Barack Obama ‘wanted to join US military’ — Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and “we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point”.
US to establish naval base in Georgia The US is negotiating with Georgia and Turkey to establish a naval base at one of the two key Georgian ports of Batumi or Poti, reports say. Turkey, in an attempt to avoid political tension with Russia, has not officially revealed its position regarding the plan, said Gruzya Online, a Russian-language internet site. Russia had previously announced its intention to station its own special forces at the Georgian ports.
Vladimir Putin set to bait US with nuclear aid for Tehran Russia is considering increasing its assistance to Iran’s nuclear programme in response to America’s calls for Nato expansion eastwards and the presence of US Navy vessels in the Black Sea delivering [military] aid to Georgia. The Kremlin is discussing sending teams of Russian nuclear experts to Tehran and inviting Iranian nuclear scientists to Moscow for training, according to sources close to the Russian military.
Rice: 'Time isn't right for the Russia agreement' Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. Her comment increased speculation that President [sic] Bush is planning to punish Moscow for invading Georgia, a former Soviet republic, by canceling the agreement. Such a move is being planned, according to senior Bush administration officials, but is not yet final.
Iran to hold three-day war games: report Iran's armed forces will begin three days of war games on Monday involving anti-aircraft defense systems, Iranian media said on Sunday. The exercises will be held amid persistent speculation about a possible U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West and Israel say are part of a clandestine bid to build atomic bombs, despite Tehran's denials.
Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq's juvenile prisons --Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells --Karkh juvenile prison currently holds 315 children, while its capacity is 250 Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say... Raad Jamal was 17 when US forces raided his home in the mixed Sunni and Shia district of Doura in June last year... Raad and a friend were taken to a US base and were transferred next morning to the seventh brigade of the Iraqi army's second regiment. Raad said he and his friend were hung from the ceiling on ropes, beaten with electric cables, and taken for interrogation one by one. "They said everyone who comes here has to confess," Raad said.
Schwarzenegger Recall Effort Launched
SACRAMENTO, CA - Facing the longest state budget impasse in recorded California history, Gov. Schwarzenegger will become the official target of a recall campaign Monday when the California Correctional Peace Officers Association files paperwork to recall the incumbent governor.
CCPOA spokesman Lance Corcoran confirmed to News10 Sunday that his union intends to launch the recall effort Monday morning.
"It's about leadership," Corcoran said. "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the worst governor in the history of worst governors."
CCPOA has often sparred with the Schwarzenegger administration over issues like prison reform and correctional officer salaries. The union is seeking pay increases for their officers this year but contract negotiations with the governor's administration have stalled.
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