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Danger Room What's Next in National Security
Post Date: 2010-08-26 09:37:08 by tom007
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Danger Room What's Next in National Security Previous post Troops Wonder: WTF Are We Doing In Afghanistan, Again? * By Spencer Ackerman Email Author * August 26, 2010 | * 7:02 am | * Categories: Af/Pak * BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Two years ago, when I was last in Afghanistan, soldiers complained to me off the record that there weren’t enough of them to properly fight the war. This time around, in similarly candid moments, I heard a more fundamental complaint: the war doesn’t make sense. >www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/troops-wonder-wtf-are-we-doing-in-afghanistan-again/100816-f-8920c-073/"> To get the caveats out of the way: this post is based on ...
CIA Red Cell Memo
Post Date: 2010-08-25 21:16:41 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Much attention has been paid recently to the increasing occurrence of American-grown Islamic terrorists conducting attacks against US targets, primarily in the homeland. Less attention has been paid to homegrown terrorism, not exclusively Muslim terrorists, exported overseas to target non- US persons. This report examines the implications of what it would mean for the US to be seen increasingly as an incubator and “exporter of terrorism.” (S//NF) Contrary to common belief, the American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent phenomenon, nor has it been associated only with Islamic radicals or people of Middle Eastern, African or South Asian ethnic origin. This dynamic ...
US wars: People vs Generals
Post Date: 2010-08-25 14:47:47 by tom007
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Home » Blogs » Imperium US wars: People vs Generals By Marwan Bishara in * Imperium on August 25th, 2010 . Share Photo by EPA Marwan Bishara questions the wisdom and legitimacy of rebranding, outsourcing, prolonging and expanding US military campaigns in the Muslim world. While the Obama administration continues to affirm its intention to withdraw US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the US' military presence in the Muslim world is actually expanding and this is exacerbating tensions and inflaming animosities. Barack Obama's promise to open a new page with the Muslim world on the basis of mutual respect and interests - supplemented and enforced by the use of soft ...
U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen
Post Date: 2010-08-25 08:15:59 by Jethro Tull
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By ADAM ENTOUS And SIOBHAN GORMANWASHINGTON52;U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen.View Full ImageAFP/Getty ImagesYemeni security man a check point in Abayn province in southern Yemen on Sunday, after seven al Qaeda members were killed in clashes with the army in the area.More on Yemen WSJ.com/Mideast: News, photos, videos Follow @WSJMidEast on Twitter Such a move would give the Central Intelligence Agency a far larger role in what has until now been mainly a secret U.S. ...
Top US Marine General: Obama’s Afghan Deadline “Gives Sustenance to Enemy”
Post Date: 2010-08-24 17:13:24 by Jethro Tull
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The top U.S. Marine general said President Barack Obama’s announced July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan had given “sustenance” to the Taliban. “We know the president was talking to several audiences at the same time when he made his comments on July 2011,” Gen. James Conway told reporters on Tuesday. “In some ways, we think right now it’s probably giving our enemy sustenance….In fact, we’ve intercepted communications that say, ‘Hey, you know, we only have to hold out for so long.’” Conway, who recently returned from a trip to the region, said he expected Marines to remain on the ground in southern ...
Bombs of August Or the Israel Blackmailing of the US.
Post Date: 2010-08-24 16:15:51 by tom007
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Bombs of August | More Printer-friendly version David Kay | August 19, 2010 It’s not—at least not yet—the guns or bombs of August, but there has been a rising crescendo of noise about an impending attack on Iran’s nuclear program. It is hard to miss a cover on The Atlantic that proclaims “Israel is Getting Ready to Bomb Iran” that sends the reader to Jeffrey Goldberg’s “Point of No Return” article that is based on extensive, but largely anonymous, interviews in Israel. While Goldberg’s piece has gotten all the attention on the Web and in the press, one has to have considerable sympathy for Robert Kaplan. Kaplan authored the following ...
What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
Post Date: 2010-08-24 14:53:51 by Red Jones
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What You Will Not Hear About Iraq By Prof. Adil E. Shamoo Global Research, August 23, 2010 Foreign Policy In Focus - 2010-08-20 Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq. UN-HABITAT, an agency of the United Nations, recently published a 218-page report entitled State of the World’s Cities, 2010-2011. The report is full of statistics on the status of cities around the world and their demographics. It defines slum dwellers as those living in urban centers without one of ...
Iraq War Continues under a New Name: "Operation New Dawn." U.S. Troops Still Fighting and Dying in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-08-24 14:39:32 by Red Jones
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Iraq War Continues under a New Name: "Operation New Dawn." U.S. Troops Still Fighting and Dying in Iraq by Kevin Zeese Global Research, August 24, 2010 In the week since the much publicized withdrawal of "combat" troops from Iraq it has become more evident that the Iraq War continues under a new name: "Operation New Dawn." The first off-message comments came from the Department of Defense. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said shortly after the "end" of the war, "I don't think anybody has declared the end of the war as far as I know. Counter-terrorism will still be part of their mission." He said the more than 50,000 ...
Iran bomb 'not imminent'
Post Date: 2010-08-24 07:49:47 by tom007
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Iran bomb 'not imminent' By MJ Rosenberg [The Old Jerusalem Jam [EPA]] The old Jerusalem jam [EPA] In his book on Barack Obama's first year in office, Jonathan Alter wrotethat the president felt that he was "jammed by the Pentagon" to deepen the US involvement in Afghanistan. In other words, the military used leaks to sympathetic media, ostensibly predicting what Obama intended to do and why, to limit his options. It worked. Obama said: "I can neither confirm nor deny that I was jammed by the Pentagon." Which, of course, means he was. And he did not like it. The last few weeks have seen an intense push by the Israeli right and their neocon enablers in the ...
Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished or Strategic Retreat?
Post Date: 2010-08-24 05:37:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished or Strategic Retreat? - by Stephen Lendman In an August 2 speech to disabled veterans, Obama touted his planned withdrawal, saying: "As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end....Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy....for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility. And I made it clear that by August 31, 2010, America's combat mission in Iraq would end. And that is exactly what we are doing - as promised, on schedule." At two or more recent fundraisers, he repeated the "pledge:" "We are keeping the promise I made when I began my campaign for the presidency: by ...
Max Keiser and Michael Hudson on Super Imperialism & War Spending
Post Date: 2010-08-23 18:07:28 by Horse
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In porn, a story of Iraq's politics
Post Date: 2010-08-23 17:46:15 by Red Jones
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In porn, a story of Iraq's politics Aug. 23, 2010 10:31 AM Associated Press BAGHDAD - The nude women on the DVD cover in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq. Hundreds of porn DVDs are stacked elbow-deep on a wooden table in Jassim Hanoun's ramshackle stall on a downtown sidewalk. His other tables have Hollywood blockbusters, like "King Kong." But not surprisingly, it's the sex that sells best. "I've got everything," Hanoun says of his sex selection, flashing the kind of impish grin only a 22-year-old in tight jeans and slicked-back hair can pull off with any real conviction. "What do you want? ...
Iraq - depleted uranium worse than Hiroshima
Post Date: 2010-08-23 15:03:32 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Another Russia Today video that will never get onto US MSM.
Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakistan's Flood Victims
Post Date: 2010-08-23 11:40:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakistan's Flood Victims - by Stephen Lendman With 20 million or more people affected, about 12% of the population, the equivalent of 37 million Americans, Pakistan's devastating floods are truly of biblical proportions, described by UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon as worse than anything he'd ever seen, saying: "Thousands of towns and villages have simply been washed away. Roads, buildings, bridges, crops - millions of livelihoods have been lost. People are marooned on tiny islands with the floodwaters all around them (without food, sanitation, medical help, or shelter). They are drinking dirty water. They are living in the ...
Combat brigades in Iraq under different name
Post Date: 2010-08-23 10:21:48 by Jethro Tull
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Combat brigades in Iraq under different name 7 Advise and Assist Brigades, made up of troops from BCTs, still in Iraq By Kate Brannen - Staff writer Posted : Saturday Aug 21, 2010 16:10:59 EDT Compared with the 49,000 soldiers in Iraq, there are close to 67,000 in Afghanistan and another 9,700 in Kuwait, according to the latest Army chart on global commitments dated Aug. 17. Under an agreement with the Iraqi government, all U.S. troops must be out of Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011.There are seven Advise and Assist Brigades in Iraq, as well as two additional National Guard infantry brigades 60;for security,61; said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Craig Ratcliff.Last year, the Army decided that rather ...
'Iraq Exit: Rebranding the Occupation!'
Post Date: 2010-08-23 09:56:57 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This video is from Russia Today.
Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark by Robert Fisk
Post Date: 2010-08-23 09:46:28 by tom007
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Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark by Robert Fisk When you invade someone else's country, there has to be a first soldier - just as there has to be a last. The first man in front of the first unit of the first column of the invading American army to reach Fardous Square in the centre of Baghdad in 2003 was Corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment. For that reason, of course, he pointed out to me that he wasn't a soldier at all. Marines are not soldiers. They are Marines. But he hadn't talked to his mom for two months and so - equally inevitably - I offered him my satellite phone to call his home in Michigan. ...
Political Killings in Colombia
Post Date: 2010-08-23 05:33:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Political Killings in Colombia - by Stephen Lendman Colombia, America's closest South American ally, is a corrupted narco-state, a repressive death squad faux democracy, threatening regional neighbors, and reigning terror against trade unionists, human rights workers, campesinos, pro-democracy organizations, independent journalists, and legitimate resistance groups like the FARC-EP. Established in 1964, James Petras calls it the "longest standing, largest peasant-based guerrilla movement in the world," persisting valiantly for decades. Thanks to Plan Colombia and other support, the state is heavily militarized, more than ever now serving as Washington's land-based ...
Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity
Post Date: 2010-08-22 20:21:40 by Ada
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Afghanistan's embattled president Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that U.S. taxpayers were indirectly funding "mafia-like groups" and terrorist activities with the American government's support of private contractors inside his country. In a rare U.S. media appearance, Karzai continued to press for the removal of the vast majority of U.S. private contractors by the end of this year. He argued that their continued presence inside Afghanistan was "an obstruction and impediment" to the country's growth, a massive waste of money, and a catalyst for corruption among Afghan officials. "The more we wait the more we lose," Karzai said during an appearance ...
Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected
Post Date: 2010-08-21 17:57:25 by tom007
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Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected Friday 20 August 2010 by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed photo WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Photo: Esther Dyson / Flickr) On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past. From Malaya and Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and Basra, little has changed. The difference is that, today, there is an extraordinary way of knowing how faraway societies are routinely ravaged in our name. WikiLeaks has acquired records of six years of civilian killing for both Afghanistan ...
Sweden seeks Wikileaks founder arrest in rape case (Or The Empire Strikes Back)
Post Date: 2010-08-21 10:07:52 by tom007
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Sweden seeks Wikileaks founder arrest in rape case AP * Buzz up!57 votes * o Share o retweet o Email o Print WIKILEAK ASSANGE SWEDEN AP – FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives a seminar at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation headquarters … Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJUSS 432.31 -0.55 ^IXIC 2,179.76 +0.81 ^IXK 1,098.32 +1.41 1 hr 53 mins ago STOCKHOLM – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suspected of rape in Sweden, where authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest, officials said Saturday. The 39-year-old Australian denied the allegations on WikiLeaks' Twitter page, saying they "are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply ...
Who's blowing up Iran's gas pipelines?
Post Date: 2010-08-20 14:49:11 by Red Jones
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Who's blowing up Iran's gas pipelines? By Con Coughlin Last updated: August 18th, 2010 In the past few weeks Iran’s gas infrastructure, which is central to the country’s energy requirements, has been hit by a series of unexplained explosions. The series of mysterious explosions began at the end of July when the state-owned Tehran Times reported that a pipeline carrying gas from Iran to Turkey had exploded near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit. Iranian officials blamed the blast on Kurdish rebels. This was followed earlier this month by reports in the Iranian press of an explosion in a gas pipeline on the outskirts of Tabriz. A few days later there was a more ...
Orwell in charge? Kucinich compares Iraq ‘exit’ to Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’
Post Date: 2010-08-20 12:58:19 by tom007
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Orwell in charge? Kucinich compares Iraq ‘exit’ to Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ By Ron Brynaert Friday, August 20th, 2010 -- 7:34 am submit to reddit Stumble This! 78Share 9diggsdigg mission accomplished Orwell in charge? Kucinich compares Iraq exit to Bushs Mission Accomplished "Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged the notion that removing ‘combat brigades’ but leaving 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq constitutes an end to combat operations, let alone an end to the war," a press release sent to RAW STORY on Thursday stated. The press release continues: “Who is in charge of our operations in Iraq , now? George Orwell? A war ...
Poll: ‘No’ to US wars at all time high
Post Date: 2010-08-20 10:37:34 by christine
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A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time high. The CNN opinion poll found that 62 percent of the American people now think that the war in Afghanistan neither can be won, nor should it be fought at all, the Press TV correspondent in Washington reported on Thursday. The poll also found that 69 percent of the Americans are now opposed to the US war in Iraq and favored the US President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw 50,000 US troops from the country. The poll, on the other hand, shows 30 percent of Americans support the wars. About 50-thousand American soldiers will remain in the war-torn Iraq until the end of 20 ...
No Way Can US Win A Non-Nuclear War With Iran
Post Date: 2010-08-19 14:49:43 by Red Jones
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No Way Can US Win A Non-Nuclear War With Iran Posted on Pakalert on August 19, 2010 By Gwynne Dyer, When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC’s Meet The Press whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: “We do.” General staffs are supposed to plan for even the most unlikely future contingencies. Right down to the 1930s, for example, the United States maintained and annually updated plans for the invasion of Canada—and the Canadian military made plans to preempt the invasion. But what the planning process will have revealed, in this ...
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