IJC Operational Update, Feb. 18
ISAF Joint Command
Date: 02.18.2010
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan-international security force searched a compound outside the town of Waser, in the Washer District of Helmand province after intelligence information indicated militant activity.
The security force detained two insurgents during the search.
As the joint force was leaving, a small team of militants attempted to [...]

3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
Story by Pvt. Zach Zuber
Date: 02.18.2010
DIYALA, Iraq – Classrooms in the Khalis Secondary School have been a bustling place during the first two weeks of February. The traffic is not what most people would expect for the school, but rather a dedicated team of about 40 Soldiers from [...]

ISAF Joint Command
Date: 02.18.2010
KABUL, Afghanistan – Yesterday, Gov. Gulab Mangal travelled to Marjah to observe Operation Moshtarak. During his visit an Afghan flag was raised over the town, and the governor met with some of the combined-force service members who are conducting counter-insurgent operations. Subsequently, the governor traveled to Camp Bastion to visit with injured [...]

From an article last year written by Bill Roggeo at the Long War Journal
Islamist violence grips northern Nigeria
Boko Haram, which translates to “education is prohibited,” is also known by its Arabic name, Al Sunna Wal Jamma, or the “Followers of Mohammad’s Teachings.” The group was founded in 2004 in Kanamma village in northern Yobe State, [...]

Sixty-five years ago tomorrow, U.S. Marines landed on a barren, sweltering Pacific island called Iwo Jima.
By the time the fighting finished more than a month later, more than 26,000 Marines and other U.S. servicemen were killed or wounded. It was the only Marine battle in which there were more American casualties than Japanese, who had [...]

Durham, N.C. — Durham police late Wednesday arrested the woman who four years ago falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her.
Crystal Mangum assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him, investigators said.
A judge set her bond at $1 million during a Thursday morning court [...]

Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs
Story by John Kruzel
Date: 02.17.2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As national elections in Iraq loom on the horizon, Iran continues to subvert its western neighbor’s security and political infrastructure, top American military officials said.
Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the top American commander in Iraq, said Iran aims to foment violence [...]

By Alan Rappeport in Washington
Published: February 16 2010 20:23 | Last updated: February 16 2010 20:23
The US must fix its growing debt problems or risk a new financial crisis, Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, warned on Tuesday, adding a mounting deficit could spur inflation.
Mr Hoenig said that rising debt [...]

Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs
Date: 02.17.2010
WASHINGTON – Iraqi security forces arrested a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq weapons dealer and two other suspected terrorists during a series of combined operations in Baghdad Feb. 17.
Intelligence reports led Iraqi forces and U.S. advisers to a home in western Baghdad in search of a terrorist wanted [...]

Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:35pm EST
* EPA pursuing CO2 rules if Congress does not act (Adds byline, American Petroleum Institute petition, others)
By Ed Stoddard
DALLAS, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government’s authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Texas, which leads U.S. [...]

More politically correct blow back because some terrorist jerk, who is getting more Constitutional rights than our troops

IJC Operational Update, Feb. 17
ISAF Joint Command
Date: 02.17.2010
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan-international security force searched a compound in the village of Alozi, in the Pul-e Alam District of Logar province after intelligence information indicated militant activity. While searching the compound the joint force captured a Taliban sub-commander, responsible for the movement of weapons and leading [...]

This is what the terrorists did to me — and why they should be tried at Gitmo
President Obama finally listened to the outcry of New York, and is considering moving the trial of 9/11 terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other al Qaeda members out of the city, perhaps to Guantanamo Bay.
Finally, some wisdom.
It would be [...]

Warning: Graphic
Suicide Bomber Surrounded and Shot Dead by Marines
He had a hand grenade and he was trying to throw it inside a vehicle . He was shot dead

WASHINGTON — The US commander in Iraq on Tuesday accused two Iraqi politicians at the center of a dispute over blacklisting electoral candidates of having ties to an arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
General Ray Odierno said Ali al-Allami and Ahmed Chalabi “clearly are influenced by Iran.”
“We have direct intelligence that tells us that,” the commander [...]

Some Vietnam War veterans are fighting for a day of their own.
They have persuaded several state legislatures and dozens of cities to designate Vietnam Veterans Day and are lobbying others for a symbol of the gratitude and respect they believe they were denied when they came home from an unpopular war.
“We served with honor and [...]

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Public officials who openly support same-sex marriage cannot consider themselves to be Catholic, said an Italian cardinal.
“It’s impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognizes same-sex marriage as a right,” said Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna.
The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reprinted a portion of [...]

God works in mysterious ways son….
MARJAH, Afghanistan—It is hard to know whether Monday was a very bad day or a very good day for Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig.
On the one hand, he was shot in the head. On the other, the bullet bounced off him.
In one of those rare battlefield miracles, an insurgent sniper hit [...]

Mullah Baradar was a close associate of Osama bin Laden leading up to the September 11 attacks which killed thousands of innocent Americans on U.S. shores in an act of terrorism.
Who is he? Al Jazeera provides a quick primer on Mullah Baradar.

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) — The significance of the capture of Mullah Baradar, the [...]

In 1862, during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the nickname “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”)

Begun in the East, the war was spreading to the West, even beyond the Mississippi where the fate of the important border state of Missouri and the [...]