At least five Iraqis were killed and 12 more were wounded in prayer day violence. Also, a U.S. soldier died in Baghdad on Wednesday after an accident that is under investigation.
read moreDoubts Grow Over Israel’s Value as US Ally
Israel's disastrous raid in international waters Monday on a Turkish-flagged flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza has resurrected a long-running debate over whether Washington's close alliance with the Jewish state really serves U.S. strategic interests....
This Says It All
Israel Censors News on Deadly Flotilla Raid
TEL AVIV -- Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Free Gaza (FG) members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities. "No you will not be able to talk to them or...
Doubling Down in Afghanistan
Guantánamo Deaths in 2006 Won’t Go Away
A leading good-government group is asking the U.S. Justice Department to disclose details of its investigation into the deaths of three Guantánamo prisoners in 2006. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Wednesday sent a Freedom of Information...
Not So New National Security Strategy
‘Mad Dog’ Diplomacy
Moshe Dayan, Israel's most celebrated general, famously outlined the strategy he believed would keep Israel's enemies at bay: "Israel must be a like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." Until now, most observers had assumed Dayan was referring to Israeli...
CIA Drone Operators Oppose Strikes as Helping al-Qaeda
Some CIA officers involved in the agency's drone strikes program in Pakistan and elsewhere are privately expressing their opposition to the program within the agency, because it is helping al-Qaeda and its allies recruit, according to a retired military officer in...
