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Latest Articles: War, War, War
One Day We Will Return
Post Date: 2008-09-27 22:38:00 by Lod
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Poster Comment:Why the hell does not "Auto Select" work? Either make it work, or delete the stupid thing. Thanks, very much.
YOU MIGHT BE A DUMBASS... IF YOU VOTE FOR MCCAIN (Buchanan Quotes)
Post Date: 2008-09-27 13:36:22 by buckeye
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Poster Comment:His big issue, the one he's comfortable with, is 'Islamofacism.'
Guantanamo Prosecutor Quits, Says Evidence Was Withheld
Post Date: 2008-09-26 22:59:56 by richard9151
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By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 25, 2008; Page A06 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Sept. 25 -- A military prosecutor involved in war crimes cases here has quit his position, citing ethical concerns about his office's failure to turn over exculpatory material to attorneys for an Afghan detainee scheduled to go to trial in December. Army Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a reservist, who declined to be interviewed, filed a declaration with a military court here Wednesday, laying out his concerns about the case and procedures in the military prosecutor's office, according to defense attorneys. "My ethical qualms about continuing to serve as a prosecutor relate ...
Top Officials Knew in 2002 of Harsh Interrogations
Post Date: 2008-09-26 22:56:37 by richard9151
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Top Officials Knew in 2002 of Harsh Interrogations By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 25, 2008; A07 Top White House officials were told in early 2002 about harsh measures used by the CIA to extract information from suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in the agency's secret prisons, according to an account given to congressional investigators by the office of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The details of the controversial program were discussed in multiple meetings inside the White House over a two-year period, triggering concerns among several officials who worried that the agency's methods might be illegal or violate anti-torture treaties, ...
Interrogator details pre-Abu Ghraib abuses
Post Date: 2008-09-26 22:53:28 by richard9151
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Expert US military interrogator witnessed abuses in Iraq he believed violated laws of war PAMELA HESS Sep 25, 2008 12:32 EST A military interrogation expert, Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, told Congress on Thursday that prior to the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions. One of those interrogations was conducted by an Air Force civilian and a contractor employed by the same organization, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which had sent a small team to Iraq in September 2003 to help a special forces task force make its interrogations of stubborn prisoners more effective. Kleinman told the Senate ...
Call for more Afghan troops
Post Date: 2008-09-26 11:34:42 by richard9151
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British commander says 4,000 more soldiers needed on Helmand front line By Kim Sengupta Thursday, 25 September 2008 The commander of British troops in Afghanistan has said troop levels need to be raised by at least 50 per cent to fight a resurgent Taliban in Helmand and an international presence would be required in the country for up to 15 years. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith said the reinforcements – first disclosed in The Independent a month ago – may arrive as Nato and the US plan tactics to counter the continuing violence. The US is pushing for a thorough revamping of operations in Afghanistan as the American General David Petraeus, credited with reducing violence in ...
The New World War -- The Silence Is A Lie
Post Date: 2008-09-26 11:13:51 by richard9151
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In an article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the 'great silence' over the annual British party conferences as politicians and their club of commentators say nothing about a war provoked and waged across the world the responsibility for which lies close at hand. By John Pilger 25/09/08 "ICH" -- - Britain's political conference season of 2008 will be remembered as The Great Silence. Politicians have come and gone and their mouths have moved in front of large images of themselves, and they often wave at someone. There has been lots of news about each other. Adam Boulton, the political editor of Sky News, and billed as "the husband of Blair aide Anji ...
War Nerd Islamablog: Day 2
Post Date: 2008-09-25 21:29:57 by Ada
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Here’s the deal: I’m going to blog this Islamabad blast every day for a while, try to talk honestly about how to sift through the crap to try to figure out what’s really going on. It should be a good case study, because there are all sorts of rumors flying around, and I’ve already learned some surprising stuff, found out I was wrong in the guesses I made from the first reports. Of course, if you’re really slow anything’s a surprise. There was a headline today, “Al Qaeda suspected in Islamabad Blast.” No, ya think? Sure it wasn’t the Basques? Maybe the Corsican Liberation Front? What surprised me was the news, in reports coming out today, that ...
Travelin' Soldier
Post Date: 2008-09-25 19:10:34 by Lod
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Cynicom, tom007, any, and everyone, who's had a loss in our senseless wars -
Poster Comment:Stop the killing.
New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
Post Date: 2008-09-25 05:56:07 by Stephen Lendman
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New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela - by Stephen Lendman Since taking office in January 2001, the Bush administration targeted Hugo Chavez for removal. It tried and failed three previous times: -- in April 2002 for two days; aborted by mass street protests and support from many in Venezuela's military, especially from its middle-ranking officer corp; -- the 2002 - 2003 general strike and oil management lockout causing severe economic disruption; and -- the August 2004 national recall referendum in which Chavez resoundingly prevailed with a 59% majority. Other disruptions have occurred since and now may again be ongoing. US intervention is innovative and determined to regain ...
Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.
Post Date: 2008-09-24 15:33:02 by Split
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Al-Jazeera releases full transcript of al Qaeda leader's tape (CNN) -- The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group's goal is to force America into bankruptcy. Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday but released the full transcript of the entire tape on its Web site Monday. "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript. He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, ...
US has no more troops for Afghan war until spring
Post Date: 2008-09-23 23:44:37 by richard9151
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Tue 23 Sep 2008, 13:26 GMT WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The United States will not have enough forces available to meet a request for more troops from NATO's top commander in Afghanistan until next spring at the earliest, the U.S. defense chief said on Tuesday. "Without changing deployment patterns, without changing length of tours, we do not have the forces to send three additional brigade combat teams to Afghanistan at this point," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "My view is that those forces will become available probably during the spring and summer of 2009," he said. Click for Full Text!
U.S. Expects Afghan Violence to Worsen
Post Date: 2008-09-23 23:43:01 by richard9151
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 U.S. Expects Afghan Violence to Worsen Commanders See Taliban Preparing Winter Offensive U.S. commanders in Afghanistan say they expect the Taliban to launch a winter offensive, a move that could bring bloodshed during a time of year that historically has been relatively peaceful. Since the U.S. invasion in 2001, violence in Afghanistan has usually tracked the country's seasons, decreasing during the harsh winter months and then resuming in the spring. This year is shaping up differently, with the U.S. picking up indications that militants who normally spend the winter months training in Pakistan are instead preparing to remain in Afghanistan, staying in position ...
When Refusing to Kill Has a Higher Sentence Than Murder
Post Date: 2008-09-22 06:04:21 by Ada
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An American soldier pauses before heading out to patrol near Tikrit, Iraq. According to Ann Wright, soldiers may be more severely punished for refusing to kill than for killing the wrong person. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images) From the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States military has come under intense criticism and scrutiny for the deaths of civilians. This week, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan to "acknowledge" the deaths of innocent civilians in attacks in those countries. In the five and one-half years of the US occupation of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians ...
Future Weapons: The New XM307
Post Date: 2008-09-22 00:44:11 by wudidiz
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Future Weapons: The New XM307 The XM307 Advanced Crew Served Weapon (ACSW) is a developmental 25 mm belt-fed Grenade Machine Gun with smart shell capability. It is the result of the OCSW or Objective Crew Served Weapon project. Click for Full Text!
Why does the US think it can win in Afghanistan?
Post Date: 2008-09-21 17:25:40 by richard9151
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The Taliban are better trained, and – sad to say – increasingly tolerated by the local civilian population By Robert Fisk 20/09/08 "The Independent' - -- Poor old Algerians. They are being served the same old pap from their cruel government. In 1997, the Pouvoir announced a "final victory" over their vicious Islamist enemies. On at least three occasions, I reported – not, of course, without appropriate cynicism – that the Algerian authorities believed their enemies were finally beaten because the "terrorists" were so desperate that they were beheading every man, woman and child in the villages they captured in the mountains around Algiers ...
Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie
Post Date: 2008-09-21 17:19:37 by richard9151
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By Deceiving a Congressional Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses and Violated the Separation of Powers - as Well as the Criminal Law By John W. Dean 19/09/08 "FindLaw" -- - This week, I agreed to deliver a "Constitution Day" talk on a college campus. My talk was not partisan. Yet the subject matter I selected was prompted by the most incredible - not to mention the most deadly - lie Dick Cheney has yet told, which was reported earlier this week. Last year, Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman and Jo Baker, now of the New York Times, did an extensive series for the Post on Cheney. Now, Gellman has done some more digging, and published the result in a ...
Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
Post Date: 2008-09-21 15:31:46 by angle
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Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in. After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted ...
SHOCKER! ~ Pakistan blames Al-Qaeda for hotel bombing
Post Date: 2008-09-21 13:51:42 by angle
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Pakistan blames Al-Qaeda for hotel bombing by Emmanuel Giroud 2 hours, 19 minutes ago ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan on Sunday blamed Al-Qaeda linked Taliban militants for the massive suicide truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel that killed at least 60 people and injured more than 260. Dramatic footage of Saturday night's attack showed the carnage could have been far worse, but the attacker failed to get through a secondary barrier when he crashed his explosives-laden truck into the hotel's security gates. The interior ministry said the truck was packed with 600 kilos (1,300 pounds) of explosives, and pointed a finger at Taliban militants allied with Al-Qaeda who are based in the ...
Hell on Wheels
Post Date: 2008-09-20 17:52:14 by Turtle
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I was born in Hungary, from which I escaped in 1982 at age 18. I settled in New York in 1984 with the intention of becoming an artist, but after nearly a decade of struggle I realized I might never make it. In 1993 I enrolled in the City University of New York, while I supported myself for four years as a conductor on New York City subway trains. There can be only a few jobs that so quickly introduce an immigrant to the realities of multi-racialism. Beneath the streets of New York I have seen and done things that very few whites will—I hope—ever see or do. Conductors operate the doors of trains, make announcements, give information to the passengers, and oversee the safety of ...
"We Blew Her to Pieces"
Post Date: 2008-09-20 00:17:44 by richard9151
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"We Blew Her to Pieces" Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan by Aaron Glantz Reviewed by Dahr Jamail MARFA, Texas, Sep 16 (IPS) - Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers' own words. "Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation," published by Haymarket Books Tuesday, is a gut-wrenching, historic chronicle of what the U.S. military has done to Iraq, as well as its own soldiers. Authored by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and ...
Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-09-19 16:42:43 by richard9151
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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor 18 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday. The images support the view of international refugee organizations and Iraq experts that a major population shift was a key factor in the decline in sectarian violence, particularly in the Iraqi capital, the epicenter of the bloodletting in which hundreds of thousands were killed. Minority Sunni Arabs were driven out of many neighborhoods by Shi'ite militants ...
U.S. soldier in iraq shoots 2 American sergeants
Post Date: 2008-09-19 14:33:39 by richard9151
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Oops. Perhaps 'it' is starting. Shades of Viet Nam! Makes one wonder about how many other like incidents we are not hearing about. By Nicholas Spangler | McClatchy Newspapers BAGHDAD — An American soldier shot and killed two U.S. sergeants Sunday morning at a base southeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday. The shooter's name and rank haven't been released, and the military would say only that the soldier is being held pending a review by a military magistrate. The dead men are Staff Sgt. Darris J. Dawson, of Pensacola, Fla., and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, of Dallas. "It was a useless, bizarre, terrible thing," Dawson's stepmother, Maxine ...
North Korea backs away from nukilar deal
Post Date: 2008-09-19 07:06:06 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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North Korea backs away from nuclear deal By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it did not wish to be taken off a U.S. terrorism blacklist, a reward it would be given if it abided by a disarmament deal, indicating it was stepping away from the pact. The North also said it had begun work to restore its Soviet-era nuclear Yongbyon plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium which was being taken apart under a disarmament-for-aid deal it reached with five regional powers, including the United States. "The DPRK (North Korea) neither wishes to be delisted as a 'state sponsor of terrorism' nor expects such a thing to happen," the North's official KCNA news ...
Insurgents in Afghanistan show strength, sophistication
Post Date: 2008-09-19 06:19:25 by Ada
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — A summer of heavy fighting during which Western military leaders had hoped to seize the initiative from Islamic militants has instead revealed an insurgency capable of employing complex new tactics and fighting across a broad swath of Afghanistan. Over the last three months, insurgents have exacted the most punishing casualty tolls on Western forces since the Afghan war began nearly seven years ago. Numbers of foreign troops killed have exceeded U.S. military deaths in Iraq. As Washington prepares to increase troop levels and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates paid a visit, militants have created a palpable sense of encirclement in Kabul with a series of small ...
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