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Assad's last stand
Syria's 20-month-long civil war appears to be approaching a tipping point as fighting around Damascus intensifies amid signs that President Bashar Assad's grip on power may be weakening. As the final phase in the long conflict apparently draws nearer, the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Biological and Chemical Weapons, U.S. Military, United Nations, Rebellions
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Marine brig officials grilled about Bradley Manning's jailing
former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a psychiatrist determined that wasn't necessary, as lawyers for the soldier at the center of the WikiLeaks case...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, WikiLeaks, Prisons, Suicide, Lawyers
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Manning held improperly in brig, Marine official testifies
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines'...
Tags: Witnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, WikiLeaks, Armed Forces, Suicide
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Sequestration cuts would embolden Iran to build the bomb
While many have persuasively argued that the fiscal cliff defense cuts would hurt innovation and slow our economic recovery, few offer concrete examples of how these catastrophic cuts would endanger our national security. Iran's drive to acquire nuclear...Tags: Weaponry, Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Iran, Missile Systems
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Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says
Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...
Tags: Breastfeeding, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Harford County, Medical Procedures and Tests, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Bradley Manning deserves to be set free
Finally, the trial of the century made the front page of The Sun ("Accused WikiLeaker to ask for dismissal," Nov. 26). I will join others outside the main gate to Fort Meade to show support for the whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning during his latest...Tags: Bradley Manning, Daniel Ellsberg
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Curtis B. Reiber, Army officer
Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77.
The son of a DuPont Co. worker and a homemaker, Curtis Brooks Reiber was born in Centre Hall, Pa., and...Tags: Iran, Melbourne, Defense, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Anglicanism
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Defense bill includes provision for space contractors
A little-noticed provision in a massive, $633 billion military spending bill approved by Congress last week will end a decade-old battle over whether to ease export restrictions on U.S. satellite technology. If signed by President Barack Obama, the...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Defense, National Defense Authorization Act, Satellite Technology
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Judge accepts terms of Manning's proposed plea
A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which an Army private would plead guilty to seven charges for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks. Col. Denise Lind ruled during the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc....
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, WikiLeaks, Prisons, Photography and Video, Medical Specialization
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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: WikiLeaks, Barack Obama, Amnesty International, United Nations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Hunting for savings in military spending
A pair of reports critical of military spending — on items as diverse as health care and dried meat — are part of the latest round of scrutiny of the Defense Department's budget as the fiscal cliff approaches. The nonpartisan Congressional...Tags: Barack Obama, Defense, Rentals, Inflation and Deflation, Government
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