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In Iraq, executions rise as deadly attacks escalate

In Iraq, executions rise as deadly attacks escalate

america.aljazeera.com — Confessions are routinely broadcast on Iraqi state television, despite criticism they affect the question of a suspect's innocence before trial, and are possibly forced. MEMRI TV There's a certain prison in the northeastern Baghdad district of Kadhimiyah, Iraq, where the Tigris River makes a sharp bend before it winds its way through the rest of the city. It's where men and women who are sentenced to death wait to die. When Saddam Hussein ruled the country, people sent to the prison disappeared, never to be heard from again. Allegations from hidden informants condemned those delivered there to torture, secret detention and a shadowy fate.
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The power to push for war returns to the State Department

The power to push for war returns to the State Department

america.aljazeera.com — Powell wrote that Albright"s question about using American troops overseas almost gave him "an aneurysm," adding, "American GIs are not toy soldiers to be moved around on some global game board." Now the post-Bush Pentagon and Defense Department are led by different men, more concerned with a fatigued military force still committed to a war in Afghanistan through the end of 2014 and sequestration cuts to the defense budget that will reportedly make it harder to respond to hostilities abroad. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said last week that President Barack Obama's military options in Syria may increasingly become more limited as budget cuts begin to hurt.
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Can Kerry Finish What Oslo Started?

Can Kerry Finish What Oslo Started?

america.aljazeera.com — John Kerry has been to the region six times since becoming Secretary of State (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images) In January 2001, mere months into the second Palestinian intifada that followed the collapse of the Camp David peace talks, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said: "In a few years, we will bury our hundreds of dead, and they will bury their thousands of dead, and we will go back to the negotiating table, and we will face the same issues." More than 12 years later, those words still reverberate across hardening political positions on both sides, as Secretary of State John Kerry has sought to renew peace efforts over the summer.
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For Australians, little difference in election choice

For Australians, little difference in election choice

america.aljazeera.com — Demonstrators display placards during a protest rally against the Australian government's asylum seeker policy in Sydney on Aug. 24, 2013. Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images There are four detention centers in the Northern Territory, the vast region in the central-north of Australia that embraces wetlands in its upper reaches, and the burnished sienna sand of the Red Centre in the south. Asylum seekers are held in facilities close to its northern border, which faces the Arafura and Timor Seas, near the state capital of Darwin. Wickham Point, originally an army base, now houses roughly 1,500 men.
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Obama's Syria conundrum: How exactly to 'punish' Assad regime

Obama's Syria conundrum: How exactly to 'punish' Assad regime

america.aljazeera.com — During a 2010 live-fire weapons exercise, the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan fires its MK-45 5-inch/54-caliber lightweight gun. Daniel Gay/US Navy The challenge facing President Barack Obama and his political and military advisers is this: How to "punish" the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians, but not punish it too severely, lest that destroy a government whose survival is deemed preferable, for U.S. regional interests, to one led by extremists.
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Death penalty for Hasan possible but doubtful

Death penalty for Hasan possible but doubtful

america.aljazeera.com — In this courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sits during his trial Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. He was convicted Friday of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others at the Texas military base in November 2009. Brigitte Woosley/AP A jury of senior military officers found an Army psychiatrist guilty of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others in a military court at Fort Hood, Texas, Friday. The jury -- nine colonels, three lieutenant colonels and one major -- reached a guilty verdict in roughly seven hours, convicting Maj.
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Iraq's refugees: Reborn in the USA

Iraq's refugees: Reborn in the USA

america.aljazeera.com — A recently-arrived refugee from Iraq gives a finger print during a class held by the Arizona Department of Economic Security at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), office on March 1, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2007 the U.S. government has resettled nearly 85,000 Iraqi refugees who had worked in Iraq with the U.S. military, American media or non-governmental organizations. John Moore/Getty Images Once, Adil Ibrahim worked as a translatorwith American soldiers, introducing them to Iraqi culture and the streets of Baghdad and trying to bridge gaps of understanding. Now, he's one of them.
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Kerry pushes new Israeli-Palestinian talks under cloud of skepticism

Kerry pushes new Israeli-Palestinian talks under cloud of skepticism

america.aljazeera.com — John Kerry has been to the region six times since becoming Secretary of State (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images) In January 2001, mere months into the second Palestinian intifada that followed the collapse of the Camp David peace talks, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said: "In a few years, we will bury our hundreds of dead, and they will bury their thousands of dead, and we will go back to the negotiating table, and we will face the same issues." More than 12 years later, those words still reverberate across hardening political positions on both sides, an intransigence that will come to bear this week as Secretary of State John Kerry hosts renewed peace efforts in Washington DC.
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A (Temporary) Lifeline for Morsi

A (Temporary) Lifeline for Morsi

The Atlantic — Mohammed Morsi is finally getting a break. The Egyptian president, who after widespread condemnation pulled back on his campaign against activists and satirists this week, has been promised a loan of $3 billion dollars from his movement's biggest Arab financial backer, the state of Qatar. Also on its way: a $2 billion check from the government of Libya, under a five-year, interest-free loan agreement and a three-year grace period. "The state today is collapsing. It is a collapsing state politically, economically, socially and security-wise. And I don't think we have long to fix this."
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Global Opportunity Costs: How the Iraq War Undermined U.S. Influence

Global Opportunity Costs: How the Iraq War Undermined U.S. Influence

The Atlantic — When people talk about the cost of the war in Iraq, they speak about the hundreds of billions of dollars that frittered away in the Mesopotamian dust and the spilled blood of Iraqi, American, British, Italian, Polish, Spanish and countless other souls swept up in a conflict that has no natural ending. They talk about the domestic opportunity cost and just what those hundreds of billions of dollars could have bought at home instead of the military hardware that began falling apart less than two years after the invasion began, or idealistic infrastructure projects all over Iraq that deteriorated in a pit of corruption and neglect.
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It's Tough to be a Reporter in a War Zone, for Both Men and Women

It's Tough to be a Reporter in a War Zone, for Both Men and Women

The Atlantic — Lord what an unholy mess The Atlantic stirred this week over in that deepest darkest corner of the world: the Middle East. I awoke to rants and railings on my Facebook feed from friends and colleagues in response to an interview Emily Chertoff did with a journalist called Anna Sebba who claimed the world of war reporting was filled with inexperienced, naive little girls being vicariously exploited by their male editors. Many women working in war zones, she says, "don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.
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Questions for Brennan on the kill list

Questions for Brennan on the kill list

Reuters — During the Iraq invasion the U.S. government and military posted its "Most Wanted" list of terrorists or fleeing officials, issued as a deck of cards, complete with a "Wanted: Dead or Alive" tag. The list went out to anyone and everyone, with hefty rewards advertised. Now, however, the government's kill list for drone strikes is opaque. It doesn't even refer to actual people, and sometimes targets places where military-age males suspected of terrorist activity gather. Congress will have an opportunity Thursday to hear from the man who, with the president, often helps decide who appears on that list.
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Shiites the Only Winners in Iraq

Shiites the Only Winners in Iraq

National Journal — It was merely hours after news broke about an arrest warrant for one of Iraq's vice presidents that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.-one of the Iraq war's biggest advocates on Capitol Hill-declared: I told you so. "A deterioration of the kind we are now witnessing in Iraq was not unforeseen," McCain and fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said in a joint statement. "The U.S. government must do whatever it can to help Iraqis stabilize the situation." Except on Tuesday, the U.S. government presided over a simple ceremony at Joint Base Andrews back in the U.S., casing the colors of the U.S.
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Justice Denied

Justice Denied

National Journal — The gruesome images we saw last week when Muammar el-Qaddafi met his foes for the final time, was dragged out of a drain pipe, and flung against the hood of an armored truck were jarring. The former strongman was a bleeding, staggering mess, and he found no quarter with his captors. Sometime between the moment when a shaky cell-phone video recorded him reeling, as fighters spat and beat him about the head, and when another even more disorienting one displayed his lifeless body on the ground, someone put a bullet in the back of his head.
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Washington Losing Patience with Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Washington Losing Patience with Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

National Journal — John Nagl is the kind of guy who brings to mind F. Scott Fitzgerald's wicked line in The Great Gatsby about people who succeed at such an early age that "everything afterward savors of anticlimax." A star at West Point and a Rhodes scholar, the native Nebraskan was only 37 when he landed on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in January 2004. In that article, Nagl offered an inside-the-Sunni-Triangle tutorial on what he came to call "graduate-level war." Nagl's mantra: "We have to outthink the enemy, not just outfight him."
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A Woman's Place

A Woman's Place

National Journal — Arab literature is full of stories about daring, resourceful, and triumphant women. Just look at the classic 1001 Arabian Nights and its story of Princess Parizade, who cleverly succeeded where her two brothers had failed in overcoming deadly obstacles to win her prize. Or Morgiana, the slave girl in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, who saved Ali Baba on more than one occasion and eventually killed his worst enemy. Or, perhaps the most famous of them all, Scheherazade, whose quick mind and storytelling ability kept her alive for 1,001 nights and beyond, and spared countless other women.
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Suicide Rivals The Battlefield In Toll On U.S. Military : NPR

Suicide Rivals The Battlefield In Toll On U.S. Military : NPR

NPR — Nearly as many American troops at home and abroad have committed suicide this year as have been killed in combat in Afghanistan. Alarmed at the growing rate of soldiers taking their own lives, the Army has begun investigating its mental health and suicide prevention programs. But the tougher challenge is changing a culture that is very much about "manning up" when things get difficult. This is the first in an occasional series of stories on the problem of suicides in the military. The Case Of Stephen Colley Military veteran Edward Colley served in the Air Force and the Army.
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