Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Jordan Suicide bomber Kills 7 CIA Agents!
WTF? I missed this story when it happened over the holidays but NPR is going hard with it today. Wow! Between this and the attempted Christmas Day bombing, sh-t is getting real sloppy in this so-called War on Terror.
Read more...
Jordanian suicide bomber who killed CIA agents 'was a triple agent.' [Times of London]
Suicide bomber who attacked CIA post in Afghanistan was a trusted informant [my emphasis] from Jordan. [Washington Post]
[note: I know Russia Today, whose video is featured above, is not exactly an unbiased news source and Wayne Madsen is a questionable analyst too but the basic premise of this story is not in dispute and is troubling in of itself]
Labels: Al Qaeda, Government Incompetence, taliban, War on Terror, WTF
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
CBS Video: Taliban Massacres Women and Children in Marketplace Attack
At least 100 civilians are feared dead. Read more via Voice of America HERE.
WTF??!? Sh-t is looney tunes out in the Middle East right now....
Labels: Pakistan, taliban, War on Terror
CBS Video: Deadly Coordinated Taliban Attacks Today in Lead-Up to the Afghan Run-Off Election
Friday, October 23, 2009
AP Video: Thousands in Pakistan Flee As Taliban Fight Intensifies
Related:
Eric Mrgolis Op-Ed: Flames from the Afghan war ignite Pakistan.
Now we have a mess in Iraq, Afghnistan and Pakistan! Thanks, GWB!
Labels: Pakistan, taliban, War on Terror, WTF
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Taliban Situation in Pakistan is Getting Serious!
From the video, Olivier Guillard on the possibility of the Taliban totally taking over Pakistan: "The scenario is probably totally bleak and I'm not sure the civilian government has really realised that."
Not to be completely simplistic about it but, THIS.IS.NOT.GOOD!!!!
Related:
The Pakistani Army, Backed by Air Power, Tries to Stem Taliban Advance. [NY Times]
Has Pakistan collapsed into civil war? [Creative Loafing]
Labels: Pakistan, taliban, War on Terror, WTF
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
War on Terror Update!
Haven't done on of these in a while. Thanks to my dude Patrick for calling me out on it! First off, Prison Break!
"Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan, apparently in a push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said." [Click here for more from the NYT]
"His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending off the sexual advances of another man in a homeless shelter." [Click here for more from amNY.com]
Army suicides up 20 percent in 2007, report says. [CNN.com]
More on this tragedy:
"Suicides in Iraq; It's Worse Than You Thought." [American Chronicle]
CBS News' report on the rising number of Army suicides. [YouTube video]
Meanwhile Bush and McCain opposed the expanded GI Bill but it's the Democrats who hate the troops??
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"Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan, apparently in a push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said." [Click here for more from the NYT]
"His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending off the sexual advances of another man in a homeless shelter." [Click here for more from amNY.com]
Army suicides up 20 percent in 2007, report says. [CNN.com]
More on this tragedy:
"Suicides in Iraq; It's Worse Than You Thought." [American Chronicle]
CBS News' report on the rising number of Army suicides. [YouTube video]
Meanwhile Bush and McCain opposed the expanded GI Bill but it's the Democrats who hate the troops??
Labels: Afghanistan, GOP incompetence, taliban, War on Terror
