‘From Client-States’ Archives
U.S. Murders 123 Innocent Pakistanis in January to Kill 3 Alleged Terrorists
The News | By Amir Mir | 1 February 2010 US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men in January LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The [...]
Karzai to Set Up Reconciliation Council
The News | 29 January 2010 All Eyes Set on Ending Afghan War LONDON: The Afghan government and its Western allies now have their eyes firmly set on ending the eight-year war and recognise the only way to do that is to talk to the Taliban and give them a role in Afghanistan’s future. President Hamid Karzai will first set up a National Council [...]
Al-Jazeera’s “Osama bin Ladin” Tape: Alternative Translation
Just as consensus was emerging that Osama bin Ladin was long dead and Al Qaeda a spent force, a 1-minute voice recording has emerged, in a video with an old photograph of an extremely young Osama bin Ladin, that starts with the incongruous greeting, "From Osama to Obama" . With exquisite timing for U.S. info-war objectives, the voice [...]
Gates Exposes Pakistan Government: Blackwater/Xe is in Pakistan
UPDATE — In the wake of the ensuing controversy, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a denial on its website, of Secretary Gates' earlier statement (also posted on the DoD website, reproduced after the denial below): Denial (22 January 2010) Q (Inaudible.) We have great respect for the American media. (Inaudible.) Every week, there's a new [...]
Text of the Detailed Judgment on the NRO Case Released
Late on the evening of Tuesday 19 January 2010, the Supreme Court of Pakistan released the detailed judgment of the so-called "NRO Case," in which the constitutionality of the NRO had been challenged. The detailed judgment records the reasons for the the Short Order delivered on 16 December 2010. With this step, only the disposal of the [...]
Yemeni Scholars Foresee U.S. Occupation
Antiwar Newswire | 11 January 2010 Yemeni radical cleric warns of foreign occupation Yemen's most powerful radical cleric warns terror fight could lead to foreign 'occupation' Yemen's most influential Islamic cleric, considered an al-Qaida-linked terrorist by the United States, warned Monday that the U.S.-backed fight against the terror [...]
3rd Annual Defence Logistics Conference to be Held in Abu Dhabi, 24-27 January 2010
PR Newswire |14 January 2010 The Region's Leading Conference in Military Logistics for 2010 3rd Annual Defence Logistics Middle East, 24 to 27 January, Armed Forces Officers Club, Abu Dhabi DUBAI, January 14 — One of the least publicised elements of the cost of the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq is the need to transport almost all the [...]
Inside White-Christian America
Ajazeera | 6 January 2010 People & Power - White Power USA - 6 Jan 10 Update: The video, dated 6 January 2010, that had been first posted below was removed by Aljazeera from the Internet — both from YouTube and from the Aljazeera site — around 9:00 a.m. GMT on 12 January 2010, but then re-appeared after a few hours with the date [...]
Pakistan Naval Ship Shamsheer Ends Visit to Vietnam
VietnamNews | 7 January 2010 Pakistani warship ends visit Ho Chi Minh CITY — Frigate Shamsheer of the Pakistani Navy has left HCM City’s Sai Gon Port, completing its four-day visit to the city. During the visit, officers and crew members paid a courtesy visit to the city-based Navy Command and visited several places of historical and [...]
U.S. Refuses to “Share” Shamsi Airbase in Balochistan, or to Vacate Three Other Bases in Pakistan
Quoting “an official,” a front page story in Pakistan's leading English news daily, Dawn, claimed on Saturday that the United States has vacated all airbases in Pakistan, except the Shamsi airbase: “... the airbases near Jacobabad, Pasni, and Dalbandin had been vacated by the Americans ‘a long time ago’... Sources said the Shahbaz [...]
