By Craig Hoyle
With the United Arab Emirates air force having already received its Lockheed Martin F-16E/F Block 60 fighters and widely reported to also be close to approving an order for Dassault's Rafale, the presence of two sector rivals at the show comes as a surprise.
Expected to make...
The United States nuclear program has, since its inception, suffered from a number of accidents of varying forms, ranging from single-casualty research experiments (such as that of Louis Slotin during the Manhattan Project), to the nuclear fallout dispersion of the "Castle Bravo" shot in 1954...
Haqqani should buy Zardari a new Maximilian
Anjum Niaz
The Zardari-Nawaz musical chairs stands exposed before the Pakistani people. Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat appears on Ahmed Quraishi’s TSS [Sunday, Nov. 15, 08:00 pm-Aag TV] to issue this warning: this is the last chance for the...
UK pressing Karzai to negotiate with Taliban, says leaked memo
November 14, 2009
Richard Taylor, Guardian UK
Foreign Office and MI6 are backing efforts to remove ‘reconciled Talibs’ from UN sanctions list
British officials are increasing pressure on the Afghan government to talk...
Thousands of guns US sent to Afghanistan are missing
CNN International
WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan’s government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday.
The U.S. military failed to...
Taliban expands control of Nuristan
Taliban fighters are expanding their control of Afghanistan's Nuristan province, an area they claim to have recaptured from US troops.
A video obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera purports to show Taliban fighters in the Kamdesh district.
Their leaders...
Afghans: India Using Afghanistan Soil To Destabilize Pakistan
April 2, 2009
“India is using Afghan soil to destabilize Pakistan and Afghan security agencies are unable to stop Indian intervention due to absence of centralized government mechanism”, says Afghan Government’s...
Pakistan Army to US / NATO: DO MORE!
Orla Guerin, BBC News
Pakistani forces fighting the Taliban near the Afghan border claim American and Afghan troops aren’t doing enough to help.
Commanders in the troubled north western region of Bajaur complain of a lack of effort, and a lack of...
Ahmed Quraishi
ISLAMABAD A rumpus is brewing in a small corner of the Pakistani media over the safety of a New Delhi-based American journalist. Being a US citizen has its benefits and Mr. Mathew Rosenberg is lucky to have a few coming to his defence in Pakistan. A couple of months ago a...
I'd like to ask a few questions here:
1. How is it that militants have accurate information about buildings being operated by our spy agencies?
2. How is it that militants have accurate information about different army personnel?
3. Are we compromised in anyway? I mean c'mon its like our spy...
"The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs. This lover of the Arabs is more...
Top US lawmaker sees base attack as 'Islamist extremism'
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas' Fort Hood military base was an act of "Islamist extremism."
Lieberman, a former...
Allied forces ‘may abandon most of northern Helmand’
A new strategy for Afghanistan that could lead to a British troop withdrawal from a former Taleban stronghold in northern Helmand province sparked immediate controversy yesterday.
According to a senior Nato source, Western...
Dude, you didn't get the gist of the article. Besides, I knew from the beginning that there will be troop surge, it is only a question of numbers.
Afghan war is not winnable, if only people could learn from history.
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Official US Air Force Document Reveals the True Intentions Behind the US-Colombia Military Agreement
by Eva Golinger
An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity...