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The Defense Department approved a request from Jordan to keep F-16 jets and Patriot missiles there after military exercises end this month. Russia warned that any attempt to use the equipment to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria would violate international law. A judge threw out Maj. Nidal Hasan's "defense of others" legal argument in his trial for the Fort Hood massacre. An unclassified government paper circulated today indicated that calls were searched for fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of records collected by the NSA in 2012.