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11 8th, 2009| 
AFP – The chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas’ Fort Hood military base was an act of “Islamist extremism.” Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AFP – Investigators probing the massacre of 13 people at a Texas army base were Sunday trying to piece together the motive behind the shooting believed to be the act of a lone army gunman. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AFP – The USS New York, an amphibious transport ship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, was commissioned in a solemn ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AFP – A top US army officer said on Sunday he did not have confidence in a hand-held device used by Iraq’s security forces to detect explosives and stop suicide bombers passing through checkpoints. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AFP – Tens of thousands of Okinawan residents rallied Sunday against a US military base on the island, raising the heat in a simmering row days before US President Barack Obama is due in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AP – One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man’s weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation’s worst killing spree on a military base. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AFP – US President Barack Obama will Tuesday attend a memorial service here to honor victims of the wild shooting rampage on the military base in which 13 people died, the White House said. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
8
AFP – The USS New York, an amphibious transport ship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, was commissioned here Saturday in a solemn ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »