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+ A junkyard solution to IEDs / Christian Science Monitor:

--"Army mechanics have jury-rigged a minesweeper in Afghanistan, where roadside bombs have killed five recently."

+ UNITED STATES CAUGHT IN IRAQ CAR-BOMBING / Free-Market News Network, Corp. (FMNN):

--“This time it is the Americans captured in the act of setting off a car bomb in Baghdad. Last time ... two British soldiers ... were caught ..."

“... 'A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress  ... they looked suspicious so they detained the men ... Just as in the British incident ... the two men were removed from Iraq custody and wisked away before any questioning could take place.”

+ Who is behind the car bombings in Baghdad? / Antomy Loewenstein:

--“... the Americans … gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. ... he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up.”

“… an Iraq interpreter ... got suspicious because the Americans called him every now and then asking him if he’s already in the market. He parked the car in the middle of nowhere and answered yes; a few minutes after that the car exploded.”

+ Afghan Guards Confound U.S. Forces / Wall Street Journal:

--"... there have been at least three significant firefights between American forces and Afghan guards in recent months, and a host of other violent incidents. ... some guards take orders from the Taliban or drug gangs. ... 'They recruit former fighters who answer to the Taliban, and they recruit criminals.' ... many of the guards have more powerful weapons than the national police and army, including rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns.... By law, the guards are supposed to carry nothing more powerful than AK-47 assault weapons, but the government is ill equipped to take away the heavier weaponry. "For security reasons, we can't collect all of their weapons," said Gen. Farahie. "We're not strong enough."

+ In Afghanistan the few, not so proud, police, get trained by Marines / Washington Post (found on PrairiePundit website):

--"Col. Gula Agha Amiri, executive officer of the 7th Afghan Border Police, complained of his unit's lack of body armor and chronic shortages of ammunition and fuel. 'If we have contact with the enemy, we can't fight for more than two hours,' he said."

"U.S. Army Capt. Michael Repasky, chief of the team that mentors the border police here ... 'I've been here five months and haven't been able to figure out why they aren't getting fuel,'  ... That, in turn, makes the border police officers reluctant to move beyond their headquarters in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah ..."

+ Taliban gets Chiense arms / BBC:

--"Afghan officials have also privately confirmed to the BBC that sophisticated Chinese weapons are now in the hands of the Taleban. ... They said these included Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft guns, landmines, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs. A senior Afghan official told the BBC: 'Chinese HN-5 anti-aircraft missiles are with the Taleban, we know this... and we are worried where do the Taleban get them, some of these weapons have been made recently in Chinese factories.'"

+ China arming terrorists / Washington Times (found in Free Republic ):

--“New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.”

'Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms."

+ Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize / LA Times

--“President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.”

”President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.”

”The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening.”

+ United States and state terrorism / Wikipedia:

--“Arno Mayer, Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University, has stated that ‘since 1947 America has been the chief and pioneering perpetrator of 'preemptive' state terror, exclusively in the Third World and therefore widely dissembled.’”

+ Nightline / ABC News (June 9, 1993):

--Ted Koppel reported: “It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush Sr., operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Iraq into an aggressive power. Reagan/Bush administrations permitted--and frequently encouraged--the flow of money, DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGY, chemicals and weapons to Iraq."

+ Another Automaton of the Atomic Lobby: Barack Obama's Nuclear Ambitions / CounterPunch

--"The Clinton years indeed saw an all-out expansion of nuclear power, not only in the US, but all over the globe. First came the deal to begin selling nuclear reactors to China ... even though Zemin brazenly vowed at the time not to abide by the so-called "full scope safeguards" spelled out in the International Atomic Energy Act. The move was apparently made over the objections of Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who cited repeated exports by China of "dual use" technologies to Iran, Pakistan and Iraq. The CIA also weighed in against the deal, pointing out in a report to the President that "CHINA WAS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORT SUPPLIER OF EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY FOR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" worldwide."

Plus Read:

+ Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate / NY Times:

--Obama's radioactive-leaks bill = caters to Power Co.

+ Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy / Boston Globe:

--Obama helped his close friend and "most important fundraiser"--Tony Rezko (now in prison for extortion, fraud, money laundering)--get $87,000,000 to renovate 1,000 low-income Chicago apartments.

+ Obama's Sub-Prime Conflict / CommonDreams:

--Obama campaign chair = Penny Pritizker

"... if you traced today's sub-prime crisis back to its origins, you would come upon the role of the Pritzkers and Superior Bank of Chicago."