To bolster his claims, pressure owners to pay him off and to assuage those who had bought lots from him in earnest, Streeter staged a series of " invasions ", when he would lead a small group of squatters carrying shacks to the lake shore to quickly set up settlements.

Malcolm followed it with several invasions of Northumberland, probably in support of the claims of his brother-in-law Edgar.

In particular, he claims that the history of medieval India and the Islamic invasions is being rewritten.

American claims are evinced by the invasions of the Canadas during the British-American War ( 1812 ) and the British-American War ( 1776 ).

The Argentine gourmet Miguel Brascó claims that the word chimichurri originated when the British were captured after the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.

The Aetherius Society claims that under the guidance of the Cosmic Masters and with the aid of Spiritual Energy Batteries, they have prevented wars, natural disasters, disruption of the Earth's magnetic field caused by atomic power, and even alien invasions.

Upon returning they announce that Strong's evidence and claims of multiple alien invasions have been rejected.

It is known to exist in northern Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, northern Iraq ( Kurdistan ), and Nicholas Birch of the The Christian Science Monitor claims there is circumstantial evidence for its existence in Syria, western Iran, and southern Turkey.

In the book, Nasiri claims that al-Libi deliberately planted information to encourage the U. S. to invade Iraq.

U. S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with Saddam in an emergency meeting on 25 July 1990, where the Iraqi leader stated his intention to give negotiations only ... one more brief chance before forcing Iraq's claims on Kuwait.

The treaty delimited the boundaries of Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey ; formally ceded all Turkish claims on the Dodecanese Islands ( Article 15 ); Cyprus ( Article 20 ); Egypt and Sudan ( Article 17 ); Syria and Iraq ( Article 3 ); and ( along with the Treaty of Ankara ) settled the boundaries of the latter two nations.

* April 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.

Conflicting territorial claims and disputes over navigation rights between Iran and Iraq were among the main factors for the Iran – Iraq War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, when the pre-1980 status quo was restored.

In February 2004, Howard called on PM Tony Blair to resign over the Iraq war, for failing to ask " basic questions " regarding WMD claims and misleading Parliament.

In July the Conservative leader stated that he would not have voted for the motion that authorised the Iraq war had he known the quality of intelligence information on which the WMD claims were based.

Bush launched attacks on Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to distract the population from his domestic political problems and claims that despite victorious claims after the first Gulf War that Saddam Hussein had been " defanged ," he was again the target of Western attacks until his execution in 2006.

* Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have biological weapons program

Iraq also claims that it unilaterally destroyed most of these materials the previous summer, in violation of resolution 687.

* Iraq wants Scott Ritter's team out and claims that Ritter is a spy.

" After the Bush administration repeatedly referenced the yellowcake claims as justification for war with Iraq, ambassador Wilson wrote a critical op-ed in The New York Times in which he explained the nature of the documents and the government's prior knowledge of their unreliability for use in a case for war.

* The Washington Post claims that anonymous sources confirm that two Special Forces units have been operating on the ground inside Iraq for over a month, making preliminary preparations for a large-scale invasion.

* The German newspaper Die Tageszeitung claims that at the request of the United States, the 12, 000 page Iraqi weapons declaration was largely censored before being submitted to the UN, in order to remove references to Western countries that supplied arms to Iraq.

The Senate Intelligence Committee eventually discovered that President Bush and his advisers heavily exaggerated the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and terrorist ties to Al Qaeda which were not validated by U. S intelligence units.

In one of Greenhouse's claims, she said that military auditors caught Halliburton overcharging the Pentagon for fuel deliveries into Iraq.

The Iraq Health Ministry claims these are all civilians, but the U. S. disputes this.

After this, Iraq started supporting secessionist movements in Khuzestan, and even raised the issue of its territorial claims in the next meeting of the Arab League, without any success.

Unlike a " smear campaign ," rumor bombs need not be about discrediting a person ( as is the case for example in claims about Iraq and 9 / 11 or weapons of mass destruction moved to Syria ).

In April 2011, DynCorp agreed to pay $ 7. 7 million to the US government to settle claims that it had inflated claims for construction contracts in Iraq.

To position himself as Reagan's successor, Kemp called for Shultz's resignation based on claims that Shultz had neglected freedom fighters in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and had waffled on SDI.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

Beginning in 2009, some detainees captured in Afghanistan have been read their Miranda rights by the FBI, according to Congressman Michael Rogers of Michigan, who claims to have witnessed this himself.

They claim that the underlying economic motivation eroded any claims of moral superiority, leaving the hostile acts in ( Korea, Hungary, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua ) to stand on their own in justifying the human lives the conflicts had destroyed.

Although the Government of Turkmenistan claims to favour trade with and export to the United States and Turkey, it has significant commercial relationships with Russia and Iran and a growing cross-border trade with Afghanistan.

The ROC's constitution still raises claims of sovereignty over Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau – territories that today constitute the PRC – but, according to some interpretations, also over Mongolia, Tuva ( Russia ), and other, minor areas which today are part of Afghanistan, Myanmar, India and Japan.

Manning reportedly claims to have provided WikiLeaks with secret videos of additional massacres of alleged civilians in Afghanistan, as well as 260, 000 classified State Department cables.

The Pashtun dominated Government of Afghanistan not only refuses to recognize the Durand Line as the international border between the two countries, it claims that the Pashtun territories of Pakistan rightly belong to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan claims Pakistani based Taliban have killed many Afghan soldiers.

Davies added it was not the attitude of the government to be dismissive of the lives ' of British soldiers and he said it was ' very surprising and sad ' to hear the claims of the former SAS commander and when on visiting troops in Afghanistan recently all those he spoke to were pleased with the equipment supplied.

As Afghanistan's population grows, competing claims over summer pastures, both for rainfed cultivation and for grazing of the settled communities ' livestock, have created conflict over land across central and northern Afghanistan.

Vice Admiral Greg Maddison was called before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to address claims that Minister of Defence Art Eggleton had purposely misled the public and the government, even failing to inform the Prime Minister that JTF2 had been operating in Afghanistan.

Green spodumene found in Afghanistan and Pakistan has excited modest amounts of controversy in the mineral and gemological communities with debate over whether or not it should be truly considered " hiddenite " as well as claims that the green coloration is induced by irradiation and is fugitive.

" The journal also claims to publish " groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns – from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan.

In a controversial article published by the Center for Research on Globalisation, Wayne Madsen claims to have obtained a leaked DGSE report which states that " the CIA and Britain's MI6 maintained effective control of an important Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan as late as 1995, fully two years after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

She regularly claims that France should promptly withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

Some sources state that the policy to control Afghanistan was formulated by General Mirza Aslam Beg, and an Indian source claims this was continued as an active policy by the Pakistan Army until the policy was " de jure abolished in 1998 and de facto abolished in 2001.

Testimony at the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( ongoing during March 2004 ) has included claims of how much of the Bush administration's immediate post-9 / 11 emphasis on Iraq was appropriate and proportional to the overall picture of terrorism, especially in light of the administration's subsequent decision to pursue military action in Afghanistan first, the fact that organizations accused of 9 / 11 are in Afghanistan, not Iraq, and that no links have been found between these organizations and Saddam Hussein.

Numerous ancient texts, such as the Rig Veda, composed before 1200 BCE, ( e. g. in 4. 25. 7c ), and Herodotus in his Histories composed circa 450 BCE which mentions the Pashtuns as " Paktyakai " ( Book IV v. 44 ) and as the " Aparytai " = Afridis ( Book III v. 91 ) in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet no sources before the conversion of the Pashtuns to Islam mention any Israelite or Jewish connection, nor is the Eastern Iranian language of the Pashtuns taken into account when examining the claims of Hebrew ancestry.

It could be concluded that these claims appear to have emerged amongst the Pashtuns following the Islamic conquest of Afghanistan ; it is conceivable that many tribes have created elaborate ancestral lineages to link themselves to prominent peoples mentioned in the Qur ' an such as Jews, Greeks ( see Alexander the Great in the Qur ' an ), and Arabs, all of whom have come to the region, but appear to have contributed a very small genetic input into the population rather than drastically altering the demographics of Afghanistan.