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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips U.S. missile strikes take heavy toll on Al Qaeda, officials say clipped by: spherepet Clip Source: www.latimes.com U.S. missile strikes take heavy toll on Al Qaeda, officials say March 22, 2009 By Greg Miller Reporting from Washington -- An intense, six-month campaign of Predator strikes in Pakistan has taken such a toll on Al Qaeda that militants have begun turning violently on one another out of confusion and distrust, U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism officials say. The pace of the Predator attacks has accelerated dramatically since August, when the Bush administration made a previously undisclosed decision to abandon the practice of obtaining permission from the Pakistani government before launching missiles from the unmanned aircraft. Since Aug. 31, the CIA has carried out at least 38 Predator strikes in northwest Pakistan, compared with 10 reported attacks in 2006 and 2007 combined, in what has become the CIAs most expansive targeted killing program since the Vietnam War. Because of its success, the Obama administration is set to continue the accelerated campaign Tags: al qaeda, pakistan, predator strikes zum Artikel... Living History And Sacred Soil clipped by: merrie clippers remarks: Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the senior enlisted adviser to Gen. David Petraeus at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, spread soil collected from battlefields in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan during Operation Desert Storm and Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The soil often looms large not just as a blood-soaked symbol but as a defining reality for combatants, who become intimate with it. Mud of the trenches, black volcanic sands of Iwo, red laterite dirt of Vietnam. The stuff CSM Hill spread on the parade ground has an odd, musty taste when it rises up into the sky, blocks out the sun, turns the air yellow, orange, and finally blood-red around you, and inevitably ends up lining your mouth, nostrils and lungs. Clip Source: www.julescrittenden.com Joe Galloway on the dedication of a parade ground at the new National Infantry Museum: Before the 125 newest soldiers in the Army set boots on that field, though, it was consecrated in a ceremony that saw veterans and descendants of veterans of eight of America?s wars spread soil collected from their battlefields on the new parade ground. Soil from World War I battlefields in France was spread on the parade ground by George York World War II was represented by soil collected from the beaches at Normandy and those of Corregidor and Guadalcanal in the Pacific. Photo gallery, video and a news report, and another column via Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. The gallery includes art of historic flybys and demonstrations as well as the museum itself, all impressive. * Prior on that theme, regarding a group of mutual friends I share with Galloway. Tags: georgia, fort benning & national infantry museum, yorktown, antietam, ww l france, ww ii corregidor & guadalcanal, d-day, korean war, vietnam, kuwait zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de