Ex-US Navy SEAL's killing puts focus on war's psychological toll

(Reuters) - The slayings of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and another man trying to help a troubled U.S. military veteran, now charged in their murders, has renewed focus on the psychological wounds of war.

Eddie Lee Routh, 25, of Lancaster, Texas, an active duty Marine from 2006 to 2010 who served in the Iraq war, faces murder charges that could lead to the death penalty in the shootings on Saturday at a Texas gun range 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Jason Upshaw, a captain in the Erath County Sheriff's Office, said on Sunday that Routh's mother had reached out to Kyle to try to help her son, who Marine Corps records show served one tour of duty in Iraq.

The Dallas Morning News, quoting police reports from Lancaster and Dallas, on Monday said that twice in recent months Routh was behaving erratically and was taken to a mental hospital, including one instance in which he was "threatening to kill himself and his family."

Routh, now a military reservist, is charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Kyle, 38, and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield, 35. They were shot at close range on Saturday at the Rough Creek Ranch gun range, which was designed by Kyle.

Routh is being held on a $3 million bond at a county jail and Dallas television station KXAS reported that Routh was tasered by jail guards Sunday night after becoming aggressive and he had been placed on suicide watch.

Authorities were still trying to determine what led to the shooting, which took place at close range.

"I don't know that we will ever know," Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant told a news conference on Sunday.

Officials said Routh's mother may have contacted Kyle, a distinguished military sniper and author of the book "American Sniper," because he co-founded the FITCO Cares Foundation that tries to help veterans recovering from physical and emotional injuries.

Law enforcement officers have not said Routh specifically suffers from post traumatic stress, a severe anxiety disorder caused by witnessing or participating in traumatic events, but the killings renewed the focus on PTSD among veterans.

The Department of Veterans Affairs estimated in a report released last fall that about 30 percent of returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffered from some form of post-traumatic stress.

The shooting would not be typical of a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress alone, said Dr. Harry Croft, a San Antonio psychiatrist who specializes in treating veterans for post-traumatic stress.

"Although this is very sensational and very tragic, it is at the same time, very rare," Croft said, adding that he was concerned that it might stigmatize returning veterans.

Julie Wynn, a counselor who has worked with returning veterans as well as survivors of the 2009 shooting incident at Fort Hood, said the stress of war affects everyone differently.

"Some people come home and they never have a problem, they put it behind them, they lead normal lives," she said. "Other people, with stressors like family, jobs, the economy, they don't do well with moving on."

Kyle had been volunteering to help Marine Corps veterans suffering from PTSD, sometimes taking them to the shooting range, according to a posting on a website run by members of the Special Operations Forces.

Kyle had called ahead to let staff know the group would be there on Saturday and the three men rode together to the range in Kyle's pickup truck, officials said.

After the shooting, Routh drove to his sister's house in Kyle's truck and told her what happened, authorities said. She called police after he headed home, where he was arrested a short time later.

Kyle, who served four combat tours of duty in Iraq, won two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for bravery, according to his book, which covers his military service from 1999 to 2009.

Interviewed in January about the call for gun control in the wake of the slayings at a Connecticut elementary school, Kyle told the website guns.com he favored arming teachers who have been screened and trained but opposed restrictions on gun owners.

(Additional reporting by Marice Richter; Editing by David Bailey, Barbara Goldberg and Martin Golan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-us-navy-seals-killing-puts-focus-wars-233137210.html

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ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2013

ZoneAlarm has been promoting firewall protection to consumers for ages and ages, since before most people even thought they needed a personal firewall. The current ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2013 offers the same tough and practical protection as always, with some useful new security bonuses including a Facebook privacy checker and a tool to block advertisers from tracking your browsing habits.

As long as you accept the default settings, installation can be quick and simple. Click once for? a quick install, click again to accept installation of the useful ZoneAlarm toolbar. Those two clicks gets the process started. After a reboot, you're protected. Simple!

The main window features three large panels that reflect security status in three areas: Antivirus, Firewall, and Identity & Data. The first one, Antivirus, is disabled at install. If you're already running a different antivirus, you'll naturally want to leave it disabled. But if you need antivirus protection you can just click to install it. I'll be reviewing ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus & Firewall 2013 separately.

Tough, Practical Firewall
ZoneAlarm pioneered the concept of hardening the firewall against interference by malicious programs. It's no surprise, then, that I couldn't disable its protection using attacks that might be replicated in software by evil coders. It doesn't store status items like "firewall disabled" in the Registry, and I couldn't kill it using Task Manager. When I tried to disable its essential TrueVector service, I got an "access denied" message.

ZoneAlarm correctly stealthed all of my test system's ports, making it invisible to outside attack. It resisted all of my port scan tests and other Web-based tests, though it didn't specifically report attacks the way Outpost Firewall Pro 8 did.

Like Comodo Firewall (2013), ZoneAlarm doesn't attempt to block exploit attacks at the network level. Just to be sure, I turned on all of its alert options and attacked the test system using the Core IMPACT penetration tool. None of the 30 exploits I used actually compromised the full-patched test system, but ZoneAlarm didn't actively block them. Serious exploit protection generally comes with high-end firewalls like what you find in Norton Internet Security (2013) and Kaspersky Internet Security (2013).

Norton and Kaspersky also handle all program control issues internally, without fobbing off security decisions on the user. In ages past, ZoneAlarm was famous for bombarding the user with popups asking whether this or that program should be allowed Internet access. Now it uses the SmartDefense Advisor database to automatically configure access for a vast number of known programs. If you do get a popup query from ZoneAlarm, look at it carefully and verify that the program is something you installed yourself.

When Internet access is allowed only for trusted programs, some malicious programs try to connect by subverting a trusted program. Leak tests demonstrate these sneaky techniques without including a malicious payload. ZoneAlarm detected every single one of the leak test utilities I threw at it. Comodo didn't catch any of these, though its Behavior Blocker offered to isolate them. Outpost flagged all of them, but a handful managed to connect despite its efforts.

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Thanks To GitHub, The Enterprise Just Walked Away With The Crunchies

It's the Crunchies' after party and GitHub Co-Founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner is sitting at a table by the front door at Absinthe in San Francisco with the Crunchies statue he had just accepted for best overall startup.

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French troops to quit Timbuktu this week

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) ? In a new phase of the Mali conflict, French airstrikes targeted the fuel depots and desert hideouts of Islamic extremists in northern Mali overnight Monday, as French forces planned to hand control of Timbuktu to the Malian army this week.

After taking control of the key cities of northern Mali, forcing the Islamic rebels to retreat into the desert, the French military intervention is turning away from the cities and targeting the fighters' remote outposts to prevent them from being used as Saharan launch pads for international terrorism.

The French plan to leave the city of Timbuktu on Thursday, Feb. 7, a spokeswoman for the armed forces in the city said Monday. French soldiers took the city last week after Islamic extremists withdrew. Now the French military said it intends to move out of Timbuktu in order to push farther northeast to the strategic city of Gao.

"The 600 soldiers currently based in Timbuktu will be heading toward Gao in order to pursue their mission," said Capt. Nadia, the spokeswoman, who only provided her first name in keeping with French military protocol. She said that the force in Timbuktu will be replaced by a small contingent of French soldiers, though she declined to say when they would arrive.

On Monday, French troops in armored personnel carriers were still patrolling Timbuktu. In the city's military camps, newly arrived Malian troops were cleaning their weapons Monday and holding meetings to prepare to take over the security of the city once the French leave.

There are signs that the Islamic rebels are beginning a guerrilla-type of conflict from their desert retreats as land mine explosions have killed four Malian soldiers and two civilians throughout the northern region in recent days.

The two civilians died in an explosion from a land mine, or an improvised explosive device, on the road in northeastern Mali that links Kidal, Anefis and North Darane, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement Monday.

Four soldiers were killed last week by a land mine explosion in the northeast area near Gossi. The French reported that two other land mines have been found in that vicinity, and early Monday they detonated one of the mines.

French airstrikes targeted the Islamic extremists' desert bases and fuel depots in northern Mali overnight.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on France-Inter radio Monday that the strikes hit the Kidal region, near the border with Algeria, for the second night in a row. The extremists "cannot stay there a long time unless they have ways to get new supplies," he said.

French Mirage and Rafale planes also pounded extremist training camps as well as arms and fuel depots from Saturday night into the early hours of Sunday, north of the town of Kidal and in the Tessalit region. France's Defense Ministry said Monday night that 25 depots and training centers had been targeted by fighter jets and attack helicopters.

The French intervened in Mali on Jan. 11 to stem the advance of the al-Qaida-linked fighters, who had taken over the country's north, enforced harsh rules on the population and plotted a terrorist attack in neighboring Algeria. The French troops arrived when the Islamic extremists threatened to move farther south.

After pushing extremists out of key northern cities, France is now pushing to hand over control of those sites to African forces from a United Nations-authorized force made up of thousands of troops from nearby countries.

"In the cities that we are holding we want to be quickly replaced by the African forces," Fabius said Monday.

Asked whether the French could pull out of the fabled city of Timbuktu and hand it to African forces as soon as Tuesday, Fabius responded, "Yes, it could happen very fast. We are working on it because our vocation is not to stay in the long term."

But it is far from clear that the African forces ? much less the weak Malian army ?are ready for the withdrawal of thousands of French troops, fighter planes and helicopters which would give the Africans full responsibility against the Islamic extremists, who may strike the cities from their desert hideouts.

In Paris, U. S. Vice President Joe Biden praised the French intervention in Mali while meeting with French President Francois Hollande.

"We applaud your decisiveness and, I might add, the capability of France's military forces," said Biden. "Your decisive action was not only in the interest of France but of the United States and everyone. We agreed on the need to, quickly as possible, establish an African-led mission to Mali and as quickly as prudent transition that mission to the UN."

Also in Paris, the Malian foreign minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly told The Associated Press that the Malian army will be fighting with French and African troops against the Islamic radicals.

"We must continue pushing them (the extremists) north and then over there, there is a real need for a strong military force, air force, to destroy all the implementations around the mountains," said Coulibaly. "So ultimately, the real objective is to destroy all terrorist presence in northern Mali."

The French have ramped up their troop level to nearly 4,000 ? the number France once deployed in Afghanistan ? and nearly 3,800 African soldiers were in Mali as of Monday, the French Defense Ministry said. Some 1,800 Chadian soldiers were holding the northern town of Kidal while French troops held the airport.

In northern Mali, the price of food and fuel is rocketing up as a result of the conflict, the international aid organization Oxfam warned Monday.

Many market traders of Arab or Tuareg descent fled the area when French troops pushed out the Islamic extremists last week and the traders have not returned for fear of reprisals, said Oxfam, in a statement.

"If traders do not come back soon and flows of food into northern Mali remain as limited as they are now, then it is likely that markets will not be properly stocked and prices will stay high ? making it very difficult for people to get enough food to feed their families," said Philippe Conraud, Oxfam's country director in Mali.

"This phase of the war may almost be over, but the battle to build peace and stability has only just begun," said Conraud. "If people feel that their lives are at risk and that their families are not safe, they will not return to Mali. It's as simple as that."

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Associated Press writers Angela Charlton and Greg Keller contributed to this report from Paris.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-troops-quit-timbuktu-week-123231414.html

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PFT: Ed Reed insists 'I'm not done'

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A look at how the Bills are installing the systems run by coach Doug Marrone.

Watching the Super Bowl and thinking about the Dolphins.

Will the Patriots help open up the 2013 season?

You can probably guess the conclusion of an analysis of the Jets quarterbacks.

Ravens DT Haloti Ngata has plenty of time to heal up after leaving the Super Bowl early with a knee injury.

RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis will miss retiring Bengals running backs coach Jim Anderson.

The Browns defensive line had 25 of the team?s 38 sacks in 2012.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin thinks football is an effective teaching tool for young men.

The Texans website is profiling Georgia DT John Jenkins.

Looking back at the top catches of the Colts season.

Will the Jaguars pursue 49ers QB Alex Smith this offseason?

Said Titans G.M. Ruston Webster of QB Jake Locker, ?I think Jake did a lot of really good things and I think Jake is a tough guy who is never going to tell you when he?s hurting or anything like that. He?ll play through whatever. He was obviously banged up there toward the end, and for most of the season, really. Then we had injuries around him, which made it even tougher. Our offensive line being in flux and some things like that, losing our tight end, I think that made it tougher on Jake.?

John Elway?s Broncos Super Bowl memories don?t have a warm spot for New Orleans.

The Chiefs wound up taking ?Leon Sandcastle? with the first overall pick in an amusing Super Bowl commercial.

Monte Poole of the Bay Area News Group doesn?t think it?s hard to understand why former Raiders WR Tim Brown was passed over for the Hall of Fame.

How can the Chargers put themselves in position to make the Super Bowl?

Emmitt Smith doesn?t agree with criticisms of Cowboys QB Tony Romo.

Lawrence Taylor believes former Giants DE Michael Strahan should join him in the Hall of Fame.

With the Super Bowl done, it?s time for Eagles coach Chip Kelly to get to work.

Redskins QB Robert Griffin III says he?s ready to get back after it.

Former Bears QB Jim McMahon doesn?t have the fondest memories of his trip to the Super Bowl.

What?s next for the Lions?

Former Packers DE Willie Davis has written a book about his football life.

Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said he?s surprised that Lovie Smith didn?t wind up with another job this offseason.

Falcons TE Tony Gonzalez was one of the standout performers of the postseason.

Panthers LB Luke Kuechly said that he has to keep learning after taking home the defensive rookie of the year award.

A repeat of his experience with the Saints wasn?t meant to be for 49ers C Jonathan Goodwin.

Buccaneers LB Lavonte David didn?t garner much support in voting for defensive rookie of the year.

Cardinals DE Calais Campbell and CB Patrick Peterson were in the NFL?s Super Bowl commercial.

Frank Bush brings a lot of experience with him to the Rams coaching staff.

The interception by QB Colin Kaepernick on Sunday was the first in a Super Bowl by a 49ers quarterback.

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson wound up winning the NFL.com rookie of the year award.

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Eric Schmidt's New Book Rails Against China As Being the "Most Sophisticated and Prolific" Hacker

In addition to giving North Korea a what-for, Eric Schmidt has also been working on some other projects. He's got a book coming out about China, for instance, and after getting some time with the preliminary drafts, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it's taking some serious shots at the superpower. More »

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