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By Kathleen M. Howley
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May 27 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Jeffrey VerSteegh, who repairs F-16 jets for the 132nd Fighter Wing, departed Des Moines, Iowa, in April for his third tour in Iraq. The father of four may lose his home when he returns.
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David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday May 28, 2008
President Bush’s onetime lapdog has decided to unleash his bark — and more than a few bites — in a scathing new tell-all about the deceptive inner workings of the White House.
Casting aside more than a decade of loyalty, former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan has blown the [...]
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Ministers overrule opposition from military over controversial weapons
Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian
An unexploded US Blu 24 bomblet - which has come from a cluster bomb - in northern Laos. Photograph: Barbara Walton/EPA
The government is preparing to scrap Britain’s entire arsenal of cluster bombs in the face of a growing clamour against weapons that have killed and maimed [...]
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By ALAN COWELL
PARIS — Sixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report that again urged the United States to close down the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
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ALLISON HOFFMAN
AP News
May 28, 2008 04:32 EST
Security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has gone to court to try to force San Diego to issue permits the company needs to open a new indoor military training facility in the city.
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Published on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Source: Press TV
Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says Washington has founded its Iran policy on ‘paranoia’ and ‘demagogy’.
“The widely propagated notion of a suicidal Iran detonating its very first nuclear weapon against Israel is more the product of paranoia or demagogy than of serious strategic calculus. It cannot [...]
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Asia Times is reporting that “a retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community” are alleging that the Bush administration “plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months” :
The source, a retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state [...]
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Tue May 27, 6:54 PM
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday dismissed Israeli demands that Syria abandon an alliance with Iran as a requirement for a peace deal.
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by Michael Mainville
Mon May 26, 9:42 AM ET
The UN concluded in a report Monday that a Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane last month, boosting Tbilisi’s claims of Russian military interference on its territory.
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Published: Monday May 26, 2008
Asked at a news conference at Wales’s Hay literary festival on Sunday how a future U.S. president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons held globally.
We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write fuck on their airplanes because it’s obscene…Kurtz
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