by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 15, 2012 | Monitor
A screenshot from a video showing a Free Syrian Army soldier on a rooftop in Zabadani. The Pentagon fears that the weapons pipeline flowing from Persian Gulf states could pose a proliferation risk. Photo: Flickr/SyriaFreedom The Pentagon insists that it’s not...
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 and Noah Shachtman | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
Demonstrators in Benghazi hang the ex-dictator Moammar Gadhafi in effigy, February 2011. The State Department later hired a private security firm, Blue Mountain, to help protect the U.S. consulate in the city — before it was attacked on Sept. 11. Photo:...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 13, 2012 | Monitor
A Marine sniper observes a civilian evacuation exercise from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, May 2006. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps Updated, 6:00 p.m. Marines are on the ground in Tripoli. Two Navy ships are speeding toward Libyan waters. And neither they, nor the rest...
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...