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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said the root of the problem is a failure of Washington Republicans to stick to principles, saying that his party risks losing power because it has done "a pretty poor job" of executing its small-government philoso
President Bush’s fiscal year 2007 budget request reaffirms his commitment to deploying an array of anti-missile systems, including to Europe , despite continuing uncertainty about whether they work. The roughly $11.2 billion request for missile defen
The Americans came for Sabah one night. His house on the western outskirts of Baghdad, stood in a dry, yellow field surrounded by brick walls. 3 cars were parked in front the day I came to visit, 2 weeks after Americans had shot him.
At the beginning of the Iraq war, the UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition to redevelop the country. With the infrastructure of the country still in ruins, where has all that money gone? One of the greatest financial scandals of
"Corpses on the ground that were of armed men who had clashed with the American forces. Then American soldiers started searching homes. They raided a house and killed Ahmad Khalaf Hussein, his wife and 10-year-old son."
President Bush cited Hussein's WMD's and ties to international terrorism—neither turned out to exist—when he ordered a pre-emptive war. Predicted payoffs for the Middle East: spreading democracy, deterred enemies, secure oil flow, a less host
Spending will rise to $9.8 billion a month from the $6.8 billion a month the Pentagon said it spent last year, the research service said. "Substantial'' expenses to replace or repair damaged weapons, aircraft, vehicles, radios and spare
Timeline with links from moment invasion was announced to present.
Kabul — The defendant was arrested after his family accused him of becoming a Christian, said Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada."We are Muslims and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the death penalty," said prosecutor
The defense strategy may unravel when Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald calls to the stand some of Libby's former White House colleagues who have promised to tell a much different story about Libby's alleged memory lapse, according to 6 s
Soon after, President Bush authorized the NSA to begin conducting electronic eavesdropping on American citizens they were meeting with senior FBI officials about using the same authority to conduct physical searches of homes and businesses of suspect
At Gitmo General Miller was unaware a canine had been used to intimidate alleged "20th hijacker" who was forced to don women's underwear and perform dog tricks—even though Miller was intimately involved in planning al-Qahtani's inte
New political storm over how and why FBI officials and MI5 operatives conspired to supply deadly bomb-making equipment to the Provisional IRA in the early 1990s, mechanisms the paramilitary organisation later shared with Palestinian fighters.
America increasingly is foreign-owned. The US must borrow more than $2 billion/day from foreigners to finance its huge trade deficits. Foreigners already own half of the US government's publicly traded debt. $2.19 trillion in Treasury securities
Audiences were in a rebellious mood, lifting the action tale "V for Vendetta" to the top spot at the weekend box office with a $26.1 million debut. The Warner Bros. film is a story of revolution against a totalitarian British government, bu
Early exposure to pets, peanuts and intestinal worms might actually be good for you, because they program the developing immune system to know the difference between real threats, such as germs, and Aunt Millie's cat.
Hamas introduced a cabinet that creates a hard-line Palestinian government - lacking moderate forces and led by some of the Islamic organization's most militant actors. A signal that Palestinian leadership will forgo much of the funding from West
The first week of March Madness (NCAA Div. I men's basketball playoffs) ends with Arizona eliminated, the four number one seeded teams surviving, and three Cinderella teams advancing to the Sweet 16!
[Plan B] America has begun making plans to deal with a civil war in Iraq, three years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. As sectarian violence continues to claim lives every day, Donald Rumsfeld has disclosed that US military intelligenc
The 3-day-old sweep through villages 60 miles north of Baghdad stirred growing unease among leading Sunnis. A needless "escalation" at a time of difficult negotiations over forming a broad-based government representing all of Iraq's com
Iran held secret talks with Shia militant leaders from Iraq and Lebanon only days before the country's nuclear negotiators threatened America with "harm and pain", independent sources in Teheran have revealed.
It's Joe who mans the M-240 atop a Humvee, warily watching the sides of the road, an unlikely Army corporal at 48, a father who came here for revenge, a Christian missionary on a crusade against Islam, and after 6 months at war, is ready to go ho
A Who's Who of spooks and government cronies for the upcoming Scooter Libby trial. [list]
For the past several decades the centerpiece of US Middle East policy has been its relationship with Israel. Unwavering support for Israel and spread democracy throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized US security.
Pew Research Center poll showed that two of three Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the war. For the first time, the Pew poll found that half of Americans support an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Why has the Bush administration, which has labeled Iran one of the world's most dangerous regimes and has called the hostages American heroes, fought their efforts to win damages for their ordeal from the Islamic republic?
American and Iraqi troops are engaged in Operation Swarmer, described as "the largest air assault operation" since the fall of Saddam Hussein. As protesters marched, it became clear that this "assault" was little more than a propa
Hawra and Haider began their married life cowering under the "shock and awe" American bombardment of Baghdad in March 2003. When it was over, and Saddam Hussein had fled, they believed "Operation Iraqi Freedom" had delivered a bri
An exclusive interview with the most senior officer directly responsible for the tactical firearms team who shot de Menezes at Stockwell tube station. He met the officers who killed de Menezes that afternoon, and later attended a series of high-leve
Ever since Dr. Wafa Sultan appeared on Al-Jazeera, she has been receiving death threats. During that and a second broadcast Dr. Sultan, who was brought up as a Muslim in Syria, denounced the teachings of Islam as barbaric and medieval.
