July 27, 2014

Israel now admits it was their missile that hit the school

but says "it was empty" at the time..

July 25, 2014

Day 4 verdict watch at Jesse Ventura defamation trial

against widow of Chris Kyle "American Sniper".


Verdict watch at Jesse Ventura defamation trial
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26114376/verdict-watch-at-jesse-ventura-defamation-trial


Defamation trial reveals somber side of former Gov. Jesse Ventura
http://www.startribune.com/local/268448062.html

July 25, 2014

We are no longer here, do you care?

'Dutch Children Protest the Killing of their Palestinian Peers'

Dutch children have taken part of a short movie to protest against the continuing Israeli bombings of Palestinian civilians; children in particular.

July 23, 2014

War visible from space

Tweet from a German astronaut aboard the International Space Station today:

@Astro_Alex

My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel

July 23, 2014

Revealed: the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/10984259/Revealed-the-Palestinian-children-killed-by-Israeli-forces.html

July 16, 2014

GOP Candidate mistakes YMCA bus for migrant children

watch his face when reporter tells him they were YMCA Camp kids IDIOT

http://www.azcentral.com/story/brahm-resnik/2014/07/15/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children/12701279/

June 24, 2014

Lawrence of Afghanistan: Rise and Fall of a Special Forces Legend

(absolutely fascinating story!)

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jim-gant-top-green-beret-officer-forced-resign/story?id=24266710

Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter

Jun 24, 2014, 10:21 AM ET

By JAMES GORDON MEEK, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS


A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.

His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.

“We did fall in love, I would say over the course of about a week,” Tyson told ABC News in an interview, recalling that Gant asked her to marry him within a few days of meeting each other in 2010. She laughed him off at first, but eventually he won her over.

By the time he was yanked out of Afghanistan two years later because of his relationship with Tyson, Gant also had won over three Pashtun tribes with substantial influence throughout Kunar province. Top commanders had tasked him with turning the tide of a conflict America was losing, and in his corner of the war, Gant was winning.
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June 13, 2014

Haqqani that captured Bergdahl killed in drone strike

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/haqqani-network-militants-killed-u-s-drone-strike-taliban-n129526

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Ten militants wiped out by a U.S. drone attack early Thursday were members of the feared Haqqani network that kidnapped U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a senior Taliban source said.

Among the dead were two senior Haqqani commanders known as “Qari Yar Jan” and “Roohullah,” the source told NBC News on the condition of anonymity.
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June 9, 2014

Bergdahl swiftboater on Hillary supporters: kill them all

Classy: @CodyFNfootball, the media star leading campaign against Sgt Bergdahl, on Hillary supporters: "Kill them all"
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/476095608215056385/photo/1

June 9, 2014

Bergdahl Wasn't Only Soldier to 'Walk Off' Afghan Outposts

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bergdahl-soldier-walk-off-afghan-outposts/story?id=24053366

WASHINGTON - Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and fell into enemy hands for five years, but the former Taliban prisoner wasn't the only trooper to sneak out of a U.S. base in recent years, military sources told ABC News on Sunday.

"At least a dozen guys just walked off their posts" in Afghanistan since 2009 for a variety of reasons, said an experienced soldier, one of four Afghan war veterans familiar with the incidents who spoke to ABC News. The other sources estimated the number could be more than a dozen.

The highly experienced combat veterans -- whose deployments cover the entire Afghan campaign -- said the significant incidents spanned a timeframe from when President Bush in late 2008 boosted conventional troop numbers in Afghanistan to well beyond President Obama's early 2010 surge that added 30,000 more troopers to the fight
The soldiers discreetly slipped "outside the wire" to find drugs or were already intoxicated, left to "hang out" with local Afghan villagers or Afghan forces, or just simply snuck away without any idea where to go or what to do, the Army sources said.
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