EU wants U.N. action on Syria
• http://www.upi.com/The U.N. Security Council is called on to condemn the brutality of the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, the European Parliament said Thursday.
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Bomb Implants Emerge as Airline Terror Threat
• Wall Street JournalMilitants from al Qaeda's Yemeni branch are considering surgically implanting explosive devices in would-be suicide bombers, possibly with the aim of blowing up airliners, U.S. officials said. Terrorists might attempt to board planes with explosives
NATO Using Nuclear Weapons in Libya
Stephen LendmanPentagon/NATO terror war in Libya
Sudan jails journalist for reporting alleged rape
• RawstoryA Sudanese journalist was jailed for a month, and her editor fined, for publishing reports on the alleged rape of a female opposition activist by security force personnel. Fatima Ghazali is the first of several journalists to be tried for articles
What's really at stake in Libya
• http://www.atimes.com/Way beyond the impenetrable fog of war, the ongoing tragedy in Libya is morphing into a war of acronyms that graphically depicts the tortuous "birth pangs" of a possibly new world order.
Anarchy in Somalia
• http://mises.org/Earlier in the year, the BBC featured a series of articles commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the state in Somalia.
U.S. Monthly Combat Deaths in Iraq at 3-Year High
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/The American military announced on Thursday that three more American soldiers had been killed this week, as the combat-related deaths for United States forces in Iraq reached a monthly toll not seen since 2008.
Use of Predators Sets Dangerous Precedent
• http://original.antiwar.com/In May, as an intervention that was slated to last “days, not weeks” approached its third month, President Obama quietly authorized the use of unmanned Predator drones against Libyan government troops.
U.S. military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq
• Washington PostPentagon blamed the mounting death toll on the growing sophistication of weapons that insurgents and Iranian-backed militia groups are using, including powerful rockets, armor-piercing grenades and jam-resistant roadside bombs suspected of coming fro
Another Area Girds for Revolt as Sudan Approaches a Split
• NY TimesYoung men are being mobilized into militias, marching into the hills to train. All the cars in this area, including humanitarian vehicles, are smeared with thick mud to camouflage them from what residents describe as unrelenting bombings.
Obama on Libya: “I Don’t Even Have to Get to the Constitutional Question”
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/Speaking to CNN, Congressman Ron Paul reacted to Obama’s disregard for the Constitution by labeling his claim, “A horrible statement.”
U.S. Monthly Combat Deaths in Iraq at 3-Year High
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/The American military announced on Thursday that three more American soldiers had been killed this week, as the combat-related deaths for United States forces in Iraq reached a monthly toll not seen since 2008.
Global Hypocrisy: France Arming Libyan Rebels
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/Brazenly violating a UN resolution it itself had help push through the Security Council, France has now admitted to arming Libya’s rebels with machine guns, anti-tank weapons, and RPGs.
Study: US Wars Cost $4 Trillion, Killed 258,000
• http://news.antiwar.com/A new study from Brown University’s Watson Institute has set an estimated that the post 9/11 costs of the assorted wars of the Bush and Obama Administrations has been in the realm of $4 trillion and has directly killed 258,000 people.
Obama: Questions About War Powers Act ‘Defending’ Gadhafi
• http://news.antiwar.com/Speaking today in a rambling press conference covering a myriad of topics, President Obama slammed the members of the House of Representatives for questioning the legality of the Libya War, saying Gadhafi was “somebody who nobody should want to defen
Pakistan Told US to Leave Shamsi Drone Base
• http://news.antiwar.com/Pakistan’s Defense Minister Chaudhry Mukhtar has confirmed today that the Pakistani government has ordered the United States to leave the Shamsi Air Base...
Libyan rebels set up a training program in Benghazi
• http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/The scenes depicted in these pictures seemed pretty chaotic for military training, but it’s impressive that the rebels have begun to organize even while they continue to fight Gadhafi’s forces.
African concern over Libya arms drops
• http://english.aljazeera.net/African Union head says guns are falling into wrong hands after France reveals it dropped arms in rebel-held areas.
Iran secretly tested ‘nuclear-capable missiles’
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/Iran has carried out secret tests of missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday.
NATO Warning: Bombs may hit any place at any time
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/Libya’s justice minister says Tripoli is refusing to recognise the arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi, issued by the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
21 Dead After Taliban Attack on Kabul Hotel
• http://news.antiwar.com/At least 21 people, including 10 civilians and 6 attackers, were killed today when a group of heavily armed Taliban fighters attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.
Senate committee votes to authorize limited U.S. role in Libya
• http://www.latimes.com/The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Tuesday authorizing U.S. involvement in the NATO-led mission in Libya, a small step forward for those in Congress seeking a path out of a stubborn legal stalemate with the White House.
Fresh clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square
• http://english.aljazeera.net/More than 1,000 injured as police fire tear gas at thousands frustrated by slow pace of change since Egypt's revolution.
Raid by Afghan Forces and NATO Ends Attack on Hotel in Kabul
• http://www.nytimes.com/Nine suicide bombers penetrated several rings of security to lay siege to one of the capital’s premier hotels for six hours overnight Tuesday in a complex attack that jolted Afghans’ sense of security and highlighted the weakness of their police forc
Inside the Afghan hotel attack
• http://news.yahoo.com/On the surface, the Taliban’s audacious attack on the was a failure. After some six hours of fighting overnight, all eight assailants who managed to penetrate the hotel’s heavy security...
Pakistan tells US to leave 'drone' attack base
• AFPPakistan told the United States to leave a remote desert air base reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone attacks, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said. Pakistan attempting to limit US activities since a clandestine American military raid killed
U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting
• ReutersWhen President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanista
War is In the Air
• arcleinQaeda and the Iranian Shi’ite regime are only acting in character; they are the carnivores of the current political world and cannot be expected to begin acting like herbivores. They have openly declared their intentions many times over and have give
NATO helicopters end Kabul hotel siege, 7 dead
• APNATO helicopters fired rockets at gunmen on the rooftop of a besieged Kabul hotel early on Wednesday, ending a more than four-hour standoff between militants and police that left at least seven dead and eight others wounded, Afghan officials said.
Nato is trying to kill Gaddafi, admits top U.S. commander
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/Nato forces are trying to kill Colonel Gaddafi, the top U.S. commander in the Libyan conflict has admitted.
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