A British businessman has been jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors to countries including Iraq and Afghanistan. James McCormick, 57, sold more than 7,000 of the devices, which were based on a $20 novelty golf ball finder and proved to be useless. Sending him down for 10 …
A man charged with sending offensive letters to the families of Australian soldiers who died in Afghanistan has lost a High Court challenge to the charges. Source I would personally love to play with this mans balls At the same time i would also be playing with razor blades …
Prince Harry has killed a Taliban commander in Afghanistan, according to reports out of London this morning. The Sun reports that the Royal gunship co-pilot unleashed a missile strike to eliminate a senior terrorist leader in late October during a joint patrol with Afghan troops. The 28-year-old prince, who controls …
No rounds penetrated his body armor, and he made it home with no permanent injuries. This happened in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. *READ* From the cameraman: ” I got a hit a total of 4 times. My helmet cam died and i made it down the mountain on my own. I …
TALIBAN Islamist insurgents have beheaded 17 party-goers, 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody day across Afghanistan. The Taliban were responsible for beheading the civilians, including two women, who were holding a party with music in a southern …
The public execution of a 22-year-old woman accused of adultery in Afghanistan has been condemned by the government as un-Islamic and inhuman. A video shows her being shot repeatedly in the back in front of a crowd of men in Qol village in Parwan province just north of the capital, …
A wanted mid-level Taliban commander left US and Afghanistan officials scratching their heads when he handed himself in and demanded the $100 reward offered for his capture, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Mohammad Ashan, a Taliban commander in Paktika province suspected of plotting attacks on security forces, was arrested after …
Julia Gillard has defended her plan for an early exit of combat troops from Afghanistan against claims the time-line was designed to help her and US president Barack Obama. The Prime Minister scoffed at suggestions that timing of the early withdrawal announcement was linked to the US election in November, …
One or more U.S. soldiers shot dead 16 civilians, including nine children according to Afghan officials, in Afghanistan’s south on Sunday in what witnesses described as a massacre. NATO said they had detained one U.S. soldier in the killings. U.S. officials said the soldier was a staff sergeant. The incident, …
The US Marine Corps is once again in damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS – a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others. They need …
America’s politicians, terror experts and airlines have spent the better part of the last decade asking themselves how they could have prevented 9/11. It turns out that suffocating airports in a blanket of panicky security measures and hammering Afghanistan and Iraq were the wrong answers. The right one was Mark …
At 23, David Hart, a combat medic in the Royal Marines, took out a £250,000 ($404,549) life insurance policy before being deployed to fight in Afghanistan. Sadly, the day before his 24 birthday, he was killed in combat. But his memory is definitely going to live on (though parts of …
The Chief of the Australian Defence Force has expressed his deep sorrow after the deaths of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. The three soldiers were shot during a parade yesterday morning. Seven other Australians were wounded and an Afghan interpreter was killed. The lone gunman – an Afghan national soldier …
Wired’s Danger Room has learned that a computer virus has infected the United States’ Predator and Reaper drones. The virus is a keylogger that keeps track of every pilots’ keystroke as they perform missions over Afghanistan and other locations. Why aren’t they running Kaspersky? Source
Federal Cabinet has approved allowing women to join infantry units in combat. Defence Minister Stephen Smith said last night Cabinet had approved opening all defence roles to merit-based selection processes. The move would allow women to serve alongside men in the thick of battle in Afghanistan and other conflicts. So …
New US-made camouflage pants are literally falling to pieces on some Diggers in Afghanistan. The hi-tech MultiCam pants were tried by special forces soldiers before the Government spent $2 million for 5000 sets of the combat clothing. But infantry troops in Afghanistan are apparently much tougher on the clothing, the …
A NATO helicopter that crashed in eastern Afghanistan killing dozens of U.S. military personnel, seven Afghan troops and an interpreter was apparently shot down by insurgents, says a senior U.S. official. At least 30 U.S. personnel are said to have died in the crash, the highest number of American casualties …
The 12-Century Wonder and Mystery of Afghanistan Built back in 1190s by the once great Ghorid empire, this enigmatic and intricately-ornamented ancient “skyscraper” stands like a missile pointing at the stars – a 65-meter high minaret, the second biggest religious monument of its kind in the world. Originally it was …
President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday afternoon to Army Ranger Sergeant 1st Class Leroy Petry, the second living soldier to win the military’s highest decoration for actions in Afghanistan. Petry, originally from New Mexico, is among nine servicemen from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts to win …
A British soldier killed by a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan left £100,000 ($161,500) in his will – so his friends could go on vacation to Las Vegas. Royal Marine David Hart, who had taken out a £250,000 ($403,800) life insurance policy before he was deployed to Afghanistan, stipulated in a …