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Workshop on Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-03-13 13:11:51 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This is a ten minute video which has lots of info on DU, the theft of funds from Afghan development and a solution to the conflict. The author announced his intention to run for President of Afghanistan in 2009. Lots of luck to him.
US Soldiers Kill 10 Year Old Iraqi Girl
Post Date: 2008-03-13 11:41:04 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. soldiers shot and killed a young Iraqi girl after firing a warning shot at a woman who "appeared to be signaling to someone" along a road where several bombs had recently been found, a military official said early Thursday. The shooting, which took place Wednesday afternoon, happened in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad. An exact location was not given in a military statement. The girl appeared to be "around 10 years old," said Maj. Brad Leighton, a military spokesman. In its statement, the military said that "coalition forces fired a warning shot into a berm near a suspicious woman who appeared to be signaling to someone ...
Kidnapped Iraqi archbishop dead
Post Date: 2008-03-13 11:03:24 by robin
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Kidnapped Iraqi archbishop dead Archbishop Rahho's body was found buried near Mosul Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of the Iraqi city of Mosul, who was kidnapped last month, has been found dead near the city. An Iraqi police officer and morgue official confirmed reports that the archbishop's body had been found buried near Mosul, where he had been abducted. The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI was profoundly moved and saddened by Archbishop Rahho's death. He was kidnapped soon after he left Mass in Mosul on 29 February. Shallow grave According to the SIR Catholic news agency, the kidnappers told Iraqi church officials on Wednesday ...
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency With Iran
Post Date: 2008-03-13 10:37:31 by aristeides
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Notice of March 11, 2008 Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran On March 15, 1995, by Executive Order 12957, the President declared a national emergency with respect to Iran pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Iran. On May 6, 1995, the President issued Executive Order 12959 imposing more comprehensive sanctions to further respond to this threat, and on August 19, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13059 consolidating and clarifying ...
Afghan War Trend Worse than Iraq: U.S. Trainer
Post Date: 2008-03-13 03:06:40 by Horse
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STOCKHOLM -- The tide of the war in Afghanistan is running against the United States and its allies, in contrast to an improving trend in Iraq, a U.S. military official and counter-insurgency expert said on Wednesday. "Afghanistan (is) in my eyes an under-resourced war, a war that needs a whole lot more advisers, a whole lot more economic aid," Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl told a security conference in Stockholm. "This war is the war I'm concerned about, a war in which the United States very much needs the help of our friends." Nagl commands the 1st battalion of the 34th armored regiment at Fort Riley, Kansas, training U.S. transition teams that embed with ...
BREAKING: White House Not Releasing Damaging Pentagon Report
Post Date: 2008-03-12 22:35:11 by robin
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BREAKING: White House Not Releasing Damaging Pentagon Report By: Nicole Belle on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 4:19 PM - PDT Anybody surprised by this? ABC News: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report’s release and will no longer make the report available online. The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask ...
On Terrorism: Retail and Wholesale
Post Date: 2008-03-12 21:31:49 by richard9151
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12/03/08 "ICH " -- - We keep hearing certain words — “democracy” is one, “terrorism” is another — that are seldom defined. The pretense is that we all know what these words mean. Yet that’s hardly the case. Here’s how the U.S. State Department defines terrorism: the use of violence or the threat of violence to harm or intimidate civilians for political purposes. Given all the commentary out there about terrorism, you’d think this pithy definition might often be invoked. It seldom is. Why? Because applying that definition evenhandedly — to assess each violent episode or campaign, regardless of who perpetrates it — would ...
'Fox' Fallon Fired -- And we're f*cked... [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-12 21:24:28 by richard9151
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"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999. "Government is big business, with the face of democracy."--Jim West "President George Bush held a Washinton dinner...for 2,000 of his closest friends...(it) was sponsored by the tobacco and oil industries. But the big bash was the one given by Vice President Dick Cheney....The guests were lobbyists for the nuclear power, natural gas and oil industries."--Toby Moore (Daily Express 24 May 2001) 12/03/08 "Antiwar" -- - "If, in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war ...
Was the U.S. Involved in Killing the FARC-EP Leaders?
Post Date: 2008-03-12 21:14:18 by richard9151
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12/03/08 "Counterpunch" -- -- While virtually every country in Central and South America, including the Caribbean, has waged in on the debate of the Colombian state conducting an illegal military campaign within Ecuadorian sovereign territory, resulting in the deaths of various high ranking officials in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, FARC-EP), the United States have remained virtually silent. Such silence from the US is quite perplexing consdiering the administrations of Ronald Regan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have wielded a twenty-two year old assault ...
"All the Money You Make Will Never Buy Back Your Soul"
Post Date: 2008-03-12 21:02:36 by richard9151
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"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999. "Government is big business, with the face of democracy."--Jim West "President George Bush held a Washinton dinner...for 2,000 of his closest friends...(it) was sponsored by the tobacco and oil industries. But the big bash was the one given by Vice President Dick Cheney....The guests were lobbyists for the nuclear power, natural gas and oil industries."--Toby Moore (Daily Express 24 May 2001) 12/03/08 "Counterpunch" -- -- -Recently, the Boston Globe reported that the Halliburton ...
Severed fingers of 5 hostages delivered to U.S. officials in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-12 20:25:37 by richard9151
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2 hours, 33 minutes ago BAGHDAD _U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq , U.S. officials said Wednesday. The FBI is investigating the grisly development, and the families of the five kidnapped contractors have been notified, American officials said on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the case publicly. Authorities confirmed that the fingers belonged to hostages Jonathan Cote , of Gainesville, Fla. ; Joshua Munns , of Redding, Calif. ; Paul Johnson Reuben , of Buffalo, Minn. ; Bert Nussbaumer of Vienna, Austria ; and Ronald J. Withrow ...
Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Rocket Attack in Iraq; Brings 3-Day Death Toll to 12
Post Date: 2008-03-12 15:43:10 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD — Three American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in southern Iraq on Wednesday, bringing to 12 the number of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq over the past three days. With the overall U.S. military death toll in Iraq nearing 4,000, the latest killings mark a significant rise in deadly attacks against Americans. At least 3,987 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an AP count. The figure includes eight military civilians. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans, a military spokesman, told The Associated Press that three soldiers were killed Wednesday in a rocket attack on Combat Outpost Adder near Nasiriyah, about ...
Killing ourselves in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-03-12 12:11:51 by richard9151
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In a secret meeting with a Taliban commander, I learned how Bush administration aid to Pakistan helps fund insurgents who kill U.S. troops. Editor's note: Research support was provided by the Puffin Foundation Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. March 10, 2008 | KABUL, Afghanistan -- On a recent bitterly cold winter day, I sat huddled on a red Persian carpet in an unheated Kabul office, waiting for a visitor who, I was told by a trusted friend, would help me understand why America is not winning its war in Afghanistan. A stocky, bearded figure in a gray vest, a faded brown shalwar kameez and a cream-colored Pashtun shawl appeared at the door. He removed his shoes and walked ...
Sordid Details on 'Black Site' at Diego Garcia Island Come to Light
Post Date: 2008-03-12 12:02:06 by robin
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Sordid Details on 'Black Site' at Diego Garcia Island Come to Light By Liliana Segura, AlterNetPosted on March 11, 2008, Printed on March 12, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/79273/ British Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued an embarrassing apology to members of Parliament last month. Despite "earlier explicit assurances" to the contrary, he admitted, two planes carrying prisoners of the U.S. "war on terror" had landed on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia in 2002 before flying to foreign territory as part of the American extraordinary rendition program.One flight went on to Guantánamo, one to Morocco. The identities of the detainees ...
Iraq violence on the rise, again
Post Date: 2008-03-12 12:01:02 by richard9151
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Article Created: 03/11/2008 02:38:03 AM PDT HAS anyone noticed that Iraq, supposedly transformed into an oasis of peace and tranquility by George W. Bush's troop surge, is growing less peaceful by the day? The nation's attention has been riveted by the presidential campaign, with its compelling characters and its edge-of-your-seat story line. Iraq is treated almost as a theoretical issue: What would happen there if Barack Obama became president, as opposed to what would happen if Hillary Clinton became president, as opposed to what would happen if John McCain became president? There has been little debate about what's happening in Iraq right now. That seems likely to change. ...
Bush says war with Iraq 'will forever be' the right decision
Post Date: 2008-03-12 10:29:34 by angle
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Speaking Tuesday to the National Religious Broadcasters' convention, President Bush declared the decision to "remove" Saddam Hussein in 2003 the "right decision at this point in my presidency, and it will forever be the right decision.” The 42-minute speech, covered in the New York Times, drew rousing applause, "mixing faith and foreign policy as he told a group of Christian broadcasters that his policies in the region were predicated on the beliefs that freedom was a God-given right and 'every human being bears the image of our maker.'" A White House aide told the Times -- anonymously -- that the speech, along with speeches by General David ...
Eight U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq Attacks
Post Date: 2008-03-11 21:19:50 by robin
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Eight U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq AttacksBombs Still Biggest Threat Even as Fatalities DeclineBy Joshua PartlowWashington Post Foreign ServiceTuesday, March 11, 2008; 8:51 AMBAGHDAD, March 11 -- Eight U.S. soldiers died in separate attacks here and in the eastern province of Diyala on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. troops in more than two months.U.S. officials announced overnight that three U.S. soldiers were killed and another wounded when an improvised bomb exploded near their patrol in Diyala. An interpreter was also killed. No other details were provided.In Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed five U.S. troops as they mingled casually with Iraqis in a shopping district. The soldiers had ...
Despite Little Success in Colombia, Some U.S. Officials Continue to Push Crop Spraying in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-03-11 21:18:13 by rack42
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WASHINGTON - Despite little evidence that a massive program of aerial coca crop fumigation has worked in Colombia, and despite serious reservations by the Pentagon and by Afghan president Hamid Karzai, the U.S. State Department, backed by the White House, is quietly pushing the expansion of aerial poppy eradication into Afghanistan as a way to fight the Taliban. Soon Afghanistan, which produces 92 percent of the world's opium and 80 percent of the world's heroin, may be the target of a program of Plan Colombia-style aerial crop eradication. With the Afghan war entering a tenuous new phase, the stakes are high: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he will send an additional 3,200 ...
Cost Of Buying, Flying Military's New Jet Fighter To Reach $1 Trillion, Audit Says
Post Date: 2008-03-11 19:13:04 by Brian S
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(03-11) 15:42 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cost of buying and operating a new fleet of jet fighters for the U.S. military is nearing $1 trillion, according to a congressional audit that found the program dogged by delays, manufacturing inefficiencies and price increases. Released Tuesday, the report from the Government Accountability Office offers a sobering assessment of the ambitious effort to deliver a modern series of aircraft known as the F-35 Lightning II to the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. Tasked by Congress to conduct an annual assessment of the program, the GAO said costs have gone up by $23 billion since last year alone. Close to $300 billion is needed to acquire 2,458 ...
Bush: US vote won't shape Iraq withdrawal
Post Date: 2008-03-11 16:00:17 by richard9151
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Please, tell us something that we do not know. 1 hour, 48 minutes ago NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Tuesday promised cheering supporters that he would not risk "reversible" gains in Iraq with a troop withdrawal plan tied to the November US elections. "I want to assure you -- just like I assure military families and the troops -- the politics of 2008 is not going to enter into my calculation, it is the peace of years to come that will enter into my calculation," he pledged to a Christian broadcasters association. Bush made no mention of just-begun talks in Baghdad aimed at forging a long-term security partnership deal between the United ...
Fallon Resigns As Mideast Military Chief (AP)
Post Date: 2008-03-11 15:47:08 by aristeides
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Fallon Resigns As Mideast Military Chief By ROBERT BURNS – 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East, is resigning, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Gates said that Fallon had asked him for permission to retire and that Gates agreed. "I believe he has made the right decision," Gates told reporters at the Pentagon. He called Fallon a very able military strategist and said he will be missed. Fallon was the subject of an article published last week in Esquire magazine that portrayed him as opposed to President Bush's Iran policy. It described Fallon as a lone voice against taking military ...
Bomb hits Iraqi bus; at least 16 killed
Post Date: 2008-03-11 13:00:40 by richard9151
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But... but... but the violence is down! The media said so!! 1 hour, 36 minutes ago BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 16 civilians, while gunmen opened fire on another bus in the capital, leaving one person dead, police said. The U.S. military, meanwhile, reported three American soldiers killed Monday by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, bringing to eight the number of troops who died that day. It was the deadliest day for American forces in Iraq since Sept. 10, when 10 troops died. At least 22 others were wounded in the attack on the bus traveling from Najaf to Basra, a policeman said on condition of anonymity because he ...
'Exhaustive' Pentagon-sponsored study finds no Saddam-Qaeda linkMike
Post Date: 2008-03-11 06:40:10 by Ada
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After reviewing hundreds of thousands of captured Iraqi documents, a Pentagon-sponsored review has found no evidence of operational links between Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terror network, a McClatchy article reports. The "exhaustive" study found that Saddam Hussein did provide some support to other terrorist groups but, as Warren Strobel writes for McClatchy, "his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime." Strobel reiterates that the new study "found no documents indicating a 'direct operational link' between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida ...
Winter Soldier Hearings
Post Date: 2008-03-10 19:47:40 by richard9151
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"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power." -- John Adams, 1788 "What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else." -- Tom Clancy on Kudlow and Cramer 9/2/03 "It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want."-- Harry Browne 10/03/08 "ICH" -- - Get ready for the horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven’t heard it before. For four days, from March 13 through ...
Barrage Of Iraqi Attacks Kills 19, Including 8 U.S. Troops
Post Date: 2008-03-10 17:10:43 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD — Eight U.S. service members were killed in two attacks today in Iraq, making it the deadliest day against the military this year, a senior American military official in Baghdad said. At least 11 Iraqis also were killed Monday in a surge of attacks throughout the country. Five of the Americans died when a suicide bomber walked up to a foot patrol in Baghdad and self-detonated. The others died while on a patrol in Diyala province, the official said. He asked not to be identified as he isn't an official spokesman. The rash of attacks against a spectrum of targets raised new questions about whether the U.S. can draw down its presence from the current buildup to levels of ...
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