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DATELINE: AFGHANISTAN---REPORTING ON "THE FORGOTTEN WAR"
16 hours ago ago from CORKSPHERE
In this video you get to see the reporters who are embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan and report daily about what is happening in "The Forgotten War." This video reports on a Chinook helicopter that crashed while trying to rescue Navy Seals and all 16 military personnel on the helicopter were killed. Editorial Comment: IMO it is a rotten shame how few people in the United States give a damn about our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. ...
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21 hours ago ago from Dr Nasir Khan
By Lawrence S. Wittner , ZNet , Dec 26, 2009 Lawrence S. Wittner's ZSpace Page Thus far, most of the supporters and opponents of escalating the U.S. war in Afghanistan have focused on whether or not it is possible to secure a military victory in that conflict. But they neglect considering the fact that, in war, even a winner can be a loser. The most obvious way in which military success can turn into defeat is by imposing vast ...
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6 hours ago ago from The Apathy Remedy
The deadly series of bombs exploding in Iraq's capital today is shocking and is an attempt to derail any progress the government in Iraq has made in bringing legitimacy to their authority and providing stability to the country. Since June 30th, American troops have been in a training and adivisng capacity for Baghdad, leaving actual security to the Iraqi security forces. This day of bombing, as well as the bombings on July 9th and ...
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13 hours ago ago from » LiveCitizen – Citizen Journalism Live Report
by Rodrigue Tremblay on GlobalResearch I am as intolerant of imperialistic designs on the part of other nations as I was of such designs on the part of Germany. The choice is between two ideals; on the one hand, the ideal of democracy, which represents the rights of free peoples everywhere to govern themselves, and, the ideal of imperialism which seeks to dominate by force and unjust power, an ideal which is by no means dead and which is ...
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US commander: Iraq must be fair to Sunnis
14 hours ago ago from U.S. News
US commander: Iraq must be fair to Sunnis BAGHDAD (AP) -- A top American commander called on the Iraqi government to take care of tens of thousands of unemployed anti-al-Qaida Sunni fighters, saying proper treatment for the men is critical for national reconciliation. The U.S. military's support for Sons of Iraq, who played a key part in subduing al-Qaida, comes at crucial time when a number of checkpoints in Baghdad province manned by the ...
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3 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
A Nigerian man charged Saturday with attempting to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day was listed in a U.S. terrorism database last month after his father told State Department officials that he was worried about his son's radical beliefs and extremist connections, officials said. This Story The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was added to a catch-all terrorism-related database when his father, ...
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3 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
He grew up amid extraordinary privilege, a wealthy Nigerian banker's son who attended top international schools and had traveled to the United States. But sometime some time this year, according to relatives' accounts, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab became an enemy of the West. This Story As a college student living in London and Dubai, Abdulmutallab, 23, the Nigerian native had worried his family with his ...
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