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NEWS ABOUT: POW

POW stories: 18 news summaries

Pentagon
Steps Up Hunt
for Missing
WWII Soldiers

Search intensifies as aging witnesses die

Sep 6, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - After years of searching for missing US soldiers in the jungles of Southeast Asia, the military's POW/MIA Accounting Command has intensified the hunt for the 74,000 WWII troops still unaccounted for, reports the New York Times. Searching for the nearly-65-year-old remains is a race against time, however, as historians... More »

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POW • World War II • MIA • POW/MIA

(Newser) - Rhesus monkeys raised in isolation are anti-social, catatonic, and profoundly disturbed even after they are introduced to their peers. The same is true of humans kept in solitary confinement for prolonged periods of time, whether as hostages or prisoners, writes Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. As months roll on,... More »

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torture • prison • POW • prisoners • isolation • social behavior • solitary confinement • Terry Anderson

OPINION

Don't Question McCain's 'Nam Heroism 

Mac was an inspiration to fellow POWs

Oct 19, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s plenty wrong with John McCain, but questions about his heroism in Vietnam just don’t stand up, biographer Matt Welch writes in the LA Times. McCain “gave great strength to his fellow POWs,” and “unless you think that inspiring your fellow prisoners to resist and... More »

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John McCain • POW • Vietnam War • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

'Right-Wing Freak Machine' Hit Me: Clark

General thanks bloggers for defending his McCain remark

Jul 18, 08 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wesley Clark told a netroots conference last night that he was attacked by the “great freak show” after saying John McCain’s POW experience wasn’t sufficient qualification for the presidency, the Huffington Post reports. “This is a playbook operation by the right-wing freak machine,” Clark said,... More »

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John McCain • POW • Wesley Clark • netroots • right-wing attacks

McCain's War Record Now
Fair Game

Pro-Obama retired general Clark turns up volume on whispers

Jun 30, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wesley Clark's answer to a question on Face the Nation yesterday has exposed a simmering campaign issue, Politico reports: whether John McCain’s Vietnam ordeal translates to relevant experience for the presidency. "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be... More »

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John McCain • POW • Wesley Clark • Vietnam War • negative campaigning • Hanoi

 Hanoi Captor 
 Endorses McCain, 
 Denies Torture 

Duyet calls ex-POW a friend

Jun 28, 08 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s Vietnam War jailer says he would vote for him because of McCain's willingness to forgive and look to the future, the AP reports. In the same breath, Tran Trong Duyet denied that McCain was tortured during his 5-year imprisonment and accused him of making up the stories... More »

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John McCain • POW • Vietnam War • McCain 2008 • Tran Trong Duyet

 Vietnam Stays With McCain 

Philosophy rooted in visits continues to influence candidate

Jun 23, 08 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 5 years as a POW, John McCain returned to Vietnam in 1974 and 1985, trips that inextricably linked him with the war in American minds. They also helped color the way he thinks about foreign policy and helped him learn to make amends with onetime enemies when it meant... More »

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John McCain • Vietnam • POW • foreign policy • MIA • Walter Cronkite • POW/MIA

China Admits Burying US
POW From Korean War

Move could open door to records of others

Jun 20, 08 8:53 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

OPINION

'Bogus' McCain, Bush Oppose New GI Bill

Particularly when GOP heavies spend so
much air, funds on war

May 6, 08 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The so-called new GI bill, which would update the famed original to fund education for veterans, should be an obvious ‘Yea’ vote for any legislator, but, the New York Times' Bob Herbert points out, John McCain and President Bush are fighting it. The bipartisan bill is “an investment”... More »

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John McCain • POW • scholarship • James Webb

McCain Keeps His God
to Himself

Dems more vocal on religion; Mac's silence called 'soldier's faith'

Apr 3, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is notably reserved about his religious faith. He rarely refers to God on campaign stops, in marked contrast to the two presidents who preceded him and, in a role reversal, to his Democratic opponents. His reticence is a throwback to the days when religion was kept out of... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • POW • Jerry Falwell • religion • Gary Bauer • John Hagee

 India to Help US Hunt
 Lost WWII Crews 

Expedition to India for MIAs

Mar 20, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - US bomber crews that went missing in the Himalayas during World War II may be recovered after more than six decades, reports the Military Times. While experts have long identified potential crash sites, the US military has been unable to access the dangerous border region between India, China, and Burma.... More »

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China • India • POW • World War II • Himalayas • missing person • MIA • US Army Air Force • Arunachal Pradesh • Irwin Zaetz • Rear Admiral Donna Crisp

Steinem on McCain's
Vietnam Years: So What?

Feminist campaigner speaks out against militarism at Clinton event

Mar 4, 08 5:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Uber feminist Gloria Steinem downplayed John McCain's experience as a Vietnam POW in a stump speech for Hillary Clinton, and said Americans have behaved since George Washington "as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people," reports the New York Observer. Speaking of McCain's years as a... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • feminism • POW • Vietnam War • Gloria Steinem

McCain Blasts Mailer Attacking War Record

Confident he'll win SC, dismisses claim he sold out fellow POWs

Jan 16, 08 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Citing "deceitful smear tactics" by "fringe elements," John McCain's campaign is on the offensive against a flier circulating in South Carolina attacking his war record—an echo of the attacks that derailed his 2000 candidacy. The flier, sent to some 80 newspaper editors, claims McCain betrayed his... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • veterans • South Carolina • POW • Michigan • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • South Carolina primary

McCain Updates Waterboard Dig
at Romney

Says that US hanged Japanese who did it to Americans in WWII

Nov 29, 07 2:39 PM CST
(Newser) - John McCain today extended his angry response to Mitt Romney’s cagey comments on torture in last night’s debate, reminding Americans that the US hanged members of the Japanese military for waterboarding Americans in WWII. “There should be little doubt that we consider that as torture,” McCain... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • POW • Geneva Convention • waterboarding

It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

Judge OKs France's extradition request for former dictator; he'll serve jail term there

Aug 28, 07 12:33 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Judge Allows Noriega Extradition

Ex-general wants to dodge French charges by returning to Panama

Aug 24, 07 5:29 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

Agency believed to have teamed up with  Pentagon

Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed,... More »

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CIA • Pentagon • torture • Abu Ghraib • prison • POW • US military • detainee • terrorist • Geneva Convention

Kerry-Smearers Eyeing McCain

McCain calls them the "most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter"

Mar 14, 07 8:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The veterans who helped sink John Kerry's Swift Boat to the White House is prepping for battle with John McCain. "Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry" founders Jerry Kiley and Ted Sampley have dusted off their 527 forms and created "Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain," to combat the... More »

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John McCain • presidency • John Kerry • presidential campaign • POW • White House • Jerry Kiley • Ted Sampley • Election 2008 • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

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