Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’

Wikileaks cracks Pentagon’s encryption key for Afghanistan operations

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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In a recent events, the controversial site Wikileaks.org, has managed to crack the encryption key to multiple documents related to the U.S. led war in Afghanistan. The documents dated October 6th, detail the “official” story that NATO members are to tell the press when asked about operations in the Afghan region.

In response, the Pentagon has taken the website offline completely. The password is progress and among several revelations, it mentioned the country of Jordan, still being a member of the coalition even though it officially pulled out of the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) in 2001.

Check out the wikileak post to read on the other minor tidbits of information. Although, not a big deal in the whole scope of things, still an interesting read if your into the geopolitical goings on in the world, not to mention its fun to poke at the government a bit…

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RATM playing across from the RNC… what could go wrong?

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

The rebel rock group Rage against the Machine are playing on September 3rd (the same time as the Republican National Convention) in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Target Center. If their last co-liner with a political convention is any sign of things to come, this ought to be a intense night. From the VH1 article:

De la Rocha recently called for President Bush to be “tried for being a war criminal,” and during the band’s Lolla set, he raged against the last eight years of Republican rule and even had a word of warning for “Brother Obama,” referring to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama.

“Now, we know Brother Obama. … But I tell you what, if he comes to power come November and he doesn’t start pulling troops out of Afghanistan, I know a lot of people who are gonna stand up and burn down every office of every Senate.”

Here is the full article.

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