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• Face of Defense: Blind Officer Completes Course

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  FORT BENNING, Ga., Dec. 24, 2009 – The first blind student to attend the Maneuver Captains Career Course here graduated with his class Dec. 15 in a ceremony attended by family and friends. Army Lt. Col. Fredrick Dummar, commander of the Special Operations Recruiting Battalion at Fort Bragg, N.C., congratulates Army ...
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• CHRISTMAS 1944 - GERMAN DECEPTION & SPECIAL OPERATIONS IN THE ARDENNES

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 629
  Two major special operations were planned for the Ardennes Offensive. By October it was decided Otto Skorzeny, the German commando who had rescued the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, was to lead a task force of English-speaking German soldiers in Operation Greif. Waffen SS Obersturmbahnfuhrer Otto ...
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• Spanish diplomat allegedly involved in trafficking; five held

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Five people, including a Spaniard, have been arrested for allegedly sending unemployed youth from Punjab to European countries on fake documents but genuine visas obtained with the help of a Spanish diplomat here, police said Thursday.The Special Operations Squad (SOS) of the Crime Branch ...
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• Sri Lankan, Indian teams arrive in Bhubaneshwar for third ODI

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Bhubaneshwar, Dec 19 (IANS) The Indian and Sri Lankan cricket teams arrived here amidst tight security Saturday for the third One-day International to be played Monday at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack.The teams arrived at the Biju Patnaik Airport by a chartered flight from Nagpur. India were without captain ...
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• U.S. steps up special operations mission in Afghanistan

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Under the shift in strategy, the teams now focus on targeting key Taliban figures rather than mainly hunting Al Qaeda leaders and have increased the number of raids they conduct, officials say. Reporting from Washington - The U.S. military command has quietly shifted and intensified the mission of clandestine special ...
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• Afghanistan: The 9 Surges of Mr Obama’s War

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 596
  Tom Englehardt, writing at TomDispatch , goes beyond the headline “30,000 extra troops” of President Obama’s recent announcement to detail the extent of the US escalation and long-term commitment — despite Obama’s initial declaration of a “beginning to the end” of the military presence in July 2011 — ...
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• Obama Curbed Pakistan Drone Strikes

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  Great reporting from Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball about the Obama administration’s debate over CIA (and maybe Joint Special Operations Command) drone strikes in Pakistan against senior al-Qaeda leadership: One person standing in the way of expanded missile strikes: President Obama. Five administration officials ...
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• USAR 21st Anniversary

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 148
  The first deployment of a U. S. based USAR team was on December 10, 1998.
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• Obama expands war into Pakistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Barry Grey, wsws.org , Dec 9, 2009 One week ago, President Obama in a speech at West Point sought to portray his escalation of the war in Afghanistan as the prelude to an early withdrawal of US troops. It has since become increasingly apparent that the speech was nothing more than a calculated exercise in public ...
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• Obama expands war into Pakistan

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  Barry Grey, wsws.org , Dec 9, 2009 One week ago, President Obama in a speech at West Point sought to portray his escalation of the war in Afghanistan as the prelude to an early withdrawal of US troops. It has since become increasingly apparent that the speech was nothing more than a calculated exercise in public ...
  2 weeks ago

• Major Daniel Strelkauskas – Silver Star

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 129
  Captain Strelkauskas then directed the MSOT 2 Joint Tactical Air Controller (JTAC), through Staff Sergeant Mosser, who is also a certified JTAC, to employ CAS assets to drop a series of 500lb and 2000lb bombs within danger close as a last ditch effort to suppress the insurgents so the remaining two casualties and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S to Pakistan: `Take Care of Taliban,or We Will’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New York, Dec.8 (ANI): Tightening its noose around Pakistan for is being perceived in Washington as Islamabad’s lacklustre approach in tackling the Taliban, the Obama administration has in its latest direction, reportedly asked Pakistan to act against these groups, or else, the U.S will. The message has reportedly ...
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• The Secret US War In Pakistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By Jeremy Scahill , ZNe t, Dec 7, 2009 Source: The Nation Jeremy Scahill’s ZSpace Page At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret ...
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• US turns up pressure on Pakistan to fight Taliban: NYT

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) The Obama administration has warned Pakistan that the US will use considerably more force on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan if it does not act more aggressively against the Taliban, the New York Times reported Tuesday.The blunt message was delivered in a tense encounter in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saudis in a panic mode as Shiite rebels move North from Yemen

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Jordan has sent several hundred troops from its special operations forces to help the Saudi military with its many Shiite units contain the Yemeni Shiite rebellion, which has spread deep into the Arab kingdom. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Unique Technical Rescue in Texas

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 148
  Two roofing workers who were repairing fabric roof seams on the exterior of the dome both started slipping and slid approx. 25o fe[...]
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• Morning Lineup – December 4

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 148
  Does your department have a high-angle rescue team?
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• Obama Troop Announcement Renews Focus on Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  One of many consequences of President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan is that those troops are likely to capture many more prisoners that end up at the U.S.-run prison at Bagram air base .  That’s raising concerns among human rights groups that the recently revealed secret prison run ...
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• Retired Navy SEAL Questions Nation’s Mental State

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  EDITOR’S NOTE: President Barack Obama outlined his new strategy for waging his surge-and-retreat style of war in Afghanistan Tuesday night.  Because that strategy will involve the expedited deployment of 30,000 more troops under the cloud of an announced timetable for withdrawal, I’m eager to offer the important ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Announces 30K More Troops for Afghanistan

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  President Barack Obama addresses cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night. (Sharkpixs/ZUMA Press) In a decision that may define his presidency, Barack Obama on Tuesday night announced the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer in the hopes of bringing a ...
  3 weeks ago

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