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US Military Finding Many Terrorist Abroad Have Lived In The US
2008-07-06 13:37:00 In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.There was the suspected militant fleeing Somalia who had been arrested on a drug charge in New Jersey. And the man stopped at a checkpoint in Tikrit who claimed to be a dirt farmer but had 11 felony charges in the United States, including assault with a deadly weapon.The records suggest that potential enemies abroad know a great deal about the United States because many of them have lived here, officials said. The matches also reflect the power of sharing data across agencies and even countries, data that links an identity to a distinguishing human characteristic such as a fingerprint.SOURCE
Thai and US Military Give Assistance to Burma After Cyclone
2008-05-20 04:30:00 Thailand and the US Offering Aid and Help to Burmese People Affected By Cyclone Nargis that Hit Burma
US Military Says Soldier Shot At Quran For Practice
2008-05-19 17:05:00 As if we didn’t need more friction between us and the Islamic world the AP is reporting that an American soldier used the Quran for target practice. Not only did this individual mutilate it this way but this person decided to fill the inside cover with graffiti. I know it is the actions of only ...
Road Rage In Kuwait City Involves US Military
2008-05-08 09:52:00 A fight broke out between Kuwaitis and members of the US army on Arabian Gulf Street in Kuwait City when a driver of a bus belong to the American army alledgedly drove recklessly and almost caused several accidents. The incident led to a clash between American soldiers on the scene with Kuwaitis. The result ...
Abu Ghraib ex-detainee files ?torture? lawsuit against US military contract
2008-05-06 18:39:00 More idiocy. This is what we are breeding–the day when a terrorist can sue because he didn’t like the way he was treated. A former Iraqi detainee filed a lawsuit against two private US military contractors Monday alleging that he was tortured tortured while held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, according to ...
By: Euphoric Reality
US Military Coordinated Day of Prayer Events With Christian Right Group
2008-05-03 07:20:00 by Jason Leopold At least half-a-dozen active-duty military officials have been working closely with a task force headed by the far-right fundamentalist Christians planning religious events at military installations around the country to commemorate Thursday’s National Day of Prayer. In working directly with the National Day of Prayer (NDP) Task Force and agreeing to work as event coordinators, these military officials not only violated constitutional provisions governing the separation of church and state but they also signed an oath that states they “believe that the Holy Bible is the inerrant Word of The Living God” and that “Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the only One by which I can obtain salvation and have an ongoing relationship with God,” according to materials posted on NDP Task Force’s website. Furthermore, the declaration signed by the military officials says that they promise to “ensure a strong, consistent Christian message throughout the natio...
The Benevolent US Military: A Review of ?The Reluctant Communist?
2008-04-30 18:32:00 I am a sucker for stories about Americans who find themselves on the wrong side of armed geopolitical disputes. I still maintain that the most fascinating saga to come out of 9/11 was John Walker Lindh, the young California drifter who found himself in Afghanistan, fighting for the Taliban, circa 2001. In the end, Lindh received a humanitarian gesture from the U.S. Department of Justice - a 20 year sentence. It could have been far, far worse. When he is released, John will be younger than I am now....(read more)
US Military Officer Cites The Numbers!
2008-04-28 09:00:00 We print a letter to the Stars & Stripes from an American officer in Iraq who reminds us of the importance of numbers. “A few statistics were missing from your five-year-by-the-numbers piece(March 25)-2.7 mllion Iraqis displaced, 100,00 plus Iraqi civilians dead, 0 weapons of mass destruction, $12 billion by month operating cost. As we look at ...
Bush Lied To US Military About Guantanamo Prisons!
2008-04-19 18:31:00 General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001 to 2005 was misled by Bush officials into believing interrogation techniques employed in the Guanatanamo prisons were based on Army field manuals. In his new book, “Torture Team,” Philippe Sands, professor at University Collge in London, reveals senior Bush administration leaders pushed through ...
Global Gridlock: How the US Military-Industrial Complex Seeks to Contain an
2008-04-08 10:33:00 Source: Global Research by Dr. Kingsley Dennis Global Research, March 31, 2008 Introduction The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges once famously wrote of a great Empire that created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map itself grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the ...
US Military Ready To Work With New Pakstain Leaders
2008-04-04 09:17:00 Admiral Mike Mullen, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was pleased the new Pakistan govenment was prepared to advance new political, economic and military ideas. “I think we need to be m indful that this is a new governmnt, new leadership, and certainly could have new directions.” Mullen expressed hope the American government recognized ...
Surrendering the US Military
2008-03-29 18:05:00 It’s reprehensible enough when an American president puts soldiers in harm’s way to make a political point. But the GOP has placed American soldiers at the whim of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, turning our forces into pawns between political rivals. Analysts say Maliki’s decision to launch the Basra crackdown, instead of carrying through with ...
US military Iraq toll hits 4,000
2008-03-24 05:04:00 Sunday saw widespread violence in IraqThe number of United States military personnel killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion five years ago has passed the 4,000 mark.
By: Get rich
US military Iraq toll hits 4,000
2008-03-24 05:04:00 Sunday saw widespread violence in IraqThe number of United States military personnel killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion five years ago has passed the 4,000 mark.
By: Get rich
Canadian Court To Rule On Legality Of US Military Court
2008-03-21 13:38:00 The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear arguments about the legality of the American military prison at Guantanamo where Canadian citizen Omar Khadr is being held. The high court ruled yesterday that it would consider submissions on whether Guantanamo violates international law and dismissed objections by the Canadian government that the courts of Canada were not the place to examine actions of the United States.”In essence,” said Canada’s government, “the respondent(Khadr) wants the court to preside over a trial of the Guanatanamo trials. The Court shold refuse this invitation.” In essence, the Spreme Court of Canada has a responsibility to convey to the United States the objections of all democratic nations of the world that its judicial system is violating international law and should get back on track by adhering to the Constitution of the United States and protect rights of all people to fair trials. There is no question the Bush administr...
Top US military officer concerned about China
2008-03-12 05:23:00 Top US military officer concerned about China Reuters - 9 hours ago By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top US military officer in the Pacific voiced new concern on Tuesday about China’s rapidly growing military and … US military admits ‘limited’ understanding of Chinese aims AFP Top US military commander in Pacific expresses concern at China’s … International Herald ...
By: 1913 Intel
US Military restricts Google Maps
2008-03-08 06:00:00 Due to security risks, the Pentagon banned Google teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases after images of a Texas base appeared on the popular Internet site. Google said taking such pictures is against its policy and that the incident was a mistake.A message sent to all Defense Department bases and installations around the country late last week told officials not to allow the mapping Web site to take panoramic views inside the facilities.Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of the U.S. Northern Command, said Thursday that that the decision to issue a formal ban was made after at least one Google crew requested and then was permitted access to a base, identified in the message as Fort Sam Houston. He said he was concerned that allowing the 360-degree, street-level view could provide sensitive information to potential adversaries and endanger base personnel.It's a worry, Renuart said, because such views can show "where all the guards are, it shows how...
US Military Morale ? Up And Down!
2008-03-07 01:44:00 US troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression and lower morale due to the ongoing seven year conflict in that nation. Evidence indicates soldiers on their third or fourth deployment overseas had sharply greater rates of mental health problems than those on first or second deployments. The ...
US military eases restrictions for personnel on Okinawa
2008-03-04 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}TOKYO (AP) -- The U.S. military has eased restrictions on daytime travel off bases on the southern island of Okinawa that were imposed after a Marine was arrested for allegedly raping a young girl, officials said Tuesday.Charges were never pressed.Tight restrictions on all military personnel, including civilian employees, were put into place after the allegations arose as part of a two-week "period of reflection," an effort by the military to enforce dis ...
US military secrets sent to Suffolk [UK] tourist site
2008-03-03 21:11:00 [From Telegraph ] By Tom Chivers A tourist information website promoting a small Suffolk town has had to shut down after it received a barrage of thousands of classified US military emails. USAF F16s from Mildenhall. Thousands of sensitive emails have been misdirected to a tourist website Sensitive information including future flight paths for US Presidential aircraft Air ...
By: News for Greens
US military members in Okinawa furious over Marine's alleged rape of school
2008-02-19 00:00:00 OKINAWA -- A week after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by U.S. Marine Tyrone Luther Hadnott, U.S. military personnel on the streets of Okinawa were still discussing the attack, slamming Hadnott's conduct.Around the U.S. military's Kadena base shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, neon signs lit up bars and night-clubs frequented by American soldiers. Inside one bar whose pumping music could be heard on the street outside, a 22-year-old U.S. Air Force member who was with another ...
US Military to Shoot Down Rogue Spy Satelite
2008-02-15 18:27:00 The United States military has announced their intention to use a missile to destroy USA-193, a spy satellite which failed immediately after launch in December 2006. Since launch, the satellite’s orbit has decayed and it is approaching the point at which it will re-enter the atmosphere and potentially fall to Earth. The missile will be ...
By: Thought-Blender
US Military In Need Of Mental Health Facilities
2008-02-12 08:45:00 Sgt. Todd Bowers, head of the 80,000 member Afghanistan Veterans of America, told Congress there is need for mandatory, confidential, mental health screening before and after deployment of troops. He complained the present system of screening just is not working. “Troops may not be filling out their forms accurately, troops needing counseling are not ...
US military may not be ready for catastrophic attack
2008-01-31 18:03:00 The U.S. military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. The commission’s 400-page report concludes that the nation “does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available” to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons ...
By: 1913 Intel
China?s weapons exceed self-defence needs: US military
2008-01-29 14:24:00 The United States said Monday it was “troubling” that China’s weapons systems capability exceeded the level Beijing defined as necessary for self-defence. The head of the US armed forces in the Asia-Pacific, Admiral Timothy Keating, said he was told by Chinese leaders during a visit to Beijing that its so-called “area denial weapons” were “to protect ...
By: 1913 Intel
Baby Dolphin Murders Blamed on US Military? Culprit OTHER Dolphins!
2008-01-26 14:00:00 So, scientists find the dead bodies of dozens of dolphins and baby porpoises near Miami, Florida and across the pond along Scotland’s East Coast. These aquatic mammals where literally beaten to death with multiple internal injuries, lacerations, contusions and the like. Back in 1997 the whole C.S.I. treatment was given these animals and guess who ...
US military chiefs says Venezuelan arms buildup destabilizing
2008-01-18 14:58:00 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s plans to acquire high-performance aircraft and submarines, including from Russia, are viewed by Washington as destabilizing to the region, the top US military chief said Thursday. Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the United States was greatly concerned about a Venezuelan military buildup that has been ...
By: 1913 Intel
US Military: Iraq forces could control all provinces this year
2008-01-18 03:50:00 Great news! Suck it, Surrendocrats. Freedom, security and prosperity in Iraq by the end of the year? music to my ears. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq’s army and police could be ready to take over security in all 18 provinces by the end of this year as the U.S. military moves toward a less prominent role in ...
US Military Reports Skirmish With Iran
2008-01-08 01:17:00 US Military Reports Skirmish With Iran New York Times, United States - 7 hours ago And the US wasn?t the only country to complain of Iran?s aggression in the region today. Israeli intelligence officials claim that it has traced a rocket … ?Reckless? Iranians threaten to blow up American warships in the Gulf Times Online Pentagon Says Ships Harassed by Iran ...
By: 1913 Intel
What the US military thinks of journalism
2008-01-02 16:05:00 So what does the US military really think about journalists? Below are excerpts from a report that addresses wider issues about the first Battle of Fallujah but contains some interesting points about “information operations,” in Orwellian milspeak.The document is chiefly the work of Jane Austen fan Dr Sean Edwards, on whom more below. But first, his report as it relates to the media: (U) Arab satellite news channels were crucial to building political pressure to halt military operations.For example, CPA documented 34 stories on Al Jazeera that misreported or distorted battlefield events between 6 and 13 April. Between 14 and 20 April, Al Jazeera used the “excessive force” theme 11 times and allowed various anti-Coalition factions to claim that U.S. forces were using cluster bombs against urban areas and kidnapping and torturing Iraqi children.Six negative reports by al-Arabiyah focused almost exclusively on the excessive force theme. Overall, the qualitative content of negat...
Evidence supports widespread violations of religious freedom in US military
2007-12-19 08:09:00 A foundation that has sued the U.S. military alleging widespread violations of religious freedom said it has evidence showing that soldiers are pressured to adopt fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
US Military Furious At Turkish Air Attacks In Iraq
2007-12-19 02:43:00 During the past few days, Turkish air planes have bombed villages and supposed military bases of Kurdish rebels in the mountains of Iraq. Inhabitants of the villages claim there were no Kurdish rebels and those killed and wounded were simply ordinary civilians. Not only villagers are furious at the Turkish attack, but so is the ...
Top US Military Research Labs Infiltrated by Hackers
2007-12-10 15:21:00 arstechnica.com: Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation’s leading military research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no classified information was retrieved, but admits that the perpetrators managed to acquire a database containing personal information about ...
By: Thought-Blender
Send a Holiday greeting card to those Serving in the US Military
2007-12-10 04:29:00 A lot of people will send Christmas cards to the military, and if they don’t know anyone, they will send it to “Any soldier” (or sailor). However, some facilities are overwhelmed by the process and are unable to deliver the cards. Strategy Page explains: the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where most wounded soldiers are cared for, ...
US Military Plans Greater Control Over Security Firms
2007-12-05 23:24:00 Under a new agreement between the Pentagon and the State department, the military would have more control over Blackwater and other private security contractors working in Iraq. Under the new accord there will be more stringent supervision over coordinating movement of the civilian security convoys and the reporting and investigation of any incident they’re ...
Did US Military Aid Kurdish Insurgents?
2007-11-28 23:39:00 A former member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party(PKK) told Turkish authorities he had been at insurgent camps where American military personnel visited and discussed topics with senior commanders. He had been a truck driver in Iraq who was captured by the Iraqis and turned over to Turkey. He claimed to see high ranking US ...
Iraqi children are civilians too but the US military called them insurgents
2007-11-27 16:49:00 The US military claimed it had killed 11 among "a group of men planting a roadside bomb". Only later did a military spokesperson acknowledge that a1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Former US Military Commander In Iraq Backs Troop Withdrawal
2007-11-22 17:01:00 Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded US forces in Iraq from 2003-2004, came out in support of Democratic congressional proposals for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. “The improvements in security produced by the courage and blood of our troops have not been matched by a willingness on the part of Iraqi leaders ...
US Military Demands Payments From WOUNDED Soliders
2007-11-21 16:18:00 The US Military is demanding that thousands of service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. It’s not because the soliders went AWOL but they are WOUNDED. Yes, the military is demanding soliders who have lost so much in this war, pay the military back when they are too sick ...
US Military Betrays Its Wounded Soldiers?
2007-11-20 18:32:00 Drash: Absolutely outrageous. It’s bad enough, is it not, that the US is engaged in an immoral war based on outright fabrications and propaganda, but to treat its wounded soldiers this way is unspeakably vile. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve ...
Surge In Iraqi Displaced Matches US Military Surge
2007-11-14 23:58:00 The US military surge has been receiving enthusiastic comments from its supporters, but scant mention is being made of the surge in people displaced by the surge. At least a 100,000 people left their homes in the month of October raising the number of Iraqi displaced from 2.2 million to 2.3 million. It is estimated ...
US Military Reversing Troop Surge in Iraq
2007-11-13 05:23:00 The first big test of security gains linked to the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq is at hand. The military has started to reverse the 30,000-strong troop increase and commanders are hoping the drop in insurgent and sectarian violence in recent months — achieved at the cost of hundreds of lives — won't prove fleeting.As the U.S. troop reductions proceed, it should become clear whether the so-called "surge" strategy that increased the U.S. troop presence in and around Baghdad resulted in any lasting gains against sectarianism. Critics note that the divided government in Baghdad has made few, if any, strides toward political reconciliation that the Americans have said is crucial to stabilizing the country.The acceleration of the U.S. mission away from direct combat to more of a support role will put greater pressure on Iraqi security forces to bear more of the load. And it will test the durability of new U.S. alliances with neighborhood watch groups springing up with surprising speed.
By: Iraq War Blog
US military spurs robot car creations with big money race
2007-11-04 12:58:00 VICTORVILLE, California (AFP) Robotic cars competed Saturday in a high-stakes race organized by the US military, which hopes to make driverless vehicles weapons on urban battlefields by 2015. The competition was staged at an unused military based in Victorville, a California town 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Los Angeles, and promises a first-place prize of two ...
Top US Military Officials Dedicated to Shutting People Up
2007-11-01 02:24:00 * To get the full picture, be sure to go back and read the links… Earlier this year, 23 year old Army soldier Scott Thomas Beauchamp agreed to write a diary and publish some entries for The New Republic while he served in Iraq. On July 13th, The New Republic published this article (under the pseudonym Scott Thomas) in which Scott examines the effects war has on a soldier's humanity. To demonstrate, he told a few stories. One of his stories took place in a mess hall where he and some buddies were sitting near a girl that had half of her face melted off by an IED. Scott ends up making fun of her, right in front of her, and examines his own motivations and guilt for doing so. His next story was of a Saddam-era mass grave that the soldiers found while digging to construct a construction outpost. The bones they found in the grave were mostly those of children, and one of the soldiers, known for being a prankster, found the remnants of a child’s skull that was still intac...
US Military Lawyer Prepares Blast At Guantanamo Prison Procedures
2007-10-27 14:38:00 An American military lawyer who has been involved in numerous Guantanamo tribunals is prepared to openly express his disgust with the unconstitutional procedures occurring at the prison. The whistle blower, a major who is thoroughly familiar with the entire Guantanamo operation, described the detention of a hospital administrator from Sudan as “unconscionable.” The major says ...
Al-Qaeda 're-emerging' in Pakistan sanctuaries: US military
2007-10-02 19:29:00 WASSHINTON: The US military said Tuesday it expected Al-Qaeda to continue its "re-emergence" in sanctuaries in Pakistan's tribal areas from where it supported attacks in Afghanistan. Sanctuary was provided to Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels after Islamabad signed a peace deal with militants in a desperate attempt to quell the unrest in its federally administered areas in September 2006, a US military official said. The militants called off the deal in July this year after Pakistani security forces raided a radical mosque in Islamabad where rebels had massed. Dozens were killed in those raids. "This area remains a support and sanctuary area for the insurgency as results of those peace accords," US Major Tim Williams, future operations intelligence planner, told reporters at Bagram Air Field, the main US base in Afghanistan. He said the Islamic rebels were likely to maintain their presence in those areas despite apparent efforts by Pakistani army to root them out. "In the federally admin...
Africa shuns new US military command
2007-10-02 14:50:00 Nonetheless so far out of all the African countries only Liberia has offered to host the headquarters, and some are vehemently opposed to a US troop presence on the ground. Zambia?s chief government spokesman Mike Mulongoti said recently that allowing America in would be “like allowing a giant to settle in your home”. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
US military deaths in Iraq lowest in 14 months
2007-09-30 22:03:00 US military losses in Iraq for September stood at 70 on Sunday, the lowest monthly figure since July last year, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures. The figure also marks the fourth consecutive drop in the monthly death toll following a high of 121 in May. June saw 93 deaths, July 82 and ...
By: The Hot Joints
US Military Official: Blackwater May Be Worse Than Abu Ghraib
2007-09-26 20:44:00 AlterNet: Blogs To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State stonewalling a congressional investigation. A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in Iraq, according to U.S. military and government officials. In high-level meetings over the past several days, U.S. military officials have pressed State Department officials to assert more control over Blackwater, which operates under the department's authority, said a U.S. government official with knowledge of the ...
Sunni alliance with the US military - been there, done that?
2007-09-13 23:37:00 Among successes stated in the Gen. Petraeus report to Congress on the recent troop surge in Iraq, one of the most prominent was the recent and unexpected alliance between US military and some Sunni groups and tribes. The participating Sunni leaders, some of which were actively involved in sectarian violence and attacks on the foreign forces in the last 4 years, based their decision on the fact that Al Qaeda in Iraq had become an unwanted visitor in their country that failed to different friend from foe. That's why they decide do join the US and fight Al Qaeda fighters along side their former enemies.But, does this mean that those groups don't longer see the US as a invading force?Iraq has become partitioned in all but name. Like the Shiites, Sunni militias know that the US presence has to dissolve. They are in Iraq only temporary. Just like the Al Qaeda. As long as they are wanted, they will stay. When not wanted, they will attack and try to leave mayhem in their wake, but will le... |
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