40,000 troops told of fall deployment
Though many of them have now served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has alerted 40,000 US troops that they will be deployed in the war zones in the fall. Some of them have been home less than 12...Army Combat Tours Expected to Be Cut From 15 to 12 Months in Iraq and Afghani...
" WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to announce next week that Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan will be reduced from 15 to 12 months, FOX News has confirmed. A senior U.S. official told FOX...
IDF kills mastermind of Jerusalem Yeshiva terror attack
From the Israeli Press, March 12, 2008 (21.50 PM)
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Muhammad Shahade, an Islamic Jihad operative who Palestinian sources say was behind the terror attack in Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem last week, has been... Disappointed Democrats Map Withdrawal Strategy
Are Democrats so upset progress is being made in Iraq that they are trying to come up with another way to speed up surrender to the enemy? After Failing to discredit a respectable career military officer with the...Sens. Warner and Levin Travel to Iraq, Praise Surge Results
"WASHINGTON — After a brief trip to Iraq, Sen. Carl Levin said Monday that the Iraqi Parliament should vote no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki because of its sectarian nature and...Democratic Doublespeak on Iraq by Ira Chernus and Tom Engelhardt
When withdrawal means continued occupation"There is, in fact, quite a gap between withdrawal from that embattled land and the withdrawal of some American troops, while many of the rest hunker down on the enormous, all-but-permanent military bases the Pentagon has built there...Abbas dissolves Palestinian government
This commentary was originally published in IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo: Blissful Arrogance: The exploitation of the legacy of the European Holocaust and what it means for Jews as well as Arabs in Occupied Palestine 6.15.2007 "Israel, like South Africa, is an...In Iraq, U.S. spotlights al-Qaida
"Inside the bloody kaleidoscope called Iraq, the list of enemies and allies is long, shifting and motley, running from "revolution brigades" and Baathists, to Salafists, secularists and suicidal zealots. But one group alone gets routinely tagged "Public Enemy No. 1" by the...Al-Qaeda Loses an Iraqi Friend
"Al-Qaeda Loses an Iraqi Friend Monday, May. 14, 2007 By BOBBY GHOSH/BAGHDAD Harith al_dari Harith al-Dari, head of the Association of Muslim Scholars, is Iraq's top Sunni cleric Franco Pagetti for TIME Article Tools Print Email Reprints Click here to find out more! Al-Qaeda...Democrats' Timetable Allows U.S. War in Sunni Region to Go On
"The language on a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq voted out of the House-Senate conference committee this week contains large loopholes that would apparently allow U.S. troops to continue carrying out military operations in Iraq's Sunni heartland indefinitely. The...Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts
"Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 19, 2007; Page A01 Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United...Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you
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