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Report: Gadhafi forces perched children on tanks to deter NATO attacks msnbc.com TRIPOLI, Libya — Both sides in Libya's ongoing civil war are being accused of abuses, with forces loyal to fallen leader Moammar Gadhafi blamed for a vast array of possible war crimes and rebels said to be indiscriminately targeting black people. ... See all stories on this topic »

Qaddafi Forces Accused of Possible War Crimes Bloomberg By Christopher Stephen and Caroline Alexander - Tue Aug 30 08:44:41 GMT 2011 Forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi committed possible war crimes in the battle for Misrata, a US- based human rights group said, as some of the fallen leader's family fled to ... See all stories on this topic »

What War Criminals? Japan's New P.M. Raises Old Concerns in Asia TIME (blog) Noda has said that he doesn't believe that the top-level Class A Japanese war criminals convicted by the Allies after the end of World War II are indeed war criminals under Japanese law. That stand, which he repeated at a news conference earlier this ... See all stories on this topic »

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over USA Today More than 830000 reservists and National Guard members have come back from war during the past decade. They will be followed by the 91000 currently deployed and by many others as the United States draws down forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Rights Groups Cite Possible War Crimes by Sudan's Army Voice of America (blog) Two human rights groups say Sudan's army may have committed war crimes in the country's Southern Kordofan state. London-based Amnesty International and New York-based Human Rights Watch said Tuesday they have evidence that Sudanese forces have carried ... See all stories on this topic »

God of War: Origins Collection Review Digitaltrends.com Review: Two of the best PSP titles get the beauty treatment and have been remastered, giving fans one of the best values on the PS3 in the God of War: Origins Collection. If you are a fan of the God of War series but don't own a PSP, today is your ... See all stories on this topic » Digitaltrends.com

What war vet JR Martinez could do, 'Dancing With the Stars' Los Angeles Times His turn on the show could make a difference to soldiers and war veterans, not to mention dance fans. Martinez, 28, is an Iraq war vet who sustained burns to more than 40% of his body, including his face, after hitting a land mine while deployed with ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Civil War Weekend in Lake Villa set for Sept. 17-18 Chicago Sun-Times By Diana Kuyper Special to The News-Sun August 29, 2011 10:32PM Ainsley Wonderling of Lake Villa, dressed in a replica of a circa 1860 day dress, and Civil War reenactor Wayne Carle of Antioch, wearing a reproduction of a Federal Army captain's uniform ... See all stories on this topic »

Weekdays 4p et Fox News (blog) 24: Actor Brad Pitt (C) runs during the filming of zombie movie 'World War Z' in Glasgow, Scotland. (Reuters) Brad Pitt's latest role as a globe-trotting, zombie-hunting United Nations employee turned out to be a life-saving opportunity on the set of ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News (blog)

Libyan war 'not over' as Gadhafi's son killed in battle, rebels say CNN International In fact, the chiefs of staff from countries involved militarily in the conflict -- Greece, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Jordan, Spain, Turkey and Norway -- who met in Qatar on Monday underscored that the "war in Libya is not over. ... See all stories on this topic » CNN International

What you missed: Civil War news hightlights Washington Post (blog) After the jump, Civil War reads from elsewhere around the web, including the tale of Confederate POW camp. Got other good reads? Share them in the comments. By Linda Wheeler | 06:19 PM ET, 08/29/2011 SuperFan badge holders consistently post smart, ... See all stories on this topic »

Female Vets Navigate Post-War Stress, Home Duties NPR In Philadelphia, some female veterans are dealing with family responsibilities while still struggling to cope with the lingering effects of war. During a recent visit to the Philadelphia Veteran's Affairs Hospital, Louise Hawthorne was between ... See all stories on this topic »

KURDISH WAR: The Annual Turkish Air Raids Are Devastating Strategy Page Apparently the government has decided that its diplomatic offensive has failed and that the PKK only understands war. The government (led by the Justice and Development Party, AKP) had made giving Turkish Kurds more cultural rights and greater ... See all stories on this topic »

$30 bln of US war money gone to crooks and wasters RT The US wasted at least one dollar out of six on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which amounts to about US $30 billion, a bipartisan commission found. The sum may double in future, as foreign governments abandon unsustainable projects funded by the US. ... See all stories on this topic »

True Blood lets the leather-jacketed, supernatural war of Louisiana begin! io9 This week on True Blood, we got our favorite vampire back, FINALLY. But have Sookie's underbits damaged his brain for good? Possibly, only time will tell! Until then, cue the vampire slo-mo, it's time for the Pro/Con list. Let's be honest. ... See all stories on this topic »

'Aftermath:' NCHS dedicates final Civil War painting Newnan Times-Herald By Winston Skinner The final painting in the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society's Civil War series has been completed. Local artist Martin Pate's oil, "Aftermath," shows a nurse and doctor on a battlefield tending to wounded soldiers. ... See all stories on this topic » Newnan Times-Herald

Gears of War 3 Gets a Season Pass Co-Optimus.com We're about three weeks out from Gears of War 3's release date. We are nearly frothing with anticipation; it's probably the biggest co-op launch in this very crowded fall season. As the wait shortens, new details emerge, and today, Epic announced that ... See all stories on this topic » Co-Optimus.com

Corruption, the war on terror hindering food aid to southern Somalia iWatch News US agencies blame Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, for the poor flow of aid to the famine-stricken Horn of Africa. Protesters shouted slogans of support for the group in this 2010 demonstration in Mogadishu, Somalia. ... See all stories on this topic »

Some fear war, foreign intervention in Syria The National AP Photo / Shaam News Network Damascus // With no sign that a political solution will be found to end a six-month-old uprising, Syria is sliding towards a full-blown war involving foreign forces, analysts and political figures in Damascus fear. ... See all stories on this topic » The National

Germany dims nuclear plants but hopes to keep lights on Economic Times BIBLIS: Not since the grim period after World War II has Germany had significant blackouts, but it is now bracing for that possibility after shutting down half its nuclear reactors practically overnight. Nuclear plants have long generated nearly a ... See all stories on this topic »

The Bible as a weapon of war Washington Times (From: Donald L. Brake, A Visual History of the English Bible, Baker Books, 2008) While this story is apocryphal, it has long been handed down as Revolutionary war lore that the leaves of Bibles and hymnals provided gun wads for the soldiers' muskets. ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Ten years after 9/11, wasteful Pentagon war contracting still under fire Stars and Stripes (blog) By Kevin Baron WASHINGTON – The Pentagon's use of no-bid contracts meant to field urgently needed war goods like counter-IED devices has tripled since 9/11, despite promises to reform the controversial practice once justified by military planners at ... See all stories on this topic »

Kindle vs. iPad: 'Nasty' Tablet War Ahead? EBN A price war is, in my opinion, inevitable in the tablet market. (See: Apple Can Be Beaten.) Rivals are envious of Apple's huge market share, and now that it's obvious they can't win on design, spin, and functionality, they will most likely expand their ... See all stories on this topic »

Max Brooks visits the set and shows off pictures from "World War Z" IFC While its zombie subject matter might mark it as an easy choice for a feature film adaptation, the fractured "oral history" style structure of "World War Z" doesn't exactly lend itself to the medium. Despite the fact that filming is well under way on ... See all stories on this topic » IFC

Vero Beach Theatre Guild opens war drama 'All My Sons' on Sept. 15 TCPalm The plays featured at the beachside theater will cover world war and turmoil, 1940s music, mistresses and corruption, love spells and an unsinkable ship. Audiences should be familiar with most of the shows. "We do try to select shows that we know the ... See all stories on this topic »

The war crimes of Doctor Who TG Daily I did, however, like the newly introduced element of the robot war crimes punisher from the future. I'm guessing that this is not the first time we're going to see these guys, and we're going to have to be on the lookout for their 'ships' in future ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Goebbels' secretary, 100, breaks her silence about the cold and distant ... Daily Mail Since the end of World War II, Brunhilde Pomsel, now 100, has refused all requests for interviews and offers to publish her memoirs. But after five months of negotiations she has given a single interview to Bild, Germany's biggest newspaper, ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Stanislaus County gives diplomas for educations interrupted by war Modesto Bee Belated high school diplomas are given to Stanislaus County residents whose high school education was interrupted during the World War II, Korean or Vietnam War because of military service or internment. Stanislaus County residents are encouraged to ... See all stories on this topic »

B Reactor moves toward being a museum TheNewsTribune.com In July, Ken Salazar, the secretary of the interior, recommended to Congress that a national historical park should be formed to commemorate the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II. ... See all stories on this topic »

Shell-shocked Usain Bolt will 'go to war' in 200m The Australian "I think he's going to put his '09 face on and go to war," Gay predicted. Meanwhile, athletics websites were claiming yesterday that it was actually the eventual winner of the 100m, Bolt's 21-year-old training partner Yohan Blake, who moved first in ... See all stories on this topic »

Times civil war package narrative nwitimes.com What began as a Times Media Co. effort to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning through newspaper articles became a several-month historical preservation project aimed at saving the last memorials to the region men who fought ... See all stories on this topic »

Our View: Perez cooks books in Portantino war Pasadena Star-News Readers will recall that last week's volleys in the war between the feuding camps involved Assembly members bucking leadership demands and, following Portantino's lead, releasing supposedly confidential office calendars and expense records to the ... See all stories on this topic »

World War II Avenger provided ride of a lifetime Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier Brad Deckert of Peru, Ill., owner and pilot of a TBM-3E Avenger torpedo bomber, offered rides in his vintage war bird as well. I jumped at the chance Friday. The modern fighter jet just doesn't have the aura of a World War II plane that saw action in ... See all stories on this topic »

Global Warming & War: New Study Finds Link Between Climate Change and Conflict Democracy Now A new study has found that that often war is associated with global climate change. According to the report, there are links between the climate phenomenon El Niño and outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru. ... See all stories on this topic » Democracy Now

Flash of insight: Whole world is a prisoner of war Morning Sentinel The prisoner of war/missing in action flag was inspired after the war in Vietnam, for obvious reasons. It then struck me that the whole world had become a prisoner of war. Spouses, children and even ailing parents are left behind to fend for themselves ... See all stories on this topic »

Journalists Become New Targets in War on Terror New America Media When Al Jazeera reporter Sami al Hajj was released from Guantanamo Prison in 2008, he was received with a hero's welcome in his native Sudan. In later interviews, al Hajj detailed the horror of his seven-year confinement, leading Arab audiences to ... See all stories on this topic »

Avoid Trade War? We're Already in One! Intellectual Conservative Avoid Trade War? We're Already in One! By Ian Fletcher, on August 29th, 2011 When the moneymen in Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin, and the other nations currently running trade surpluses against the US start to ponder the financial realpolitik of exaggerated ... See all stories on this topic »

SportsCenter vs. Weather Channel: A bore war of words Delaware County Daily Times By MATTHEW De GEORGE An ordeal like what the East Coast has gone through the last two days puts things into perspective. The damaging effects of Hurricane Irene, though not as devastating as first anticipated, sent a scare through millions of residents ... See all stories on this topic »

It's time to end the war on terror: How you can watch—and participate in—the ... Slate Magazine 7 with a debate at NYU about a contentious and timely topic: Is it time to end the war on terror? We'd like to invite you to attend the debate—we're offering Slate readers a 30 percent discount on tickets (see below)—and we'd like you to submit ... See all stories on this topic »

Collings Foundation aircraft return to MAPS Suburbanite Freedom flyers World War II Veterans stand in front of the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress", "Nine-0-Nine" from the Collings Foundation "Wings Of Freedom Tour" during the air show at MAPS this past weekend. By Jim Mesko The skies over Akron-Canton airport ... See all stories on this topic »

World War II bombers touch down in Nampa Northwest Cable News The Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force has brought two World War II bombers to the Nampa Airport for tours and rides. The B-25 Mitchell 'Maid in the Shade' was made in 1943 and fought in 18 combat missions. The B-17 Flying Fortress ... See all stories on this topic »

Traveling World War I Museum comes to Fort Collins Northern Colorado 5 To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Waddell & Reed – working in partnership with the National World War I Museum – developed a 18-wheel traveling World War I museum that will visit 75 cities from coast to coast over the next year. ... See all stories on this topic »

Clinton House Museum to unveil traveling Civil War exhibit | Announcement Ozarks Unbound Fayetteville, Ark. –The Clinton House Museum will hold a ribbon cutting of the traveling exhibit "Civil War Arkansas, 1861-1865" at noon on Monday, August 29. The exhibit will kick off local celebrations of the upcoming sesquicentennial (150th ... See all stories on this topic »

A security turf war? New York Post By STEWART BAKER What's the best way to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11? By returning to the mindset of Sept. 10, apparently. At least that's the message delivered by the Associated Press and a chorus of blogs hyperventilating about the NYPD's ... See all stories on this topic » New York Post

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