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Brandon Raub`s Marine Veteran Brother Sets Record Straight on Facebook Arrest

Marine taken into custody over Facebook 'singled out because of his heart'.

(RICHMOND, VA) - My name is Jesse Cash, I have known Brandon for nearly a decade. We served together in Iraq, and Afghanistan.

I am a college student, majoring in history (possibly changing to military intelligence). I have spoken with Brandon at least on a weekly basis for the last year, many times daily.

Soldiers Repulse Attack on Kamra Airbase Pakistan

Witnesses said the terrorists apparently sneaked into the airbase by scaling nine-foot boundary wall, reinforced with barbed wire, from the backside.

(KAMRA/ATTOCK, Islamabad) - Two soldiers, 6 militants & 8 terrorists, killed in Kamra airbase killed Pakistan.

The security officials successfully repulsed an attack at the PAF Minhas airbase in wee hours of Thursday, killing eight terrorists. A ninth militant, hiding outside the boundary wall, exploded his suicide vest in desperation when cornered.

Escalating Tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Necessity of Self-Restraint

Pakistani officials charge that Taliban leaders are now running training and logistic bases in Konar province of Afghanistan.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - Rehman Malik, advisor to to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Interior Affairs, is the highest ranking official to charge the Afghan government of supporting Maulana Fazlullah, one of the Taliban leaders.

Pakistani military officials had already made recourse to similar allegations to explain certain military measures they had taken along the common border with Afghanistan.

Deadly August in Afghanistan

At least 15 Americans had been killed by the 11th day of this month.

(SALEM) - August has been an extremely costly month in Afghanistan for U.S. and international forces.

Among the alarming and deadly statistics, are a spike in the number of deaths from friendly Afghan forces.

A Cruel and Unusual Record

The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.

(ATLANTA) - Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended.

This development began after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has been sanctioned and escalated by bipartisan executive and legislative actions, without dissent from the general public.

Military Suicides Continued: Critique of the Time Article: One Suicide a Day

The military wrongly claims that marital relationship issues cause suicides. What causes the issues? PTSD = Marital Discord.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I wrote, Military Suicides: Are they Killing the Best Fighters? about 2 weeks before the TIME issue came out. I have some real issues with TIME.

TIMES author, Mark Thompson and Nancy Gibbs got it mostly correct with some serious errors or near errors. I will try to correct the worst.

HSBC Funding Was Behind the Terror in Bangladesh, Mumbai

There are more than 100 Islamic groups in Bangladesh. Most of them are funded from Saudi Arabia...

(CHENNAI, India) - On July 17, the US Senate released a report on the old British colonial drug bank Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp’s (now called HSBC) ties to drug money laundering and funding of terrorists through Saudi and Bangladeshi banks.

That is, however, just one part of HSBC’s role.

Double Standards of Mass Murder (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

"Now, even as we learn how this happened and who's responsible, we may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil is senseless." --Barack Obama

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A Virginia college, a Colorado high school, a Texas military base, an Arizona strip mall, a Colorado movie theatre—all have become part of a recurring event in America: mass murder.

Following the latest massacre, Tom Mauser, father of a 15-year-old victim at the Columbine High School slaughter in 1999, described the inescapable scene...

Where`s the Consolation for Victims of our Wars?

Would he consider ordering a moratorium – even for just a day – on killing people by drones and other U.S. weapons systems in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen, Somalia, Colombia, Honduras… ?

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - Television introduced us to the victims of the horrific shootings in Aurora, CO, and to the grieving survivors.

Americans were dismayed, and President Obama went to Colorado to personally console the survivors.

Assange Seeks to Avoid Paying the Price for Messing with America

The US quickly stepped in to educate the Ecuadorean coalition leaders as to the facts of Western Hemispheric imperial life.

(TASMANIA, Aust) - I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any way of knowing how it would turn out.

He might be forced to be there for years.