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• News, Links of the Day, Coming WWIII, Climategate, Global Depression

  
  Europe — Authority: 131
  America sends Special Forces troops into Yemen War ~ link ~ link ~ Obama just got American into yet another war. US FIGHTER AIRCRAFT LAUNCH AIR STRIKES IN YEMENI WAR ~ link ~ Wake up America! Obama Declares War On Pakistan ~ link ~ Wake up Sheeple! Developing nations bring Copenhagen ...
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• General: Blame Taliban, Media for Afghan Civilian Deaths

  
  Danger Room — Authority: 707
  Top commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal has issued strict new guidelines on air strikes, to keep civilians from getting killed. “ It is literally how we lose the war or in many ways how we win it ,” he recently said. But many in the Air Force see the civilian casualty problem may be more a ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Military Joins CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan

  
  Danger Room — Authority: 707
  The headquarters for the American military’s air war in Central Asia and the Middle East is located in a converted medical warehouse on an undisclosed base in a country the U.S. Air Force would rather not name. The lights are turned down low, so the troops can clearly see the giant screen at the far end of the in ...
  1 week ago

• The Phrase That’s Screwing Up the Afghan Air War

  
  Wired: Danger Room — Authority: 124
  The rules of the new Afghanistan air war appear to be pretty straight-ahead. If a commander on the ground declares that his troops are “in contact” — coming under fire — then drones and fighter jets and attack helicopters will immediately streak to his location. Otherwise, the commander’s chance of getting ...
  1 week ago

• How the Afghanistan Air War Got Stuck in the Sky

  
  Danger Room — Authority: 707
  For the first eight years of the war in Afghanistan, America and its allies relied heavily on air power to keep militants in check. Then, in July, top U.S. commander General Stanley McChrystal issued tough new guidelines that made it infinitely harder to call in a strike from the sky. The idea was to eliminate the ...
  1 week ago

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to hold military manoeuvres

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Tehran, Nov 22 (DPA) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were scheduled to begin military manoeuvres Sunday, the news network Khabar reported.The exercises will last for five days and mainly focus on testing the air force capabilities and protective measures in case of any potential attacks against the country’s nuclear ...
  4 weeks ago

• Afghan Air War: More fighting, More Bombs, and Continued Civilian Casualties

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 784
  Filed under: Afghanistan Journal , Afghanistan SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- American strike fighters and bombers are pounding insurgents in Afghanistan with increasing fury, despite a standing order by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander, to avoid civilian casualties. President Obama is expected ...
  4 weeks ago

• Israel bombs weapons factory, two tunnels in Gaza

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Tel Aviv, Nov 19 (DPA) The Israel Air Force attacked what the military said was a weapons factory and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn Thursday.Three civilians were injured in the bombings, Gaza emergency services chief Mo’aweya Hassanein said.The airstrikes on the two tunnels in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• IMEMC: Palestine Today, November 19, 2009

  
  PalCast — Authority: 122
  Israeli air strikes leave three injured in the Gaza Strip while an Israeli teen stabs a Palestinian in Jerusalem. This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center. For more information, visit: http://imemc.org
  4 weeks ago

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