Iraq
Locations in Iraq Hit with Rocket Attacks
Could the Iranians, or their proxies, have retaliated recently? Rockets hit some targets in Iraq, no US service member injured as of the reporting. This should develop as the weekend progresses. The entire initial report is quoted: From Reuters: BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Several rockets fell on Saturday inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, its Jadriya […]
Angry Iraqi Demonstrators Damage US Embassy Related Property
The US conducted precision airstrikes, defensive in nature, against militia-controlled targets. This specific militia had Iranian backing. As a result of the airstrikes, 25 of their members ended up getting killed. Naturally, the Iranians and those who are members, or supporters, of the attacked militia expressed anger. However, they did have previous warning from Washington […]
Air Force Veteran Sentenced for Fake PTSD, Purple Heart Claims
22 Dec 2019 The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. | By Rachael Riley The claim read like countless Veterans Affairs claims and Purple Heart awards. In 2014, Air Force Veteran Bryan Paul Winquist, now 39, submitted paperwork to the VA seeking compensation related to what he said was post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of a 2003 […]
Three From Ex
US Meets China Russia and Pakistan to Talk Peace in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD — Representatives of Russia, China, the United States and Pakistan have agreed that negotiation is the only road to peace in Afghanistan, including an early resumption of direct U.S. talks with the Taliban. The day-long talks in Moscow on Friday came ahead of […]
US Troops Leave Syria
US troops are leaving Syria but Iraq doesn’t want them to stay in Iraq: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/10/22/iraq-american-troops-leaving-syria-cannot-stay-in-iraq/ BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. troops leaving Syria and heading to neighboring Iraq do not have permission to stay in the country, Iraq’s military said Tuesday as American forces continued to pull out of northern Syria after Turkey’s invasion of the […]
William Murphy – Phony Combat Marine
The folks at Military Phony send us their work on William Alfred Murphy Jr. who lives in Moselle, Mississippi. Murphy proudly posts his photo of when he was back in the Marine Corps, and claims he is a 100% US Marine Corps disabled veteran. And he caught the dreaded PTSD from rescuing the dead and […]
Lest We Forget….
In 2011, the Atlantic published a group of photos from the events of Sept. 11, 2001. They need no explanation. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/09/911-the-day-of-the-attacks/100143/ National Geographic’s photo story was published in 2018. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/09/september-11-pictures-remembrance/ From Scientific American, the real reason the upper floors of the Twin Towers pancaked straight downward on top of those floors below. The lack of understanding […]
Bovine Bombers?
ISIS has found a new vector for its suicide bombers- cows. Attrition from both the US and Allied forces has so reduced ISIS’s numbers they are reluctant to use human suicide bombers. Perhaps not the most efficient manner to deliver suicide bombers- they have to get the cows near their intended target, and remain close […]
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