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First Algerians repatriated from Gitmo

News – In a first, the Pentagon said this week it sent home two Algerians from the Guantnnamo Bay detention center. The latest transfer operation from the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba reduced the prison camp…

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Pentagon Breaks Promise to Marines

News – The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.

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Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan

News – The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is doing combat operations in the volatile…

Pentagon's top investigator to resign
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Pentagon's top investigator to resign

Politics – The Pentagon's inspector general, Claude Kicklighter, is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight office have strained…

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Pentagon made 'unprecedented' effort to hide human cost…

Do No Evil – The ACLU today released documents regarding Navy investigations of civilians killed by coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon erased journalists' footage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, paid Iraqi…

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Attacking In 2009 according Joe Lieberman

News – In describing the reasons he believes the Republicans' presumptive nominee for president would be better prepared than the Democrats' to lead the nation next January, Sen. Joe Lieberman said that history shows the…

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Ron Paul,s warning for the coming Iran War (VIDEO)

News – Republican congressman Ron Paul warns against military engagement in Iran, saying 'bombing Iran' will cause energy prices to skyrocket

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US Army report blames Pentagon for Iraq blunders

Politics – A new report by Army historians levels tough, candid criticism against Pentagon leadership for its failure to plan beyond the initial invasion of Iraq. "On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign" - which outlines…

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Pentagon to unveil new recruiting waivers

News – The Pentagon has revised its policy for recruits who must get waivers for past bad behavior, but officials stopped short of eliminating waiver requirements for petty crimes, The Associated Press has learned.

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Pentagon to unveil new waiver process for recruits

News – The Pentagon has revised its policy for recruits who must get waivers for past bad behavior, but officials stopped short of eliminating waiver requirements for petty crimes, The Associated Press has learned.

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Pentagon will buy satellites to do more spying

News – The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials.…

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Prosecutors charge accused USS Cole mastermind

News – U.S. military prosecutors have charged the alleged mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole warship that killed 17 U.S. sailors in 2000, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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Boeing gets $19.2M Navy contract for aircraft work

Money – Boeing Co.'s McDonnell Douglas Corp. received a $19.2 million contract boost from the Navy for engineering services on the T-45 aircraft and simulators, the Pentagon said late Friday.

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Secret Plan is a Bust Because Bush's Team Can't Get Along!

Politics – Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to make it easer for the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the…

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Pentagon asked to block Christian broadcast

Religion – A foundation that has sued the military alleging widespread violations of religious freedom is asking the Pentagon to block a Christian cable TV broadcast featuring officers in uniform. The Military Religious…

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Pentagon Resists Order To Clean Up Pollution

Do No Evil – The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose "imminent…

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Iran: IAF drill jeopardizes global peace

News – Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted a government spokesman as saying that the exercises prove Israel "jeopardizes global peace and security."

 Pentagon: Taliban regrouped and 'resilient' in Afghanistan
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Pentagon: Taliban regrouped and 'resilient' in Afghanistan

News – The Taliban have regrouped and have formed a "resilient insurgency," according to a new Pentagon report. The report predicted that the Taliban would be back in 2008. Opium production increased "substantially" in…

Military facing $100 Billion in repairs
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Military facing $100 Billion in repairs

Money – The Pentagon faces a more than $100 billion bill to repair and replace worn-out or destroyed equipment, vehicles and weapons, officials and members of Congress say, but paying for it may endanger plans to boost…

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The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

Politics – A mind-boggling investigation of the all-pervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life-a real-world Matrix come alive. Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex-an omnipresent,…

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What You Don't See Can Hurt You

News – At $34 billion, you're already counting pretty high. After all, that's Harvard's endowment, and it's the minimal figure for the Pentagon's "black budget" money for which the Pentagon will remain unaccountable because…

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Afghanistan Attacks Up 40% in East, Pentagon Says

News – Insurgent activity has spread into once stable areas, data show, prompting alarm among officials.

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Lawmakers flay Army over 21-year-old's $298 million arms…

Do No Evil – A congressional investigation found that Efraim Diveroli was granted an arms contract even though he, his company, AEY, and a supplier he worked with were on a State Department watch list for suspicious international…

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Pentagon grapples with 9/11 memorial puzzle

News – When the nation's first major 9/11 memorial is dedicated on the grounds of the Pentagon 's western side this September, it will change the iconic building into something it was not intended to be: a tourist destination.

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Pentagon blasts KBR's operation on Katrina contracts

Do No Evil – A Pentagon report alleges that KBR held an illegal contract, overcharged millions to the Navy and produced shoddy workmanship on its Mississippi jobs after Katrina. KBR allegedly used a type of contract known as…

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