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Haditha Update: Lt Grayson Not Guilty
2008-06-06 05:19:00 Lt Andrew Grayson was acquitted on 4JUN08. According to reports: Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began. Two Marines still face courts-martial ...
By: Dreadnaught
Haditha Update: Trial Set For Lt Andrew Grayson
2008-05-24 05:16:00 The court martial of Lt Andrew Grayson is set to begin on 28MAY08. Lt Grayson charges for dereliction of duty, false official statement, and obstructing justice. All of the charges relate to his failure to investigate the events surrounding the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. yojoe out For more on Haditha: Haditha Haditha Update: History ...
By: Dreadnaught
Haditha Update: Chessani Judge Finds Unlawful Command Influence
2008-05-23 04:31:00 In a hearing aboard Camp Pendleton, a military judge, Col Folsom found that “top Marine Corps officers were unlawfully influenced by a general’s legal adviser when they decided to file criminal charges against a colonel whose troops killed two dozen civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha in 2005″ This ruling came in the court-martial of ...
By: Dreadnaught
Air Force Wants New Drone
2008-05-22 03:25:00 From the best technology-military blog Danger Room, comes the story of the Air Force’s desire to replace the Reaper with a new “hunter-killer” drone. MQ-9 Reaper first deployed to Iraq in the fall of 2007. It looks like the Air Force wants some of the $500 million budgeted for drone aircraft. yojoe (in drone ...
By: Dreadnaught
Waterboarding Used On Utah Telemarketer
2008-05-02 01:48:00 Chad Hudgens is a telemarketer for Prosper, Inc. His supervisor had an idea for building morale and improving sales: subject one of the telemarketers to waterboarding. Yes, the supervisor decided it was a good idea to use the technique that has been the center of controversy in the War on Terrorism and the Military ...
By: Dreadnaught
Secretary of Defense Gates to Air Force: Get More UAV In The War
2008-04-30 23:03:00 SecDef Gates, according to Aviation Week, continues to bemoan the lack of UAV in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is doing something about it though, including directing the Air Force to, rethinking long-standing service assumptions and priorities about which missions require certified pilots and which do not. Could this signal an end to the Air Force requirement ...
By: Dreadnaught
Blackwater Worldwide Invades California
2008-04-25 22:19:00 According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Blackwater Worldwide is: planning to open an indoor training center in Otay Mesa to train Navy personnel after abandoning its controversial proposal to build a larger facility on a ranch in Potrero. Brian Bonfiglio, a Blackwater vice president, said the facility will operate out of a 61,600-square-foot building in a business ...
By: Dreadnaught
General Petraeus To Command CentCom
2008-04-23 23:24:00 Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert Gates has named General David H. Petraeus, USA, as the commanding general of United States Central Command. Not that this makes up for the attack by Moveon.org, but it is a start. yojoe out!
By: Dreadnaught
Upgrades To Air Force AC-130: With Video From Afghanistan
2008-04-04 00:43:00 Over at the always-informative zerohostel, there is a post about the continuing evolution of the Air Force’s close-air-support gunship the AC-130: the biggest change to the AC-130 airframe was in it?s electronics and avionics. AN AN/APG-180 radar (derived from the same ground and air radar that the Air Forces F-15E uses) was added to allow tracking ...
By: Dreadnaught
Part VI: CAIR Portrays "War on Terrorism" as Malicious "War on Islam"
2008-03-31 16:23:00 "The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself," CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed declared at Washington's National Press Club in July 2007. But, in fact, CAIR officials and spokesmen have been peddling that same "new perception" ever since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. They have portrayed virtually every intervening prosecution of an alleged terrorist who is Muslim and every investigation of an alleged terrorist front group as an insidious attack on their religion. Today's...(read more)
Haditha Update: Court Martial Of LCpl Stephen Tatum Begins
2008-03-28 19:46:00 The court-martial of Lance Corporal Stephen B. Tatum, USMC, begins today, 28MAR08. LCpl Tatum faces the following charges: Charge I: Violation of the UCMJ, Article 119 (Involuntary Manslaughter) (Maximum punishment: dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 10 years): Specification 1: by culpable negligence or while perpetrating an offense ...
By: Dreadnaught
Iraq Update: Too Few Drones In The Air
2008-03-25 23:29:00 Danger Room is reporting that there is a shortage of military drone aircraft in Iraq. And insurgents are exploiting this weakness. Is there still a question about the usefulness of drones? yojoe out For more on unmanned aircraft: US Navy: Carrier Air Wing To Be Unmanned By 2025 Unmanned Aircraft: $500 Million In FY2008 Global War On Terror ...
By: Dreadnaught
War on Terrorism Requires More Than Military Force, Expert Says
2008-03-25 20:37:00 From defenselink.mil, by Gerry J. Gilmore WASHINGTON, March 19, 2008 ? Winning the war on terrorism will be a long, slow process predicated on earning the loyalty of people insurgents want to control for their own ends, according to one of the U.S. Army?s premier counter-insurgency experts. ?We are not going to kill or capture our way ...
Marine Corps: V-22 Osprey Engines Are Failing In Iraq
2008-03-20 22:22:00 Over at the definitive military-technology blog Danger Room, it is being reported that the engines on the V-22 Osprey are wearing out, much faster than expected. The Osprey is the tilt-rotor aircraft used by the Marine Corps for troop transport. It is capable of transporting 24 combat-loaded Marines 242 ...
By: Dreadnaught
This war on terrorism is bogus
2008-03-02 07:23:00 This guy below is my hero!!! I love it....finally someone with guts that writes it like it is.....Must read information. click below:The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global dominationThanks Michael Meacher, you hit the nail on the head. Let's hope the next president elect does'nt BS the country as much as the present one.
Military Commissions Update: Khalid Sheik Mohammed Charged For 9/11 Attack
2008-02-12 00:23:00 The Office of the Military Commissions, has referred charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The charge sheet lists nine charges and included eighty-eight pages. The crimes are all defined in 10 U.S.C. Section 950v. The bulk of the charge sheet is devoted to listing all of the specifics regarding the attacks, including Khalid ...
By: Dreadnaught
We Are Blackwater: New Book From Blackwater Worldwide CEO Erik Prince
2008-02-10 03:57:00 The CEO and owner of Blackwater Worldwide, Erik D. Prince, has signed a book deal with Regnery Publishing. The book is billed as, the only insider?s account of the controversial company that has supplied bodyguards and support-and-rescue personnel to hot spots around the world, including the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. yojoe out ...
By: Dreadnaught
Military Commissions Update: Charges Referred Against Three Enemy Combatant
2008-02-10 03:41:00 In the past week, the Department of defense has announced charges against three detainees held at GTMO. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, aka, “Abu Khobib al Sudani.” Al Qosi is charged with conspiring with Usama bin Laden and other al Qaeda members to target, attack and murder civilians and attack civilian objects in violation of ...
By: Dreadnaught
Pakistan and the Global War on Terrorism
2008-02-04 13:00:00 Watch Professor Anatol Lieven (Global Policy Institute London / Kings College) and Sir Hilary Synnott (IISS) talk about Pakistan and the Global War on Terrorism. The event took place in the City of London on 30th January 2008.
World?s Aging Population To Defuse War on Terrorism
2008-01-25 07:04:00 Changing demographic trends will impact the future of international relations, according to the latest issue of Public Policy and Aging Report (PP and AR). Several hotbed areas in the world that offer the motive and opportunity for political violence are due to stabilize by the year 2030. Countries such as Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi ...
By: 1913 Intel
A blow to U.S. war on terrorism
2007-12-29 07:07:00 Launch Video Dec. 28: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a major setback for U.S. policymakers such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who strongly supported her return to Pakistan. NBC's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: My View of It
CIA Agena: Torture Is Bad, But Saved Lives...You Decide
2007-12-11 23:30:00 Begin the endless bickering and name calling;You pussy-headed liberal morons want to protect the rights of people who want to kill you. You should die or move to Canada.And you terrorist war criminals who are no better than the people you are waterboarding should be put in chains and thrown in jail for war crimes for eroding the moral highground America has long stood on.America at it's best!
By: Nicks Notes
How To Really Win The War On Terrorism
2007-12-05 00:00:00 Tom Cruise cry’s in the movie ‘Lions for Lambs’, Do you want to win the war on terror… Yes or No. The movie is good but really fluff in regards to how to really win the war on terrorism. This article is about what major security holes that currently exist in America and finally what ...
Mr. 9/11 Man's Terror Ties
2007-11-29 14:10:00 Rudy Giuliani will protect America and defend it from Islamic terrorism, unless, of course, he can make a buck, then Americans are on their own.
By: Nicks Notes
Editorial: The Illegal Immigration & Terrorism Deal
2007-11-21 03:45:00 Illegal immigrants are terrorists and terrorists are illegal immigrants, 98% of the time. How can we combat both efficiently, cost effectively, and ethically? It is called the Illegal Immigration & Terrorism Deal, and here is how it goes. Immigrants who swim the Rio Grande and jump the fence to get into the country do so illegally. ...
By: The Butter Stick
Suicide Bomber Crashes into Hotdog Stand Killing Hundreds
2007-11-17 21:38:00 Around 100 people have been killed, many more injured and hospitalized, as an Islamic suicide bomber crashed into a traditional New York City hotdog stand in Manhattan. Police confirm the attack was part of the Islamic “jihad” begun after September 11th. At approximately 4:35 pm Friday on East 53rd Street, Manhattan, NY, an enraged taxi-cab suicide ...
By: The Butter Stick
Houses Passes Electronic Surveillance Bill
2007-11-16 08:18:00 The bill wasn't what Bush wanted. It strengthens court oversight over surveillance of suspected terrorists, but does not include immunity to telecommunications corporations who assisted in eavesdropping American citizens.So if you helped the government committ a crime, you're not getting away with it.The vote was 227-189Five Republicans voted in favor;John Duncan (R-Tennessee)Jeff Flake (R-Arizona)Wayne Gilcrest (R-Maryland)Bob Inglis (R-South Carolina)Wayne Jones (R-North CarolinaFive Democrats voted against;John Barrow (D-Georgia)Mike Capuano (D-Massachusetts)Nick Lampson (D-Texas)Mike Michaud (D-Maine)Jose Serrano (D-New York)Capuano, Michaud and Serrano oppose any bill authorizing government surveillance. Other opponents, such as Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) were not present.Interestingly enough, Democrats picked up the votes of some of their usual dissenters on national security, like Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma), Jim Marshall (D-Georgia) and Gene Taylor (D-Missi...
By: Nicks Notes
Monday Afternoon Amusement
2007-11-12 21:43:00 -Ok, now everyone in Georgia can stop worrying, the Governor is praying, that should solve everything.-The Pope is coming to America to stop priests from touching little children...and say a mass or two.-Conservatives like Fox News, country music and movies where things blow up, Liberals like everything else.-Max out your credit card at the Woodfield Mall or Sherman Oaks Galleria, put yourself into thousands of dollars in debt, or the terrorists win. -McCain's mom tells us Mormons bribe people, even know the Mayor of Salt Lake City who was accused of doing it, was a Catholic.-I'm the King of Spain BITCH! Don't make us colonize your sorry ass again!-Gordon Brown, haven't you learned from your predecessor, the British Prime Minister is supposed to obey his lord and master in Washington, D.C. C'Mon, man, even the French are taking orders from us now.
By: Nicks Notes
Tony Blair to Move to United States
2007-11-09 00:21:00 Following his termination of office as third-term Prime Minister of Great Britain, and replaced by the Conservative Gordon Brown, Tony Blair wishes for a new lifestyle, a cleansing. In a recent interview, the moderate ?New? Labour Party member has stated his complete withdrawal from British politics and the isle all together. A close relative of the ...
By: The Butter Stick
Bush: I Get What I Want Cause We're At War
2007-11-01 19:29:00 Apparently President Bush believes war means we should be a dictatorship.
By: Nicks Notes
Bush Reminds Us Why We Elected Democrats
2007-10-30 16:23:00 I don't understand George W. Bush.I mean I do, but I don't.He comes out today to take shots at the unpopular Congress, but did he deliver a death blow, or did he resuscitate life into Congress.Bush says Congress is wasting it's time investigating his administration. American people overwhelmingly want investigations of his administration, even his own impeachment. The American people are angry at Congress for what they perceive is lack of accountability from the Democratic Congress. If Bush is upset over investigations, then I guess the Democratic Congress is holding him accountable after all.Bush complains Congress is wasting it's time passing a SCHIP bill he's only going to veto and the House will only fail to override, but, the American people like this bill and want the Democratic Congress to pass it despite what Bush says. If Bush is upset, that means Congress is doing what the people want...forcing him to accept the SCHIP reauthorization.Simply put, Congress is not unpopu...
By: Nicks Notes
Giuliani Previews His Fascist Presidency
2007-10-29 03:18:00 Reminding us that democracy and free speech is over should he become President, Rudy "Benito" Giuliani criticized Hillary Clinton's criticism of the president's foriegn policy;"I think that it's important that we conduct this debate in a way that we don't interfere with the ability of the country to function in a proper way, between the now and (the election)," -I think Mr. Giuliani seems a little bit lost on what a campaign is."The president of the United States is president of the United States. He's going to be president of the United States from now until the time a new president takes over. Until then, he's the only one conducting foreign policy of this country, We can have our political debate in this country. ... But nobody should be creating the specter that we're sending emissaries out around the world before someone is actually sworn in as president of the United States. I think it would be good for the country if Mrs. Clinton, Senator Clinton would correct that sta...
By: Nicks Notes
Brains Vs. Bravado: Hillary Vs. Bush on the ?War on Terrorism?
2007-10-27 00:00:00 Republican vs. Democratic minds Reported in Salon by Tim Grieve, Republican President Bush and Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton “have both just had the opportunity to address the war on terrorism in the context of a relatively sophisticated, academic discussion. Suffice it to say, they used their opportunities differently.” First we have excerpts from the president’s October ...
By: Garling Gauge
He Make Hillary Looks Great
2007-10-25 23:35:00 Rudy Giuliani was asked about waterboarding. Is it torture?It depends on who does it Depends on who does it? What does that mean? If it's torture, it's torture. There's no grey area with this. It either is or it isn't.Andrew Sullivan sums it up;If the Khmer Rouge does it, it's torture. If the United States does it, it's not. This man cannot be allowed to be president of the United States. He believes that the United States is above morals and the president of the United States is above the law. He is a tyrant to the depths of his being.Rudy Giuliani actually makes me like George W. Bush, and that's REALLY difficult.
By: Nicks Notes
Your Daily Dose Of Fear
2007-10-20 16:14:00 The Secretary of Homeland Security reminds us why we should be scared to death to leave the house and go anywhere.Still, I give him points for ACTUALLY wanting to be prepared for something for once.
By: Nicks Notes
The Truth Hurst, Redux
2007-10-18 22:44:00 The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up. In Iraq, in the United States and in Congress."-Rep. Pete Stark (D-California)He speaks truth, so as we do in America, attack him.
By: Nicks Notes
Media Shield Law Passes Congress
2007-10-17 14:06:00 Vote was 398-21.To be honest, I'm shocked it passed by so much. The bill would protect journalists from revealing confidential sources in cases, except those involving National Security.The bill was sponsered by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia)20 Republicans and 1 Democrat voting against it;Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)Todd Akin (R-Missouri)Joe Barton (R-Texas)Henry Brown (R-South Carolina)Steve Buyer (R-Indiana)John Carter (R-Texas)John Culberson (R-Texas)Wally Herger (R-California)Darrell Issa (R-California)Sam Johnson (R-Texas)Steve King (R-Iowa)Peter King (R-New York)Daniel Lungren (R-California)John Mica (R-Florida)Tom Petri (R-Wisconsin)Ed Royce (R-California)Bill Sali (R-Idaho)Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin)Lamar Smith (R-Texas)Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)Dave Weldon (R-Florida)
By: Nicks Notes
A Victory For Their Side
2007-10-12 21:49:00 Muslim extremists scare meBorn-again Christians scare meWhat petrifies me?Muslim extremists turned born-again Christians
By: Nicks Notes
We Can No Longer Deny History
2007-10-11 23:41:00 "Who Remembers the Armenians?"Those words were uttered by Adolf Hitler at the dawn of World War II. Hitler was asked by his generals what he thought the world would say if they killed everyone who got in their way during the 1939 invasion of Poland.There's a thin line between "atrocity" and "massacre" and what we describe as "genocide." Surely we all agree what the Turkish did during World War I against the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population is indeed an atrocity. It was indeed a massacre, but it also was genocide. We can no longer to afford to deny history, for perhaps if we did remember the Armenians in 1939, Hitler's genocide may not have happened.Our relationship with Turkey is a unique and important one. Having been to Turkey recently, I can account for how Westernized and modern the country really is and how friendly to Americans the Turkish people are. Still, good friends do not deny the mistakes their friends make, especially if it can prevent those mistakes from happen...
By: Nicks Notes
The Truth Hurts
2007-10-11 01:08:00 'I Don't Think It, I Know It."Jimmy Carter on whether or not he thinks the US tortures terrorist suspects.We wlll, of course, attack him because he told the truth...and we don't like the truth.
By: Nicks Notes
Delusional Giuliani
2007-10-08 20:22:00 Rudy Giuliani says the U.S. must win the war in Iraq so that country "will act as an ally for us in the Islamic terrorist war against us."If you REALLY think a new Iraq is going to be a trusted ally against terrorists, you must be delusional. If we had focused on Al-Qaeda from day one, it won't matter whether or not Iraq is our ally. I don't think we need them as our ally and if we're going to waste the resources we're wasting now for THAT reason, then we're a hopeless case.
By: Nicks Notes
More Proof War Alone Doesn't Solve It
2007-10-08 16:17:00 The War on Terror is not only going to be won by guns.
By: Nicks Notes
WHY THE WAR ON TERRORISM HAS BEEN FAILING?
2007-10-07 17:18:00 Why the war on terrorism has been failing? Let us discuss this with an imparital and open miind with malice towards none? 1) The concept of this war itself is not comprehended properly 2) The methodology adopted is itself terrorising and and a wave of anti Muslims propoganda has caused a lot of trouble to the peace loving ...
Vagueness Get Us In Trouble Again
2007-09-30 05:27:00 Perhaps, if it weren't for the ridiculously VAGUE definition of terrorism as laid out by us and the UN, Iran wouldn't have a point here.Yes, based on our vague "terrorists attack civilians on purpose" definition, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Mai Lai, and Hadithya were all terrorist attacks.Do I think we're terrorists? No, but does the definition fit, unfortunately yes.Perhaps we need to redefine the word.
By: Nicks Notes
Backlash of Bush War on Terrorism in Rawalpindi
2007-09-04 13:40:00 Bush war on terrorism fought by us once again showed its bloody backlash in the most high security area of Rawalpindi, a city which borders with the capital Islamabad. In two suicide attacks, which occured almost simultaenously with the difference of just 4 or 5 km, rocked the country and killed 35 people, while hundreds were injured. A bus of a sensitive organization was the target.Bloody attack is as much condemnable as possible, but why not government learn the lesson and stop fighting with the Pakistanis in the tribal areas?
India To Step Up War On Terrorism After 42 killed in Hyderabad Terror Bomb
2007-08-27 13:32:00 42 people have been killed with many more injured in Hyderabad after to bombs were set off in a terrorism attack.One bomb blew up at a restaurant in the Kothi area of Hyderabad while the other rocked an open-air auditorium in the Lumbini Park area. Police were able to defused a third bomb, before ...
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Pessimism in the Establishment
2007-08-22 12:27:00 One of the remarkable things about Barack Obama’s controversial antagonism toward Pakistan under Musharraf, is how unremarkable it was from the perspective of the Democratic foreign policy establishment. Indeed, the sense that broader Pakistan is turning into an Al Qaeda stronghold (not merely in the tribal Pak-Afghan border towns), is now fairly common currency at ...
By: postpolitical
Iraq...Is It Getting Better?
2007-08-09 17:08:00 Probably not, but the fact July wasn't as deadly as past months is a good thing.Still, the Sunnis left the government and al-Maliki is headed for Iran to hold hands with what's his face, so, yes, I'm still skeptical that Jeffersonian Democracy will come to that country. In fact, I'm still skeptical about that country being an ally a few years after we leave, but at least we may be able to leave soon and put this nightmare behind us.All Bush needed to get his act together was to loose an election.
By: Nicks Notes
"You're Either With Us, Or With The Terrorists"
2007-08-07 18:10:00 And then there's that little spoken-of third category;You're not with us because you'e harboring terrorists, and we're too scared to force you to take a stand, so we pick on easier targets; Iraq and France for example.
By: Nicks Notes
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