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Retired general taking another look at nuke corps

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Retired general taking another look at nuke corps

Associated Press, Robert Burns -

April 5, 2014 3:26 am

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the conclusion of their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. If President Barack Obama decided to leave no military advisory force in Afghanistan next year, would Afghan security unravel to the point of enabling a civil war, a Taliban takeover and a return of al-Qaida in such numbers as to pose a 9/11-type threat. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Will ‘zero option’ in Afghanistan cause chaos?

Associated Press, Robert Burns -

March 1, 2014 9:07 am

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there would be new waves of attacks against Ethiopian troops. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. The strike comes exactly two weeks after al-Shabab militants attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall, a four-day terrorist assault that killed at least 67 people in neighboring Kenya. Al-Shabab has a formal alliance with al-Qaida, and hundreds of foreign fighters from the U.S., Britain and Middle Eastern countries fight alongside Somali members of al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

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Raids suggest future shape of counterterror bids

Associated Press, Robert Burns -

October 7, 2013 4:10 am

Air Force inspections found porn, offensive items

Air Force inspections found porn, offensive items

Associated Press, Robert Burns -

January 18, 2013 10:44 pm

Al-Qaida in Afghanistan is attempting a comeback

Al-Qaida in Afghanistan is attempting a comeback

Deb Riechmann, Robert Burns -

October 21, 2012 4:00 am