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August 5, 2008 Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement opens in Basrah View full articleThis article © 2008 IraqStatusReport.com. All Rights Reserved August 5, 2008 Afghanistan: Mapping the rising violence Click to view map of attacks in Afghanistan by province, 2007 vs 2008. By Chris Radin and Bill Roggio Attacks in Afghanistan by province, 2007 vs 2008.... August 5, 2008 The Leaning Phallus of Pisa Byron, did Herbert say which one of the 57 states that's in? August 5, 2008 Don’t Retired Democrat Senators Have Better Things To Do Than Incite Sympathizers of a Convicted… Evidently not. Read this blood-boiling report from Mike Fechter at Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism. Mike Gravel is a former two-term Democrat Senator from A... August 5, 2008 Ah, yes, the traditional end of summer: The Eid Hope you're sitting down for this Fox News and AP report from Tennesseestan: Workers at a Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Tennessee have opted to trade a paid Labor D... August 5, 2008 Moderation Alert: Saudis Ban Dogs and Cats in Crackdown on … Flirting I kid you not. From AFP: Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men... August 5, 2008 Nice To Be Back Still digging out after a week of R&R in Bar Harbor, Maine, which I'm quite sure is the most beautiful spot on the planet. We drove about a thousand miles all tolled, through the bluest of blue states. It's a great country. I can't believe we have this shiny new Porsche 911 and we're thinking of handing the keys to a guy who's barely gotten his learner's permit. August 4, 2008 Weak and Vulnerable Noah Pollak and Barry Rubi... August 4, 2008 Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle: August 2008 Update View full articleThis article © 2008 Public Multimedia Inc. All Rights Reserved August 4, 2008 With Celebrity Friends Like Gwyneth Paltrow’Â¦ Looks like Obama could be running into some serious celebrity backlash. Gwyneth Paltrow, resident in London, stars in an internet video ad exhorting expat Americans around the globe to get out th... August 4, 2008 Paying Tribute As President George W. Bush departs on a trip to Asia, one wonders if he and the twenty-five other world leaders who plan to attend the opening ceremonies in Beijing are aware that they are participants in a diplomatic ritual older than the ancient Olympiads: the Chinese tradition of tributary diplomacy. August 3, 2008 Al Qaeda confirms WMD expert Abu Khabab killed in South Waziristan strike Abu Khabab, via the US Rewards for Justice website. Al Qaeda has confirmed that Abu Khabab al Masri, the chief of the terror group's weapons of mass destruction program,... August 3, 2008 Al Qaeda’s East Africa operations chief escapes raid in Kenya Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Click to view. Senior al Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed escaped a raid in the resort town of Mandali in Kenyan, police stated. Kenyan police... August 2, 2008 The Haqqani Network: Reign of terror View full articleThis article © 2008 Public Multimedia Inc. All Rights Reserved August 1, 2008 Pakistani military abandons forts in South Waziristan A sketch map of North and South Waziristan. Map from The Khyber Gateway. Click to view. The Pakistani military has begun to abandon forts in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency... August 1, 2008 Analysis: Reports of Zawahiri’ s death are based on suspect sources Ayman al Zawahiri. As Western and Pakistani intelligence sort through the fallout from the July 28 airstrike in South Waziristan, Pakistan, rumors are swirling that Ayman al... August 1, 2008 Please Lay Off the Kool-Aid, Mr. President “If North Korea were to end up with a nuclear weapon, it would be very destabilizing and very troubling for all of us.” &nb... July 31, 2008 Coalition forces capture Hezbollah Brigades operative in Baghdad Hezbollah Brigades' logo is nearly identical to that of Lebanese Hezbollah. Coalition special operations forces captured two members of the Iranian-supported Hezbollah Brigades... July 31, 2008 Senior al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan killed in US airstrike The US Air Force killed an al Qaeda field commander in Afghanistan during an airstrike this month, al Qaeda said in a statement released on the Internet earlier this month. Abu Abdallah... July 31, 2008 Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America While biofuels offer a drop-in alternative to oil in the short run, the long-term energy security of this country requires us to leverage technological innovations to achieve greater efficiency.... July 30, 2008 Taliban, Pakistani Army clash in Swat Map of Swat. Click map to view. The Pakistani Army claimed 48 Taliban fighters, including ten senior Swat leaders, were killed in a major battle in the settled district of the... July 29, 2008 Operation Omens of Prosperity begins in Diyala Map of Diyala province [PDF]. Click to view. The long awaited offensive to secure Diyala province has begun. Iraqi Army and police forces, backed by the US Army, officially started... July 29, 2008 Call it UN-BRIBE So, while the U.S. Treasury is trying to tighten sanctions on Burma’s thug government, the United Nations has been busy funneling millions of dollars to the Burmese regime — thanks to... July 29, 2008 Taliban capture 25 Pakistani security personnel in Swat Mullah Fazlullah. Click image to view the slideshow of the Taliban Leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban have struck again in Pakistan' s lawless Northwest... July 28, 2008 Take an Obama Break – and Check Up On the UN’ s “Burma Shave” If ringing rhetoric and nifty stage-sets could save the world, there’d be no problem about changing our national anthem — Yes, we can! — to “Kumbayah.” But global re... July 28, 2008 Six killed in strike in South Waziristan Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the tribal areas. Map from PBS' Frontline. Click to view. Three foreign terrorist are among six killed in a targeted strike in Pakistan's... July 28, 2008 Report: Al Qaeda WMD expert Abu Khabab thought killed in South Waziristan strike Abu Khabab, via the US Rewards for Justice website. A Pakistani intelligence official claimed al Qaeda weapons expert Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar, better known as Abu Khabab,... July 28, 2008 Female suicide bombers kill 70 Iraqis in Kirkuk, Baghdad Al Qaeda in Iraq conducted two successful strikes in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk. At least seventy Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 300 wounded in four suicide attacks,... July 27, 2008 US, Afghan forces beat back Taliban attack in Khost province The Taliban continue to attack outposts and district centers in the Afghan provinces along the Pakistani border. Today, the Taliban force assaulted a district center in Khost, and suffered massiv... July 27, 2008 Deceit Let’s start with Arthur Herman, a wise and eloquent writer who wrote an important piece for Commentary a while back. Herman’s overall argument was that our attack on Saddam Huss... July 26, 2008 29 killed in second day of bombings in India Terrorists have struck inside a major Indian city for the second day straight. At least 26 Indians were killed and more than 100 wounded in a series of bomb blasts in the city of Ahmedabad.... July 26, 2008 Iraq, US target Iranian networks Iraqi and US forces are maintaining the pressure against the Mahdi Army in central and southern Iraq. Over the past 24 hours, the US military announced the capture of three senior Special Groups... July 25, 2008 Pakistan cedes Hangu to the Taliban The Pakistani government has signed yet another peace accord with the Taliban in a settled district of the Northwest Frontier Province. Just one day after the military canceled an operation in Ha... July 25, 2008 Bravo Pete Hoekstra for Defunding the Government’s Jihad on “Jihad” I’ve had a number of things to say about the intelligence community’s attempted language purge, the effort to inculcate an aversion to calling jihadists jihadists, to bleach the Islam... July 25, 2008 What, You Didn’t Give the Detainees Miranda Warnings? Reuters adds itself to the list of outlets reporting the shocking news that Salim Hamdan and other enemy combatants were not given Miranda warnings. (Thanks to Jen Rubin.) I hate t... July 25, 2008 Still on the Edge of My Seat They had CNN on at the Dunkin' Donuts, so I can issue this alert: BREAKING: ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS HAS NOT YET ENDORSED A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.... July 25, 2008 Speaking of Miranda Warnings for the Enemy … I have an article on the homepage this morning about Attorney General Mukasey's effort to prevent the Supreme Court's disastrous Boumediene decision from turning the military battlefiel... July 25, 2008 “He Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World” In the Times of London, Gerard Baker on the Messiah's roadtrip. Every sentence is priceless, but the start will give you the idea: And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the... July 25, 2008 Barack Lied, Germans Sighed’¦ The Obama Moment “People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time.” What is he talking about? Time for what, exactly? Time for Obama round the clock,... July 25, 2008 Avoiding ‘CSI Kandahar’ ‘... July 24, 2008 Taliban control of Mohmand highlights failures of peace negotiations Omar Khalid, the Taliban commander of Mohmand agency. Less than two months after the Pakistani government negotiated a peace agreement with the local Taliban in the Mohmand tribal... July 24, 2008 Puzzling Republicans As I consign more Republican fund-raising letters from yesterday's mail to the trash can, maybe someone who understands better than I do how Congress operates can help me out here. If (as th... July 24, 2008 Re: Re: Cheap Plug is Just Peachy That's a relief! Have I mentioned that I have this book ...... July 24, 2008 Three Regime Flacks Play Washington Check out this editorial in NOW Lebanon today about the "independent" Syrian regime hands in DC. I will com... July 24, 2008 Re: McCain on Fan and Fred Is McCain at His Very Best Great stuff, Larry. Bravo to Senator McCain for saying what needs to be said, again and again.... July 24, 2008 Más allá de la complacencia Pero como Andrew McCarthy aclara en sus magníficas memorias, Willful Blindness (Ceguera Voluntaria), la modorra persiste; demasiada gente aún no admite que &l... July 24, 2008 Missing the Point on Hamdan The Wall Street Journal’s news story this morning covering the military-commission trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay completely misses the point, as the media and commentators are won... July 23, 2008 Operation ends in Hangu; Government opts for negotiations in northwest The Pakistani military has halted the operation against the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province district of Hangu just seven days after it began. The operation was ended just one day after... July 23, 2008 Sen. Obama, Meet Steve Schippert Mark Levin had this on the radio last night. Our friend Steve Schippert, a former Marine who blogs at his terrific site, Threats Watch, as well as at the Tank on NRO, provided this stirring... July 23, 2008 Iraqi military prepares for offensives in Diyala, Babil Map of Iraq. Click to view. Iraqi security forces are massing more than 30,000 soldiers and police for an upcoming operation against al Qaeda and the Mahdi Army in the eastern...

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