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British tanks storm Basra jail to free undercover soldiers
Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill The Guardian, Tuesday 20 September 2005 Article history Iraqi policemen walk through debris at the central jail in Basra. Photograph: Nabil al-Jurani/AP British troops used tanks last night to break down the walls of a prison...
Blackwater Founder Builds Mideast Mercenary Army to Put Down Revolts
What’s Erik Prince been doing since he sold off Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company he founded and turned into a juggernaut of the private security world? His shadiest, most morally-compromised guns-for-hire scheme yet. Prince moved to Abu Dhabi last year as...
Army wants rapid-fire rubber bullets for crowd control
17 February 2011 by David Hambling Magazine issue 2799. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Weapons Technology Topic Guide THE US army is planning to field "rubber bullets" for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more...
Army tests hypersonic weapon over the Pacific
HONOLULU (AP) — The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound. The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 a.m. The...
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
By Michael Hastings February 23, 2011 11:55 PM ET Sen. John McCain walks with Lt. Gen. William Caldwell at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 6, 2009. Senior Airman Brian Ybarbo/U.S. Air Force (Homepage image: AP) The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of...
10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax
Merely a week after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, there is literally a deluge of evidence that clearly indicates the whole episode has been manufactured for political gain and to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual...