by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 21, 2012 | Monitor
Iranian flags fly at an MEK protest, alongside ones that read “De-List MEK.” The State Department is removing the MEK from its list of terrorist groups in response to a lobbying campaign. Photo: Flickr/Futureatlas.com Washington’s favorite Iranian...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 21, 2012 | Monitor
Blackwater guards at the Republican Palace in Iraq, undated photo. The reincarnated security firm, now called Academi, just received a contract to train the Defense Department’s intelligence operatives in self-defense. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Now that the...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 19, 2012 | Monitor
On one side of the Syrian rebellion: guns that use digital camera zooms for their scopes; soldered lengths of pipe transformed into explosive shells; Howitzers rescued from the scrap heap. On the other side: what appear to be bombs that ignite the air around them;...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 14, 2012 | Monitor
American foreign policy in the Middle East may have been hijacked by demonstrations and violent attacks that have besieged diplomatic outposts in the region. But judging from government contracts and solicitations issued while embassies were overrun and consulates...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
A Predator drone waits in a hardened aircraft shelter in Iraq between missions during the now-ended Iraq war. Photo: U.S. Air Force The skies over Libya were clogged with U.S. Predator drones during last year’s war. But just because the war officially ended in...