Study Of Satellite Imagery Casts Doubt On Surge's Success In Baghdad

Satellite image of night lights in Baghdad. By tracking the amount of light emitted by Baghdad neighborhoods at night, a team of UCLA geographers has uncovered fresh evidence that last year's U.S. troop surge in Iraq may not have been as effective at improving security as some U.S. officials have maintained. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Los Angeles)ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2008) — By tracking the amount of light emitted by Baghdad neighborhoods at night, a team of UCLA geographers has uncovered fresh evidence that last year's U.S. troop surge in Iraq may not have been as effective at improving security as some U.S. officials have maintained.

Night light in neighborhoods populated primarily by embattled Sunni residents declined dramatically just before the February 2007 surge and never returned, suggesting that ethnic cleansing by rival Shiites may have been largely responsible for the decrease in violence for which the U.S. military has claimed credit, the team reports in a new study based on publicly available satellite imagery.
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Tuesday: 2 US Soldiers, 14 Iraqis Killed; 20 Iraqis Wounded

Excerpt: Updated at 7:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 7, 2008At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 20 more were wounded. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate incidents as well. Meanwhile, Turkey continued to pound northern Iraq with air strikes. Also, Iraq has now formally approved the provincial elections law, while U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte visited the country on a diplomatic mission.
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Russia Defense Watch: Biggest bomber test

Russia is moving back to hair-trigger alert testing for its strategic nuclear bombers and cruise missiles for the first time since the closing years of the Cold War. The Russian air force announced Thursday that its Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan -- NATO designation Blackjack -- and venerable Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H nuclear bombers would carry out what it described as "training flights" while equipped with "full combat payloads and live fire all cruise missiles on board for the first time in over two decades," RIA Novosti reported Thursday.

The ambitious exercises will last seven days from Oct. 6-12 and will take place across Russia's northern regions within the framework of the Stability-2008 exercises being carried out with the former Soviet republic of Belarus, the report said.

RIA Novosti said the purpose of the exercises was to check out "strategic deployment of the armed forces, including the nuclear triad, to counter potential threats near the Russian border."

"During these exercises, for the first time in many years, the crews of Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers will fly missions carrying the maximum combat payload and fire all the cruise missiles on board," Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik said, according to the report.
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Arrested for talking about Jesus

Two preachers, including an American who specializes in delivering the message of the Gospel in public places, have been arrested and face a July trial for carrying a sign telling people about Jesus at a freedom celebration in Norway.Larry Keffer, who works through the Biblical Research Center in Tampa, Fla., was accompanied by Norwegian evangelist [...]

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Who do you think was one of the Bush Administrations key players on the economy?

Behind the Rise in Prices: The Plan to Torpedo the DollarBy Danny Schechter Who do you think was one of the Bush Administration’s key players on the economy? If you say Paulson or Bernanke, you might be half right. But there’s another no-name lurking around in the background who tends to [...]

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House Passes Bill to Sue OPEC Over Oil Prices

Washington - The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust [...]

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Washington D.C. Police to be Armed With AR-15 Rifles This Summer

Metropolitan Police Department officials said yesterday patrol officers will be issued assault rifles by the summer, after policies on their use are released this month.The Washington Times reported Wednesday that the department is arming the officers with the rifles as part of a national trend to protect them from criminals with increasingly powerful weapons.Assistant Chief [...]

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Ron Paul on Gas Tax Holiday

John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton... ALL Liberals.
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The Trilateral Commission, John, Hillary, Obama, and the NWO of Feudalism

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The Bushs Family Bad Latin American Real Estate Investment

Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay.What struck people at the time was the choice of country. Paraguay, of course, has gained a certain Club Med status among the world’s [...]

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VIDEO U.S. Marines Invade Manhattan, New York?

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Hundreds killed by US strikes in Sadr City

Pepe Escobar: New strategy to fight resistance--Wall-in a section of the city and bomb it



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Jesse Ventura Terrorist Are Winning!

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The Green Light

The abuse, rising to the level of torture, of those captured and detained in the war on terror is a defining feature of the presidency of George W. Bush. Its military beginnings, however, lie not in Abu Ghraib, as is commonly thought, or in the rendition of prisoners to other countries for questioning, but in [...]

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Illegal Internal Immigration Checkpoint

So the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. — William O. Douglas (1898-1980), Henry v. United States, 1959**************************************** ****Man held at a internal immigration checkpoint until he says “I am a US Citizen”. This was on northbound SR85, between Ajo and Gila Bend.“I [...]

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