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A turning point in terror prosecutions
The conviction of a former Baltimore County man in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia is seen as a turning point in the long-delayed prosecution of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Majid Shoukat Khan, who on Wednesday admitted to conspiring with Osama...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistan, International Court or Tribunal, Emergency Incidents
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From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo
A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), American Airlines, Inc., Religious Conflicts, Government
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9/11 defendants refuse to participate in arraignment
Before self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was brought into court Saturday, Carole Reuben of Potomac said his arraignment would mark "the beginning of the end of the process." Her son, Todd Hayes Reuben, was a passenger on American...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Defendants, Pakistan, Aircraft Hijacking
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: Abortion, Credit and Debt, Barack Obama, Business, Mitt Romney
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Fallout of fear
Chicago Tribune reporterHalf a century ago, the unthinkable became all too thinkable as the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in a game of chicken, played with nuclear bombs. On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy went on television to announce that the Soviet...Tags: Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, Grant Park, Emergency Incidents, Science and Technology
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General Allen was leader at Naval Academy
When Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen overheard a platoon of first-year midshipmen at the Naval Academy shout "kill" during training one summer day a decade ago, he ordered the word expunged from their vocabulary. The then-commandant explained that...
Tags: NATO, Paula Broadwell, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, FBI
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Best for cutting defense: Green Party's Stein
Has anyone else thought about what we would do if foreigners sent drones over our land to kill some bad guys but ended up killing lots of innocent people? Any patriot would naturally see that as unacceptable and retaliate any way we could. This no-brainer...Tags: Jill Stein, Barack Obama
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AP sources: Panetta opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a...
Tags: Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC
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Newly cleared, Gen. Allen to command NATO
WASHINGTON — The White House will go ahead with nominating Marine Gen. John Allen to be top U.S. commander in Europe, following an investigation by the Pentagon inspector general that found his emails with a Florida woman were not improper....
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, NATO, U.S. Department of Defense, FBI, Paula Broadwell
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Defense Worries A Microcosm Of CT Economy
The Hartford CourantThere's good news and bad news for Connecticut in the Pentagon's spending strategy for the next several years, and that reflects what's happening in the state's economy overall. The bad news is that defense spending in the state will decline by about 10...Tags: Bob Ross, U.S. Congress, Connecticut Business and Industry Association, Connecticut Technology Council, Consumer Confidence
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Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy
-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Hamid Karzai, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment Events, Barack Obama
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Pentagon planning to ferry more French troops, gear to Mali
WASHINGTON -- After a weeklong delay while the Obama administration debated whether to assist French forces fighting in Mali, the Pentagon is planning to begin ferrying additional French troops and equipment to the West African nation in coming days...
Tags: Western Africa, Mali, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC, Armed Forces
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