Missile strike kills eight in Pakistan
The suspected U.S. attack reportedly hits two vehicles in the stronghold of a top Taliban commander. Associated Press Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan -- A suspected U.S. missile attack killed at least eight militants Wednesday, including several foreigners, in the stronghold of Pakistan's top Taliban commander, intelligence officials said. The strike ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There is a logic inherent in the current situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that says clearly to the administration of President Barack Obama, "Don't go any further with this one." It is simple. It is impossible to fix Afghanistan without fixing Pakistan. It is impossible to fix Pakistan. ...
Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay ...by Lawrence Wilkerson
Washington Note There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, thus, of which the American people are almost completely unaware. For that matter, few within the government who were not directly involved are aware either. ...
Will Obama institute a new kind of preventive detention for terrorist suspects? By Jane Meyer / New Yorker The last "enemy combatant" being detained in America is incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina—a tan, low-slung building situated amid acres of grassy swampland. The prisoner, known ...
Is the U.S. repeating Soviet mistakes in Afghanistan?
By Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy KABUL, Afghanistan — Twenty years to the day after the last Soviet soldier left Afghanistan, Dastagir Arizad ticked off grievances against President Hamid Karzai and the United States that are disturbingly reminiscent of Moscow's humiliating defeat. "Day by day, we see the Karzai government ...
Financial Crisis Called Top Security Threat to U.S.
By Walter Pincus and Joby Warrick / Washington Post Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told Congress yesterday that instability in countries around the world caused by the current global economic crisis, rather than terrorism, is the primary near-term security threat to the United States. "Roughly a quarter of ...
Panetta: Obama won't OK 'extraordinary rendition'
By Pamela Hess / Associated PressWASHINGTON – CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta assured senators Thursday that the Obama administration will not send prisoners to countries for torture or other treatment that violates U.S. values as he contended had occurred during the Bush presidency. Panetta, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...
U.S. pays $40,000 after 15 Afghans die in raid
Commanders apologize for any civilians 'accidentally killed' in operation Associated Press TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan - U.S. commanders on Tuesday traveled to a poor Afghan village and distributed $40,000 to relatives of 15 people killed in a U.S. raid, including a known militant commander. The Americans also apologized for any civilians ...
President orders air strikes on villages in tribal area
By Ewen MacAskill / Guardian Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action yesterday, missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people. Four days after assuming the presidency, he was consulted by US commanders before they launched the two attacks. Although Obama has ...
Pakistan urges Obama to halt missile attacks
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan urged President Barack Obama to halt U.S. missile strikes on al-Qaida strongholds near the Afghan border, saying Saturday that civilians were killed the previous day in the first attacks since Obama's inauguration.Pakistani security officials said eight suspected foreign militants, including an Egyptian ...
To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults
Effort Hints at Group's Consternation By Joby Warrick / Washington Post Soon after the November election, al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader took stock of America's new president-elect and dismissed him with an insulting epithet. "A house Negro," Ayman al-Zawahiri said. That was just a warm-up. In the weeks since, the terrorist ...
Obama to Close Foreign Prisons and Guantánamo
By Mark Mazzetti and William Glaberson / New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama is expected to sign executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year, government officials ...
Bin Laden's message on Palestine resonates
By Shaun Waterman / UPI WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Osama bin Laden's latest public pronouncement, addressing the continuing Israeli military action in Gaza, illustrates the extent to which the globally televised suffering of the Palestinian people -- and perceptions about the American role in perpetuating it -- are undermining U.S. ...
Bush legacy shaped by war, economic crisis
By Matt Spetalnick / Reuters WASHINGTON - Two unfinished wars, the U.S. economy deep in recession, the budget deficit about to hit $1 trillion and America's image badly tarnished abroad. Not since Herbert Hoover left Franklin Roosevelt the Great Depression has a U.S. president left his successor a litany of ...
Progress Reported in Gaza Truce Talks; Palestinian Toll Exceeds 1,000
By Griff Witte and Craig Whitlock / Washington Post JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 -- Israeli troops backed by helicopter gunships fought their way into a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City on Thursday, signaling an expansion in the 20-day-old war even as diplomats in Cairo suggested tentative progress in their efforts to ...
Bin Laden urges jihad against Israel
By Lee Keath / Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive. Bin Laden spoke ...
Fast to End Torture and Promote Peace ...by Cindy Sheehan
On July 4th, 2006, I embarked on the "Troops Home Fast" with many fellow activists all over the country. We began the fast in front of the White House and we were planning on ending it in front of the White House on September 21st (World Peace Day), but few ...
The Worst Pakistan Nightmare for Obama
By David E. Sanger / New York Times TO GET TO THE HEADQUARTERS of the Strategic Plans Division, the branch of the Pakistani government charged with keeping the country's growing arsenal of nuclear weapons away from insurgents trying to overrun the country, you must drive down a rutted, debris-strewn road ...
An Ex-Detainee of the U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal
By Jane Perlez, Raymond Bonner and Salman Masood / New York Times LAHORE, Pakistan — When Muhammad Saad Iqbal arrived home here in August after more than six years in American custody, including five at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he had difficulty walking, his left ear was ...
Two killed in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan: official
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — A missile strike by US forces killed at least two militants and injured three others Monday in a Pakistani tribal district known to be a stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, an official said. "A missile fired by US forces killed two people outside the town ...
More Than 160 U.S. and NATO Vehicles Burned in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Gunmen blasted their way into two transport terminals in Pakistan on Sunday and torched more than 160 vehicles destined for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, in the biggest assault yet on a vital military supply line, officials said. The U.S. military said its losses in the raid ...
Car bombing in northwest Pakistan kills 29
By Riaz Khan / Associated Press A car bomb devastated a busy street in this northwestern Pakistani city on Friday, killing 29 people, injuring scores more and unnerving a region already dangerously on edge following the attacks on India's commercial capital. Further adding to the tension, a missile strike suspected ...
Georgia Sen. Chambliss wins re-election in runoff
By Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press ATLANTA – Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss handed the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington, winning a bruising runoff battle Tuesday night that had captured the national limelight. Chambliss' victory thwarted Democrats' hopes of winning a ...
Detaining Chinese at Gitmo a Power Strategy
Uighurs Stay at Guantanamo Prison to Solidify White House Power By Daphne Eviatar / Washington Independent Pity the Uighurs. Originally known best in this country for their unusual name (pronounced WEE'-gurz), the group of 17 Chinese Muslims has been locked up at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years. That ...
6 years of peace protests in Rockland
By Steve Lieberman / The Journal News NANUET - Joan Rudolph of Nanuet applauds both encampments at Middletown Road and Route 59 for their activism and perseverance. For the past six years - through rain or shine, and warm or cold temperatures - Rudolph and thousands of others have seen ...
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