War on Terror

White House defends drone-war killing of Americans

February 8, 2013 | Politics & Government

A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a U.S. drone airstrike targeting suspected al-Qaida militants …

By Olivier Knox Yahoo! News The White House on Tuesday defended targeted assassinations of Americans thought to consort overseas with terrorists as “necessary,” “ethical” and “wise,” as the Obama administration faced fresh questions about its sharply expanded drone war. “We conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate ongoing actual threats—to stop plots, prevent future attacks and, again, save American lives,” White House press Read More …

Nine dead, hostages saved: SEAL Team 6 does it again

January 26, 2012 | Politics & Government

Source: Sunday Morning Herald First they took out al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Now the US Navy SEALs have earned their “special forces” designation once again by conducting a daring, pinpoint rescue of two aid workers held hostage for three months in Somalia. US officials confirmed it was a Navy SEAL team that carried out the pre-dawn raid, but the Pentagon, citing “operation security reasons”, Read More …

Was Obama’s order to kill al Qaida cleric an assassination?

October 3, 2011 | Politics & Government

By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Lawyers signed off on the targeted killing of Anwar al Awlaki, the radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric whose violent death provokes fresh questions about right and wrong in wartime. Rules, after all, still apply even when the missiles start flying. The Obama administration considers Awlaki’s killing the justified elimination of a proven national security threat. Critics, including Republican presidential Read More …

‘A Due Process in War’

October 3, 2011 | Opinion

Editorial of The New York Sun October 2, 2011 In respect of the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, this newspaper is with our friends at the Wall Street Journal, who issued over the weekend a particularly well-put editorial saying that the administration deserves our congratulations and our thanks. Our view is that America is at war. The war began the moment we were attacked — that Read More …

Killed by Same Unit That Got Bin Laden: Details About the Operation that Killed Anwar al-Awlaki

October 1, 2011 | Politics & Government

by Jonathon M. Seidl The Blaze WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The same U.S. military unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill an American-born cleric suspected of inspiring or helping plan numerous attacks on the United States, including the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a jetliner, U.S. and Yemeni officials said. Anwar al-Awlaki was Read More …

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad

August 3, 2011 | Politics & Government

By Nicholas Schmidle The New Yorker Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or Read More …

Public enemy No. 1

August 1, 2011 | Opinion

COMMONSENSE By Marichu A. Villanueva The Philippine Star If we are to believe the official reports of the military, last week’s encounter of Marines with lawless elements in the jungles of Sulu involved heavily armed Abu Sayyaf terror bandits. At least seven Marines were killed in action while 26 others were wounded in the military offensive on a large camp of the Abu Sayyaf. By Read More …

$3 trillion in 15 years makes Osama the most expensive manhunt

May 19, 2011 | Opinion

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star Posted on the National Journal last May 6, Tim Fernholz and Jim Tankersley had tracked how much Osama bin Laden had cost the US. They wrote: “By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, Read More …

Can Osama save Obama?

May 9, 2011 | Featured, Opinion

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star Great historic events are rare and leaders who are gifted to be a part of these must ensure that they are permanently imprinted in the greatness of the moment. US President Barack Obama was posing for history when he announced to the American nation and to the world late evening of May 1st Read More …

Osama Bin Laden Killed in US Military Operation in Pakistan

May 1, 2011 | Politics & Government

SOURCE: NEWSMAX.COM WASHINGTON–Osama bin Laden has been killed, President Barack Obama announced Sunday night.  President Obama made the announcement almost ten years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Within an hour of the news breaking, thousands of spectators were gathering outside of the White House chanting “USA, USA” and singing “God Bless America.” Elsewhere in the United States, Read More …

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