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Meet The Marines, Special Agents And Others Who Protect US Diplomats
Following the wave of unrest in the Muslim world, and the deaths of four Americans, there was furious debate: What caused the unrest? Who is responsible for security? Why don't we have heavy weapons...
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Social Media Monitoring May Have Stopped A Vet From Going On A Shooting Spree...
Sometimes the simple action of reading can save a veteran’s life. This is the story of a volunteer who did so much with very little. Deb Boyce is a volunteer with GallantFew, Inc., an organization...
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This 21-Year-Old Marine Predicted He Would Die At The Hands Of Afghan...
A 21-year-old Marine who was killed by an Afghan trainee had previously told his father that he would be killed inside his base, David Ariosto of CNN reports. Lance Corporal Greg Buckley Jr. trained...
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A Woman In Ohio Allegedly Stole $7,500 From Her Son While He Was Serving In...
Police have arrested a woman in Ohio for allegedly stealing $7,500 from her son between the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011 while he was serving with the army in Afghanistan and Iraq. The...
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This Graph Shows Just How Deadly The Fighting In Syria Has Become For Civilians
With over 4,000 deaths in August alone, Syria has quickly become the most deadly of the Arab uprisings which spread across Africa and the Middle East in the last two years, according to PBS. Dubbed,...
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Go Inside The Jumbo Jet That Carries 172,000 Pound Space Shuttles
This week NASA's space shuttle Endeavour will leave Kennedy Space Center in Florida and be flown to its new permanent home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on the back of a specially...
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Why US Embassies Look Like Fortresses
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo is an unusual building. For one thing, as you can see in the center photo above, it’s over 10 stories high -- most embassies are much shorter. For another, it’s right in the...
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New Evidence Supports Claims Of 'Pharmacologic Torture' At Guanánamo
Witness testimony that was to be used in court by former Guantánamo detainee David Hicks suggests that prisoners were repeatedly drugged as part of the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation,"...
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Human Rights Group Says Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing the Syrian opposition of violating human rights laws and committing war crimes during the 18-month long civil war. They claimed that, "armed opposition groups have...
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Iranians Discovered A Fake Rock Spy Device, Which Exploded When They Tried To...
An Iranian security patrol of Revolutionary Guards were checking data and telephone links when they stumbled upon what was allegedly a piece of Israeli, British or American intelligence equipment. A...
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Drone Pilots Say Their Job Is Not Like A Video Game
The unmanned aircraft patrolling the skies above Afghanistan are controlled by pilots sitting in front of screens as far as 7,000 miles away. Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan is reckoned to...
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US State Department Attacks CNN For Doing Basic Journalism
Three days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in Benghazi, Libya, CNN found a seven-page handwritten journal he had written. That journal, found on the floor of what CNN called "the largely...
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China Plans To Begin Using Drones To Monitor Disputed Islands By 2015
China is planning to begin using "unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" or drones by 2015, according to the state news agency Xinhua. The announcement was made by State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on...
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The Marines Got A Lesson In What Real Heat Looks Like
FDNY Firefighter Tommy "T-Bone" Bohn talks about fire like it's a living thing. Right now he's talking about the "Flash Over" simulator. Skip To The Pictures > "So the flames, they'll be up near...
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Iran Is Practicing Mining At The Same Time As The US Practices Minesweeping
Iran’s fast boats have practiced placing mines in the Caspian Sea while the U.S. Navy practices sweeping them up in the Persian Gulf in a show of brinksmanship between the two countries as tensions...
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EXPERT: If You Were At Occupy Wall Street, Your Phone Was Probably Surveyed
Surveyed, as in, if it wasn't shut off, the NYPD skimmed or "surveyed" most of your information, really your identity and all that goes along with it, straight off your phone. A leading privacy...
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Iran Test-Fires Missiles At Target Near US Naval Drills
Iran has test-fired four missiles in the Persian Gulf, according to an Iranian news agency. The report quoted General Ali Fadavi of the Revolutionary Guard as saying the missiles were fired...
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Japanese Fire Water Cannon At Invading Taiwanese Ships
As many as 50 Taiwanese fishing boats entered territorial waters that Japan claims around the Senkaku Islands on Tuesday, a further escalation of the territorial dispute on the day that China put its...
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Generals: We're Tired Of Fat American Children
A group called 'Mission: Readiness' recently released a new report, titled "Still Too Fat To Fight." The report, signed off on by several hundred military retirees, argues that of the 75 percent of...
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More Evidence That Drones Are Targeting Civilian Rescuers In Afghanistan
New research from the NYU School of Law and Stanford Law School details how U.S. drones employ a tactic, known as the "double tap," that is considered to be a terrorist act by the U.S. government. The...
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