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'Blackwater' Defense Firm To Pay Huge Fine For Illegal Trade Violations In Sudan
The military contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide agreed to pay a fine of $5 million to $7.5 million for trying to operate in Sudan in violation of trade sanctions and for other...
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10 Famous People Who Moonlighted As Spies
For some of these big-name personalities, spying taught them the skills that made them famous; for others, being famous made them the perfect spies.Roald Dahl Long before he wrote Charlie and the...
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NSA: Revealing Our Spying Methods Would Cause 'Grave Damage To National...
The National Security Agency is claiming immunity from an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit that argues warrantless wiretapping violates the rights of U.S. citizens, Philip Janquart of Courthouse...
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Afghan Police Instructor Opens Up About Insider Attacks
It was an American instructor who took each small group of officers through their practical paces at the police academy, attended by a police officer now serving in Kabul, teaching them everything...
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Air Force Chief Will Meet With Lockheed Martin Execs Over F-35 Problems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top officer in the Air Force on Tuesday joined other Pentagon officials in raising questions about the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 program, saying the cost of building and...
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The Military Is Preparing For Zombocalypse: So Should You
A recent report out of the Marine Times diagrams how a company named HALO Corp. decided to include a Zombie Apocalypse portion in their yearly Counterterrorism Brief next month. In attendance at the...
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The Only Surprise Is That There Aren't More Violent Protests In The Middle East
Eleven years after it began, Nato's occupation of Afghanistan is crumbling. The US decision to suspend joint Afghan-Nato operations in response to a wave of attacks by Afghan soldiers and police on...
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Crowd Attacks The US Ambassador In Beijing
A crowd of around 50 Chinese protesters surrounded the official car of the United States ambassador in Beijing, who escaped unharmed, a State department spokesman said. The melee occurred outside the...
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Colombia Has Arrested 'The Last Of The Great' Drug Lords
Colombia has said that Daniel "El Loco" Barrera, alleged to be the country's last major drug lord, had been caught in neighboring Venezuela in an international sting led from Washington. "The last of...
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China's Next Leader Accuses Japan Of 'Farce'
Xi Jinping, the recently missing Chinese leader expected to become the country's next President, has issued some stern words of warning for Japan during a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon...
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Syrian Regime 'Will Deploy Chemical Weapons As Last Resort'
The Syrian regime plans to deploy chemical weapons against its own people "as a last resort", the former head of Syria's chemical arsenal has said in an interview with a British newspaper....
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ACLU Is Fighting The CIA In Court Over A 'Secret' Drone Program
The American Civil Liberties Union will be in court Thursday to argue the CIA has to hand over information about its "secret" drone program because senior officials have openly acknowledged its...
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Graphic Novel Tells The Forgotten Story Of Hitler's 'Devil's Children'
The allied forces called them "The Devil's Children," and they were one of the most feared Nazi units on the battlefield. That's one of the things I learned reading "Normandy: A Graphic History Of...
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I'm Fifty Miles Off The Coast Of Iran On A US Aircraft Carrier And It's...
Heading north on the aircraft carrier Eisenhower about 50 miles off the coast of Iran, it's very easy to forget the problems with Tehran and its nuclear program. For several months Iran has been...
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Burning American Flag Kills Pakistani Protestor
His name was Abdullah Ismail, and he was down for the cause when he partook in Anti-American protests while his compadres applied fire to flag. Now he's down ... forever. Pakistan's own The Express...
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Senate Republicans Just Enraged A Lot Of US Veterans
It's a one billion dollar expansion of government. That's certainly one way the unanimous Republican "no" voters will cast the "Veterans Jobs Corps Bill" in their subsequent appearances on Fox News....
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Here's One Reason To Doubt The New Fast & Furious Report That Exonerates Eric...
The Justice Department "found no evidence" that Attorney General Eric Holder knew before January 2011 of the "inappropriate tactics" used in Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, according to a report...
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Congressmen High-Fived After Blocking A Military Pay Raise, And Then Arrested...
Back in May 2011, a motion to raise the pay of veterans in combat, otherwise known as "combat pay," by $180 per month met with a resounding, majority "No!" from House Congressmen. But that wasn't even...
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Looking At How Effective The 30,000 Troops Obama Sent In His 2009 Afghanistan...
As the Middle East erupted in violent protests two weeks ago, US efforts in Afghanistan sunk to new depths. There hasn’t been much good news out of Afghanistan since March 2003, but last week was...
View ArticleThis Is What It Looks Like When A 20-Ton Mine Resistant Vehicle Fails A Brake...
The military's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) has become a ubiquitous mainstay among those troops traveling bomb-laced roads in Afghanistan. The MRAP is renowned for it's protective...
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