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Biden addresses '9/11 generation' of West Point grads
Vice President Joe Biden praised the 972 Army cadets who graduated from West Point on Saturday for their decision to join the military, “knowing full well that you were likely to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.” “Your generation,...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, Joe Biden
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Pakistan doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden sentenced
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who led a phony vaccination campaign aimed at helping the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden's whereabouts was convicted of treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a decision that is likely to...
Tags: NATO, Parties and Movements, Charity, Employees, Osama bin Laden
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Pakistani doctor who helped find Bin Laden gets 33 years in prison
World NowA Pakistani doctor who led a phony vaccination campaign aimed at helping the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts was convicted of treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a decision that is likely to further erode Washington&#... -
Obama to address Air Force Academy grads, campaign in Bay Area
President Obama plans to speak at a U.S. military service academy Wednesday, a forum he has used throughout his administration to chart an evolution in military strategy and the gradual process of withdrawal from Afghanistan. The president is scheduled...
Tags: NATO Summit, Politics, NATO, Wars and Interventions, Global Expansion
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'Battleship's' real-life soldier Greg Gadson is action tested
While promoting the movie"Battleship"in Tokyo last month,U.S. ArmyCol. Greg Gadson found himself face-to-face with a stunned reporter. "He thought I was computer-generated," said Gadson, a burly former West Point football player who walks with the aid of...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, U.S. Army, Armed Conflicts, Brooklyn Decker, Iraq
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Graduation 2012: The best -- or most notable -- advice (so far)
Dear graduates: It’s that time of year again: graduation season. Across the country, the Adults are scrambling to their lecterns and op-ed columns for one last chance to tell you what to do, despite ample evidence over the last couple of years...
Tags: Stanford University, Ernie Pyle, Steve Jobs, David Foster Wallace, Newspaper and Magazine
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Top U.S. envoy to Pakistan plans to step down this summer
World NowU.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, who has had to help navigate Washington’s uneasy alliance with Islamabad through one of its lowest points since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, plans to step down sometime this summer, U.S. officials... -
Osama bin Laden notes show a plan to overthrow Hamid Karzai
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was devising a strategy for overthrowing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and controlling Afghanistan once the U.S. left the country, said a former U.S. official familiar with the cache of notes and letters that were seized...Tags: Republican Party, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Politics, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions
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Bin Laden apparently sought operative with valid Mexican passport
World NowOsama bin Laden instructed his deputies to recruit an operative with a valid Mexican passport who could cross illegally into the United States, said a former U.S. official familiar with the trove of letters and notes seized last year from the terrorist... -
Papers portray Osama Bin Laden as struggling to manage Al Qaeda
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrom his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden struggled to manage the tentacles of his terrorist organization even as he derided it as amateurish and unfocused, according to declassified documents released Thursday. Approximately 17 letters and notes...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Yemen, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Abbottabad (Pakistan)
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How Al Qaeda rated the American media -- an 'F' for Fox
World NowFox News “falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks neutrality too.” CNN “seems to be in cooperation with the government more than others.” And “ABC channel is all right; actually it could be one of the best channels, as... -
Bin Laden ordered squads to try to attack Obama's aircraft
World NowWASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden ordered terrorist teams in mid-2010 to blow up the planes of President Obama and Gen. David H. Petraeus, then commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, when they visited Afghanistan or Pakistan, according to a declassified...
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