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Obama’s War Strategy Questioned by Terrorism Experts
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed a law that will provide $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan over the next five years. The funds are part of a comprehensive plan that recognizes the importance of confronting the root causes of extremism as well as extremists themselves, according to Obama. The new law will provide $1.5... »
Terrorists Attack and Kill Pakistani Cops
Terrorists attacked three security agency buildings in Pakistan today, including the Federal Investigation Agency headquarters and two police training centers in Lahore. In addition, a suicide car bomber struck in the northwestern city of Kohat, and a bombing in Quetta in the southwest of the country left more dead. There were five terrorist attacks in... »
“Please, God, No…It’s So Hot, I’m Burning Up”
"The floor is completely engulfed. We're on the floor, and we can't breathe, and it's very, very, very hot...I'm going to die, I know it. Please, God, no. It's so hot, I'm burning up!" These were some of the last words of Melissa Doi, 32, one of the thousands of innocent victims that perished... »
21st Century Warfare: US Army Continues Transformation
The United States Army considers the current transformation its most extensive restructuring since World War II. The Army has estimated that restructuring units from a division-based force to a more agile and responsive modular brigade-based force will require a significant investment through fiscal year 2011, according to a Congressional report obtained by the National... »
Jewish Group Expresses Grief, Outrage Over Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
As Indian forces for a third day continued to root out terrorists responsible for a wave of deadly attacks across Mumbai, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which maintains an office in Mumbai and is in close contact with Indian government and Jewish community officials, issued the following statement: The outlines of the terrorist attacks in... »
U.S. Media Ignoring Obama Mistakes With India/Pakistan
-By Warner Todd Huston Naturally, the U.S. media is following the terrorist crimes in Mumbai, India, as well they should. But, the attacks seem to be the Old Media’s only interest where it concerns India and Pakistan, of late, for they’ve completely ignored the several mistakes that Barack Obama has already made with his attempts... »
US, Afghan and Pakistani Forces Squeezing Terror Groups on Border
With US, Afghan and Pakistani forces applying pressure on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the enemy “is running out of options for places to go,” a senior US officer in the region said today. Army Col. John M. Spiszer, commander of Task Force Duke, which is centered on the 1st Infantry Division’s 3rd... »
Iranian diplomat abducted in Pakistan
Iranian diplomat Heshmatollah Atharzadeh has been kidnapped by armed men in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday morning, police have said. The diplomat’s car was ambushed in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Atharzadeh was heading from home to office with his guard when the car was ambushed in Hayatabad, a neighborhood near the... »
Taliban in Pakistan captures supply convoy bound for NATO troops
On Monday, the Pakistan branch of the Taliban captured an entire supply convoy of thirteen trucks, two armored Humvees and other supplies bound for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, without incurring a single fatality. Approximately 60 masked militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban blocked off part of a roadway in the Khyber Pass. The... »
Pakistan: Marriott Hotel in Islamabad bombed
The Marriot Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan has been bombed. At least 40 people are dead and twenty-five injured. The explosion, believed to be a car or truck bomb, occured at 8 p.m. (10 a.m. ET), just hours after newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari addressed Parliament and promised to destroy terrorism in the country. It is... »
Narcotics Trade Fuels Afghanistan Insurgency
The poppy trade that fuels terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan is a problem that must be addressed but doesn’t have a military solution, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a teleconference for Internet journalists and bloggers. Speaking at a dinner hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy, Navy Adm. Mike... »
Pakistan’s governing coalition breaks apart
The governing coalition of Pakistan split on Monday after Nawaz Sharif, former Pakistani Prime Minister, pulled his party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), out of the government. The coalition formed in March 2008 after the Pakistani general election failed to produce a party that had held a majority in Pakistan’s parliament. The group consisted... »
The 9/11 Act: Reinvention of Air Cargo Security
Approximately 12 million pounds of cargo is transported daily on passenger aircraft. To accommodate this considerable stream of commerce, the Transportation Security Administration currently has in place a multilayered, risk-based system for securing cargo traveling on passenger aircraft. As required by applicable security programs and regulations, aircraft operators and foreign air carriers are now... »
Terrorism: General Cites Need for Interagency, International Effort
Influencing, countering and ultimately defeating regional threat networks in the greater Middle East will require a “whole-of-many-nations’-governments approach,†a US commander said during a conference call yesterday with bloggers and online journalists. Faced with threats from Al-Qaeda and similar groups, as well as a nonspecific “malign Iranian influence,†US and allied strategic planners are... »
Pakistan’s Musharraf will resign within days: reports
The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf will resign within days according to reports by both The New York Times (NYT)and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The NYT reports that Musharraf will step down rather than face impeachment charges that have been brought by a broad coalition in parliament. The paper goes on to say that... »
Georgia/Russian War: Blame Obama
-By Warner Todd Huston General Wesley Clark had one thing right during his tenure as a general in the U.S. military. He understood the portentous nature of the Russian’s move to take control of the airport in Pristina, Kosovo at the end of the 1999 NATO engagement in Yugoslavia. He ordered NATO forces to gear... »
US Prepares for Nuclear Terrorism
The United States Department of Energy maintains emergency response capabilities and assets to quickly respond to potential nuclear and radiological threats within the United States. These capabilities are primarily found at DOE’s two key emergency response facilities — the Remote Sensing Laboratories at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and Andrews Air Force Base in... »
Training the Trainers in Anti-Terrorism
Immediately following President George W. Bush’s Iraq strategy speech, Beltway insiders knew exactly where to go for analysis of the proposed “surge” of troops in Iraq. People who wish to know the facts about defense issues would be hardpressed to find an organization more trustworthy and informative than the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. It’s... »
Defense Leaders: Pakistan Must Do More to Police Its Tribal Zone
by Jim Kouri, CPP Nevermind about Senator Barack Obama’s photo-op excursion to Afghanistan and Iraq, the people to whom Americans should listen are the military officers actually on the field of battle. In fact, Obama sounds as if he’s parroting the commanders when he made his comments regarding Pakistan standing up to the plate and... »
Chgo Trib’s ‘Honor Killing’ Report Omits Islam Connection
-By Warner Todd Huston OK, I am wondering here if the hanging of a black Southerner by the KKK in the American south would be reported by the Chicago Tribune in the same kind of vague language of “cultural†murder as a recent Muslim murder in Georgia was treated? More likely, of course, the story... »
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