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Code Pink activists protest Democratic senators who supported Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, December 2017.. Code Pink was founded on November 17, 2002, by a group of American anti-war activists, including Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq (which the organization opposed).
Code Pink demonstrators in front of Berkeley City Hall on February 12, 2008. The Berkeley Marine Corps Recruiting Center protests began in September 2007 when a small group of protesters from Code Pink began periodically protesting in front of a United States Marine Corps Officer Selection Office located in Downtown Berkeley, California at 64 Shattuck Avenue by standing in front of the office ...
2. Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952) is an American political activist who, along with Jodie Evans and others, co-founded Code Pink. [1] She also co-founded, along with her husband Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party nominee in the 2000 United States Senate election ...
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. 25 November 2001. 1 December 2001. Qala-i-Jangi District. Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan. Battle of Takur Ghar. 4 March 2002. 5 March 2002. The peak of Takur Ghar.
Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War.She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [1][6][12][13] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [3][14][4] the first American ...
Task Force Pineapple was founded on 15 August 2021 by Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret, [3] to rescue an Afghan commando he had served with. [4] The commando was receiving death threats from the Taliban for having served alongside SEAL Team Six for a dozen years. [5] After rescuing the commando and his family of six, the group began planning ...
Kev McMurdo. SGT. Roy Geddes (WIA) The September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion was a Taliban raid on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan 's Helmand province on the night of 14 September 2012. [1] The base hosted British, American, Danish and Tongan military personnel at the time of the attack.