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U.S. general predicts increase in Afghan violence
Post Date: 2008-04-24 20:35:11 by richard9151
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April 24, 2008, 10:42AM KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgent violence in Afghanistan could reach record levels this year as militants increasingly target police and development projects, a top U.S. general said today. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser, who commands U.S. forces in the country, said violence is increasing as insurgents pour into Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan. Violence "may well reach a higher level than it did in 2007," the bloodiest since the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001, Schloesser said. More than 8,000 people, mostly militants, were killed in insurgency-related violence last year, according to the United Nations. Militants afraid to attack ...
U.S. kills 800 in 3 weeks in Sadr city
Post Date: 2008-04-24 20:32:43 by richard9151
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U.S. occupation forces have killed more than 800 people, most of them innocent civilians, in their three-week long military campaign to subdue the Mahdi Army in Sadr City, the leader of Sadr movement in Baghdad said. Sheikh Salaman al-fariji said the troops have also injured more than 1,800 people and caused large-scale destruction of private property and the city’s rickety infrastructure. Fariji made the remarks as he accompanied a delegation of 20 members of parliament on a tour of the impoverished city home to more than 2 million people. U.S. troops have imposed a tight embargo on the city and bombing by war planes and helicopter gun ships in the densely populated Baghdad ...
Latin America: the attack on democracy -- John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor
Post Date: 2008-04-24 19:56:19 by richard9151
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24/04/08 "ICH" -- -- Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. In Colombia, the main battleground, the class nature of the war is distorted by the guerrillas ...
Al-Sadr may restart full-scale fight against US in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-24 19:35:13 by richard9151
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33 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces — a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state protected by his powerful Mahdi Army. A possible breakaway path — described to The Associated Press by Shiite lawmakers and politicians — would represent the ultimate backlash to the Iraqi government's pressure on al-Sadr to renounce and disband his Shiite militia. By snubbing the give-and-take of politics, al-Sadr would have a freer hand to carve out a kind of parallel state with its own militia and ...
White House says Syria 'must come clean' about nuclear work
Post Date: 2008-04-24 19:32:21 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday that North Korea's secret work on a nuclear reactor with Syria was "a dangerous and potentially destabilizing development for the world," raising doubts about Pyongyang's intention to carry through with a promised disclosure of its nuclear activities. Seven months after Israel bombed the reactor, the White House broke its silence and said North Korea assisted Syria's secret nuclear program and that the destroyed facility was not intended for "peaceful purposes." Top U.S. intelligence officials who briefed reporters said they had high confidence in the judgment that North Korea had aided Syria with its nuclear ...
ASS-KISSING LITTLE CHICKENSHIT PROMOTED TO HEAD U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND
Post Date: 2008-04-24 18:34:50 by tom007
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ASS-KISSING LITTLE CHICKENSHIT PROMOTED TO HEAD U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND Diary Entry by Jim Freeman Tell A Friend :::::::: Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 What the Petraeus Promotion Means TIME MAGAZINE By Mark Thompson/Washington Defense Secretary Robert Gates's announcement Wednesday promoting General David Petraeus from his current post running the war in Iraq to head up U.S. Central Command triggered both political and military unease. That response may be inevitable, coming on the downside of an unpopular war and in the waning months of the tenure of the unpopular President who launched it. While Republicans hailed the news that Petraeus — who implemented the "surge" ...
Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes
Post Date: 2008-04-24 17:22:11 by aristeides
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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes Posted April 24, 2008 | 09:59 AM (EST) Even after all of this time and President Bush's own abandonment of the WMD theme, Vice President Richard Cheney is still convinced that there are hidden WMDs in the Middle East that bear Saddam Hussein's product mark. A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there. Cheney believes that Syria has them -- and has been watching closely intelligence streams from a secret "black SIGINT base" that the US has placed in the mountains near the intersection of the ...
Lockheed Earnings Up 6%, Topping Forecasts
Post Date: 2008-04-24 16:16:14 by aristeides
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Lockheed Earnings Up 6%, Topping Forecasts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 23, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — The military contractor Lockheed Martin said its first-quarter earnings rose 6 percent as higher sales of space equipment, missiles and other combat tools offset a dip in sales of fighter jets. Lockheed said it earned $730 million, or $1.75 a share, up from $690 million, or $1.60 a share, in the first quarter of 2007. Revenue for the period climbed to $9.98 billion, from $9.27 billion during the same quarter last year. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had expected Lockheed to earn $1.63 a share on sales of $9.69 billion. Lockheed’s first quarter included an ...
Surging Towards Gaza: How the U.S. is Reproducing Israel's Flawed Occupation Strategies in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-24 12:17:52 by Red Jones
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Surging Towards Gaza: How the U.S. is Reproducing Israel's Flawed Occupation Strategies in Iraq By Steve Niva, Foreign Policy in Focus Posted on April 23, 2008, Printed on April 24, 2008 www.alternet.org/story/83169/ The new "surge" strategy in Iraq, led by General David Petreaus, has been heavily marketed as an example of the U.S. military's application of the "lessons of history" from previous counterinsurgencies to Iraq, foremost among them the need to win the population over from insurgents through cultivating human relationships, addressing popular grievances and providing security. Yet one glance at the realities on the ground in Iraq today reveal that ...
3 states conduct martial law sweeps
Post Date: 2008-04-24 10:47:48 by ghostdogtxn
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U.S. angry as Pakistan seeks peace deal with Islamists
Post Date: 2008-04-24 10:04:14 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Pakistan's new government is negotiating a peace deal with militants in the Taliban-controlled Waziristan region, the rugged mountainous area that's thought to be Osama bin Laden's refuge. The move reflects the changing approach of America's longtime ally in the war on terror, and news of the talks set off alarm bells in Washington Wednesday. "We are concerned about it, and what we encourage them to do is to continue to fight against the terrorists and to not disrupt any security or military operations that are ongoing in order to help prevent a safe haven for terrorists there," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "We have been concerned about these ...
U.S. businessman aims to bring 'badly needed' fun to Baghdad - Disneyland coming to Baghdad
Post Date: 2008-04-24 09:45:58 by Jethro Tull
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U.S. businessman aims to bring 'badly needed' fun to Baghdad SONIA VERMA From Wednesday's Globe and Mail April 23, 2008 at 4:31 AM EDT DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Llewellyn Werner acknowledges he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with. Such as mortar attacks, stray gunfire and random looting. But when you're building your amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come with the territory. The California businessman is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive U.S.-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. ...
Petraeus promotion keeps nation on its war course
Post Date: 2008-04-23 21:13:34 by richard9151
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1 hour, 21 minutes ago WASHINGTON - President Bush is promoting his top Iraq commander, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and replacing him with the general's recent deputy, keeping the U.S. on its war course and handing the next president a pair of combat-tested commanders who have relentlessly defended Bush's strategies. Bush will nominate Petraeus to replace Navy Adm. William J. Fallon as chief of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Wednesday. The command's area of responsibility features some of the most vexing military and foreign policy problems facing this administration and its successor — including Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, parts of Africa and ...
Ross Issues Urgent Warning on Iran (Nuclear Radiation Warning Given To Saudis)
Post Date: 2008-04-23 20:51:02 by Horse
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(Read The Last Paragraph. Nuclear Radiation Warning Given To Saudis By Dick Cheney!!)
The U.S. and its allies probably have no more than a year to take action against Iran before that nation acquires nuclear weapons, warns Dennis Ross, an architect of the Mideast peace process.
By 2009, Iran “could be a nuclear power, if not a nuclear weapon state, said Ross, who served as the director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H.W. Bush and special Middle East envoy under President Bill Clinton.
If not stopped by next year, Iran will have “crossed the threshold of stockpiling fissionable material,” Ross said in remarks to Toronto’s Shaarei Shomayim ...
What the Iraq War is about (PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS)
Post Date: 2008-04-23 17:31:55 by aristeides
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What the Iraq War is about Bush's “war on terror” is a hoax that serves to cover US intervention in the Middle East in behalf of “greater Israel.” April 22, 2008—The Bush Regime has quagmired America into a sixth year of war in Afghanistan and Iraq with no end in sight. The cost of these wars of aggression is horrendous. Official US combat casualties stand at 4,538 dead. Officially, 29,780 US troops have been wounded in Iraq. Experts have argued that these numbers are understatements. Regardless, these numbers are only the tip of the iceberg. On April 17, 2008, AP News reported that a new study released by the RAND Corporation concludes that “some 300,000 ...
Colt's grip on military rifle criticized
Post Date: 2008-04-23 15:21:31 by X-15
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No weapon is more important to tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than the carbine rifle. And for well over a decade, the military has relied on one company, Colt Defense of Hartford, Conn., to make the M4s they trust with their lives. Now, as Congress considers spending millions more on the guns, this exclusive arrangement is being criticized as a bad deal for American forces as well as taxpayers, according to interviews and research conducted by The Associated Press. "What we have is a fat contractor in Colt who's gotten very rich off our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," says Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. The M4, which can fire at a rate of 700 to 950 ...
SURPRISE SURPRISE Petraeus picked to lead Mideast command
Post Date: 2008-04-23 11:54:48 by angle
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WASHINGTON - Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. Gates said he expected Petraeus to make the shift in late summer or early fall. The Pentagon chief also announced that Bush will nominate Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno to replace Petraeus in Baghdad. Central Command oversees the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan. "I am honored to be nominated for this position and to have an opportunity to continue to serve with America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and civilians," Petraeus ...
Gates names Petraeus to command all U.S. forces in Middle East (CENTCOM COMMANDER)
Post Date: 2008-04-23 11:54:33 by aristeides
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Gates names Petraeus to command all U.S. forces in Middle East The widely praised general in charge of American troops in Iraq will be nominated to lead the U.S. Central Command. Odierno is chosen to replace him. By Julian E. Barnes and Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 8:44 AM PDT, April 23, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of U.S. troops in Iraq, will be nominated to be the top commander of all American forces in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced today. Petraeus has won wide praise within the Bush administration and among the uniformed military for his leadership of the Iraq war, turning around a deteriorating security ...
Torture victim's records lost at Guantnamo, admits camp general
Post Date: 2008-04-23 11:17:48 by richard9151
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Monday April 21 2008 The former head of interrogations at Guantánamo Bay found that records of an al-Qaida suspect tortured at the prison camp were mysteriously lost by the US military, according to a new book by one of Britain's top human rights lawyers. Retired general Michael Dunlavey, who supervised Guantánamo for eight months in 2002, tried to locate records on Mohammed al-Qahtani, accused by the US of plotting the 9/11 attacks, but found they had disappeared. The records on al-Qahtani, who was interrogated for 48 days - "were backed up ... after I left, there was a snafu and all was lost", Dunlavey told Philippe Sands QC, who reports the conversation in ...
VA confirms 18 vets commit suicide every day
Post Date: 2008-04-22 20:34:31 by richard9151
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Apr 22, 2008, 00:19 In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency’s own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week -- 6,552 veterans per year -- commit suicide, according to an internal email distributed to several VA officials. Brig. Gen. Michael J. Kussman, the undersecretary for health at the VA, sent the email, dated Dec. 15, 2007. Kussman had inquired about the accuracy of a news report published that month claiming the suicide rate among veterans was 18 per day. “McClatchy [Newspapers] alleges that 18 veterans kill themselves everyday and this is confirmed by the VA’s own statistics,” ...
Iraq's Sadr cannot be defeated by force: experts
Post Date: 2008-04-22 19:38:21 by richard9151
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Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:39pm IST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says the next step is "open war". The U.S.-backed government shows no sign of backing down. Suddenly, after many months in which the news from Iraq has been mostly about falling violence, the country is reeling towards a rebellion by millions of Sadr's followers against a government crackdown on his black-masked Mehdi Army militia. Ultimately, say experts, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki may never be able to defeat the popular cleric by force, and his attempt to do so could make Iraq far more unstable at a time when U.S. troops are reducing in numbers. So far, Maliki has averted ...
US snipers accused of targeting civilians in Sadr City
Post Date: 2008-04-22 19:31:11 by richard9151
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Residents, doctors of Baghdad's Sadr City say US snipers deliberately shoot civilians in legs, stomachs. BAGHDAD - Civilians caught up in the crossfire during raging street battles between Shiite militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Shiite bastion Sadr City are blaming an unseen danger – US military snipers. At least 321 people have been killed in Sadr City since March 25 and hundreds more wounded, many of them brought to hospitals with wounds that doctors say appear to be caused by high-powered rifles and "American bullets." US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover dismissed claims that US snipers are targeting women and children as ...
Five US troops killed in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-22 16:35:57 by richard9151
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news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2008...5_JoAoS6Ddwpb_w42XywUewgF 1 hour, 5 minutes ago BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military on Tuesday announced the deaths of five troops in a series of bombings as blasts in Baghdad killed 10 people and a female suicide bomber slaughtered six Iraqis north of the capital. Two US marines were killed and three others wounded when a bomber slammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint near the western Iraqi city of Ramadi at around 7:30 am (0430 GMT), the American military said. Two Iraqi policemen and 24 civilians were also wounded in the attack near Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, which was once the symbol of Sunni Arab insurgency against US forces. A third ...
Suicide car bomber kills 2 US Marines in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-22 16:33:34 by richard9151
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43 minutes ago BAGHDAD - A bomb-rigged truck exploded at a checkpoint Tuesday near the western city of Ramadi, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding three others in an apparent strike by al-Qaida in Iraq in one of its former strongholds. At least one civilian also died and two dozen were injured in the blast, the latest in a string of recent strikes in areas where local Sunnis have joined U.S. forces to battle al-Qaida. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar province, which was once held by insurgents. But its been relatively peaceful since local Sunni tribal leaders joined forces with the U.S. military against the terror movement. Iraqi police said the suicide attacker drove a small water ...
SCANDAL: V.A. chief lied about U.S. soldier suicides
Post Date: 2008-04-22 16:12:23 by aristeides
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SCANDAL: V.A. chief lied about U.S. soldier suicides by GregMitch [Subscribe] Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:34:55 AM PDT As I have posted here previously -- perhaps numerous times -- I have followed the scourge of U.S. soldier suicides ever since the start of the Iraq war more than five years ago. At times, I was fairly alone in this, at least in the media, and have written dozens of articles about it for E&P and the issue features strongly in my new book on Iraq and the media. But a new development really should sicken all of us. Yesterday, in federal court In San Francisco, attorneys for veterans' groups accused the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs of a shocking cover-up in ...
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