Apr 21, 2010 23 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. sailor testified Wednesday he saw a Navy SEAL punch an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the killings in 2004 of four U.S. private security contractors, as the court-martial of another member of the elite unit allegedly involved in the incident opened at a military base outside Baghdad. Petty Officer ...
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Wall Street Journal: The Israeli security establishment is divided over whether it needs Washington's blessing if Israel decides to attack Iran, Israeli officials say, as the U.S. campaign for sanctions drags on and Tehran steadily develops greater nuclear capability. Some senior Israeli officials say in interviews with the Wall Street Journal that they see signs Washington may ...
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(CNSNews.com) – Law enforcement officials from the Arizona
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Fox News: The Obama administration's approach to dealing with Iran's growing nuclear program -- as well as its long-range missile development -- is increasingly rankling some lawmakers, as new reports show the rogue regime building its capabilities and the United States potentially unprepared to stop it. The beginning-of-the-year deadline for Iran to start cooperating has blown ...
Continue ReadingApr 19, 2010 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Baghdad (AP) - - Vice President Joe Biden called the killing of two top Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq a "potentially devastating" blow to the terrorist network and said the operation signals a significant improvement in Iraq's security and intelligence gathering. The U.S. military confirmed Monday that Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri ...
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New York Times: When President Obama took the stage in Cairo
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders. NATO and Afghan forces are stepping up operations to push Taliban fighters out of the city, ...
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Once again, Gates has to try to clean up this idiot's mess, and thereby preserve our national security...we have a Pentagon that needs to operate independently of Obama, and then leak things and such in order to force him into the right actions... WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is disputing the characterization ...
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Mullah Mohammed Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban The supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has indicated that he and his followers may be willing to hold peace talks with western politicians. In an interview with The Sunday Times, two of the movement’s senior Islamic scholars have relayed a message from the Quetta shura, ...
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New York Times: The Arizona Legislature has just stepped off the deep end of the immigration debate, passing a harsh and mean-spirited bill that would do little to stop illegal immigration. What it would do is lead to more racial profiling, hobble local law enforcement, and open government agencies to frivolous, politically driven lawsuits. Skip to ...
Continue ReadingApr 17, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Rush Limbaugh: RUSH: Let's go back, April 24th, 1995, Mississippi, Minnesota. CLINTON 1995: We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread ...
Continue ReadingApr 16, 2010 14 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
DETROIT (AP) - The leader of a Christian militia planned an elaborate, two-part training session for this month and told members it was OK to kill "anyone who might stumble upon the operation," federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday. Details about the Hutaree's planned training session—to be held during the second and fourth Saturdays ...
Continue ReadingApr 14, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
SYDNEY (AP) - A company in Australia came under a cyberattack from China that was intense enough to slow traffic on part of the country's second-largest broadband network, company officials said Thursday. Among companies affected were Australian Associated Press, the national news agency, and the Australian branch of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd., but they were ...
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Times Online: American troops have withdrawn from a notorious valley in eastern Afghanistan that has seen some of the worst fighting of the war, with commanders citing a shift in strategy. A low-key press release yesterday announced the “realignment†of US forces out of the Korengal Valley, where 42 American soldiers have been killed and hundreds wounded ...
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The Examiner: In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President. The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the ...
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By Brad Thor in Big Government: I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition Forces. If the Times actually sees this through, the ...
Continue ReadingApr 13, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Mediaite: Last night Stephen Colbert interviewed Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, which the other week published video of US Military killing 12 individuals in Iraq, two of whom were later revealed to be staff members of the Reuters. It was exactly the sort of interview which demonstrates why Press Sec. Robert Gibbs would be happy ...
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KABUL (AP) - After days of discord, U.S. officials on Sunday went one step farther in their new gentler tact with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, expressing sympathy for the pressure he faces and promoting him as commander in chief of the warring nation. U.S.-Afghan relations grew tense last week when Karzai, seeking to bolster his own ...
Continue ReadingApr 11, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast doubt over Nato’s planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, as more than 10,000 American troops pour in for the fight. Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation — one of the biggest of the nine-year war — after being ...
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