The US continues its illegal and immoral wars, murdering innocent children, women and innocent men daily, by redeploying soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injuries and Military Sexual Trauma. Veterans view this as cruel, inhumane, and dangerous and know that without repeated use of traumatized soldiers on the battlefield, the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations could not continue. By winning troops Right to Heal, Iraq Veterans Against the War believes Americans can end the war and war crimes committed daily in their names.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — "Suspected U.S. drone aircraft" carried out two missile strikes against a house and a vehicle near the Afghan border in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing seven alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The U.S. is now suspected of conducting 19 such attacks this month - the most intense barrage since the strikes began in 2004. Most have targeted Datta Khel, part of the North Waziristan tribal area that is dominated by militants who regularly stage attacks against NATO troops in Afghanistan.

In the first strike Sunday, a drone fired three missiles at a house in Lwara Mandi village in Datta Khel, killing three suspected militants, said the intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Minutes later, a drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in the same area, killing four suspected militants, the officials said. The 19 missile strikes this month have killed around 90 people, according to an Associated Press tally based on Pakistani intelligence reports. U.S. officials do not publicly acknowledge the missile strikes but have said privately they have killed several senior Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the region, which is largely out of the control of the Pakistani state.

'They want to kill people with my software that doesn't work,' software exec tells court. The CIA used illegally pirated software to direct Predator drone attacks, despite apparently knowing the software was inaccurate, according to documents in an intellectual property lawsuit. The lawsuit, working its way through a Massachusetts court, alleges that the CIA purchased a pirated and inaccurate version of a location analysis program, which may have incorrectly located targets by as much as 42 feet. The allegation raises fresh questions about the CIA's execution of drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are believed to have killed hundreds of civilians in the past four years. And if the court decides to grant an injunction against users of the software, it could potentially halt the CIA's drone attacks, at least temporarily, as the agency works to find a replacement.

The advance word was that this was to be a "holding meeting" and not much more. Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu would not launch some grand initiative for the Middle East. Instead they would sit together, chat chummily and pose for photographers – particularly important given what happened a couple of months back, when an angry Obama kept Bibi waiting for hours in the West Wing, only to cut their meeting short without so much as posing for a souvenir snap.

[Editor's Comment:] The US is not israel's "friend" and consequently not a friend that even could be lost. Since the sixties, the US has been, and still is, israel's vassal state, its fiefdom. israel can still depend on rock-solid support from a Washington, its loyal, semi-dependent state. -Jonathan Freedland doesn't understand much of anything.

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Paul Craig Roberts: It Is Official: The US Is A Police State."An American Police State was inevitable once Americans let "their" government get away with 9/11." Americans: Too Gullible, Too Uneducated, Too Jingoistic to Remain a Free People - We Are Officially a Police State.

Alan Grayson, the Democratic firebrand from Florida's 8th District, made himself a nationwide household name -- and angered conservatives -- last year with his declaration that the Republican plan for health care amounts to hoping sick people "die quickly." Now his latest move could prove equally infuriating to his political opponents. In a new election campaign ad, Grayson compares Florida's Christian politicians to the Islamist fundamentalists of the Middle East.

"Religious fanatics are trying to take away our freedom in Afghanistan, in Iraq and right here in central Florida," declares a female voice-over. The ad focuses on Daniel Webster, Grayson's Republican opponent in this year's mid-term election and a former state legislator. "Daniel Webster wants to impose his radical fundamentalism on us," the ad asserts. "Webster tried to deny battered women medical care and the right to divorce their abusers. He wants to force raped women to bear the child. Taliban Dan Webster. Hands off our bodies, and our laws."

Indian authorities have arrested a computer scientist for refusing to divulge the source of an electronic voting machine that he and a team of researchers used to expose holes in the country's election system. The Hyderabad home of Hari Prasad, managing director of Netindia LTD, was raided on Saturday morning at 5:30 by authorities who questioned him for two and a half hours before taking him into custody, a colleague of his said here. Police then transported him to Mumbai, which is about 14 hours away. The arrest follows research released in April that disclosed several vulnerabilities in India's electronic voting machines, which authorities have claimed are fully tamper-proof and even perfect. The flaws were discovered on a machine that an anonymous source donated to the research team in February, after elections officials refused to make one available.

Post-genocide, Rwandan women raise the children of their attackers. Photos: Jonathan Torgovnik

A cage specially built to help rescue 33 men trapped underground in a mine in Chile has arrived at the mine head. The steel capsule will be used to pull the men to safety one by one, once a rescue shaft wide enough to haul them up has been drilled. Relatives of the miners were allowed to get into the narrow cage, which is little more than 50cm (20in) wide. It is expected to take between 20-30 minutes to pull each miner up from their shelter at a depth of 700m. The long - and extremely narrow - steel case has been named Phoenix, and its designers hope it will lift the men to a new life overground much like the bird in Greek mythology rose from the ashes. Relatives of the miners, who have been camped out at the mine head since the men were trapped after a rockfall more than seven weeks ago, clapped when the rescue capsule was unveiled.

Yahoo: First rescue capsule arrives at Chilean mine

An improvised explosive device has left at least two US-led soldiers dead in southern Afghanistan as the war claims more lives of foreign troops. NATO said the soldiers were killed on Sunday, without giving further details, the Associated Press reported. More than 530 US-led troops have lost their lives in the war-ravaged Afghanistan so far this year, making 2010 the deadliest year for NATO since the war began nine years ago. The total US and NATO casualties in the past 20 months are more than the entire death toll in the first seven years of the war. Last December, US President Barack Obama ordered an extra 30,000 forces for Afghanistan. Despite the surge, violence has been increasing in the country, claiming the lives of both Afghan civilians and foreign troops.