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Killeen is a soldier's town. Many choose to remain here after retirement - the climate is benign, the cost of living relatively low and the social network familiar. The Islamic Community Center of Greater Killeen, a mosque founded by several Army veterans, is the place where civilians and soldiers gather for prayer every Friday. The congregation is diverse, and includes both serving and retired military and civilian families, some with roots in Pakistan, Africa and the Middle East, others native-born Americans. Now the small, red brick mosque on South Fort Hood Street is notorious as the place where Hasan...
...introduces Wodiczko as an artist who has expanded the definition of a veteran to refer to any victim of war. With “...Out of Here: The Veterans Project,” Wodiczko attempts to transform the audience into veterans. He transports them into the center of the kind of confrontation that is an everyday reality for many. However, because audience members remain protected by the walls of the warehouse environment, and by the fact that they cannot directly participate in the narrative, they remain as spectators...
...part of a custodial interrogation. But military investigators must advise suspects of their right to remain silent prior to any communication, even a chance or informal conversation, bedside or on the street, according to Scott L. Silliman, a retired military lawyer and head of the Duke University Law School Center on Ethics and National Security. (See a story about the FBI and claims that it ignored intel on Hasan...
...circulated the news via e-mail, he confirmed Craig's departure. Gibbs maintained that Craig's decision to leave, which has been rumored for months, was not related to Craig's role in setting a one-year deadline for removing detainees from the Guantánamo Bay detention center, an ambitious deadline that is unlikely to be met. (Read a 2-min. bio of Robert Gibbs...
...suspects have been released even when their abuse didn't prejudice evidence against them, but there's no clear precedent for terrorism cases.) Other issues likely to be raised by the defense, says Dratel, are finding a jury that can be considered impartial, especially blocks from the World Trade Center site, and whether Mohammed's rights to a speedy trial have been violated. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...