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An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.
Iraq   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war		  The Guardian 
Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war
Tue 21 May 2013
Ability of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain crisis may hinge on events beyond his control Sectarian struggle ... an Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah, a... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013.
Defence   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan		  WorldNews.com 
Justice in the Age of Drone Terror
Tue 21 May 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue without terror is fatal; terror... (photo: US Navy / Alan Radecki courtesy Northrop Grumman)
As a Blackhawak helicopter rumbles overhead, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter speaks with BGen Ron Lewis, right, at Gambrei during a visit to forward bases in Afghanistan, May 13, 2013.  CounterPunch  Mon 20 May 2013
Al Qaeda: Enemy or Asset?
A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied the allegations yet gone to... (photo: US DoD / Glenn Fawcett)
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U.S. Army Spc. Joseph Gonzalez, security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, maintains security during a meeting with the Farah provincial chief justice in Farah City, May 4, 2013.  Khaleej Times  Mon 20 May 2013
End the ‘forever’ war
There’s no point in engaging in a perpetual global war on terror From both the left and the right, three common misper-ceptions have emerged about US foreign policy: First, that the Global War on... (photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives)
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An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, 14 May, 2013. Al Jazeera Wed 15 May 2013
US navy launches carrier-borne drone
A drone the size of a fighter jet has taken off from the deck of an US aircraft carrier for the first time in a test flight that could eventually open the way for... (photo: US Navy / MCS2 Tony D. Curtis)
Defence   Pentagon   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Northrop Grumman X-47B
File - A detainee looks through a stack of magazines at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo. San Francisco Chronicle Tue 14 May 2013
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. "I believe that... (photo: US Navy / MCS3 Joshua Nistas)
Guantanamo   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
22nd Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates addresses audience members at his portrait unveiling ceremony at the Pentagon, Oct. 29, 2012. The New York Times Sun 12 May 2013
Gates Worries About Escalation of Korean Tension
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Pentagon chief says he worries that North Korea's young leader and his generals don't realize there's been a "dramatic change"... (photo: US DoD / U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)
Defense   NKorea   Photos   Wikipedia: Robert Gates   Politics
In this Wednesday, April 17, 2013 file photo, investigators comb through the scene of one of the blast sites of the Boston Marathon explosions in Boston. WorldNews.com Wed 8 May 2013
Self-Radicalization as the American Dream
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "In America you have a right to be stupid-if you want to be. And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if... (photo: AP / Julio Cortez)
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File - U.S. Army Spc. Amanda Vasquez, with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, renders a salute during the presentation of the colors at "Fight Night for Heroes," the first ever mixed martial arts fights held in Iraq, at Forward Operating Base Marez, in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 5, 2009. The State Wed 8 May 2013
Obama urges prosecution, courts-martial for sexual assaults in military
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered a blistering rebuke of sexual assaults in the military Tuesday, saying perpetrators are “betraying the uniform... (photo: US Army)
Crime   Pentagon   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Sexual assault in the United States military
File - U. S. Marine Corps First Lt. Lee Tyler Robertson, officer in charge, Embedded Training Team 2, Border Advisory Team 2, stands watch outside an Afghan compound while Afghan Border Police search the compound and detain two men suspected of being members of the Taliban during operation Eagle Hunt, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 19, 2011. WorldNews.com Tue 7 May 2013
Hell in a Very Large Place
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When it was announced that the Taliban in Afghanistan had again launched another spring offensive against U.S. forces, the... (photo: USMC / Cpl Daniel Wulz)
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The President of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Karzai meeting the President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on May 21, 2013. Karzai expected to seek Indian military aid Herald Tribune
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center. Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns Al Jazeera
Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt speaks during his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Guatemalan court overturns Rios Montt genocide conviction France24
A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as half a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday. 91 dead in Oklahoma tornado include at least 20 children; toll expected to rise The Dallas Morning News
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President Barack Obama arrives at a rally for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Thursday, July 16, 2009, in Holmdel, N.J. Is Obama's Government Too Big To Succeed? Business Insider
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel takes questions from reporters on the recently announced DoD Sexual Assault Prevention Initiatives and the results of the fiscal 2012 annual report on sexual assault in the military during a press conference in the Pentagon Briefing Room. Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention The Guardian
File - A detainee prepares for the mid-day meal at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo. Granting Sanctuary, Gaining Amnesty WorldNews.com
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