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Pentagon: Gadhafi Arming Private Citizens to Help Fight Rebels
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsLibyan leader Moammar Gadhafi may be arming private citizens to help battle opposition forces, a senior U.S. military official said today. "We've received reports today that he has taken to arming what he calls 'volunteers' to fight the opposition," Vice Adm. William Gortney, director of the Joint Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon. Xinhua / Getty Images A Libyan holds the Libyan national flag, as a boy holding a T-12 gun sits on his shoulders, during a mass funeral held for people who were killed in the airstrikes by coalition forces at Al Hanshir cemetery on Thursday in ...
Protests Spike in Greece as Government Weighs Support of Attack on Libya
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- Demonstrators took to the streets of the capital today to protest international air strikes against military assets of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as Greece weighed its support of the allied offensive. Toting anti-war banners and shouting slogans against the bombing raids, hundreds of leftist protesters -- mainly high school and university students -- gathered in central Athens, setting off on a protest march to the Parliament. Similar protests also took place on the island of Crete, where hundreds marched to the U.S.-controlled Souda Bay naval base, which provides ...
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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