Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Special Forces Tracking and Countertracking Manual TC 31-34-4
November 17th, 2009I thought I’d just take a quick look, out of curiosity, because it’s a restricted manual…
Don’t click through unless you have at least an hour to blow.
Can you tell the difference between male and female footprints? Want to know what footprints left by someone walking backward over vegetation look like? Wonder how weather affects the [...]
Active Duty Military Personnel “Volunteer” as Counterinsurgency Advisors with Salinas Police Department
November 17th, 2009This is an astonishing story.
Via: Washington Post:
Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the “Salad Bowl of the World,” the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California’s prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words “Salad Bowl” or “Salis” — [...]
Short Video About UAV Combat Operations
November 17th, 2009I wonder if Captain Dan is allowed to have a Bobblehead Jesus on the “flight” deck?
The Folly of a ‘Drone War’
November 16th, 2009Via: CBS News:
What we’re talking about here is the gaze of the gods, updated in corporate labs for the modern American war-fighter — a gaze that can be focused on whatever runs, walks, crawls, or creeps just about anywhere on the planet 24/7, with an instant ability to blow it away.
Democracy: U.S. Unveils New $60 Million Prison Wing in Afghanistan
November 15th, 2009Via: Al Jazeera:
Journalists have been allowed to inspect refurbished facilities at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, the largest US military hub in the region and home to a controversial prison.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent James Bays, who was among those who inspected the facilities on Sunday, said Bagram, unlike its Guantanamo counterpart, was clearly not going to be [...]
Cost of Keeping One U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan Per Year: One Million Dollars
November 15th, 2009The U.S. doesn’t have to “win” the war for a handful of diabolical corporations to make a killing. The trick is to keep the war going for as long as possible.
And, day after day, the shakedown continues.
Bogus contracts, drugs and energy. That’s all, folks.
Plus a little change we can believe in.
Via: New York Times:
While President [...]
Feds Move to Seize Four Mosques, Tower Allegedly Linked to Iran
November 13th, 2009Via: AP:
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against [...]
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraqi Officials After Murder of 17 Civilians
November 11th, 2009Via: New York Times:
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Blackwater approved the cash payments [...]
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
November 11th, 2009Via: MSNBC:
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate [...]
TV Footage Shows Afghan Insurgents with U.S. Ammo
November 10th, 2009Via: AP:
Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly firefight that killed eight troops.
The U.S. military said the forces that left the area said they removed and accounted for their equipment.
Al-Jazeera broadcast video showing [...]
