President-Elect Obama has just announced that he has picked Democrat Leon Panetta for Director of the CIA. Leon served as White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, and before that was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1976 to 1993. Panetta took part in the 2006 Iraq Study Group. […]
”The extremist al Shabaab Islamist group is best placed to take control of Mogadishu, but this is not a foregone conclusion,” said David Shinn, a U.S. expert on the Horn of Africa at George Washington University.
While al Shabaab have spearheaded attacks this year to become the face of the insurgency, they lack popular support, and […]
Yet many within the tightly knit Special Forces community say the Special Forces teams already in use in Afghanistan should be employed far more effectively before any new teams, which number about a dozen men each, are deployed.
“I just don’t think it’s a very good use of the units if they are not going to […]
This is the ’shock and awe’ part of the campaign, and it looks like the Israelis were pretty successful in taking out some good targets. They really worked the surprise factor in this operation. To me, the ground campaign is the one to watch, and Omert has a lot riding on this one. The […]
I don’t post a lot of these types of stories, because unfortunately bombers are all too common in this part of the world. But what made this story interesting to me is the symbolism. One group of muslims protesting Israel should be off limits to another muslim suicide bomber-you would think. Israel is […]
Thanks to Jeff for sending this. Hopefully there is an explanation for why this officer did this, or he could be in some serious trouble. I could not find a website for Elite Security out of Belize, and if anyone can find it, I will put it up on FJ. -Matt
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U.S. is investigating LAPD […]
Finally some push back. This was an Opinion piece that Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wrote for the Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, this message will be completely drowned out by the sea of negative press that has been brought against his company. Wired’s Danger Room blog decided to be assholes about this opinion piece and completely ignore […]
I am sure Blackwater has been seeing the writing on the wall with this one. I would like to get a copy of this report as soon as it gets out, and do a further review. This could go one of two ways. Either the WPPS program gets abolished, and DoS makes a big push […]
Talk about an incredible fight! The best part of this article was Walding’s quote “I am John Wayne”. Anyone that can tie his amputated foot to his body, apply a tourniquet around the stump and self inject morphine, and still remain conscious in a fight like that, is pretty tough in my opinion. […]
Pathetic. Whomever the security company was, that was contracted to protect this depot, did a horrific job of protecting it. When guards just stand by helplessly, and allow the attackers to come in and destroy everything, then something is severely screwed up. That much is apparent. You get what you pay for […]
