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Canada
The Canadian government Monday formally adopted a federal emergency response plan covering natural disasters to terror attacks.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made the announcement in Ottawa, saying his department will coordinate large-scale emergencies among other federal departments, provincial and local authorities.
The plan outlines responses to manmade and natural disasters, including floods, forest fires, pandemics, power [...]
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US presses Israel on settler row
BBC
The US has said it is awaiting a “formal” response from Israel amid a row over its decision to build 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel angered the US by announcing the move during a visit by Vice-President Joe Biden aimed at backing peace talks.
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Diego Garcia
“It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we heard prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.”
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government [...]
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Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI/NYT
KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States.
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Spy Takes US/Israeli Secrets to Grave
Published on The Smirking Chimp (http://www.smirkingchimp.com)
By Robert Parry
Last week’s death of Israeli spymaster David Kimche – and the omissions in his obituaries about his most sensitive operations, especially those regarding the United States – are a reminder of how much crucial history is being lost as key figures from this era take [...]
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Millions Skimmed from $150 Billion Iraq Rebuilding Program
James Glanz/The New York Times
Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 cases during the past six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions made by some of the Americans involved in the $150 billion rebuilding program.
Some of the cases involve people suspected of mailing tens of thousands [...]
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US: Katrina
The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come.
Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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U.S. citizen accused in Yemen killing had been under FBI watch
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 13, 2010; A02
Sharif Mobley, a U.S. citizen accused of killing a hospital guard in Yemen, is believed to be a homegrown radical who left this country to make direct contact with al-Qaeda, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials, making him the latest in a string of such suspects.
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U.S. man arrested in Yemen worked in nuclear plants
Reuters/By Mohamed Sudam and Scott DiSavino Mohamed Sudam And Scott Disavino – Fri Mar 12, 6:17 pm ET
SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at [...]
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Iran and Pakistan sign ‘historic’ pipeline deal