Posts Tagged ‘Sudan’
Planning for the Next War
TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Balkanise Sudan: Independence Referendum in 2011
Pravda.ru | By Ivan Tulyakov | 21 January 2010 Sudan's Independence Vote To Finally Kill Bleeding Nation (Read the original in Russian) Sudan is the largest country on the African continent. However, the country may lose this status in the near future already. The independence referendum will take place in the south of the nation in 2011. [...]
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 [...]
Indian Efforts to Win Afghan Hearts and Minds
Times of India | 11 January 2010 Winning Afghan hearts & minds with academia Afghan nationals today comprise the largest contingent of foreigners pursuing higher education in India. MUMBAI: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai often speaks fondly of the days he spent as a student in Shimla attending Himachal University. But what is lesser [...]
“The Afpak Quagmire”: An Excerpt from Brzezinski’s Recent Foreign Affairs Article
Foreign Affairs | By Zbigniew Brzezinski | January/February 2010 Issue From Hope to Audacity Appraising Obama's Foreign Policy Article Summary: Barack Obama's foreign policy has generated more expectations than strategic breakthroughs. Three urgent issues -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the Afghan-Pakistani [...]
Al-Qaeda, Sanctuaries, and the Coming American Invasion of Yemen
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | 1 January 2010 Ask The Expert: Will Yemen Become A Major Al-Qaeda Sanctuary? After a Nigerian national who claims to have trained with Al-Qaeda in Yemen allegedly tried to blow up an international flight on Christmas Day, and following two Yemeni military airstrikes on suspected Al-Qaeda meetings this month, [...]
In 2010 the “Yem/Som” War: America Prepares to Encircle Saudi Arabia, While Securing the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea
Antiwar | By Justin Raimondo | 30 December 2009 Next Stop: Yemen The panty-bomber and US foreign policy The abortive efforts of the "panty-bomber" have inspired the War Party to focus on a new front in our ongoing and seemingly permanent "war on terrorism": Yemen, a godforsaken outpost of medievalism and sun-scorched desert on [...]
