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10 Fascinating Details In 'Zero Dark Thirty' -- Business InsiderWe checked out 'Zero Dark Thirty' yesterday hoping to learn more about the 11-year hunt for Osama bin Laden (OBL). (Read our review here.)The filmmakers had considerable access to people with knowledge of the manhunt, and their goal was to "be as accurate as we possibly could" without...

UN Backs Mali Intervention Force To Oust Rebels -- BBCThe UN Security Council has authorised an African-led military force to try to oust Islamists from northern Mali.The council unanimously voted to give the force an initial one-year mandate.The resolution also sets "benchmarks"...

SHIP-TO-SHOREMarines watch the USS Iwo Jima off the coast of Onslow Beach in Camp Lejeune, N.C., as Marines and sailors conduct ship-to-shore operations, Dec. 18, 2012. About 2,300 Marines and sailors returned home after being deployed for nine months as an expeditionary crisis response...

DoDPanetta Says His Dog, Unlike Petraeus, Proved Soul of Discretion -- BloombergDefense Secretary Leon Panetta today suggested his dog Bravo turned out to be a better keeper of secrets than David Petraeus, who resigned in disgrace as CIA director last month after acknowledging a...

2013 Outlook: Budget Cuts Will Hammer Industry -- Natinoal DefenseThe Defense Department and its contractors are still hopeful for an 11th hour deal that will shield the Pentagon from a 10 percent budget cut in 2013. But even if Defense is spared from the sequester, the business...

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta delivers remarks during a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2012. DOD photo by Glenn FawcettPanetta Reassures Defense Employees -- Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON—After months of warning that the looming across-the-board cuts...

House Approves Part of Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ Legislation That Would Cancel Defense Sequester -- Defense NewsThe U.S. House on Dec. 20 approved part of House Speaker John Boehner’s so-called fiscal “Plan B” measure that would cancel pending deep defense cuts and protect the Pentagon...

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comLetter From Mexican Ambassador Dampens Hope For Early Release Of Jon Hammar -- FOX NewsAny hope that Jon Hammar, the Marine imprisoned in Mexico on a disputed gun charge, might be freed in time for Christmas has apparently been dashed by a terse letter a top Mexican diplomat sent to Hammar’s congresswoman.The...

The members of the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 Scots), flew back to Edinburgh three months earlier than initially plannedWe're Coming Home! Joy Of Hero Troops Flying Back From Helmand Three Months Early To Be With Their Families For Christmas...

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comState Department Official Suggests Libya Warnings Went To The Top -- FOX NewsWashington – A top State Department official acknowledged Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound in Benghazi went to department headquarters – and possibly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s...

Could An Alawite State In Syria Prevent Post-Assad Reprisals? -- Voice of AmericaWASHINGTON, DC — A new report by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights offers disturbing evidence that the civil war in Syria is turning into a sectarian battle between the country’s majority Sunni and...

US Says Syria Once Again Launching Scuds At Rebels -- ABC NewsWithin the past day, the Assad regime in Syria once again launched Scud missiles at rebel-held areas in the northwest part of the country, U.S. officials said.Last week, officials said the Syrian regime fired five missiles from the Damascus area into an area west of the northern city of...

Al Qaeda’s Rise In Syria -- EuronewsIt has become a challenge to define who are the fighting forces in Syria. Syrian Armed Forces personnel who deserted, along with volunteers, call themselves the Free Syrian Army. But there are numerous other insurgent groups. It is also complex to identify those from other countries, and what they hope to achieve.Islamic...

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comA Defector’s Account Of Syrian Chemical Weapons On The Move -- David Ignatius, Washington PostReports from inside two Syrian chemical weapons facilities offer chilling new evidence that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime developed special vehicles last year for moving and mixing the weapons — and an unconfirmed...

Photo: Ramzan Kadrov with Vladimir Putin. WikipediaChechen Newspaper Shut Down After Reporter Asks Putin A Question -- The GuardianLeader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, orders closure of paper after taking disliking to question asked by reporter in MoscowWhen Chechen journalist Bilkhi...

Genius time :0) -- david@luda.net pad4 On Dec 19, 2012, at 2:17 PM, "Riv" <dennisriv@mindspring.com> wrote: > I have a 13" MacBook Pro that appears to have one of the 2 USB ports that is not working. The one that does work will connect easily and power items but the other does not seem to connect. I do get lights on with things like a...

Caught Between Al Qaida And Iran, U.S. Struggles Over Syria Conflict -- Hannah Allam, McClatchy NewsWASHINGTON — WASHINGTON The bloodshed in Syria has continued for so long that extremist forces have taken charge, with U.S. officials saying they now face two familiar enemies in the struggle to find a resolution: al Qaida in Iraq cells and Iranian-backed...

Nusra Front Growing In Popularity As Syrian Fighting Worsens -- Daily StarAMMAN: Having seen its star wane in Iraq, Al-Qaeda has staged a comeback in neighboring Syria, posing a dilemma for the opposition fighting to remove President Bashar Assad and making the West balk at military backing for the revolt.The rise of Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria,...

Putin Defends Own Record, Criticizes US in Marathon Q&A. © RIA Novosti. Alexei NikolskiPutin Defends Own Record, Criticizes US In Marathon Q&A -- RIA NovostiMOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected allegations Thursday that he had constructed...

Syrian Violence Becoming 'Overly Sectarian', Report Finds -- Voice of AmericaThe United Nations is highlighting the civilian toll in the nearly two-year conflict in Syria, saying thousands have died in a crisis that has become increasingly sectarian in nature.U.N. human rights investigators say in a new report Thursday that the fighting "has brought...

U.N. Announces $1.5 Billion Aid Effort For Syrian Refugees -- CNN(CNN) -- The United Nations has launched humanitarian plans worth $1.5 billion to help ease the suffering of millions of Syrians both inside and outside the country.More than 525,000 Syrians have already crossed into neighboring countries, the United Nations announced Wednesday, and it...

Pakistani Rangers soldiers walk past a woman after the body of Nasima Bibi, a female worker of an anti-polio drive campaign who was shot by gunmen, arrived at a hospital morgue in Karachi December 18. Gunmen shot five health workers on the anti-polio drive in a string of attacks...

Polio Vaccinations Suspended In Pakistan Following Shootings -- NPRThe World Health Organization says the Pakistani polio vaccination campaign is temporarily suspended because of "multiple attacks" against health workers.At least eight Pakistani health workers were shot to death this week all over Pakistan as they administered the vaccination to children....

Gangnam Style Video Lifts Troops' Spirits In Afghanistan -- The GuardianGroup of soldiers donned costumes at Camp Bastion for 'Afghan Style' parody video that became an internet hit.A group of soldiers who became an internet hit after starring in their own version of the Gangnam Style video said they did it to lift their spirits while serving in Afghanistan.Named...

Coalition force members maintain security from a light tactical, all-terrain vehicle during a patrol of Afghanistan's Farah province, Dec. 15, 2012 Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete ThibodeauAfghan Officials Hold Rare Talks With Taliban Near Paris -- France 24Afghan government officials...

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UN Sees No Prospect Of Syria Violence End -- Al JazeeraUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the only way to stop the violence is a political settlement.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that there is no prospect of an end to the 21-month conflict in Syria.Ban told a year-end news conference on Wednesday that the only way to stop the violence...

Few Back U.S. Military Role in Syria – But Support Jumps in Specific Cases -- ABC NewsWhile Americans broadly prefer to stay out of direct involvement in the conflict in Syria, support for U.S. military action soars in the event of a loss of control of its chemical weapons, the use...

Photo: Qasem SoleimaniThe 15 Most Dangerous People In The World -- Danger RoomThere used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn't print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying...

Photo: Frederick and Kimberly Kagan in Basra. WikipediaCivilian Analysts Gained Petraeus’s Ear While He Was Commander In Afghanistan -- Washington PostFrederick and Kimberly Kagan, a husband-and-wife team of hawkish military analysts, put their jobs at influential Washington think...

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Senators: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ A ‘Dangerous’ Mix Of Fact, Fiction -- The HillSenate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says the film “Zero Dark Thirty” is a combination of “fact, fiction and Hollywood” that dangerously links the use of torture with the killing of Osama bin Laden.Feinstein and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and...

Africa Says It’s Ready To Conduct Own Missions – With West’s Money -- McClatchy NewsNAIROBI, Kenya — When M23 rebels marched on the eastern Congolese city of Goma last month, the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping mission at first struck back like a force that costs $1.4 billion...

Syrian refugees children warm themselves in a fireplace in the southern city of Sidon, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. (The Daily Star/Mohammed Zaatari)Tuberculosis Spreading Among Syrian Refugees -- Daily StarBEIRUT: Lebanon appealed Monday to the international community to come forth...

Palestinians fleeing from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus are seen at a Lebanese border crossing with Syria on December 19, 2012. Press TVPalestinians Flee Damascus Camp Battles In Droves -- AFPBEIRUT — Talks were held on Wednesday aimed at removing both rebel and pro-government...