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Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...
Tags: Lawyers, Stress, Shootings, Health, Judges
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: Science and Technology, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Iraq War (2003-2011), Genetics, International Military Interventions
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Car bombings, shooting in Iraq kill at least 17
BAGHDAD — Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said. The attacks followed a wave of bombings...
Tags: Bombings, Mosul (Iraq), Baghdad (Iraq), Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Stephen Goldstein: Bush Library a lesson in hypocrisy
Everything that looked right about the recent dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is what's wrong with America. First, hypocrisy was in overdrive: Against the backdrop of an architecturally pre-pubescent building, on a...Tags: White House, Karl Rove, Bill Clinton, Libraries, Arts and Culture
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General: Military drawdown doesn't mean a slowdown
— The Army has a battle strategy not only for terrorists and despots, but for a new potential enemy in this age of combat pullbacks and tight budgets. Call it boredom. Years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan have given the Army a bumper crop of...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Army, Fort Eustis, Armed Forces
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Ed Page On Facebook: Has Syria crossed a 'red line'? Should the U.S. intervene?
The following is an abridged comment thread from http://www.facebook.com/edpagecourant. Ryan Sullivan: We need to sit this one out. We're damned if we intervene and we're damned if we don't. I think the last 10-plus years have taught us an important...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Genocide, Interior Policy, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Gun Control
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Veterans home-loan bond money going untapped
SACRAMENTO — In the last century, Californians have said yes to every request for money to help veterans buy homes. Since 2000, they have signed off on $1.4 billion in bonds for that purpose. But most of that money remains untapped. In fact, the...Tags: Agriculture, Elections, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Health, Afghanistan
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Sgt. John Russell: Wrenching testimony in penalty phase
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Lt. Col. Michael Jones was the last psychiatrist to see Sgt. John Russell before the sergeant returned to the Iraq mental health clinic with an M-16 rifle, killing two doctors and three other fellow servicemen. In...Tags: Science and Technology, Health, Judges, Murder, Human Interest
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Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
Tags: University of Utah, Afghanistan, Suicide, Suicidal Behavior, Emergency Incidents
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Army sergeant found guilty of premeditation in killing 5 servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty Monday of the premeditated murder of five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Families...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Lawyers, Health, Judges, Punishment
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Keep Md. Guard safe — and home
I wish to express how delighted I am that the Maryland National Guard is seeing its final deployment to Afghanistan ("Md. Guard preparing for Afghanistan, and after," May 10). Now, let's bring all of them home from the all the other hellholes. (Kosovo,...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Afghanistan
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Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"
World War II lasted six years, but Rick Atkinson needed 14 years to complete his massive trilogy on the conflict. That turned out to be time well spent. Now the wait for the concluding volume of “The Liberation Trilogy,” his magisterial...Tags: Austria, Germany, David Petraeus, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Entertainment Events
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