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SEAL Team 6 Families to Blame Government For Deaths

[Infowars.com]

“Never before revealed information” to be aired at press conference

By Paul Joseph Watson
May 8, 2013

Seal-Team-6Families of the SEAL Team 6 members who were killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan in August 2011 are set to give a press conference tomorrow during which they will hold the Obama administration partially responsible for the deaths of their sons.

With the administration already reeling over today’s Benghazi revelations, a press release on the ‘Tea Party Command Center’ website promises “never before revealed information” about the circumstances behind the incident.

“Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team VI special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban,” states the press release.

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Kerry to NKorea: New Missile Launch Would Be ‘Huge Mistake’

[Newsmax.com]

Friday, 12 Apr 2013 12:15 PM

John Kerry, Yun Byung-se

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea on Friday it would be a “huge mistake” to test launch a medium-range missile and said the United States would never accept the reclusive country as a nuclear power.Addressing reporters after talks with South Korea’s president and leaders of the 28,000-strong U.S. military contingent in the country, Kerry also said it was up to China, North Korea’s sole major ally, to “put some teeth” into efforts to press Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.Kerry, like other U.S. officials, played down an assessment from the Pentagon’s intelligence agency that the North already had a nuclear missile capacity.The United States, he said, wanted to resume talks about North Korea’s earlier pledges to halt its nuclear program.But he also stressed that Washington would defend its allies in the region if necessary and pointedly said that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, “needs to understand, as I think he probably does, what the outcome of a conflict would be”.
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US Navy shifts destroyer in wake of North Korea missile threats

[NBCNews]

April 1, 2013

NK_nuke-threat-NBCMost people in Seoul, South Korea think North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is bluffing, but the question is “why?” Experts say Jong-un is in the process of consolidating power and planning to eliminate his rivals. NBC’s Richard Engel reports from Seoul, South Korea.

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By Jim Miklaszewski, and Courtney Kube, NBC News

The U.S. Navy is shifting a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean peninsula in the wake of ongoing rhetoric from North Korea, U.S. defense officials said.

The USS McCain is capable of intercepting and destroying a missile, should North Korea decide to fire one off, the officials said.

Still, U.S. defense officials insist that there is nothing to indicate that North Korea is on the verge of another launch.

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Biden: Iraqis Ready to ‘Take Charge’ as U.S. Forces Withdraw

FoxNews.com

Published August 23, 2010

Vice President Joe Biden is shown speaking during funeral services for former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens Aug. 18 in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo)

Vice President Biden, declaring Monday that Al Qaeda in Iraq and its extremist allies have “utterly failed” to inflame widespread violence, said Iraqis are ready to “take charge” of their country as U.S. combat troops leave.

Despite concerns about a political impasse in the country, the vice president said he’s “confident” the leaders will resolve their differences. In an address marking the final drawdown of U.S. combat troops, he said the U.S. military has made “extraordinary progress” and is taking a “major step” this month.

To those who warned that the drawdown would open the door for destabilizing violence, Biden said: “They were wrong, because the Iraqis are ready to take charge.”

The vice president used the speech to both address the progress in Iraq while rallying support for the remaining military mission in Afghanistan, where Gen. David Petraeus recently took charge amid a troop buildup. “Don’t buy into, ‘We have failed in Afghanistan,’” Biden said. “We now are only beginning with the right general and the right number of forces.”

With regard to Iraq, Biden pledged a resolution to the ongoing political dispute over the March 7 elections. He said the political parties of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and former Premier Ayad Allawi must form the “nucleus” of the next government, complete with a formal written agreement on power-sharing.

“It’s time for them to match the courage of their citizens by completing this process,” Biden said. “I’m absolutely confident that Iraq will form a  national unity government that will be able to sustain that country.”

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