President Obama has ordered government lawyers to object to the planned release of additional detainee photos, according to an administration official. The Defense Department was set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Last week, the president met with his legal team and told them that he did not feel comfortable with the release of the [Defense Department] photos because he believes their release would endanger our troops, and because he believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court,” the official said
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Taliban: All local leaders must quit
A Taliban spokesman has issued a series of threats and ultimatums against Pakistan’s ruling political class as that country’s artillery and helicopters continue to pound the Islamic militant group in the Swat Valley. Speaking on the telephone with CNN, Muslim Khan announced that all national and provincial parliament members from the Malakand Division, the northwestern region where the Swat Valley is located, must resign within three days.
Defense: Military missed soldier’s symptoms before rape, killings
Defense lawyers trying to save their client from the death penalty argued Tuesday that former U.S. soldier Steven Green exhibited clear symptoms of acute stress disorder in Iraq and that a military psychiatric nurse-practitioner failed to diagnose the troubled infantryman and pull him out of combat
Surviving Iraqi family says it wishes soldiers had killed them
Surviving members of an Iraqi family said they are haunted by a murder rampage committed by a gang of U.S.
A War Machine for the Whole Family
The nation’s top military officer told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday that the U.S. military isn’t planning on sending additional troops to Iraq to deal with the recent surge in violence
Restoring the Draft: No Panacea
Even as there’s talk inside the Pentagon of extending the troop surge in Iraq well into 2008, the U.S.
Can the Enemy Build a Super-Soldier?
Imagine bad guys able to fight without sleep. Or enemy soldiers with hardware implanted in their brains that makes them better able to target U.S. troops than U.S
FAA cancels Navy’s New York flyover
Less than a month after an unannounced government-sanctioned lower-Manhattan flyover frightened New Yorkers, the Federal Aviation Administration turned down a U.S.
Unfriendly Fire: Why Did a U.S. Soldier Kill His Fellow Troops in Iraq?
The initial U.S. military statement on the killings Monday at Camp Liberty in Baghdad was predictably terse. “Five Coalition forces members were killed in a shooting at Camp Liberty in Baghdad today at approximately 2 p.m.,” the statement read
Convicted soldier: ‘You probably think I’m a monster’
"You probably think I’m a monster." That’s what FBI agents said former U.S.