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New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

We are going to let go for a while the Anderson case to occupy ourselves with the other political scandal, the one of Granda, the affable "chancellor" of the FARC. This appears to have the façade of pure theater, by both sides. Granda was detained here, by Venezuelan police, and handed over to the Colombian police.... Our hypothesis is that for some reason that this very opaque government will never make public, the presence of the guerrilla chief got uncomfortable for the executive and, in the framework of the new relationship that has developed between Chávez and Uribe ("I swear...

Today, there are rumors that the President of PDVSA Ali Rodriguez will be removed from the post and appointed as Minister of Foreign Relations. While this is being denied by the Foreign Minister “por ahora”, the rumors appear to be true. Coincidentally I was going to talk about Rodriguez in the context of an excellent article about him in Descifrado by Mery Mogollon, entitled “Ali is naked” which I was going to comment on, adding my own information. To understand what Mogollon is saying, it is important to place yourself in the proper context. Rodriguez, “Commander Faust” when he was...

Standing above a riverbank in the majestic Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, six Arhuaco Indians bowed their heads as tribal leaders chastised them for joining Colombia's Marxist guerrillas. But the event also marked the first time that members of the Arhuaco tribe had abandoned the rebels and rejoined their tight-knit community. The days-long ceremony offered a glimmer of hope for the Arhuacos and other indigenous groups struggling to survive amid Colombia's brutal civil war. "I have my kids. I have my wife," said Roger, 27, one of the six former rebels. "I understand that this is the road that I...

All, If you have some time, this article and commentary is worth it. Mr. Antonio Munoz is a noted and prolific historian and book writer of units and battles of the Eastern Front of WWII. He is also the president of Europa Books. I have read many of his books and they are top notch and totally historical (ie - this is not a neo-nazi web site). Anyways, Mr. Antonio Munoz wrote an article (bottom of the page at http://www.axiseuropa.com/about.php) that in a very round about way compares Nazi tactics of the Eastern Front to American policies in Iraq. Take...

America strikes back as warplanes bomb guerrilla hideouts By Colin Freeman in Baghdad (Filed: 09/11/2003) American warplanes bombed suspected Iraqi guerrilla hideouts in their first air attack since President George W Bush declared major combat over in May, as a senior US official said the situation inside Iraq was now "pretty close to war". The sharp escalation of the American military campaign against the growing Iraqi insurgency came in swift response to the death of six soldiers killed when a Black Hawk helicopter was shot down on Friday. It was the third helicopter brought down within three weeks. F-16 fighter-bombers...

WASHINGTON-- Saddam Hussein is waging "a classical guerrilla-type campaign," says Gen. John Abizaid, the new head of the U.S. Central Command, which is "getting more organized" every day. What can the deposed dictator hope to accomplish? How can he, with a ragtag force of Baathist criminals and imported killers with nothing to lose, possibly defeat 170,000 occupying troops? Saddam outfoxed one President Bush and intends to outfox and outlast another. Facing the likelihood that his army would disintegrate under direct assault, he probably decided that the mother of all battles against a democracy is a war of attrition. We may...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops are facing a classic guerrilla war in Iraq (news - web sites) spearheaded by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists, and American forces need to adapt their tactics to crush this increasingly organized resistance, the head of the U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday. This contrasted with an assessment given by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on June 30 that it was not "anything like a guerrilla war or an organized resistance." But Central Command chief Gen. John Abizaid, who commands U.S. forces in Iraq, said a guerrilla war is exactly what U.S. troops are...

How we blew it in Iraq Posted: July 11, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Most of the attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq since "the end of hostilities" have come mainly from remnants of Saddam Hussein's military forces, which have shed their uniforms and faded into the civilian populace. This would not have happened if the U.S. had properly prepared for the invasion of Iraq by ensuring it had sufficient military police and rear-guard forces to incarcerate Iraqi prisoners – many thousands of whom had to be released rather than held and properly interrogated. Not only did...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger separatist rebels -- taking advantage of their cease-fire with the Sri Lankan government -- have taken to the game of cricket, winning their first match in a grand style, a news report said. A team of former guerrillas from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) scored 250 runs in the allotted 20 overs, or 12.5 runs an over, and bowled out their opponents, a local team, for 14 runs, the Tamil Guardian newspaper reported in its latest edition, received in Colombo on Wednesday. The newspaper called it a friendly match, meaning it was not...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gacv/message/1916 Enviado: Domingo 12 de Mayo de 2002 08:54 PM Asunto: Fwd: Esta circulando, NO LO DETENGAS, dejalo circular ..... > >Subject: Esta circulando, NO LO DETENGAS, dejalo circular ..... > >Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 14:13:08 -0400 > > > > > > > > > > > >Esta circulando, NO LO DETENGAS, dejalo circular > > > > Esto me llegó hoy, por favor, traten de hacerlo circular a todo > > > >el que puedan. > > > > Ahora sí la cosa se está poniendo bien fea... > > > > Dada la gravedad de este...

THE B-52s cruised in pairs high over the Afghan mountains yesterday, apparently unconnected from the destruction their bombs would periodically unleash on the valleys and mountainsides below. Not far from the detonations squads of American and Canadian troops scoured the area, slowly coming to the inevitable conclusion: the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were long gone. For nearly two weeks American aircraft pounded suspected al-Qaeda bases near the Afghan city of Gardez and around 2,000 American troops launched their biggest ground assault since the war in Afghanistan began last October. The offensive, codenamed Operation Anaconda, began on March 2 and involved...