War on Terror
Cakewalking Into Yemen: One More Chapter In The Decline & Dementia Of America’s War Party by Mark Ames
If the last few decades prove anything about America’s strategy in fighting Islamic terrorism, it’s that no matter what the other side throws our way, America will respond in the most counterintuitive and self-destructive manner imaginable.
Barack Obama’s Year in Review by Todd Purdum
It is almost impossible, today, to summon up the feeling of promise and purpose that suffused Washington just one year ago, when more than a million Americans thronged to the Mall to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama. A presidency that promised to be transformational has long since begun to feel conventional. Now it seems bedeviled beyond all recognition, with its filibuster-proof Senate majority gone in a burst of populist anger in Massachusetts.
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle by Scott Horton
1. “Asymmetrical Warfare”
When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo Naval Base “shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” Obama has failed to fulfill his promise.
"Conspiracy or cock up?" White House reaction to ersatz bomber by Michael Collins
The underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is a curious terrorist. He became disillusioned with his privileged life as the son of a bank chairman and member of the Nigerian elite, it would seem. Rather than pursuing his studies in London, he retreated to Yemen to learn the ways of al Qaeda inspired terrorism.
Old threat rings true today: How bin Laden lured U.S. into costly, bloody war by Eric Margolis
The year: 1986. I went to the grandly titled "Afghan Information Centre", a drab little office in Peshawar, Pakistan filled with pamphlets and dusty books.
The director was a short, thin man in a torn sweater named Abdullah Azzam. We spoke at length of the anti-Soviet jihad (struggle) in Afghanistan being waged by Afghan and Arab mujahedin.
Why Does Pakistan Hate the United States? by Christopher Hitchens
Give credit to the vice president: He really does enjoy politics and "can't see a room without working it," as a colleague of mine half-admiringly remarked last Wednesday morning. We were waiting to enter the studio and comment after Biden had finished his interview with the Scarborough/Brzezinski team, in which the main topic was Afghanistan. Exiting, he chose to stop and talk to each of us.
Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy by Adam Ciralsky
"I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions,” says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina. “But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.” Prince—the founder of Blackwater, the world’s most notorious private military contractor—is royally steamed. He wants to vent. And he wants you to hear him vent.
What Lies Beneath the War in Afghanistan by Eric Margolis
Truth is war's first casualty. The Afghan war's biggest untruth is, "we've got to fight terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them at home."
Many North Americans still buy this lie because they believe the 9/11 attacks came directly from the Afghanistan-based al-Qaida and Taliban movements.
False. The 9/11 attacks were planned in Germany and Spain, and conducted mainly by U.S.-based Saudis to punish America for supporting Israel.
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? by Philip Giraldi
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts.
For Mexico and Canada, the 'War on Terror' Is Over by Louis Nevaer
On the eighth anniversary of the United States declaring a global "war on terror" this September, America's continental neighbors - Mexico and Canada - have had enough.
When President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, the nation - and much of the world - was still in disbelief that Islamic terrorists had successfully carried out the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor.
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