Marine's defense to seek dismissal of Haditha case
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Lawyers for a Marine sergeant whose squad killed 24 Iraqis said Thursday they are preparing a motion that will seek to have the case dismissed because the Marine Corps retired his military attorney.Attorney Haytham Faraj, a civilian lawyer representing Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, told a military ...
Facing Afghan mistrust, al-Qaeda fighters take limited role in insurgency
On Aug. 14, a U.S. airstrike in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz killed a Taliban commander known as Abu Baqir. In a country where insurgents are killed daily, this attack was notable for one unusual detail: Abu Baqir, the military said afterward, was also a member of al-Qaeda. Although ...
U.S. Forces Step Up Pakistan Presence
WASHINGTON—U.S. Special Operations Forces have begun venturing out with Pakistani forces on aid projects, deepening the American role in the effort to defeat Islamist militants in Pakistani territory that has been off limits to U.S. ground troops.The expansion of U.S. cooperation is significant given Pakistan's deep aversion to allowing foreign ...
US military build-up in Kandahar will bolster Taliban, warns security monitor
The US military build-up in Kandahar is likely to further strengthen the hold of the Taliban over the vital southern Afghanistan city, a highly respected security organisation said today in a bleak report warning of record Taliban violence and rising civilian deaths across the country.The report by the Afghanistan NGO ...
NATO airstrike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops
KABUL, Afghanistan — A botched NATO airstrike killed five Afghan soldiers after they were mistaken for insurgents, highlighting continued weak coordination between international troops and the local security forces they are striving to build.An Afghan defense official Wednesday condemned the "friendly fire" deaths in the eastern province of Ghazni. They ...
Boulder High grad Larry D. Harris Jr. dies in Afghanistan
Larry D. Harris Jr. made his friends laugh.A couple years ago, he and his hip-hop group, 2 Real 4 Da Mind, pulled an all-nighter in Las Vegas. As his friends were getting ready to fall asleep around 7 a.m., Harris started jumping on the bed doing a spot-on imitation of ...
Record Western military deaths in Afghanistan in June
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — As the Afghan war's bloodiest month for Western forces drew to a close Wednesday, the widening scope and relentless tempo of battlefield casualties pointed to a formidable challenge for U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the incoming commander. At least 103 coalition troops were killed ...
VIDEO: Cloud of Smoke Could Put Soldiers' Lives at Risk
Two soldiers were killed by roadside bombs Saturday in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll to 52 in June, the worst month of the nine-year war so far for the United States. When soldiers go into war zones, they expect certain hazards on the battlefield but not necessarily on base, yet ...
NATO: US soldier dies in Afghanistan; 85th intl service member killed so far in June
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO has reported that a U.S. service member has died in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, but gave no other details.The death brought to 85 the number of international service members killed so far in June, which is already the deadliest month of the ...
2 Italian Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan
Two Italian soldiers were killed and two others critically wounded when a NATO convoy drove over a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan on Monday.The armored car they were traveling in was part of a column of military vehicles on its way from the western city of Herat to Bala Murghab ...
NATO says 2 US soldiers killed in Afghan firefight
KABUL — NATO and Afghan forces came under heavy fire while searching a compound in eastern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that killed two U.S. soldiers and five insurgents, NATO said Friday.Among the dead was a Taliban commander with ties to the Haqqani group, a Pakistan-based Afghan Taliban faction with close ...
NATO reports 2 foreign troops killed by roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan
KABUL (AP) - NATO reports two foreign soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.The soldiers' names and nationalities were withheld according to standard policy and NATO wasn't saying exactly where the attack occurred.The deaths bring to 23 the number of foreign troops killed in combat in ...
U.S. Special Operations Ordered Deadly Afghan Strike
KABUL—U.S. Special Operations Forces ordered an airstrike that killed at least 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan and the soldiers may not have satisfied rules of engagement designed to avoid the killing of innocents, Afghan and coalition officials said Monday. The airstrike Sunday hit a group of minibuses in a remote ...
NATO: 4 service members die in sixth day of military offensive in southern Afghanistan
MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) - Four NATO service members have died in the sixth day of a major military offensive to claim control of a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.NATO said Thursday night that three were killed in two different roadside bomb attacks and a fourth died as a result of ...
Taliban armory: Rocks, potshots and drawings
BADULA QULP, Afghanistan — The bullet made a zipping, or fizzing sound. American soldiers, relaxing beside their vehicles and backpacks without body armor or helmets, looked around, bewildered. A moment passed. Then another zip, fizz. And another."They're shooting at us," a soldier said incredulously. Laughing, giddy almost, they moved behind ...
Bomb kills 3 US military trainers in NW Pakistan
SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan -- A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and partly destroyed a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's ...
Five US soldiers killed in Afghan unrest
KABUL — Five US soldiers have been killed in bombings over the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO's international Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Sunday.Two of the troopers were killed in a home-made bomb explosion in the country's south, where the insurgency is most intense, the force said in a ...
1 US, 8 Afghan troops killed by roadside bombs
KABUL — Roadside bombs have killed eight Afghan soldiers and a U.S. service member in separate incidents in Afghanistan, officials said Friday.NATO confirmed the American died Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but provided no other details.Also Thursday, an Afghan army vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Uruzgan province in central Afghanistan. ...
Roadside bombs kill 6 in Pakistan’s northwest
PARACHINAR, Pakistan - Roadside bombs struck two vehicles in Pakistan's volatile northwest Sunday, killing a former irrigation minister and three others in one attack and two anti-Taliban tribal elders in the other.Public officials and private citizens combating the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Pakistan have been frequent targets in a wave ...
Pakistan backlash after volleyball bombing kills 101
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities faced a furious backlash Sunday after a suicide strike on a volleyball match killed 101 people, as more violence killed a former provincial minister and seven others.Authorities rounded up dozens of suspects after the volleyball attack and opened an investigation into poor medical care, while ...
Missile Strike Kills 2 in Pakistan
MIR ALI, Pakistan -- Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone missile strike has killed at least two people in Pakistan's northwest tribal region.The officials say Sunday's strike targeted the house of a well-known tribesman near the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan. At least two bodies have been ...
NATO: US serviceman killed in Afghanistan
KABUL -- NATO says an American serviceman has been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. A statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force says the incident took place Saturday in southern Afghanistan, but it did not give further details or the victim's branch of service. The statement also says ...
US soldier killed in Afghanistan bomb attack: NATO
KABUL — An American soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb while serving with NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday.NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier died on Friday, but gave no details of where the incident took place.The death of the American, who ...
2 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan explosions
KABUL — NATO says two U.S. service members and an American contractor have been killed in two separate explosions in Afghanistan.NATO headquarters in Kabul said Saturday that one U.S. troop was killed in a roadside bomb strike in southern Afghanistan the previous day. It said the other service member and ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
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