memeorandum: What we get wrong about Yemen (Adam Baron/Politico)

1:10 PM ET, March 26, 2015

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BREAKING NEWS: Germanwings co-pilot DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to ‘destroy the plane’ after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor — The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing …

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Stephanie Kirchner / Washington Post:

French prosecutor: Co-pilot of doomed flight sought to ‘destroy the plane’ … DÜSSELDORF, Germany — A French prosecutor said Thursday that the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwing flight appeared to want to “destroy the plane,” in a stunning twist to the investigation that shifted attention …

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Raziye Akkoc / Telegraph:

Andreas Lubitz: First picture of Germanwings pilot and what we know about him — Marseille prosecutor says co-pilot Andreas Lubitz probably crashed plane ‘deliberately’ - both he and pilot Patrick S trained at Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen — The Marseille prosecutor …

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New York Times:

Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus Jet, French Prosecutor Says — PARIS — The chief Marseille prosecutor handling the investigation into the crash of a Germanwings jetliner said on Thursday that evidence from the cockpit voice recorder indicated that the co-pilot had deliberately locked …

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BBC:

Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot ‘wanted to destroy plane’ — Andreas Lubitz, 28, seen here on his Facebook profile, is said to have been happy with his job — The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, named as Andreas Lubitz, appeared to want to “destroy the plane”, officials said.

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Wall Street Journal:

Germanwings Co-Pilot Named as Andreas Lubitz — Flying club that he joined as a youth issues notice of death — FRANKFURT—Andreas Lubitz, the 28-year-old co-pilot who authorities say appeared to fly Germanwings Flight 9525 intentionally into the French Alps, had passed all flight training …

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Mark Tran / Guardian:
Germanwings co-pilot intended to destroy plane, says French prosecutor - live updates

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Asoleycerro / KTLA:
Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately ‘Accelerated the Descent’ of Plane That Crashed: Prosecutor

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Adam Baron / Politico:

What we get wrong about Yemen — Foreign intervention in a local fight would be the worst course anyone could take. — Lead image by AP Photo. — With reports Wednesday that besieged President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi might have fled his palace, Yemen appears closer to collapsing into a total failed state.

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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast: Welcome to the New Terror Heartland

Los Angeles Times:
Iran-backed rebels loot Yemen files about U.S. spy operations

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Reuters:
Saudi Arabia, allies launch air campaign in Yemen against Houthi fighters

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Al Jazeera English:
Saudi and Arab allies bomb Houthi positions in Yemen

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Arutz Sheva:

US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program — Obama revenge for Netanyahu's Congress talk? 1987 report on Israel's top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move. — Dimona nuclear reactor circa 1960s — National Security Archive/Flash 90

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Walker says he'd reject deal with Iran ‘on day one’ — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Wednesday that if he's elected president, on his first day in office he'll reject any deal the White House strikes with Iran over its nuclear program if it continues to allow the country to enrich uranium.

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Duane Patterson / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Governor Scott Walker Talks Foreign Policy

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Gregory Korte / OnPolitics:
Here's the new White House briefing room seating chart

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John R. Bolton / New York Times:

To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran — FOR years, experts worried that the Middle East would face an uncontrollable nuclear-arms race if Iran ever acquired weapons capability. Given the region's political, religious and ethnic conflicts, the logic is straightforward.

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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:

Israel a trap for Clinton — As Hillary Clinton prepares to sell herself as the next leader of the free world, she will want to find balance herself somewhere between the Obama administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. Congress on a nuclear arms deal with Iran …

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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Netanyahu Told to Mend Ties With Washington

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Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:

Everything The White House Told You About Bowe Bergdahl Was Wrong — His release was supposed to be the political masterstroke in the last days of the war. But the war is still going, and Bergdahl is going to court. — In the space of nine months, he went from being heralded at the White House to facing prison for life.

Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY, Outside the Beltway, BuzzFeed, The Gateway Pundit and New York Times

Pete Kasperowicz / TheBlaze.com:

House Dem: Global Warming Could Force Women to Trade Sex for Food — A senior House Democrat has once again issued an apocalyptic warning that climate change will hit women harder than men, and that it could drive millions of poor women to engage in “transactional sex” in order to provide food and water for their families.

Discussion: American Spectator and The Daily Caller

John Bresnahan / Politico:

DEA agents had ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes, watchdog says — Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Did you know Obama just took new executive action on immigration? — This week President Obama took unilateral executive action — again — to change the nation's immigration laws. Almost no one noticed. — Obama intends to make it easier to bring more foreign guest workers to the United States …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Washington Post:

U.S. forces begin airstrikes in Tikrit, where Iran-backed militias are in lead … BAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes began striking Islamic State forces in and around the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday, drawing the United States directly into a battle that has pitted the militants against Iraqi forces dominated by Iranian-backed militias.

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