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- UK apology over rendition flights
  Posted by okami from BBC News
  David Miliband has admitted two US "extraordinary rendition" flights landed on UK territory in 2002. The foreign secretary said in both cases US planes refuelled on the UK dependent territory of Diego Garcia.
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- DoD Watchers Mull the Next President
  Posted by okami from Military
  Kansas City Star | By Scott Canon | February 20, 2008 Truman had MacArthur. Kennedy stumbled into the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush returned the force of nature that is Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. Whoever becomes the next commander in chief will wade into the sometimes uneasy world where admirals and generals cross paths, and sometimes swords, with presidents.
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- Rigged Trials at Guantanamo
  Posted by okami from Truth Out
  The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes - and seeking the death penalty for all of them.
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- Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan - RAWA News
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  Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army.
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- Reason Magazine - Open-Source Warfare
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  “Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?”
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- RAND | News Release | United States Lacks the Capability to Counter Insurgency in the Muslim World
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  Recognizing that the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be the last of their kind, a new RAND Corporation study issued today finds that U.S. capabilities to meet the threat of Islamist insurgencies are seriously deficient and out of balance.
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- Iran: Certainty Declines in U.S. Intelligence Reports
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  Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, the U.S. government regularly stated in a variety of forums that Iran possessed a large undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons (CW) and a substantial production capability. . .
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okami comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

. . .thanks for the link. . .

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7:10 am 7/06/08
okami comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

. . .ah, so. . .but exactly what are the facts?

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7:04 am 7/06/08
asesino comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

The facts don’t lie:

The Real Operation to “Rescue” Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries

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6:10 am 7/06/08
okami comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

If Betancourt’s assertions are true, then the United States is once again responsible (at least in part) for the setting up of false ‘heroic rescues’ and similar phenomena.
We should not forget that intitial reports from Iraq claimed that Kurdish forces captured Saddam Hussein, who then turned him over to Coalition forces.
Neither should we forget the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch affairs.

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12:13 am 7/06/08
theauthor comments on:
Soldiers' Self-Harm: ‘Anything Not to Go Back’ to Iraq

What about the rising trend of soldiers and Marines who are asking to go back to Iraq after having limbs amputated? Interesting that the article missed this.

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7:49 pm 6/09/08
JXC comments on:
United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians
If Korean civilians are murdered in a forest and no one hears them fall, is it really a massacre?
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11:34 am 5/28/08
theangryindian comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Sounds like any other average decision made by this administration.

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5:02 pm 3/27/08

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