Walter Hickley, Business InsiderJuly 25, 2012 17:06
After months of troubles with the oxygen system of the F-22 fighter aircraft, where multiple incidents of oxygen deprivation caused significant troubles and confused designers and leadership, the Air Force announced yesterday that they've traced the cause of the oxygen problems to a valve on a vest worn by pilots at high altitudes.
The lawyer representing the families says it was "inexcusable" that the Army allowed Nidal Hassan to continue in active service, despite signs of his growing Islamist radicalization.
Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent blogger and activist currently jailed in Egypt, has accused the army of unjust detention, torture and murder, in a letter smuggled out from prison.
Yemeni soldiers sit at the back of a military vehicle as they guard the area where anti-government protesters demonstrate against the regime during the first Friday prayer of Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan in Sanaa on August 5, 2011. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) (AFP/Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
“Yemeni military and medical officials say 30 al-Qaida suspects have been killed in U.S. airstrikes and clashes with Yemeni soldiers in al-Qaida-held cities in the south," writes Associated Press.
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