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Latest Articles: War, War, War
I feared I'd end up dead in the woods like Dr Kelly,' says biological warfare expert who criticised Britain and U.S.
Post Date: 2007-11-11 15:55:05 by Zipporah
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'I feared I'd end up dead in the woods like Dr Kelly,' says biological warfare expert who criticised Britain and U.S.By GLEN OWEN and OLIVER WADESON - Fighting back: Jill Dekker was given special protection by the Belgian government after a series of 'sinister' incidents An EU expert on biological warfare has told how she fears ending up 'dead in the woods' like scientist Dr David Kelly after an alleged campaign of intimidation by members of MI6 and the CIA. Jill Dekker, a bio-defence expert based in Brussels, has reported a string of sinister incidents – including the parking of a hearse outside her house – after making a speech critical of British ...
Iraqi fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran'
Post Date: 2007-11-10 19:43:11 by robin
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Iraqi fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran' Interrogator says US military seeks evidence incriminating Tehran David Smith in BaghdadSunday November 11, 2007The Observer Micah Brose, privately contracted interrogator working for US forces in Iraq. Photograph: David SmithUS military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi insurgents to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran, it was claimed last night.Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for American forces in Iraq, near the Iranian border, told The Observer that information on Iran is 'gold'. The claim comes after Washington imposed sanctions on Iran last ...
Horrible Pictures of Bush With Injured Soldier
Post Date: 2007-11-10 12:25:36 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Nine troops dead in Afghan ambush
Post Date: 2007-11-10 11:51:57 by Arete
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Six US soldiers and three Afghan troops have been killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan, Nato officials have said. Militants ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and US troops from Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Nuristan province. The ambush is one of the costliest for US forces this year, already the deadliest for the US since it helped overthrow the Taleban in 2001. Eight US troops and 11 Afghans were also wounded, Isaf officials said. The Taleban said they carried out the attack, which took place on Friday. The rebels attacked from several positions simultaneously with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades as the patrol returned from a ...
The spies who pushed for war (from July 2003)
Post Date: 2007-11-09 18:21:54 by robin
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The spies who pushed for war Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force Thursday July 17, 2003 The Guardian As the CIA director, George Tenet, arrived at the Senate yesterday to give secret testimony on the Niger uranium affair, it was becoming increasingly clear in Washington that the scandal was only a small, well-documented symptom of a complete breakdown in US intelligence that helped steer America into war. It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to prevent the ...
Federal judge grants injunction against second court-martial for Iraq war objector (LT. WATADA)
Post Date: 2007-11-09 16:54:08 by aristeides
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Federal judge grants injunction against second court-martial for Iraq war objector Jaime Jansen at 10:43 AM ET [JURIST] US District Judge Benjamin Settle issued a preliminary injunction [order, PDF] Thursday against holding a second court-martial for Iraq war objector 1st Lt. Ehren Watada [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] until he resolves whether a second court-martial constitutes double jeopardy [Wex backgrounder]. Settle had already stayed court-martial proceedings, scheduled to begin last month, and later extended the stay [JURIST reports], after Watada asked the US District Court for the Western District of Washington for relief while an appeal is pending with the US Court of ...
Federal judge blocks retrial of Lt. Ehren Watada
Post Date: 2007-11-09 16:23:19 by aristeides
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Federal judge blocks retrial of Lt. Ehren Watada Posted on: November 9, 2007 - 12:17pm by Aaron Glantz [Looks like the site only posted the headline, no text. However, here's a link to the Daily Kos thread: Federal judge blocks retrial of Lt. Ehren Watada .]
Sen. Hagel says U.S. draft may be unavoidable
Post Date: 2007-11-09 11:58:50 by tom007
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Sen. Hagel says U.S. draft may be unavoidable BY LESLIE REED WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER LINCOLN — Sen. Chuck Hagel, speaking to an audience of Lincoln High School students, warned Tuesday that the nation may need to turn to compulsory military service "or some kind of draft" to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) Questioned after his speech, Hagel, R-Neb., said he is not calling for reinstatement of the military draft. But he said the growing difficulty of maintaining an adequate volunteer military force is "a reality." "I'm just stating the obvious. At some point we're going to have to make a ...
New crises sap Bush's 'war on terror' (Hubris is in Control, NOT the State Dept)
Post Date: 2007-11-09 10:36:50 by tom007
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New crises sap Bush's 'war on terror' By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Just as the White House claims it has finally turned the corner in what it defines as the "central front" in the "war on terror" - Iraq - it has found itself desperately trying to contain new crises on the war's periphery stretching east to Pakistan, west to Turkey and south to the Horn of Africa. Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's latest "coup" last weekend, combined with the continuing threat of a Turkish invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan and the looming probability of war between US-backed Ethiopia and Eritrea, have added to the growing impression that Washington ...
It's Your Fault: Finding home-grown back-stabbers
Post Date: 2007-11-09 00:50:19 by kiki
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The world's finest military launches a highly coordinated shock-and-awe attack that shows enormous initial progress. There's talk of the victorious troops being home for Christmas. But the war unexpectedly drags on. As fighting persists into a third, and then a fourth year, voices are heard calling for negotiations, even "peace without victory". Dismissing such peaceniks and critics as defeatists, a conservative and expansionist regime - led by a figurehead who often resorts to simplistic slogans and his Machiavellian sidekick who is considered the brains behind the throne - calls for one last surge to victory. Unbeknownst to the people on the home front, however, this duo ...
The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet - The New Pearl Harbor
Post Date: 2007-11-08 23:54:43 by robin
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11/08/07 "ICH" -- -- -The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge wargames that resulted in the destruction of the Fifth Fleet. His experience and conclusions regarding the vulnerability of the Fifth Fleet to an assymetrical military conflict with Iran have been ignored. Neoconservatives within the Bush administration are currently aggressively promoting a range of ...
White House Trying To Limit Reach Of Criminal Law On Blackwater, Contractors
Post Date: 2007-11-08 23:09:09 by kiki
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A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private security contractors on a shorter legal leash. The White House and Justice Department are trying to limit the reach of U.S. criminal law on Blackwater and other private war contractors. With a potential veto threat looming, several senators now want to alter the bill in a way that satisfies both the Bush administration and members of the House of Representatives, who overwhelmingly passed similar legislation last month. Negotiators are continuing to work out the proposed bill's language in the hopes of introducing it before the week is out. In the House, staff members with ...
Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE
Post Date: 2007-11-08 22:57:36 by kiki
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WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (IPS) - A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts of the process provided by participants to two former Central Intelligence Agency officers. But this pressure on intelligence analysts, obviously instigated by Cheney himself, has not produced a draft estimate without those dissenting views, these sources say. The White House has now apparently decided to release the ...
Bush: If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’ (Certified Insane)
Post Date: 2007-11-08 13:52:23 by tom007
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Bush: If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’ This afternoon, President Bush held a joint press conference with French President Nicholas Sarkozy. A reporter asked Bush where he stood “on Iraq and your domestic debate on Iraq,” and whether he had a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. In response, Bush insisted that “freedom’s happening” and Iraq isn’t in a “quagmire”: I don’t — you know quagmire is an interesting word. If you lived in Iraq and had lived under a tyranny, you’d be saying: God, I love freedom, because that’s what’s happened. And there are killers and radicals and murderers who ...
Bombings kill at least 10 in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-08 12:08:01 by tom007
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Bombings kill at least 10 in Iraq Published: Nov. 8, 2007 at 11:17 AM Print story Email to a friend Font size: FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A bomb killed two Iraqi police officers and four security guards in Fallujah, Iraq, and an improvised explosive device killed a U.S. soldier south of Baghdad. The death of the U.S. soldier, killed Wednesday while on patrol, was the 13th in Iraq this month and brings to 3,857 the number of U.S. fatalities since the start of the war March 20, 2003, the Multi-National Force said in a statement Thursday. A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives killed one person and wounded five others outside the building housing the offices of the ...
'No question' violence in Iraq down
Post Date: 2007-11-08 12:07:21 by tom007
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'No question' violence in Iraq down Published: Nov. 8, 2007 at 11:06 AM Print story Email to a friend Font size: BAGHDAD, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. commander in Baghdad said "there's just no question" violence is down in the Iraqi capital, paving the way for U.S. redeployments to presurge levels. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil said that while 13 percent of Baghdad, including Sadr City and other Shiite areas, remain to be cleared, "there's just no question" that violence is down from June, The New York Times reported Thursday. "Murder victims are down 80 percent from where they were at the peak" he said. "(Improvised explosive device) ...
Iraq OKs Raids on Blackwater
Post Date: 2007-11-08 11:53:27 by tom007
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Iraq OKs Raids on Blackwater By Noah Shachtman EmailNovember 08, 2007 | 10:15:00 AMCategories: Mercs Medium_contractors_2 This sounds like a recipe for something very ugly. The Times is reporting that "the Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were complying with tightened licensing requirements on guns and other weaponry, setting up the possibility of violent confrontations between the Iraqis and heavily armed Western guards." “Every company will be subject to such examination, and any company that does not follow the law will lose its license,” the minister, Jawad ...
Israel says UN nuclear chief should go for failure over Iran
Post Date: 2007-11-08 11:09:50 by tom007
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Israel says UN nuclear chief should go for failure over Iran 3 hours ago JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz called Thursday for Mohamed ElBaradei to be removed as head of the UN nuclear watchdog, saying he had turned a blind eye to archfoe Iran's nuclear ambitions. The call for ElBaradei's dismissal comes just days before the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to publish a new report on Iran's nuclear programme, to serve as a key part of further discussions at the United Nations on whether to impose a third set of sanctions on Tehran. "The policies followed by ElBaradei endanger world peace. His irresponsible attitude of sticking his ...
Our Man in Islamabad
Post Date: 2007-11-08 08:59:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Our Man in Islamabad - by Stephen Lendman The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was established in August,1947 when its majority Muslim population separated from British-controlled India and became a sovereign state. Since then, the country has been plagued by wars, political instability, and a series of military coups as it continues stumbling unsuccessfully toward democracy. Nominally, Pakistan is a federal democratic republic (declared in 1956) under a semi-presidential system and bicameral legislature consisting of a 100 member Senate and larger lower house National Assembly. The President is considered head of state and armed forces commander and chief (in a civilian capacity) and is ...
Locked Room Solution: Killer EFP
Post Date: 2007-11-07 23:21:40 by tom007
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Locked Room Solution: Killer EFP By David Hambling EmailAugust 21, 2007 | 7:07:00 AMCategories: Ammo and Munitions, Bizarro, Bomb Squad Wood_efp The 1936 locked room mystery I described yesterday started with a woman who had been shot dead while standing by the open door of a domestic coal furnace. Robert Williams Wood was asked to examine the 'bullet' recovered, which was very small and made of copper. His findings were reported in the Proceedings of The Royal Society of London: "...though its form resembled nothing with which I was familiar, I surmised it was probably part of a dynamite cap or detonator used for exploding the dynamite charges in the mines, which, by some ...
Real E.F.P.: Pocket-Sized Tank Killer
Post Date: 2007-11-07 23:12:51 by tom007
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Real E.F.P.: Pocket-Sized Tank Killer The pictures released last week of Iraqi high-tech explosives surprised me. These special 'superbombs' that have caused so many US casualties -- they look like they had been assembled in someone's garage. These bombs belong to a class known as EFP --'Explosively Formed Projectile' or 'Explosively Formed Penetrator,' depending on who you're talking to. They compress a metal liner into a slug and fire it at the target some distance away. slam3.jpegThe picture shows what a real EFP munition looks like. This is M2 Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition (SLAM). It's small enough to put in your pocket and weighs a ...
Blix says US wants its troops in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-07 20:39:24 by tom007
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Blix says US wants its troops in Iraq * * Email * Printer friendly version * Normal font * Large font November 7, 2007 - 6:04AM Advertisement Former chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix says he fears the United States has a secret plan to keep its troops in Iraq. Dr Blix, who warned against the invasion of Iraq after his inspectors found no evidence that weapons of mass destruction were being held by Saddam Hussein, is in Sydney to receive the Sydney Peace Prize. "One fear I would have is that the US has a hidden thought to remain in Iraq," Dr Blix told ABC radio on Wednesday. "One reason why they wanted in was that they felt they must leave Saudi Arabia. ...
Ex-Navy Instructor Promises to Hit Back If Attacked on Torture (MALCOLM NANCE)
Post Date: 2007-11-07 15:38:59 by aristeides
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Ex-Navy Instructor Promises to Hit Back If Attacked on Torture By Spencer Ackerman - November 7, 2007, 2:11PM Malcolm Nance, good-spirited though he is, is a pugnacious guy. Nearly 20 years' service in the Navy, including time instructing would-be Navy SEALs how to resist and survive torture if captured. Intelligence and counterterrorism expert. Several years in Iraq as a security contractor. So don't expect him to suffer in silence if his credibility is attacked during testimony to a House panel tomorrow about his personal experiences with waterboarding. "God forbid if there's even the slightest hint about my credentials," Nance says over tea in a Washington coffee ...
For Some Amputees, Future Is In The U.S. Army
Post Date: 2007-11-07 13:33:48 by christine
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For some amputees in a rehabilitation exercise room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, recovery means choosing to return to active duty in the U.S. Army. Outfitted with computer-powered artificial limbs, one in five of about 350 soldiers whose cases have been considered by a medical review board after their treatment for injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars aims to rejoin their unit. More than 700 U.S. troops have lost limbs in those wars and have been treated either at Walter Reed, the premier military hospital in Washington, or other military facilities around the country. At least six to eight of the Walter Reed patients have gone back to Iraq, said Chuck ...
Musharraf Fights Political Foes, Ignores Jihadists (Updated)
Post Date: 2007-11-06 20:40:41 by tom007
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Musharraf Fights Political Foes, Ignores Jihadists (Updated) By Noah Shachtman EmailNovember 06, 2007 | 10:58:00 AMCategories: War Update General_musharraf_2 Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf may be justifying his putsch by saying it'll help him fight Islamic militants. But "as General Musharraf met with diplomats in Islamabad and the police arrested lawyers," the New York Times reports, "government officials confirmed that they had reached a peace agreement with Baitullah Mehsud, one of the area’s most powerful militant commanders." The government released 25 of Mr. Mehsud’s militants in exchange for 213 army soldiers captured by Mr. Mehsud’s ...
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