The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Defence Ministry on Friday denied any Israeli air force drills had taken place in its airspace after a report that the Israelis were preparing there for a possible strike on Iran....
Murdoc Online (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Pentagon to outline new tanker strategy 'very soon' Defense Secretary Robert Gates may "very soon" announce his new strategy for buying aerial refueling tankers, spokesman Bryan Whitman said Thursday. Whitman declined to say when the announcement would come or whether it would be before a hearing scheduled for Thursday by a House Armed Services Committee panel examining the tanker program. While I...
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium From Iraq To Canada Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada. The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. missile defense system Washington wants to base in the Czech Republic and Poland is designed to counter missile threats from the Middle East, not Russia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday....
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008 | Politics
President Bush has long maintained that if the Iraqi government wants the U.S. to leave Iraq, then the U.S. would do just that, as he said in May 2007: We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. [...]
Pundita (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Amer Moshen reports for Iraq Slogger that Az-Zaman mentions there has been a -- how to put it -- transmogrification of the US-Iraq security treaty:According to the paper, the US and Iraqi governments have seemingly agreed to replace the treaty (which would require the approval of the Parliament) with a “memorandum of understanding” that “has the same spirit” as the treaty. In fact, the paper
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008 | Politics
For nearly six years, the Bush Administration and the nation’s communication companies – your telephone companies -- have been illegally spying on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails. They did this in direct violation of the Constitution’s 4th Amendment and a federal statute – FISA. Both laws emphatically forbid such surveillance unless the government first obtains a warrant from an independent (eg,...
