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Battlefield Stress Could Have Triggered Afghan Massacre - TIME (blog)
The Army psychiatrist, who declined to be named, spoke of the 38-year old US Army staff sergeant from Washington state's Fort Lewis who allegedly left his base and killed 16 Afghan civilians, including women and children, early Sunday outside Kandahar ...
Climate Action: Stopping Global Warming Through the Back Door - TIME (blog)
“You can't [deal with climate change] without taking on CO2, but you can have a very positive impact by tackling the short-term gases,” said a senior Administration official who spoke on background to reporters before the announcement.
Magic Kingdom: Is Qatar Too Good To Be True? - TIME (blog)
says one Qatari resident, who asked not to be named. Despite constant assurances that freedom of speech is guaranteed in the kingdom, few take the risk. Nevertheless, Qatar is the rare country in the Middle East untouched by flickers of the Arab Spring ...
Is Qatar Too Good To Be True? - TIME (blog)
says one Qatari resident, who asked not to be named. Despite constant assurances that freedom of speech is guaranteed in the kingdom, few take the risk. Nevertheless, Qatar is the rare country in the Middle East untouched by flickers of the Arab Spring ...
The Mystery of the Missing Presidential Campaign: Cain Operation MIA in Key States - TIME (blog)
None of the GOP strategists interviewed by TIME have endorsed any of Cain's opponents, but most requested anonymity to avoid conflict with the surging candidate's campaign. Cain has established a limited presence in select states. ...
Yemeni Officials: Anwar Al-Awlaki Is Dead - TIME (blog)
A US State Department official and a White House official told CNN that they were aware of breaking news reports but couldn't confirm he had been killed (they spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record to ...
EXCLUSIVE: A Glimpse into Ai Weiwei's 81 Days of Detention - TIME (blog)
During his detention Ai was interrogated at least 50 times, the source said. He was not allowed to leave the room, which had one window that was covered, preventing any view outside. The 54-year-old artist was allowed to walk in his room, ...
Why Did Pakistan's Spy Chief Make a Secret Trip to China This Week? - TIME (blog)
General Ahmed Shuja Pasha to make his agency aware of exactly what every American official in Pakistan is working on, a US official tells TIME on condition of anonymity. The Pakistani spymaster's alarm was further heightened when reports emerged that ...
Good News, the War is Over - TIME (blog)
Instead, the official, who refused to be named, said it was more like rendering the part of al-Qaeda that is based in Pakistan "largely incapable of catastrophic attacks against the homeland," which, I guess, is something like defeat. ...
A Washington Tale: The Pakistani Agent Who Tried to Befriend Congress - TIME (blog)
Justice declined to answer; on background, an administration official said Fai was arrested in part because it became clear that another indicted operative, Zaheer Ahmad, was not going to be coming to the US anytime soon. It's worth noting that Fai was ...
Inside Thursday's White House Debt Ceiling Meeting: A Consensus to Go Big - TIME (blog)
From the get-go it was clear that Obama and Boehner, who sat directly to the President's right, had discussed much of what was on the table in detail prior to Thursday's gathering, according to a person familiar with the meeting. ...
Brand Fukushima: Can Fishing and Farming Recover? - TIME (blog)
“People don't want to buy things from Fukushima,” says one official with the city government who asked not to be named. For fishermen and farmers, the stigma of nuclear contamination is literally becoming a matter of life and death; on March 24 th ...
The Strange Case of the (Nearby) But Missing F-22s Over Libya - TIME (blog)
In fact, a person close to the F-22 program says six F-22s were in the neighborhood -- in the United Arab Emirates -- shortly before the Libyan action began. Specifically, they were in there from late January until early March. ...
Don't Look For Lessons in the Story of Cathie Black - TIME (blog)
City education officials are not authorized to speak on the record, but if even a percentage of the off-the-record stories about Black's vanity and sadly comical detachment from the students' experience and day-to-day aspects of the job are true, ...
WikiLeak Pique: Mexico's Calderon Drives Out a US Ambassador Over Leaked Cables - TIME (blog)
In the end, says the expert, who asked to remain anonymous due to the issue's sensitivity, “Calderón allowed his pique to blind him to the reality of the damage it could do to US-Mexico relations.” Had Pascual registered his wariness about Mexico's ...
Are Afghan Security Forces Ready to Take Over? - TIME (blog)
Some people are happy for the security transition, and some people worry about this issue," says a resident of Bamiyan who works for an international development organization, speaking on condition of anonymity for fears over his family's safety. ...
Can Anyone Change No Child Left Behind? - TIME (blog)
One civil rights lobbyist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to be candid about the Administration, told me, "They want a notch in their belts more than good policy" at this point. (Comment on this story.) That concern is echoed by many ...
Crackdown: Why Bahrain's Military Has Taken Over a Hospital - TIME (blog)
Fearing retribution, they all refused to be identified. The head of one department said he and other managers had been forced by the military to make lists of the people who worked for them. The lists were given to the guards blocking the exits. ...
Tide of 1000 Bodies Overwhelms Japan - TIME (blog)
The official declined to be named, citing department policy. The discovery raised the official death toll to about 2800 but the Miyagi police chief has said that more than 10000 people are estimated to have died in his province alone, ...
Japan Nuclear Emergency: How Much Radiation is Safe? - TIME (blog)
When citizens would be allowed to return home following a clean-up operation would be decided on a “case by case” basis, according to an NRC spokesman speaking on background. Of course one of the crucial questions following a nuclear disaster is ...
Helmand's Tanks and Toes - TIME (blog)
“I despise these people,” said a medic who declined to be named. As hideous as the Taliban are, can we really eradicate them to the point where the people ...
Palin Putting Out Presidential Feelers in Iowa - TIME (blog)
A top official in the Iowa Tea Party who insisted on anonymity to avoid betraying Palin's trust told RealClearPolitics that a friend of SarahPAC met with ...
Is MTV's Skins Child Pornography? - TIME (blog)
... at the network's headquarters in New York, according to an executive who attended some of the meetings and spoke only on the condition of anonymity. ...
Mental Ills Biggest Reason New Troops Booted Out - TIME (blog)
The recruiters insisted on anonymity to avoid being disciplined, but their accounts were consistent, and the specifics were verified in several cases by ...
Hulu Faces Calls To Evolve Or Die - TIME (blog)
The New York Post quotes an anonymous source as saying, Hulu has to pick its poison [about whether to charge for content available elsewhere or offer a free ...