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Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan

"VENTURA, California - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is... more

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9/11 Press For Truth - Full

This is the film by the families of the victims. You may remember four of them being... more

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Govt Won't Use Torture Coerced Info in NY 9/11 Suspect Trials

Rachel Maddow show detailing some of the attorneys and interviews Michael Issikoff.

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Blackwater Approved Secret Payments to Iraq After Shootings

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Say NO to "islam"

This is something I expected. It was in the cards. Non-Islamic countries are falling... more

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Police Prepare Plague Drill at Elementary School

"LAKE IN THE HILLS – Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line... more

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Iraq's bomb detectors are useless?

Getting caught up on this story from yesterday in the NY Times: Apparently security forces in Iraq are using bomb detecting "wands" that the Pentagon thinks are useless. All those checkpoints that are supposed to keep Iraq's cities safe from car bombs might not be having much of an effect at all.

From the NY Times:
"The Iraqis, however, believe passionately in them. “Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives. Dale Murray, head of the National Explosive Engineering Sciences Security Center at Sandia Labs, which does testing for the Department of Defense, said the center had “tested several devices in this category, and none have ever performed better than random chance.”

Iraq is in the middle of a delicate transition period. Things have begun to seem more stable, less violent. US troops have pulled back to their bases, out of the cities. And blast walls in the capital have even come down. But with recent bombings in Baghdad - bomb detection is a really critical part of maintaining security. The New York Times described the wands as working on the "same principle as a Ouija board" - by the power of user suggestion.

From the NY Times:
"On Tuesday, a guard and a driver for The New York Times, both licensed to carry firearms, drove through nine police checkpoints that were using the device. None of the checkpoint guards detected the two AK-47 rifles and ammunition inside the vehicle. During an interview on Tuesday, General Jabiri challenged a Times reporter to test the ADE 651, placing a grenade and a machine pistol in plain view in his office. Despite two attempts, the wand did not detect the weapons when used by the reporter but did so each time it was used by a policeman. “You need more training,” the general said."

On the Current News Blog: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/05/iraqs-bomb-detectors-are-useless/

The story in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html
Image: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/04/world/04sensors_CA1.htmlGetting caught up on this story from yesterday in the NY Times: Apparently security... more

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Sri Lanka: Notes from a War on Terror

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka during the final days... more

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5 British Troops Killed by Afghan Police

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Feds: No True Count of Iraq Contractors

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CIA Agents Found Guilty of Italy Kidnapping

"An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and... more

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Uzbek terror and the UK/USA

Murray: CIA used Uzbek torture to create false intelligence; support for regime continues

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Militants kill 6 Pakistani Sercurity

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Morale Drops for Marines in Afghanistan

"“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader of the Baluch tribe, who rules like a medieval baron. “Young people are turning against them and in time will fight them.”

“I’m not much for this war. I’m not sure it’s worth all those lives lost,” said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.

A New Yorker who joined the marines after 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq, Richardson, 24, said his men had achieved much. “You can see we are making progress, slowly. But when we leave, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda will surely return.”

The platoon knows there are at least 20 booby-trapped bombs on the high ground around the base. More than half the men have already been caught in blasts. One marine explosive expert was killed; others suffered broken legs and amputated feet. Three have survived two explosions and come back to fight again.

Later, a marine intelligence officer said the drug economy and the feudal system made the strategy of winning hearts and minds extremely complex. As drug producers, men such as Khan had a “working relationship with the Taliban”.

Nobody knew of the announcement last week in Kabul of a new round of national elections. Nobody voted in the first round. “We never even heard of elections. If we had, I suppose we might have voted,” said one villager."

You may wonder why NATO supports adding 40,000 more American troops to occupy Afghanistan. Well, when you look back at the Opium Wars and, here's a quote from Wikipedia of all places:

"The success of the First Opium War allowed the British to resume the drug trafficking within China. It also paved the way for the opening of the lucrative Chinese market and Chinese society to missionary endeavors."

you'll find that the British got the Opium from Afghanistan and they've been trying to control it ever since. When the Soviets tried to invade Afghanistan, not to spread Communism, but to get the Opium as well, the British intelligence and their American surrogates (b/c the British use the American military to fight its wars b/c they are weak and also co-conspire to stage world events) funded and armed the Taliban to fight them off.

I won't even get into 9/11 except for the fact that all the hijackers were Saudi Arabian (Al Qaeda=CIA), but anyway, our soldiers are dying because of Heroin, not Terrorism, Heroin. Terrorism is a front to introduce a police state, Big Brother, surveillance society: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25surveillance.html. Its a method to divide the people along religious lines; they've been doing it since the Crusades and laughing all the way to the Swiss bank.

Its going to be a long, cold winter for our troops in Afghanistan and when the spring comes, the Taliban will surge and kill a lot of Americans (thousands). Imagine being 22 years old and being sent to a remote mountain in Kandahar; you're a sitting duck, surrounded by militants who don't care if they die. There's no way we can win. We need to demand that our troops be brought home before they're sent back in body bags."“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader... more