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From ANTIWAR.com:
A US drone fired two missiles at a suspected militant compound in South Waziristan today, killing at least five and wounding an unknown number of others. The attack was the latest in a string of US strikes on the restive Pakistani agency which have killed nearly 100 in the past seven days.
US attacks into Pakistani territory had temporarily stalled after an attack on a funeral procession in late June killed 80, including dozens of innocent civilians. The attack was roundly condemned by the Pakistani government, which feared the massive toll would undercut support for the Pakistani military's offensive in the tribal area.
The two-week calm ended last Friday when a drone killed 17. On Tuesday another attack killed 16 more, and then on Wednesday multiple attacks killed at least 60 others. The five killed today bring the confirmed toll up to 98.
The Pakistani government is reported to have significant influence over the targets selected by the US in the strikes, though Pakistan's civilian government has fervently denied that it has anything to do with the unpopular attacks. The Obama Administration has dramatically increased the rate and severity of attacks since taking office.
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The British government has announced five more soldiers killed today in a pair of blasts targeting a foot patrol, bringing the 24 hour toll to eight in the restive Helmand Province. The attacks, as so many others in recent days, appear to have been IEDs planted by insurgents.
Nearly eight years after the initial US invasion, the Helmand Province remains one of the deadliest provinces in all of Afghanistan. Violence appears to be on a significant rise since the US Marines launched a massive offensive in the Helmand River Valley last week.
The latest killings have brought Britain's death toll in Afghanistan to 184 since 2001, passing the 179 killed during its five year participation in the Iraq War. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has cautioned Britons to prepare for a "very hard summer," but says his government's determination to continue the war has not been shaken.
Yet opposition MPs have taken the latest deaths as an opportunity to lambaste the government over the seemingly endless war. So far the British don't seem to be suffering from the same war exhaustion as some of the other European contributors to the ongoing occupation, but as the number of slain soldiers rises, this may soon change.
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Also from ANTIWAR.com:
In a high-profile policy address before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the US wouldn't not hesitate to use its military to "defend our friends, our interests, and above all, our people" during the segment discussing Iran.
She elaborated on the declaration with "this is not an option we seek nor is it a threat; it is a promise." Clinton also warned Iran that the US offer to hold talks, which she had previously said she didn't expect to work to begin with, would not be open-ended and that "our willingness to talk is not a sign of weakness."
Today's comments are the latest in a long line of bellicose rhetoric coming from the Secretary of State. Last month during a television interview she said that Iran was risking the possibility of a US invasion, citing the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq as a model.
The US has been demanding that the Iranian government abandon its civilian nuclear energy generation program, and several officials have claimed, despite a stark lack of evidence, that Iran is working on nuclear weapons. The IAEA has pointed out no evidence for the accusation exists, and America's own National Intelligence Estimate says they don't believe Iran has an active weapons program either.
(http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/15/clinton-us-wont-hesitate-to-use-military-against-iran/)
I can't fucking believe this! Hasn't The West learned anything from Iraq?!
From ANTIWAR.com:
The Times of London is citing unnamed Western diplomats as saying that the deal between Israel and the West on the issue of Palestinian statehood is taking shape, and that Western officials are offering to back an Israeli attack on Iran in return for certain concessions, including the recognition of some of the Palestinians' land claims.
Israeli forces have been moving into position to launch such an attack recently, and with the West publicly coming out in favor of a diplomatic rapprochement with Iran it seems incredible to learn that behind the scenes they are offering not only to turn a blind eye to a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran, but to openly endorse it.
Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran, claiming the nation is covertly developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charge, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concedes that there is no evidence that Iran is actually seeking nuclear weapons.
The potential attack on Iran's civilian nuclear program could create a dramatic anti-US backlash, according to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. He cautioned that this would be the case whether or not the US was responsible for the attack.