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US, NATO Agree to Stay in Afghanistan until 2014
Forget the start of withdrawal from Afghanistan in July of next year. The US and NATO have now extended major combat until 2014, even though President Karzai wants forces reduced. We look at the aftermath of the summit in Lisbon. Also, the TSA responds to traveler outcry over scanners and pat-downs, and Pope Benedict surprises the Roman Catholic Church.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenForget the start of withdrawal from Afghanistan in July of next year. The US and NATO have now extended major combat until 2014, even though President Karzai wants forces reduced. We look at the aftermath of the summit in Lisbon. Also, the TSA responds to traveler outcry over scanners and pat-downs, and Pope Benedict XVI appears to relax doctrine on the use of condoms.
Banner image: US President Barack Obama (R) holds a bi-lateral meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (L) during the NATO meetings on November 20, 2010 at Feira Internacional de Lisboa, as part of a NATO Summit of Heads of States and Government held on 19-20 November 2010. Photo: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesTSA Responds to Traveler Outcry Over Scanners and Pat-Downs
Airport body-scanners can see through clothing alright and pat-downs involving groin- and body-checks can be "demeaning,” but don't look for changes any time soon. That's according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who overseas the Transportation Security Administration.
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President Hamid Karzai wants US and NATO forces reduced, but he'll have to settle for increased drone strikes and nighttime raids whether he likes it or not. That's according to President Obama after he and other NATO leaders set 2014 as a firm date for ending major combat in Afghanistan.
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Upon this week's publication of a book-length interview with Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican has moved to clarify what the Pontiff said about condom use, insisting that he has "not reformed or changed the Church's teaching." But that's not how it sounds to millions of the faithful.
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