This according to a UN report. “Al Qaeda has managed to recover from the loss of Afghanistan as a training base for terrorism by exploiting the situation in Iraq,” the report said. The report was the third by an expert panel set up by the U.N. Security Council to monitor al Qaeda, the Taliban and …
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UK drafts Iraq pullout plan includes US numbers
Once again, the UK media has actually flexed its’ journalistic muscle and produced this leak to the Mail newspaper in London yesterday. One wonders what happened to the “skillz” of the US media in this area… but I digress. The Mail has the Full Memo Decisions on coalition, and within that, UK force levels will …
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UK losing (or lost) it’s grip on Basra?
Over the course of the past 2 years most of the criticism of the Iraq war has been focused squarely at US forces and the US Administration. However, the 2nd largest member of the “Coalition” (and the only one remaining in any significant number) were the British. They took control of the Southern section of …