Archive for the 'War' Category
Pakistan Drone Attack Kills Nine
January 23rd, 2009Via: BBC: A suspected US drone missile attack has killed nine people in north-western Pakistan, local witnesses say. At least one missile hit a house in a village near the town of Mirali in North Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda and Taleban militants. A second suspected drone attack has now been reported in South Waziristan […]
Gaza ‘Looks Like Earthquake Zone’
January 20th, 2009Via: BBC: The worst-hit areas in the Gaza Strip after Israel’s three-week offensive look as if they have been hit by a strong earthquake, aid agencies say. Correspondents in Gaza City say entire neighbourhoods have been flattened and bodies are still being recovered. The UN says it is still sheltering at least 35,000 Palestinians while […]
More Americans Joining Military as Jobs Dwindle
January 20th, 2009Via: New York Times: The last fiscal year was a banner one for the military, with all active-duty and reserve forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004, the year that violence in Iraq intensified drastically, Pentagon officials said. And the trend seems to be accelerating. The Army exceeded its […]
And Then They Came for Me: Journalist Writes His Own Obituary and Is Assassinated Days Later
January 19th, 2009Via: The Sunday Leader: No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. […]
And Now… Plague Sweeps Through al Qaeda Terror Training Camp, Killing 40
January 19th, 2009Well, let’s take a quick walk down Cryptogon memory lane: Plague-Infested Mice Missing from Bioterror Research Lab World of Warcraft Disease Model U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu Researchers Have Isolated the Genes that Made the 1918 Flu Pandemic So Deadly, and Spliced Those Genes Into Modern Flu Viruses Via: Telegraph: The Black […]
U.S. Making “Other Arrangements” for Munitions Delivery to Israel
January 18th, 2009Via: Guardian: The Pentagon has suspended the delivery of a shipload of munitions to Israel after international concern that it could be used by Israeli forces in Gaza. The German-owned cargo vessel, Wehr Elbe, under charter by the US Military Sealift Command, is currently in Greek waters with its transponder tracking turned off to prevent […]
Gaza Residents: IDF Troops Posing as Hamas Men
January 18th, 2009This story initially appeared on the following haaretz.com page: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054461.html Here’s a screenshot of how it used to look. The text is below. Via: mirror-world: Gaza residents: IDF troops posing as Hamas men By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent on: 11.01.2009 The testimonies of Gaza Strip residents are revealing new details about the Israel Defense Forces’ […]
U.S. Military Report Warns “Sudden Collapse” of Mexico Is Possible
January 15th, 2009Cryptogon subreddit participants are discussing this in relation to the North American Union. Via: El Paso Times: Mexico is one of two countries that “bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse,” according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats. The command’s “Joint Operating Environment (JOE 2008)” report, which […]
Crook Hands Out Presidential Medals of Freedom to a Bunch of Other Crooks
January 14th, 2009It’s not the Onion. Via: CNN: Three former wartime allies were reunited at the White House for one last time on Tuesday when President George W. Bush awarded America’s top civilian honor to the former prime ministers of Britain and Australia. In his last days in office Bush presented Tony Blair and John Howard with […]
Neocon Columnist Calls For Military Draft, Cites Possible Invasion Of Pakistan
January 14th, 2009Rahm Emanuel 2006: “This is not a draft. It’s a universal service.” The U.S. will probably wind up with a conscription plan that falls somewhere between the plans being pushed by these two assholes. Via: Prison Planet: A Washington Times columnist has claimed that a universal military draft is a key necessity if America is […]
