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Iranian general reportedly assassinated while traveling from Syria
BEIRUT -- A high-ranking member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps was assassinated this week while traveling from Syria to neighboring Lebanon, Iranian media reported Thursday, in the strongest indication to date that senior Iranian military...Tags: United Nations, Beirut (Lebanon), Reconstruction, National Government, Iran
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On the War Over the Drone War
Drones are in the news thanks to a leaked Department of Justice memo outlining the legal reasoning behind the killing of American citizen and al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar Al-Awlaki. For those of us extremely unsettled by the Bush-Obama policy of extra-...
Tags: Iraq, Al-Qaeda, Iraq War (2003-2011), Pakistan, U.S. Department of Justice
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Secret drone strikes simplify Obama Doctrine
For years, scholars and journalists have struggled without much success to define the Obama Doctrine — the president's foreign policy principles. As a Democratic candidate, Barack Obama couldn't even define his own doctrine as he sought to succeed...
Tags: Jay Carney, U.S. Senate, Al-Qaeda, Rahm Emanuel, MSNBC (tv network)
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Giffords' plea to Congress on guns: 'you must act'
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic appeal, wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged Congress on Wednesday to enact tougher curbs on guns, saying, "too many children are dying" without them. "The time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous,...
Tags: Justice System, Wayne LaPierre, Dianne Feinstein, Interior Policy, Injuries and Wounds
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Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Killing Kennedy’ to become National Geographic Channel film
The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel“Killing Lincoln,” the film of Bill O'Reilly's best seller, won't premiere until February on National Geographic Channel. But the channel on Thursday announced that it will make a film of O'Reilly's “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot.&... -
Aaron's Law: What's in a name?
The Times has an editorial Friday about legislation proposed in the aftermath of the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the computer prodigy who was being prosecuted by the federal government for allegedly gaining unauthorized access to an online repository of...
Tags: Justice System, Judges, Matthew Shepard, U.S. Congress, Prosecution
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America's go-to man in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province
TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan — A shy boy with filthy hands and a shabby tunic approached the great man, bowed and tried to kiss his hand. Gen. Matiullah Khan was seated like a sultan on a cushion in his hojra, his airy receiving room. He barely...
Tags: U.S. Military, Hamid Karzai, Religion and Belief, Executive Branch, Armed Forces
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Israel admits responsibility for 1988 assassination
World NowMore than 24 years after Palestinian military leader Khalil Ibrahim Wazir was assassinated in Tunisia, Israel acknowledged for the first time that its spy agency Mossad carried out the killing.... -
Woman fired over Facebook post speculating on Obama assassination
L.A. NOWA Turlock woman who used a racial slur to describe President Obama on Facebook and wrote "maybe he will get assassinated" has been fired from her job at Cold Stone Creamery.... -
Woman explains Obama assassination Facebook posting
L.A. NOWThe woman who used a racial slur to describe President Obama on Facebook said she was surprised that she was fired from her job at Cold Stone Creamery and said she doesn't understand all the attention the post received. The...... -
Attack on retired Indian general evokes '84 Golden Temple assault
World NowSikh India Attack: A painful chapter in India’s history was reopened this week when a retired general who oversaw the storming in 1984 of the Sikh’s most revered site was stabbed in London in an alleged “revenge attack” by... -
Lebanese army warns against violence amid tensions
World NowThe Lebanese army moved Monday to quell unrest following an outbreak of clashes in the aftermath of the politically charged funeral of a police official assassinated in a car bomb attack. The army vowed to use “decisive measures’ to insure...
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