US drone war may expand to northwest Africa: report

A picture taken on 13 June 2010 shows a US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile standing on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP - Massoud Hossaini)

- By Al-Akhbar, AFP The US military plans to expand its drone program to northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of Islamic militant groups, the New York Times reported Monday. A US official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed the plans to AFP. The base for the robotic, unmanned aircraft would likely be located in Niger, on the eastern […]

Crusading Wars on Muslims Will Never End

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- By Mahboob A. Khawaja “The Romans were slipping into violence by a process of self-justification, and once a nation or an individual has started down this particular slope, it is impossible to apply breaks the Roman people were too unimaginative and short sighted to realize that, once murder has been justified on grounds of […]

Video: Michael Scheuer: Mujahideen Have Now Beaten Both Superpowers

Michael Scheuer Mujahideen Have Now Beaten Both Superpowers

The US Was Operating In Mali Months Prior To French Incursion: Meet The “Intelligence and Security Command”

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- By Zero Hedge Last week we reported that in the aftermath of the so far disastrous French campaign to eradicate “rebels” in the north of Mali, because of their implied threat fo Europe, that “US Drones, Boots Arrive In Mali.” Turns out we were wrong, and as the case virtually always is, for some reason […]

Algeria: Operation to free captives completed. They all killed!

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- By Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center A military operation to free Western experts captured by Mujahedeen on a gas processing plant in Algeria has been completed. It was announced by the Algerian state news agency APS. However, after a couple of hours after the announcement, the Minister of Information of Algeria denied the news from […]

Western puppets in Algeria brutally massacred 34 western citizens on western governments’ orders

- By Kavkaz Center Thirty-four western prisoners were massacred on Thursday in an air strike by the Algerian puppet army under direct orders from western governments. Earlier on Wednesday morning, 41 western citizens were taken prisoner by the courageous Mujahideen of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, demanding from western governments to stop their beastly crusade […]

Foreign fighters seek Islamic state in post-Assad Syria

- By Yara Bayoumy, Reuters ALEPPO, Syria, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Huddled around a fire in a bombed-out building in Aleppo, foreign jihadists say they are fighting for a radical Islamic state in Syria – whether local rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad like it or not. Among their fellow revolutionaries and civilians, these […]

France seeks Gulf financing of its war in Mali

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- By Al Arabiya with Agencies With the French military operations in Mali expected to last longer than expected, Paris has sought funding from rich Arab Gulf states, saying “everybody” should help in fighting the al-Qaeda-linked extremists in the African country. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has said donors would meet by the end of […]

Why US is helping France fight Islamist forces in Mali, Somalia

French air force technicians work on a Mirage F-1 fighter jet at the Malian army air base in Bamako January 14. France plans to increase its troops in Mali to 2,500 in the days ahead and is working to speed up the deployment of West African troops for a campaign against Islamist rebels, the government said on Monday. Joe Penney/Reuters

The US decision to help France with its military campaign comes in light of the growing threat posed by two extremist Islamist groups in northern Mali, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday. Here’s what the US is contributing. – By Anna Mulrine, CSMonitor The United States acknowledged this week that it is providing military assistance […]

The ‘war on terror’ – by design – can never end

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As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction – By Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on Terror must, at some point, come to an end: […]

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