U.S. says Iran has missile that could hit Europe

The Pentagon has said today that Iran has the ability to launch a ballistic missile, that is capable of hitting sections of eastern and southern Europe.That is scary to think about."Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering,...

U.S. exports cigarettes, bras, bull semen to Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. exports to Iran -- including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons -- grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. ...

Israel Air Force to rehearse Iran attack?

Slowly the stage is being set for the final rehearsal . I quote myself, .."Al the local actors take their respective place on the stage. Hamas exploit the truce for consolidating his rockets armament to threaten the...

PENTAGON MISSING NUCLEAR BOMB COMPONENTS

"WASHINGTON (AFP) — US military authorities are unable to find hundreds of nuclear missile components, The Financial Times reported in its online edition Thursday, but the Pentagon shrugged it off as simple...

Probe: Pentagon sought abusive interrogations after 9/11

" The Pentagon in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks pursued abusive interrogation techniques once used by North Korea and Vietnam on American POWs despite stern warnings by several military lawyers that the...

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the...

Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Inquiry on Interrogation Role

"WASHINGTON — Senior Pentagon lawyers played a more active role than previously known in developing the aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use in 2002 at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,...

No WMD in Iraq? No problem, the US will use its own...

Babies born in Fallujah (Iraq) are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special...

Pakistan Angry as Strike by U.S. Kills 11 Soldiers

Killing of Pakistani soldiers by America led Nato forces have angered  residents of  frontier town of Pakistan bordering Afghnistan.Dead soldiers include a major were belonging to the Mohmand Rifles. The incident has infuriated the Pakistani government and they...

BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

"BBC NewsHenry WaxmanWaxman: "It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history."A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted...

Democrats introduce bill to outlaw Pentagon propaganda

"Last April, the New York Times revealed that retired officers serving as military analysts on television news shows had regularly been briefed by the Pentagon and supplied with pro-war and pro-administration talking points.The program was "temporarily suspended" by the...

Gates picks new leadership for Air Force

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday recommended senior Pentagon official Michael Donley to be secretary of the U.S. Air Force in a shake-up triggered by mistakes in handling nuclear...

A Pentagon metastasized almost beyond recognition

"Who, today, even remembers the debate at the end of the Cold War about what role U.S. military power should play in a "unipolar" world? Was U.S. supremacy so well established, pundits were then asking, that...

Military Leaders Call for Review of Tanker Deal

Since the Pentagon announced Feb. 29 that it had selected the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, based in France, as the primary recipient of a contract to build new Air Force tanker aircraft, I’ve vented my frustration in the form of a half-dozen pieces...

U.S. House stalls war Funding Bill - Pentagon theatens layoffs

On Thursday in the U.S. House in unlikely coalition between Democrats (via a sit out of vote)  and Republicans voted against continued funding of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The defeat of the funding measure came on a 149-141 tally. (132 Republicans sat out the...

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