Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Marine BG John Toolan: More stuff for Afghans … or else. — At the very end of this story lies the money quote on the thunking bankruptcy, military and political, of the American strategy in Afghanistan. It is the bankruptcy
Fjordman is the Norwegian blogger and writer who has been the focus of intense scrutiny in Scandinavia for the past two weeks, after being mentioned in Anders Breivik’s 1500-page manifesto as one of the killer’s major influences. Although he has
Georgetown University professor C. Christine Fair has written a post at Registan.net alleging that Nicholas Schmidle’s New Yorker cover story detailing the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound may be a fraud. At the very least, Fair alleges,
The weekly e-newspaper Algemeiner has obtained an e-mail, reportedly sent from Muammar Qaddafi’s regime to public relations firms worldwide, beseeching their help for a global PR war whose aim is to encourage an end to foreign support for rebel forces.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, along with seven Afghan commandos.
Underwear bombers, radicalized military officers, gang members, and even family members of asylees have threatened the United States domestically. Some would like to call these ideologically deranged persons extremists; simultaneously, our government no longer desires to label such persons as
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Standard & Poors downgrades U.S. debt from AAA to AA+ Standard & Poors The S&P ratings service downgraded U.S. debt from AAA to AA+ late on Friday. The outlook is “negative,” meaning that further
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has explained repeatedly over the years that Israel has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with. So news reports this week that Netanyahu agreed that the 1949 armistice lines, (commonly misrepresented as the 1967 borders), will be
Defense Tech is reporting that the U.S. Army is sending four of Lockheed’s Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) robot jeeps to haul supplies for the troops. It’s a test to see how effective these 11-ft. long trucks will be in
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As I’ve advocated for some time now, the American political system needs to better vet our candidates. Barack Obama was allowed to pass through without providing basic details about his background. Is vetting of Republicans/conservative candidates any better? Imad “David”
So get this: the US Air Force has scrapped a nuclear ethics course manual because it….references the Bible. The course is for new recruits who will be manning the U.S. nuclear arsenal and might face ethical or moral questions about
Politicians scrambled to lie and point fingers, as they tried to figure out how to make sure that someone else was blamed for the plunge on world markets on Thursday. It was a truly vomit-inducing spectacle. Jose Manuel Barroso On
From a source in Washington: More intelligence is emerging about Breivik and his foreign connections, and here’s an update with the important caveat that none of it is completely confirmed at this time. However, the interim reports are compelling reading.
Today my colleague, the perspicacious Norwegian essayist Fjordman (whose prolific writings can be read here), was compelled to surrender his anonymity after reluctantly granting an interview to Verdans Gang (published in English, here). An hysterical, morally cretinous press and blogosphere–Norwegian,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Another horrific day of slaughter in Hama, Syria People duck to avoid gunfire from snipers in Hama (Reuters) It’s been another horrific day of slaughter by the regime of president Bashar al-Assad, targeting ordinary
If Leftist media outlets had their way, the whole world would be pinning the tragic shootings in Norway on the Tea Party. First Amendment notwithstanding, the Tea Party would be systematically dismantled by the FCC, the ATF, and big government.
From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in
Jon Seidl at The Blaze has video and a transcript of New Jersey governor Chris Christie self-righteously defending his most recent judicial appointment, Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim lawyer with ties to open supporters of both the Muslim Brotherhood and its
If anyone was still wondering about the contours of post-Breivik Scandinavia, the following piece of nastiness should provide a hint of what lies ahead. As I said last night, at this point it doesn’t really matter whether the atrocities in
The bottom-line decision is not surprising, even if it took months to realize. Iraqi security forces, though improving, are still not capable of keeping violence down so that its government can function. There are many hot spots to contend. There
The Nuba people of Sudan’s Southern Kardofan region are being systematically exterminated in the midst of a developing genocide described as “the world’s next Rwanda.” Several issue-area experts testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee today, asserting that Sudanese military
Given the growing anxiety in security circles about the future of Pakistan, it should not be surprising that plans have been developed to snatch Pakistan’s nukes should the country fall into chaos, or under the influence of Islamists. Indeed, there
There is good news and bad news in the debt agreement for defense . The good news is that in the next two fiscal years beginning October 1, 2011, national security accounts–including defense, homeland security, foreign assistance, nuclear weapons programs
