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Government Tracks Travelers |
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Written by Michael Hamel
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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Without notifying the public, federal agents have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals. The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments. The government intends to keep the scores on file for 40 years. |
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Charges in Iraqi Assaults |
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Written by Will Dunham
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
The military has charged a U.S. Marine Corps officer with assaulting three Iraqi civilians in April, accusing him of beating and choking them and placing a pistol in one victim's mouth, the Marines said on Wednesday. The officer, 2nd Lt. Nathan Phan, was charged with three counts of assault and one count of making a false official statement relating to the incident on April 10, near Hamdania, a town west of Baghdad. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 November 2006 )
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Pentagon Studying War Errors |
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Written by Bryan Bender
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
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The US military establishment has quietly undertaken a wholesale reassessment of its war strategy with a goal of identifying the mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and remedying them before the next conflict. This summer, high-level Pentagon officials ordered a pair of secret studies to pinpoint the military's failures in the two conflicts, and, according to one of the authors, ``the results won't be pretty" when the findings are produced this fall. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 November 2006 )
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