Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has addressed thousands of cheering supporters from the balcony of his presidential palace in Caracas, hours after returning home from Cuba, where he underwent cancer surgery.

President Chavez discussed his health during the 30-minute speech Monday evening, telling the crowd he will win this "battle for life." The president, who was wearing a green military uniform and red beret, also said he had to submit to "strict" medical treatment.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force killed several insurgents and detained multiple suspected insurgents during an overnight security operation in Sherzad District, Nangarhar province, yesterday.

The target of the operation was an insurgent leader responsible for directing multiple insurgent teams in attacks against Afghan forces.

Being able to work as a team in a combat situation can mean the difference between success and failure for a military unit.

Soldiers from the 5th Iraqi Army Division took part in a group live-fire event at Normandy Training Site, Iraq, June 26, which focused on the unit’s ability to work together to meet an objective.

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Twelve Afghan National Army soldiers graduated from the first Combat Marksmanship Training Course to be taught at the Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest, here, June 30.

The course taught tactics and procedures much the same as Marine recruits learn in their basic training.

According to the United Nations’ Mine Clearance Program, Afghanistan is the most heavily mined country in the world. There are nearly 10 million landmines littering 530 kilometers of Afghan soil.

Some of these mines emplaced by insurgents, but most are left over from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

I've just returned from the border between the United States and Mexico and I've never witnessed anything like the stinking, rotten level of murder, corruption, cover-up, and conspiracy confronting us today.

This conspiracy ignited two years ago when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that your Second Amendment rights are to blame for the drug crimes and killings in Mexico.

Holder and other top-level Obama Administration figures -- even the President himself -- claimed that 90% of the guns used by violent drug cartels were coming from American gun dealers.

COVER FEATURE
JUSTICE IN ABBOTTABAD
A years-long manhunt came to an end in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when Navy SEALs brought justice to Usama bin Laden. When the raid was over, bin Laden was dead.
By Harold Hutchison

SPECIAL REPORT
ARE THE WALLS FALLING IN ON ATF’S PROJECT GUNRUNNER?
The ATF’s Project Gunrunner has been the subject of Congressional scrutiny. Have the walls on this project been breached, and is the truth coming out?

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DEMS RELEASE ANTI-GUN PROPAGANDA
Dave Workman covers the release of a report calling for more gun control - a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the scandal surrounding BATFE.
http://www.sofmag.com/dems-out-minority-report-gun-running