ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face Friday with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terrorist leaders.
The war in South Waziristan started early for Ghufran. As Pakistani warplanes pounded the Taliban
stronghold of Ladha last week, in preparation for the ground offensive
now under way, the 11-year-old boy and his family scrambled to safety
across a range of jagged mountains.
WASHINGTON - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strategy of full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, are claiming new intelligence assessments suggesting that al Qaeda would be allowed to return to Afghanistan in the event of a Taliban victory.
MEXICO CITY- On the eighth anniversary of the United States declaring a
global "war on terror" this September, America's continental neighbors
- Mexico and Canada - have had enough.
When President George
W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, the
nation - and much of the world - was still in disbelief that Islamic
terrorists had successfully carried out the greatest attack on U.S.
soil since Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor.
"War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984.
Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell's imagined future
bit the dust, the phrase is, in a number of ways, eerily applicable to
the United States.
Dick Cheney, the former US Vice President, nearly destroyed Britain's efforts to bring the airline bomb plotters to justice, police and intelligence experts said today.
By ordering the early arrest of Rashid Rauf, the bombers' link man in Pakistan, Washington forced British police to detain the suspects in the UK before all the evidence had been gathered, it was claimed.
Back in September 2005, when I first began researching Guantánamo for my book The Guantánamo Files,
the prison was still shrouded in mystery, even though attorneys had
been visiting prisoners for nearly a year, following the Supreme
Court's ruling, in June 2004, that they had habeas corpus rights.
Researchers at the Washington Post and at Cageprisoners<
According to The New York Times
this morning, violent clashes between Chinese government forces and
Muslim Uighurs -- that country's long-oppressed minority -- have left
at least 140 people dead and close to 1,000 injured. This incident in
Western China highlights an important fact about America's "War on
Terror."
Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House.
One of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the
Obama administration has been its unwillingness to end many of the
mind-numbing abuses linked to the so-called war on terror and to
establish a legal and moral framework designed to prevent those abuses
from ever occurring again.
Something that has happened repeatedly in Afghanistan over the last eight years happened yet again this week:
After U.S. Strike, Dispute Over Afghan Deaths
KABUL,
Afghanistan - Sharply conflicting reports on an American airstrike this
week continued to trickle out Friday from American military and Afghan
officials as to whether the attack killed civilians.
