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Russia’s counter-intelligence arrests, turns over CIA agent in Moscow

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Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it had caught a CIA agent in Moscow red-handed in the process of recruiting a Russian man who was in fact a FSB undercover agent. “The FSB’s counterintelligence service detained a CIA agent, who was working in [...]

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Syria tops agenda in talks between Hagel, Turkish defense chief

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz and Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during an honor cordon at the Pentagon on May 17.  /DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Turkey and the United States have conducted a review of defense and military cooperation. The two countries discussed existing and new projects during a meeting in Washington on May 17 between Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Turkish counterpart, Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz. Officials said the meeting was dominated by [...]

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The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in Moscow on May 7.  /Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Sol W. Sanders   That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound of a frighteningly dangerous game of chicken between Russia and Israel [and inferentially the U.S.]. Last minute pleas by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Soviet President Vladimir Putin delivered at Sochi on the Black Sea [...]

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Bombshell in the Benghazi e-mails: The CIA warned of impending jihadist attack

Thousands of Egyptian protesters demonstrate outside U.S. embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11, 2012.  /AP

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The White House recently released more than 100 pages of e-mails between the CIA, State Department and the White House regarding the now infamous talking points. President Barack Obama insists “there is no there, there,” as he stated during a May 13 press conference. Yet, the opposite is true. [...]

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Political thugocracy at the top: Several special prosecutors should be appointed

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Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign. Mr. Obama is the liberal Nixon — a corrupt chief executive, who [...]

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War with Iran, it appears, can wait

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator conventional bomb is off-loaded at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. in a 2007 file photo.  /Boeing

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey It is increasingly apparent that there is no appetite in either the United States or Israel at this time to go to war with Iran by attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities. For the time being, the June elections in Iran are used as a reason not to attack, on [...]

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Benghazi: The honor of the American military is hanging in the balance

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Sol W. Sanders   Despite the distractions of a continuing unemployment crisis and the media’s concentration on stories of human depravity, the scandal of the death of four Americans including an ambassador in Benghazi — “a long time ago” according to the administration’s spokesman — will not be put down. Three sets of issues follow [...]

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Hicks: Militia contracted by State Dept. ‘complicit’ in Benghazi attacks

From right, Eric Nordstrom,  Gregory Hicks and Mark Thompson testify on May 8 at a House Oversight Committee hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
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Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A militia hired to protect the U.S. consulate in Libya ended up helping the Al Qaida-attack that killed the American ambassador to the North African state. Congress was told that the February 17 Martyrs Brigade betrayed the State Department and facilitated the storming of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in [...]

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Benghazi: Americans died for the re-election of the president

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Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is presiding over an administration that has engaged in the systematic abuse of power. This is the real meaning of the Benghazi tragedy. State Department whistleblowers testified Wednesday at a House hearing about the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2012, in Libya, which resulted in the killing of four Americans [...]

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Kenneth Bae’s unforgiveable ‘crime’: Christianity

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Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The outlook for Kenneth Bae, the American preacher/tour guide who’s been sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea, is bleak. That’s because his offenses against the system sound a lot more serious than those of three people rescued by former American presidents in great blazes of [...]

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