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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: Inside The Drone Debate

Today: London Hacking Suspects Were Suspicious , Exclusive: U.S. To Bring Chemical Weapons Witnesses Out Of Syria , Japan Stock Market Tanks
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

May 23, 2013
Exclusive

The military made an aggressive push to wrest control over drone targeting decisions away from the president. In the end, it lost. The Daily Beast's Daniel Klaidman talks to two top administration sources about Obama's speech on counterterrorism this afternoon—and why he'll continue to call the shots.

GRUESOME

The two men accused of beheading British soldier Lee Rigby were previously the target of an investigation in London, a British official said Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said no further details about the prior questioning can be released—offering only that it was an investigation into their "possible terror links." The suspects were shot and captured Wednesday by police after allegedly decapitating a defenseless soldier. Shortly before police arrived, an eerie cell-phone video recording shows the two bloodied men bragging about the killing, while holding knives and a meat cleaver. As the investigation continued Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron denounced the "betrayal of Islam."

 

SYRIA

With U.N. investigators unable to enter Syria, the State Department is working to bring evidence that the regime has used chemical weapons across the border into Turkey. The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin has the exclusive report.

BANZAI?

It was only a matter of time. Japan's stock market, which has soared nearly 50 percent in the past half year, took a hard fall on Thursday. Japan's central bank has been engaged in an aggressive push to jump-start growth by flooding the economy with cheap money and devaluing the yen. That has worked wonders for the markets. But investors, processing a rise in interest rates and weakness from China (an important trading partner), sold stocks with abandon. The Nikkei 225 index fell 7.3 percent on the trading session.

HOT DAMN

There's nothing like a man in uniform—Ron Paul, specifically, in uniform circa 1963 on a red bike with his towhead son Rand Paul. The former GOP presidential candidate looks like he's living the American dream in a grassy, cookie-cutter suburban town in what is likely Texas, or perhaps a suburb of Pittsburgh, where the Pauls lived before they moved to the Lone Star State. He also sort of resembles Don Draper, posing in a photograph that makes him seem like the perfect father even though he's never changed a diaper in his life. Then again, we could be reading way too much into this, but it's Thursday and we're in love with vintage Ron Paul.


YUCK
British BBQ Dirtier Than Toilet
Contains twice as many germs as the loo, study says.
NEVER BEFORE SEEN
Obama's '79 Prom Photos Revealed
Wrote that his classmate Kelli was "foxy."
SO, HE AGED WELL
Eighty-Year-Old Man Scales Everest
Yuichiro Miura now the oldest to reach the summit.
ENOUGH ALREADY
West Point Cadets Secretly Filmed
Sergeant accused of targeting females in bathroom, showers.
Hey Girl
Ryan Gosling's Film Booed at Cannes
"Only God Forgives" panned.
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