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State Dept. Tries Blog Diplomacy

The State Department, departing from traditional public diplomacy techniques, has what it calls a three-person, “digital outreach team” posting entries in Arabic on “influential” Arabic blogs to challenge misrepresentations of the United States and promote moderate views among Islamic youths in the hopes of steering them from [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 19th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cowboys and Indians, Democracy In Action, DoubleSpeak, Duncan MacInnes, Freedom Fighters, Freedom of Speech, Fundamentalist, Human Rights, Hypocracy, Internet & Telecoms, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Muslims, OZ, Occupation Army, Oil, Osama, President, Propaganda, Quotes, Religious War, US State Department, Ugly American, World Blogs, bloggers, communication, converstaions, dialog, diplomacy, disinformation, jihad, orphans, radicals, rebels, terrorists, translation, unlawful combatants, victims | Leave a comment

Qaeda video vows attacks on US missions
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - A wanted American member of Al-Qaeda has warned in a new video that US diplomatic missions and other interests were ‘legitimate targets,’ vowing that the network would attack these ’spy dens.’
In the footage compiled by Al-Qaeda’s production arm As-Sahab, an unnamed narrator singled out US [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 5th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Anti-War, Armageddon, Azzan al-Amriki, Black Ops, Bush, CIA, Cheney, Corruption, Dillusion, Dominionists, Evil, Excuses, FISA, Fear, Fundamentalist, GOP, Homeland Security, Hypocracy, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Jihad, King George, Lord Cheney, Mercenaries, Middle East, News Media, Oil, Orwellian, Osama, Patriot Act, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, President, Private Armies, Religion, Republican, Rove, Rumsfeld, Saudi Arabia, Signs, Taliban, The Divider, The Liar, War, War Contractors, War Cost, War on Terror, betrayal, conspiracy, disinformation, domestic spying, marketing, profiteers, terrorists, threat | Comments (7)

Fresh paint on the shrine’s outer wall reads Lal Masjid, meaning Red Mosque

Pro-Taliban fighters have seized control of a mosque and shrine in the Mohmand area of Pakistan’s North West Frontier province and renamed it the Red Mosque. The tribesmen have expressed support for Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the leader of Islamabad’s Lal [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 2nd, 2007 | Category: Clinton, Democrat, GOP, Hillary, Holy War, Iran, Iraq, Islamabad, Lal Masjid, Musharraf, Nuclear, Obama, Osama, Pakistan, Politics, Red Mosque, Taliban, Theocracy, WMD, War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, candidates, debate, escalation, resonsibility | Comments (2)

Pakistan hits out at U.S. terrorism stance
By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan hit back on Sunday at U.S. critics of its fight against terrorism, insisting its army was best suited to hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda militants Washington believes enjoy safe haven in Pakistani tribal areas near Afghanistan.
Appearing [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 22nd, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Black Ops, Bush, CIA, Casualties, Censure, Cheney, Collateral, Democracy In Action, Executive Orders, Freedom Fighters, Holy War, Iraq, Islamabad, Islamic Jihad, Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri, Legacy, Musharraf, Osama, Pakistan, Pentagon Corruption, President, Promises, Proxy War, Taliban, The Liar, Theocracy, WMD, War, War Cost, War on Terror, administration, collaborators, executive privilege, resonsibility, terrorists | Comments (14)

WASHINGTON, July 17 — President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.

The intelligence report, the most formal assessment [...]

Posted by nytexan July 18th, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, America, Bush, Cheney, GOP, Iraq, Lieberman, Middle East, Musharraf, National, Osama, Pakistan, Politics, President, War | Leave a comment

Can someone please explain to me why Senator do freaking nothing Cornyn didn’t vote on this bill. I guess since Bush doesn’t think about bin Laden anymore, so Cornyn thought he would follow suit.
Cornyn will make sure that he always votes no to bringing the troops home but he’ll take a pass on bin Laden. [...]

Posted by nytexan July 16th, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Congress, Cornyn, Election, GOP, Headlines, Middle East, National, News, Osama, Politics, Republican, Senate, Vote, War, War on Terror | Comments (4)

Truce Over, Pakistan Militants Kill 70
Guardian Unlimited, UK - From AP By RIAZ KHAN AP Writer PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Militants in northwest Pakistan disavowed a peace pact with the government and launched two days of suicide attacks and bombings that killed at least 70 people, dramatically escalating the violence in the al-Qaida [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 15th, 2007 | Category: Al Qaeda, Bush, Collateral, Hindu, Holy War, India, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamabad, Islamic Jihad, Lal Masjid, Mercenaries, Middle East, Mosque, Musharraf, Nuclear, Osama, Pakistan, Politics, Private Armies, Religion, Revolution, Shi'a, Soldiers, Sunni, Taliban, Theocracy, WMD, War, War Cost, War on Terror, Waziristan, coup, paramilitary, terrorists | Comments (1)

US renting Pak army for $ 100 million a month
14 Jul 2007, 0340 hrs IST,CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA,TNN

WASHINGTON: The United States is paying around $ 100 million a month for the deployment of 80,000 Pakistani troops on its border with Afghanistan ostensibly for the war on terrorism, a key US official revealed on Thursday. [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 14th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Afghanistan, Black Ops, Bush, CIA, Corporate Corruption, Corporate corruption, Deception, Democracy In Action, Election, Hypocracy, Islamabad, Islamic Jihad, Legacy, Musharraf, Osama, Pakistan, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, President, Prophesy, Proxy War, Taliban, War, War Contractors, War Cost, War Crimes, War on Terror, rebels, resonsibility, taxpayers, terrorists | Comments (5)

Musharraf boost
Why the president has finally moved against radical mosque.
Pakistani soldiers storm mosque Troops in Pakistan’s city of Islamabad have stormed the Red Mosque, after talks with radicals broke down. The army said 40 militants were killed [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 9th, 2007 | Category: Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Collateral, Fundamentalist, Islam, Islamabad, Islamic Jihad, Mosque, Musharraf, Nuclear, Osama, Pakistan, Religion, Taliban, Theocracy, resonsibility | Comments (2)