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Brize Norton Royal Air Force Base, United Kingdom – They heard the noise first. Then a dark shape broke through the clouds that hung over RAF Brize Norton. The C-17 cargo aircraft slowly came into view over the Oxfordshire airbase. … Continue reading →

Colonel Chris Vernon also said the last five days of fighting had made it impossible to get aid into the area. “Basra (is) clearly nowhere near yet in our hands and we have no way at the moment of getting … Continue reading →

The Anglo-American war now being fought in the Middle East is without question the most flagrant act of aggression carried out by a British government in modern times. The assault on Iraq which began a week ago, in the teeth … Continue reading →

Some US Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at Iraq have fallen on Saudi Arabia, forcing planners to suspend certain routes for launches, US military commanders say. “In the case of Saudi Arabia, we did have a number of T-LAM missiles that … Continue reading →

A spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens, said every reasonable possibility was being investigated. The Washington Post on Friday quoted a military source as saying an A-10 Thunderbolt II warplane may have mistaken the Marines for Iraqi fighters and attacked … Continue reading →

Washington, DC (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from Pentagon planners that substantially more troops and armor would be needed to fight a war in Iraq, New Yorker Magazine reported. In an article for its April 7 … Continue reading →

Washington, DC — Though the scion of a family steeped in politics and public service, George W. Bush remains a young president who came to the White House with relatively limited knowledge of the world and its ills. Yet for … Continue reading →

… Rumsfeld tactics fail as chief admits: “This is not what we war-gamed for” … Washington – It has all begun to go horribly wrong for Donald Rumsfeld. The White House’s No1 hawk dreamed of a swift, hi-tech precision war. … Continue reading →

Washington – A top Pentagon health official conceded Tuesday that conducting physical examinations of troops after military deployments might help prevent a recurrence of gulf war illness. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, also told a congressional … Continue reading →

But after the setbacks, guerrilla-style ambushes, downed helicopters and disturbing images of US soldiers dying or being taken prisoner over the past two days, the mood has changed abruptly, “My God, this is getting much messier than I thought,” was … Continue reading →