In The News: Reality check for the Pentagon - Yemeni national Salim Hamdan, 'Osama's driver', receives his Guantanamo military tribunal sentence. He was sentenced to 6 years... Light to start with. The kicker... He's already done all but 6 months. The US government says they don't have to let him go if they don't want to [
Ex-State Department's Bill Fisher on that]. More.
An Analysis of the decision from Timesonline (UK).
The president of Iraq asks the US to get
all of our troops out by 2010, with all US forces on 'base deployment' by '09. More.
A US nuclear submarine has been leaking radioactive water for TWO YEARS as it cruised the Japan-Hawaii-Singapore-Malaysia route...
The 'Cold War' heats up - South Ossetia is attempting to secede from Georgia, which despite it's proximity to Russia is Western related, and Georgia has shot down a couple of Russian jets.
Russian troops have entered South Ossetia's capital... That means Georgian territory for all intents and purposes. Details.
From Reuters,
FACTBOX - Georgia's importance as an energy transit stateThe Bolivian elections, including provincial elections, happen over the weekend, even as a couple of provinces have been attempting to secede, the oil and gas provinces natch...
with US backing. More.
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