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Marine Col. James Sabow: coverup questions surface again
CSMonitor/BLN
Col. James Sabow was a Marine officer who was found dead in 1991 at his home at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Calif.
A number of official investigations have concluded that Sabow committed suicide. Members of his family have long insisted this to be untrue and say that Sabow was murdered because he knew of [...]
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Puerto Rico
A White House task force on Puerto Rico’s ties with the United States heard from islanders across the political spectrum Wednesday at a hearing that tapped into deep emotions surrounding a decades-old debate.
U.S. Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, a task force co-chairman, said the meeting was meant to gather opinions on what role the [...]
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Sharks
113 nations have signed on to conserve migratory shark species. This is being heralded as a landmark decision.
On the flip side we have seen this kind of thing before.
Nations banding together to work long ranging plans for animal conservation and who fall foul to enforcement issues or internal pressures from commercial fishing interests.
In short, while [...]
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Minot AFB prepares for biological and chemical attacks
Tina Redlup/BioPrepWatch
Via: http://www.legitgov.org/
Minot Air Force Base has completed a 48 hour training exercise, dubbed Prairie Night 10-1, to ensure that members of its 5th Bomb Wing are prepared in the event of a biological or chemical attack if deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Prairie Knight Exercise 10-1 at Minot Air Force Base
Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs
Via: http://www.legitgov.org/
2/9/2010 – MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — The 5th Bomb Wing launches a 48-hour exercise today to test the wing’s safe, secure, credible and reliable capabilities in preparation for an August conventional operational readiness inspection.
Totally Occupied: 700 Military Bases Spread Across Afghanistan
Nick Turse/Tomdispatch
In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling facilities. In December 2009, at this site in the Shinwar district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, U.S. troops joined members of the Afghan National Army in preparing the way for the next round [...]
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Israel
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009.
The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at ambulances in the West Bank and Gaza last year, killing one medical worker and wounding 10 more.
The PRCS also said that [...]
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Accused colonel’s past in Manitoba to be probed
Unsolved disappearance of woman in 1992 could be examined
CBC
Col. Russell Williams, centre, speaks to Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk, left, and Defence Minister Peter MacKay during a visit to CFB Trenton on Jan. 17. (Combat Camera)
The investigation into a military commander charged with murder in the deaths of two women will extend to [...]
Fort Lewis soldier charged with abusing 4-year-old over alphabet lesson
Susan Gilmore/Seattle Times
A Fort Lewis soldier has been charged with assault after he allegedly held his 4-year-old daughter mostly underwater because she couldn’t recite the alphabet. Charging papers equated the technique to torture.
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