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Afghanistan's President Blasts US Troops for Gruesome Afghan Deaths
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's president says U.S. soldiers charged with murder in the deaths last year of three unarmed Afghans had killed them for entertainment, after taking drugs. Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade. The troops have been charged in the United States with murder and conspiracy in the slaying of three men in southern Afghanistan. The remarks on Wednesday were Karzai's first public comments on the issue that came to light after a series of graphic photos showing the soldiers from an Olympia, Washington-based platoon, posing ...
US Likely to Keep Combat Role After Libya Shift
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The United States welcomed a partial handover for the Libyan air campaign to NATO on Thursday, but the allies apparently balked at assuming full control and the U.S. military was left in charge of the brunt of combat. NATO agreed to take over command of the newly established no-fly zone over Libya, protective flights meant to deter Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi from putting warplanes in the air. That leaves the U.S. with responsibility for attacks on Gadhafi's ground forces and other targets, which are the toughest and most controversial portion of the operation. The U.S had ...
US May Hand Over No-Fly Lead This Weekend
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe United States may hand over operational control of the no-fly zone in Libya to a coalition-led command-and-control structure sometime during the next several days, according to a senior U.S. military official. The U.S. military may turn over control of military operations over Libya "as early as this weekend," Vice Adm. William Gortney, director of the Joint Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon this afternoon. What entity will take control of the air war over Libya is still unclear; however, CNN reported today that the Obama administration has struck a deal for NATO to take the lead. ...
US Military Plane Crashes in Libya; Fighting Rages in Cities
By not in system - AOL NewsBU MARIEM, Libya -- An American fighter jet crashed in Libya's rebel held east, both crew ejecting safely as the aircraft spun from the sky during the third night of the U.S. and European air campaign. Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled rebels regrouping in the dunes outside a key eastern city on Tuesday, and his snipers and tanks roamed the last major opposition-held city in the west. The crash was the first major loss for the U.S. and European military air campaign, which over three nights appears to have hobbled Gadhafi's air defenses and artillery and rescued the rebels from impending ...
Will Congress Let Frank Buckles, Last WWI Vet, Lie in Capitol Rotunda?
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNearly everyone agrees that Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran who died last month at age 110, should be honored. Buckles' passing has been noted by leaders in his home state of West Virginia and nationally. He has been celebrated by veterans' groups, who hail him as the last link to the tens of thousands of dough boys killed in the Great War. A military funeral is planned at Arlington National Cemetery. President Obama ordered flags on federal buildings flown at half-staff on March 15, the day of the burial. Before Buckles is laid to rest at Arlington, however, his ...
Suspect in Killing of US Airmen in Germany Says He Acted Alone
By not in system - AOL NewsFRANKFURT, Germany -- The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport confessed to targeting members of the American military, a top security official said Thursday, in a case that German officials are treating as a possible act of Islamic terrorism. German federal prosecutors took over the investigation into Wednesday's shooting, which also injured two airmen, one of them critically. They are working together with U.S. authorities. Hesse state Interior Minister Boris Rhein told reporters in Wiesbaden that the suspect, identified as a 21-year-old ethnic Albanian from ...
Opinion: 5 Reasons Not to Strike Libya
By J.D. Gordon - AOL NewsConventional wisdom might suggest that the U.S. military should step in to halt a notorious dictator from carrying out ruthless crackdowns on his own people -- especially against those standing up for democracy. This is particularly true in Moammar Gadhafi's case, as he has been a thorn in our side since taking power in a 1969 coup. This week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ordered two Navy amphibious ships, USS Kearsarge and USS Ponce, along with a contingent of Marines through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean -- though he stressed they would be in place for humanitarian relief and ...
Two US Airmen Killed in Frankfurt Airport Shooting
By not in system - AOL NewsFRANKFURT, Germany -- A man armed with a handgun attacked a bus carrying U.S. Air Force troops at Frankfurt airport Wednesday, killing two airmen and wounding two others before being taken into custody, authorities said. Boris Rhein, the top security official in the German state of Hesse where the shooting took place, identified the shooter as a 21-year-old from Kosovo. Family members in Kosovo described the suspect as a devout Muslim, who was born and raised in Germany and worked at the airport. In Washington, President Barack Obama promised to "spare no effort" in investigating the ...
U.S. Military Readies Libya Options -- With Caution
By David Wood - Politics DailyFORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Officials looking at options for U.S. military intervention in Libya are recalling the lessons of Somalia, where American troops were sent to help feed starving children and 15 months later were evacuated ahead of howling mobs that then sacked the U.S. Embassy. Forty-two Americans were killed in combat and dozens were injured. Today in Somalia, an al-Qaeda franchise holds power. Lesson No. 1, planners say: Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences. The spreading chaos in Libya and the bloody stalemate between rebels and defiant remnants of Moammar Gadhafi's regime have ...
Veterans Say Military Mishandles Rape Cases
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A group of U.S. veterans who say they were raped, insulted and otherwise abused by their comrades want to force the Pentagon to change how it handles such cases. More than a dozen female and two male current or former service members say servicemen get away with rape and other sexual abuse and victims are too often ordered to continue to serve alongside those they say attacked them. Cliff Owen, AP Veterans Kori Cioca, 25, of Wilmington, Ohio, left, and Panayiota Bertzikis, 29, of Somerville, Mass., are among more than a dozen current and former service members ...
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