Agencie France Presse: The international military mission in Afghanistan has delivered “much less than it promised” due to the lack of a realistic strategy, an influential committee of lawmakers said Sunday. In a report, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said without a clear strategy stabilising Afghanistan had become “considerably more difficult than might [...]
Sky News: MI5 mistakenly recruited al Qaeda sympathisers who were trying to infiltrate the British secret service, it has been alleged. Conservative MP Patrick Mercer is demanding a probe into claims six Muslims were thrown out of MI5 because of concerns about their past. Two of the six allegedly attended al Qaeda training camps in [...]
Sergeant Crowley helps Gates down White House steps while self-absorbed Obama remains oblivious Associated Press Analysis: Obama must regain momentum after Gates WASHINGTON (AP) – The success of President Barack Obama’s ambitious agenda—from health care and climate change to education—could depend on how quickly he recovers from the sharp drop in support among white voters [...]
BRISTOL, Va. (AP) – At times, it seems like Barack Obama has time-traveled back to last summer when he was simply a Democrat running for the White House. Only now, he’s the president, and he’s facing a more complicated objective and opponent as he campaigns to overhaul a costly health care system. Yet, there he [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — An Al Qaeda-linked militant group waging war against Somalia’s fragile government is becoming an increasing threat to Western ally Kenya and could potentially destabilize the region with dire consequences for global security, officials and analysts warn. Al-Shabaab, one of the strongest Islamic militias battling for control of Mogadishu, has gained ground [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Behind Democrats’ struggle to pay the $1 trillion 10-year cost of President Obama’s promise to overhaul the health care system is their collision with another of his well-known pledges: that 95 percent of Americans “will not see their taxes increase by a single dime†during his term. This will not [...]
Newsmax: Cheerleading is by far the most dangerous sport for females in high school and college—high school cheerleading accounted for over 65 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries in women and girls over the past 25 years, and such injuries more than doubled from 1990 through 2002 while participation grew only 18 percent. College statistics [...]
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – Iranian state TV confirmed Saturday that Tehran has detained three Americans after they crossed the border from northern Iraq. The Kurdish regional government’s envoy to Washington, Qubad Talabani, told The Associated Press the three were tourists and had mistakenly crossed into Iranian territory Friday while hiking in a mountainous area near the [...]
Rasmussen: Seventy-six percent (76%) of U.S. voters now think President Obama is at least somewhat liberal. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is very liberal, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This marks the highest finding to date on the question and is a five-point increase in the number who say the president [...]
