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Navy firing over videos raises questions of timing (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 brusquely fired the captain of the USS Enterprise on Tuesday, more than three years after he made lewd videos to boost morale for his crew, timing that put the military under pressure to explain why it acted only after the videos became public.


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SKorea to stage firing drills near land border (AP)

December 22nd, 2010 | Author: admin

South Korean Christians sing a hymn in front of a Christmas tree on top of the Aegibong Peak Observatory just south of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas in Gimpo, west of Seoul December 21, 2010. South Korean military allowed Christians to erect a Christmas tree on Tuesday on top of the observatory controlled by South Korean marines, which is located about 3 km (1.9 miles) south of North Korean territory, while the North warned against it, according to local media. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: MILITARY RELIGION)AP – South Korea vowed Wednesday to “punish the enemy” as hundreds of troops, fighter jets, tanks and attack helicopters prepared for massive new drills near the heavily armed border a month after a deadly North Korean artillery attack.


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SKorea conducts firing drills from border island (AP)

December 20th, 2010 | Author: admin

The wreckage of a vehicle destroyed by last month's North Korean artillery shelling remains on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, early Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. World powers trying to defuse tensions between North and South Korea met in an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday, but diplomats said China objects to the North being singled out for criticism over two deadly attacks this year that have helped send relations to their lowest point in decades. (AP Photo/ Ahn Young-joon)AP – South Korea fired artillery in a 90-minute drill from a front-line island Monday and launched fighter jets to deter attacks after North Korea warned of catastrophic retaliation for the maneuvers.


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SKorea ends firing drills from border island (AP)

December 20th, 2010 | Author: admin

The wreckage of a vehicle destroyed by last month's North Korean artillery shelling remains on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, early Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. World powers trying to defuse tensions between North and South Korea met in an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday, but diplomats said China objects to the North being singled out for criticism over two deadly attacks this year that have helped send relations to their lowest point in decades. (AP Photo/ Ahn Young-joon)AP – Yonhap news agency says South Korea has ended maritime artillery drills from a front-line island attacked last month by North Korea.


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SKorea plans firing drills from border island (AP)

December 20th, 2010 | Author: admin

The wreckage of a vehicle destroyed by last month's North Korean artillery shelling remains on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, early Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. World powers trying to defuse tensions between North and South Korea met in an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday, but diplomats said China objects to the North being singled out for criticism over two deadly attacks this year that have helped send relations to their lowest point in decades. (AP Photo/ Ahn Young-joon)AP – South Korea ordered residents of front-line islands into bomb shelters as it insisted on pressing forward with live-fire drills near disputed waters Monday despite North Korea’s threat to retaliate, sharply spiking tensions.


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SKorea to conduct firing drills from border island (AP)

December 19th, 2010 | Author: admin

South Korean protesters shout slogans during an anti-war and anti-government rally in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. South Korea said Saturday it will go ahead with artillery drills on a border island shelled by North Korea last month despite Pyongyang's threat to retaliate again, as Russia and China expressed concerns over tension on the volatile peninsula. The Korean read: 'President Lee Myung-bak Step Down.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP – South Korea will go ahead with live firing drills Monday despite North Korea’s threat to retaliate, the South’s military said, sharply ramping up tensions as the U.N. failed to find a solution.


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SKorea delays firing drills amid NKorea threat (AP)

December 18th, 2010 | Author: admin

South Korean marines wait their other soldiers to return their base after their patrol along on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. North Korea warned South Korea on Friday not to stage artillery drills on the front-line island the North bombed last month, saying it would hit back even harder than in the previous attack that killed four South Koreans. South Korea has said it plans one-day, live-fire drills sometime between Saturday and Tuesday on Yeonpyeong.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)AP – Military maneuvers planned by South Korean troops will be delayed because of bad weather on a border island shelled by North Korea last month, as Russia and China expressed concerns over rising tensions on the divided peninsula.


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