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[The Long War Journal] Fatah al Islam chief killed while traveling to Iraq - The Long War ...: In 2007, the Lebanese military carried out a major offensive against Fatah al Islam in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon. At least 222 Fatah al Islam terrorists and 171 Lebanese soldiers were killed during the 15-week battle.

[My Catbird Seat] The Iraq Legacy: Tell It Like It Is | My Catbird Seat: It’s true that Iraqis suffered under the brutal rule of Saddam Hussein but his overthrow did not lead to a better life for Iraqis. “I am not a political person, but I know that under Saddam Hussein, we had electricity, clean drinking water, a healthcare system that was the envy of the Arab world and free education through college,”

[Veterans Today] The Iraq Legacy: Tell It Like It Is : Veterans Today: It would certainly give some comfort to the grieving families of the over 4,400 soldiers killed in Iraq if their sacrifices had left Iraq a better place or made America safer. But the bitter truth is that the U.S. intervention has been an utter disaster for both Iraq and the United States.

[Mondoweiss] Israeli army escorts 500 Jewish Israelis into controversial ...: An article in the latest issue of The New Yorker Magazine by Jane Mayer profiles billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, two of the richest men in America who have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes. Mayer writes, "The [Koch] brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies–from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program–that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus."

[Politicususa] Reflections on a Crusade Gone Wrong: Bush's Iraq War 2003-2010 ...: Unfortunately, despite the Constitutional wall of separation between church and state, this crusading message was allowed to go forward by the evangelical Bush administration. It was not enough to fight a war against somebody who was supposed to have attacked us in a most dastardly fashion;

[Mondoweiss] Palestinian farm set afire, four well permits denied, and other news: When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insisting that the United States must continue to assume that U.S. combat forces should and can remain in Iraq indefinitely.

[zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero] Wikileaks Latest: The USA As An Exporter Of Terrorism? | zero hedge: If you ever climbed out of your hole and happened to ever read the international news, you would have known that back a few years in that timeframe, a CIA counter-weapons proliferation operation by the name of Brewster Jennings (which had a supervisor by name of Valerie Plame) happened to intercept a shipment of VX gas being smuggled over the Turkish border into Iraq.

[Sabbah Report] Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of Israel in Triggering ...: US Central Command in Florida, which is responsible for the Middle East-Central Asian region, See map below) as well as coalition command units in Israel, Turkey, the Persian Gulf and the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean. Military planning and decision making at a country level by individual allies of US-NATO as well as "partner nations"

[Untitled] The Tragedy of Iraq's Jews «: [54] Over the decades, there has been much heated debate over whether the bombs were in fact planted by the Mossad in order to encourage Iraqi Jews toe emigrate to the newly created state of Israel or whether they were the work of genuine anti-Jewish extremists in Iraq. The issue has been the subject of lawsuits and inquiries in Israel.[55] In May and June 1951, the arms caches of the Zionist underground in Iraq, which had been supplied from Palestine/Israel since the Farhud of 1941, were discovered.

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of Israel in Triggering ...: The war on Iran was viewed as part of a succession of military operations.  According to (former) NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, the Pentagon’s military road-map consisted of a sequence of countries: “[The] Five-year campaign plan [includes]… a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”  In “Winning Modern Wars”

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] permalink - Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of ...: "In the past six to eight months, I've seen hundreds of cases, from majors and lower-level officers, to mid-level ranks and everything in between," said Christopher Grey, spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division based in northern Virginia. "It happens, quite frankly, from Australia to Ireland."

[Video Cafe's feed] BREAKING: Last Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom ...: Still, a White House spokesman reiterated Wednesday night that the combat mission in Iraq formally ends on August 31. At that time, Operation Iraqi Freedom becomes Operation New Dawn, with troops serving as trainers for the Iraqi .

[Crooks and Liars] BREAKING: Last Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom ...: We reduce the number of "combat troops" in Iraq, but escalate in Afghanistan, build up our forces in Colombia, conduct war games off the coast of Korea, deploy nuclear-armed submarines to the Red Sea, expand our covert wars in Pakistan, .which is a little distorted but I'll let that go, and please know I am not an Israel defender, but the same point could be made about Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, the US, Russia, .

[Mideast Youth] Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » The BlackBerry war - Thinking Ahead: In the dispute over the data control of the smartphone will Saudi Arabia on Friday shut down the short message service, which seeks to prevent the Canadian company still in negotiations. India also insists on access to encrypted data: “Our position is clear: BlackBerry services provided by our authorities can not be monitored fully, must be interrupted,”

[nvs' Blog] Netanyahu angered by leaks in Israel generals' feud « nvs' Blog: Other candidates for chief of staff were Gadi Eisenkot, Israel’s northern commander along the Lebanese border, Gadi Shamni, military attache at the Washington embassy, and Avi Mizrahi, head of central command in the occupied West Bank.

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