AFP – The US Defense Department said on Monday it was closely following the outbreak of swine flu but had no immediate plans to release anti-viral drugs from its stockpiles. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – U.S. military officials want to know if an employee for a private security contractor was fired for confirming serious deficiencies in training and equipment for Ugandan guards hired to protect an American base in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – New Yorkers evacuated offices in panic Monday when an unexpected overflight by one of President Barack Obama’s Boeing 747s triggered fears of a new 9/11. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – It was seeing the now notorious photographs of American soldiers torturing Iraqis inside Abu Ghraib prison that set Abdullah al-Hammami on the path of jihad. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – A commission investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending has found serious deficiencies in training and equipment for hundreds of Ugandan guards hired to protect U.S. military bases in Iraq, The Associated Press has learned. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The Pentagon will soon release “hundreds” of photographs showing alleged abuse by US personnel of “war on terror” detainees during the Bush administration, a US official said Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday travels to a military base in North Carolina to visit US Marines preparing for combat against insurgents in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A little known Pentagon agency that trained US troops to resist torture promoted the use of some of the same interrogation techniques on Al-Qaeda, which were aired and quickly authorized at high levels of the US government, a Senate investigation has found. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The CIA’s harsh interrogations of Al-Qaeda detainees provided “valuable” information but are not needed to keep America safe, the US intelligence chief said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »