Archive for February 8th, 2010
Video: Ayalon Stepping Down to Apologise and Shake Hands with Turki
Al Arabiya News Channel | 7 February 2010 Rejects Ayalon’s claims over Saudi support to Palestine Handshake Israeli apology to Saudi: Prince Turki RIYADH (Al Arabiya) Saudi's former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said on Sunday Israel's deputy foreign minister shook hands with him at a Munich security conference to apologize [...]
The Marjah Offensive in Helmand
Times of India | Agencies | 8 February 2010 Big offensive builds up in Afghanistan, thousands flee KANDAHAR: A new and possibly decisive chapter of the Afghan war is unfolding. The US is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the militants are being squeezed in their Pakistani sanctuaries, and the Afghan government is trying to draw them into [...]
Wish List of Baghdad Treasures to Loot was given to Cheney before the 2003 Invasion
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 7 February 2010 Heritage, Loot or Booty? Western Museums are brimming with cultural heritage…from other countries. The Elgin Marbles are just one set of tens of thousands of artefacts looted from distant lands during colonial or imperialist times. However, the same desecration of cultural heritage [...]
Russia and Germany Ambush Iran for Lack of Confidence in Nuclear Program
Pravda.ru | 7 February 2010 The mysterious and controversial nuclear program of Iran, with ups and downs, agreements and disagreements, followed by confirming statements and denying others, has put the issue under the cloak of suspicion. The West believes that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is not civil or peaceful, as they say, but by [...]
Insecure Americans, Abdulmutallab, & Terrorism
New American | By Joe Wolverton, II | 4 February 2010 “The government can’t deliver the mail, it can’t operate surveillance cameras at an airport; it can’t pay back its debts; it can’t tell the truth.” — U.S. Judge Andrew Napolitano On January 9, 2009, an apparently fit, though slightly limping Umar Abdulmutallab entered the [...]
Why are U.S., allies telling Taliban about coming offensive?
McClatchy Newspapers | By Jonathan S. Landay and Saeed Shah | 5 February 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S., British and Afghan troops are poised to launch the biggest offensive of the war in Afghanistan in a test of the Obama administration's new counterinsurgency strategy. Military operations usually are intended to catch [...]
School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan
Times Online | By Christina Lamb | 7 February 2010 THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country . Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era [...]
Special forces assassins infiltrate Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan
Times Online | By Marie Colvin in Camp Bastion, Helmand | 7 February 2010 AMERICAN and British troops poised to assault the Taliban stronghold of Marjah have begun targeting insurgent leaders for assassination. Military sources said special forces had been infiltrating the town on “kinetic” missions — jargon for armed attacks. [...]
