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November 18, 2014
ISIS Aint Just A Bunch of Wackos: "ISIS is run by a council of former Iraqi generals"
This is just a continuation of the Bush war.
Don't get sidetracked by the sensationalism.
Al Qaeda in Iraq was run largely by foreigners; ISIS is run by a council of former Iraqi generals, according to Hisham Alhashimi, an adviser to the Iraqi government and an expert on ISIS. Many are members of Saddam Husseins secular Baath Party who converted to radical Islam in American prisons.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter
November 18, 2014
Did those redacted 9/11 report pages detailing Saudi involvement ever get released?
PS - this is not 'creative speculation' - it is a news report from a credible agency.
CNN: 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui claims Saudi involvement
New York (CNN) -- From his cell in a maximum security prison, terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui is reviving old allegations and making new ones against al Qaeda and a handful of Saudi royals.
The 46-year old French national is claiming that Saudi Embassy officials were involved in a plot to shoot down Air Force One to assassinate Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton during a trip to the United Kingdom.
Moussaoui says he met with a Secret Service agent several months ago and told him what he knew. CNN has reached out to the Secret Service for comment.
In two handwritten letters filed this month in federal court in New York and Oklahoma, Moussaoui claimed that, during the time he was taking flying lessons in Norman, Oklahoma, he met with a Saudi prince and princess and that she "gave me money," and provided funding for 9/11 hijackers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/world/zacarias-moussaoui-saudi-arabia/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
The 46-year old French national is claiming that Saudi Embassy officials were involved in a plot to shoot down Air Force One to assassinate Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton during a trip to the United Kingdom.
Moussaoui says he met with a Secret Service agent several months ago and told him what he knew. CNN has reached out to the Secret Service for comment.
In two handwritten letters filed this month in federal court in New York and Oklahoma, Moussaoui claimed that, during the time he was taking flying lessons in Norman, Oklahoma, he met with a Saudi prince and princess and that she "gave me money," and provided funding for 9/11 hijackers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/world/zacarias-moussaoui-saudi-arabia/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
Did those redacted 9/11 report pages detailing Saudi involvement ever get released?
PS - this is not 'creative speculation' - it is a news report from a credible agency.
November 18, 2014
Cool!
Comet Landing 2014: Rosetta Probe Philae Discovers Organic Molecules: Report
http://www.ibtimes.com/comet-landing-2014-rosetta-probe-philae-discovers-organic-molecules-report-1725228The Philae space probe was powered down earlier than expected, but not before an instrument discovered an organic compound that was first detected in the comets atmosphere, the Wall Street Journal exclusively reported Monday. The find is extraordinary considering the organic compound contains the carbon atom, which is the basis of life on planet Earth.
Further research is being conducted to see if there are complex compounds like amino acids or simple ones like methane and methanol, considered building blocks for proteins.
The research will help us to understand whether organic molecules were brought by comets to the early earth, Stephan Ulamec, the Philaes landing manager said, according to the Journal.
Further research is being conducted to see if there are complex compounds like amino acids or simple ones like methane and methanol, considered building blocks for proteins.
The research will help us to understand whether organic molecules were brought by comets to the early earth, Stephan Ulamec, the Philaes landing manager said, according to the Journal.
Cool!
November 18, 2014
Perpetual war perpetrates war, duh.
Angry about American ISIL Deaths? 1 Vet Commits Suicide Every Hour. Get Angry about That!
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14771Perpetual war perpetrates war, duh.
November 18, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/us-airbus-group-space-usa-idUSKCN0J11F320141117
More Costly Trade: Airbus wins contract for US space capsule Orion
(Reuters) - Airbus Group will develop and build a service module for the future American human space capsule, Orion, marking the first time a European firm will provide system-critical elements for a U.S. space project, it said on Monday.
Europe's largest aerospace group said the contract, signed with the European Space Agency, was worth around 390 million euros ($488 million).
The contract comes days after European scientists celebrated landing a probe on the surface of a comet for the first time.
NASA intends to use Orion to fly astronauts to an asteroid that has been robotically relocated into a high orbit around the moon. Eventually, the U.S. space agency wants to fly a four-member crew to Mars.
Europe's largest aerospace group said the contract, signed with the European Space Agency, was worth around 390 million euros ($488 million).
The contract comes days after European scientists celebrated landing a probe on the surface of a comet for the first time.
NASA intends to use Orion to fly astronauts to an asteroid that has been robotically relocated into a high orbit around the moon. Eventually, the U.S. space agency wants to fly a four-member crew to Mars.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/us-airbus-group-space-usa-idUSKCN0J11F320141117
November 17, 2014
Obama: There are "circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy U.S. ground troops"
Quote: There are always circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy U.S. ground troops (in Iraq)
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/15/us/isis-hagel-troops/
EDIT: Basically, "We can't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud".
Heard this all before.
November 16, 2014
Lest We Forget. 1 Vet Commits Suicide Every Hour.
Let's not send any more troops into the 1400 year old Sunni/Shia war, as was suggested just after Veterans Day by General Dempsey. K?
http://m.democracynow.org/tags/366
November 15, 2014
Why was the thread "At demwings request" locked???
November 13, 2014
Is there a one stop, one click website for people to find their local Dem party meeting?
November 13, 2014
OK, can I get one mea-culpa from one of the myriad people who swore we would not escalate this war?
I imagine that if Iraq has only 8,000 troops willing to fight (as Darrell Issa reported last Sunday), Obama will sell us on further escalation.
Obama was elected to get us out of this mess. He's damaging the Dem name with his insistence that we can and should win the 1400 year old Sunni/Shia conflict. Since 'surge' is so last decade, perhaps we can call the next escalation the 'splurge'.
......meantime, we still have grannies eating out of trashcans. And they're making feeding her illegal.
Guardian: US military considers sending combat troops back to Iraq
The top-ranking officer in the American military said on Thursday that the US is actively considering the use of American troops directly in the toughest upcoming fights against the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq, less than a week after Barack Obama doubled troop levels there.
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obamas oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq.
Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraqs second largest, and re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased will be fairly complex terrain for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once again supporting.
Im not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but were certainly considering it, Dempsey said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/13/us-military-considers-troops-iraq-general
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obamas oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq.
Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraqs second largest, and re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased will be fairly complex terrain for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once again supporting.
Im not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but were certainly considering it, Dempsey said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/13/us-military-considers-troops-iraq-general
OK, can I get one mea-culpa from one of the myriad people who swore we would not escalate this war?
I imagine that if Iraq has only 8,000 troops willing to fight (as Darrell Issa reported last Sunday), Obama will sell us on further escalation.
Obama was elected to get us out of this mess. He's damaging the Dem name with his insistence that we can and should win the 1400 year old Sunni/Shia conflict. Since 'surge' is so last decade, perhaps we can call the next escalation the 'splurge'.
......meantime, we still have grannies eating out of trashcans. And they're making feeding her illegal.
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