WASHINGTON– President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta issued statements on Friday marking the upcoming one-year anniversary of the “3/11†earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that devastated Japan.
The bloody attack in Afghanistan by a 38-year-old army staff sergeant has raised the ire of an entire country and the Taliban, who vowed revenge for the massacre.
The 2011 Tohoku tsunami was Japan’s deadliest in more than 100 years. Despite an extraordinary level of preparedness by the Japanese, the tsunami caused more than 90 percent of the almost 20,000 fatalities last March.
A Major Turning Point in Asia’s War Against Poaching: Jail Time For Thailand’s “Cell Phone†Tiger Poachers Two poachers get up to five years in prison – most severe sentences for poaching ever given out in Thailand WCS helped apprehend poachers last summer after a cell phone with images of dead tiger is found WCS […]