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Al-Qaida commander calls for Islamic rule in Libya (AP)

March 13th, 2011 | Author: admin

AP – An al-Qaida commander who escaped a U.S. prison has urged Libyans to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi’s regime and establish Islamic rule.

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Navy commander loses carrier job over lewd videos (AP)

January 4th, 2011 | Author: admin

In this frame grab taken from video provided to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, U.S. Navy Capt. Owen Honors appears in one of a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches that were broadcast on the USS Enterprise via closed-circuit television. A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew the series of sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported. The Virginian-Pilot reported in its Sunday editions that Capt. Owen Honors appeared in the videos in 2006 and 2007 while he was the USS Enterprise's second-ranking officer, and showed them across the ship on closed-circuit television. He took over as the ship's commander in May. (AP Photo/The Virginian Pilot) NO SALESAP – The Navy permanently removed a senior officer from command of an aircraft carrier Tuesday because of raunchy comedy videos he made and showed to the crew several years ago.


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Al-Qaida kills Iraqi police commander on 6th try (AP)

December 29th, 2010 | Author: admin

An Iraqi policeman stands guard while hundreds of vehicles are in queue, waiting to be searched, at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the already congested city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – Three al-Qaida suicide bombers attacked a police building in Mosul on Wednesday, leveling the building and killing the city’s top commander, who had escaped at least five previous assassination attempts, officials said.


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Al-Qaida says it killed Iraqi commander in Mosul (AP)

December 29th, 2010 | Author: admin

An Iraqi policeman stands guard while hundreds of vehicles are in queue, waiting to be searched, at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the already congested city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – An al-Qaida linked group has claimed responsibility for the killing of an Iraqi police commander in a raid by three suicide bombers who stormed a security building in Mosul.


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Commander: US can’t seal Afghan-Pakistan border (AP)

December 29th, 2010 | Author: admin

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Sadukheil village near Landi Kotel, in Pakistan's Khyber Tribal region along Afghan border, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Three American missile attacks killed 54 alleged militants on Friday in the Khyber tribal region close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials said. (AP Photo/Amir Zada)AP – There’s no practical way for U.S. troops to seal Afghanistan’s vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so they are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on Afghan soil, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday.


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NKorea praises ‘iron-willed commander’ Kim Jong Il (AP)

December 24th, 2010 | Author: admin

South Korean Army soldiers patrol on the front line of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Inje, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their rhetoric, with South Korea's president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a 'sacred' nuclear war if provoked. (AP Photo/ Lee Sang-hak, Yonhap) KOREA OUTAP – North Korea could be planning another nuclear test for next year, a South Korean think tank warned Friday, as Pyongyang celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il’s elevation to military chief, calling him “an invincible and iron-willed commander.”


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South Korean commander vows retaliation for North Korean attack

November 27th, 2010 | Author: admin

Dignitaries placed white chrysanthemums on a funeral altar Saturday as South Korea honored two marines killed in a North Korean artillery attack that was one of the worst bombardments of its territory since the 1950-53 Korean War.

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