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UK's war on terror targets the vulnerable
The post-9/11 dragnet for Muslims in Great Britain has silently evolved into a hidden war of continual harassment against the largely helpless relatives of suspects or former detainees. Exploiting the stigma of "terrorism" and the specter of security threats, the British government has used experimental perversions of the legal system to dehumanize families and isolate them from the outside world.
- Victoria Brittain
(Mar 8, '13)
PAKISTAN'S MILITANT DEBATE
Momentum grows for Taliban talks
Pakistan's political parties and tribal leaders have called for a grand tribal jirga as a platform to conduct negotiations with the Taliban that could secure more peaceful conditions for upcoming general elections. Yet as Islamist militants vow to continue a campaign of terror on either side of the porous border with Afghanistan, many believe the Taliban can't be trusted.
- Syed Fazl-e-Haider (Mar 1, '13)
Strikes on tribals a mistaken panacea
Deaf ears have met the demands of tribal people displaced by the battle between Pakistan's military and militants in the country's north-west. The army's Operation Rah-e-Nijat is having its own devastating consequences on the lives of ordinary people, and the constant barrage of US drone attacks has left them in a permanent state of shock. - Khan Zeb Burki
(Mar 1, '13) |
THE ROVING EYE
News from Kyrzakhstan
US Secretary of State John Kerry's inadvertent outing of the country of Kyrzakhstan, took geographers and political analysts by surprise, while opening up new possibilities for the Global War on Terror, and adding a new dimension to the Great Game and the US pivot to Asia. - Pepe Escobar
(Feb 27, '13)
Pakistani Taliban take aim at
vote
A frenzied political atmosphere in Pakistan ahead of general elections this
year is being exploited by the Pakistani Taliban to suit their extremist,
sectarian agenda. As Islamabad's civilian government locks horns with the
courts, the Taliban are stepping up attacks in the northwest and
destabilization efforts in the southern port city of Karachi. - Syed
Fazl-e-Haider (Feb 6, '13)
India-Israel anti-terror axis
evolves
Secretive counter-terrorism and defense ties between India and Israel have
burgeoned since the United States-led "war on terror" helped create an
"informal" axis in 2003. By conflating its Kashmir and Pakistan struggles with
what the Indian foreign ministry calls Israel's "cross-border terrorism
problem" - the Palestinian resistance - New Delhi gains access to high-tech
weaponry, surveillance equipment and sophisticated training. - Ninan Koshy
(Feb 1, '13)
Security firms eye 'terror' bonanza
The hostage crisis at Algeria's In Amenas gas plant revives perceptions of
al-Qaeda as well-prepared militants, while French intervention in the Malian
conflict that spawned the attack raises the prospect of a post-war power
vacuum. The time of Blackwater-style armed contractors may be over, but Libya's
experience underlines that Western security groups are poised to cash in. - Ramzy
Baroud (Jan 29, '13)
The longest war
The rape and gruesome murder of Jyoti Singh on a New Delhi bus has triggered
the kind of outrage worldwide that women - and men - have needed for millennia.
In the United States, there is a rape a minute, and the death toll from men
murdering partners and former partners tops the casualties of 9/11, yet no one
declares a war on this particular terror. It is time we all did. - Rebecca
Solnit (Jan 29, '13)
Pakistan off limits for US drone
rules
Senior Obama administration officials are reportedly reaching compromises over
the terms of a so-called "playbook" on the use of drones against suspected
terrorists. That the rules won't immediately apply to the Central Intelligence
Agency's Afghanistan-based program against targets in Pakistan, where most
drone strikes have occurred, is stirring growing controversy
- Jim Lobe (Jan 23, '13)
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ROVING EYE
War on terror forever
The Global War on Terror is the gift that keeps on giving for the
French-Anglo-American industrial-military-security-contractor-media complex.
Follow the line from cozy NATO ties with Salafi-jihadi "freedom fighters" in
Libya west to the gold and uranium, and the shift in focus to Mali emerges as
power play in the fight with China. - Pepe Escobar
(Jan 22, '13)
Taliban release is high risk,
low-reward
The Afghan government is preparing to release thousands of Taliban officials
and rank-and-file members while pushing Islamabad to free others, such as
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and some of the group's most dangerous characters,
in a bid to convince the militants that the road to peace runs through Kabul.
It is a high risk move with little likelihood of reward. - Frud Bezhan
(Jan 15, '13)
THE
ROVING EYE
Syria: A jihadi paradise
Syria has turned into a remix of 1980s Afghanistan as Sunni hardcore faithful
rush to crush President Bashar al-Assad on al-Qaeda's call. This is hardly what
the petromonarchs and gilded Western powers backing the Syrian opposition have
in mind. What they want is a military dictatorship without the military
dictator; what they've put up is a jihadi paradise with Assad not moving
anytime soon. - Pepe Escobar (Jan 10, '13)
US
spying machine sees the light
The United States intelligence network is more visible than ever, with fallen
agents named and lionized, and a plethora of staggeringly bloated agencies
placing "covert" staff through a chain of fortified embassies. The US spying
machine now also has an irreplaceable fixture in pop culture, which allows it
to wage a low-level war on the global stage. - Tom Engelhardt
(Dec 18, '12)
Iran bomb graph doctored from
Internet
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set of graphs provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency as evidence
that Iran had been modeling nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted
from a scholarly article available on the Internet. While the UN watchdog
didn't identify the country that gave it the information, a path through an
international news agency suggests it may have been Israel.
- Gareth Porter (Dec 14, '12)
Syria's chemical weapons,
Iran's red line
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may risk the international condemnation that
would follow any use of chemical weapons, even if countries such as Russia and
China could no longer defend him. Iran, which has in the past disavowed such
weapons, cannot stand silently by. Rather, Tehran must speak out now with a
forthright warning before any such folly is perpetrated. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi
(Dec 4, '12)
Afghans claim Taliban received
airstrip cash
Funds from international forces to build an airstrip in Afghanistan's Logar
province found their way into Taliban hands, according to Afghan officials.
Disagreements over land ownership and the then-governor's role in the arrest
and release of alleged suspects in the payments chain may explain why NATO is
unwilling to comment.
- Abdul Maqsud Azizi (Dec 4, '12)
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ATol Specials
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Syed Saleem Shahzad reports on
the Afghan war from the Taliban side
(Dec '06)
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How
Hezbollah defeated Israel
By
Mark Perry and
Alastair Crooke
(Oct '06)
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Mark Perry and
Alastair Crooke
talk to the 'terrorists'
(Mar, '06)
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The evidence for and against Iran's alleged
nuclear weapons program
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Nir Rosen goes inside the Iraqi
resistance
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Nir Rosen rides with the 3rd
armored cavalry in western Iraq
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Islamism, fascism and
terrorism
by Marc Erikson
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