Navy Positions Destroyer For Possible Intercept of North Korean Ship Suspected of Proliferating Missiles, Nukes
The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons
material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The
USS John McCain, a Navy destroyer, is positioning itself in case it
gets orders to intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the
vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense
official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship
is moving into the area.
"Permission has not been requested. Nor is it clear it will be," a military source told
FOX News. "This is a very delicate situation and no one is interested in precipitating a confrontation."
The
ship left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading
toward Singapore, according to a seni
North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile towards Hawaii on American Independence Day, according to Japanese intelligence officials.
The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles, would be launched in early July from the Dongchang-ni site on the north-western coast of the secretive country.
Intelligence analysts do not believe the device would be capable of hitting Hawaii's main islands, which are 4,500 miles from North Korea.
Details of the launch came from the Japan's best-selling newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun.
1 person died in an initial double missile strike on the compound.
When people rushed to the scene to rescue the wounded, 2 more
missiles struck. 8 more people were killed in the second strike,
the residents said. The intelligence official said 4 additional
people had died.
Cindy Sheehan came to the Valley of the sun to let John McWar and the peace community know that she is not going away and we will not stop demanding an end to this illegal occupation!
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Iraq: “There is mounting evidence that veterans may be ill — and some may have actually died — as a result of exposure to dangerous toxins produced by the pits,” Rep. Tim Bishop, D-N.Y., said in a statement. Bishop co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H.
House-Senate negotiators reached agreement on a $105.9 billion
wartime spending bill after last-minute assurances from President
Barack Obama that he will use all his powers to prevent the disclosure
of controversial photographs depicting the treatment of detainees held
by the U.S. military.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel
rushed to the Capitol in the evening to personally deliver this message
after the talks began to unravel. The president participated via the
speaker on Em
The U.S. military is stepping up training and reviewing target sets in case the North Koreans decide to go to war.
As we learned last week, North Korea looks to be prepping for another long-range missile test, and South Korea has reportedly outlined plans to strike back if North Korea targets its warships. The U.S. military is also preparing for the worst; Aviation Week ace reporters Amy Butler and Dave Fulghum have an excellent rundown of stepped-up military preparations in the event North Korea follows through on its belligerent rhetoric.
As well as anyone, Edward Said understood the West's long-standing
antipathy to Islam - reflected in Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of
Civilizations" article in the summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs and
later a 1996 book.
He wrote that future conflicts won't be "primarily ideological
or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the
dominating source of conflict will be cultural....the principal
conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of
different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate
global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the
battle lines of the future" - demagogically suggesting a benevolent,
superior West confronting a belligerent, hostile, inferior Muslim
world. In other words, good v. evil.
Cindy Sheehan came to the Valley of the sun to let John McWar and
the peace community know that she is not going away and we will not stop
demanding an end to this illegal occupation!
Address to Muslims used Islamic text urging war against nonbelievers In his major address to the Muslim world last week, President Obama quoted a verse from the Quran that is interpreted as urging Muslims to follow Muhammad in waging jihad against nonbelievers.
The context of the verse – first noticed by Robert Spencer of the Jihad Watch website – was confirmed by Quranic experts contacted by WND.
With the world's eyes turned to Normandy as President Obama and European leaders honor the sacrifice of Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, Internet giant Google chose to honor this 65th anniversary of D-Day by memorializing the birth of a video game. (Publisher: Interesting message. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't on purpose to make a point. I'm interested in what that point might be)
News reports inform us that American military officials are now convinced that a unit of Marines killed some 24 unarmed Iraqis, including women and six children. Some of the victims had been shot "execution style." One government official s
Watch Christopher Preble (Cato) and Jacob Hornberger (Future of Freedom of Foundation) stand up for morality and truth in the face of Max “(Your) Blood and Guts” Boot and some other loser. Heroic. And overdue.
From Ryan Endicott, formerly a United States government Marine stationed in Iraq. This is the testimony of Ryan Endicott about his experiences in Iraq.
The Senate passed a $91.3 billion military spending bill, shorn of money President Barack Obama wants to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but allowing him to significantly ramp up the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
[Obama's War] Bombs destroyed an Internet cafe, wrecked a bus carrying handicapped children and spread panic through Pakistan's main northwestern city on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a day of carnage across the militancy-plagued re
The parents of slain NFL star Pat Tillman say senators should scrutinize a general's role in mischaracterizing their son's death before putting him in charge of military operations in Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal
Gen. McKiernan and other U.S. commanders have said resources they need in Afghanistan are tied up in Iraq. Asked if McKiernan's resignation ends his military career, Gates said, "Probably."
5 Americans are dead after a US soldier opened fire at a US base in Baghdad. The attacker is in custody. The shootings occurred at a stress clinic, where troops can go for help with the stresses of combat or stress from personal issues.
While much of the country’s attention is on other issues, a serious situation is developing in Pakistan that threatens to plunge us into another fruitless and bloody war. The new administration is escalating the foreign policy of the previous adminis
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is "very serious" about a demand for foreign forces in Afghanistan to halt air raids, even though it was rebuffed by a top U.S. security official, his spokesman said. Afghans are furious about the bombing of 2
The United Nations said a weekend attack in Sri Lanka that killed hundreds was the bloodbath it had feared, while the Tamil Tigers and government traded blame ahead of U.N. Security Council talks over the war.
US forces in Afghanistan are accused of illegally deploying white phosphorus against civilians following a firefight with Taliban militants. White phosphorus ignites on contact with the air. Using the substance in populated, civilian areas is a war c
The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed. On top of the basic defense budget of $533.7 billion dollars, the White House is requesting a further 13
[Anyone else see a flaw in the plan?] Alarmed by the increasing use of contractors to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, House Democrats are demanding the military shift more lucrative work to the Iraqis and Afghanis.
During a 12-minute question-and-answer session in sweltering heat, Gates told a sergeant he didn't have to "worry about going to Pakistan." [Such sacrifice by the Defense Sec. braving the flash of cameras and the heat for a photo
