Whirlwind Tour
June 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A strange white helicopter landed on the ship to fly us to Kuwait. It was a Puma, with “04″ painted on the nose. A few sailors and soldiers boarded the Puma along with CSM Mellinger and company. I was sitting facing left, and as I strapped the lap belt, I fumbled with the shoulder harness. [...]
MilBlogger Wounded
June 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
This is Carren writing to tell Chuck’s faithful readers that he has been injured, but is in stable condition. I won’t give details for fear of misinformation (and the fact that this can be accessed by millions of people). In general… Chuck sustained shrapnel wounds to his legs and arms from an IED. He and [...]
The Real Story in Iran
June 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
One of the reasons I have been so concerned about Iran for such a long time is that I fear the mullahs’ cleverness, ruthlessness, and ability to mount brilliant deceptions. Moreover, while there have long been basic fault lines within the mullahcracy, I have long believed they would find ways to pull together at moments [...]
So Ronery
June 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment
North Korea apparently wants the United States to recognize it as a nuclear state as a basis for future negotiations. The assertion was made Monday at the United Nations, sources close to the negotiations said. “We have to be treated as a nation possessing nuclear weapons,” Pak Gil Yon, North Korea’s ambassador to the United [...]
Spanish Judge Wants US Soldiers
June 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A Spanish judge wants to question three U.S. soldiers as suspects in the death of a Spanish cameraman who was killed when a U.S. tank fired on a hotel housing foreign journalists during the 2003 assault on Baghdad. The Pentagon has found no fault with the soldiers, but High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz wants to [...]
Zarqawi Dead?
June 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq – died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah’s cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to [...]
Inside Gitmo
June 2, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The US Government currently maintains custody of approximately 550 enemy combatants in the Global War on Terrorism at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many of these enemy combatants are highly trained, dangerous members of al -Qaida, its related terrorist networks, and the former Taliban regime. More than 4,000 reports capture information provided by these detainees, much of [...]
The End is Nigh
June 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A comet has been added to the list of potentially threatening near-Earth objects maintained by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Comet Catalina 2005 JQ5 is the largest – and therefore most potentially devastating – of the 70 objects now being tracked. However, the chances of a collision are very low. The listing of Comet Catalina underscores [...]