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  • August 2008

    • Palin 'Exactly Who I Need' to Remake Washington: Mac

      Associated Press  |  Aug 29, 08 12:59 PM CDT

      Palin 'Exactly Who I Need' to Remake Washington: Mac

      (AP) - John McCain described Sarah Palin, his choice for vice presidential running mate, as "exactly who I need. She's exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second." McCain and Palin appeared together in Ohio on their way to the Republican National Convention. "I am honored," she said after being selected. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Democrats  • Republican National Convention  • prisoner of war

    • McCain Cheapens the POW Card

      New York Times  |  Aug 24, 08 8:20 AM CDT

      McCain Cheapens the POW Card

      (Newser) - John McCain’s campaign refers to his prisoner-of-war past so much that it’s becoming a “punch line,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . “By flashing the POW card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated,” McCain “is cheapening his greatest strength," she adds. His apparent obsession is also dangerous because it opens troubling questions about his attitudes toward military conflict. More »

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      John McCain  • Election 2008  • Vietnam  • campaign tactics  • prisoner of war

    • McCain Recalls POW Prayers, Tests of Faith

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 15, 08 3:26 PM CDT

      McCain Recalls POW Prayers, Tests of Faith

      (Newser) - John McCain has kept relatively quiet about his religious beliefs and practices, but he speaks freely on the spiritual significance of his captivity in North Vietnam from 1967 to 1973. Ahead of tomorrow's sit-down with Rick Warren, the candidate tells the Chicago Tribune about his harrowing experience in the Hanoi Hilton, where he took part in an uprising over the denial of what he calls "a fundamental human right." More »

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      John McCain  • religion  • Vietnam  • faith  • prisoner of war

  • June 2008

    • China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War

      Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 08 8:53 AM CDT

      China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War

      (Newser) - China has for the first time admitted holding an American prisoner from the Korean War on its soil, AP reports. The Vermont man, just 18 when he was captured, died in China and was buried there, officials said. China authorities, who said the prisoner was mentally ill, had previously insisted no American POWs were taken from North Korea. More »

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      China  • North Korea  • POW  • prisoner of war  • Korean War  • POW/MIA

    • Israel Returns Hezbollah Spy

      BBC  |  Jun 1, 08 3:27 PM CDT

      Israel Returns Hezbollah Spy

      (Newser) - Israel returned a Hezbollah spy to Lebanon today and may have started a prisoner exchange, BBC reports. Hezbollah quickly handed over the bodies of Israeli troops killed in 2006, but officials on both sides deny a swap is under way. Secret talks clearly are, perhaps aided by German mediators; a larger prisoner swap may include the two Israeli soldiers whose capture sparked the 2006 war. More »

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      Israel  • Germany  • Lebanon  • Hezbollah  • Arab Israeli conflict  • prisoner of war  • Israeli prisoner release  • Hassan Nasrallah  • Israeli Army

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • UK Troops Accused of Executing Iraqis

      BBC  |  Feb 22, 08 2:35 PM CST

      UK Troops Accused of Executing Iraqis

      (Newser) - British soldiers killed up to 20 Iraqi captives after a 2004 firefight, say lawyers representing five men taken prisoner that day, the BBC reports. The men—described by their lawyers as laborers, not insurgents—say they heard UK soldiers killing and torturing captives at a British base after the gun battle. The lawyers say soldiers also mutilated corpses. British defense officials deny the allegations. More »

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      Iraq  • United Kingdom  • torture  • Mahdi Army  • British troops  • Scotland Yard  • prisoner of war  • Ministry of Defence

  • September 2007
  • August 2007

    • It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

      Miami Herald  |  Aug 28, 07 12:33 PM CDT

      It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

      (Newser) - Former dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve ten more years of jail time. Noriega has done 18 years in a Miami prison, and will be released for good behavior next month. He faces money laundering charges in France, but had asked to return to Panama—despite possibly facing even more jail time there. More »

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      France  • jail  • money laundering  • extradition  • POW  • Panama  • Geneva Convention  • prisoner of war  • Manuel Noriega

    • Judge Allows Noriega Extradition

      Miami Herald  |  Aug 24, 07 5:29 PM CDT

      Judge Allows Noriega Extradition

      (Newser) - A federal judge today rejected former dictator Manuel Noriega's request to return to Panama following his release from a Miami prison next month, the Miami Herald reports. Noriega sought to avoid extradition to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence for a conviction in abstentia on money laundering charges. Noriega argued that he was entitled to repatriation under the Geneva Convention because he was declared a POW by the US in 1992. More »

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      France  • prisoners  • extradition  • POW  • Panama  • Geneva Convention  • prisoner of war  • Manuel Noriega

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