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UK says informed U.N. chief of more Syria chemical attacks
ReutersUNITED NATIONS, May 29 (Reuters) - Britain has written to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about additional suspected chemical weapons attacks by Syrian government forces in March and April, Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said on Wednesday....Tags: Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, United Kingdom, France, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Turkey arrests Syrian Nusra Front militants -media
ReutersANKARA, May 30 (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have arrested a group of Syria's al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants who allegedly had been planning an attack inside Turkey and were in possession of the nerve agent sarin, local media reported on...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Turkey, Executive Branch, Government, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Civilization has no place for drones
In his recent speech, President Barack Obama set forth what he described as narrow, reasonable guidelines for using drones to carry out targeted killings overseas. The U.S., he said, will only use drone strikes "against terrorists who pose a continuing...
Tags: Cuba, Johns Hopkins University, China, Terrorism, Havana (Cuba)
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US intelligence embraces debate in security issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, veteran intelligence analyst Robert Cardillo was given the nickname "Debbie Downer." With each new tidbit of information that tracked bin Laden to a high-walled compound...
Tags: White House, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Abbottabad (Pakistan), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Options for action in Syria
Outrage. That's what we should feel over the Syrian government's slaughter of more than 70,000 of its own people and its use of chemical weapons. And outrage is what we should feel over the international community's total impotence. Despite nearly...Tags: Armed Forces, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Iran's Nuclear Program
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Syria activists look to a grave for evidence against Assad
WASHINGTON — The hunt for proof that Syrian government forces used banned chemical weapons may come down to a rotting corpse exhumed late last month from a makeshift cemetery near Damascus. The grave diggers — a Syrian doctor and several...
Tags: National Government, Ban Ki-moon, Political Dissent, White House, U.S. Department of State
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Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged
WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...Tags: Anthrax, George W. Bush, Japan, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Bioterrorism
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Science, Finance, White House, Government, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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UN warns of 'mounting reports' of Syria chemical arms use
Reuters* Diplomat cites "new incidents" with chemical arms * Assad government, rebels both accused of use By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations is receiving increasing reports of the use of chemical weapons in Syria's 2-...Tags: Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, Politics, Wars and Interventions, International Organizations
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Science, White House, Finance, Government, Science and Technology
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Israeli attacks in Syria aimed at Hezbollah, not as aid to rebels
Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Iranian weapons destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia could be seen as heralding wider international involvement in Syria’s intractable civil war. Reports of sarin gas attacks in Syria also conjure the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Jerusalem (Israel), Government, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Bashar Assad
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...Tags: West Bank, Government, Palestinian National Authority, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Washington, DC
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