Documents Indicate Policy Plan That Fueled Iraqi Insurgency Was Compartmentalized in Rumsfeld’s Pentagon
Rumsfeld knew disbanding the Iraqi army was likely to fuel an insurgency, yet the Pentagon did it anyway.
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U.S. Military Funding the Taliban
The Washington Post reports today that "The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure save passage of its supply convoys throughout the country, according to congressional investigators."
Hani Hanjour: Al Qaeda’s Top Gun
Documents show that Hani Hanjour most certainly did not possess the requisite level of skill to have been able to have piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
Pentagon Investigation of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan at Odds With Other Accounts
The Pentagon issued a statement on Tuesday denying that scores of civilians had been killed in an airstrike in the village of Azizabad in Herat province, Afghanistan. The August 22 airstrike killed as many as 90 civilians, according to Afghan officials. President...
The ‘Option’ of Military Force
When asked what the U.S. response would be the news that North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, President George W. Bush said that he would not use force because "diplomacy hasn't run its course," thus implying that he believes that the use of force should be...
The ‘Legitimate’ Use of Napalm and Phosphorus in Iraq
Reports have persisted since the first days of the war in Iraq that the U.S. has used napalm against resistance forces.
Applying the U.S. Standard: State Sponsors of Terrorism
“What are our global obligations? To give terrorists no support, no sanctuary.” – President Clinton, speaking before the United Nations on terrorism in 1998[1] “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”...
Depleted Uranium: Lessons in ‘Humanitarian’ and Other Warfare
The US military's use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq constitutes a war crime for the indiscriminate harm it causes to the health of Iraqis.
The Selective Application of the Geneva Conventions
A draft memorandum from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel dated January 9, 2002, entitled "Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees", was written to inform the Department of Defense that the U.S. government, in the "war on...
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