Posts Tagged ‘US Military’
Vietnam’s Karzai dies at 80, in Malaysia
Associated Press | 23 July 2011 Nguyen Cao Ky dies at 80; wartime leader of South Vietnam The former general, who sometimes took ruthless action, lived in Southern California after Saigon fell to North Vietnam. Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam [...]
U.S. to Spend $33-40 billion on Drones through 2020
U.S. Congressional Budget Office Report: Policy Options for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Download Full Report: pdf | Alternate Source: pdf Executive Summary Over the next 10 years, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to purchase about 730 new medium-sized and large unmanned aircraft systems based on designs currently in operation, while [...]
Remove American Forces from Pakistan
Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 30 July 2010 It’s official: although careful not to leave any footprints, the U.S. has boots on the ground in Pakistan. U.S. troops in Pakistan ensure compliance by the government, under threat of overt occupation. This was revealed on Thursday 22 July 2010, when U.S. lawmakers Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul [...]
Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI
U.S. Military, Joint Chiefs of Staff | 29 July 2010 Pentagon Press Conference As Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense , Pentagon Briefing Room Thursday, July 29, 2010 EXCERPT Q: British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that he can’t tolerate the idea [...]
Wikileaks: Osama bin Laden died in a Peshawar hospital, and other howlers
The News | By Rahimullah Yusufzai | 30 July 2010 WikiLeaks falsehood PESHAWAR: Revelations by Wikileaks based on classified US military files on the Afghan war contain a trove of interesting and sometimes true information, but an element of falsehood is also there, such as one intelligence report in June 2007 that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin [...]
On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 28 July 2010 On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan; the tip of an old iceberg I’ve been resisting diving into the WikiLeaks controversy, in part because the information contained in the documents – including allegations of Pakistani complicity with the Taliban - is not new. Yet at the same time you can’t [...]
Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In “My Life with the Taliban”, Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]
ISI: Wikileaks logs reflect soldiers’ fears, suspicions, and anxieties
Der Spiegel | 28 July 2010 By Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz, Hans Hoyng, Susanne Koelbl, Marcel Rosenbach and Gregor Peter Schmitz Logs Suggest Pakistani Intelligence Controls Course of War Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, appears frequently in the war logs obtained by WikiLeaks. They suggest that even as Pakistan served as an [...]
Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan
Guardian | By Simon Jenkins | 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American [...]
US/NATO “Hunters” Killed Hundreds of Civilians
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 27 July 2010 Troops in Afghanistan Had Special Group to Exterminate "Terrorists" Hundreds of civilians were killed without public and official knowledge by coalition troops in Afghanistan. Secret plans to kill leaders of the extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda and the discussion of the alleged involvement of Iran and [...]
