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- Andrew Wang of Chicago Tribune linked this on July 1, 2009 at 12:07AM EDT
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Andrew said:
Scientists say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations. The chili is said to be 1,000 times hotter than commonly used kitchen chili.
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- Andrew Wang of Chicago Tribune linked this on June 3, 2009 at 7:57AM EDT
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Twenty years after the Chinese government's crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, four photographers take a look back at a single iconic scene they all caught on film.
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- Colonel Tribune of Chicago Tribune linked this on May 20, 2009 at 9:08AM EDT
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Of 30 rifle magazines recently taken from insurgents’ corpses, at least 17 contained cartridges, or rounds, identical to ammunition the United States had provided to Afghan government forces
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- Colonel Tribune of Chicago Tribune linked this on May 19, 2009 at 11:24AM EDT
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Zalmay Khalilzad, who was President George W. Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan, could assume a powerful, unelected position inside the Afghan government under a plan he is discussing with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, according to senior American and Afghan officials.
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- Colonel Tribune of Chicago Tribune linked this on May 12, 2009 at 10:39AM EDT
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The so-called Sunni Awakening, in which American forces formed tactical alliances with local sheikhs, has been credited with dampening the insurgency in much of Iraq. But new evidence suggests that the Sunnis were offering the same deal as early as 2004—one that was eagerly embraced by commanders on the ground, but rejected out of hand at the highest levels of the Bush administration.
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- Colonel Tribune of Chicago Tribune linked this on April 28, 2009 at 10:30AM EDT
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Ahmadinejad's uncharacteristic nod to Israel's existence may herald an important change in Iranian foreign policy.
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- Colonel Tribune of Chicago Tribune linked this on April 27, 2009 at 5:00PM EDT
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Colonel said:
A friend put it best in an email he sent this morning: “You picked a swine time to go to Mexico City.”
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- Andrew Wang of Chicago Tribune linked this on April 27, 2009 at 9:46AM EDT
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These are confusing times for pirate enthusiasts, who glamorize such famed rogues as Capt. Kidd and Blackbeard. Somali teenagers in speedboats, brandishing AK-47s, don't have the same mystique.
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- George Knue of Chicago Tribune / chicagotribune.com / chicagobreakingnews.com linked this on March 29, 2009 at 3:41PM EDT
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Here's a new way to get around -- a carplane?
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- George Knue of Chicago Tribune / chicagotribune.com / chicagobreakingnews.com linked this on March 21, 2009 at 5:06PM EDT
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