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Forgotten by Most Americans, Iraq is Still a Source of Profits for U.S. Weapons Makers
The emergency military assistance will also prove beneficial to the American defense contractors that manufacture the hardware targeted for Iraq.The Iraqi military will receive 75 Hellfire missiles from Washington. Costing nearly $70,000 a piece, the delivery represents an early Christmas gift for arms maker Lockheed Martin. The company also made out with the order […]
Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan: More than half of the world’s terrorist attacks happen in just three countries.
While the total number of terrorist attacks around the world has been steadily rising, it is also an increasingly concentrated phenomenon. New data released today by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism based at the University of Maryland shows that just three countries for the year 2012—Pakistan, Iraq and […]
The man who said Dr. Martin Luther King would have Supported the Iraq/Afghan Wars confirmed as homeland security chief
The Senate approved Johnson on a vote of 78-16 as part of a raft of confirmations pushed forward after a recent rule change stripped Republicans of their power to block nominees with a procedural roadblock known as a filibuster.Obama said in a statement he was pleased that Johnson was confirmed with broad bipartisan support.\”Jeh will […]
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran – By Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid | Foreign Policy
In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq’s war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein‘s military would attack with […]
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