In late January of this year an Iraqi daily paper, Al-Mada, published a partial list naming at least 270 individuals and enities who received oil vouchers as payments for the use of their influence or supplying the needs of the regime regardless of U.N. sanctionsWhile the reactions of a few from the lst were mixed and the arab media laughable (most were well know regime appologists) the majority oof those named must have taken a vow of silence. Almost immediately the list itself was calle...

Recently, the Spainish city of Madrid was rocketed by a seris of well times & coordinated explosions that tore through several train stations this past Thursday. In the wake of the bombings, 200 innocent civilians lay dead & over 1,400 more lay wounded. They were perhaps the worst acts of violence in Spain's recent history and a wake-up call for the world. While the blame for the bombings was initially laid at the doorstep of ETA ( Basque Separatists ) by the Aznar government, analysts ...

In the early morning hours, foreign invaders attacked the United States using aircraft to launch a devastating blow that shocked the psychie of the American people and called into question their willingness to fight back. It was the first time in history that an attack of this magnitude and daring was launched against American soil, in its aftermath lay thousands of dead and dying and an almost bitter taste of revenge needing to be quenched in the minds of all in the US. Who is to b...

Last month, Hamas' spirital and operational leader and it's founder, Yassin, was killed in a targeted strike by Israeli forces...killing him, his bodyguards and unfortunately several bystanders. While a good part of the world reacted as usual that it was "uncalled for", "he was only a religious leader" etc., it was part of the course for the 'selective outrage' mentality of Europe and the middle-east. (See my article on Yassin's death) To replace Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi was 'selected' as ...

With the daily barrage of network media "hyped" stories on the varied problems the Coalition and the Iraqi people themselves face in the post-Saddam Iraq, one might get the impression that nothing has gone right for them...and to a small extent that is true but the media has tenacious appitite for pushing the so-called "hard-hitting" stories i.e. attacks on coalition/Iraqi forces then reporting on other so-called "soft" stories..i.e. anything that's not related to the attacks such as re-build...

Recently, in the town of Fulluja, roughly bout 32 miles west of Baghdad, a small two vehical convoy was attacked by insurgent forces resulting in the death of four individuals. The victims were civilian contractors working for Blackwater Security Consulting, one of several private companies hired to provide security for food shipments among other jobs and its been reported they were enroute to provide security of one such shipment when they were attacked. Now...while the attack itself was ...

With the RNC convention just days away, the city of New York prepares to face whats been coined the security event of the year. From the President of the United States to the convention delegates to even the legion of protesters outside the convention center themselves...elements from the Secret Service, NYPD, FBI, US Military and a host of other agencies will have but one mission in mind...to see to it that during the week long convention (a key target of terrorists both foreign and domesti...

We have all seen the reports and heard the news speculating that the U.S. military is having problems finding troops to deploy into both Iraq and Afghanistan all the while trying to keep up our military commitments around the numerous other spots the world over. From the majority of stories or two-line snip-its, one would get the idea that the military must be too small and needs to add more soldiers, sailors, airmen & marines fast and I might agree if I didnt do the kind of reading I do on ...

Recently, news reports across the country broke with the story that Sandy Berger, adviser to the Kerry Presidential Campaign on national security issues, was currently under criminal investigation for the theft (and I mean theft) of classified documents while reviewing them among others at the national archives prior to his appearance before the 9-11 commision. Berger the former Clinton administrations National Security Adviser, visited the archives on no less then three seperate occasions t...

In the Aftermath of the brutally barbaric killing of Nick Berg , the usual reactionary questions are being asked such as why Berg was in Iraq, why didn't the US-led coalition protect him, etc; but they are just part of the course and are not unexpected by me or many others. But while I was gonna write bout Bergs death as my main talking or maybe what should be called bitchin' point, I decided to do bit of a side story related to the incident at hand, i.e. the reaction in the middle-east over it...

Recently I came across several op-ed's pieces on the links between Mohamed Atta & the Former Iraqi Regime which by now most people have heard or read about to some extent. The report on the link itself, if true, could seriously upset what I've come to term as the Hyper-Left or even the "Useful Idiot" crowd for those that know the phrase whose arguments have been one part revolutionary, one part socialist dogma and one part intellectual elitism who have made their rather passe' catch-phrase ...

Recently....in a very non-DOD approach, the Department of the Army has given the green-light to transfer 4 of the 5 remaining prototypes of the M8 Armored Gun System (AGS) to the 82nd after an Operational Needs Statement from the 18th Airborne Corps (of which the 82nd is part of) at Fort Bragg was 'kicked' upstairs to Army Forces Command that spelled out the the divisions need for a rapidly deployable vehicle with firepower that could be airdroped from an aircraft. The 82nd's requirement fo...

In the last week Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic have stated that they would pull out their military forces in Iraq citing everything from lack of UN involvement to increased threats to said forces....aside from Spain's appeasement policy (the UN already is involved in Iraq and reports have filtered out that the spanish troops aint exactly happy at being re-called home) and the two other goverments essentially punking out....the recent 'shake-up' if one could call it that in the co...

This past saturday, King Abdullah of Jordan revealed that a major plot to detonate several bombs ,in the Amman area of his country, has links to Al-Qaida was thwarted. The three intended targets were the HQ of Jordanian Intelligence, the Jordanian Prime Ministers office in Amman as well as the US Embassy. While threats of bombings are not uncommon, one factor shows and increasing shift from the use of general explosives....the fact that materials for the construction of both a chemical bo...

The following is a brief overview of the actions that took place for 43 days during World War II, 60 years ago today...My undying gratitude goes out to those of the "Greatest" generation who made sacrifices in the deaft of fascists...All gave some, some gave all!....Least we forget! The Battle of the Bulge which lasted from December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945 was the largest land battle of World War II in which the United States participated. More than a million men fought ...