<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : war : All Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : war : All Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atheist soldier sues Army for 'unconstitutional' discrimination]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/68099/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Hall said he met some atheists who suggested he read the Bible again. After doing so, he said he had so many unanswered questions that he decided to become an atheist.<br/><br/>&quot;I was told because I can't put my personal beliefs aside and pray with troops I wouldn't make a good leader,&quot; Hall said.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do US Internment Camps Really Exist?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67955/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Interment camps are not without precedent in US history.  During World War II, out of fear, our government rounded up nearly 110,000 Japanese people and placed them in camps around the country.  That period in history is looked upon as a dark moment in our past.  <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.kbr.com/news/2006/govnews_060124.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Why</a> would we <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">repeat</a> a past <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/|" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mistake?</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil for War]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67937/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Article on how much the war is costing the U.S. and the irony of most of it going to military fuel.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest in Peace Army Spc. Joseph Patrick Dwyer]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67932/1/</link><description><![CDATA[US army medic succumbs to his inner demons and takes his own life. Another heart wrenching story about a soldier with PTSD committing suicide.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[550 Metric Tons Of Uranium Removed From Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67833/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program &#8212; a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, aka &quot;yellowcake&quot; &#8212; the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment reached a Canadian port Saturday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vonnegut's letter from a nazi camp]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67487/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Before he was a noted author, Kurt Vonnegut was a POW in Nazi Germany. A letter from those years.<br/><br/>with his cynical humor even in the hardest times. worths to read.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Deportation of the Hungarian Jews]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67132/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Read further...<br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous_new/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous_new/index.html</a></div> <br/><br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.giorgioperlasca.it/inglese/intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.giorgioperlasca.it/inglese/intro.html</a></div>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ French shooting show injures 16]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67104/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A military shooting demonstration in south east France has left 16 people wounded, after real bullets were used instead of blanks.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Shows Iran Will Destroy Infidels Two Hours Late]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/67078/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I could not resist this story on the same blog.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamas says it will not police truce with Israel]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/66626/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The comments by Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya came shortly after Gaza militants fired three rockets into southern Israel Tuesday, lightly wounding two Israelis. It was the first attack since the truce took effect last Thursday.<br/><br/>Who else isn't surprised?  If someone posted this, then I need a lesson in checking tags.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/66297/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;According to data... coverage of Iraq has been &#8220;massively scaled back this year.&#8221; Almost halfway into 2008, the 3 newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007.&quot;<br/><br/><i>So is this (a) bias, (b) evidence the public has lost interest, (c) sign things are going better over there, (d) all of the above, (e) none of the above?</i>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Army of Dude]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/65674/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Military blogger Alex Horton writes his  &quot;Photo Story Monday&quot;. This week's story involves finding an IED, blowing it up and taking a picture inside the crater.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the day before D-Day, a single code word linked two men who never met]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/64664/1/</link><description><![CDATA[64 years later, the two men find they are living in the same town when <b>that same code word brings them together!</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medal Of Honor's Youngest Recipient Dies]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/64566/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Jack Lucas, who at 14 lied his way into military service during World War II and became the youngest Marine to receive the Medal of Honor, died Thursday in a Hattiesburg, Miss., hospital. He was 80. <br/><br/>A remarkable man.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanna be a martyr when I grow up!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/64475/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, told the Pentagon's war-crimes court today that he wants to be put to death and become a martyr.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Baghdad Beatle]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63870/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A voice for peace in a country at war, Iraqi DJ spins and sings Beatles songs at &quot;Peace 106 FM Baghdad&quot; radio station. He has received death threats for hosting a talk show that gives Iraqis a platform to debate politics and air their daily concerns.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muslims Issue A Fatwa Against Terrorism]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63866/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Grand <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mufti" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mufti</a>, Habibur Rehman has signed a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">fatwa</a> denouncing terrorism. His group of Muslims are being brave and standing up to the radical minority and reminding them that the Qur'an rejects all kinds of unjust violence, breach of peace, bloodshed, murder and plunder and does not allow it in any form&quot;.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Yon - Independent Journalist in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63377/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An amazing blog from an independent journalist experiencing first hand what is happening in Iraq.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Soldier's Iraq Death Prompts Lawsuit]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63246/1/</link><description><![CDATA[KBR's latest court motion, which was filed heading into the holiday weekend, asks a judge to dismiss the family's lawsuit.<br/>The filing says the case &quot;raises inherently political questions involving... military policy level and tactical decision making ... and the direction the military provided to KBR regarding needed repair work.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last known WWI veteran honored for Memorial Day]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63219/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known living American-born veteran of World War I, was honored Sunday at the Liberty Memorial during Memorial Day weekend celebrations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long March to an Apology]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63206/1/</link><description><![CDATA[When the Japanese attacked in December 1941, the American and Filipino forces were unprepared. On April 9, 1942, the American commanders surrendered, and the 65-mile Bataan Death March began.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 Notes That Tap Deep Emotions]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63205/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than the call Taps. The melody is both eloquent and haunting and the history of its origin is interesting. There is an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.usmemorialday.org/tapsmyth.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">urban myth</a> about its origins. Here is the real history of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.usmemorialday.org/audio/bugltaps.mp3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Taps.</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelvedon Hatch, secret nuclear bunker]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/63101/1/</link><description><![CDATA[To the north of Brentwood in Essex is a small village called Kelvdon Hatch.  Unremarkable in every regard bar one, a small and unassuming bungalow that hides the entrance to an underground complex that would have housed up to 600 people in the even of nuclear war.<br/><br/>Now the cold war is over and the world is a safer place* the bunker is open to the public and can even be hired out for special events.<br/><br/><br/>*World may not actually be safer]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Terrorism Declining]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/62781/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the &quot;terrorism&quot; death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi'ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said. <br/><i>Perhaps we are a bit safer</i>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[WOMEN IN COMBAT: IS THE CURRENT POLICY OBSOLETE?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/war/l/62776/1/</link><description><![CDATA[American women have fought and served in every U.S. war, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Today, there are over 198,000 women in the active duty military, constituting 14.5% of the active force. Women are integral members of the armed forces and they are here to stay. Yet despite women's accomplishments throughout history, and most recently in the War on Terror, DoD policy still prohibits women from serving in approximately 200,000 positions in the military.]]></description></item></channel></rss>