Everybody having fun, now? FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- An Army investigator testified Tuesday that Pfc. Lynndie England and other members of her unit told him that photos of naked Iraqi prisoners piled in pyramids and other humiliating poses were taken "just for fun." As...
This chapter covers the various actors in al-Qaeda before 9/11. Much of the information, the report warns, comes from interrogations of captured terrorists. (page 146) First, the report covers Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" behind the attacks on 9/11....
Amy Mina sends this report from her recent visit to Bethlehem: The Prison of Bethlehem July 2004 This weekend I went to prison. Imposing grey towers stare out of their opaque black roving eyes at the transparent sky above, and the prisoners below. I listened to prison...
George Paine at Warblogging finds a good reason to long for the days of Victory Gardens and Private Ryan:An in-depth study recently released into the public domain shows that in World War II — this nation's "good war" or "best war" — only about 15% of American combat...
Booby-trapped car bombs exploded outside an Armenian church and a Catholic church in Baghdad's Karada neighborhood minutes apart from one another. One American soldier was killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near Samarra. A car bomb targeting a...
