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FACT CHECK: Guantanamo detainees and US prisons

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63629465&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.

Fort Hood slayings prompt full Pentagon review

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63629293&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Worried that the Army may have missed red flags about the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon will likely launch an inquiry into how all the military services keep watch on other volatile soldiers hidden in their ranks, officials said Tuesday.

NY ex-lawyer ordered to prison in terror case

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63627977&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a disbarred civil rights lawyer and ordered her to begin serving her sentence while a judge reconsiders whether he was too lenient in giving her more than two years in prison for passing information between suspected terrorists.

GAO: Los Alamos computer security has weaknesses

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63627939&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. Government Accountability Office says in a new report that it has uncovered security weaknesses in Los Alamos National Laboratory's classified computer network.

Lawmaker: What if terrorists took NYC mayor’s kid

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63625155&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Arizona congressman who believes it's a security risk to prosecute suspected Sept. 11 terrorists in Manhattan apologized Tuesday for suggesting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's family could be in danger with such a high-profile case in town.

Kurdish, Sunni demands may derail Iraqi elections

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63621787&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's Kurds threatened Tuesday to boycott national elections, days after the country's Sunni vice president threatened to veto the newly passed election law needed to hold the January vote.

Pakistan army shows off gains near Afghan border

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63618389&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A school the army says churned out suicide bombers now lies in ruins. Soldiers patrol towns once ruled by militants who gave refuge to al-Qaida. Left behind are bundles of terror manuals, extremist propaganda and boxes of ammunition and explosives.

Israel army punishes troops for settlement protest

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63617849&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Israeli army punished six soldiers, sending two to prison, for protesting the army's demolition of structures at an unauthorized settler outpost in the West Bank, the military said Tuesday.

Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63616503&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran has sentenced five people to death over the unrest that followed the country's disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.

Suspect physicist discussed attacks on French army

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63614137&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A French nuclear physicist discussed possible terrorist attacks targeting France's army in e-mail exchanges with North Africa's al-Qaida branch before his arrest last month, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday.