Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi Arabia has threatened to sell off $750 billion in U.S. assets it owns if Congress passes legislation holding the kingdom responsible in any way for the attacks of September 11, 2001, the N.Y. Times reported. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the bipartisan Senate legislation. Congress […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Originally published May 30, 2013 By Grace Vuoto The media is now consistently referring to three scandals engulfing the Obama presidency, even using a shorthand expression such as a “trifecta” of troubling incidents. Yet, there is a scandal brewing that is worse than the Department of Justice violating freedom of the press, […]
Special from Background-Brief By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in Afghanistan that suffered the most U.S. military deaths in a single day in the war on terrorism. Every day, Charlie Strange, the father of one of the 30 Americans who died Aug. 6, 2011, […]
Sol W. Sanders If the Boston Massacre and the growing Syrian Civil War jihadist outrages were not self-evident, the bloody attack on innocents at the Nairobi, Kenya, mall provide new evidence that the international terrorist conspiracy continues virtually unabated. The perpetrators were Islamic jihadists, apparently members of the al Shahid thugs in neighboring Somalia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto At last, there will be a congressional inquiry into the strange circumstances surrounding the fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan in August 2011, which resulted in the deaths of 30 American service members and 8 Afghans, including elite troops from Navy SEAL Team Six, the contingent who killed Osama bin […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The media is now consistently referring to three scandals engulfing the Obama presidency, even using a shorthand expression such as a “trifecta” of troubling incidents. Yet, there is a scandal brewing that is worse than the Department of Justice violating freedom of the press, the Internal Revenue Service abusing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran reported details on previous missions and destinations of an advanced U.S.-origin unmanned aerial vehicle captured in December 2011. Iran has also reported replicating the drone. In a briefing, Air Force commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh disclosed details of the RQ-170, which for years was concealed by Washington. The general, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has assessed that it was leaving a small but resilient Al Qaida presence in Iraq. Officials said the U.S. military has assessed that the Al Qaida network in Iraq has shrunk significantly since 2009. They said the Islamic insurgency network does not contain more than 1,000 operatives, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has formally concluded that Iran shared responsibility in the Al Qaida suicide air strikes in which more than 3,000 people were killed in 2001. A U.S. federal district court has determined that Iran provided “material support” to the Al Qaida plotters of what is known as the […]