St Pete mourns loss of Brittany Gordon, killed in Afghanistan
The daughter of St. Petersburg Asst Police Chief Cedric Gordon was killed recently in Afghanistan. Brittany Gordon in uniform An Army Specialist, Brittany Gordon, age 24, died alongside another soldier while serving More...
Lara Logan warns of taliban, terrorism and America’s misguided direction
Lara Logan of CBS News stepped before a packed Chicago ballroom last week and attacked the American policy in Afghanistan and Libya, called for a ramped-up military campaign against terrorists, and criticized the More...
From Kabul to Beirut, the Muslim protests continue across the Middle East
Riots for outside US military base in Afghanistan and the US Embassy in Indonesia. U.S. Air Force photo by by Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras Hundreds of protesters, claiming to be motivated by the insulting More...
Ron Paul criticizes ‘Libya fiasco’ and Syrian chaos, but offers no solutions
Many anti-war supporters and Libertarians look to Presidential candidate Ron Paul for a statement regarding the attacks on US Embassies around the Middle East. Paul penned an article titled ” The Libya Fiasco More...
Four more US soldiers killed in latest ‘insider attack’ five Afghan policemen have now fled
Four American soldiers and an Afghan police officer have been killed in southern Afghanistan following an attack suspected to involve members of the Afghan police, NATO’s military mission in that country More...
YouTube banned in Afghanistan over Muhammad video
From Kabul from news that YouTube has been banned in Afghanistan in the wake of an anti-Islam film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ trailer, which sparked a riot in Benghazi, Libya that killed four American officials, More...
Taliban in Afghanistan behead 17 as punishment for dance party
From Kandahar, Afghanistan comes a gruesome story. The Taliban beheaded seventeen party-goers, including two women dancers, in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province as punishment for a party was held on More...
US drone strikes in Waziristan, Pakistan border with Afghanistan, kill
A US air raid has killed 18 suspected fighters near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, Pakistani officials have said. Fourteen other people were also reportedly injured after drone-fired missiles hit three More...
Afghan terrorists attack General Martin Dempsey’s plane with rocket
Afghan militants fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Army General Martin Dempsey. The general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman More...
3 US Soldiers murder by Afghan forces during fake dinner
A senior U.S. Army soldier was killed along with a couple of majors by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, and three special forces soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan commander who had won their trust and invited More...
Woman and her two children, beheaded in latest Muslim honor killing
The Reuters article noted that this latest crime is part of a “rapidly growing trend of so-called honour killings.” Police said they suspected the woman Serata’s divorced husband of barging into More...
Taliban using children as suicide bombers, 3 kids arrested with bombs
Just outside of Kandahar, the Taliban’s former central command in Afghanistan, two children and one teenage have been arrested with bombs and remote control devices. The report says that fears have escalated More...
Indonesian boat capsizes, 90 asylum seekers missing
You Tube screen shot A boat carrying about 200 people capsized south of Indonesia and scores were feared drowned Thursday in an apparent attempt to reach Australia to seek asylum. Indonesian and Australian navies More...
Taliban suicide bomber targets NATO in Afghanistan, kills 21
A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed an Afghan-NATO patrol in the town of Khost on Wednesday, killing 21 people, including three NATO soldiers, officials said. Khost, Afghanistan Photo/Golbez via wikimedia More...
Koran burning US soldiers to face punishment, but no criminal charges
A military investigation is recommending that as many as seven U.S. troops are punished for the burning of Korans. Photo/Vectorportal via wikimedia commons They face administrative punishments, but not criminal More...
Three bases being considered for ground control station for the remote-controlled Reaper and Predator drones
South Carolina’s Shaw Air Force Base is one of three possible sites where the Air Force would put a ground control squadron for the remote-controlled Reaper and Predator drones that have become key elements More...
Kabul Still In Chaos As Taliban Attacks Key Facilities
Taliban gunmen armed with suicide vests and heavy weaponry have lauched coordinated attacks in Kabul, targeting NATO’s headquarters, the US embassy and the Afghan intelligence agency days after the anniversary More...
US Embassy in Afghanistan under attack by Taliban
A complicated attack involving multiple gunmen and apparent suicide bombers was underway in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday morning, and one of the primary targets was the U.S. Embassy. Mohammed Zahir, a More...
Ron Paul does not speak nonsense
In a piece in the neoconservative rag, Commentary, published Aug 31, a blogger by the name of Peter Wehner came out swinging on some statements Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul made More...
Max Boot: ‘The problem isn’t that we are engaged in nation-building. The problem is that we do it so poorly’
Here is Max Boot doing what he does best from his perch at the Council of Foreign Relations, trying to scare the bejesus out of people with threats largely imagined. And the fact that Boot claims the necessity of More...
