September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis 800 additional U.S. military trainers to be sent to Afghanistan by March 26 Sep 2011 Eight hundred more U.S. military trainers will be sent to Afghanistan by March to help with logistics, maintenance, medical care protecting opium/gas routes and other areas in which the Afghan army is short on [...]
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September 30, 2011
September 30, 2011
Union Airline Pilots Occupy Wall Street
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Union Airline Pilots Occupy Wall Street 29 Sep 2011 Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City. Hundreds of uniformed pilots, standing in stark [...]
September 30, 2011
Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For 27 Sep 2011 The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy sell Libya’s huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles, following an ABC News report that large numbers of them continue to be stolen [...]
September 30, 2011
Officer: 8 Afghan policemen killed at checkpoint
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Officer: 8 Afghan policemen killed at checkpoint 28 Sep 2011 Eight policemen were killed in an attack early Wednesday near a southern Afghan city, a police commander said, in an area that has been a pioneer in the handover of security from NATO to Afghan control. Gen. Nabi Jan [...]
September 30, 2011
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Obama: A disaster for civil liberties –He may prove the most disastrous president in our history in terms of civil liberties. By Jonathan Turley 29 Sep 2011 President Obama not only retained the controversial Bush policies, he expanded on them… It’s almost a classic case of the Stockholm syndrome, [...]
September 30, 2011
Ground beef recalled in 14 US states
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Mega barf alert! Ground beef recalled in 14 US states 28 Sep 2011 Tyson, the biggest meat processor in the United States, is recalling 131,300 pounds of ground beef sold in 14 states after an outbreak of e.coli in Ohio, US food inspectors said Wednesday. The ground beef — [...]
September 29, 2011
Earthquake rocks Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Earthquake rocks Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant 29 Sep 2011 A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook an area of northeast Japan which includes the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant Thursday. There were no reports of damage to the facility, officials said. The moderate quake struck offshore near the coast of Fukushima [...]
September 29, 2011
Not A Single Afghan Battalion Fights Without U.S. Help
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Not A Single Afghan Battalion Fights Without U.S. Help 26 Sep 2011 Ten years of war. Two years of an accelerated effort to train Afghans to take over that fight, at an annual cost of $6 billion. And not a single Afghan army battalion can operate without assistance from [...]
September 29, 2011
CIA Provides List of ‘Gruesome’ Osama Bin Laden Death Photos
September 28, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis CIA Provides List of ‘Gruesome’ Osama Bin Laden Death Photos 28 Sep 2011 The CIA has 52 separate photos and videos of Osama bin Laden’s body, the U.S. raid that ‘killed him,’ and his burial at sea, according to a Justice Department document filed earlier this week. A top [...]
September 29, 2011
Mass. man faces terrorism charges
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Mass. man faces terrorism charges –FBI alleges plan to fly explosives into Capitol, Pentagon 29 Sep 2011 (MA) An Ashland man who holds a physics degree from Northeastern University was charged yesterday with an ‘Al Qaeda’-inspired plot to send a remote-controlled aircraft carrying explosives into the Pentagon and the [...]
September 29, 2011
D.C. agencies assemble and operate temporary morgue in city-wide disaster drill
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Heads up! D.C. agencies assemble and operate temporary morgue in city-wide disaster drill –District will continue to run exercises similar to Wednesday’s event, including two planned drills in March and September 2012 28 Sep 2011 A fabricated hurricane scenario was the setting for a full-scale exercise performed by D.C.’s [...]
September 29, 2011
Pentagon launches war court website
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Pentagon launches war court website 28 Sep 2011 The Pentagon on Wednesday morning went live with a new, slicker interactive military tribunals website – with no new information – ahead of a decision from a senior Defense Department official on whether to go forward with the first death penalty [...]