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Guantanamo ploy
President Obama is again on a crusade to close Guantanamo Bay. It's a subject he was afraid to bring up during the election. Does he not understand that the prisoners on the hunger strike are not protesting the prison, but the fact they have been...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Barack Obama
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Greatest Generation's spirit may be coming back, as reflected in marathons
There was nothing tangible that made what Tom Brokaw called "The Greatest Generation" great. It was just an unidentifiable spirit. I may be wrong, but I think I see signs of that spirit coming back. The St. Luke's Half Marathon, with a 13.1-mile...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, World War II (1939-1945)
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Obama: US still not sure who used chemical weapons in Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war. At a White House...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, U.S. Military, Mark Twain
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TV review: 'Manhunt' keeps Bin Laden hunt as real as possible
How many films about the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden can the market bear? The answer appears to be three — a bad one, a good one and now, a messy but provocative one. National Geographic Channel's docudrama "Seal Team Six" was...Tags: Police Investigations, Abbottabad (Pakistan), Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Homeland (tv program)
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Obama renews call to close Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring it "not...Tags: Elections, Wars and Interventions, Prisoners and Detainees, Politics, Lawyers
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Give Terrorist A Burial — Then Move On
The Hartford CourantI confess, there are times I wish we could march a band of angels into hell to bring them back. Yes. March a band of angels through the gates of hell to serve them with a warrant for their immediate extradition to the land of the living to face us, the...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Southern Connecticut State University, Crime, Law and Justice, Islam
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WRAPUP 3-U.S., Russia push for rapid talks to end Syria carnage
Reuters* US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says without deal Syria could simply break apart By Arshad...Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Computer Networking and Internet, Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, Iran
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INSIGHT-France struggles to fight radical Islam in its jails
Reuters* Jihadist recruiting behind bars a worry amid Mali crisis * Overcrowding, intelligence lapses, lack of chaplains weigh * Petty offenders easily lured into radicalism By Alexandria Sage VILLEPINTE, France, May 7 (Reuters) - In France, the path to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, France, Islam, Paris (France), European Union
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James Burns: Boston bombing chipped at our national psyche
Two acts of terror. Same motive, murder Americans. Far more at 9-11 than 4-15. But Boston may have driven a nail deeper into our psyche. Why? Because it brought 9-11 down to ground level. Flying planes into tall buildings was so surreal, so like a late-...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Emergency Incidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Murder, Shootings
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Ed Page On Facebook: Should Obama Press To Close Guantanamo Prison?
The following is an abridged conversation from www.facebook.com/edpagecourant. Is President Obama right to press once again to close the prison for purported terrorist combatants at Guantanamo? Mark Pappa: Close it and turn them over to Sheriff Joe in...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Elections, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prisons
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Whose side is the NRA on?
Terrorism, whether practiced in the U.S. or overseas, can be defined as a deliberate act of violence to instill fear in a target audience. We fight terrorism when we stay calm but resolute; we abet terrorists when our response is to panic or try to foment...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Shootings
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Pakistan election violence forces candidates behind high walls
ReutersBy Katharine Houreld PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 7 (Reuters) - Mian Hussain is fighting for his political life from a deserted party headquarters, where two telephones sit silently beside him and the footsteps of a tea boy echo down the corridor. One of...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Elections, Islam, Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif
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