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Summary: September 2013 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.


Sep 11th, 2013

Summary: Commemorating 9/11.



Summary: August 2013 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.



Summary: Annoted excerpt from CQ Roll Call’s “10 Most Quotable Members of Congress” ranking by Matt Fuller, in which the author asserts that since announcing she won’t seek re-election, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has become less quotable.



Summary: In an intercepted electronic communication, al-Qaida’s two top leaders — Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al-Qaida Central, and Nasir al-Wahishi, leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula — agreed they wanted to do “something big” on the Muslim holiday Laylat al-Qadr, the 27th night of Ramadan, which in 2013 fell on the weekend of August 3-4.



Summary: June 2013 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.



Summary: May 2013 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.



Summary: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced via YouTube video posted on Twitter at 2:01 a.m. CT, May 29, 2013, that she will not seek reelection in 2014 to a fifth term in Congress as U.S. Representative in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District.



Summary: The search for Mandy Marie Matula, 24, Eden Prairie, Minn., who has been missing in the early hours of Thursday, May 2, 2013. … Updated October 26, 2013: Investigators believe human remains found by a hiker in Stearns County Mississippi River Park around at 2 p.m. are those of Mandy Matula.



Summary: Psychological assessment of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, leadership style implications of Kim’s personality profile, and North Korea threat assessment with respect to U.S. national security.