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Phantom fear of Taliban is driving the war in Afghanistan
New York -- The recent suicidal violence in Pakistan coincides with a growing concern that President Obama might be tempted by the same folly that ...
Bush favours UNSC seat for India
NEW DELHI: Pitching for a greater role for India globally, former US President George W Bush today favoured its entry into the expanded UN Security ...
Michael Moore Discusses Afghanistan on Larry King Live, October 29, 2009
KING: Let's touch another base here Michael, while we have you. Let's talk about Afghanistan. You were very critical in "Fahrenheit 911" over Bush and ...
Drone attack in northwestern Pakistan kills 6
By Ishtiaq Mahsud (AP) DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone attack killed at least six people and wounded another nine in northwestern ...
August deadliest month for US in Afghanistan
By Robert H. Reid / Associated Press KABUL – An American service member died Friday when his vehicle struck a bomb in eastern Afghanistan, making ...
Petraeus: More tough fighting ahead in Afghanistan
By Bruce Schreiner (AP) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The commander of the U.S. Central Command warned Tuesday that growing numbers of American soldiers sent to Afghanistan ...
Feingold to Obama: Announce Withdrawal Timetable from Afghanistan
By David Chalian / ABC News The Obama administration has been keenly aware of discontent among many in its liberal base with regard to its ...
Internal Rifts on Road to Torment
Interviews Offer More Nuanced Look At Roles of CIA Contractors, Concerns Of Officials During InterrogationsBy Joby Warrick and Peter Finn / Washington PostIn April 2002, ...
Afghanistan now is Obama's war ...by Helen Thomas
San Francisco ChronicleI had an historical flashback recently when I read a Washington Post news story about how the U.S. commander in Afghanistan thinks he ...
FBI notes: Saddam feared Iran more than US attack
By Pamela Hess WASHINGTON (AP) — The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in December 2003 was familiar ground ...
Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, told the U.S. military that he made up stories, documents show. The news could ...
The Secret History
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past By Jane Mayer / New Yorker The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, ...
Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was TorturedBy Jake Tapper, Karen Travers, and Stephanie Z. Smith / ABC For 7 1/2 ...
In Search of Success
By Steve Coll / New Yorker In 2007, a Guantánamo military commission reviewed prisoner No. 008, also known as Abdullah Gulam Rasoul, a designated enemy ...
The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan
By Mark Thompson / Time The wilds of Waziristan, the tribal belt along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, make an unlikely showcase for the future of ...
Yet Another Bogus 'Terror' Plot
By Robert Dreyfuss / Nation By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a ...
The Phony Debate About Torture ...by Elizabeth Holtzman
Huffington Post Former Vice President Dick Cheney has triggered a roaring debate by his recent and repeated claim that torture "worked." Last week, Senator Lindsay ...
The Night
VarietyHere's my story for on the dinner for the print edition of Variety: The arrival of President Obama's administration undoubtedly injected a new sense of ...
'We Could Have Done This the Right Way'
How Ali Soufan, an FBI agent, got Abu Zubaydah to talk without torture. By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek The arguments at the CIA safe house ...
CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror attacks
By Mark Seibel and Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that ...
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link
By Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to ...
The Lawyer and The Caterpillar
Torture is a complicated business, and the real world is never as neat as the imagined one. By Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas / Newsweek ...
Why the Bush torture architects must be prosecuted: A counter-terror expert speaks out ...by Malcolm Nance
New York Daily News Reading the Bush Administration torture documents released last Thursday by the Department of Justice - documents all about inflicting pain, suffering ...
Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars ...by Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatchIn 1984, Skynet, the supercomputer that rules a future Earth, sent a cyborg assassin, a "terminator," back to our time. His job was to liquidate ...
Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots
Waterboarding, Rough Interrogation of Abu Zubaida Produced False Leads, Officials Say By Peter Finn and Joby Warrick / Washington Post When CIA officials subjected their ...
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