Matthew Alexander spent fourteen years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserves. An "investigator turned interrogator", he deployed to Iraq in 2006, where he led the interrogations team that located Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the former leader of Al Qaida in Iraq, who was killed by Coalition Forces. Alexander was awarded the Bronze [...]
By ROBERT BURNS WASHINGTON — The designated U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, retired from the Army on Tuesday to become one of the few generals in American history to switch directly from soldier to diplomat. After being sworn in at the State Department on Wednesday as the top U.S. envoy to Kabul, [...]
By John Byrne Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) plans to proceed with a special commission to investigate alleged Bush administration abuses of power, despite lacking President Barack Obama’s support, according to a report Tuesday. Sen. Leahy called for a “Truth Commission” in February to probe Bush administration policies on torture, interrogation and surveillance and [...]
Submarine-launched weapon has capacity for up to six nuclear warheads MOSCOW – Russia will conduct at least five test launches of a new-generation intercontinental ballistic missile this year, the deputy defense minister was quoted as saying Tuesday. Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin said the Bulava missile needs thorough testing because "the reliability of all aspects of [...]
Introduction by Mike Griffith, Staff Writer In spite of historically favorable coverage from most of the news media, President Barack Obama’s approval rating at the 100-day mark of his presidency is actually lower than Jimmy Carter’s and Richard Nixon’s approval ratings at the same point in their presidencies. Moreover, according to a recent study by the [...]
Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners, museum officials say. The message, written in pencil and dated 9 September 1944, bears names, camp numbers and home towns of seven young inmates from Poland and France. More than a million people were killed [...]
CINCINNATI – A lawyer for alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN’-yuk) says the government is wrong when it claims the 89-year-old is healthy enough to be travel. The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court in Cincinnati to allow it to deport Demjanjuk from his suburban Cleveland home to Germany. An arrest [...]
Dennis Sullivan Chicago-Like hundreds, if not thousands, of World War II and Korean War veterans, Tinley Park resident Carmen DiCarlo held on to assorted souvenirs and keepsakes he’d collected while serving as an Army MP. "He was a packrat," his daughter Sarah Ziegler said of her father, who served in World War II as an [...]
Betrayed, one brother is killed by Al Qaeda in Iraq. But more tribesmen then join the fight to take back towns By Ned Parker Reporting from Baghdad — Disgusted by the insurgency he once wholeheartedly supported, Abu Maarouf started his revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq with four men under his command, including his brother. [...]
AP ARLINGTON, Wash. — An elderly Arlington, Wash., man is finally back home after being locked up in a Mexican prison for 65 days. Eighty-nine-year-old Edward Chrisman was greeted by television cameras, balloons, banners and his family when his plane arrived Saturday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Said Chrisman, "I’m not used to this kind of [...]
The U.S. government cannot avoid trial by claiming the state secrets privilege in the lawsuit brought by ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed and four others, who allege they were tortured. By Carol J. Williams The president cannot avoid trial of a lawsuit brought by five former CIA captives, who allege they were tortured, by proclaiming the [...]
by Andrea James Seattle-A restored World War II Boeing B-17 is coming to Seattle in April and will be offering flights to the public shortly after. The B-17 was nicknamed the "flying fortress" for its number of armaments. The one coming to Seattle, named "Liberty Belle," will fly over the city for the first time on [...]
Congressmen John Conyers and Jerrold Nadler have written a letter to the Attorney General requesting the appointment of a special prosecutor on torture. “While I applaud the Obama administration for releasing these torture memos in the spirit of openness and transparency, the memos’ alarming content requires further action,” opined Nadler, who chairs the House Judiceary [...]
Lawmakers approve Sebelius for the job as country deals with swine flu WASHINGTON – Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius won Senate confirmation Tuesday to serve as the nation’s health and human services secretary. She already has a public health emergency on her hands with the swine flu sickening dozens of Americans. The 65-31 vote came after [...]
By RITA BEAMISHASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER In an about-face, the government Tuesday disavowed a 12-year-old federal report that found little or no cancer risk for adults who lived on a Marine base where drinking water was contaminated for three decades. Up to 1 million people could have been exposed to toxins that seeped from a neighboring [...]
Humphrey Mechanical, Inc., Jacksonville, N.C.; MechWorks Mechanical Contractors, Inc.,* Beaufort, N.C.; North State Mechanical,Inc.,* Jacksonville, N.C.; R & W Construction Co. Inc.,* Jacksonville, N.C.; T. A. Woods Company, Wilmington, N.C.; and Virtexco Corp., Norfolk, Va., are each being awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity multiple award construction contract for mechanical construction type projects at [...]
In an effort to maintain international peace, the Allies formed the United Nations, which officially came into existence on October 24, 1945. Regardless of this though, the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union had begun to deteriorate even before the war was over, and the two powers each quickly established their own [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Chiarelli Hands Out Purple Hearts During Walter Reed’s Centennial. 2. Most Families Allowing Coverage Of Fallen US Soldiers’ Return. 3. VA Mortgages Expected To Be Considered During Housing Bill Mark Up. 4. As Swine Flu Cases Rises, VA Said To Be Ready For Pandemic. 5. Despite Protests, VA Continuing With Plans To [...]
I was never that much interested in the invasion of North Africa, Sicily, or Italy, until I met a man who participated in all three and more. Harold is now 93 years old, and I have visited his wife and him many times since our first meeting. Harold was in [...]
Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we’re far from closure By Scott Horton In the space of a week, the torture debate in America has been suddenly transformed. The Bush administration left office resting its case on the claim it did not torture. The gruesome photographs from [...]
By Congressman Ron Paul Last week the governor of Texas ignited a media firestorm for his remarks involving the idea of secession. He did not call for Texas to secede from the United States. He merely pointed out that the federal government was treading heavily on the sovereignty of the states and that this can [...]
By Dennis Prager Any human being with a functioning conscience or a decent heart loathes torture. Its exercise has been a blight on humanity. With this in mind, those who oppose what the Bush administration did to some terror suspects may be justified. But in order to ascertain whether they are, they need to respond [...]
Filed at 7:02 a.m. ET LONDON (AP) — A British jury has cleared three men of charges that they helped suicide bombers who killed 52 people on London’s transit system in 2005. Jurors at Kingston Crown Court found Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem, and Mohammed Shakil not guilty of conspiring to cause explosions with the bombers [...]
Selma Milovanovic A CROATIAN man imprisoned by Serb forces during the early 1990s has told a Sydney court of hourly beatings and torture allegedly committed on prisoners in a tiny room of a stone fortress where the inmates slept on bare, thin chipboard and were forced to urinate inside. Velibor Bracic, 41, travelled from Croatia [...]
By AMIR SHAH KABUL—Thousands of police patrolled Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, a national holiday meant to celebrate the victory of guerrilla fighters over invading Soviet forces in the 1980s. Afghan officials canceled all public events this year because of a high-profile Taliban attack on last year’s parade, which was attended by President Hamid Karzai. Last year’s [...]
by BRETT BARROUQUERE, PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) Steven Dale Green, 23, of Midland, Texas, faces more than a dozen charges, including sexual assault and four counts of murder, stemming from the March 2006 attack in Iraq’s so-called "Triangle of Death." He has pleaded not guilty to killing the 14-year-old girl, her mother, father and 6-year-old sister. [...]
Center For Constitutional Rights Last week, President Obama released four torture authorization memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under the Bush administration that devised a legal framework for the justification of the Torture Program. The memos were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the Center for Constitutional Rights [...]
Those who are so inclined are invited to read and sign the letter below: Dear Osama Bin Laden, We, the undersigned Americans, do sincerely apologize to you that our government used harsh interrogation methods, the worst being waterboarding, on three of your operatives. We’re better than that. If it’s any consolation, we have waterboarded literally thousands of [...]
Raw Story National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said Monday that Rep. Jane Harman (D-Ca.) was not wiretapped by the National Security Agency, contrary to a prior report. He declined to specify where the surveillance originated. Harman was allegedly caught by an NSA wiretap pledging to intervene in an espionage case involving Israeli lobbyists, Congressional Quarterly [...]
RAW STORY A man imprisoned after Sept. 11, 2001, as a suspected terrorist was tortured in numerous secret CIA prisons before Bush administration memos allowing the practice had even been written, according to a lawsuit filed in a Newark federal court on Thursday. "Beginning in December 2001, [Rafiq] Alhami was tortured repeatedly, the lawsuit claims," [...]
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