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		<title>Group pushes to get Medal of Honor conferred upon WWII hero Maj. Dick Winters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never attempted to employ this platform for overt advocacy or to ask for anyone to take their time to support a particular cause, this is however, is an exception to that self-imposed editorial policy. I would ask you to take a moment to review the following website devoted to garnering the attention to the contributions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1930&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DESPERATE DIPLOMATS: Brits keep mum on AF claim of &#8216;fake Taliban commander&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NYT) Authorities in London withheld a formal response on Friday to a reported accusation by a senior Afghan official that the British introduced an impostor posing as a high Taliban commander into the presidential palace in Kabul to meet President Hamid Karzai. News of the embarrassing ruse emerged earlier this week in an article in The New York Times saying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1921&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INSUFFICIENT FUNDS: Bank of America, other commerical banks shutter 16 African nations checking accounts; diplomatic row ensues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿﻿(allAfrica.com) The Angolan Embassy here canceled tonight&#8217;s celebration planned to mark the country&#8217;s 35th independence anniversary, following a decision by Bank of America to close the embassy&#8217;s checking accounts. At least 16 other African missions in the United States and a similar number from other regions are said to be facing service restrictions imposed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1917&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SHELL GAME?: Pres. Obama readies for Oval Office address to re-re-focus attention from Iraq to Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP)  With his Oval Office speech Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will signal a shift in America&#8217;s focus from the Iraq War to the war in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Thursday. Administration officials have portrayed the 8 p.m. EDT speech as an important pivot point from a war that candidate Obama said should never have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1914&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MIXED SIGNALS: Kenya ratifies new US-styled constitution, al-Bashir in attendance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Al Jazeera) The Kenyan president has signed into law a new constitution, which will significantly alter the east African country&#8217;s power structure. Tens of thousands of residents thronged Nairobi&#8217;s Uhuru Park as Mwai Kibaki signed the documents on Friday. In a referendum earlier this month, nearly 70 per cent of Kenyan voters approved the new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1911&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MOVE OVER FACEBOOK, HERE COMES IKHWANBOOK: Muslim Brotherhood set to launch social networking site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AFP) – The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt&#8217;s influential Islamist opposition movement, will launch its own social networking site next month to promote moderate Islam, an official said on Wednesday. Ikhwanbook.com, which is already up, was created by the Brotherhood&#8217;s headquarters in Cairo to &#8220;promote moderate Islam and clarify who we are,&#8221; said politburo member Mohammed Mursi. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1904&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GETTING YOUR FAX STRAIGHT: US Justice Dept. pushes wrong button on fax; Russia not notified of citizen in US custody, Russian FM says &#8220;equal to kidnapping&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reuters)   The United States has apologized to Russia for failing to give it prompt notice that a Russian citizen was in U.S. custody and blamed the error on an official hitting the wrong fax button, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. The notification went to Romania instead of Russia, said U.S. officials who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1898&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;RUSTY&#8221; MISSILE OFFICERS GET TRAINING APP: Raytheon says app produced for &#8220;rusty skills&#8221; generated by wartime ops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BBC) The Patriot anti-missile system now has its own iPhone app, developed by US defence firm Raytheon. Patriot Crew Drill is a multiple-choice game, designed as a refresher tool for missile troops. The game, which will not be available on Apple&#8217;s App Store, will help keep Patriot troops, assigned to other duties, up to speed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1895&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AMIRI GETS A MOVIE: Iranian gov&#8217;t linked studio enlists recent movie school grads to make film about scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AFP) A government-linked Iranian studio said on Wednesday it plans to make a television movie about Shahram Amiri, the Tehran scientist who claims he was abducted by US spies last year. Amirhossein Ashtiyanipour, a director at Sima Film, said a &#8220;young group of movie school graduates&#8221; had been hired to write the script for the movie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1892&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KIDNAPPED: Report: Prominent Yemeni journo/AQ expert Abdulelah Shaea snatched</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AFP) &#8211; A prominent Yemeni journalist and specialist in Al-Qaeda on Monday accused the security services of having &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; and beaten him up, in a website interview. Abdulelah Shaea told newsyemen.net that he was questioned for several hours on Sunday night and his laptop seized by men who said they were security agents. &#8220;Eight gunmen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onthedefense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10410942&amp;post=1886&amp;subd=onthedefense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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