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Mission not accomplished
Almost exactly nineteen years ago, a plane lumbered across the pocked runway of the Mogadishu airport and a young Marine, a veteran of two wars in three years, looked out of the departing plane’s window, sniffed and said, “Thirty days.”...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Assault, Democracy, Crimes, United Nations
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E3 2013: David Cage of ‘Beyond Two Souls’ wants industry change
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is not the best place to sample “Beyond Two Souls,” the upcoming narrative game to […]... -
Police: Gunman shot three, self at St. Louis business
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An argument inside a St. Louis home health care business escalated into gun violence Thursday when a man shot three other people before turning the gun on himself, police said. The shooting occurred at AK Home Health Care LLC, one...
Tags: Firearms, Shootings, Small Businesses, New Products, Business
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High seas drama emerges in piracy-murder trial
NORFOLK, Va. — As heavily armed pirates held an American sailboat off the coast of Somalia in February 2011, Navy SEALs on the bridge of the guided missile destroyer Sterett heard one of the hijackers on the radio threatening the lives of his four...
Tags: Firearms, Missile Systems, Military Equipment, Sailing, Salads
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'Dirty Wars' makers go behind Obama's counterterrorism
Those who tuned in to President Obama's speech last month on counterterrorism and national security heard some pretty remarkable things: The commander in chief defending his decision to sanction the killing of a fellow citizen without due process, even...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sundance Film Festival
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COLUMN: Where's the enemies list?
Who exactly is the enemy in the continuing U.S. war against terrorism? In some cases, the answer is: It’s a secret. When the United States began its war against al-Qaida after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the identity of the enemy was clear:...Tags: Al-Qaeda, U.S. Congress, Carl Levin, Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden
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Suspected pirates face unprecedented trial in U.S. court
WASHINGTON — Long before a retired Southern California couple and two friends were shot and killed aboard their sailboat off the Horn of Africa in February 2011, the threat from Somali pirates was frighteningly clear. Since 2005, heavily armed...Tags: U.S. Navy, U.S. Congress, Military Equipment, Sailing, Punishment
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Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda, Angus King, Military Equipment, U.S. Congress
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Press Freedom Day: Where reporters and their work are threatened
Friday marks World Press Freedom Day, first declared by the United Nations two decades ago as a day to nurture the freedom of journalists -- or to remind the world of where it falls short. Rights groups pointed to several spots on the globe where...
Tags: Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Media Industry, Murder, United Nations
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: Fidel Castro, U.S. Congress, Military Equipment, David Petraeus, The New York Times
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U.S. policy seen as factor in Somalia famine deaths
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It was the catastrophe everyone knew was coming yet no one seemed able to stop. According to analysts, a violent Islamist militia was partly to blame for thousands of deaths in Somalia's food crisis from 2010 to 2012,...
Tags: United Nations, Wars and Interventions, Africa, Terrorism, Famines
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Report: Nearly 260,000 died in Somalia food crisis
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- It was the catastrophe everyone knew was coming, yet no-one seemed able to stop. Nearly 260,000 people died in Somalia’s food crisis from 2010 to 2012, double the worst estimates at the time, according to a report...
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