by aelkus | Dec 29, 2012 | Monitor
Academi (formerly Blackwater) and other military contractors received an early Christmas present on the 20th: a windfall in future profits from diplomatic security: [B]oth the influential independent commission on the September attacks in Benghazi and a Senate hearing...
by Colleen Curtis | Dec 29, 2012 | Monitor
President Barack Obama delivers a statement to the press in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Dec. 28, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) With just four days left before tax rates are scheduled to rise, President Obama met...
by The Long War Journal | Dec 28, 2012 | Monitor
Waliur Rehman Mehsud (left) and Hakeemullah Mehsud (right), from their latest propaganda tape. Image from Dawn. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a videotape today that refutes the longstanding rumors of a split among the highest leadership of the...
by The Long War Journal | Dec 28, 2012 | Monitor
US drones struck for the third time in Yemen in five days, killing two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an attack in eastern Yemen today. The remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired missiles at a group of al Qaeda in the Arabian...
by The Long War Journal | Dec 28, 2012 | Monitor
Banner for the Al Nusrah Front, a jihadist group in Syria. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, has released a statement from its leader denouncing the US government’s recent...
