Apr 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP 'Times of London' reports soil samples Britain smuggled out of Syria establish use of chemical weapons, unclear by whom. Evidence of the use of chemical weapons has been discovered in a soil sample smuggled out of Syria, The Times of London reported on Saturday. The report quoted anonymous British defense sources who said that "some ...
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Apr 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A prominent Egyptian blogger known for his pivotal role in country’s 2011 revolution warned during a Tuesday meeting with reporters that U.S. aid to Egypt is “directly” funding an increasingly oppressive regime “that tortures people” and flouts international laws governing human rights. The more than $1 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt ...
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Apr 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Aviation Ordnanceman Airman of Atlanta directs April 10 as an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the Eightballers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 8 lands on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis. The Stennis Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations and ...
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Apr 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from Defcon Hill: A formal pact between al Qaeda's Iraqi faction and Islamic militants in Syria could be the nail in the coffin for possible U.S. military intervention in the two-year Syrian civil war. On Thursday, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the official merger of the Iraqi affiliate and the ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
RELATED: Obama Administration Gives Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood 4 More F-16 Fighter Jets Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES The United States sent four more top-of-the-line F-16 fighter jets to Egypt on Thursday, as part of a foreign aid promise that critics blast as aid for an anti-Israel entity. “Friends don’t send U.S. taxpayer-funded F-16s and tanks to the enemies ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The increasingly isolated regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad would fall quickly without the tons of weapons and other military assistance it is getting from Iran, said Marine Gen. James Mattis, who recently stepped down as commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. "Absent Iran's help, I don't believe Assad ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD State Department employee Anne Smedinghoff was killed in Afghanistan last weekend. At first reports suggested the young diplomat was part of an armed convoy that was bombed, but new reports say that she was actually on foot. And that the group she was with got lost on its way to deliver books. ABC ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY EXPRESS In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo's standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such actions will result in a nuclear attack against the island nation. If Japan executes its threat to shoot down any North Korean missile, such ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
RELATED: Al Qaeda In Iraq Confirms It Is Also Main Syria Rebel Group, Al Nusra Front Excerpted from HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON -- Members of the Syrian opposition movement have hired a top Occupy Wall Street activist as their U.S. lobbyist, according to registration forms filed with the U.S. Senate on Monday. Carne Ross is best known ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› iResist
Excerpted from AP A U.S. intelligence report concludes that North Korea has advanced its nuclear know how to the point that it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, a jarring revelation in the midst of bellicose threats from the unpredictable communist regime. President Barack Obama urged calm, calling on Pyongyang to end its saber-rattling ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Four more F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. on Thursday headed for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package that has generated controversy given the political upheaval in the Mideast country. Critics say the military aid should stop because the president Egyptians elected last year has led the Muslim Brotherhood, called President ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from Al Arabiya Hezbollah has deployed thousands of fighters in Damascus and in the Syrian border with Lebanon, a Syrian Free Army spokesman told Al Arabiya on Wednesday. Col. Abdul-Hamid Zakaria, spokesman for the FSA’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said more than 2,000 members of Hezbollah are fighting alongside regime forces in Damascus and an estimated ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Libyan weapons are spreading at “an alarming rate” to new territory in west Africa and the eastern Mediterranean including Syria and the Gaza Strip where they are fueling conflicts and increasing the arsenals of armed groups and terrorists, a UN panel said. In a report to the UN Security Council circulated Tuesday, ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have identified the launch zone on North Korea’s east coast where Pyongyang’s military is set to fire a salvo of missiles that risk being shot down by U.S. missile defenses in the region. The North Koreans recently began fueling two road-mobile Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles located along the ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP -- Hinting at a missile launch, North Korea delivered a fresh round of war rhetoric Thursday with claims it has "powerful striking means" on standby. Seoul and Washington speculated that it is preparing to test-fire a missile designed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. The ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› iResist
Excerpted from the Herald Sun (AU) VIDEO: Ex-spy says Kim Jong-Un is battling to control troops PYONGYANG has kept the world on edge over an expected missile launch while turning its own energies to celebrating leaders past and present amid soaring tensions on the Korean peninsula. The United States warned North Korea it was skating a "dangerous line", ...
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