Karzai
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Staying In Afghanistan Is No Longer An Option
pix11.com | @wpixLate 2014 is no longer an option. The situation on the ground in Afghanistan has dictated that we leave now. And there are other reasons: 1) The mission as stated when we attacked Afghanistan in 2011 has been completed. Al Qaeda is a almost non-existent....Tags: Pakistan, Osama bin Laden
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Afghan Gun Massacre Families Paid Compensation
ReutersKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have given cash compensation to the families of Afghans killed in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by an American soldier in Kandahar province, a family member and a tribal elder said on Sunday....Tags: Murder, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Robert Bales, Barack Obama, NATO
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First The Taliban, Now Turncoats
pix11.com | @wpixI have been writing and delivering commentaries questioning our continued presence in Afghanistan for over two years. The last time I put together a commentary I felt that people might be getting sick of me talking about it. But it was all of you that...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Taliban, Armed Conflicts
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NJ Marine Killed In Afghanistan
A U.S. Marine from New Jersey has died in combat in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Thursday.
According to officials, Staff Sgt. Joseph D'Augustine was just two weeks from redeployment when he was killed in the Helmand province.
D'...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense
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A Fallen Hero Comes Home, And His Whole Town Comes Out
PIX11.com | @jamesfordtvEvery person says farewell in different way when somebody they care about passes away. In one North Jersey town, though, virtually every resident chose to bid farewell together to a Marine killed in combat in Afghanistan. The result was a remarkably...Tags: U.S. Marine Corps, Manhattan (New York City)
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