Marine Sniper Kills Five Taliban And Fires A Rocket Launcher On His Way To A...
There was only one thing to do: Marine Cpl. David Gerardi reached for the rocket launcher.Torsten Ove at The Pittsburgh Post Gazette used a Silver Star award citation to report that a group of Taliban...
View ArticleIntense Pictures Of The Syrian Rebel Group Blacklisted By The US
On Tuesday the U.S. designated Syria's al-Nusra Front as a Global Terrorist organization because of its direct links to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and then recognized the mainstream Syrian National Council...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough Rips Liberals For Hypocritical Reaction To 'Zero-Dark-Thirty'
The blindness of liberals to Obama's drone policy along with their outcry about waterboarding has rankled MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.Liberals (plus John McCain) are furious at the waterboarding scene in...
View ArticleThe NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A...
NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime.Known as the...
View ArticleDrug Smugglers May Have Developed 'Pot-Cannon' To Shoot Dope Over Border
Drug smugglers might have been using a pneumatic cannon to fire loads of marijuana over the border in Arizona, the Associated Press reports.A pneumatic cannon uses a pulse of compressed air to launch...
View ArticleIt Says A Lot About The Syrian Regime That It's Now Firing Scud Missiles...
Various news outlets, including this paper, are reporting that the beleaguered regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has, beginning Monday, fired six Scud missiles from Damascus towards rebel...
View ArticleSouth Korea Refutes US Officials Who Say The North's Satellite Is Tumbling...
Following North Korea's missile success earlier this week, U.S. officials told NBC late yesterday that Pyongyang's space vehicle is "spinning out of control" above the earth.The satellite was placed in...
View ArticleChina Flys Into Japanese Airspace For The First Time In History
Japan scrambled eight fighter jets on Thursday after a Chinese state-owned plane breached its airspace for the first time, over islands at the centre of a dispute between the countries.It was the first...
View ArticleTwo Illinois Bank Robberies Leave Authorities Guessing
A lone robber stole money from a Mundelein bank Wednesday, and the FBI also is looking for two men who robbed a bank in Wheaton yesterday.At about 11:02 a.m. Wednesday a lone robber stole an...
View ArticlePolice Scramble Helicopter To Take Out Masked 'Super Hero' Ninja
A comic book fan who dressed as a masked ninja to emulate his favourite superheroes and fight crime in his neigbourhood ended up being arrested himself by police.He desperately wanted to be like his...
View ArticleThere Are Around 23,574 Nukes In The World — Here's Who Has Them
The news that North Korea has successfully launched a satellite heightened fears that the same know-how could be used to launch ballistic missiles. Which countries already have the capability to launch...
View ArticleF-18 Crash Video Takes You Closer Than You Ever Wanted To Be To A Downed Hornet
Newly released surveillance camera footage shows intimate details of the F-18A crash in Virginia Veach we covered back in April.The footage comes out of WTKR Norfolk, a local news affiliate.Aside from...
View ArticleIsrael Is Set To Receive 5,000 US Bunker Buster Bombs After Delaying Its...
In March President Barack Obama reportedly offered Israel bunker-buster bombs and other advanced weapons in exchange for a postponing an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities until 2013.At the time the...
View ArticleDrones And SEALs Have Cleared The Way For Massive Military Cuts
If there's one thing the Osama bin Laden raid proved, it's that the man hadn't been in Afghanistan for years.Meanwhile, what was in Afghanistan were tons of U.S. troops and equipment, which take an...
View ArticleLaw Interpretation Shows 'Tweeters' Could Become Legitimate Military Targets
One unique aspect of the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas was the unprecedented use of social media by both sides.This new development highlighted important moral questions: what constitutes...
View ArticleCybersecurity Experts Expect A Major Hack Of US Banks Early Next Year
Hackers may mount a massive cyberattack to siphon money from 30 U.S. banks early next year, according to a new cybersecurity report by McAfee labs.The report, "Analyzing Project Blitzkrieg, a Credible...
View ArticleCONFIRMED: US Counterterrorism Agency Can Amass Data On Any Citizen
As of March 2012, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) can copy and examine entire government databases to predictpossible criminal behavior of any U.S. citizen, Julia Angwin of The Wall Street...
View ArticleUS Sends Troops And Missiles To Turkey As Syrian Conflict Escalates
"Western officials" are now reporting that Syrian soldiers have loaded a truck with chemical weapons for possible use, according to the Washington Post.This comes with other reports that beleaguered...
View ArticleThe 25 Most Effective Weapons In The US Arsenal
American ingenuity is an incredible force, and nowhere more so than on the battlefield.Weapons like the M16 rifle have been battle tested and refined to near-perfection. Others like the atomic bomb...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Pulled Off A Lethal Fake-Out On Assad
A Syrian parliamentarian and eight members of the security forces were killed in a Damascus suicide bombing Wednesday, and al-Arabiya reports that the attack was reportedly carried out by the al-Nusra...
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