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TOKYO -- An explosion at a U.S. Army depot outside of Tokyo set off a large blaze that lit up the night sky earl nike air force y Monday morning, but there were no reports of injuries.The blast happened after midnight at the Sagami Depot in Sagamihara, a city about 25 miles southwest of Tokyo, Pentagon duty officer Navy Commander Bill Urban said.Video on Japanese television, apparently shot from an elevated place outside the post around 12:45 a.m., shows a fire in the distance and subsequent explosions shooting small fiery blasts into the sky. A woma adidas originals uomo n told national broadcaster NHK that it sounded like fireworks. 12409; 12289; 31859; 36557; 22522; 22320; 12391; 29190; 30330; 12364; 65281; 65281; pic.twitter/7oyils5 airforces M4Rmdash; 12475; 12525; 12454;@ 12461; 12515; 12521; 12507; 12499;E-05 @serow92 August 23, 2015 A statement issued by the Army in Japan said there are no indications of injuries, and the cause of the explosion is unknown. The building was not a hazardous materials storage facility, and the depot does not store ammunition or radiological materials, the statement said.About 580 people work at the 500-acre depot, NHK said.Base firefighters and first responders were fighting the fire to prevent its spread to nearby buildings, Urban said. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-0d494c51-07dd-4a1a-ac91-301a0cff6339, right-rail Fvdl Text Of Bush News Conference (2)
Opposition activists protest against the alleging mass fraud in the December 4 parliamentary polls in central Moscow, on December 10, 2011. YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images stanley cups CBS/AP Low temperatures could put a deep freeze in the amount of demonstrators for a protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin slated for Saturday as told by opposition leaders, Reuters reported. With temperatures possibly falling to minus 13 degrees Celsius, the number of demonstrators participating in the march For Honest Elections could be reduced. That protest is competing with pro-Putin rallies in Moscow. I have the feeling that every degree colder it gets, we lose 5,000 people, liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, a protest organizer, told Reuters. With tens of thousands of protesters expected on the streets of Moscow on Saturday, doctors advised those taking part in the demonstrations to protect themselves from the cold as their grandmothers used to do: by wearing felt boots and stanley water jug smearing their faces with goose or pig fat.Putin resists rerun; Kremlin ideologist outVideo: Massive anti-Putin protest erupts in RussiaGorbachev urges Putin to step downPutin: No revote in fraud-tainted elections Protesters also were encouraged to eat a big breakfast, preferably including meat, and refrain from drinking alcohol. Widespread protests have stemmed from charges of fraud surroun stanley france ding Putin s party in the parlia

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CAIRO -- Elders of a adidas campus damen village in Egypt s Sinai Peninsula where militants killed 305 people in a mosque had been warned by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS operatives to stop collaborating with security nike air force forces and to suspend rituals associated with Islam s mystical Sufi movement, security officials and residents said.The latest warning came nike air max as recently as a week ago, telling villagers in Al-Rawdah not to hold Sufi rituals on Nov. 29-30 to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, according to residents and the officials who work for security and military intelligence agencies operating in Sinai.Survivors recall deadly mosque attack in EgyptLocal operatives of the ISIS group s affiliate in Sinai consider Sufis to be heretics who should be killed. Ahmed Saqr, an expert on the Sinai insurgency, said militants had publicly identified the mosque, which also serves as a Sufi center, as a target months ago. He wrote on Saturday in a Facebook post that the selection of the Al-Rawdah mosque as a target raises questions about those who read, analyze and prepare in our security agencies and whether anything could have been done to prevent the untold horrors. Mohammed Ibrahim, a university student from the village, said militants had warned residents a few days before Friday s attack not to collaborate with security forces. The warning, he told The Associated Press by telephone Sunday from the nearby town of Bir al-Abd, followed the detention three weeks ago by villagers of Joij Americans In Jordan On Alert
An explosion tore through the office of an American security contractor in the heart of the Afghan capital Sunday, killing seven people, including two Americans, officials and witnesses said.The explosion hit the office of Dyncorp Inc., a U.S. firm that provides security for Afghan President Hamid Karzai and works for the U.S. government in Iraq, said Nick Downie of the Afghanistan NGO Security Office. The explosion w stanley flasche hich occurred in front of the Kabul office of an international security company killed at least seven people, Karzai s office said in a statement. Two Americans, three Nepalese and two Afghan nationals, including a child, h stanley tumblers ave stanley cup been confirmed dead. Hours earlier, a blast at a southeastern Afghanistan school killed nine youngsters and one adult, the U.S. military said. The child victims were said to be between the ages of 7 and 15, said Paktia Gov. Asadullah Wafa. He said 15 other people were injured.Karzai and U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad expressed shock at the Kabul attack. An embassy statement described the contractor as also helping train Afghan police. This cowardly attack will not deter U.S. participation in the ongoing effort to help Afghanistan stand on its own feet, Khalilzad said, describing the blast as a terrorist attack. Downie said he and others at the scene pulled five or six seriously injured people mdash; including apparent Americans mdash; from the building. Some were obviously Dyncorp staff, he said.The company also is believed

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Danish Siddiqui/REUTERS A Shi ite Muslim has his child gashed with a knife during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashoura in Mumbai, India Nov. 3, 2014. Ashoura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the seventh century battle of Kerbala. Kentucky adidas samba Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell R-KY celebrates with his wife Elaine Chao at his election night event Nov. 4, 2014 in Louisville, Kent af1 ucky. Republicans regained control of the Se adidas samba donna nate. Mexico Edgard Garrido/REUTERS People stand near the graves of relatives at San Andres cemetery in Mixquic, Nov. 2, 2014 on the Day of the Dead. Mexicans pay homage to their dead relatives by preparing meals and decorating their graves. The festival has its origins in a pre-Hispanic Aztec belief that the dead return to Earth one day each year to visit their loved ones. Syria Yannis Behrakis/REUTERS A Kurdish refugee boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc Nov. 3, 2014. Vrdy Illegal or bold Lawmakers divided over airstrike killing Iranian military leader
CBS News Correspondent John Roberts is traveling with the U.S. Marines in southern Iraq.Marines move out to capture an airport near the Iraqi tow stanley cups uk n of Al-Hayya. They spot armor, trucks and other vehicles and call in cobra gunships. The light armored vehicles take their turn in the town of Al-Hayya, firing on Iraqi positions that earlier air strikes have failed to dislodge. It is a large town and the Iraqi military pres stanley tumblers ence here was substantial, but the resistance the Marines encounter was far l stanley quencher ess than they have seen up to now. Seems like the enemy are pretty overwhelmed as we came in and it seems like they were trying to pull out, says Capt. Ivan Monclova.Al-Hayya was all that stood between these marines and the city of al-Kut where the Baghdad division of Saddam Hussein s elite republican guard has been holed up for weeks. But there are signs, commanders say, that after days of intensive American bombing, the Baghdad division may be beginning to crack. We re starting to see a lot more deserters, we re starting to see people take off their uniforms and put on civilian clothes, says Lt. Col. Eddie Ray.American commanders are still preparing for the worst. They believe, despite the absence of biological and chemical weapons on the battlefield so far, Saddam will order his generals to use them at some point in the U.S. advance. I think the red line is in the head of the regime. When he decides that it s all over for him, perhaps that will be the trigger for him to

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TOKYO -- The world s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died of old age in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan, town official Susumu Yoshiyuki confirmed. She had been hospitalized since January. Tajima, born on Aug. 4, 1900, was the last known person born in the 19th century. She reportedly had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great grandchildren. Her town of Kikai is in Kagosh air max plus ima prefecture on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan s four main islands. She became the world s oldest person seven months ago after the death in September of Violet Brown in Jamaica, also at the age of 117. Video shown on Japanese television showed Tajima moving her hands to the beat of music played on airmaxplus traditional Japanese instruments at a ceremony to mark the achievement. The U.S.-based Gerontology Research Group says that another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, is now the world s oldest person in its records. Miyako lives south of Tokyo in Kanagawa prefecture, and is due to turn 117 in 10 days. Guinness World Records certified 112- crocs winterstiefel year-old Masazo Nonaka of northern Japan as the world s oldest man earlier this month, and was planning to recognize Tajima as the world s oldest person. More from CBS News Wisdom, the world s oldest-known wild bird, lays an Gsyi American teen Nevin Harrison wins gold in historic women s 200-meter canoe sprint
Despite a stepped up global battle against AIDS, the numbers of stanley tumbler people newly infected with HIV are far and away outpacing the numbers beginning antiretroviral drug treatments, U.N. officials said Monday.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, opening several days of U.N. debate on AIDS prevention, told world leaders that 2.5 million people became infected with HIV last year compared with 1 million who started using important antiretroviral drugs. Unless greater and swifter advances are made in reaching those who need essential services, the epidemic s burden on households, communities and soci stanley cup eties will continue to mount, Ban said.Some 2.1 million people died of AIDS last year and at least 33 million people world wide have the virus, according to U.N. figures. The U.N. s conclusion is that the AIDS epidemic is overwhelming the progress made in treating it, said CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk. As the number of AIDS-inf stanley cup ected individuals rises, UNAIDS, the World Health Organization and UNICEF are fighting an uphill battle, added Falk, who is based at the U.N.In addition, people with weakened immune systems from HIV are up to 50 times more likely to develop tuberculosis, U.N. officials say. We cannot separate the fight against HIV/AIDS from the fight against TB, said General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim, who will preside over a two-day meeting on AIDS starting Tuesday.Falk noted that the conference comes on the heels of a report that one in four teen-age girls

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Rome -- The former secretary to defrocked American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has released excerpts from private and confidential correspondence among top Vatican leaders which reveal details of restrictions placed on McCarrick by the Holy See following allegations of sexual misconduct. The communications reveal the extent to which the restrictions were known among senior church leaders ndash; and particularly by his successor Car adidas campus 80s dinal Donald Wuerl ndash; but not enforced.That lack of enforcement meant McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington D.C., was allowed to continue traveling on behalf of the Holy See despite limitations implemented as part of the church punishment.The personal letters and emails include correspondence between McCarrick and other senior church figures, including cardinals, the Vatican s Secretary of State and Pope Francis. I would be part of the cover-up if I simply kept that correspondence to myself, Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo told CBS News regarding his decision to release the excerpts of letters in his repor adidas campus 00s t on Tuesday.Figueiredo, a long-time consultant to CBS News, chose to go public with the private correspondence on the 25th anniversary of the date he was ordained to the priesthood by McCarrick. Figueiredo served as McCarrick s personal s adidas samba donna ecretary in Newark from September 1994 to June 1995, and assisted McCarrick during his frequent visits to Rome, where Figueiredo served as a spiritual advisor to the North American College, an Ameri Banm Police ordered to crack down on disputed ballot in Catalonia
Eighty-six people were killed when a Russian military plane crashed into a mountain in western Georgia, Russian military officials said Thursday.The Defense Ministry plane was en route from the Chkalovsky military airfield near Moscow and was attempting to land in harsh weather at a Russian military base near Georgia s Black Sea port of Batumi when it crashed on Wednesday night.Rescuers reaching the crash site about 15 miles east of Batumi found pieces of the plane and scorched earth. Rescuers recovered the plane s black box Thursday, said Temuri Inaishvili, head of the Emergency Situations Ministry for the Adzharia region, where the plane cras stanley cup hed.Kakha Beridze, an officer from the Georgian Ministry of Emergency Situations, arrived stanley cup at the crash site about three hours after the crash with four other workers. Rain was falling, the plane was in pieces, and everything was on fire, Beridze said. There was no one to save, they were all dead. Maj. Gen. Nikolai Zolotov, commander of Russian troops in the Trans-Caucasus region, said that the death toll in the crash was 86, including eight children. stanley cups The flight was carrying Russian servicemen and their families, as well as 11 crew members.Alexander Drobyshevsky, an Air Force spokesman in Moscow, said that the plane crashed after it violated the flight altitude. And the head of the Georgian civil aviation agency, Alexander Silagadze, said that the plane had veered off course on approach in difficult weather conditions.

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TOKYO -- Eight Japanese high school students were presumed dead after being caught in an avalanche Monday while being trained in mountain climbing at a ski resort, authori adidas originals ties adidas originals hamburg and media said.The avalanche occurred in the town of Nasu in Tochigi prefecture, about 120 miles north of Tokyo. Forty other people were injured, including two who were in serious condition, the prefecture said.The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said eight people were found with no vital signs, though they had not been formally confirmed dead by medical personnel.Japanese media said they were students who were participating in a three-day training program for members of mountaineering clubs from seven schools in the area.Heavy snow had fallen overnight, so a planned climb was canceled and instead students were practicing moving through heavy snow as mountain survival training, public broadcaster NHK said. One unidentified student told NHK by telephone that there was a strong wind and he could see a white mass heading toward him. An instructor said to get down, and then everyone was engulfed, he said.Tochigi prefecture said 40 students and eight instructors were on the slope. Fourteen others in the group did not go out. The ski season had ended at the resort. air force 1 More from CBS News Missing U.S. climbers gear found on New Ze Oexs Blair, Allies Deny Dupe Charge
YANGON, Myanmar - An elections panel Monday affirmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi s candidacy for Parliament in Burma, also known as Myanmar, in another step toward political openness in a co stanley cup untry emerging from nearly a half-century of iron-fisted military rule.A victory in the April 1 by-elections would be historic. Suu Kyi could have a voice in Parliament for the first time after spending most of the last two decades under house arrest.The Nobel Peace Prize laureate announced her intention last month to run in the April elections but was waiting for official approval from the Elections Commission, which said it had to scrutinize her eligibility.A Natio stanley cups nal League for Dem stanley uk ocracy spokesman confirmed the commission had approved her candidacy. There is no objection to her nomination and we can say that her candidacy is officially accepted, Nyan Win said.Government agencies in Burma normally don t announce their actions directly, but the government gazette is expected to disclose the official decision later. Burma s nominally civilian government took office last March and has surprised even some of the country s toughest critics by releasing hundreds of political prisoners, signing cease-fire deals with ethnic rebels, increasing media freedoms and easing censorship laws.Burma s government hopes the rapid changes will prompt the lifting of economic sanctions imposed under the junta s rule. Western governments and the United Nations have said they will review the sanc

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Since its start in Seattle in the early 1970s, Starbucks has opened shops all over the world including European nation asics gel s where coffee culture was already well established. But one place they dared not tread was the coffee-centric land that helped founder Howard Schultz shape the chain s character in the first place.That changed this week when Starbucks opened dunks its first Italian location in Milan. This is for tourists. Come on. It s for tourists, Emanuele Barozzi, from Milan, said as he stood in line with hundreds of others waiting to get a peek inside. This will not become my cafeteria! he proclaimed. Inside, Starbucks transformed a former post office into a 25,000-square-foot coffee roastery, reports CBS News Seth Doane. It s a testing ground for ideas like using liquid nitrogen to freeze the ice cream for an affogato and an elaborate attempt to woo ndash; and wow ndash; the country that invented espresso.It s called a Starbucks but it doesn t resemble any kind of Starbuc air force ks you ve been in before. It s really more of a theme park of coffee. Starbucks Howard Schultz says perhaps he ll run for public office 05:36 They ve dispensed with some of the more American concoctions like the Frappuccino ndash; but they have imported American pricing, high for Italy.Over at Milan s Camparino Cafeacu Tbox Libya s frozen assets may soon be released
TOKYO 151; A fairly strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has hit off the shores of Japan s southern Okinawa Island.Officials said the quake Tuesday about 135 miles away from the island was not expected to cause a tsunami. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.Northeastern Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing. Japan, which lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is one of the world s most seismically active countries. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-ch stanley cup ild 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id stanley cup -99b66cc2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99b66cc2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99b66cc2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child stanley cup 5 display: block;

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Someone touches the snout of a remarkably well-preserved cave bear, the carcass of which was discovered by reindeer herders on the Lyakhovsky Islands, part of the New Siberian Islands in remote northeast Russia. NORTH-EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Moscowmdash; Reindeer herders in Russia s Arctic have discovered the entire carcass of what scientists believe to be a uniquely well-preserved bear from the ice age. The animal, wit nike dunks panda h its teeth, nose and other soft-tissue still intact, was found on the Lyakhovsky Islands, part of the New Siberian Islands in remote northeast Russia.The discovery was reported last week by the North-Eastern Federal University NEFU , which will be studying the remains. It is the first find of its kind, Lena Grigorieva, a paleontology researcher at the university, told CBS News on Monday. It means there used to be woods on the island, and it could have been part of the mainland, she said, explaining that the bear could not have swum so far. The remarkably well-pres chanclas yeezy erved carcass of an ice age cave bear was discovered by reindeer adidas yeezy herders on the Lyakhovsky Islands, part of the New Siberian Islands in remote northeast Russia. NORTH-EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY The exact age of the carcass has yet to be established, but it is thought to belong to a species of bro Xkha Egypt bans Muslim Brotherhood
A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday.Rom Houben, 46, had a car crash in 1983 and doctors thought he had s stanley cup unk into a coma. His family continued to believe their son was conscious and sought further medical advice.Professor Steven Laureys of Belgium s Coma Science Group realized that the diagnosis was wrong and taught Houben how to communicate through a special keyboard, said Dr. Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, who is on Laureys team.Rom used the device to tell a reporter for the German magazine Der Spiegel that: I screamed but there was nothing to hear. Belgian doctors who treated him early on said that Rom had gone from a coma into a vegetative condition. Coma is a state of unconsciousness in which the eyes are closed and the patient can t be roused, as if simply asleep. A vegetative state is a condition in which the eyes are open and gourde stanley can move, and the patient has periods of sleep and periods of wakefulness, but remains unconscious and unaware of him or herself or others. The patient can t think, reason, respond, do anything on purpose, chew or swallow.But Rom s parents would not accept that he was comatose or vegetative.His mother, Fina Houben, said in a te stanley thermoskannen lephone interview that they took him five times to the United States for tests.More searching finally got her in touch with Laureys, who put Houben through a PET scan that indicated

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The Taliban on Monday took control of another provincial capital in Afghanistan, an official said. The city s fall was the latest in a weekslong, rele air force one ntless Taliban offensive as American and NATO forces finalize their pullout from the war-torn country. The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking large swaths of land in the mostly rural countryside. At the same time, they have been waging an assassination campaign targeting senior government officials in the capital, Kabul. The sweep comes despite condemnations by the international community and warnings from the United Nations that a military victory and takeover by the Taliban would not be recognized. The Taliban have also not heeded appeals to return to the negotiating table and continue long-stal chanclas yeezy led peace talks with the Afghan government. According to Mohammad Noor Rahmani, the council chief of northern Sar-e Pul province, the Taliban overran the provincial capital after over a week of resistance by Afghan security forces, after which the city of Sar-e Pul collapsed. The government forces have now completely withdrawn from the province, he said. Several pro-government local militia commanders also surrendered to the Taliban without a fight, allowing the insurgents to gain control of the entire province, Rahmani added. adidas campus shoes Taliban gains ground Fmlp China s Greenhouse Gases
An electrical failure in a plastics factory in Gaza City set off an explosion Wednesday, and an engineer lost his hands, police said, but there had been fears it was a new Israeli attack.Residents of Gaza City have been jittery in the past week, after Israeli helicopters launched three missile attacks that killed seven Hamas activists and a bystander. However, some Israeli observers suggested that it had the hallmarks of a work accident mdash; terrorists building a bomb that exploded prematurely.Earlier Wednesday, Palestinian leaders criticized Israe stanley cup l for its series of strikes against Palestinian militants, saying they will bring only revenge and more bloodshed.Following a botched Israeli missile attack on Tuesday that killed one bystander and wounded 26, Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas a stanley cups ccused Israel of undermining limited Palestinian efforts to rein in the militants stanley mugs . This brutal Israeli government policy will only take us back to the vicious cycle of violence, Abbas said in a statement. Israel must understand there is no military solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel has said every Hamas militant is a potential target for liquidation mdash; a response to a Hamas suicide attack on Aug. 19 that killed 21 people on a Jerusalem bus.The spiraling violence has dimmed the prospects for a U.S.-backed road map peace plan and highlighted the reluctance of Abbas to confront militant groups like Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.In Tuesday s botched

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London mdash; Britain s Prince Harry said on Tuesday that he warned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in an email exchange on January 5 that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged, a day before rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol yeezy building in Washington D.C. That email was sent the day before, and then it happened and I haven t heard from him since, Harry said, speaking as part of a virtual panel discussion for the RE:WIRED conference, hosted by WIRED magazine.A House of Representatives select committee was formed earlier this year to investigate the January 6 attack, which saw t adidas samba housands of supporters of former President Donald Trump descending on the Capitol as Congress counted electoral votes, a largely ceremonial last step to affirm President Biden s election victory. The riot led to five deaths and thearrest of hundr adidas campus herren eds of people. January 6 panel issues new subpoenas for top Trump aides 04:45 The Duke of Sussex made his remarks on Tuesday during a panel discussion about the role social media and other media outlets play in the spread of misinformation. He said he d been affected personally by media s malign influence through the death of his mother, Princess Diana, who was hounded by Britain s tabloid press, and the spread of the term Megxit to describe the decision he and his wife madeto Fhzu Fears of nuclear war in Europe stoke demand for fancy bunkers
This story was filed by CBS News George Baghdadi, reporting from Damascus.Syria approved Thursday the U.S. government s request to name a new Ambassador to Damascus, filling a post left vacant for five years in the wake former Leb stanley cup anese leader Rafik al-Hariri s assassination. The approval was sent through the diplomatic channels to Washington, a diplomat with knowledge of the decision told CBS News on condition of anonymity.The approval comes just one month after a meeting in Damascus between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and senior U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell.U.S. Embassy officials were not available to comment.Last week, Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem confirmed that the U.S. State Department had passed the name of a potential nominee to Syria, but he refused to identify the individual tapped by the Obama administration. The United States has nominated an a stanley cup mbassador. This is an American sovereign issue and it is Syria s right to study the nomination, Mouallem told a press conference. CBS Diplomats in the Syrian capital, however, identified the nominee as Robert Stephen Ford at left , currently the deputy U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. A U.S. Embassy offici stanley flask al in Baghdad confirmed to CBS News that, as of Thursday, Ford was still at his post. Ford, who speaks fluent Arabic, served previously as the U.S. Ambassador to Algeria from 2006 to 2008, and is considered to be an expert in Mideast affairs. The U.S. has not had an ambassador in Damascus since Presiden