Pakistan's ISI And The Taliban .... More Than Just Friends

The Pakistani Leak Machine -- Strategy Page Senior U.S. military commanders are now openly complaining about Pakistani intelligence official...

General Petraeus Hints At Striking Targets Within Pak As ‘Last Resort’

From GEO TV: WASHINGTON: The U.S. military will reserve the "right of last resort" to take out threats inside Pakistan, but it wou...

GM Collapse Would Be No Big Deal To The Military

From Nukes And Spooks: Dear readers: It seems that everything these days centers around the ongoing economic crisis, even national security ...

Army Gear Gets Tailored For Afghan Mission

U.S. soldiers stand guard near the site of an explosion in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on March 15. By Rafiq Maqbool, AP From USA To...

U.S. Sec. of State Clinton Says Most Taliban Fight Out Of Desperation, Not Belief

Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a conference on Afghanistan that most Taliban can be brought around to support the coun...

Pentagon Budget: Big Cuts Are Expected

Senator: Expect Painful Cuts In Pentagon Budget -- AP WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate defense committee chairman says Pentagon budget will includ...

Pakistani Taliban Threatens Attack On White House

From Yahoo News/AP: ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's Taliban chief claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a police academy, saying...

How Israel Foiled An Arms Convoy Bound For Hamas

From Time Magazine: Israeli fighter-bombers, backed by unmanned drones, were responsible for a mid-January attack on a 23-truck convoy in th...

World News Briefs -- March 31, 2009

Workmen place wooden boards around a war memorial statue outside the Bank of England in London. US President Barack Obama arrived in London ...

Zimbabwe Jail Likened To Death Camp

PHOTOGRAPHS PROVIDED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCASTING CORP. SUFFERING: In these screen captures from "Hell Hole" provided to The ...

Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" To Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers

From U.S. Naval Institute: Advanced missile poses substantial new threat for U.S. Navy. With tensions already rising due to the Chinese navy...

Rules o' Engagement, Sez Ye? Har, Sez I

Her shots, part of a deafening volley from her fellow cadets enrolled in the school's first-ever firearms training course, were taking a...

Iran, Syria Got Indirect U.S. Nuclear Aid

From Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- Four countries designated by the U.S. as terrorism sponsors, including Iran and Syria, received $55 ...

We're the Only Ones with a Bunch of History Enough

Disciplinary records for a Spokane County Sheriff's sergeant arrested in February show that Pete Bunch has a long history of misusing h...

The Eyes Have It

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We're the Only Ones Manly Enough

Avon Park police officer James Hilton Parker III remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond Monday, after being charged Sun...

The Supreme Law of the Planet

JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US ...

We're the Only Ones with Attitude Enough

The nearly 17-minute video shows the entire incident involving Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats and Dallas police officer Robert Powe...

Iraq War News Updates -- March 31, 2009

In a Tyrant's Shadow: Defaced images of former Iraqi President Hussein adorn an apartment building in Baghdad The Return Of The Baathist...

We're the Only Ones Planting Enough

Suit alleges Minneapolis cops planted gun by man they killed Fong Lee's family claims police had recovered the same gun in a burglary y...

We're the Only Ones Taxing Enough

An Internal Revenue Service agent who audits taxpayers in California has agreed to plead guilty to cheating on his own taxes. [ More ] I gue...

How Do You Say...

..." damned American gun shows " in Bosnian ...? Where else would he have gotten a working anti-tank missile launcher and machine ...

We're the Only Ones Going to the Dogs Enough

The apparent police vendetta against dogs continues. This time, officers in Buffalo, New York, stormed into a home during the course of a se...

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise

'Tempers were running high but the police were saying we have to wait for the fire brigade because of health and safety rules.' He a...

A Public/Private Partnership

The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not ju...

Uneasy Rivals US, Iran Meet At Afghan Conference

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, are seen at the start of a meeting at th...

Stunning Claudia

I am stunned this game should ever have been allowed to have been made. [ More ] And that tells me all I want to know about you and your ant...

After The G20 Meeting, We Have The NATO Summit

Police And Protesters Prep For NATO Summit -- AP STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Some 25,000 French and German police — and perhaps as many protes...

Europe's A400M Transport Plane Is Overbudget And Late For Delivery

An A400M was displayed for the media in June. The earliest delivery of the first aircraft appears to be at least several years away. Jose Ma...

Bans Won't Stop Violence But Gun Haters Propose Them Anyway

The writer knows what he's proposing would not have stopped the Oakland killings. And he admits the "assault weapon" ban he de...

This Day in History: March 31

A Captain [ Deshields ] who escaped from New York on Saturday Evening and who arrived here this Morning informs, that about three thousand...

Sri Lanka War News Updates -- March 31, 2009

Defiant Tigers Frustrate Sri Lanka's Military -- Yahoo News/AFP COLOMBO (AFP) – Two months after President Mahinda Rajapakse vowed that ...

North Korea Missile News Updates -- March 31, 2009 (Updated)

Photo: A soldier walks in front of Air Self Defense Forces' Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptor missile launchers. Image ...

Petraeus, Holbrooke Describe Afghanistan Strategy

From U.S. Department of Defense: WASHINGTON, March 30, 2009 – The new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will include unprecedented integration of...

Gates Securing A Role Under Yet Another President

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Dec. 11, 2008, visiting visiting Kandahar, Afghanistan. Pool photo by Scott Olson From The New York Tim...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- March 31, 2009

Russian President Medvedev takes off in supersonic fighter-jet. Hat Tip Naval Open Source Intelligence MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS...

Homeland Security Seeks Bladerunner-Style Lie Detector

Bladerunner: The Voight-Kampff test. Photograph: Public Domain From The Guardian: Do our eyes betray us when we lie? The US government hopes...

Iran Ups Support For Gaza And Lebanon Hardliners

Masked Palestinians take part on an anti-Israel rally organised by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Reuters From Der Spiegel: Iran is reportedly in...

The Wider View: Nazi Codebreaker Which Shortened The Second World War By Two Years

Mike Hillyard, one of the volunteers who rebuilt a replica of the Turing Bombe machine that played a crucial part in cracking the Nazi Enigm...

Its Official .... "War On Terror" Rhetoric No More

Hillary Clinton with President Elect Barack Obama. Photo from The Daily Mail Obama Team Drops "War On Terror" Rhetoric -- Reuters ...

Pentagon Looks At Green Options

Alternative engergy ... the Pentagon is looking at ways to become greener by partnering with private firms / Reuters From The Daily Telegra...

North Korea Missile Test -- News Updates March 31, 2009

Sat Tracks North Korean Missile Build-Up -- The Danger Room Thanks to satellite imagery firm DigitalGlobe, we not only have the clearest pic...

An Afghan boy looks through a broken window at the site of the raid in Imam Sahib. US Used by Afghan Drug Clan to Take Out Rival -- Der Spie...

Somali Piracy News Updates -- March 30, 2009

Photo: Greek commandos prepare to board Somali pirate vessel in Gulf of Aden. Credit: Greek Navy via Associated Press Pirates Attacking Germ...

Nearly 7 In 10 Major U.S. Arms Programs Over Budget

From Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of the Pentagon's 96 major weapons-buying programs were over budget in 2008 for c...

A schoolboy runs by a blazing van in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. (Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast) IRA Dissidents Burn Cars, Block Belfast Ro...

Extreme Right Gains Ground As Ukraine Falls Into Crisis

A poisonous feud between President Viktor Yuschenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, the prime minister, has compounded the problems facing Ukraine P...

World News Briefs -- March 30, 2009

President Barack Obama announces that he is appointing Ed Montgomery, right, as the Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, a...