How was it that U.S. service personnel be converted into American mujahideen? Follow the dots to the Oil Kingdom.

An independent inquiry will examine why a disproportionate number of returning service members are going to prison. Members of the inquiry will visit the U.S. and look at its Veterns' Courts.

Is the massacre at Ft. Hood, allegedly perpetrated by a Muslim who may have cried "Allah is great!" before killing 13, part of a broader ideological campaign against the US?

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist and Muslim, shot to death 12 people at Ft.Hood Texas. The morning of the shooting, he gave away his possessions and distributed copies of the Koran. Some media scratch their heads over his motivations.

Two Jesuit priests and three elderly Catholic nuns were arrested on All Souls Day while protesting at the world's largest nuclear military base near Seattle Washington. They sprinkled sunflower seeds on the ground at the base.

U.S. strategy has always been to trade time for risk but it should always be remembered that this long-standing policy has frequently culminated in war

Sources in Afghanistan that sending fresh troops ‘will not improve the situation.” The conflict is a political and social problem. A compromise is needed to break the “stalemate” at the government level and fight the “widespread impression of corruption.”

In the eight years of the international military operation, money, troops and even the hope of the population have been consumed. As the UN and NATO flounders, Russia and China seek "dialogue" with the Taliban. At the expense of the Afghans.