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An American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is "inevitable" if Teheran's leaders fail to comply with UN demands to freeze their uranium enrichment program. Senior defence chiefs and governme
"This is a message to America," one insurgent says. "Look at your might and power, yet you are unable to walk the streets of Ramadi, which belongs to the mujahideen." He turns back to the tank, a few blocks away. "We will des
Efforts by U.S. and British intelligence officials to turn two Arab residents of Britain into informers, which also involved the West African government of Gambia. [Standard BATF tactics.]
Tons of Canadian trash is shipped to the US every day but it is not screened for security threats. Customs "does not have an effective method to screen and inspect the 350 truckloads of municipal solid waste that enter daily through Detroit and
Imagine a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will. In
This is the other front of Pakistan's widening civil unrest, not the tribal areas along the Afghan border where the US would like the government to press a campaign against Islamic militants, but the restive province of Baluchistan, home to an in
Islamic militants in Iraq are providing military training and other assistance to Taliban and al-Qaida fighters from eastern and southern Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal areas. A small number of Pakistani and Afghan militants are receiving military
President Viktor Yushchenko's poison-scarred face and leadership during Ukraine's Orange Revolution won him standing ovations in the West. At home, the applause and adoration ended long ago. Yushchenko's dismal showing in Ukraine's pa
Spy chiefs have warned the war in Iraq has made Britain the target of a terror campaign by Al-Qaeda that will last “for many years to come.” The war in Iraq has “exacerbated” the threat by radicalising British Muslims and attracting new recruits to a
An Arizona police supervisor Tuesday said the federal agency charged with regulating the nation's firearms industry "absolutely devastated" his career and his personal life, all because he gave a gun to a friend as a gift.
A US military helicopter has gone down southwest of Baghdad. A militant group said it shot down a chopper in the same area and residents said they heard gunfire.
"If the militias or the commandos set foot here, we will fight them — either they die or we die," Abdul Wahab declared. "If we let them in, they will kill us anyway, so we might as well defend ourselves."
Two years after U.S. authorities ceremoniously declared Iraq to be sovereign again, top religious leaders say Iraqis still don't govern themselves, remain under military occupation and have a right to fight foreign troops.
This is the Alaskan bush at its most remote. People choose to live in outposts like Dillingham (pop. 2,400) to be left alone. So eyebrows were raised when the first surveillance cameras went up on Main Street. More than 60 cameras watched over the to
Anyone could see that Bernice Bogart, 83, was a fragile woman. So when Bogart, who was in a wheelchair, was required by airport security to stand against doctor's orders and undergo a rigorous screening by a testy female screener, [her daughter]
In a quarter page advertisement that appeared Friday in the New York Times Op-Ed section, a group is claiming that President George W. Bush hopes that war with Iran will boost his job approval. Ad already appeared in the Washington Post.
Before the George Mason Patriots toppled defending champion North Carolina - before they turned " March Madness" to utter insanity by defeating the No. 1-ranked Connecticut Huskies to reach Saturday's Final Four - they were a team clo
Stepping into a potential political minefield, [America's mercenaries] Blackwater USA is offering itself up as an army for hire to police the world's trouble spots. Blackwater stands ready to help keep or restore the peace anywhere it is need
People in 32 communities across Wisconsin will vote on referendums calling for the "orderly and rapid" withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. The outcome won't carry any legal weight here or in Washington. But if all the anti-war measures
Leaders of Iraq's ruling Shiite Alliance bloc have called publicly for the first time for Ibrahim al-Jaafari to step down as Prime Minister to break weeks of deadlock over a national unity government.
A former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay pleaded guilty to conspiracy and promised to cooperate with a federal investigation of bribery and lobbying fraud that has so far netted 3 convictions and prompted calls for ethics reform in Congress.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted the US had probably made thousands of errors in Iraq but defended the overall strategy of removing Saddam Hussein. [If that was the goal, you could have used a bullet and spared the nation.]
Oil prices appear headed back toward $70 a barrel, a level not seen since Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and sporadic shortages sent gasoline at the pump above $3 a gallon nationwide. [Elections around the corner.]
The man known as "Big Steve" did not attend the court-martial this month of Sgt. Michael J. Smith, an Army dog handler at Abu Ghraib. But no one could miss his looming presence in the courtroom. "Big Steve" was deeply involved in
Hamas has vowed to bring the "dangerous" situation on the streets of Gaza under control as the Islamist faction faced its first internal crisis after only three days in government. [Getting a wiff of CIA and Mossad here.]
Activists groups that focus on the decriminalization of marijuana are outraged that the almost-certain-to-become law will also target individuals found with trace amounts of tetra-hydro cannabinol or THC still in their system, even if they weren
Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S. flag — as well as flags from other countries — amid racial tensions following immigration rallies.
Conservatism in reality died with Barry Goldwater. He latched onto the label as an alternative to the burgeoning spending of the Liberals. But as the Republicans found out, they couldn’t win without a spending program. They simply lied in their campa
William F. Buckley Jr., the longtime conservative writer and leader, said George W. Bush's presidency will be judged entirely by the outcome of a war in Iraq that is now a failure. "The neoconservative hubris ... overstretches the resources
The Washington headquarters of NASA was raided this week as part of a kiddie porn probe targeting an executive with the space agency. Federal investigators seized a laptop computer, a hard drive, CDs, and other material from the office of James R. Ro
