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...military industry complex that he wants to dismantle that his campaign headquarters in Virginia has no sign and is on the third floor of a building. He also travels with a bodyguard, Eli Israel, who emailed him from his station in Iraq and, Gravel says, was thrown in the brig for refusing to continue fighting until the Gravel campaign got him a lawyer. Israel usually makes up the entirety of his entourage. "You can pay someone $5,000 to get them rubbed out in South San Francisco," Gravel explains...
...native Jose Padilla to more than 17 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy has attracted attention. Soon after Padilla's arrest in 2002, he was designated an enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges?conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...
...return of a once-loathed leader who has come to represent a renewed call for democracy in Pakistan. But fewer still thought Musharraf would actually defy the Supreme Court order by not letting him in the country at all. "This is a shame, a stain, a disgrace," says analyst Brig. Gen. Talat Masood. "It shows the weakness of the government. Every action that Musharraf is taking is making things more difficult for him." While small riots have already erupted across Pakistan over Sharif's deportation, the more significant battles will now be fought in the Supreme Court...
...rebel soldiers were sentenced to between 14 and 28 days in the brig and removed from combat duty. "This is a phenomenon that endangers the basis on which the IDF ([Israeli Defense Forces] operates, as an army of the people in a democratic country, and its obligations to carry out the tasks assigned to it," said General Gadi Shamni, chief of the Central Command...
...ramp up training of Shi'ite militia fighters in order to create special "cells" of skilled guerrillas. "What is I think clear is Iran's interest in things like the Lebanon model as a method of preserving strategic influence in areas that are of importance to them," says Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, the acting commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad. "That's the bane of the Middle East, and it's also the fingerprint of Iranian statecraft. And so we see that emerging here, just as we saw it emerge in Lebanon...