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    Jun 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides

    Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital.
    Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...

    Tags: Armed Forces, University of Utah, Methamphetamine (drug), Afghanistan, Psychiatrists

    2. May 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war

    WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors.
    WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...

    Tags: FBI, Islam, U.S. Military, Religious Conflicts, Pakistan

    3. May 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested.
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....

    Tags: Armed Forces, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Government

    4. Apr 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Global Voices: Author reflects on thwarted Afghanistan invasions

    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Nowhere has that admonishment by 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke been ignored with such disastrous consequences as in Afghanistan. The imperial British...

    Tags: Hemorrhaging, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Government, Wars and Interventions

    5. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination

    Sen. <a href="#" data-topic-id="PEPLT007915">Rand Paul</a> (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of <a href="#" data-topic-id="PECLB000652">John Brennan</a>&rsquo;s nomination to lead the <a href="#" data-topic-id="ORGOV000009">CIA</a>. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the <a href="#" data-topic-id="PLCUL000110">White House</a>'s policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and ending at 12:39 a.m. EST Thursday.
    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...

    Tags: Laws, Peanut Butter, Golf, England, Networking

    6. Feb 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Civilian deaths in war in Afghanistan drop for first time in 6 years

    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan dropped in 2012 for the first time in six years, a sign of lessening hostilities, but insurgents dramatically expanded their campaign of assassinating government supporters, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan dropped in 2012 for the first time in six years, a sign of lessening hostilities, but insurgents dramatically expanded their campaign of assassinating government supporters, the United...

    Tags: Afghanistan, NATO, Murder, Wars and Interventions, United Nations

    7. Feb 12, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript

    Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:
    Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...

    Tags: Labor Legislation, Laws, IBM, Travel Alerts, Joe Lieberman

    8. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Former Californian gets Medal of Honor for valor in Afghanistan

    <span style="font-size: small;">A former Californian was awarded the nation&rsquo;s highest military honor on Monday for his efforts against a 2009 Taliban attack on his Afghanistan outpost that U.S. officials have described as tactically indefensible.</span>
    A former Californian was awarded the nation’s highest military honor on Monday for his efforts against a 2009 Taliban attack on his Afghanistan outpost that U.S. officials have described as tactically indefensible. Former Staff Sgt. Clinton...

    Tags: Petroleum Industry, Apples, Heroism, Pakistan, Afghanistan

    9. Jan 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. British soldier in Afghanistan victim of apparent 'inside' attack

    KABUL, Afghanistan -- A British soldier was shot and killed when a man believed to be a member of the Afghan National Army turned his weapon on foreign troops and his Afghan colleagues in a restive southern province, officials said Tuesday.
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- A British soldier was shot and killed when a man believed to be a member of the Afghan National Army turned his weapon on foreign troops and his Afghan colleagues in a restive southern province, officials said Tuesday. Monday&...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Armed Forces, Science and Technology, United Kingdom, Hamid Karzai

    10. Nov 11, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. 20-year-old soldier who lost arm and foot refuses to quit

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    Pfc. Geoffrey Quevedo, who lost an arm and foot in Afghanistan, refuses to give up. "I don't want to be treated like a baby by American society," he says....
    11. Sep 12, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Afghan leader rips film tied to Libya attack, raising fears of violence

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    President Hamid Karzai condemned an American-made film that crudely mocks Islam, galvanizing fears among Westerners that the Afghan leader's denunciation could be read as a go-ahead to stage violent protests....
    12. Sep 26, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  12. Abderrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera's U.S. translator

    How do you convey to the world the American ideal of free speech or curious turns of phrase like "stump speech" and "gerrymandering"? Abderrahim Foukara does it daily, as Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Washington. I first met the Moroccan-born journalist at the 2008 Republican convention, where he told me that he had explained John McCain as "maverick" to his Arab-language audiences as a bird that flies a distance from the flock. Now, at a parlous moment in the relationship between there and here, I asked the man who reports U.S. thinking to the Arab world to do some illuminating in the other direction.
    How do you convey to the world the American ideal of free speech or curious turns of phrase like "stump speech" and "gerrymandering"? Abderrahim Foukara does it daily, as Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Washington. I first met the Moroccan-born journalist at...

    Tags: Radio, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Islam, BBC

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