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NATO: Key al-Qaida Figure Killed in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike earlier this month killed a key al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan - a regional commander in charge of suicide bombings and cash flow, the international military coalition said Tuesday. NATO identified the man killed in the April 13 airstrike in Dangam district of eastern Kunar province as Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani. The alliance said the strike also killed a number of other insurgents, including another al-Qaida leader known as Waqas. Al-Najdi, a Saudi citizen, directed al-Qaida operations in Kunar and traveled regularly between ...
The War on Hamsters Rages On in Afghanistan
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe war in Afghanistan isn't just against al-Qaida, it's also against hamsters and other varmints. According to The Wall Street Journal, a few good Americans stationed in the country are not there to battle terrorists, but to battle birds that might shut down a jet engine in flight, as well Indian crested porcupines, golden jackals, gray dwarf hamsters and Libyan jirds, a sort of giant gerbil. Franck Fife, AFP / Getty Images There's a war in Afghanistan against hamsters and other varmints. George Graves, 57, is the equivalent to David Petraeus (emphasis on the "pet," of course) ...
Clinton Blasts Leadership of Afghanistan, Pakistan
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today blasted the leadership in both Afghanistan and Pakistan for the poor economic growth, corruption, energy shortages and political instability that are plaguing their people. "Last month in Doha -- actually, now two months ago, in December -- just before the protests began in Tunisia and Egypt, I warned that the region's foundations were sinking into the sand," Clinton told an audience at the Asia Society during a lengthy review of U.S. policy on the two countries. "In Afghanistan and Pakistan, conflict is blasting the foundations ...
WikiLeaks: US Funded UK Effort to Blunt Muslim Extremists
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- The United States launched a secret campaign to deradicalize young British Muslims after receiving warnings that the U.K. was struggling to address the threat posed by homegrown extremists, according to a new series of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The program, which had a budget of at least $50,000, began in 2008 after repeated warnings that the U.K. was not doing enough to counter domestic extremism. In August 2006 -- just over a year after four British Muslims blew themselves up on the London transport system, killing 52 people -- the U.S. Embassy in the capital sent a ...
Of Egypt, Middle East Peace and al-Qaida
By Nicolas B. Tatro - AOL NewsANALYSIS Nearly every major Middle East crisis has offered an opportunity to give new momentum for Arab-Israeli peace talks. All of them have fallen far short of a permanent peace. What will grow out of the upheaval in Egypt? Looking back, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war set the stage for international talks in Geneva and eventually for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's precedent-shattering trip to Jerusalem. The result of what Sadat defined as "shock" therapy for the Mideast was the first peace treaty between an Arab country and the Jewish state. For three decades, the peace pact helped silence ...
US Wants UN Human Rights Expert Fired for 9/11 Comments
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS -- The United States demanded today that the U.N. expert on Palestinian human rights be fired for suggesting that 9/11 was carried out by the U.S. government and then covered up by the American media. "In my view, Mr. [Richard] Falk's latest commentary is so noxious that it should finally be plain to all that he should no longer continue in his position on behalf of the U.N.," said Susan Rice, U.S. envoy to the world body. Falk, a law professor from Princeton University, wrote in his blog on Jan. 11 that "awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations" fuel ...
Daniel Pearl Kidnappers at Large: 5 Facts About Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Janghvi
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsAmerican journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but more than a dozen Pakistani militants believed to have been involved in Pearl's 2002 kidnapping and slaying have not been captured. That's the conclusion of a report released today by the Pearl Project, an investigative journalism project at Georgetown University. Mohammed, who is being held in Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial on terrorism charges, has not been charged in Pearl's death. According to the new report, Pakistan's government considers the Pearl case closed and the United States is no ...
Prosecutors: Terror Suspects Targeted US Embassy, Big Ben
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsBritish prosecutors say that nine young men arrested a week ago on terrorism charges may have planned to bomb the London Stock Exchange, Big Ben and the U.S. Embassy over Christmas. The men are accused of plotting to blow up several key landmarks in London as well as the homes and offices of some political and religious figures in the run-up to the busy holiday season. According to details outlined in court this week, police said that the defendants went on "reconnaissance" missions to study various sites in connection with the alleged bomb plot. Other locations allegedly scouted included ...
U.S. Drones Strike Pakistani Terrorist Havens
By David Wood - Politics DailyU.S. robot drones fired missiles Monday at a compound and several vehicles deep in Taliban-controlled territory inside Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal agency (along the border with Afghanistan), according to reports from the region. Pakistani intelligence officials said 21 insurgents were killed in the strikes at Mir Ali, including several who died when their truck was hit by a missile, which detonated numerous secondary explosions, al Jazeera reported. U.S. missile attacks, conducted by the CIA, are running at almost double last year's pace. So far this year, 113 missiles have struck ...
'War on Drugs' Gives Way to the Dangerous New Face of Narco-Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyA shotgun blast of news this year shredded what most Americans believe about what used to be called the "war on drugs" -- that it was being fought to curb what were seen as simply criminal enterprises. Instead, it left us all facing the new dangers of narco-politics, whether it is cartels challenging governments and attacking social institutions, capitalizing on corruption, or involvement in the drug trade by terrorist groups. As a veteran California law enforcement officer told Politics Daily: "What we're seeing in Mexico is cartels as new 'state making' agencies." That's politics, even if, ...
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