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For Afghan Scouts, 'Be prepared' takes on a new meaning
KABUL, Afghanistan –- Mohammad Aziz Ayob adjusts his Boy Scout scarf, leans over and settles a sapling into the dry Kabul soil as two NATO helicopters pass overhead, the clack-clack of their blades echoing off the neighboring mountains. Bobbing...
Tags: United Nations, NATO, Taliban, Religion and Belief, Explosions
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Pensacola soldier dies in Afghanistan
A Pensacola soldier died in Afghanistan Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday. Army Sgt. Jesse L. Thomas, 31, died in Helmand province. He was assigned to the 39th Transportation Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater...
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McManus: Obama's foreign policy reset
The appointment of Susan Rice as national security advisor sends an important signal about the kind of foreign policy President Obama wants to pursue for the remainder of his second term: activist, assertive, occasionally even pugnacious. With three years...
Tags: Israel, Iran, U.S. Military, Arab Spring, John Kerry
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Air National Guard members honored at Hometown Heroes Salute
davem@herald-mail.comWhen Williamsport resident Troy Brawner joined the Air National Guard in 1989, he said he never would have imagined how it all unfolded. That was before the United States’ war in Afghanistan. Starting in October 2011, Brawner was sent to...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Gainesville, Kabul (Afghanistan), Human Interest
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Taliban claims responsibility as insurgents attack Kabul airport
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents attacked the military side of Kabul’s international airport at dawn Monday, jarring residents of the Afghan capital awake to the sound of explosions and gunfire. The area houses a key NATO strategic headquarters,...
Tags: United Nations, NATO, Manufacturing and Engineering, Taliban, Explosions
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Mail Call - June 10
“I was just reading the marriage licenses in the newspaper, and I’m curious to find out, when a woman and a woman get married, how do they decide which name to take? And the same thing with a man, when two men get married, how do they decide...Tags: Eric Holder, Baseball, Sports, Government, Internal Revenue Service
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Obama foreign policy follies befuddle right and left alike
The young Barack Obama's early enthusiasm for anti-war progressivism is well chronicled in his autobiography. Friendships with the likes of anti-war activists/bombers Bill Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn, poet Frank Marshall Davis, and the notorious Rev....Tags: Terrorism, Religion and Belief, U.S. Military, Islam, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Suicide bombing outside Afghan Supreme Court kills 17
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in front of the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, several hundred yards from the U.S. Embassy, killing 17 people and wounding 38, police said. The Taliban claimed...
Tags: United Nations, NATO, Career and Workplace, Strikes, Transportation Accidents
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Feds reject Beechcraft's protest of lost contract
A federal agency has rejected Wichita-based Beechcraft's protest of the award of an Air Force contract for light air support planes to Sierra Nevada Corp. and its Brazil-based partner, Embraer. Both companies issued statements Thursday announcing the...
Tags: Embraer SA
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Afghanistan Sikhs, already marginalized, are pushed to the brink
KABUL, Afghanistan — Outsiders may have trouble distinguishing between the turbans worn by Afghan Sikhs, with their tighter folds, varied colors and tucked-in edges, and those worn by Afghan Muslims, usually black or white with the end hanging...
Tags: Manmohan Singh, Interreligious Dialogue, Judaism, Taliban, Religion and Belief
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Insurgent attack on Kabul airport ends; all 7 militants slain
KABUL, Afghanistan – Insurgents launched an hours-long attack early Monday on the heavily guarded military side of Kabul’s international airport, which houses a key NATO strategic headquarters, but failed to breach that part of the complex...Tags: NATO, Taliban, Shootings, Explosions, Nelson Mandela
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Holding the national security course
President Barack Obama's latest changes in his top national security team seem more a shift to a stronger emphasis on human rights than a break with his long-range determination to keep the United States out of nation-building adventurism. His...Tags: Civil Rights, Libya, Bill Clinton, Samantha Power, Joe Biden
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