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Holder investigating CIA interrogations
The Swampby Greg Miller and Josh Meyer U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A......Tags: Symptoms, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Human Rights, Prosecution
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Biden in Baghdad: 'High-level focus'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 1:20 pm EDT Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise landing in Baghdad today to meet with Iraqi leaders and U.S. military troops. A military C-17 transport carrying the vice president landed at Baghdad......Tags: U.S. Military, Heads of State, White House, Jalal Talabani, Air and Space Accidents
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How low can FAU go? A satirical look ahead
The stomp on Jesus controversy. The Owlcatraz stadium/GEO Group sponsorship controversy. The Sandy Hook massacre-doubting-professor controversy. Think things can't get any worse at Florida Atlantic University? Here's how: An exclusive sneak peek at...
Tags: Delray Beach, Todd Akin, Health and Safety at School, Florida Atlantic University, Ann Coulter
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The honorable absurdity of a soldier's role
William PfaffPARIS -- Ten years ago, invading American troops were moving through stifling dust storms towards Baghdad from Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, which British forces were fighting to secure. Baghdad's outskirts were reached on April 3, and the Baghdad...Tags: France, George W. Bush, William Pfaff, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu
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He says his battle almost over
Mary SanchezSome will say that Tomas Young agreed to die a long time ago. The 33-year-old Iraq war veteran is lying in a bed in Kansas City under hospice care, intent on soon stopping life-sustaining drugs and nourishment. But this is not a preordained event, one...Tags: Mary Sanchez, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Bush's war, 10 years later
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq seems an appropriate time to look back at how it all happened and what it has wrought, not so much for Iraq as for the United States, which poured its own troops, treasure and world...Tags: Jules Witcover, Colin Powell, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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At Lookingglass, a tiger tale set in Iraq
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost? That might sound like a bizarre question, but it comes to mind presently at the Lookingglass Theatre. The titular big cat in Rajiv Joseph's distinctive drama “...
Tags: Water Tower, Robin Williams, Arts and Culture, Water Supply, Iraq
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Chuck Hagel: A man to watch -- carefully
Paul GreenbergIt should be interesting, the confirmation hearings on the nomination of Charles Hagel to be the next secretary of defense of the United States. . . . A lot more interesting than the hearings on John Kerry's nomination as secretary of state or John...Tags: Afghanistan, Bashar Assad, Israel, Barack Obama, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Iraqi man, once marked for death, reunited with family at LVIA
Have you ever tried to put yourself in someone else's head, imagining what he's thinking, what he's feeling? That's what I found myself doing late Tuesday night as Iraqi refugee Abbas Hameed Khalaf paced the sidewalk outside Lehigh Valley International...
Tags: Islam, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Christianity, Human Interest, Roman Catholicism
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Recommendation Letter
Here is a portion of the Aug. 10 letter, slightly abridged and edited, written to U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent by Will Miller, then Catholic Charities refugee resettlement director, to urge Dent's support for helping getting Abbas Hameed Khalaf's family out...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Refugee, Charlie Dent, Roman Catholicism
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McManus: A smaller, smarter military
President Obama has called a halt to the decade-long rise in defense spending that began after Sept. 11, and has proposed shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by about 14%. Congressional Republicans (not to mention Mitt Romney) say that would be...
Tags: Mitt Romney, The Pentagon, Saddam Hussein, Asia, Arts and Culture
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A momentum of cynicism
Tribune Media Services"But no matter how futile, repulsive or dysfunctional war may be," Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her book "Blood Rites," "it persists." A fascinating story in the New York Times just after Christmas showed this persistence unfolding before our very eyes....Tags: U.S. Electoral College, Aerospace Manufacturing, White House, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Feb 12, 2013
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Jan 14, 2013
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Oct 20, 2012
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Oct 20, 2012
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Apr 22, 2012
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Jan 12, 2012
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