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US special forces targeted al-Qaida in Somalia
2009-09-16 01:02:00 US special forces targeted al-Qaida in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – The U.S. helicopters, guns blazing, swooped over a convoy carrying a top al-Qaida fugitive in rural southern Somalia. Elite commandos rappelled to the ground, collected two bodies, and took off on a cloud of red dust. The raid took just 15 minutes. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, ...
By: TexasFred's
Betraying our dead
2009-09-12 17:45:00 Betraying our dead Eight years ago today, our homeland was attacked by fanatical Muslims inspired by Saudi Arabian bigotry. Three thousand American citizens and residents died. We resolved that we, the People, would never forget. Then we forgot. We’ve learned nothing. Instead of cracking down on Islamist extremism, we’ve excused it. Instead of killing terrorists, we free them. Instead of ...
By: TexasFred's
Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over
2009-04-07 20:40:00 Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over BAGHDAD (AP) - Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it was time for Iraqis to “take responsibility for their country” after America’s commitment of six years and thousands of lives. “You have given Iraq the opportunity ...
By: TexasFred's
Global War On Terror no more
2009-03-31 13:24:00 I see from various news reports that Secretary Clinton, and therefore Obama, will no longer use the phrase “War On Terror.” Too bad no one has told Bin Laden and the Taliban and Iran and Hamas and Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Meanwhile, Americans’ confidence in the “War Against Bad Men Of Unspecified Religious Origin Who Like to Plot The Death ...
By: GayPatriot
Global War on Terror
2009-03-26 09:17:00 Terrorism has existed since Bible times, so it's pretty fecking unlikely that we're ever going to "win" a "war on terror". War on al Qaeda? Sure. War in Iraq or Afghanistan? Okee dokee. But a "war on terror"? One of Buffalo Bean's 2,934 other blogs ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Obama Scraps ?Global War on Terror? for ?Overseas Contingency Operation?
2009-03-25 18:46:00 Obama Scraps ‘Global War on Terror’ for ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’ The Obama administration has ordered an end to use of the phrase “Global War on Terror,” a label adopted by the Bush administration shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. In a memo sent this week from the Defense Department’s ...
By: TexasFred's
Hijacked oil tanker anchored off Somalia coast
2008-11-18 17:58:00 Hijacked oil tanker anchored off Somalia coast MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while the U.S. and other naval forces decided against intervention for now. With few other options, shipowners in past piracy cases ...
By: TexasFred's
Obama: Iraq now needs a political solution
2008-07-22 18:42:00 AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that security in Iraq has improved and that the United States urgently needs to turn its attention to Afghanistan. “There is security progress, but now we need a political solution” in Iraq, Obama said in the first news conference of his highly publicized trip abroad. ...
By: TexasFred's
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror VIDEO
2008-03-19 23:50:00 President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror. FULL STREAMING VIDEO The Pentagon Fact Sheet: Five Years Later: New Strategy Improving Security In Iraq 10:04 A.M. EDT.THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Deputy Secretary England, thanks for the introduction. One boss may not be here, but the other one is. (Laughter.) I appreciate your kind words. I'm pleased to be back here with the men and women of the Defense Department.On this day in 2003, the United States began Operation Iraqi Freedom. As the campaign unfolded, tens and thousands of our troops poured across the Iraqi border to liberate the Iraqi people and remove a regime that threatened free nations.Five years into this battle, there is an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it. The answers are clear to me: Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right decision -- and this is a fight America can and must win.The men and women who crossed into Ira...
President Bush Heritage Foundation War on Terror VIDEO PODCAST
2007-11-02 00:04:00 President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror. FULL STREAMING VIDEO. The Heritage Foundation. Washington, D.C. In Focus: Defense and In Focus: National Security, 12:47 P.M. EDT. PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE Running time 26:16 President George W. Bush meets in the Oval Office Thursday morning, Nov. 1, 2007, with members of the White House Press Corps with whom he gave a quick preview of his remarks on the Global War on Terror that later were delivered to the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Ed, thanks. Thanks for the kind introduction. I'm looking forward to working with you for the next 14 months -- but you better put on your running shoes, because my spirits are high, my energy level is good and I'm sprinting to the finish line. (Applause.)I congratulate you on your 30th anniversary as President -- (laughter.) No such thing as term limits here. (Laughter.) And rightly so, because Ed is a person who has taken the ...
So How Goes That Global War On Terror
2007-09-12 18:36:00 We saw yesterday that General Pretaeus would not or could not answer John Warner's question "Do you feel that [Iraq war] is making America safer"? . Of course it hasn't, in fact it has made us less safe by creating new recruits for the group that was actually responsible for 911 ans inflaming much of the Muslim world. One indication of that can be found here:Poll: Bin Laden tops Musharraf in Pakistan WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- is less popular in his own country than al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a poll of Pakistanis conducted last month by an anti-terrorism organization.Additionally, nearly three-fourths of poll respondents said they oppose U.S. military action against al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan, according to results from the poll conducted by the independent polling organization Terror Free Tomorrow."We have conducted 23 polls all over the Muslim world, and this is the most disturbing one we have co...
John Edwards criticizes the global war on terror, and Congressional Democra
2007-05-24 00:45:00 In a speech today at the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards criticized both the Bush Global War on Terror and the Democrats for giving in on the war funding bill. “The core of this presidency has been a political doctrine that George Bush calls the “Global War on Terror.” He has used this doctrine like a sledgehammer to justify the worst abuses and biggest mistakes of his administration, from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, to the war in Iraq. The worst thing about the Global War on Terror approach is that it has backfired—our military has been strained to the breaking point and the threat from terrorism has grown,” Edwards said.  He continued, “We need a post-Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq American military that is mission-focused on protecting Americans from 21st century threats, not misused for discredited ideological pursuits. We need to recognize that we have far more powerful weapons available to us than just bombs, and we...
US hawk judges ?global war on terror? a mistake
2006-11-28 10:18:02 Fred Iklé, a Nixon-era arms control veteran and mentor to the current generation of nuclear ?hawks?, has an apocalyptic vision of the future. However, as a contrarian who confounds his neo-conservative admirers, he is also highly critical of the Bush administration?s handling of threats to the US, and calls the ?global war on terror? a serious [...]
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