The conservative group Vets for Freedom is launching a $1.1 million ad buy during the Democratic National Convention, using video of Iraq war veterans to take Barack Obama to task for not giving the surge policy sufficient credit for improvement in battleground conditions. The 30-second spot, called “I Am the Surge,” features three Iraq war …
The US Air Force killed an al Qaeda field commander in Afghanistan during an airstrike this month, al Qaeda said in a statement released on the Internet earlier this month. Abu Abdallah al Shami, one of four senior al Qaeda operatives who escaped from Bagram prison on July 10, 2005, was killed in an unspecified …
From The (London) TimesOnline: We’re winning this War on Terror Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul. ……these days timorous defeatism is on the march. In Britain setbacks in the Afghan war are greeted as harbingers of inevitable defeat. In America, …
More Hadjis get sent to hell. From Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal: US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and “inflicted heavy casualties” on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force – 101 reported. More than 55 Taliban fighters, including three senior leaders, …
My gawd, this was actually printed in the Washington Post: The Iraqi Upturn Don’t look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war. Sunday, June 1, 2008; Page B06 THERE’S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could …
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From the New York Post: June 9, 2008 — AMERICA has won, or is about to win, the Iraq war. The latest proof came last month, as the Iraqi army – just a few months ago the target of scorn and abuse from Democratic politicians and journalists – forcefully reoccupied three cities that had served …
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