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Map obtained by the Washington Post reveals that Israeli intelligence officials believe that the 550 underground bunkers identified have been stocked with weapons transferred from Syria since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Israeli military officials have provided a map detailing nearly 1,000 sites and facilities monitored by the Hezbollah militant group in southern Lebanon, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Israeli intelligence officials believe that the 550 underground bunkers identified have been stocked with weapons transferred from Syria since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, according to the report. The map obtained by the Washington Post also details 300 surveillance sites...

The following statement is by Richard DiFederico, Department Commander of Connecticut’s largest war veterans’ organization, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States: “Those who served in Vietnam or offshore or in neighboring countries rightfully earned all the belated thanks and appreciation our nation can muster. Those who served in uniform during the Vietnam era also deserve our gratitude, which makes Mr. Blumenthal's claim to be something he is not so outrageous. It diminishes the service of all who served and sacrificed, most especially those whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Wall. Mr. Blumenthal was considered one of...

The list of attendees at President Barack Obama's dinner with CEOs was released Monday evening. Obama dined with members of the Business Council, a group of 150 chief executives of leading private-sector companies. The president was expected to make his pitch for financial regulatory reform legislation, as well as solicit advice on how to grow the economy. Guests convened at 6:45 p.m. in the State Dining Room, but a list of attendees was only released after the dinner began. Several participants have drawn attention during the Obama administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened. The e-mail and the 28-page document attached to it, released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, show that back in December of 2007 the agency concluded that six gases linked to global warming pose dangers to public welfare, and wanted to take steps to regulate their release from automobiles and the burning of gasoline.

(IsraelNN.com) The IDF on Tuesday released video footage of Hizbullah terrorists smuggling missiles and other weaponry out of a warehouse where an explosion occurred Monday in the southern Lebanese town of Tayir Filsay. Lebanese Army soldiers and troops from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) raced to the scene, but terrorists had emptied the warehouse by the time they arrived - a secret activity caught on camera by IDF military intelligence

A Pakistani court has ordered the release of the leader of an Islamic charity suspected of being a front for a group accused of the Mumbai attacks. The court ruled the continued house arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed was unconstitutional. The charity is accused of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group India says was behind the attacks. Mr Saeed is also a founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba. India has expressed its disappointment, calling the release "regrettable". More than 170 people died in the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks last November, including nine gunmen. Mr Saeed, who denies the charges against him,...

One of the Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed an American Jewish passenger in 1985 has been released after more than 23 years in jail, officials said Thursday. Youssef Magied al-Molqui left prison in Palermo, Sicily, on Wednesday and was transferred to a holding center for immigrants in nearby Trapani while officials work to expel him, police in the Sicilian capital said.

Less than a year after state lawmakers requested a probe into skyrocketing early prison releases, the Colorado Department of Corrections has reported that discretionary prison releases shot up again by a double-digit percentage. During the 2007-08 fiscal year, which ended June 30, the parole board released 5,596 inmates compared to 5,069 the previous year, an increase of more than 10 percent... Last year’s parole releases are nearly double the 2,813 discretionary releases during the 2006-07 fiscal year, the final year the panel was entirely appointed by Republican Gov. Bill Owens. A prisoner’s release on parole is “discretionary” when it comes...

Confronting the biggest crisis of his political career, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today proposed slashing payments to schools by billions of dollars, releasing tens of thousands of "low risk" inmates from prison early, and closing a number of state parks as part of a plan to fill a gaping $14 billion hole in the state budget. The proposal immediately triggered howls of protest from lawmakers across the political spectrum and among some of the most powerful interest groups in the Capitol. The governor said he hopes to start a debate among Californians about what services they want from state government and...

WASHINGTON - The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on assassination plots, secret drug testing and spying on Americans that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s. The documents detail assassination plots against foreign leaders such as Fidel Castro, the testing of mind-altering drugs like LSD on unwitting citizens, wiretapping of U.S. journalists, spying on civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protesters, opening of mail between the United States and the Soviet Union and China and break-ins at the homes of ex-CIA employees and others. The 693 pages, mostly drawn from the memories of active CIA officers in 1973,...

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday released a revised state budget that calls for spending slightly more than he proposed in January, even as the state's soft housing market is expected to depress tax revenue in the coming year. Most of the increase in the nearly $104 billion general fund budget goes to education. In January, the governor's office had predicted that revenue from higher local property taxes would offset mandated increases in public school spending. That calculation appears to have been off, with the governor's office now estimating nearly $900 million in additional education expenses in the coming...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a tight-fisted spending plan on Wednesday that he said would eliminate the state's operating deficit for the first time in nearly a decade. The governor's $143.4 billion budget would limit general fund spending increases to less than 1 percent in the 2007-08 fiscal year, the smallest such increase in five years. It also is designed to clear the way for California to afford another round of massive borrowing for public works. "It is a prudent and realistic budget, a budget that lives within our means but still provides crucial services for the people," Schwarzenegger said. Some...

SACRAMENTO — State intelligence reports released Thursday by the Schwarzenegger administration include material suggesting that the governor's anti-terrorism operation was interested in the actions of the Minuteman volunteer border patrol group. The reports also include a cryptic reference to "suspicious conversations at a mosque" in San Diego. State officials released more than 80 intelligence reports prepared for the state Office of Homeland Security, in response to The Times' disclosure that two reports carried information about domestic political protests ranging from antiwar gatherings to protect-the-seals rallies. Large sections of the reports shown to reporters had been removed. The homeland security office...

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2006 – Fourteen Saudi nationals have been released from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Defense Department announced yesterday. The former detainees were sent to Saudi Arabia. One was found not to be an enemy combatant by the Combatant Status Review Tribunal. The other 13 were approved for transfer home following an Administrative Review Board decision, officials said. About 120 Guantanamo detainees' cases are being reviewed for possible transfer or release as part of ongoing negotiations between the United States and other countries. The United States does not want to hold detainees any longer than...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 – Defense officials today released 201 more names of detainees at the U.S. facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The list released today includes the names of 759 detainees who are or were held at the U.S. detention facility for war on terrorism detainees. The department first released 558 of these names April 19. Those 558 names were of detainees who had gone through the Combatant Status Review Tribunal process, implemented in July 2004 to give detainees a forum to contest their designation as enemy combatants. "This approximately 200 didn't attend a CSRT because they...

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2006 – The Defense Department today released hundreds' more pages of unredacted detainee hearing transcripts taken at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, a senior Pentagon official said here today. DoD spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters the newly released documents included 2,000 pages of detainee administrative review board transcripts and about 600 pages of defense counsel submissions. On March 3, DoD previously released about 5,000 pages of unredacted transcripts of combatant status review tribunal and administrative review board hearings conducted at the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility. These documents were released in response to a New...

2/9/2006 - WASHINGTON -- The Air Force released a revised version of its religious guidelines Feb. 9, its latest step in a process started after a review at the U.S. Air Force Academy indicated a need for additional guidance. Air Force Directorate of Personnel officials issued a first set of interim guidelines in August. The newly revised version was written after getting diverse feedback and careful consideration of the U.S. Constitution, laws and military necessity. “This interim guidance outlines the basic principles we expect all military and civilian Airmen to follow as we solidify formal policy,” said Lt. Gen. Roger...

RITZVILLE, Wash. - A judge on Thursday granted a newspaper's request to make public gay-themed material from Spokane Mayor James E. West's City Hall laptop computer, but placed restrictions on the release of images from a gay-oriented Web site. Judge Richard Miller ordered the release of an index showing the dates and times West used the computer to access Gay.com and other Web sites. But the judge said the Web addresses of member profiles West viewed on the site's dating service would be obscured, and images on the mayor's hard drive would not be released, to protect the privacy of...

11/16/2005 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today’s airpower summary report. Coalition aircraft flew 72 close-air support and armed reconnaissance sorties Nov. 15 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. They included support to coalition troops, infrastructure protection, reconstruction activities and operations to deter and disrupt terrorist activities. Coalition aircraft also supported Iraqi and coalition ground forces operations to create a secure environment for ongoing Transitional National Assembly meetings. Air Force F-15s flew an air strike in the vicinity of Karabilah successfully firing a precision-guided bomb against a building used by anti-Iraqi forces. An Air Force MQ-1...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2005 – America's top intelligence official unveiled the blueprint for improving the intelligence community's information gathering and assessment capabilities for the 21st century. That blueprint is contained in a document titled, "The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America: Transformation through Integration and Innovation." "This strategy is a statement of our fundamental values, highest priorities and orientation toward the future, but it is an action document as well," National Intelligence Director John D. Negroponte said in a news release. He said it is time to change America's intelligence apparatus as the United States continues the...