Jul 28, 2009 20 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CBS: A majority of the British public believes the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan cannot be won and British troops should be withdrawn immediately, according to a poll commissioned by The Independent. Above: British soldiers from the Welsh Guards carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe into The Guards Chapel in the Wellington Barracks in ...
Continue ReadingJul 28, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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Continue ReadingJul 26, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
IslamInAction: Since President Obama took office he has already tightened up the rules on our brave troops over in Afghanistan. Now his buddy Afghanistan President Karzai has stated that if he wins the upcoming August election he wants to tighten up the rules some more. I say enough with the politically correct wars. Let them take ...
Continue ReadingJul 22, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Story Date 7/22/2009 By Byline Sgt. Scott Whittington , Unit Regimental Combat Team 3 Dateline LAKARI, Afghanistan — LAKARI, Afghanistan —Marines with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3, along with the Afghan National Army conducted an early-morning raid on the bazaar here July 18. “The purpose of the raid was to disrupt freedom of movement with the ...
Continue ReadingJul 22, 2009 47 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Weasel Zippers: Join Pat, Join ACTIVE NYC Terror Supporter Yousef al-Khattab aka Joooey Cohen Calls Family of US Soldier Being Held by the Taliban to Lecture Them on Why Their Son Will be Killed.... Then again, if I had a wife as f-ing butt ugly as Joooey's I'd do anything to take my mind off the horror of ...
Continue ReadingJul 21, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
SKY News: Nato cannot afford to walk away from Afghanistan however dangerous or expensive the campaign becomes, the alliance's Secretary General has warned. Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, who stands down next week after five years at the helm of Nato, said failure in Afghanistan would give a "free run" for al Qaida's global terrorist ambitions. Mr De Hoop ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NEW DELHI - U.S. officials "firmly believe" that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the Pakistani ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Monday that the size of the Army will be increased temporarily by 22,000 soldiers to help meet the needs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other missions around the world. This is the second time since 2007 that the military has determined it doesn't have a large ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
KABUL - Four Americans were killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said, making July the deadliest month for U.S. troops in this war. A NATO statement did not give nationalities, but U.S. spokesman Lt. Robert Carr confirmed that all four were Americans. The deaths bring to 55 the number of international ...
Continue ReadingJul 19, 2009 42 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: The Taleban has released a video of a US soldier captured in Afghanistan last month in which he pleads for American troops to leave the country. The visibly shaken soldier, who has been identified by the Pentagon as Private First Class Bowe R Bergdahl, 23, from Idaho, is frequently prompted in English by his captors, ...
Continue ReadingJul 19, 2009 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
No matter what your relationship with them today, the Taliban brook no competition, and ultimately will try to kill you. The only solution: kill them first, and kill them early, while it is yet easier than harder to do so. Times Online: Hamid Karzai says bring Taliban to table The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has urged ...
Continue ReadingJul 18, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed captured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a web site by the Taliban, two U.S. defense officials confirmed. The soldier is shown in the 28-minute video with his head shaved and the start of a ...
Continue ReadingJul 17, 2009 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: The head of the Army warned of strategic failure in Afghanistan today as it was announced that another British soldier had died in Helmand province. General Sir Richard Danatt, who has been accused of playing politics over the issue of equipment, demanded more troops and greater investment as part of a shopping list of desires. His ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is considering a plan to add 30,000 soldiers to the Army to bolster a force depleted by a growing number of troops who are wounded, stressed or for other reasons cannot deploy with their units. Struggling to wage wars on two fronts, the Army says it needs a temporary increase in order ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON -- As other countries watch the United States lacerate its intelligence service -- for activities already investigated or never undertaken -- perhaps they admire America's commitment to democracy and the rule of law. More likely, I fear, they conclude that we are just plain nuts. The latest "scandals" involving the Central Intelligence Agency are genuinely ...
Continue ReadingJul 15, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - Smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense officials hadn't actually planned to eliminate smoking—at least for now. But fear of a ban arose among some troops after the Defense Department received a study recommending the military move toward becoming ...
Continue ReadingJul 14, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
World Affairs Journal: In a widely noted speech at the National Archives in May, President Barack Obama said of George W. Bush’s national security policies: “We are cleaning up something that is quite simply a mess.†The president is wrong. Far from a mess, when it comes to national security, President Obama actually inherited a very ...
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