by Noah Shachtman | Nov 9, 2012 | Monitor
U.S. Reaper drones in a hangar at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. Photo: Noah Shachtman Forget Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and all the other secret little warzones. The real center of the U.S. drone campaign is in plain sight — on the hot and open battlefield...
by Noah Shachtman | Nov 8, 2012 | Monitor
Steve Seiden, attorney for Mark Basseley Youssef, speaks after a hearing for his client at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Photo: AP/Reed Saxon The White House is no longer blaming him and his inflammatory video for sparking an attack that killed the...
by Noah Shachtman | Nov 2, 2012 | Monitor
On Monday night, Hurricane Sandy hit the armory of the New York Army National Guard’s 69th Infantry Regiment, leaving the soldiers without power, hot water, or anything but the most rudimentary means of communicating with the outside world. So the next morning,...
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 31, 2012 | Monitor
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University’s Tisch Hospital on Monday. Photo: AP / John Minchillo Updated 8:42 a.m. Hours after being contacted by Danger Room, the New York Army National Guard on Tuesday night...
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 25, 2012 | Monitor
A U.S. Army chemical weapons crew takes samples from an M55 rocket. Photo: U.S. Army The regime of embattled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is actively working to enlarge its arsenal of chemical weapons, U.S. officials tell Danger Room. Assad’s operatives have...
