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UN's top Mideast envoy says there are mounting reports of chemical weapons use in Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.'s top Mideast envoy says there are mounting reports of chemical weapons use in Syria. In response, Robert Serry says the United Nations is again urging the Syrian government to allow chemical weapons experts into...Tags: Weaponry, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Report: Bio-warfare adviser warned US of threat of new anthrax while on board of drug maker
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Anthrax, George W. Bush, GlaxoSmithKline PLC
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Michael Chertoff, National Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Anthrax
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Michael Chertoff, National Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Anthrax, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on Syria
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that Syrian forces have used lethal chemical weapons. "This is … an international problem," Obama said at a White House news...
Tags: Barack Obama, Turkey, White House, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Government
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...Tags: Barack Obama, Government, West Bank, U.S. Military, Politics
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Ed Page On Facebook: Has Syria crossed a 'red line'? Should the U.S. intervene?
The following is an abridged comment thread from http://www.facebook.com/edpagecourant. Ryan Sullivan: We need to sit this one out. We're damned if we intervene and we're damned if we don't. I think the last 10-plus years have taught us an important...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Massacres, Interior Policy, Genocide, Politics
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On Syria, Liberal Interventionism, and The Onion
Like every other college-educated urban white person, I love The Onion. Its satire sometimes feels like everything that's left of the guiding light of civilization. Yet recently I’ve noticed stories on the Syrian civil war that very much embody...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Iraq, Weaponry, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON — You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Barack Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked...Tags: Barack Obama, Military Equipment, White House, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jay Carney
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The president's walk-back: A pink line over Damascus?
WASHINGTON - You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New...
Tags: Barack Obama, Military Equipment, White House, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jay Carney
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Proposed UN resolution backs political transition in Syria, condemns regime; Brahimi to stay
Associated PressUNITED NATIONS (AP) — An Arab-backed resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and strongly condemning the regime's escalating use of heavy weapons and "gross violations" of human rights was circulated Thursday to the U.N. General...Tags: Russia, Ban Ki-moon, France, China, Politics
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While U.S. hesitates, Syria's catastrophe grows
President Barack Obama said the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line," be a "game changer" and possibly change his opinion about intervening to halt President Bashar Assad's slaughter of civilians in Syria. Reports from NATO, other...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, NATO, Weaponry, Bashar Assad
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May 15, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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