Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari denies that the killing of Osama Bin Laden by special forces in his country is proof it is failing to combat terrorism.
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Pakistan defends Bin Laden role
Iraqi special forces are taking the lead on missions.
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U.S. Special Forces prepare to leave Iraq
Iraqi special forces are taking the lead on missions.
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U.S. Special Forces prepare to leave Iraq
President Karzai’s cousin has become the latest in a string of high-profile civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Yaar Mohammad Khan, 65, was shot and killed by U.S. Special Forces during a night raid in southern Afghanistan targeting Khan’s son. It’s…
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Karzai’s Cousin Killed in Botched Raid
British officials are talking with Libyan opposition leaders to secure the release of eight British special forces held by rebels, opposition sources tell CNN.
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UK in talks to free captured troops, Libyan rebels say
Benghazi, Libya – Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces appeared to make little headway in a concerted assault on rebels in several cities around the country and in a sustained attack early Tuesday morning in the western city of Zawiyah. With escalating hostilities bringing Libya closer to civil war, rebels appeared to hold the city after a night of fighting, fending off tanks and artillery vehicles, special forces and regular army troops, and, rebels said, fighter jets. read more
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Gaddafi Makes Little Headway in Assault on Libyan Rebels
Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s attacks used fighter jets, special forces and regular army troops in an escalation that brought Libya closer to civil war.
RAF and special forces teams are expected to continue their mission to rescue the remaining British citizens stranded in Libyan desert camps.
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UK forces to resume Libya rescue
The situation in Libya is becoming increasingly violent. Early Saturday morning, special forces launched a surprise attack against protesters camped out in front of the courthouse in Benghazi. “They fired tear gas on protesters in tents and cleared the…
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Eighty Four Killed in Libyan Protests
South Korean special forces staged a dramatic pre-dawn rescue of 21 seamen who had been hijacked by Somali pirates. Military commandos boarded the vessel owned by Korean chemical carrier Samho Jewelry under the cover of darkness and went through the…
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South Korea Storms Pirate Ship
The UN-recognised president-elect of Ivory Coast calls for a West African special forces operation to remove incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo.
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A defence paper from South Korea says North Korea has trained 20,000 more special forces over the past two years.
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N Korea ‘steps up special forces’
Kabul, Afghanistan – The international Special Forces military team that targeted a Kabul office complex on Christmas Eve day thought they were thwarting a holiday season plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy. But the pre-dawn raid that left two security guards dead found no explosives, no plot and no evidence that the building’s occupants — an Afghan armored car firm that has been working with the U.S. military read more
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NATO Challenged Over Kabul Raid That Killed Two Guards
The life of a man named Gerry Gitell is an eloquent response to Nixon’s slur against the Jews (Nixon caught himself on tape saying that he “didn’t notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam…”), just as the heroism of Jack Jacobs is an eloquent response to Nixon’s slur. Gerry Gitell, the father of a friend of mine named Seth Gitell, died last month in Nevada at the age of 69. He served as a captain of the Green Berets; he lived the mission of the Green Berets even after he arrived home from Vietnam, and even as he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Gerry Gitell is best-known in Special Forces circles not for his work as a combat adviser in Vietnam, but as the man who, in essence, discovered Sgt. Barry Sadler’s song, “The Ballad of the Green Beret.” The story is fascinating : Before he left Fort Bragg, N.C., for Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces Group in 1965, he befriended Sadler, who wrote the ballad with author Robin Moore. As a public information officer, Gerry Gitell was the one who saw the song’s promotional value at a time when the anti-war movement was budding. He obtained recording equipment from the Special Warfare Center and persuaded their commander, Brig. Gen. William Yarborough to support them in recording and selling the song. For his effort, he received 25 percent of the royalties from the hit that topped the charts for five weeks, surpassing “We Can Work It Out” by the Beatles and “Paint it Black” by the Rolling Stones. Veteran Special Forces officer Sully de Fontaine, who was among the Green Berets at the funeral, described Gitell as “a soldier’s soldier.” Here is a video created by the Las Vegas Review-Journal about his life and death. I asked Seth by e-mail what it meant to his father to be a Jewish soldier in Vietnam. Here is what he wrote back: After my father moved to Las Vegas in 2000, he ultimately became active in the Special Forces Association, Chapter 51, the local branch of the national alumni group. The group sent a contingent of members to serve as an honor guard at his funeral at the Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery and to lead the gathering in the singing of “The Ballad of the Green Berets.” They also served as many of the pallbearers, who accompanied the coffin to the hearse, which took him to his final resting spot. While we waited, the oldest of them — a veteran of the anti-Nazi partisans in Belgium, the Israeli Army in the War of Independence and Vietnam — motioned to the coffin, and then to two of his comrades and said “four Jewish boys.” It was a point never lost on my father that while often forgotten, Jewish soldiers fought and died in Vietnam just as they had in World War II and other conflicts.
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An Eloquent Response to Nixon’s Slur, Part Two
North Korea Boosts Tanks and Special Forces, Says South Korea
Friday, December 31st, 2010
