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10 22nd, 2010| 
AFP – Al-Jazeera on Friday released “startling new information” from US documents obtained by WikiLeaks, alleging state-sanctioned Iraqi torture and the killing of hundreds of civilians at US military checkpoints. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
22
AFP – US President Barack Obama was briefed on talks between Afghanistan’s government and what a report described Wednesday as Taliban commanders at the “highest-levels” facilitated by NATO troops. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
22
AP – A federal appeals court has frozen a judge’s order halting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, even as the Pentagon has announced it will accept openly gay recruits. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
22
AFP – Anwar al-Awlaqi, an Al-Qaeda leader labeled a dangerous threat by the United States, was invited to a luncheon at the Pentagon in the months after the 9/11 attacks, the US military said. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
21
AP – Beyond the courtroom arguments about “disrupting the troops” and “unit cohesion” are the nitty gritty details behind the Pentagon’s fight to go slow on allowing openly gay troops. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
21
AP – A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily granted the U.S. government’s request for a freeze on a judge’s order requiring the military to allow openly gay troops. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
21
AFP – Ex-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld no longer rules the Pentagon but he has launched a new operation, this time online and via Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »