Free Iraq
The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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| Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991 | معالم وأحداث غير مكشوفة في البرنامج النووي الوطني العراقي 1981-1991 | 
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Friday, November 02, 2007
"The Pentagon does not release the number of troops killed by snipers"
"The Pentagon has asked Congress for $1.4 billion in emergency spending to combat a growing threat of sniper attacks in Iraq based on an overstated assessment of the extent of the attacks, its records show.
In last week's spending request, the Pentagon said sniper attacks have quadrupled in the past year and, if unchecked, the attacks could eclipse roadside bombs as the top killer of U.S. troops. However, the rate of sniper attacks has dropped slightly in 2007 and fallen dramatically in the past four months, according to military records given to USA TODAY.
Pentagon officials acknowledged the mistake Monday after questions about the data were raised by USA TODAY.
"The term quadrupled will be removed from the justification because it is simply incorrect," said Dave Patterson, deputy undersecretary of Defense.
In 2006, there were 386 sniper attacks on coalition forces, according to data from the Multi-National Force-Iraq headquarters in Iraq. Through Oct. 26 of this year, there were 269 sniper attacks, the figures show.
The Pentagon does not release the number of troops killed by snipers. Improvised explosive devices have killed about 1,600 U.S. troops, more than half of all combat deaths since the war began in 2003.
.... The Pentagon has been deploying countersniper technology this year, including remotely fired weapons that allow troops to stay inside vehicles and avoid exposure to gunfire.
Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace, a Norwegian company with a major plant in Johnstown, Pa., is supplying the Army with as many as 6,500 of the systems, according to Jeffrey Child, a company spokesman."
Pentagon misstates sniper data in $1.4B request October 31, 2007
- 634 soldiers killed,
- 206 soldiers injured,
- 23 officer killed,
- 11 snipers killed.
This is the full Juba 2 video (30 minutes, 80MB, Real Player).
Need any further confirmation of the modern U.S. police state?
Here's the latest in an endless series of open, brazen assaults on what little remains of security and privacy in today's America: the Bush Administration asserting that it has the "right" to read anyone's e-mails, anywhere, anytime, without so much as a "may I" to an ISP, let alone a court order.
E-mail privacy to disappear?
This is an assertion of spying rights so breathtaking as to be unprecedented in any nation -- not even China is claiming this kind of power.
But then, America's not a democracy anymore. Those who have any conscience left, get out while you still can.
: November 03, 2007 1:11 AMhttp://theunitedstatesofmonsters.blogspot.com/
Here's America's much-vaunted (sic.) "commitment" to democracy, displayed in bright, shining (blood-red) colours. U.S. Is Likely to Continue Aid to Pakistan
Now ask yourself: If you are an average (dirt-poor and barely literate) Pakistani, and the choice comes down to your corrupt, brutally repressive U.S.-supported military dictator (Pervez Musharraf), or Al-Qaeda (brutally repressive and regressive, but at least, within limits, honest and "true to Islamic principles"), which one would YOU pick? (Note: You don't get to ick, "democracy". Musharraf, with Washington's tacit blessing, has thrown everybody with even a remotely democratic instinct, to rot in jail.)
This is a narrative that has been endlessly played out in the Third World, (for example with the Shah of Iran, or Batista in Cuba) -- the U.S. obstinately opposes democracy, instead supporting a weak, unpopular puppet dictator, eventually the dictator gets turfed out... but the opposition forces that do it, are frequently radical, authoritarian movements (e.g. the Iranian religious nuts or the Khymer Rouge) that make these poor countries even more repressive.
And in this case, when Osama's boys get control over Pakistan because its desperate masses have nowhere else to turn, to get rid of their U.S.-supported tyrant, they'll inherit 30 to 100 atomic bombs, all ready to go.
Three guesses where they'll land. Couldn't happen to a nicer Empire.
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