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  • Canada's military: Invisible no more 21 Nov 2009 00:18 GMT
    ... John A. Macdonald was contemptuous of full-time soldiers. So were most Canadians in the late-19th ... hunting, drinking and chasing women,” Queen's University military historian Allan English wrote in his 2004 ... has burnished its image since the 1993 Somalia affair – dubbed “Canada's national shame” – ...

  • Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same story in so many ways 21 Nov 2009 10:37 GMT
    ... says Afghanistan can't be compared to 1990s Somalia scandal. ick Hillier, one of the powerful ... what went so horribly wrong for Canada's military in Somalia 16 years ago. He did ... applied bureaucratic patches to broken protocols and soldiers first whispered about beatings and rape in ...

  • Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same in so many ways 21 Nov 2009 13:16 GMT
    ... says Afghanistan can't be compared to 1990s Somalia scandal. ick Hillier, one of the powerful ... what went so horribly wrong for Canada's military in Somalia 16 years ago. He did ... applied bureaucratic patches to broken protocols and soldiers first whispered about beatings and rape in ...

  • Second U.S. drone missile strike kills eight in Pakistan: officials 21 Nov 2009 05:14 GMT
    ... homegrown Taliban militants since October 17, sending troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships ... officials said. A foreign “terrorist” named Salah al-Somali was the target, but there was no ... on whether he died or not, Pakistani military officials said. Subscribe to The China Post ...

  • Blame the suits, not the soldiers 21 Nov 2009 07:52 GMT
    ... senior figures in the government and the military are called to account under oath. Colvin's ... will develop severe memory loss and ordinary soldiers will be left holding the bag. If the pattern of the Somalia affair holds true, frontline troops will take ...

  • Minneapolis man charged with terrorism in missing Somalis case 21 Nov 2009 05:19 GMT
    ... Minneapolis man charged with terrorism in missing Somalis case MINNEAPOLIS -- A 24-year-old St. Anthony ... protect their homeland from the invading Ethiopian army. Mohamed told federal Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel ... Netherlands, accused of financing the purchase of weapons for Islamic militants and helping others travel ...

  • U.S. wants Somali terror suspect to remain jailed until sentencing 21 Nov 2009 06:42 GMT
    ... to terrorism-related charges in the exodus of Somali men from this country back to their homeland ... for "the youth"), a group fighting Ethiopian soldiers who were helping support a transitional government ... those associated with al-Shabaab, viewed the Ethiopian troops as invaders. In 2008, the U.S. government ...

  • Legal advocate's meeting with Somali suspect denied in Netherlands 21 Nov 2009 06:42 GMT
    ... A Minnesota law professor and advocate for Somali immigrants in the state said he was denied ... is accused of financing the purchase of weapons for Islamic militants and helping others travel to ...

  • Britons warn: Somali captors losing patience 21 Nov 2009 06:57 GMT
    ... - A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video broadcast Friday their ... said, surrounded by armed men pointing their weapons at him and his wife. "We have been ...

  • Somali pirates seize Panamanian cargo ship off Yemeni coast 21 Nov 2009 05:13 GMT
    ... Yemen's Interior Ministry said Friday that Somali pirates have seized a Panamanian cargo ship ... task force had sent one of its military boats to the specific area where the hijacking ...

  • Yemen to investigate Africa... 21 Nov 2009 07:52 GMT
    ... Sanaa, November 21: Yemen is to start in the next few days investigating 26 Somalis who were held while fighting the troops in support of the Houthi insurgents in the north. The information center of the Interior ministry ...

  • Chuck Baldwin Questions regarding the Fort Hood massacre 21 Nov 2009 01:42 GMT
    ... the discussion. Question 1: Why were the soldiers not armed? After all, this is a military base; more than that, it is an ... been deployed. In recent conflicts that means Somalia, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Without a ...

  • Questions regarding the Fort Hood massacre 21 Nov 2009 02:30 GMT
    ... the discussion. Question 1: Why were the soldiers not armed? After all, this is a military base; more than that, it is an ... been deployed. In recent conflicts that means Somalia, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Without a ...

  • Spanish Crew Return Home After Kidnap Release 21 Nov 2009 12:53 GMT
    ... who spent 47 days as hostages of Somali pirates before they were freed for a ... you,' so I had to inform the navy frigates and helicopters to be alert," Blach ... now have private security guards armed with military equipment, including high velocity rifles, aboard. Crews ...

  • 'Alakrana' crew members arrive in Spain 21 Nov 2009 08:47 GMT
    ... area. after 47 days held hostage by Somali pirates, on Friday arrived with its 36 ... who declined to travel on a Spanish Airforce plane, chartered by the Ministry for Defence for ...

  • Pirates Widen Range, Straining Naval Patrols (Yesterday) 21 Nov 2009 06:37 GMT
    ... Ocean and along the African coast from Somalia toward the Mozambique Channel, away from the ... confrontation by, for example, disposing of their weapons if the odds are against them, experts ... jails with pirates. In April, the Dutch Navy was criticized for disarming then freeing captured pirates ...

  • Thank veterans for your freedoms 21 Nov 2009 06:53 GMT
    ... entire family being obliterated. Without a strong military, the final measure of effective diplomacy, you ... you to plan a future vacation to Somalia. Attempt to talk with the warlords prior ... no chance of rescue by the Columbian Army. Generally, the expectation is a bullet to ...

  • It's Never Too Early to be Too Late 21 Nov 2009 00:13 GMT
    ... by occupying Bosnia. Losing a Blackhawk in Somalia and bombing Serbia for Kosovo. Then Boomer George ... of a volunteer in the Insane Clown Army and not a terrorist attack on an ... doing his best to enlist as a foot-soldier in Osama´s army while serving in Obama´s, ...

  • 'Alakrana' crew members already in Basque Country 21 Nov 2009 10:38 GMT
    ... seamen. after 47 days held hostage by Somali pirates, on Friday arrived with its 36 ... who declined to travel on a Spanish Airforce plane, chartered by the Ministry for Defence for ...

  • Today In History 21 Nov 2009 01:13 GMT
    ... Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila's soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the ... down from his powerful post as Pakistan's military commander, a day before he is to ... not to hold both jobs. 2008 - Somali pirates hijack a chemical tanker with dozens ...

  • Spanish crew members freed by pirates arrive home 21 Nov 2009 13:51 GMT
    ... held for more than a month by Somali pirates arrived in Madrid on Saturday, the ... The Alakrana crew members flew into a military base, a ministry spokeswoman said, after first ... also authorised the guards to use military-grade weapons. AFP/Expatica Have your Spanish News delivered straight ...

  • Is imam a terror recruiter or just an incendiary preacher? 21 Nov 2009 00:12 GMT
    ... struggle — jihad — against the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has encouraged ... has encouraged extremist insurgents in Pakistan and Somalia. None of that sets Anwar al Awlaki, ... in Mogadishu and, most recently, the Muslim Army major who's charged with killing 13 people ...

  • Imam preaches militant message, but there's little evidence for ties to militants 21 Nov 2009 03:55 GMT
    ... struggle — jihad — against the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq and has encouraged ... has encouraged extremist insurgents in Pakistan and Somalia. None of that sets Anwar al-Awlaki, 38, ... while fighting in Mogadishu and, most recently, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who ...

  • Another Viewpoint: Pray for president in time of big decision 21 Nov 2009 05:53 GMT
    ... is finalized will determine America's political and military stance in the Middle East in addition ... the war and the addition of 40,000 troops suggested by Gen. Stanley McCrystal involves two ... innocent people. For now Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia are such nations. In the coming months, ...

  • Kidnap couple make video plea 21 Nov 2009 13:57 GMT
    ... News, warning UK authorities they fear the Somali pirates who kidnapped them may kill them. Jonathan ... brandish guns, at one point aiming their weapons directly at the Chandlers. Mr Chandler, 59, speaks ...


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