Bin Laden Manhunt Draws a Blank
AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER (AP) - The al-Qaida terror camps are gone from Afghanistan, but the enigma of Osama bin Laden still hangs over these lawless borderlands where tens of thousands of U.S. and Pakistani troops have spent nearly five years searching for him. Villagers say the CIA missed by only a ...
Lebanon: Israeli strike on city kills 9
By Josef Federman / Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli warplanes fired missiles Sunday at a Lebanese civil defense building in the southern port city of Tyre, killing at least nine civilians and wounding 42, security officials said. Later, rockets fired from Lebanon exploded in the Israeli town of Afula ...
Once Boon, Ties to Bush May Be Bust
By David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times NEW ALBANY, Ind., April 22 — Fate has turned Representative Mike Sodrel's re-election campaign into a test case of the impact of public discontent with President Bush and the war in Iraq. Two years ago, Mr. Sodrel, a Republican and the owner ...
Pakistan: Terrorists Killed in U.S. Strike
By Riaz Khan / Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani provincial authorities said Tuesday four or five foreign terrorists were killed in the purported U.S. missile strike that has severely strained relations with this Muslim nation, a key ally in President Bush's war on terror. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, on ...
'Zawahiri' strike sparks protest
BBC A missile strike apparently targeting al-Qaeda's deputy leader in a village in Pakistan has prompted Islamabad to protest to its American allies. Ayman al-Zawahiri was not in the village on the border with Afghanistan, Pakistan officials said. But the attack left at least 18 local people dead. The US ...
Zawahiri 'not hit by US missile'
BBC The deputy leader of al-Qaeda was not in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border which was hit in an apparent missile attack, Pakistan officials say. The unnamed officials said the attack - in which at least 18 people were killed - was based on "false information". Quoting intelligence ...
Pakistanis Condemn Purported CIA Attack
By Riaz Khan / Associated Press DAMADOLA, Pakistan - Pakistani officials on Saturday angrily condemned a purported CIA airstrike meant to target al-Qaida's No. 2 man, saying he wasn't there and "innocent civilians" were among at least 17 men, women and children killed in a village near the Afghan border. ...
U.S. Air Strike Kills Iraqi Family of 12
Attack Was Directed at Suspected Bombers, U.S. Military Says By A Washington Post Special Correspondent TIKRIT, Iraq, Jan. 3 -- A U.S. air strike that Americans said was directed at suspected bombers killed a family of 12 in their home north of Baghdad Monday night, Iraqi officials said Tuesday. A ...
Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor
Anti-Terror Effort Continues to Grow By Dana Priest / Washington Post The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry ...
Insurgents Attack U.S. Bases in Iraq
By Robert H. Reid / Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked several U.S. bases and government offices with mortars and rockets Thursday before dispersing in the capital of western Iraq's Anbar province, residents and police said. Iraq's interior minister, meanwhile, fired his top official for human rights in connection ...
By Joe Wolfcale / Marin Independent Journal Concrete towers of support rise above him. The surroundings appear stark and lifeless. The drone of Highway 101 in Novato muffles any conversation. There George Grandemange sits. The 61-year-old retired school administrator has picked the unlikeliest of places - a freeway underpass - ...
Bush Doesn't Care. Do We? By Ted Rall / Yahoo News NEW YORK--It has been one thousand three hundred fifty-two days since George W. Bush promised to find Osama bin Laden, "dead or alive." So where is he? "Not around Afghanistan," U.S.-installed president Hamid Karzai said on May 25. "We'll ...
Unceremonious end to Army career
Outspoken general fights demotion By Tom Bowman / Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - John Riggs spent 39 years in the Army, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery during the Vietnam War and working his way up to become a three-star general entrusted with creating a high-tech Army for the 21st ...
Memo to Rice Warned of al Qaeda and Offered a Plan
By Scott Shane / New York Times WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - A strategy document outlining proposals for eliminating the threat from Al Qaeda, given to Condoleezza Rice as she assumed the post of national security adviser in January 2001, warned that the terror network had cells in the United States ...
China Official Slams U.S. on Weapons Deal
By Peter Enav / Associated Press JERUSALEM - A senior Chinese official criticized the United States for pressuring Israel to confiscate Chinese-owned drone aircraft, calling the American action "groundless and unreasonable." The comments Wednesday by State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, China's senior foreign policy official, were the strongest indication to date ...
Rumsfeld: Iraqis Must Defeat Insurgency
By ROBERT BURNS / Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - In his Christmas eve encounters with U.S. military commanders and hundreds of their troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld heard — and said — little about armor or troop shortages, issues that have made him a political target in Washington among ...
'Cash on the spot – if they tell us where the weapons are'
By Toby Harnden near Fallujah / Telegraph When Capt Kirk Mayfield of the US army goes into battle he will have Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and sniper teams at his disposal. But one of his most important instruments of war will be in his back pocket – a thick ...
"Every dreadful night I spent out in Iraq, I dealt with mortars flying over head..."
From: [e-mail address omitted] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: What is a Military Member to do??? Mike, Days come and go, and with each one passing I wonder why I did what I did. I continue wonder what I was thinking when I signed that piece of ...
by Josh Collier / Crawford Peace House Early in the afternoon, as the tiny town of Crawford began to buzz, someone in a car passing the Peace House rolled down the window and yelled, "Ain't democracy great!" All afternoon and into the evening we saw thumbs raised and lowered, listened ...
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