Posts Tagged ‘Somalia’
For Americans: Liberty and Justice under Presidential “Findings”
Antiwar | By Philip Giraldi | 13 February 2010 Civis Romanus Sum “I am a Roman citizen” was a proud boast in the first century A.D. It implied the obligations of citizenship but also guaranteed privileges and rights that would be observed and protected by the Roman government. Among those rights was the ability to demand one’s day in [...]
Marjah and Mogadishu: Bracing for Civilian Deaths
IRIN | 14 February 2010 AFGHANISTAN-SOMALIA: Two towns braced for urban warfare KABUL/NAIROBI, 12 February 2010 (IRIN) - Continents apart, the civilian populations of Marjah, a key town in Helmand province, Afghanistan, and Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, are steeling themselves for intense urban warfare. Major offensives are being [...]
U.S. Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment: Country Excerpts
The Threat Perceptions of a Paranoid Hyperpower Admiral Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, presented the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 2 February 2010. The public proceedings are available as a video (at the Senate Select Committee on [...]
Sikorsky Working on Unmanned Black Hawk Helicopter
Star Tribune | By Stephen Singer | 1 February 2010 Sikorsky to invest $1B to develop unmanned Black Hawk, other next-generation maneuvers HARTFORD, Conn. - Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced a billion-dollar venture Monday that it hopes will respond to military demand for technology to fight two wars, including Black Hawk helicopters that can [...]
Jeff Huber: The Counterinsurgency (COIN) Myth
Antiwar.com | By Jeff Huber | 11, 13 & 18 January 2010 The COIN Myth Part I The U.S. military’s fabled counterinsurgency field manual (FM 3-24) is an authoritative-sounding 281-page volume of balderdash. Even the legend of its origin is a fabrication. Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of forces in Iraq and now in charge of [...]
U.S. “Black Ops” Teams Deeply Involved in Yemen
Washington Post | By Bana Priest | 27 January 2010 U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional [...]
Osama bin Ladin’s Letter to the Americans (6 October 2002)
Jump to Start of Post, or to Osama bin Ladin’s Letter: 1. Why are we fighting and opposing you? 2. What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you? 3. Conclusion With the recent release of an—almost certainly fake—"Osama bin Ladin" voice recording, "experts" are being quoted to attribute motives and interpretations to the [...]
Al-Jazeera’s “Osama bin Ladin” Tape: Alternative Translation
Just as consensus was emerging that Osama bin Ladin was long dead and Al Qaeda a spent force, a 1-minute voice recording has emerged, in a video with an old photograph of an extremely young Osama bin Ladin, that starts with the incongruous greeting, "From Osama to Obama" . With exquisite timing for U.S. info-war objectives, the voice [...]
George W. Obama: War We Can Believe In
The American Conservative | By Andrew J. Bacevich | 1 February 2010 Issue No Exit America has an impressive record of starting wars but a dismal one of ending them well. President Obama’s decision to escalate U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan earned him at most two muted cheers from Washington’s warrior-pundits. Sure, the [...]
Yemeni Scholars Foresee U.S. Occupation
Antiwar Newswire | 11 January 2010 Yemeni radical cleric warns of foreign occupation Yemen's most powerful radical cleric warns terror fight could lead to foreign 'occupation' Yemen's most influential Islamic cleric, considered an al-Qaida-linked terrorist by the United States, warned Monday that the U.S.-backed fight against the terror [...]
