Jury acquits former Marine in killing of detainees

8-28-2008 • AP

A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.

Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war',...

08-28-2008 • www.thisislondon.co.uk

...says Moscow in extraordinary warning to the West

Top Iraqi official arrested at Baghdad airport by US

8-28-2008 • AP

Al-Lami's detention could discredit attempts by the Shiite-led government to keep top supporters of Saddam Hussein out of senior government jobs as he was in charge of that task, as head of a committee that screens former Baath party members.

First Afghan medalist lands to hero's welcome

8-28-2008 • Reuters

Thousands of jubilant Afghans packed the national stadium to give the country's first Olympic medal winner Rohullah Nikpai a hero's welcome. Nikpai, who won a taekwondo bronze medal, was met by Vice-President Karim Khalili at Kabul airport in

When Desertion is a Duty<br>by Will Grigg

8-27-2008 • Pro Libertate

Only after Stephen has passed through the agency's training program did he discover that the security firm was actually a front for a criminal syndicate. Rather than protecting lives and property, he would be required to take part in armed robber

U.S. builds new detention center in Afghanistan

8-26-2008 • Christian Science Monitor

In an effort to lay to rest some of the controversy surrounding its Afghanistan detention program, the US is building a new detention facility there designed to be on par with one in Iraq that came to be seen by many as a model program.

American diplomat escapes gun attack in Pakistan

08-26-2008 • AP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat in northwestern Pakistan narrowly escaped an attempt on her life Tuesday when two men with AK-47s jumped in front of her armored vehicle and sprayed it with bullets

The Bush Years

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A musical journey of the Bush/Iraq war years. He shall be missed. Mick Jagger says we should have sympathy for the devil. How about some sympathy for the president?

PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings

8-25-2008 • Scoop

The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John

Iraqi leader insists on deadline for troop pullout

8-25-2008 • AP

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers leave the country by a specific date in 2011 and rejecting legal immunity for American troops. Despite the tough

Rights group: 78 Afghans killed; US to investigate

8-23-2008 • AP

Scores of Afghan civilians who had gathered in a small village for the memorial ceremony of a militia commander were killed when U.S. and Afghan soldiers launched an attack in the middle of the night, officials and villagers said Saturday.

CIA Officially Responds to Suskind Book: Calls Charges 'False' and 'Offensive'

08-23-2008 • Editor and Publisher

The Central Intelligence Agency has officially responded to charges in the current Ron Suskind bestseller, “The Way of the World,” related to the agency taking part in falsifying evidence related to WMD in Iraq.

Bhutto widower proposed for Pakistan president

08-23-2008 • USA Today

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's largest political party on Friday proposed the husband of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto to succeed the ousted Pervez Musharraf as president.

Bush Agrees to Timetable to Cut and Run from Iraq

08-22-2008 • Syndey Morning Herald

NEGOTIATORS have concluded a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011. Under the 27-point deal, all US combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by next June, the negotiator, Mohammed al-Haj Hammoud, said.

U.S. military frees Reuters Iraq cameraman

8-21-2008 • Reuters

The U.S. military freed a Reuters television cameraman on Thursday after holding him for three weeks in Iraq without charges for the third time.

US out of Iraq cities by June, 2009, out of Iraq by 2011

8-21-2008 • Rawstory

"U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq's cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal of combat troops from the country," senior American officia

Russia sends only aircraft carrier they have to Syria, This isn't the best they have, its all th

08-21-2008 • Global Security, Project 1143.5

Here is the entire story of the old carrier: The Admiral Kuznetsov was launched in 1985. Following repairs in October 2004 the ship participated in exercises off Iceland. This was only the second mission of the ship in the past decade. Deployment

What?! Shite government unwilling to incorporate Sunnis.

8-21-2008 • McClatchy News

{I'm shocked!} A key pillar of the US strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined US-allied militia groups into the country'

U.S. Navy heads for Georgia - Russia blocks Georgia's main port city!

8-21-08 • ap.google.com

Armored personnel carriers and troop trucks blocked the bridge to the Black Sea port city of Poti, and Russian forces excavated trenches and set up mortars facing the city. Another group of APCs and trucks were positioned in a nearby wooded area.

Fear of new Mid East 'Cold War' as Syria strengthens military alliance with Russia

08-20-2008 • www.timesonline.co.uk

Syria sought to revive its security alliance with Russia today, when President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of military agreements, raising fears that the new Cold War that has erupted in the Caucasus will spill over into the

Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland (towards a New Cold War)

08-20-2008 • AP

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the form

Retreat Hell - Russians Dig In

8-20-2008 • AP

Russian forces on Wednesday appeared to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull back to areas mandated by a cease-fire signed by both countries.

Taliban Escalate Afghan Fighting

8-20-2008 • NY Times

Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in 6 years of fighting in Afghanistan over the last 2 days, including a coordinated assault by at least 10 suicide bombers against 1 of the largest American military bases in the country, and anot

Iraqi Army Raid in Diyala Leaves Provincial Official Dead

8-19-2008 • McClatchy News

Iraqi forces raided the provincial government compound in Diyala early Tuesday morning, killing the governor's secretary and confiscating computers and cars before local police engaged them in a two-hour gun battle,

Russia briefly seizes Georgia's main Black Sea port

08-19-2008 • www.charlotteobserver.com

About 100 heavily armed Russian soldiers aboard six armored personnel carriers overran the port of Poti at about 8 a.m., according to port officials and witnesses. Five hours later they drove out of Poti past helpless Georgian police officers and doz

Paul Craig Roberts: Are You Ready For Nuclear War?

8-19-08 • Rense.com

The neocons hated President Reagan, because he ended the cold war with diplomacy, when they desired a military victory over the Soviet Union.

Are You Ready For Nuclear War?

08-19-2008 • By Paul Craig Roberts

Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election i

Suicide bombers attack US base in Afghanstan

8-19-2008 • AP

Suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a US military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack. The fighting was still going on. The militants failed to gain entry to Camp Salerno after launching waves of attacks just before mid