November 20, 2008
Russia's navy chief, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, meanwhile, was quoted by the
Russia's navy chief, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, meanwhile, was quoted by the Russian news agency Ria Novosti Thursday as saying that Russia would dispatch ...
On Wednesday, the Indian Navy said that one of its warships fought a battle at sea with would-be hijackers in the Gulf of Aden, sinking one suspect vessel ...
Meanwhile, one of Europe's largest shipping companies announced it would reroute some of its oil tankers around the Suez Canal to reduce the piracy risk, ...
Egypt assembled senior foreign policy officials from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Djibouti and Somalia. It was the first time regional governments ...
A man on the Sirius Star answered the ship's telephone three times, but hung up without answering any questions. The ship's owner, Vela International Ltd., ...
November 20, 2008
The missile strike on Wednesday was aimed at a residential compound in the village of Indi Khel, about 22 miles outside the town of Bannu, according to an ...
The missile strike came a day after the United States military announced that it was working in co-ordination with Pakistani forces to intercept and ambush ...
The attack appeared to represent a widening of the American campaign aimed at killing militants with al Qaeda and the Taliban, who use safe havens in ...
Heavy military equipment and other supplies for the soldiers in Afghanistan
But the Americans have accused the Pakistanis of not doing enough to stop the militants who cross from their safe havens in the Pakistani tribal areas to ...
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of the Pakistani Army, who was meeting with NATO commanders in Brussels, urged a halt to the American missile attacks, ...
November 20, 2008
"During the Clinton administration there was also widespread resentment of the United States' unilateralism and bullying as a superpower, but we forget ...
Some conservatives are quick to note she lacks experience managing such a large organization as the State Department. But the consensus in foreign-policy ...
She's superhawkish on Israel and Palestine and opposed even modest human rights legislation like restricting the export of cluster mines to countries that ...
But people who've worked with Clinton on foreign-policy issues and seen her in international action, like Ambassador Swanee Hunt of Harvard's Kennedy School ...
But other progressives, like Lawrence Korb of the Center For American Progress (CAP), sa
... but what surprised me was how much she knew about lots of other defense issues," says Mr. Korb, a former Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. ...
November 20, 2008
The US military is also reviewing strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, as is army Gen. David Petraeus, the former US commander in Iraq, now in charge of ...
The Taliban and other insurgent groups are particularly strong in the south and east of Afghanistan and enjoy safe havens across the border in Pakistan. ...
... on Afghanistan that began in September, was presented to Defense Secretary Robert Gates last Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said. ...
... draft of a new strategy document on Afghanistan, intended to address tha
November 20, 2008
The attack appeared to represent a widening of the American campaign aimed at killing militants with al Qaeda and the Taliban, who use safe havens in ...
Permission is being requested from Central Asian states so that supplies can move through them to the Afghan front, he said. The fragility of the NATO ...
Heavy military equipment and other supplies for the soldiers in Afghanistan move on trucks from the Pakistani port of Karachi north through the Khyber Pass ...
The missile strike on Wednesday was aimed at a residential compound in the village of Indi Khel, about 22 miles outside the town of Bannu, according to an ...
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of the Pakistani Army, who was meeting with NATO commanders in Brussels, urged a halt to the American missile attacks, ...
November 20, 2008
"The Pakistani military then launched a mortar strike on the Insurgents' firing location inside Pakistan," an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ...
"The Pakistan soldiers assured ISAF that they would engage any insurgents attempting to flee deeper into Pakistan." US and Afghan forces have fought pitched ...
The US military contacted the Pakistani military after a US combat outpost and an Afghan checkpoint came under "artillery fire" from Taliban forces ...
He has conducted meetings with the Bajaur Scouts, a unit that is part of Pakistan's Frontier Corps, as well as with the Pakistani Army. ...
"The Pakistani military then launched a mortar strike on the insurgents' firing location inside Pakistan," an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ...
By Bill RoggioNovember 20, 2008 1:59 PM US and Pakistani forces operating along the porous border between Afghanistan's Paktika province and the Waziristan ...
November 20, 2008
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Like the globe's other piracy hot spot, the narrow Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia, the Gulf of Aden is one of the most sensitive choke ...
But Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said some of the blame must fall on the shippers themselves, who have not done enough to protect their cargo. ...
"These are not just unskilled bandits," said Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo. "Most likely we are dealing with two or even three pirate syndicates ...
"I take issue with this whole notion that it's incumbent upon the armed forces of the world, the navies of the world, to solve this problem," Morrell said ...
November 20, 2008
General Petraeus has been an open advocate of regional diplomacy as a key counterinsurgency tactic. On Oct. 15, he told a round table of Washington Post ...
... but it's not anywhere near what the Pakistanis like to suggest," says Marvin Weinbaum, an analyst at the Middle East Institute in Wa
"India wants to destabilize [Pakistan's tribal areas] and Balochistan," said Rahman Malik, a Pakistani government security adviser during a trip to ...
"Even today, the Pakistani military sees India as the threat," says Ms. Dormandy, of Harvard. "Until that attitude changes, you're not going to see Pakistan ...
November 20, 2008
Kerry, who voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war that Obama opposed, introduced the first Senate amendment in 2006 to withdraw US combat forces from Iraq. ...
It is responsible for vetting international treaties before ratification by the full Senate, and for conducting the confirmation hearings for presidential ...
He also negotiated the creation of a war crimes tribunal to try the perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia, was instrumental in normalizing US relations with ...
Bacevich, whose son, army First Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, was killed at age 27 by a roadside bomb in Iraq in May 2007, added: "Things have gone badly ...
"The role of Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair is enormously influential," Carter said. "It gives the person who holds it an incredible position to ...
November 20, 2008
Pe
Like the globe's other piracy hot spot, the narrow Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia, the Gulf of Aden is one of the most sensitive choke ...
But Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said some of the blame must fall on the shippers themselves, who have not done enough to protect their cargo. ...
"These are not just unskilled bandits," said Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo. "Most likely we are dealing with two or even three pirate syndicates ...
"I take issue with this whole notion that it's incumbent upon the armed forces of the world, the navies of the world, to solve this problem," Morrell said ...
November 20, 2008
Kerry, who voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war that Obama opposed, introduced the first Senate amendment in 2006 to withdraw US combat forces from Iraq. ...
It is responsible for vetting international treaties before ratification by the full Senate, and for conducting the confirmation hearings for presidential ...
He also negotiated the creation of a war crimes tribunal to try the perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia, was instrumental in normalizing US relations with ...
Bacevich, whose son, army First Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, was killed at age 27 by a roadside bomb in Iraq in May 2007, added: "Things have gone badly ...
"The role of Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair is enormously influential," Carter said. "It gives the person who holds it an incredible position to ...
November 19, 2008
the United States has already begun negotiations with countries along what the Pentagon has called a new northern route. An agreement with Georgia has been ...
NATO and US military officials have said raids on the supply line from Pakistan to Afghanistan have not significantly affected their operations. ...
The growing danger has forced the Pentagon to seek far longer, but possibly safer, alternate routes through Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, ...
An agreement with Georgia has been reached and talks are ongoing with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbeki
A bold Taliban raid last week on the Pakistani side of the Khyber Pass caused officials to close the border at Torkham. It reopened Monday. ...
... according to Defense Department documents. A notice to potential contractors by the US Transportation Command in September said that "strikes, ...
November 19, 2008
Shoot me a photocopy of what you've got c/o NPR, 635 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20001. Nov. 18 - Party leadership elections in the House and ...
In addition, there apparently have been conversations with other hopefuls, such as New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), a former Bill Clinton Cabinet ...
Henry Waxman (D-CA) challenges House Energy and commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI), the dean of the House. Nov. 19 - Hand recount begins in ...
Even Republicans are starting to concede that Begich may win thi
18 - Party leadership elections in the House and Senate. Democrats decide what to do with independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, the chairman of ...
November 19, 2008
The missile strike on Wednesday was aimed at a residential compound in the village of Indi Khel, about 22 miles outside the town of Bannu, according to an ...
The missile strike came a day after the United States military announced that it was working in co-ordination with Pakistani forces to intercept and ambush ...
Permission is being requested from Central Asian states so that supplies can move through them to the Afghan front, he said. The fragility of the NATO ...
The route was closed last week after Taliban militants attacked a convoy as it approached the border with Afghanistan. General Kayani, the first Pakistani ...
November 19, 2008
``One problem with Summers is, he's a deregulator, which is not what the banks need right now,'' says Steffen Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa ...
``Obama and the whole party will be answering to a lot of people looking to make some dramatic changes,'' says Representative Scott Garrett, a New Jersey ...
``Most politicians are incrementalists,'' says presidential historian Richard Norton Smith at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. ...
His closest economic advisers, men like Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers and Paul Volcker, may recommend otherwise: go slow. If Obama takes their counsel, ...
Executive
... much to the Obama campaign -- a record $12.7 million compared with $8 million for McCain, according to the Center For Responsive Politics in Washington. ...
November 19, 2008
"It's been an incredible journey getting to this point, and I appreciate the support and commitment of the thousands of Alaskans who have brought us to this ...
"I am humbled and honored to serve Alaska in the United States Senate," Mr. Begich said. "It's been an incredible journey getting to this point, ...
With an estimated 2500 votes still outstanding and other election certification
The latest on the 2008 election results and on the presidential transition. Join the discussion. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who supported Senator John ...
Mark Begich, left, declared victory Tuesday in his bid to unseat Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, right. Mr. Stevens's party opted to wait for vote totals ...
In the House, Democrats gathered for the leadership elections and bid farewell to Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who is relinquishing ...
November 19, 2008
``One problem with Summers is, he's a deregulator, which is not what the banks need right now,'' says Steffen Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa ...
``Obama and the whole party will be answering to a lot of people looking to make some dramatic changes,'' says Representative Scott Garrett, a New Jersey ...
``Most politicians are incrementalists,'' says presidential historian Richard Norton Smith at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. ...
His closest economic advisers, men like Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers and Paul Volcker, may recommend otherwise: go slow. If Obama takes their counsel, ...
Executive
... much to the Obama campaign -- a record $12.7 million compared with $8 million for McCain, according to the Center For Responsive Politics in Washington. ...
November 18, 2008
In other words, between 2004 and 2008, the Hispanic presidential vote in Florida swung by 27 percentage points. What explains that? ...
For "network effects," think reunification of extended families--a process that means growth here "may continue to accelerate for some time, ...
("Party building is territorial.") He also makes a broader point: As long as the steady inflow of Hispanics to the United States consists predominantly of ...
"The immigration debate was catastrophically divisive for Republicans," says a GOP Senate staffer (who is Hispanic). He fears that a replay of the 2006 and ...
November 18, 2008
Taliban militants rejected an offer of peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday, saying there would be no negotiations until foreign troops ...
Pakistan sent troops armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns to escort trucks Monday along a major Khyber Pass supply route for US and ...
Iraq plans to build a subway in Baghdad to help cut pollution and ease traffic on the city's chronically clogged streets. Baghdad Mayor Sabir al-Issawi said ...
AP > More than 100 retired generals and admirals called Monday for repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays so they can serve openly. ...
A suicide car bomber attacked an army post in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing four security personnel. Separately, security forces ...
A congressionally mandated scientific panel has concluded that Gulf War syndrome is real and still afflicts nearly one-quarter of the 700000 US troops who ...
November 18, 2008
The growing danger has forced the Pentagon to seek far longer, but possibly safer, alternate routes through Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, ...
the United States has already begun negotiations with countries along what the Pentagon has called a new northern route. An agreement with Georgia has been ...
NATO and US military officials have said raids on the supply line from Pakistan to Afghanistan have not significantly affected their operations. ...
Don't bring them to the Americans. If you do, we'll kill you,' " said Rahmanullah, a truck driver from the Pakistani tribal town of Landikotal. ...
The journey begins in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi and continues north through Pakistan's volatile North-West Frontier Province and tribal ...
... according to Defense Department documents. A notice to p
November 18, 2008
Such agreements already govern US military conduct in other long-term deployment zones-including Germany, Japan, and South Korea-and the administration has ...
But implementation is dependent on approval by Iraq's parliament, where opposition among some Sunni and Shiite lawmakers remains. ...
As the United States prepared for a presidential transition, the Bush administration was negotiating long-term agreements with Iraq's government that could ...
A February 2008 Washington Post op-ed coauthored by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, however, put the number at ...
... a senior adviser on Iraq policy, told lawmakers in March 2008. In addition to the SOFA, the Bush administration has also negotiated a so-called ...
November 18, 2008
"It's been an incredible journey getting to this point, and I appreciate the su
"I am humbled and honored to serve Alaska in the United States Senate," Mr. Begich said. "It's been an incredible journey getting to this point, ...
Mark Begich, left, declared victory Tuesday in his bid to unseat Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, right. Mr. Stevens's party opted to wait for vote totals ...
In the House, Democrats gathered for the leadership elections and bid farewell to Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who is relinquishing ...
... a Democratic Senate primary in 2006 before winning re-election as an independent. After the vote, he expressed some remorse for his campaign comments ...
November 18, 2008
Taliban militants rejected an offer of peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday, saying there would be no negotiations until foreign troops ...
Pakistan sent troops armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns to escort trucks Monday along a major Khyber Pass supply route for US and ...
Iraq plans to build a subway in Baghdad to help cut pollution and ease traffic on the city's chronically clogged streets. Baghdad Mayor Sabir al-Issawi said ...
AP > More than 100 retired generals and admirals called Monday for repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays so they can serve openly. ...
A suicide car bomber attacked an army post in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing four security personnel. Separately, security forces ...
A congressionally mandated scientific panel has concluded that Gulf War syndrome is real and still afflicts nearly one-quarter of the 700000 US troops who ...
November 18, 2008
Such agreements already govern US military conduct in other long-term deployment zones-including Germany, Japan, and South Korea-and the administration has ...
But implementation is dependent on approval by Iraq's parliament, where opposition among some Sunni and Shiite lawmakers remains. ...
As the United States prepared for a presidential transition, the Bush administration was negotiating long-term agreements with Iraq's government that could ...
A February 2008 Washington Post op-ed coauthored by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, however, put the number at ...
... a senior adviser on Iraq policy, told lawmakers in March 2008. In addition to the SOFA, the Bush administration has also negotiated a so-called ...
November 17, 2008
Taking advantage of the fact that the Military Commissions Act allows prisoners to represent themselves (but only if they are willing to mount a defense, ...
Reportedly the third most important figure in al-Qaeda, after Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, KSM, who was captured in Pakistan in March 2003, ...
He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, although the disclosure of previously suppressed evidence in the last year indicates that ...
8) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). Reportedly the third most important figure in al-Qaeda, after Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, KSM, who was captured ...
11) Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. Also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, he is a nephew of KSM, and was captured in Pakistan with Walid bin Attash (see below) in April 2003. ...
... was charged with plotting to detonate a "dirty bomb" in a US city (the s
November 17, 2008
It noted that the US and Iran both supported the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and faced "common enemies" in Afghanistan in the Taliban, ...
It noted that the US and Iran both supported the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and faced "common enemies" in Afghanistan in the Taliban, ...
During his campaign, Obama stated on several occasions that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable", and that he would never take military ...
Citing specific examples of Tehran's foreign policy pragmatism over past two decades, including its secret arms trade with Israel and active support for the ...
... of the International Campaign for human rights in Iran; and academic specialists on Iran, Shi'ite Islam and nuclear proliferation and technology.
November 17, 2008
2006 - Lebanon's US-backed government approves the creation of an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik ...
2005 - An Austrian court rules that British historian David Irving must remain in custody on holocaust denial charges despite his assertion that he now ...
2001 - US Marines land in southern Afghanistan as the Taliban surrender in Kunduz, their last stronghold in the north. This leaves the Northern Alliance in ...
1996 - More than 100000 people march through Belgrade, Yugoslavia, accusing Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of stealing municipal elections. ...
1967 - More than 65 people die in Colombian town after eating bread co
1542 - Scots under King James V are routed by Britain at Battle of Solway Moss. 1758 - British forces capture Senegal; in the French and Indian War, ...
November 17, 2008
These Turkmen and Arabs were transferred secretly and in violation of Iraqi law to prisons in the Kurdish‐controlled cities of Irbil and Suleymaniyah. ...
Indeed, the Kurdish armed militias, which are known as peshmerga, and belong to the Kurdish political parties Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan (PUK) and ...
In the last Articles of the series, the criminality of the Talabani and Barzani death squads will be duly exposed, and the need for their immediate ...
At the same time, the burgeoning infiltration of al Qaeda among the pseudo-Kurdish leaders risks unleashing a most calamitou
... the UK´s ambassador to the UN stated that the diplomatic process in Iraq had been ended. In parallel to this, the arms inspectors withdrew from Iraq. ...
November 17, 2008
That is one of the milestones in a political-military campaign plan devised in 2007 by Gen. David Petraeus, when he was the top US commander in Iraq, ...
It is moving American troops farther from the people they are trying to protect. Starting in early 2007, with Iraq on the brink of all-out civil war, ...
But it also points up a major gamble in Iraq â" namely, that the Iraqis are ready to handle the insurgency themselves. Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for ...
"There's been a big effort to move all t
"It gets us out of the way" should Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki decide to use Iraqi security forces to crush the US-allied Sunni neighborhood militia ...
"And so as you go throughout, from Fallujah all the way up the Euphrates river Valley, up to Al-Qaim â" where we used to have Marines actually living in ...
November 17, 2008
These Turkmen and Arabs were transferred secretly and in violation of Iraqi law to prisons in the Kurdish‐controlled cities of Irbil and Suleymaniyah. ...
Indeed, the Kurdish armed militias, which are known as peshmerga, and belong to the Kurdish political parties Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan (PUK) and ...
In the last Articles of the series, the criminality of the Talabani and Barzani death squads will be duly exposed, and the need for their immediate ...
At the same time, the burgeoning infiltration of al Qaeda among the pseudo-Kurdish leaders risks unleashing a most calamitou
... the UK´s ambassador to the UN stated that the diplomatic process in Iraq had been ended. In parallel to this, the arms inspectors withdrew from Iraq. ...
November 17, 2008
That is one of the milestones in a political-military campaign plan devised in 2007 by Gen. David Petraeus, when he was the top US commander in Iraq, ...
It is moving American troops farther from the people they are trying to protect. Starting in early 2007, with Iraq on the brink of all-out civil war, ...
But it also points up a major gamble in Iraq â" namely, that the Iraqis are ready to handle the insurgency themselves. Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for ...
"There's been a big effort to move all t
"It gets us out of the way" should Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki decide to use Iraqi security forces to crush the US-allied Sunni neighborhood militia ...
"And so as you go throughout, from Fallujah all the way up the Euphrates river Valley, up to Al-Qaim â" where we used to have Marines actually living in ...
November 17, 2008
It noted that the US and Iran both supported the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and faced "common enemies" in Afghanistan in the Taliban, ...
It noted that the US and Iran both supported the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and faced "common enemies" in Afghanistan in the Taliban, ...
During his campaign, Obama stated on several occasions that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable", and that he would never take military ...
Citing specific examples of Tehran's foreign policy pragmatism over past two decades, including its secret arms trade with Israel and active support for the ...
... of the International Campaign for human rights in Iran; and academic specialists on Iran, Shi'ite Islam and nuclear proliferation and technology.
November 16, 2008
The Iraqi Turkmen suffered severely under the dictatorship of the Socialist Arab Ba´ath Party, whereas the Kurds were exempt from carrying out military ...
The Ba´ath regime prohibited public use of the Turkish language in 1980 and the new Constitution of 1990 only states that the Iraqi people consist of Arabs ...
He was executed on the 14th January 1981 by the Ba´ath regime, and he was buried in the holy city
Altun Kuperi is a small Turkmen town located 40 km north of the Turkmen city of Kirkuk. Altun Kuperi means ´Golden Bridge´ in the Turkmen language. ...
November 16, 2008
Jeremy Rabkin -- is a former scho
Danny Schechter's online biography notes that he first received a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1966, and to this day he continues to actively work with ...
Although this table by no means provides an exhaustive list of democracy-manipulating affiliations, it does indicate that R. James Woolsey (of all the ...
... funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. (p.93) However, Prados, despite providing weighty overview of the CIA's global anti-democratic activities and ...
... 1985-89), the investigative journalist Raymond Bonner, Moody's congressional aide Ruth Chojnacki, and Nina Solarz (who was the former executive director ...
(16) Judy Van Rest -- is Executive Vice President of the International Republican Institute (a core grantee of the NED). Chester Crocker -- is Professor ...
November 16, 2008
The civilian was killed when a grenade fired by coalition forces overshot i
Robert Cone, who heads the US command in Kabul that trains Afghan forces, said last week that he has asked for 60 additional training teams -- a total of ...
Iraqi police and hospital officials said seven people were killed and up to 32 were wounded. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy. ...
Coalition forces accidentally killed a civilian during a clash with Insurgents in Zabul province. The civilian was killed when a grenade fired by coalition ...
A suicide car bombing struck a commercial district in Tal Afar, killing nine Iraqis and wounding 40, according to the US military. Iraqi police and hospital ...
November 16, 2008
Retired army Col. Peter Mansoor, who served as Petraeus' right-hand man in Baghdad during the US troop buildup and has written a book, "Baghdad at Sunrise," ...
It is moving American troops farther from the people they are trying to protect. Starting in early 2007, with Iraq on the brink of all-out civil war, ...
AP foreign, Sunday November 16 2008 By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) - The US military in Iraq is abandoning â" deliberately and with ...
"There's been a big effort to move all the Marine forces out of the cities," Post said in a videoconference with reporters at the Pentagon. ...
"It gets us out of the way" should Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki decide to use Iraqi security forces to crush the US-allied Sunni neighborhood militia ...
"And so as you go throughout, from Fallujah all the way up the Euphrates river Valley, up to Al-Qaim â" where we used to have Marines actually living in ...
November 16, 2008
The logic of the Casey-Gates position was that exaggerating the Soviet menace justified higher US military spending and US support for bloody brush-fire ...
The CIA also produced an NIE in 1985 that was designed to produce an intelligence rationale for arms sales to Iran." One of the key distortions pushed by ...
Plus, some of Gates's CIA protégés, such as former Deputy Director John McLaughlin, were liked by Democrats as well as Republicans. (McLaughlin was a member ...
Ironically, this same pro-Iraq initiative involved Donald Rumsfeld, then Reagan's special emissary to the Middle East. An infamous photograph from 1983 ...
For his 1991 confirmation, influential friends like Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman
They saw Teicher's account as disruptive to their prosecution of a private company, Teledyne Industries, and one of its salesmen, Ed Johnson. ...
November 16, 2008
What he said: He threatened to crack down on Sudan's ruling party for failing to end the ethnic violence in Darfur and suggested that he would mobilize the ...
The reality: Pakistan's government is feeling the heat of domestic opposition to US airstrikes on its soil. Many Pakistanis believe that raids by unmanned ...
The reality: Despite years of international pressure and threats, Iran appears to be edging closer toward mastering nuclear-weapons technology. ...
The reality: Currency is only one issue affecting trade. China holds about $1 trillion of US government bonds and related debt and will resist sharp ...
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads in the polls, probably would postpone indefinitely any serious discussion of a Palestinian state. ...
An impending International Criminal Court arrest warr