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    Jun 29, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  1. Hagerstown sets new weather record with hottest day ever in June

    A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday.
    caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.com
    A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday. The temperature reached 100.7 degrees at 3:57 p.m., the hottest day in June ever recorded in Hagerstown, according to i4weather.net, a website operated by local weather observer Greg Keefer. It...

    Tags: Swimming, Sports, Fishing Forecast

    2. Nov 11, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  2. Local veterans organizations place wreaths at the memorial in Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park

    More than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or retirement dates.
    dona@herald-mail.com
    More than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Veterans Day, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Defense

    3. Dec 16, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Whereas at last Obama officially publishes said memo creating Gitmo North in Illinois of all places

    Top of the Ticket
    Full text of Democrat president's historic memo with accompanying commentary in same style....
    4. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  4. Eight US Soldiers Killed in All Day Battle At Remote Outposts In Afghanistan

    Eight U.S. Soldiers have died after hundreds of insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades storms a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border. 20 Afghan security troops were also captured.
    Web Reporter
    Eight U.S. Soldiers have died after hundreds of insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades storms a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border. 20 Afghan security troops were also captured. The battle started at dawn on Saturday and...

    Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Memphis, NATO, Kabul (Afghanistan), Civil Unrest

    5. Dec 14, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Liberty'

    Most Americans would probably agree with the 19th century abolitionist Wendell Phillips that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But our vigilance has been erratic, and we have paid the price for our inattention. This nation's history is littered...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Executive Branch, Prisoners and Detainees, The New York Times, Constitutional Issues

    6. Jan 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. A voice from Gitmo's darkness

    JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed unclassified by the Department of Defense.
    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba — I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen. In January 2002, I was picked up in Pakistan,...

    Tags: Prisoners and Detainees, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abusive Behavior

    7. Oct 12, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. The shadow of Gitmo

    Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent to international opinion established -- in a territory they wrongly thought was beyond the reach of law -- a prison camp whose inmates comprised both dangerous terrorists and bystanders caught up in the post-9/11 dragnet in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent...

    Tags: Prisoners and Detainees, Air and Space Accidents, Prisons, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Washington Post

    8. Dec 10, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. How to try terrorists

    In confessing <a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guantanamo-plea9-2008dec09%2C0%2C5787969.story">responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, </a> Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/10/national/main4250100.shtml">almost 3,000 </a> people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by a realization that the way these "high value" detainees have been treated has sullied this country's reputation. It will be up to President-elect Barack Obama to repair the damage.
    In confessing responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed almost 3,000 people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by...

    Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice System

    9. Dec 9, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. The Supreme Court's habeas hearing

    Afew months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government transported almost 700 suspected terrorists who had been captured abroad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where the Bush administration assumed -- wrongly -- that they would have no...

    Tags: Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Prisoners and Detainees, Central Intelligence Agency, Germany

    10. Apr 6, 2009 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  10. Returning war dead: A reappearing image

    The Swamp
    by Mark Silva The flag-draped coffin of Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va., who was 30 and the victim of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, arrived late last night at Dover Air Force Base in Maryland. It was......

    Tags: Explosions, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), International Military Interventions, Central Intelligence Agency, Emergency Incidents

    11. Apr 16, 2009 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  11. Richard Armitage: Bush's CIA tortured

    The Swamp
    by Mark Silva Richard Armitage, who served as chief deputy to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says now that he would have resigned if he had known that the CIA was interrogating suspected terrorists with "water-boarding,'' that simulated drowning....

    Tags: Prisoners and Detainees, Central Intelligence Agency, Prisons, White House, National Government

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