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ISIS Has Retaken Half of Syrian Border Town
Post Date: 2017-11-11 06:22:26 by Ada
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Militants Attacked Town Almost Immediately After Syria Captured It Reports that ISIS has lost its “last” stronghold in Syria may have been premature. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS has recaptured roughly half of the town of Abu Kamal. Abu Kamal is the main border crossing into Iraq, where it links with al-Qaim, another town which recently fell to Iraqi forces from ISIS. Within eight hours of Syria reporting the capture of Abu Kamal, however, ISIS was attacking the city again. While ISIS forces have mostly abandoned towns and cities in favor of fleeing into the desert to return to insurgency, they appear to want to keep Abu Kamal contested for ...
Hamid Karzai: US colluded with ISIL in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2017-11-11 06:14:37 by Ada
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Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, has accused the the US of working with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in his country. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera's UpFront aired on Friday, Karzai said the US government had allowed ISIL, also known as ISIS, to flourish inside Afghanistan. "In my view under the full presence, surveillance, military, political, intelligence, Daesh [ISIL] has emerged," he said. "And for two years the Afghan people came, cried loud about their suffering, of violations. Nothing was done." Mixed reaction in Afghanistan over Nangarhar MOAB bombing Karzai said the US administration of President ...
'Cold day in hell before ICC goes after US for committing Afghanistan war crimes'
Post Date: 2017-11-09 09:27:57 by Ada
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The ICC prosecutor’s decision to pursue a probe into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan is “completely political” and won't amount to anything, law professor Francis Boyle believes. He said it will be a “cold day in hell” before any Americans are prosecuted. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, announced last week that her request to launch an investigation had been handed over to a pre-trial court. She said that if her request is granted, the probe will focus “upon those most responsible for the most serious crimes committed in connection with the situation in Afghanistan.” Read more FILE PHOTO © U.S. Army US ...
International Criminal Court Seeks Afghanistan War Crimes Probe That Could Target US Troops
Post Date: 2017-11-05 08:55:07 by Ada
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The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor said a preliminary examination found “a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity” were committed in Afghanistan after US-led troops moved in following the September 11 attacks in 2001. The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is seeking an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in the war in Afghanistan, an unprecedented probe that could involve US troops. Fatou Bensouda said in a statement that a preliminary examination found “a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity” were committed in Afghanistan after US-led troops moved in following the ...
The Latest: Bergdahl gets no prison time for leaving post
Post Date: 2017-11-03 12:24:07 by Ada
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Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (AP Photo - Gerry Broome) November 03, 2017 10:43 AM EST FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing hearing for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (all times local): 11:40 a.m. A military judge has found that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time for endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post. The judge also gave Bergdahl a dishonorable discharge, reduced his rank to private and said he must forfeit pay equal to $1,000 per month for 10 months. The judge made no other comments. Bergdahl appeared ...
US Intelligence Officer: “Every Single Terrorist Attack In US Was A False Flag Attack”
Post Date: 2017-11-03 06:58:58 by Ada
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Apart from documents that have outlined supposed terrorist threats, like Al-Qaeda, and their connection to US intelligence agencies, like the CIA, there are a number of whistleblowers that have come out adding more fuel to the fire. Because not many are even aware of these documents, letting people know about a truth that can be hard for people to accept, let alone ponder the possibility is very important. It’s just one aspect of the veil that’s been blinding the masses for quite some time now. advertisement - learn more The latest whistleblower is David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps intelligence officer, and the second-highest-ranking civilian in the U.S. Marine Corps ...
McMaster may move Afghanistan envoy position to White House
Post Date: 2017-11-03 06:31:11 by Ada
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The national security adviser looks for more control over U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Aides to President Donald Trump have considered reviving an office the administration shut down months ago that was dedicated to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan, a sign that Trump’s policy there remains unsettled. Multiple sources said that senior Trump aides have discussed resurrecting the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, which was previously based in the State Department, as a White House-based operation. The discussions suggest that, well after Trump laid out his Afghanistan strategy in August, his aides are still calibrating their diplomatic ...
US General Says 4,000 American Troops Are in Syria
Post Date: 2017-11-01 17:10:55 by Ada
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Pentagon Later Insists Official Figure Is Just 503 The Pentagon loves lying about troop levels in its major wars, and that’s been particularly true in Iraq and Syria, where after being called out for underreporting several times they officially decided they were going to stop telling the public troop levels at all. Maj. Gen. James Jarrard told reporters today that the US has about 4,000 ground troops in Syria, which is nearly 4,000 more troops than they’ve ever admitted to before. This figure apparently wasn’t supposed to be public, as other Pentagon officials were quickly scrambling to walk back that announcement. Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon claimed to have no idea ...
Pentagon to Keep Afghan War ‘Progress’ Metrics Secret
Post Date: 2017-10-31 05:48:46 by Ada
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Data on Local Security Forces No Longer Available For the last 16 years, the Pentagon’s “progress” in the occupation of Afghanistan has been measured by officials through multiple different statistics, and one most often cited has been the size of the Afghan military. Those numbers have struggled recently, with Afghanistan not recruiting well nor retaining its recruits. So that’s not a metric anymore. At least not as far as the public narrative is concerned. The Pentagon has announced that they have decided to make the size of the Afghan military, previously a very public part of their quarterly report, classified information. The Special Inspector General for ...
The Intercept Withheld NSA Doc That May Have Altered Course Of Syrian War
Post Date: 2017-10-27 09:33:02 by Ada
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If this document had been published sooner, it could have dramatically changed the course of the war by exposing the true face of the “moderate rebels” — and potentially saved tens of thousands of lives. That didn’t happen, and no reason has been given by the Intercept for its delay. On Tuesday, the Intercept published a hitherto unknown document from the trove of National Security Administration (NSA) documents leaked by Edward Snowden over three years ago. The document was notable as it shed light on the early days of the Syrian conflict and the fact that, for the past six years, so-called “revolutionary” groups aimed at toppling Syrian President Bashar ...
Presidents Are Reckless With Soldiers’ Lives
Post Date: 2017-10-26 07:03:04 by Ada
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The controversy over Trump’s condolence call should be a debate about promiscuous military intervention. The widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger on October 4, says she was "very angry" when Donald Trump told her during a condolence call last week that her husband "knew what he signed up for." The president's critics say that remark was insensitive, but the more important point is that it was not true. How can any member of the armed forces know what he is signing up for when presidents of both parties deploy the military so promiscuously, usually for reasons that have little or nothing to do with defending the country? ...
Mainstream Media Brags About US Wiping Syrian City Off the Face of the Earth
Post Date: 2017-10-25 09:32:02 by Ada
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America’s illegal war in the Syrian city of Raqqa has already killed over 1,800 civilians, according to the monitoring group Airwars. At the time the offensive was launched in June, the U.S. was aware that some 200,000 civilians were trapped. In that first week of operations alone, the U.N. accused the Trump administration of killing 300 civilians in less than seven days’ worth of bombing. This trend has continued over the course of the last few months, and as one might imagine, Syrian infrastructure has been completely decimated. Rather than label this assault for what it is — namely, a grave crime against humanity encompassing an endless supply of potential war crimes ...
Teaching Revisionist History 101 at West Point
Post Date: 2017-10-23 07:21:55 by Ada
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Born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, a former businessman who had helped run companies into the ground, he was widely considered ill- prepared for the presidency, out of his depth, a lightweight in a heavyweight world. Still, having won the Republican nomination and then a uniquely contested election, once in the Oval Office he proved to have a striking inclination for backing extreme acts and seemingly no compunctions when it came to promoting torture, politicizing the Justice Department, or kidnapping terror suspects (the innocent as well as the guilty) anywhere on Earth. He was determined to fill Guantanamo to the brim, more than ready to loose the U.S. military and ...
Bowe Bergdahl Was ‘Guilty’ All Along
Post Date: 2017-10-17 07:57:56 by Ada
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Hyper-politicized persecution began when his thoughts on war came to light. The saga of Bowe Bergdahl—the soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan before he was captured, held, and tortured by members of the Haqqani network for five years until his rescue in 2014—may be coming to a swift, if not anticlimactic end. His detractors—who range from Donald Trump to Rush Limbaugh and countless members of the military community in between—won’t, as they say, have Bowe Bergdahl to kick around anymore. In fact, without Bergdahl, Trump wouldn’t have had one of his most indelible schticks of 2016: pretending to shoot Bergdahl in a firing squad. “He’s a ...
Experts Warn Congress: North Korean EMP Would Kill ‘90% of Americans’ – Consider Nuke First Strike
Post Date: 2017-10-14 19:34:44 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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If N.K. could do this, what could Russia or China do?============Daily WireByRyan SaavedraOctober 13, 2017Two EMP experts warned Congress on Thursday that North Korea is capable of executing an EMP attack over the United States which would send the U.S. back to the stone age and would lead to the deaths of 90 percent of all Americans within one year.Chairman Dr. William R. Graham and Chief of Staff Dr. Peter Vincent Pry of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack told the Committee on Homeland Security that the U.S. is now facing a “doomsday scenario” as U.S. intelligence under the Obama administration grossly underestimated ...
Freed family reaches Canada, says kidnappers killed 1 child
Post Date: 2017-10-14 09:43:11 by BTP Holdings
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Freed family reaches Canada, says kidnappers killed 1 child Associated Press By MARTIN BENEDYK, ROB GILLIES and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press 4 hrs ago Kidnapped Canadian says child killed, wife raped in Afghanistan (Video by Reuters America) TORONTO— Former hostage Joshua Boyle says the Haqqani network in Afghanistan killed his infant daughter and raped his American wife during the five years they were held in captivity. Boyle gave the statement shortly after landing in Canada late Friday with his wife, Caitlan Coleman, and three young children. The couple was rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by the Taliban-linked extremist network while in ...
Autopilot Wars: Sixteen Years, But Who’s Counting?
Post Date: 2017-10-09 07:24:49 by Ada
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Even though the article was buried at the bottom of page eight of the September 28th New York Times, it caught my attention. Its headline: "Russia Destroys Chemical Weapons and Faults U.S. for Not Doing So." In a televised ceremony, wrote reporter Andrew Higgins, Russian President Vladimir Putin "presided over the destruction of his country’s last declared chemical weapons on Wednesday." The U.S. and Russia had, it seems, long ago agreed to do so by 2007, before pushing the date back to 2012, and then 2020. The Russians have now beaten that deadline by three years while, according to an unnamed State Department official quoted by Higgins, the U.S. "remains ...
US Again Downplays Deaths From Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
Post Date: 2017-09-30 06:34:56 by Ada
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Dismissed Over 90% of Incidents as 'Non-Credible' As another month winds down, another official Pentagon report on civilian death tolls in Iraq and Syria has been released, and as usual dramatically underreports the true death toll of an increasingly aggressive air campaign in densely populated cities. Most of the deaths came in Raqqa, and reports on the ground documented roughly 100 civilians killed in a single 48 hour span in mid-August. This was the result of bombardment of residential areas in Raqqa, something which was realistically happening almost daily throughout the entire month. 100 civilians dead in 48 hours, and Airwars documented hundreds of incidents besides. Yet ...
Can you believe Trump threatened to destroy North Korea?
Post Date: 2017-09-27 09:57:56 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Venezuela’s Maduro tells starving populace to prep for war with United States
Post Date: 2017-09-27 09:41:44 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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1 hour agoAs Venezuela starves, Maduro tells army to prepare for US 'threats'Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh off calling on the inhabitants of his starving nation to eat rabbits that had been kept as pets, is now asking his army to make sure it has “rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready” amid a war of words with the United States.Maduro made the declaration Monday during a military exercise in the city of Maracay, two days after the Trump administration signed new restrictions imposing bans on the entry of some Venezuelan government officials and their families into the U.S."We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ...
US Winds Down Its Land Grab in Southern Syria, Launches Another One in the East
Post Date: 2017-09-26 10:53:39 by Ada
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A pair of offensives kick up the US-Syrian race for eastern Syria into high gear The US has evacuated the smaller of its two bases in southern Syria. Together with Syrian rebels in its employ it has left the Zakaf outpost and actually dynamited it on the way out. It has also told two rebel outfits in the south, with whom it has previously cut links, to exit Syria and head for Jordan. Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo Brigades, and Usoud al-Sharqiya said they would comply especially as Saudi Arabia and Jordan told them the same thing. Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo was previously backed by the CIA but Trump ended CIA backing of Syrian rebels this July. Usoud al-Sharqiya was previously bankrolled by the ...
Very dangerous escalation in Syria
Post Date: 2017-09-26 08:40:42 by Ada
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By now many of you must have heard the news: a Russian Lieutenant-General, Valery Asapov, and two Colonels have been killed in what appears to be a very precisely targeted mortar attack. Just as in the case of the Russian military police unit recently attacked near Deir ez-Zor, the Russians are accusing the Americans of being behind this attack. To make things even worse, the Russians are now also officially accusing the Americans of actively collaborating with ISIS: US Special Operations Forces units enable US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces units to smoothly advance through the ISIS formations. Facing no resistance of the ISIS militants, the SDF units are advancing along the left shore ...
Trump’s First Airstrikes on Libya Kill 17
Post Date: 2017-09-25 07:22:51 by Ada
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AFRICOM Says Struck Site Was ISIS Camp For the first time since President Trump’s inauguration, the US has carried out airstrikes inside Libya, bombing what they described as an ISIS camp within central Libya, southeast of Sirte. 17 people were killed, and the US claimed all were ISIS. African Command (AFRICOM) claimed that the drone strikes targeted a desert camp which “had been connected to multiple attacks across Europe.” Such a claim is common in US military attacks in nations the US is not engaged in a war. That’s because legally speaking such strikes rest on them being special cases involving specific threats to allies. This language features in official ...
Uncle Sam vs. Russia in Eastern Syria: The Nightmare Scenario
Post Date: 2017-09-23 06:44:38 by Ada
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The impending collapse of ISIS has touched off a race for territory in the oil-rich eastern part of Syria pitting US-backed forces against the Russian-led coalition of Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. This is the nightmare scenario that everyone wanted to avoid. Washington and Moscow’s armies are now converging on the same area at the same time greatly increasing the probability of a conflagration between the two nuclear-armed superpowers. The only way a clash can be avoided is if one party backs down, which seems increasingly unlikely. The situation can be easily explained. The vast swath of territory captured by ISIS is steadily shrinking due to the dogged perseverance of the Syrian ...
Russia Warns It Would Retaliate Against US Forces in Syria If Provoked
Post Date: 2017-09-22 16:58:40 by Ada
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US, Russian Generals Talk Face-to-Face About Syria Problems According to the Pentagon, US and Russian generals have held a face-to-face meeting this week about trying to avoid accidental conflict within Syria, with both sides are finding their forces increasingly in close proximity, and with contrary agendas. According to spokesman Col. Ryan Dillon, both sides “laid down maps and graphics” suggesting an unusual increase in information sharing between the two sides. This comes amid warnings from Russia that they’re prepared to retaliate against US troops if provoked. It’s not just a theoretical problem either. Russian officials warn that twice in recent days their ...
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