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 drove President Bush and massively increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan -- by up to 65,000 if he were to listen to some ...
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 Council, which he acknowledged had got caught into political complications over questions like size and criteria.Bush, whose tenure saw a transformation of Indo-US ties, also ...
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 Iraq. Are you equally critical over Obama and Afghanistan? MOORE: I think it's critical he's in the process of making his decision. I think it's ...
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 Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region Thursday, intelligence officials said. Two missiles were fired at a suspected militant hide-out in the stronghold of top Taliban commander ...
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 August the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nearly eight-year war. The grim milestone comes as the top U.S. commander prepares to submit his ...
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 will encounter tough fighting, but said improving civilians' lives is as important to winning the war as defeating militants.Gen. David Petraeus, speaking to the American ...
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 Afghanistan policy and an expected request for additional troops following General McChrystal's upcoming assessment of the situation there. That liberal base just got a high-profile ...
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, as the terrorism suspect known as Abu Zubaida lay in a Bangkok hospital bed, top U.S. counterterrorism officials gathered at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., ...
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 may need many thousands more troops to win the war. Shades of Vietnam. Do we ever learn? It brought back memories of the late Gen. ...
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 for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI agent, where he sought refuge 44 years earlier after taking part in ...
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 intensify the debate over interrogations.By Julian E. Barnes and Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times Reporting from Washington — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh ...
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, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former ...
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 years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005." These were the digits assigned to him when he arrived at the detention center at ...
By Steve Coll / New Yorker In 2007, a Guantánamo military commission reviewed prisoner No. 008, also known as Abdullah Gulam Rasoul, a designated enemy combatant who had been held without legal rights for about six years. Rasoul told his captors that he had "never been America's enemy and I ...
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 warfare. This is a land stuck in the past: there are few roads, electricity is scarce, and entire communities of ethnic Pashtun tribesmen live as ...
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 hapless bunch of ne'er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece ...
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 Graham echoed the claim that torture "works" and added that is has for five hundred years (a timescale which connects us to the Spanish Inquisition). ...
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 energy into this year's White House Correspondent's Assn. dinner, transforming an event labeled the "nerd prom" into something more akin to the Golden Globes. In ...
'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 were loud and intense in the spring of 2002. Inside, a high-value terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was handcuffed to a gurney. He had been wounded ...
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 waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified Justice Department memos. That undercuts assertions ...
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 find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a ...
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 In "1984," George Orwell's classic novel on the evils of totalitarianism, the agents of Big Brother break down the will of resisters by throwing them ...
New York Daily News Reading the Bush Administration torture documents released last Thursday by the Department of Justice - documents all about inflicting pain, suffering and discomfort - I felt plenty of my own. America is truly about to go through the looking glass. But it's a task that must ...
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 the woman who would give birth to John Connor, the leader of the underground human resistance of Skynet's time. You with me so far? That, ...
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 first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who ...
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