Should We Release Captured Afghan Taliban Fighters?

Afghan policemen stand next to a captured Taliban fighter after a gun battle on Saturday. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters Pakistan Alleges Afghans A...

Better Military Technology Does Not Lead To Shorter Wars, Analysis Reveals

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Mar. 31, 2010) — It is generally assumed that military technology that is offensive rather than defensive ...

US Launches Agency To Monitor Everyone

Army Biometrics U.S. Army Staff Sgts. Jerrod McClure, foreground, and Aaron McFarland, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, input Iraqi...

What Does The Defection Of A Top Iranian Nuclear Scientist Mean?

The Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the United States is thought to have worked on the Iran nuclear program at this suspected uran...

Iraq's Election Uncertainty Continues

Empowered Sadrists Organize New Ballot in Iraq -- New York Times BAGHDAD — Followers of Moktada al-Sadr, the militant cleric whose militia w...

Election Chaos In Sudan As Main South Sudan Party Boycotts The Election

Photo : Presidential Candidate Yassir Arman South Sudan Party Withdraws Presidential Candidate -- Reuters KHARTOUM, March 31 (Reuters) - Sou...

Is The Afghan Taliban At War With The Taliban In Pakistan?

Terrorist vs. Terrorist -- Ralph Peters, New York Post Bad-guy fratricide in AfPak. As an intelligence officer or journalist, you've go...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- March 31, 2010

Russia's Hot Spot -- Rajan Menon, L.A. Times The deadly suicide bombings Monday in two Moscow subway stations demonstrate clearly that t...

World News Briefs -- March 31, 2010 (Evening Edition)

Chechen Rebel Doku Umarov Claims Responsibility For Moscow Blasts -- Times Online A Chechen militant leader claimed responsibility last nigh...

O'Reilly Pays Legal Bill For Fallen Marine's Father

Margie M. Phelps, left, stands with her husband Pastor Fred Phelps and her daughter Margie J. Phelps during a lunchtime demonstration. JED K...

Risk Management, Bold Republican-Style

Why...nobody told us there's be risks ... [ Read ] I trust nobody thought their howls of protests were calculated to do anything but gi...

Are CIA Gitmo Officers In Danger?

CIA Says ACLU-Backed Plan Endangered Gitmo Officers - -Washington Times A team of CIA counterintelligence officials recently visited the U.S...

GRE Round Up for Mar. 31

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via em...

Where There's Smoke...

An eastern Pennsylvania hospital says it plans to stop hiring new employees who are smokers. [ More ] I wonder when someone's going to g...

The UK Are Expecting Heavy Casualties From Afghanistan This Summer. Should We Also Be Concerned?

Photo: Invaluable care: Lance Corporal Stuart Hale, 24, undertakes rehabilitation at Headley Court in Surrey - one of two major hospitals t...

President Obama Calls For Iran Sanctions Within Weeks

Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant. Western governments fear Iran is using its nuclear programs to make weapons. Photo from Radio Free Europe ...

After The Moscow Subway Bombings, Russia's War In The Caucasus Heats Up

The site of two explosions in the southern Russian town of Kizlyar on Wednesday. Zaur Halikov/Reuters Bomb Attacks In Southern Russia Aim At...

Serbia Is Coming To Terms With It's Past

More than 600 coffins with remains of victims of Srebrenica massacre wait for the funeral in a factory hall in Potocari. Photo: Reuters Serb...

We're the Only Ones Getting Our Story Straight Enough

When police questioned him, the man, who later turned out to be Officer Thomas , said he didn’t hear any gunshots. [ More ] and then: ...Of...

If Only We Had...

...more cameras. [ More ] Of course, that depends on what they record ... [Via Ed M ]

We're the Only Ones Down the Up Staircase Enough

Police: Cop charged in man's death had pushed him down steps... ... Joe Hamilton told the Post-Dispatch on Tuesday that when he gave th...

Judge Urbina's Wisdom Prevails!

Four Die in D.C. Drive-By Shooting [ More ] Say, that's some " compelling government interest " you're preserving there, j...

Moscow Subway Bombings -- The Aftermath

Mourners standing at the site of a bombing in the Park Kultury metro Tuesday. Putin says the organizers will be “dredged from the bottom of ...

Hamblen Petition

I've been following this case for some time. It's a shame more haven't, because at the very least, being unaware of such thing...

Was Key Evidence Left Out of DC Gun Case?

With these stakes, The Times' critique is serious, all the more so because Halbrook has earned such an august reputation, not just a...

This Day in History: March 31

March 31, 1778 "I hope a due attention will also be paid to keeping up a sufficient quantity of Cloathing, that the Soldiers may never...

Is There A Poison Pill In The New START Agreement? And Is It Called Missile Defense?

President Barack Obama discusses the START treaty, during a phone call with President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia in the Oval Office, , March ...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- March 31, 2010

U.S. Forces Set Sights On Taliban Bastion Of Kandahar -- Washington Post KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- U.S. forces have begun the initial phases ...

World News Briefs -- March 31, 2010

The site of two explosions in Russia’s southern town of Kizlyar. Reuters Echoing Moscow Attack, Dagestan Bombings Underscore Russia's Te...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- March 31, 2010

NEW COMBAT SHIP - The Navy's newest littoral combat ship USS Independence arrives at Mole Pier at Naval Air Station Key West, March 29, ...

The Difference Between Russian Prime Minister Putin And Russian President Medvedev

Russian President Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Putin From Foreign Policy: Ever wonder why Vladimir Putin is so much more popular in R...

Should Protestors Be Permitted At The Funerals Of Our Fallen Soldiers? U.S. Supreme Court To Decide

Justices To Hear Case Of Protest At Marine Funeral -- New York Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the f...

Ayad Allawi, Iraq's Next Prime Minister .... Maybe

Ayad Allawi spoke of being viciously attacked in his bedroom in 1978 in London, where he was in exile after breaking with Saddam Hussein...

Tech That Uses The Ocean Waves To Power A "Vessel"

Engage the wave drive (Image: Liquid Robotics) Oceanology: Robot 'Gliders' Swim The Undersea World -- New Scientist THE way we stud...

US General Sorry For Blaming Massacre On Gay Soldiers

The cemetery at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and Cemetery to Genocide Victims. Photo from Wikipedia US General Apoloises For Blaming Gay...