Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’
Persistent Engagement: The Obama Doctrine of Neo-Imperialism in Execution
Special Warfare | May-June 2010 (Vol. 23, Issue 3) PERSISTENT ENGAGEMENT Civil Military Support Elements Operating in CENTCOM By Maj. Ross F. Lightsey, Sr. In ongoing irregular conflicts, the civil-military support element, or CMSE, is a unique resource that provides military commanders and United States ambassadors in various regions and [...]
A German View of America’s “Af/Pak” War
Der Spiegel | Essay by Dirk Kurbjuweit | 7 July 2010 Afghanistan and the West The Difficult Relationship between Democracy and War Part 1: The Difficult Relationship between Democracy and War Part 2: The Beginning: Terror and Solidarity Part 3: The Course of Battle: The Beast and its Victims Part 4: The End: Aftermath and Innocence Part [...]
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
Psy-Op? American said to edit alleged online Al Qaeda magazine (that can’t be found)
Colbert Report | 1 July 2010 Al Qaeda Starts Inspire Magazine Is this some twisted American Psy-Op -- sorry, MISO (Military Information Support Operation), as it is now called -- or just some disaffected American Muslim hounded as a terrorist, who lost his job, and decided to live up to his tormentor's expectations? It is hard to say. An [...]
Killer drones: Where’s the accountability?
AZ Daily Sun | By Nat Hentoff | 14 July 2010 When the Obama administration officially declared that an American citizen -- Anwar al-Awlaki, a radically influential global preacher of murderous jihad -- is on a targeted list to be tracked and killed by CIA pilotless drones, New York Times reporter Scott Shane made a constitutional point that had [...]
US/Israeli-Al Qaeda Member, Adam Gadahn Arrested in Pakistan
Dirk Bradshaw Blog | By T. West | 4 July 2010 Mossad Pretending to be al-Qaida’s Voice Captured, US Want it Kept Quiet Pakistan indicates they have arrested Adam Gadahn, an Ashkenazi from the state of Oregon. US intelligence claims that it is not Adam Gadahn that the Pakistanis have arrested. Why haven’t we seen this person with the [...]
Yemen: The Next Battlefield
alsharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 21 June 2010 Just days after the Al Qaeda organization incited the Yemeni tribes against the Sana government; a new attack took place on Saturday, this time against a Yemeni intelligence headquarters in Aden. This is not to mention the large number of militants who have begun to gather in Yemen from [...]
Tariq Ali on Yemen
London Review of Books | By Tariq Ali | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 31-33) Unhappy Yemen I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad [...]
CIA’s Heads of State
Time Magazine | By Bobby Ghosh | 28 October 2009 Who's Who on the CIA Payroll: A Brief History of CIA Assets Allegations that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother worked for the CIA are a reminder of a long list of distinguished and not-so-distinguished assets There was little surprise among Afghanistan experts and longtime CIA watchers [...]
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 [...]
