"By way of deception, thou shalt do war." -- Motto of the Mossad
More ordnance was rained down on Iraq during the six weeks of the Gulf War than was dropped in the whole of World War Two.
Unknown to the public or the Allied troops at the time, much of it was coated with depleted uranium (DU).
This nuclear waste has replaced titanium as a cheap coating for weapons which can pierce armour.
🚨 BREAKING: THOUSANDS Iraqi Kurds have just launched a GROUND INVASION of Iran, a US official tells Fox News
This comes just a day after reports the CIA was ARMING the Kurds for this type of operation.
This is big.
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The withdrawal, carried out using heavy transport aircraft such as the C-17 Globemaster and A400M Atlas, has left the Kurdistan Region feeling vulnerable.
Given the extensive structural damage sustained as a result of the collision, it is likely that the aircraft was repaired using a new tail section taken from a decommissioned KC-135 aircraft located at the 309th Aviation Repair and Disposal Unit, also known as the Aircraft Cemetery, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Although the U.S. Air Force has not publicly provided details about repairs, replacing such components is common practice to bring heavily damaged aircraft back into service.
The US military’s accelerated withdrawal from its base in Erbil, officially described as a scheduled redeployment, comes after Iranian precision strikes destroyed air-defense apparatus, including Patriot air-defense systems stationed there, a development supported by satellite imagery that has received limited attention in much of Western media coverage.
The war is going so well!
Katherine Hearst middleeasteye.net
Over 1,500 people facing terrorism charges in connection with Palestine Action protests had their cases listed for hearings in London on Thursday, causing "chaos" in the city.
Peter Rogers, antiwar.com
The reactions on both sides make clear that this is not really about joint research projects or sharing a few more technical papers. It has become a proxy for bigger arguments about how far American security commitments should go, what role Israel should play in Washington’s strategy, and where the Republican Party is headed on foreign policy.