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Like your hero General George Patton, you're a "blood-n-guts" militant with ideas centuries behind your time......

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military has opened an investigation into allegations that an Afghan police officer was stripped naked, beaten and photographed at a U.S. base in Afghanistan, the American Embassy in Kabul said Wednesday....

May 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. troops stormed a mosque in Karbala, Iraq, that was held by followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the New York Times reported on its Web site, citing an American military official....

With mounting evidence that a shadowy group of former Israeli Defense Force and General Security Service (Shin Bet) Arabic-speaking interrogators were hired by the Pentagon under a classified "carve out" sub-contract to brutally interrogate Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, one only needs to examine the record of abuse of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israel to understand what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meant, when referring to new, yet to be released...

The latest horror in Gaza, as in previous tragic episodes there and in the West Bank, signaled a new countdown. Once more, the security cabinet consulted regarding a response. Once more, there is a deepening public doubt whether there is anyone to talk to or anyone to rely on - on the other side, or ours. Suddenly, because of another act of manslaughter, the disengagement takes a new turn, as if it were not the resolute decision of the prime minister that was defeated in the referendum, as if...

KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military, under fire for its treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Tuesday turned down a request by Afghanistan's human rights body for access to Afghans in its custody. Concerned that local prisoners may be treated like those in Iraq, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has sought access to Afghans detained for suspected Islamic militant links and held at various U.S. bases in Afghanistan. "We have no intention right now of changing our policy with re...

The White House has slapped sanctions on Syria, including a freeze on certain Syrian assets in the United States and limits on exports of goods, including weaponry....

In her video, the soldier described the hazards of Camp Bucca. "This is a sand viper," she said. "One bite will kill you in six hours. We've already had two prisoners die of it, but who cares? That's two less for me to worry about." ... "It's 'cause they are scared of me," she said. "I actually got in trouble the other day because I was throwing rocks at them."...

Members of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Najaf say they have seized ammunition and weapons, including a missile launcher and machineguns, belonging to the US army....

Some of the heaviest fighting of the US-led occupation of Iraq is currently taking place in Baghdad, provoked by US efforts to crush the uprising being led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. In the early hours of Monday morning, American tanks and helicopter gunships launched a major assault on the working class, predominantly Shiite suburb of Sadr City, killing and wounding dozens of Iraqi fighters and civilians....