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Blasts Interrupt CNN Interview With Gaza Strip Resident

CNN was hosting an interview with a Gaza Strip resident and an Israeli who lives within the range of Hamas missiles yesterday when the interview was apparently interrupted by a series of loud...

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This Soldier Was Lost In Iraq, And So Was His Casualty Report

The day after Jim Butler learned his son had died in Iraq in 2003, a U.S. Army casualty officer showed up at the family's small ranch to explain what happened.Your son was hit by a rocket-propelled...

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ISRAELI SOLDIER: Here's What Will Happen If Hamas Keeps Firing Rockets

An Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier who has served for the last 3 years and will be discharged in January went on Reddit and answered questions about the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.The...

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Taliban Accidentally Reveals All The Addresses On Its Email List

In what is perhaps one of the most embarrassing, potentially lethal online faux pas in recent memory, a Taliban spokesperson accidentally forgot to conceal the identity of everyone on its email list...

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This One Plane Has Been Delivering Top Notch US Intel For More Than 60 Years

When the U-2 "Dragon Lady" debuted in 1957 it was an astonishing piece of technological achievement.Able to fly reconnaissance from more than 13-miles above the earth, gather data through all weather...

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An Israeli Reader Takes Us Inside A Tel Aviv Bomb Shelter

Israel and Gaza have been trading blows for a few days now, and there have been many reports of air raid sirens in Tel Aviv.What we at Business Insider here learned, is that many modern Israeli...

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Missing War Records Are Complicating Benefit Claims For Veterans

A strange thing happened when Christopher DeLara filed for disability benefits after his tour in Iraq: The U.S. Army said it had no records showing he had ever been overseas.DeLara had searing memories...

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Hamas Rocket Fired Toward Jerusalem Prompts Fierce Israeli Reaction

Israel vowed to intensify its Gaza offensive, dubbed "Operation Pillar of Cloud," after Hamas fired rockets that landed near both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The rocket fired at Jerusalem—the first since...

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Israel Air Strikes Hit Hamas Prime Minister's Headquarters

Soldiers deploy along Gaza's border after Israel's cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing the ground for a possible ground invasion, as air force strikes continue to...

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One Lesser-Known Reason Petraeus Had To Resign

When he admitted having an extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, CIA Director David Petraeus, as a senior civilian in the presidential chain of command should something go catastrophically wrong in...

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Iran Says The Muslim World Must Strike Back At Israel For Gaza Attacks

Islamic countries must close ranks and respond to Israel's deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran's Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday."Putting an end to the Zionist (Israeli) regime's...

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Paper-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets In Their Tracks

If researchers from Rice University and MIT have their way, the super soldier of the future will be outfitted in razor-thin armor that's impervious to bullets. The team of mechanical engineers and...

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36 Incredible Hours On The USS Eisenhower

The U.S. currently has 11 aircraft carriers that hold about 5,600 sailors and aviators apiece. While not all of them are deployed at the same time, the ones at home are training, undergoing...

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Israel Bombs Media Buildings In Gaza

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza early Sunday morning wounded at least eight journalists, Agence France-Presse reports.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that the targets included "a communications...

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GILAD SHARON: Israel Needs To Crush Gaza Once And For All

Gilad Sharon, the son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, takes a hard line in the Jerusalem Post with respect to the latest conflict between Israel and Gaza: Israel needs to completely wipe out...

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Obama Supporters Turn On Him For His Support Of Israel

All the people who two weeks ago were ecstatically cheering the re-election of Barack Obama are now having paroxysms of fury over Israel. Where the blogs, Twitterfeeds and daily conversations of these...

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US Military Battling To Stay In Afghanistan Past 2014

Afghanistan and the US have opened talks to keep American troops in the country after most Nato forces go home in 2014, but the thorny question of immunity for American soldiers, which in effect ended...

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Go Ahead And Laugh, But Yoga Changed The Way I Work Out After The War

Before the war I worked out to Metallica. Battery, Master of Puppets, and Hero of the Day, helped me disregard the screaming of my muscles and work harder.At the gym at Forward Operating Base (FOB)...

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Crowds Of Israelis Are Showing Up To Cheer On The Iron Dome System

There is a new attraction in Tel Aviv, drawing crowds of cheering supporters. It is Israel's fifth Iron Dome battery, whose deployment was accelerated at the weekend to position it in the south of the...

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Egypt's President Morsi: 'Truce Between Gaza And Israel Coming Soon'

President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt is saying that a truce between Israel and Gaza is on the horizon, Al Arabiya reports.Morsi has been closely related with talks between Hamas in Gaza and Israeli...

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