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September 11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried by a military commission in Guantanamo instead of in a U.S. civilian court, CBS News reported on Monday.
A NATO airstrike has killed four civilians and nine rebels outside the oil port of Brega in eastern Libya, which is contested by Gadhafi loyalists and rebel forces. NATO has said it is investigating the deaths.
The U.S. Navy, while partnering with joint forces and coalition forces, made several first-time accomplishments During Operation Odyssey Dawn March 31.
Skeptical lawmakers from both parties cross-examined Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates Thursday in tense hearings on U.S. strikes against Libya, which one angry Republican called "an unconstitutional and illegal war."
Even under NATO command, the U.S. military will do the bulk of the fighting in Libya—even as the Obama administration argues that this is Europe's conflict to lead, not America's.
The U.S. government has no comprehensive strategy to secure its southern border even as an all-out drug war in Mexico has killed 35,000 and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States.