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Obama's Drone War: Does the Killing Pay Off?
By David Wood - Politics DailyAn air strike last month by a U.S. robot plane killed Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistani officials confirmed this week, in a bit of good news. A notoriously brutal extremist, Mehsud played a key role in the killing of seven CIA operatives by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan Dec. 30. But there was bad news, too: Mehsud has been replaced by an even more dangerous and unpredictable terrorist named Maulvi Noor Jamal. Air strikes by unmanned drones against terrorist leaders in Pakistan and elsewhere, which have intensified since President Obama took office, are a proven tactic in the war ...
Bin Laden Lashes Out at US on Climate Change
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Jan. 29) -- Osama bin Laden has lashed out at the U.S. and all industrial nations for causing climate change, saying ending global dependence on the American dollar would be the way to solve the problem. In a brief audiotape aired on Al Jazeera television, bin Laden blamed the West for causing hunger and other disasters across the globe, and said the danger of climate change was "not an ideological luxury but a reality." "We should refrain from dealing in the U.S. dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as soon as possible," as well as boycott American goods, he added, saying ...
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American Ex-Al Qaeda Member Spills Secrets to Officials
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyBryant Neal Vinas, a former Al Qaeda member and 26-year-old New Yorker, is in U.S. custody in New York and -- according to officials -- he's talking about what he knows. Vinas was arrested in Pakistan in November, but it was only this week that his presence in U.S. custody was confirmed. In January, Vinas pleaded guilty to, among other charges, providing information to Al Qaeda leadership for a potential attack on New York's transit system. Since his guilty plea, Vinas has been talking to officials about his experiences in an Al Qaeda training camp and also offering testimony in cases against ...
Bush's CIA: Who Deserves the Assassin's Bullet?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLet's make one thing clear at the outset: My idea of justice and, yes – retribution -- does not revolve around seeing Osama bin Laden on trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague as the prosecutor politely asks, "Mr. bin Laden, do you recall the morning of September 11, 2001?" ...
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