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US-led Strike Kills 13 Civilians
Friday, 08 July 2011 05:46
‘”Unfortunately eight women, four children, and one man were killed in a NATO airstrike on a residential house in Dowamanda district (of Khost) early this morning,” AFP quoted provincial police chief Mohamad Zazai as saying.
In the past 24 hours, foreign forces have killed at least 17 civilians across Afghanistan — many of them women and children.
Following the US-led military attack, a large crowd of Afghans held an angry protest rally against the foreign forces.’
UK Confirms Killing Afghan Civilians
Wednesday, 06 July 2011 07:19
“On 25 March, a UK Reaper was tasked to engage and destroy two pickup trucks,” the defense ministry said on Wednesday. “Sadly, four Afghan civilians were also killed and a further two Afghan civilians were injured,” AFP quoted the ministry as saying.’
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Eastern Gaza
Wednesday, 06 July 2011 07:23
‘According to initial reports, Israeli fighter jets targeted a garage used by mechanics in the Shujaiyyah neighborhood in the besieged Gaza Strip late on Tuesday night.
Earlier in the day, Israeli artillery shelling in east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza killed two Palestinians and injured another. In April, a series of Israeli airstrikes killed at least 19 Palestinians in the occupied territories.’
Gaddafi Threatens West with Retaliation
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 06:46
‘”We have to fight for our country and you are going to be legitimate targets for us.” Saif al-Islam told the French TV channel TF1. On Friday, Gaddafi threatened to attack Europe if NATO refused to stop airstrikes on the country.
Seif al-Islam said Libyan authorities are prepared to make concessions to end the conflict there but will fight on for their homeland. “We will never surrender. We will fight. It’s our country.”‘
Read more: Gaddafi Threatens West with Retaliation
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US Drone Attack in Somalia
Somalia: US took bodies of militants after strike
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. military forces landed in Somalia to retrieve the bodies of dead or wounded militants after a U.S. drone strike targeted a group of insurgents, Somalia’s defense minister told The Associated Press on Friday.
The operation is at least the second time U.S. troops have landed in Somalia after a targeted strike, though no forces have been stationed there since shortly after the “Black Hawk Down” battle that left 18 Americans dead in 1993.
http://news.yahoo.com/somalia-us-took-bodies-militants-strike-142138601.html
Countdown to Invasion; Libya’s Neighborhoods Prepare for NATO’s Boots
‘NATO’s claims that private apartments and homes, schools, shops, factories, crops, and warehouses storing sacks of flour were legitimate military targets are not believed by anyone here in Libya. To date NATO has failed to provide a scintilla of evidence that the 15 civilians, mainly children and their aunts and mothers, who were torn to pieces by 8 NATO rockets in the Salman neighborhood last week were legitimate military targets.
Tripoli’s 3,200 neighborhoods, independently of the Libyan Armed Forces, are intensively preparing for the possibility that NATO forces or those they are seen as increasingly arming and directing, might invade the cosmopolitan greater Tripoli area during the coming weeks or months.’
Read more: Countdown to Invasion; Libya’s Neighborhoods Prepare for NATO’s Boots
WWIII Denial
WWIII is already underway, though it hasn’t been declared officially, but for some people this concept is very difficult to come to terms with. This isn’t all that surprising though. Imagine if you were to talk to an American on the day that Hitler invaded Poland… do you really think that that American would have realized that WWII was underway?
Total Collapse – The Build up to World War III & The New World Order
US Rejects Demands to Vacate Pakistan Drone Base
Friday, 01 July 2011 08:42
‘The US is rejecting demands from Pakistan that American personnel abandon a military base used by the CIA to stage drone strikes against militants, US officials told Reuters.
US personnel have not left the Shamsi air base and there is no plan for them to do so, said a US official familiar with the matter. “That base is neither vacated nor being vacated,” the official said. The information was confirmed by a second US official.
On Wednesday, federal Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said that US had been asked to stop using the base for drone strikes and vacate it.’
‘Israel Warns Assad: Attack Us, We’ll Hit You Personally’
Friday, 01 July 2011 09:47
‘The government sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, the personal warning was sent through Turkey following intelligence reports of unusual Syrian troop movements, including the moving of long-range ballistic missiles that could be used to attack Israel.’
Read more: ‘Israel Warns Assad: Attack Us, We’ll Hit You Personally’
Thousands Stage Anti-Government Rally in Cairo
Saturday, 02 July 2011 06:48
‘Around 5,000 protesters, including the families of those killed during the revolution, gathered in Liberation Square on Friday. They called for the trial of police officers involved in the killings.
Some urged an end to military trials of civilians while others wanted the resignation of current Minister of Interior Mansour el-Essawy. Protesters accuse the ruling military council of Mubarak-era tactics to crush dissent.’
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