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Engagement in the shadow of many detainees

19 hours ago ago from Arab News Blog

Swiss intermediaries have told American officials that Iranian authorities have presented a list of Iranians believed held by the U.S. when asked for the release on humanitarian grounds of three American hikers who accidentally wandered into Iran while hiking on unmarked trails in Kurdish Iraq July 31. A Tehran prosecutor said that Shane Bauer, 27, Joshua Fattal, 27, and Sarah Shourd, 31, would be charged with espionage last month, but it's ...

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Conspiracy Theory show on TruTv covers 9/11 Truth

5 hours ago ago from America 20XY

9/11 Blogger 12/10/09 This week, Jesse Ventura, takes on America's most controversial Conspiracy Theory : The attacks of Sept 11 th , 2001, when nearly 3,000 people were killed as the result of four hijacked planes. According to the official 9/11 Commission Report, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history was caused by 19 men, with ties to al-Qaeda, who set off a series of coordinated suicide attacks. Two planes crashed into ...

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Defense Secretary Gates Arrives in Iraq

13 hours ago ago from Aegee Nis Devil Paradise

U.S. Aegis Secretary Robert Gates flew to Iraq on Thursday to activate the additional leg of his bout of two above war zones.Gates' appointment to Iraq comes during a anniversary in which accommodating Baghdad bombings accept dead 127 bodies and blood-soaked added than 500. Al Qaeda's awning accumulation in Iraq claimed albatross Thursday for the bombings and warned of added strikes to appear adjoin the Iraqi government.Pentagon agent Geoff ...

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Copenhagen Update: Dec. 9, 2009

21 hours ago ago from Carbonfund.org BlogĀ» Climate Change News & Information

Emissions are emissions. You've just got to do the math. It's not a matter of politics or morality or anything else. It's just math. - US State Department envoy Todd Stern As the U.N. Climate talks in Copenhagen heat up, some predictable arguments are starting to play out in real time. There are still major questions as to whether an agreement is going to be reached, and moreover how that agreement should look and function. Tensions ...

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U.S. charm offensive at Copenhagen climate conference: Will it work?

18 hours ago ago from Greenhoof

by Keith Schneider COPENHAGEN Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, pushed through a crush of visitors at the U.S. Center late this morning, stepped to the podium in front of a packed meeting room, and became the first of President Obama's senior advisors to appear at the U.N. Climate Change Conference specifically to make the case that the United States is assuming its share of the ...

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Gates arrives in Baghdad for unannounced visit

7 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.

BAGHDAD -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived Thursday for an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital, whose residents are still reeling from a series of bombings Tuesday that killed more than 100 people. Gates flew to Baghdad directly from Kabul, where he spent two days briefing commanders and military units on the administration's recently announced plan to flood Afghanistan with 30,000 new troops. Gates also met with Afghan ...

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Gates: US to be Afghan partner for long time

11 hours ago ago from PopEater

KABUL -Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday told about a dozen of Afghanistan's senior military officials that the U.S. will be their partner for a long time despite plans to begin pulling troops out in 2011. He spoke at Kabul airport, where the Afghan generals were en route to a meeting with U.S. officials in the southern city of Kandahar. There, the officers were to learn operational details from the U.S. about its plans to send ...

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Court: Ex-UN ambassador for Bosnia can stay in US

22 hours ago ago from FanHouse

NEW YORK -A U.S. citizen who served as Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations cannot be extradited even though he is accused of embezzling more than $610,000 from the government of the war-torn Balkan nation, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a loss for U.S. prosecutors and overturns a decision ordering that Muhamed Sacirbey, 53, be returned to Bosnia to face questioning about ...

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Obama: Peace is goal, but war sometimes justified

6 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com

OSLO, Norway - President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners with humble words today, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious prize to "reach for the world that ought to be." A wartime president honored for peace, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever to win the prize - some say prematurely. In ...

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