After his capture, Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, the hostile neighbor he considered a bigger threat than the U.S.
Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to "physical and psychological ill-treatment" until they can inspect them.
The first women to fly U.S. military aircraft will be given gold medals to honor their service to the country under a bill signed Wednesday by President Obama.
North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test.
A missing U.S. Soldier has been sold to a militant clan, a U.S. military official said. The unidentified senior military official told CNN the Soldier, whose name was not released, was captured and then sold to a group led by the infamous warlord Siraj Haqqani.
A missing U.S. soldier has been sold to a militant clan, a U.S. military official said. The unidentified senior military official told CNN the soldier, whose name was not released, was captured and then sold to a group led by the infamous warlord Siraj Haqqani.
Apparently we never learn our lessons. Take a look at www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529788,00.html and you will see that thanks to McChrystal’s new “fight friendlier” campaign we are not utilizing our combat multipliers like close air support and indirect fire. Somehow this has become a positive talking point.
The Marines have used no indirect fire as they move into position — meaning no artillery and no bombs have been dropped from the air — all part of an effort to avoid civilian casualties, Pelletier said.
I guess the military leadership has forgotten the lessons of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia and Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan (2002) where not having these assets caused us to lose good American soldiers.
Not to take a swipe at my Marine brothers, but you know they tried this “fight friendlier” campaign in 2004 when they took over the Anbar Province in Iraq from the 82nd Airborne, and look where that got them in Ramadi in April of that year. They were not ready for such an intense and prolonged battle in an area that they had been saying they would patrol the streets among the people in a peaceful manner.
Please GEN McChrystal, do not allow more Marines and Soldiers to die in vain in order to appease the crooked and piece of crap leadership of Afghanistan. I know you are a smart and experienced leader but do what your gut says to do and not what a civilian or a corrupt piece of crap like Karzai is telling you to do.
The Army likes to keep us on our toes by changing up their acronyms every once in a while. I also think they do this to distance themselves from history when acronyms are linked with certain parts of history. Today the army calls is DUSTWUN and it stands for Duty Status-Whereabouts Unknown. They can call it whatever they want, but it is MIA, Missing in Action.
And that is what we have this morning, an American soldier who has been missing in action since Tuesday in the Paktika Province of Afghanistan (Bouhammer’s old area of Operation). Missing In Action, it is not a term of Vietnam, it is a term of the military so lets call it what it is and lets pray with all we have that our brave men and women, who are desperately trying to find this soldier, do so before anything happens to him. For us as Americans sitting back here in the US, even those of us that are soldiers, that is all we can do right now.
UPDATE #1- Military officials in Afghanistan have been quoted to say that the soldier “walked” off of his base two days ago.
UPDATE #2- Taliban spokesman is saying they have the soldier in their custody along with 3 ANA soldiers.
UPDATE#3- Sources are telling me that the MIA soldier is from Active Duty Army and not a TF Phoenix soldier.
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The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communique from Al-Qaida Committee in the Islamic Maghreb threatening to carry out terrorist attacks against France in revenge for the recent decision by the French government to ban the niqab (a full body veil worn by some conservative Muslim women). According to the statement, titled "France: the Mother of All Evils," "the mujahideen in the land of the Islamic Maghreb have sworn an oath to Allah, not to keep silent in the face of this provocative repression, and we will avenge the honor of our sisters and daughters, targeting France and its interests in every way we can, in every place we can and at every time we can, until France abandons its tactics of repression and insolence."
