‘No one talks about Iraq anymore’: Shipping off to a waning war still means struggles at homeHAMLET, N.C. — Spc. Jobel Barbosa had spent the past hour with his family in a parking lot after a public ceremony marking his unit’s deployment to a war that’s coming to an end. It was time to go. Former top US commander in Afghan takes off uniform to become next ambassador to KabulWASHINGTON — The designated U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, retired from the Army on Tuesday to become one of the few generals in American history to switch directly from soldier to diplomat. Fla. sheriff: 2 deputies killed by soldier had no warning confrontation would turn deadlyNICEVILLE, Fla. — Two deputies from a troubled sheriff’s office in Florida had no warning a confrontation with a National Guard soldier accused of beating his wife would turn deadly, the sheriff said. Fla. sheriff’s office says soldier killed 2 deputies after being shocked with stun gunNICEVILLE, Fla. — More than 300 employees of a troubled Sheriff’s Office in Florida gathered Sunday night to hear first hand how two of their own were killed a day earlier by a National Guard soldier they were trying to arrest for beating his wife. DOJ interrogation memos approved waterboarding, but left unanswered: Does torture work?WASHINGTON — Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons. |
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