(CNSNews.com) – At her weekly press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she does not support Congress taking any action to restrict the use of women in combat by the U.S. military.
In December, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Defense Department was opening all combat roles to women.
(CNSNews.com) – In reference to two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were transferred to Ghana in West Africa, the Catholic Bishops' Conference there said it was a "wrong and dangerous" decision, that the two men were "not refugees but time-bombs" who clearly "pose a threat," and that the government should send them "back to wherever they came from."
In a statement with the headline, "Accepting Former Guantanamo Bay Prisoners in Ghana: Wrong and Dangerous," the Bishops' Conference noted that the ex-Gitmo prisoner Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef used to fight for Osama bin Laden, and the other ex-prisoner, Khalid Shayk Mohammed, had trained with Al Qaeda.
