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Minnesota’s Congressional delegation weighed in on President Obama’s plans for the war in Afghanistan on Wednesday with a mix of skepticism and cautious praise.
For the first time in the war’s history, President Obama announced a date — July 2011 — when U.S. forces in Afghanistan will begin handing over security responsibilities to Afghan soldiers and policemen.
A conference call with senior administration officials previewed the major themes in tonight’s presidential announcement of a refined Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. Those are: a 30,000 total troop increase arriving by the summer of 2010; a transition to Afghan security control beginning in July 2010; a reaffirmed goal of “disrupting, dismantling and eventually defeating al-Qaeda and preventing the return of either to Afghanistan or Pakistan.”
Unsealed court documents have unleashed a wave of press about an American ring allied with a terror group in Somalia. Minneapolis “is the center of it,” the local FBI head tells the AP. “Now we should…
“Crafty” detainees in Iraq have taken to taunting members of the Wisconsin National Guard about the successes of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre.
On Thursday, Rep. Michele Bachmann condemned the Goldstone report, a United Nations-commissioned report on possible war crimes during the Israel-Palestine conflict in the Gaza strip in 2008 and 2009. But it is clear from her press release that…
At Ft. Hood Army Base today, President Obama honored the thirteen people killed Thursday in a shooting spree there, including St. Paul’s Pfc. Kham Xiong. Obama told of Xiong, a 23-year-old married father of three, who “came to America from…
Rep. Keith Ellison is urging members of Congress not to scrap the Goldstone report (pdf) on war crimes allegedly committed during the conflict culminating in December 2008 and January 2009 between Hamas and Israel.…
Huffington Post’s Sam Stein is reporting that an amendment to the defense appropriations bill authored by Sen. Al Franken and approved in the Senate two weeks ago may be stripped from the final bill. Thirty…
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