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Obama, Wikileaks and Afghanistan: The Grand Fudge
By David Corn - Politics DailyAfghanistan has been much in the news this week. Not because the war there is costing the country $100 billion a year and a national discussion has broken out about its prosecution. Not because the House was voting on a $59 billion bill to fund the war. (The measure passed on a 308-114 vote, with 102 Democrats voting nay.) What nudged the under-cover, under-debated, under-discussed war onto the national radar screen was the news that the Wikileaks website had posted 92,000 classified U.S. military reports from Afghanistan that overall presented a grim picture of the war. And this was bad for ...
Hamaswood? Top Terror Tourist Traps
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 20) -- Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based paramilitary group, now has its own museum. Hamas, in Gaza, has a cultural center. It seems the latest phase of the war on terrorism may be the battle for popular culture. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that countries and groups on all sides of the conflict are opening museums with dueling ideological views. Here are a few of the museums around the world dedicated to exposing terrorism or, conversely, to defending acts labeled as terrorism by the international community: Lebanon: Informally known as Hezbollahland, its formal name is the ...
Embassy Security Pits US Image Vs. US Lives
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(April 5) -- On a crisp spring day in 1983, Muslim militants launched an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, detonating an explosives-packed van stolen from the facility a year earlier. The explosion killed more than 60 people, including embassy personnel and Marines. Today, some 27 years later, another ambitious attack took place against a U.S. diplomatic outpost, this time in Peshawar, Pakistan. It also employed a truck bomb, as well as grenades and rocket launchers. But this assault was largely thwarted: Six Pakistanis were killed but no Americans, and the militants didn't penetrate the ...
How Real Is Pakistan's New Tack on Taliban?
By Adnan R. Khan - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Revelations this week that Pakistan has arrested up to half of the resident Afghan Taliban leadership, known as the Quetta Shura, has raised hopes that a reluctant neighbor is finally coming around to supporting the U.S.- led war in Afghanistan. The arrests over the last few weeks -- including the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's second in command -- are being hailed as a new beginning for Pakistan, which has traditionally nurtured Islamic fundamentalists as an integral part of its foreign policy. Mohammad Sajjad, AP Pakistani security officials walk past ...
DOJ Finds No Misconduct by Bush Interrogation Lawyers
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 20) -- The Justice Department is closing the books on its probe of the Bush administration lawyers whose legal memorandums authorized the CIA to waterboard terrorism suspects, but the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains offended by the memos and will hold hearings An internal review said the department lawyers showed "poor judgment" but did not commit professional misconduct in giving CIA interrogators the go-ahead at the height of the U.S. war on terrorism to use harsh interrogation tactics. President Barack Obama campaigned on abolishing ...
CIA Torture Case Entangles U.K. Government, Prompts Charges of Cover-Up
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritain's top military intelligence agency -- MI5 -- has been accused of covering up its complicity in the torture of a U.K. citizen. The case has created a political firestorm in this country, reigniting controversy over government secrecy, the morality of torture and Britain's special relationship with the United States. The case concerns one Binyam Mohamed. Mohamed is a U.K. resident who was detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of terrorism shortly after 9/11 and spent 6½ years imprisoned in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Guantánamo Bay. Mohamed has long alleged that he was ...
UK Court Publishes Details of Alleged CIA Torture
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Feb. 10) – A London court on Wednesday ordered the British government to disclose confidential U.S. intelligence showing that a British resident and former Guantanamo Bay inmate suffered "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" while in American custody. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband had previously refused to allow the publication of U.S. material dealing with the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002. Divulging this information, warned Miliband, could jeopardize Britain's intelligence-sharing deal with the U.S. and damage future anti-terror ...
Bulk of Anti-Terror Funding Pegged to 9/11 Suspect
By Russell Berman - AOL News(Feb. 1) -- At first glance, the $213 million that the Obama administration wants to add to the federal budget in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year seems like a substantial increase. It would boost the pot of urban homeland security money by 24 percent over the current level. But a closer look at the budget finds that almost all of the increase – $200 million – can be traced largely to one man: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. www.muslm.net / AP A lion's share of the $213 million President Obama is asking for in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year can ...
Smart Bombers: Do Universities Breed Terrorists?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- In the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt, our nation is once again grappling with how best to protect itself against terrorist attacks. So far, the U.S. government has been directing its resources towards things like airport security and strengthening the government in Yemen, a new hotbed for al-Qaeda. But it's worth asking whether we'd be better served by focusing on what goes on inside universities. ...
Is Yemen the New Afghanistan?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 28) -- A plot to to blow up an airliner over Detroit. The shooting rampage at Fort Hood. The attack on the USS Cole. What could they possibly have in common? Call it the Yemen connection. The botched attempt by a Nigerian man to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet over Detroit on Christmas Day is the latest terrorist operation linked to extremists in the troubled country. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old accused in the plot, said he was trained and equipped with chemical explosives by al-Qaida in Yemen, home to his mother's family. The government confirmed Monday ...
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