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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
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
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.
I'm on a journey now, George, and I have you to thank for pushing me off on it. You gave me a big shove into unknown waters when you said that I'm either with you or I'm against you. You shoved me off because I am most definitely not with
In a change to Army tactics, US soldiers will stand and fight instead of shooting and pressing on when their convoys are attacked on Iraqi roads. "In the first 2 years of Iraq, convoys (under attack) just fired and kept rolling,” said Maj. Roger
Militiamen from an Iranian-backed force were deliberately recruited by Britain to join the new Iraqi security services after Hussein was overthrown, the Government has admitted. The sectarian Badr organisation, trained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards,
Moments after the Western powers insisted to reporters that they were on the same page with Russia and China regarding the Iranian nuclear threat, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov contradicted them, saying he saw no evidence that Iran's pro
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.
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
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.
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.]
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
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
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
The Wall Street Journal covers a story RAW STORY broke 3 months ago—without attribution—about how a onetime press aide to US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) unraveled the house of cards that was Jack Abramoff and his partner Michael Scanlon. "The engag
The night before journalist Jill Carroll's release, her captors said they had one final demand as the price of her freedom: She would have to make a video praising her captors and attacking the United States.
Today the Committee met for 6 hours to consider potential investigative matters, and the sole action that the Committee agreed to take was to continue an investigation that was initiated in 2004, at the end of the last Congress. Falls far short of th
I have no idea why people are scrambling to draft legislation to authorize what they think the President is doing. If the President’s legal theory is correct then ... all of the supposed protections for civil liberties contained in the Patriot Act ar
Sending video clips around by e-mail was a bust: The e-mails kept getting rejected because they were so big. Posting the videos online was a headache. So last February 2 buddies got to work in a garage, determined to design something simpler.
Readying the unpiloted X-37 vehicle for a drop test high above the desert. Taking the craft to altitude for release will be the White Knight mothership, designed and operated by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California. It was the White Knight that
Most Americans will see more of the sun as the nation makes the switch to daylight-saving time Sunday. That means push the clocks ahead — spring forward — before going to bed Saturday night. Daylight-saving time ends Oct. 29.
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
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
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.
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.]
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.]
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.
Based on the idea of mimicking the physics of paper, eInk uses microscopic colored beads suspended in a clear liquid between layers of plastic that react to electrical charges.
