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Since Pakistan shut down U.S. supply lines in late 2011, the Pentagon has been spending more than six times what it normally does to get supplies to troops in Afghanistan. According to information obtained by the Associated Press, it now costs about $104 million per month to move the supplies through a longer northern route, $87 million more a month than when the cargo moved through Pakistan.
January 19, 2012 -
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This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government\" AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Metal Trades Department President Ron Ault celebrate the 50th anniversary of Executive Order 10988, which President John F. Kennedy signed to pave the way for collective bargaining rights for federal employees. AFGE 14th District National Vice President Dwight Bowman and Democracy for America Chair Jim Dean also appear.
January 18, 2012 -
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The Pentagon is preparing a series of new initiatives to try to curb sexual assaults in the military. \"Sexual assault has no place in this department. It\'s is an affront to the basic American values we defend,\" said Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta as laid out the first in a series of proposal. According to Panetta, the steps include extending victim services to military spouses as well as Pentagon civilians and contractors working abroad and more money to prosecute perpetrators.
January 18, 2012 -
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Segment 1: Inherited IRA\'s Segment 2: Caroline A. Miller
January 18, 2012 -
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A review of legally oriented mail to prisoners facing charges for war crimes at Guantanamo Bay prison has been ordered. Rear Adm. David Woods says it balances the need for defense attorneys to communicate with their clients with demands for security and safety on the base. Woods made the statement at a pre-trial hearing in a case against a Saudi man charged with orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, is considered one of al-Qaida\'s most senior leaders.
January 18, 2012 -
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More than 200 political prisoners were freed in Myanmar last week. As a result, the U.S. upgraded diplomatic relations. It might also embolden the opposition and that might lead to pressure on the West to lift sanctions. It\'s one of the most reclusive countries in the world. It\'s opened up after 50 years of hard-line rule. Myanmar a neighbor of China represents a potential, key ally for the US in a troubled region.
January 17, 2012 -
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Three star Marine Corps. General Thomas Waldhauser has been appointed to oversee the case an Internet video allegedly showing Marine snipers urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan. He has named another officer to do an internal Marine Corps investigation, in addition to a criminal probe under way by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Waldhauser will decide what to do as a result of the investigations. No one has been charged.
January 17, 2012 -
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Afghanistan\'s government and the Taliban are both denouncing the video that has surfaced on the Internet, allegedly showing four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. Marine Corps. Commandant General James Amos has assigned a Marine General Officer and senior attorney, both with extensive combat experience, to head up an internal Preliminary Inquiry into the matter. Once the investigation and Preliminary Inquiry are complete and the facts have been determined, then the says the Marine Corps will take the appropriate next steps. He says in a statement, \"Rest assured that the institution of the Marine Corps will not rest until the allegations and the events surrounding them have been resolved.\"
January 17, 2012 -
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For the second time in less than a week -- an American ship has rescued Iranian mariners in distress. The Pentagon says a Coast Guard cutter picked up six Iranians from a cargo boat in the northern Persian Gulf. One of the Iranian crew members had suffered burns after the boat had some kind of engine trouble. Last Thursday, a Navy ship rescued 13 Iranian fishermen from pirates holding them hostage aboard their ship.
January 17, 2012 -
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One aircraft carrier strike group is in the Arabian Sea and another is on its way to the region. Is there any connection to increasing tensions with Iran? The Pentagon says no. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, which is the world\'s most productive oil shipping lane because of sanctions over its nuclear program. The USS Carl Vinson arrived in the Arabian Sea on Monday. A second carrier strike group, led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way.
January 17, 2012
