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POPSAfghan president Karzai demands US end civilian casulties "Our demand is that there will be no civilian casualties in Afghanistan. We cannot win the fight against terrorism with airstrikes," Karzai said. "This is my first demand of the new president of the United States - to put an end to civilian casualties."
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POPSUS airstrike kills 9 Afghan soldiers at checkpoint n the last month, uniformed Afghan police officers have twice opened fire on U.S. troops, killing two soldiers. The police officers were killed by U.S. soldiers returning fire, but the incidents raised fears that insurgents have infiltrated Afghanistan's security forces as a cover to launch attacks. In the country's southern Uruzgan province, a two-day battle that ended early Wednesday killed 35 Taliban fighters and three Afghan police, said Juma Gul Himat, Uruzgan's provincial police chief.
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POPSAfghan leader assails airstrike on civilians “It is quite obvious, the Americans bombed the area due to wrong information,” he said by telephone. “I am 100 percent confident that someone gave the information due to a tribal dispute. The Americans are foreigners and they do not understand. These people they killed were enemies of the Taliban.”
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POPSIn photos: 'Georgia South Ossetia Conflict August 8th' The Georgian government and separatists in its region of South Ossetia deployed fighter jets to carry out bombings on one another on 08 August after a ceasefire declared by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was broken after a few hours, a news report said. Many civilians were killed in the airstrikes, Russia‘s Interfaxnews agency reported, citing South Ossetia‘s Health Ministry. The South Ossetia side for the first time deployed two Suchoi SU-25 fighter jets to bomb Georgian positions, and a short timelater, Georgia sent five of the same jets to carry out attacks in South Ossetia, Interfax said.
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POPSSaakashvili Orders Full Mobilization Against Rebel Region
At least 15 people, primarily civilians, were killed in heavy shelling and airstrikes of the capital Tskhinvali, news agency Interfax cited South Ossetian officials as saying. Georgia accused three Russian Sukoi SU-24 aircrafts of bombing Georgian villages, and a short time later, sent out five of the same jet to carry out attacks on South Ossetia. Russia denied it had sent out bombers Friday. 'A full-scale military aggression has been launched against Georgia,' Saakashvili said in his speech, calling on Russia to 'immediately stop bombardment of the Georgian towns.' But Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed Georgia with initiating the 'aggressive action' in televised comments from Beijing and said that Russia would be compelled to retaliate. But the United States is a close ally of the pro-Western Saakashvili, and it is its backing of Georgia's bid to join NATO in April that is seen to have escalated tension in the region.
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POPSAttack Iran? Cheney's Already Tried After he become head of the Central Command (Centcom) in March 2007, Admiral William Fallon also made his opposition to such a massive attack on Iran known to the White House, according Middle East specialist Hillary Mann, who had developed close working relationships with Pentagon officials when she worked on the National Security Council staff. Soon after, Adm. Fallon was fired...gee I wonder why? At least there are a few semi-sane generals opposing Cheney.
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POPSIraqi Guards Leave Posts Near Baghdad I've never heard of soldiers going on strike. Don't they realize that they are at war and will be shot for desertion. Blackwater will fix it. No worries. They must be really p....d off to do this.
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POPSThe Man on Both Sides of Air War Debate As the U.S. military has significantly stepped up its use of airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Garlasco has tracked every bomb, noting their effectiveness and their potential for killing the innocent. The United States increased its use of aerial bombs in Iraq by more than 500 percent from 2006 to 2007 and dropped more than 20 times as many bombs on Afghanistan last year as it did just a few years ago. That increase, part of a strategy by U.S. commanders who want to attack enemies in areas they have controlled for years, has made Garlasco’s work all the more relevant. And his previous work on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff has given him a level of credibility and a voice that few human rights activists have. He can call up officers in the Air Force’s secret facility in Southeast Asia and can walk up to U.S. command posts in Afghanistan to learn what is being done.
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POPSThe War Crimes Keep Addin Up--and Covered Up The military and the MSM do NOT want us to know what is really happening...I can only cry out and hope someday there will be some justice--but the indiscriminate killing goes on while the Bushies claim "the surge is working"! Goddamn them all to hell!
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POPSReporter Chris Hedges Says He Won't Pay His Taxes If We Preemptively Attack Iran But more ominous, an attack on Iran will ignite the Middle East. The loss of Iranian oil, coupled with possible Silkworm missile attacks by Iran against oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, could send the price of oil soaring to somewhere around $200 a barrel. The effect on the domestic and world economy will be devastating, very possibly triggering a global depression. The Middle East has two-thirds of the world's proven petroleum reserves and nearly half its natural gas. A disruption in the supply will be felt immediately.
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POPS'Taliban surrounded' in Kandahar fight Go Troops! "The people are fleeing because the Taliban are taking over civilian homes..." Hiding among women and children.....trying to force our forces and allies to kill innocents along with them.
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POPSLaos: U.S. war remains still killing 30 years after Vietnam War
More: The State Department has requested $1.4 million to fund efforts to clear unexploded ordnance in Laos in 2008, less than half the amount Washington provided this year. A U.S. diplomat in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, said he was told to expect only $900,000 next year U.S. B-52 bombers and other warplanes flew more than half a million missions over Laos and dropped between 2 million and 3 million tons of ordnance Nong lost his 18-year-old wife, Mee, in 1986 when the couple gathered with other villagers around a fire one night to chat about the day's big news, an attack by a wild pig. As they usually did for important gatherings, the women built a fire to warm a pot of rice wine. Problem was, one of the legs in the tripod was an unexploded rocket-propelled grenade, which blew up. As Nong, 50, recalled the day, several neighbors took seats on logs and stones in his dirt yard to show missing fingers, scarred legs and arms, and talk of the curse all around them.
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POPSOur Friends (and allies!) the Saudis The man-love relationship between Bush and the Saudi "princes" continue to baffle. It's not just Bush, of course, this unnatural love has gone on for decades. It is now, I think, the reason we had the first Gulf War, which at the time I was not even curious about. Could it be that our keeper's lovers were next in line if Saddam had gotten away with a successful invasion of Kuwait? Why, yes I believe it was. Was it Jon Stewart who reminded us that 20% the 9/11 terrorists were NOT from Saudi Arabia?
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POPSWar with Iran will happen Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for "pinprick strikes" against Iran's nuclear facilities. "They're about taking out the entire Iranian military," he said. Are we having fun yet? Here's Debat's (Debat-sh*t?) perfectly rational reasoning: "Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same." It was, he added, a "very legitimate strategic calculus". Will someone please take him away and put him in a rubber room? According to one well placed source, Washington believes it would be prudent to use rapid, overwhelming force, should military action become necessary
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