Dispatches

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• US Navy Divers Recover Soldiers Body From Afghanistan River

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  FORWARD OPERATING BASE TODD, Afghanistan (Nov. 29, 2009) - Members of a U.S. Navy dive team from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 drag a Zodiac inflatable boat up the Murghab river in northern Afghanistan during Operation Hero Recovery. MDSU 2, along with members of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, recovered the ...
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• Gradual change more likely than revolution, experts say

  
  FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau | PBS — Authority: 135
  [ dispatch ] Everyone wants to know whats next for Iran. Since the June 2009 election, and subsequent protests, the mainstream media has asked, "Is this the beginning of another Iranian Revolution?" Prominent Iranian academics gathered Saturday at Columbia University to say, in essence, dont hold your breadth. As ...
  18 hours ago

• OEF Update, Dec. 5, 2009: Forces Nab Taliban Facilitator in Logar

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 5, 2009 -- An Afghan-international security force detained a handful of militants in Logar province including a key Taliban facilitator responsible for movement and training of militant elements in the area. The facilitator is linked to senior Taliban leadership ...
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• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 4, 2009

  
  The Sanatoga Post — Authority: 441
  NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below. The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county ...
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• Video: Bin Ladens Home in Kandahar

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  NOTE: News readers click here to watch the video. D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2009 -- Just on the outskirts of Kandahar airfield lies the former home of Osama Bin Laden, Tamask Farms. The area was bombed by U.S. forces in the days after the September 11th attacks. (NATO TV video. Length: ...
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• OIF Summary, Dec. 4, 2009: Forces in Iraq Arrest 6 Terrorism Suspects

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2009 -- Iraqi security forces arrested six terrorism suspects in recent days, military officials reported. In northwestern Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi security forces arrested three people during a combined operation conducted to find and arrest a suspected member of an ...
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• OEF Update, Dec. 4, 2009: US Marines Start Operation in Helmand Province

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2009 -- More than 1,000 International Security Assistance Force troops are partnering with Afghan forces to begin a large-scale operation in northern Helmand province. About 900 U.S. Marines and sailors and British forces began partnering today with 150 Afghan ...
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• How did blocking traffic become Argentinas favorite way to protest?

  
  Slate Magazine — Authority: 719
  Its Tuesday as I write this—that means the entire Buenos Aires subway system is shut down for the third time this month because of a fight between the subway unions leadership and the workers they supposedly represent. Tomorrow, about 20 groups of piqueteros—groups composed of the poor and unemployed—plan to ...
  2 days ago

• OEF Update, Dec. 4, 2009: Forces Nab Insurgents in Kandahar

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2009 -- An Afghan-international security force detained several suspected militants in Kandahar province today after searching a compound known to be used by a Taliban facilitator. The joint security force targeted the compound near the village of Nurayo ...
  2 days ago

• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 3, 2009

  
  The Sanatoga Post — Authority: 441
  NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below. The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county ...
  2 days ago

• Lions and Tigers, and Marathon Runners?

  
  Away.com Travel Blog — Authority: 125
  Last weekend more than 300 runners descended upon the opulent Fairmont Mara Safari Club in southwestern Kenya for a reason other than the resorts heated pool and daily safari drives. The inaugural Masai Mara Marathon had locals and foreigners running for their lives (literally!) alongside Africas most famous and ...
  2 days ago

• OEF Update, Dec. 3, 2009: Forces Detain Militants in Wardak, Khwost

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 3, 2009 -- An Afghan-international security force detained several suspected militants in Wardak province while pursuing a Taliban sub-commander today. The joint security force targeted a compound near the village of Jamad Kheyl in the Sayed Abad district after ...
  3 days ago

• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 2, 2009

  
  The Sanatoga Post — Authority: 441
  NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below. The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county ...
  3 days ago

• Harsh criticism of Israel isnt anti-Semitic - if its fair Posted by Edwin Bennatan

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 140
  Counterpoint to: Who are you calling anti-Semitic? …some critics of Israel may be anti-Semitic, but it would be absurd to suggest it therefore follows that the act of criticism [of Israel] is in itself anti-Semitic." Sholto Byrnes The New Statesman (London) November 18, 2009 How often have you heard ...
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• The best Supreme Court case ever about partying on the beach.

  
  Slate Magazine — Authority: 719
  The line between whats public and whats private is—in the words of a recent Florida Supreme Court decision—"a dynamic boundary" that, "by its very nature, frequently changes." Tiger Woods is a public person who wishes he had more privacy. Party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi are private persons who probably ...
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• OEF Summary, Dec. 2, 2009: Combined Force in Afghanistan Nabs Suspected Militants

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2009 -- A combined Afghan-international security force detained several suspected militants in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province today at a compound known to be used by a Taliban financier and facilitator, military officials reported. The force searched the compound, ...
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• If it werent for psychology would I know anything was wrong?

  
  Where Personal and Professional Life Collide... — Authority: 137
  And now, having allowed myself to get worked up and let down in a relatively short time, my brain has decided that of course its time to have a fit of Oh Woes teh Career sux nobody fangrrls/boys me never gonna be (fill in blank). And I made it worse by having a small but deadly piece of fudge on an empty stomach. ...
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• OIF Summary, Dec. 2, 2009: Forces in Iraq Nab 8 Terror Suspects

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2009 -- Iraqi police arrested eight terrorism suspects today, and an air strike during one of the operations killed an enemy fighter, military officials in Iraq reported. A Salahuddin provincial police unit and U.S. advisors searched two buildings in a rural area ...
  4 days ago

• OEF Update, Dec. 2, 2009: Forces Strike Taliban Compound in Kunar; US Casualty

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 147
  D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 02, 2009 -- International forces conducted an air strike against a Taliban commander in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan yesterday. The Taliban commander was the target of the precision strike in Kunar provinces Dara Noor district, which occurred in an open ...
  4 days ago

• Dispatches from the North: The Church of England

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 140
  I find that many Anglophiles tend to be curious about the Church of England. When thinking of the CoE one conjures images of Henry VIII being so desperate to marry his mistress that he broke with Rome and appointed himself the head of the church. We think of this grand split between Catholicism and Protestantism in ...
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