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Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian. The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, and raised fears of a new cycle of violence. "The boy was lying on the ground bleeding," a member of the rescue services told the Haaretz newspaper. "The bus driver was conscious and hysterical. The entire bus was destroyed; it was a horrifying ...
Newt Gingrich's Sudden About-Face on US Intervention in Libya [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsNewt Gingrich was all over President Barack Obama back on March 7 for not moving against Moammar Gadhafi, calling for an immediate no-fly zone over Libya and declaring that "this is a moment to get rid of him. ... Get it over with." Interviewed on Fox News, the former House speaker said that "the idea that we're confused about a man who has been an anti-American dictator since 1969 just tells you how inept this administration is. ... The United States doesn't need anybody's permission. ... All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we're ...
Afghan Air War: More fighting, More Bombs, and Continued Civilian Casualties
By David Wood - Politics DailySHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- American strike fighters and bombers are pounding insurgents in Afghanistan with increasing fury, despite a standing order by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander, to avoid civilian casualties. President Obama is expected soon to announce his decision on a new Afghan war strategy and on whether to grant McChrystal's request for additional ground troops. Regardless of Obama's decisions, air war planners anticipate an increase in close air support missions in Afghanistan. The accelerating pace of air operations raises the likelihood of additional ...
Afghanistan: How the Kunduz Air Strike Shapes the Debate
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe bombs fell about three hours before dawn. Two seven-foot-long steel torpedo shapes sliced silently through the darkness, each packed with 192 pounds of Tritonal high explosive, released and guided by American F-15E strike fighters high over Kunduz province, Afghanistan. ...
Turkish Military Again Strikes Northern Iraq
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAs the rest of Iraq reaches a relative calm with the growing success of the U.S. troop surge, the most stable and peaceful region of the country, the Kurdish north, has suddenly erupted in long unseen violence. Turkish warplanes attacked bases inside northern Iraq today, striking at the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, a terrorist group that stages attacks inside Turkey and uses northern Iraq as a safe haven. It is no longer safe. The Turkish military says today's strikes were the third in ten days that crossed the border in pursuit of the PKK. Turkey said on Tuesday that it's cross-border ...
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