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Ashley and Daniel McCaffrey are both U.S. Air Force veterans who not only share the bond of marriage, but the understanding of the trauma that can sometimes come with defending our country.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Saudi Arabia has been concerned about the potential influence of Iran’s supreme leader among its Shi’a population, especially since Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei took on the title of Vali-ye faqih, or “guardian-jurist.” Such concern is understandable given that the two countries are both neighbors and rivals: Khamenei is a marj’a, the highest-ranking Shi’a religious authority, but he is also the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Armed Forces...

Retired Army Col. Cecil Hengeveld was the guest speaker at the Flagler County Memorial Day Ceremony; Mayor David Alfin spoke at the city's ceremony at Heroes Memorial Park.

On the night of June 25, 1996, a bomb was detonated near the Khobar Tower housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Airmen and injuring more than 400 U.S. and international military members and civilians. The towers housed coalition forces supporting Operation Southern Watch, a no-fly zone operation in Southern Iraq. (Courtesy photo) 1991 – Operation Southern Watch: bombing the U.S. Khobar Towers barracks July 2, 2021

By Patrick Goodenough | April 23, 2021 | 4:17am EDT The mastermind of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was among terrorists whose capture was attributed in part to the Rewards for Justice program. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – Russia and China are backing accusations by United Nations human rights experts that a U.S. State Department program offering rewards...

Against the saudis who are engaged in activities, the iranians through proxies and lebanon and syria, certainly in iraq. so i have no doubt that they want to continue to be expansionist by their very nature. the question is how far can they continue to do without provoking a real substantial response by us and hopefully if there is one, by our allies joining in. so theyre trying to stay under the radar and still cause us problems. do things which kill people. i go back to khobar tower, and they ...

Iranians through proxies and lebanon and syria, certainly in iraq. so i have no doubt that they want to continue to be expans n expansionist by their very nature. the question is how far can they continue to do without provoking a real substantial response by us and hopefully if there is one, by our allies joining in. so theyre trying to stay under the radar and still cause us problems. do things which kill people. i go back to khobar tower, and they were involved, in my opinion, the killing of ...

Alisyn: lets get back to one of our top stories, the white house now responding to serious questions from survivors of the 1996 bombing of saudi arabias khobar tower that is killed 19 u.s. air men. some of them out raged after seeing the iraqi transportation minister at the white house, you see him there in the spot shadow, while reports identify that guy as a former commander of the revolutionary guard in iran, which is linked to the attack through a federal indictment. but the obama administra...

What would you like the white house to know about what happened that day? >> i think whats most important is khobar towers was like a very small 9/11 and unfortunately in the post-khobar towers world there never was an investigation done thoroughly, the saudi arabians did not cooperate, i think there are too many unknowns. there was too much cya going on, and i think its time the truth came out. alisyn: yeah, well, we know that you survived, obviously, that terrorist attack, but it wasnt without...

Does congresswoman iliana roth wat he feltman who wrote a letter to president obama saying she has, quote, grave concerns about the decision to host this man at the white house. what would you like to see happen here? >> again, ive given this a lot of thought in the last couple of days. in my opinion, what the president has done is hes disrespected the 19 men who died at khobar towers, hes disrespected their families, hes disrespected the survivors of khobar tower, and hes also disrespected the ...