The Guardian reports that members of the intelligence community are virtually apoplectic over the leaked underwear bombing plot foiled by a CIA informant who had infiltrated Al Qaeda: Mike Scheur, the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, said the
(AP) Attacker in Afghan uniform kills US service memberBy AMIR SHAHAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a U.S. service member in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed on Friday, military
Apparently, the United States has been releasing high-level detainees in Afghanistan for years so that in return, insurgent groups will temper their actions in areas the United States cannot control. The “strategic release” program has been used as a form
In his weekly video address, President Obama brags about the magnificent job he’s done in Afghanistan. “[T]he tide of war has turned in Afghanistan,” he says. “We have broken the Taliban’s momentum … The goal that I set – to
By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama says his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it’s time to turn the country’s attention to domestic concerns. Just four days after his trip to Afghanistan, Obama said that money saved
By RAHIM FAIEZAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanThe in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said
Former congressman Alan Grayson, D-FL, criticizes President Obama over his comments on Afghanistan. Ed Schultz radio show, 5/3/12.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai hailed a newly signed strategic pact with the United States but warned Thursday that tough negotiations still lay ahead on the US military presence in his war-torn country after 2014. Karzai and US President Barack Obama
Dan Rather was always a lousy, biased, beclowned newsman, but it wasn’t until he tried to foist off those laughably obvious forged documents about President George W. Bush’s time in the Texas Air National Guard that his all of his
The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against insurgent targets in Pakistan after 2014, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker indicated Wednesday. Crocker was responding to a question about controversial drone strikes
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. President Obama outlines withdrawal from Afghanistan Suicide bomber strikes in Kabul Afghanistan after Obama’s speech Tensions grow with Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan in Fergana Valley Russia and China prepare for Fergana valley instability President Obama
President Obama’s foreign policy is in complete disarray. He has misunderstood and underestimated the need for the War on Terror from the word “go,” and as a result, his administration has now simply decided the war is over–as if they
Tonight President Obama gave his “mission accomplished” speech from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan and remarked how he would support inclusion of the Taliban, so long as they left Al Qaeda. Because the Taliban has never brutally oppressed women
May 1 President Obama says ”wages of war have been great” for both the U.S. and Afghanistan during meeting with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.
Today, President Obama essentially declared victory in Afghanistan. Just in time for his re-election campaign, of course. First, he blamed President Bush for us not winning the Afghanistan war sooner. “Despite initial success, for a number of reasons, this war
On Hardball tonight MSNBC covered President Obama speaking at live Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan to the troops. After the speech a very excited Chris Matthews compared Obama’s speech to Henry the V who rallied his troops with the Famous St.
(AP) The 5 al-Qaida leaders most wanted by USBy The Associated Press On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALs shot and killed al-Qaida leader and Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was a raid
A controversial Florida pastor has burned copies of the Koran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed to protest the imprisonment in Iran of a Christian clergyman Youcef Nadarkhani. The burning, attended by 20 people and streamed live over the
Whether antisemitism or Islamophobia or hatred of black conservatives, Media Matters for America is not above any form of prejudice–as long as it suits the left’s agenda and President Barack Obama’s re-election. Case in point: the false claim that Dana
A military judge is expected to rule Wednesday on a request to dismiss all charges against a US soldier accused of passing a trove of secret government documents to the WikiLeaks website. Lawyers for Army private Bradley Manning have demanded
A 30-year-old veteran who served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan was shot to death Saturday in Lancaster, CA, sheriff’s officials said. Nathen Taylor’s family is grieving and in disbelief.
It has often been said that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lives rent-freein the heads of President Barack Obama and those of his top brass in the WhiteHouse. On Friday, this was evident when the Obama Administration,which has even attempted
The fact that the LA Times has published photographs of American troops in Afghanistan posing with Taliban body parts is in and of itself utterly contemptible. The images add nothing to the public’s understanding of the war and will only
Some people are hysterical over two-year-old photos of U.S. Troops posing with dead enemies who would have killed them or Afghanis had these enemies not killed themselves. I wonder how many people have actually taken the time to think about
I thought we were supposed to “never forget” 9/11? Well, they don’t call Hollywood La-La Land for no reason. Yesterday, Bette Midler, political commentator and historian par excellence, waxed eloquent on Twitter about why the United States is in an
