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Embedded Training Team: Training Under Fire
The sun has barely risen over the Korengal valley, Sept. 24, and service members with Embedded Training Team 7-5 are under fire. "Are you ready to run?" U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Michael Shanahan asks before darting across an exposed pathway in the mountainside village of Lanayal, an Anti Tank-4 rocket launcher in his hands, ready to be fired.

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Ribbon cutting ceremony, celebrating the opening of a water purification plant in Shagra, Iraq, Dec. 22. The facility will provide 50,000 cubic meters per ho...

IJC Operational Update, Dec. 26
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Courtesy Story
Date: 12.26.2009
Posted: 12.26.2009 02:52

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan-international security force killed a Taliban commander responsible for planning attacks against joint security forces and buying weapons and IED components in Wardak today.

A joint security force went to a compound outside the town of Pirdad, in the Nerkh District after intelligence sources confirmed militant activity. When the joint Afghan-international force app

IJC Operational Update, Dec. 26
ISAF Joint Command RSS
Courtesy Story
Date: 12.26.2009
Posted: 12.26.2009 02:52

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan-international security force killed a Taliban commander responsible for planning attacks against joint security forces and buying weapons and IED components in Wardak today.

A joint security force went to a compound outside the town of Pirdad, in the Nerkh District after intelligence sources confirmed militant activity. When the joint Afghan-international force app

James H. Fetzer explores what we know know that we didn't know then about 9/11. This was taken from a talk given 10-1-06 at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

911 truthers

The authors take the thesis that, prior to World War I, the world effectively lived in a state of globalization, which they term the "First Era of Globalization."

The authors define globalization as periods where free markets predominate, and countries place few if any limits on imports, exports, immigration and exchanges of information. Overall, they see globalization as a positive movement that improves the standard of living for all the people connected to it, from the richest to poorest.

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Hamas security forces have clashed with Jund Ansar Allah, a radical Islamist group, in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

Their leader, Abdel-Latif Moussa, was killed in the fighting. Hours before, he had called for Gaza to become an "Islamic emirate", governed purely by Islamic law.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Six Hamas fighters, including a senior commander, and several civilians died. The rest of those killed were from Jund Ansar Allah.

About 120 people were injured, and some were in a critical condition, the BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf says.

Glenn Beck is not the only one who thinks Obama is a racist!

Politics - The Power of Nightmares, (Part 1/3), “Baby it's Cold Outside“

Khost Province, AF
B-roll of coalition forces engaging and eliminating a group of insurgents emplacing an improvised explosive device (IED) along a major highway in northern Khost Province. Scenes include black and white Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) footage, insurgent activity and bombs eliminating the insurgents.

Force Kills Enemy Fighters, Seizes Weapons in Afghanistan

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed several enemy fighters, detained one other and destroyed weapons caches in operations in Afghanistan over the past two days, military officials reported.

A joint Afghan and coalition force killed enemy fighters and detained a suspect on a Taliban compound in central Helmand province yesterday.

The force was pursuing a senior Taliban commander believed resp

Afghanistan operations.

Lies in the News

Navy

This edition features a story on how video of a deadly insurgent grenade attack helps distinguish the true events from what bystanders think they see. Hosted by Cpl. Rachael Moore.