H ere’s something for critics of the country’s defense budget to ponder: After I was confirmed as secretary of the Navy in May 2001, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asked me and the other service secretaries to work with Congress to gain approval for a pending supplemental appropriation to the defense budget. This was not a war supplemental; it was still four months before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Pentagon was simply running out of money. Read full article > >

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Military preparedness does not come cheap

One of the raps on Mitt Romney is he’s not a natural. That he seems fake even when he’s rehearsed being real. One confirmation of this awkwardness may be in the way he is approaching his attacks on Newt Gingrich. Unlike Iowa, where he took the more traditional route of letting his super PAC do his dirty work, now he’s doing it, too. And not in the sunny persona of Ronald Reagan, who perfected the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger approach. Instead, it is as if Romney has memorized the opposition research books and is reciting as many attacks as he can fit into a sound bite. (Sound bites are allowed to drag on when they are more negative.) Gingrich is bad on Fannie Mae, bad on health care consulting, ethics, can’t get nominated, can’t win. Bad, bad, bad. Read full article > >

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Romney’s attacks: Savvy or desperate?

A decision by Iran to conduct sensitive atomic activities at an underground site — offering better protection against any enemy attacks — could complicate diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute peacefully.

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Iran Will Soon Move Uranium Work Underground, Official Says

Victims of a hack on US security think-tank Stratfor are warned not to offer public support to the company due to threats of further attacks.

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Hack victims face repeat attacks

Police across the UK recorded more than 2,800 so-called honour attacks last year, with a number of forces seeing incidents increase, figures show.

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Turkey sent planes to evacuate its diplomats’ families after the attacks, which followed the Arab League’s decision to suspend Syria’s membership for failing to end its bloody crackdown.

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Mobs in Syria Attack Embassies After Arab League Decision

The man known as Carlos the Jackal goes on trial in a Paris court on Monday, accused of killing 11 people and wounding nearly 200 more in four attacks in the early 1980s.

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In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday, the Awlaki family decided to speak out for the first time since the attacks. Read full article > >

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Anwar al-Awlaki’s family speaks out against his son’s death in airstrike

Documents were filed in the only remaining wrongful-death lawsuit still pending out of nearly 100 filed after the attacks.

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Court Filing Details Shortcomings of 9/11 Airport Screeners

At least 10 such women died in the attacks.

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Memorial Honors Pregnant 9/11 Victims

The nation marked a decade since the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history with official ceremonies and private tributes Sunday to the thousands who perished inside — or protecting — the symbols of American power on Sept. 11, 2001. The anniversary of the attacks — the first since the killing in May of Osama bin Laden — unfolded through tearful storytelling and still-vivid memories. Read full article > >

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At 9/11 ceremonies, tearful storytelling and still-vivid memories

A sombre US honours the victims of 9/11 with ceremonies at the World Trade Center site in New York and the Pentagon, 10 years after the attacks.

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Austin Vukosa, one of some 3,000 children under 18 who lost a parent in the attacks, became a hyperambitious, self-reliant teenager.

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The 9/11 Decade: The 9/11 Decade: After a Father’s Death, Growing Up in a Hurry

In the years between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and today, there have been many attempts to make art in response to the tragedy. The resulting works have been sentimental, overblown, angry, poetic, polemic, maudlin, mysterious, clumsy, subtle and beautiful. All of those qualities are on display at the Edison Place Gallery , where a showcase of work by 39 artists is marking this weekend’s anniversary. Part of the multi-site 9/11 Arts Project, “Ten Years After 9/11” is, unsurprisingly, an uneven show. It is also, at times, kind of wonderful. Read full article > >

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Art review: ‘Ten Years After 9/11’ displays 39 artists’ reaction to attacks

In the years between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and today, there have been many attempts to make art in response to the tragedy. The resulting works have been sentimental, overblown, angry, poetic, polemic, maudlin, mysterious, clumsy, subtle and beautiful. All of those qualities are on display at the Edison Place Gallery , where a showcase of work by 39 artists is marking this weekend’s anniversary. Part of the multi-site 9/11 Arts Project, “Ten Years After 9/11” is, unsurprisingly, an uneven show. It is also, at times, kind of wonderful. Read full article > >

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Art review: ‘Ten Years After 9/11’ displays 39 artists’ reaction to attacks