Hezbollah release CIA agents identities in Lebanon

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 – Hezbollah militant group on Monday claimed to release identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon. The identities of the CIA agents were made public in a broadcast Friday night on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar. The exposure creates new security risks for CIA officers in a country where American espionage operations had...

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Happy Birthday Army National Guard - Celebrating 375 years (+video)

The National Guard, the oldest component of the Armed Forces of the United States and one of the nation’s longest-enduring institutions, celebrates its 375th birthday today on December 13, 2011. The National Guard traces its history back to the earliest English colonies in North America. Responsible for their own defense, the colonists drew on English military tradition...

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Afghan troops kill suicide bomber near NATO base

Image via WikipediaKABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan troops have shot dead a would-be suicide bomber trying to approach the gate of a NATO base in the country's northwest. Delbar Jan Arman, the governor of Badghis province, says Afghan security forces became suspicious of the man and killed him before he was able to detonate his explosives. Arman says the attacker's explosives-packed...

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Militants Kill Five Villagers

Image via WikipediaAttack targeted civilians helping the Frontier Corps conduct a search operation to weed out terrorists. By Nazar Ul Islam / AFP | Posted on Dec. 13, 2011. Militants opened fire on Pakistani villagers on Dec. 13‚ killing at least five civilians and wounding another six‚ before fleeing to safety in the tribal badlands bordering Afghanistan‚ government...

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Two Army helicopters crash in Washington state, 4 dead

Image via Wikipedia (Reuters) - Two U.S. Army helicopters crashed on Monday during training exercises at a Washington state military base, killing four aviators on board, the base said in a statement. Brendalyn Carpenter, a spokeswoman for Joint Base Lewis-McChord, confirmed that "there was an accident" in the evening and that military police and emergency personnel...

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Pakistani police found 57 chained children from a Madrasa in Karachi kept them to be trained as suicide bombers

KARACHI: More than 50 children and men were found shackled in the basement of a seminary off Super Highway on Monday night.  According to Malir SSP Rao Anwar, police raided Jamia Masjid Zakriya Kondali and recovered people whose ages ranged between 15 and 40. The senior superintendent of police said they were drug addicts and the seminary`s administration was...

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Illegal weapons & ammunition handed over to DIAG in Baghlan

Monday, December 12, 2011 – Afghan police officials in northern Afghanistan on Monday said, more than 2 tons of explosives and ammunitions along with 50 various types of arms have been handed over to Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) by Afghan police forces which were recovered during the past 2 months from various parts of northern Baghlan province. Northern...

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Dec. 13., 2011. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan - A combined Afghan and coalition security force discovered a drug cache in Maiwand district, Kandahar province, today. The cache consisted of approximately 500 pounds (227 kg) of hashish. The hashish was destroyed on without incident. In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout Afghanistan: South A combined Afghan and coalition...

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