Archive for April, 2010
UN Closes Mission in the Afghan city of Kandahar
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova (tr. from Portuguese) | 29 April 2010 Insecurity forces UN out of Kandahar The prevailing insecurity has forced on Tuesday (27/04) the UN to withdraw foreign staff and close its mission in the conflictive southern Afghan city of Kandahar, in the south of the territory, an offensive aimed at U.S. and NATO. The [...]
Indian Stealth Warship INS Shivalik Commissioned
Times of India | 30 April 2010 Country's first indigenously-built stealth warship commissioned MUMBAI: Its a lean, mean fighting machine. But what makes it capable of delivering the killer punch is its stealthy nature to catch the enemy completely off-guard. No wonder the warship's crew have a theme song, which goes, "No limits for [...]
U.S. Places India on Religious Freedom ‘Watch List’
Deccan Chronicle | 29 April 2010 India again on US watch list April 29: India is among the countries which have been put on the ‘Watch List’ of a bipartisan US panel on global religious freedom, which termed its progress in protecting the rights of minorities as mixed. Putting India on the ‘watch list’ for the second year in [...]
Hakimullah Mehsud Miraculously Reborn
Antiwar.com | By Jason Ditz | 28 April 2010 US Again Fails to Kill Pakistani Taliban Leader Hakimullah 'Basically OK' Reports ISI For most people, one time being killed by the United States is plenty. Even the most hardened insurgent can rarely claim to have been killed more than a couple of times before it takes on an air of permanence. [...]
Pakistan Moves Troops from Indian to Afghan Border
Reuters | 29 April 2010 Pentagon sees Pakistan shift, downplays Afghan impact (Reuters) - Pakistan has shifted 100,000 of its troops from its Indian frontier to spearhead an unprecedented crackdown on militants along the Afghan border, but the offensives are unlikely to have an immediate impact on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon [...]
“Colonel Imam” Abducted in North Waziristan
Asia Times | By Syed Saleem Shahzad | 28 April 2010 Showdown looms in North Waziristan ISLAMABAD - Militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area on Tuesday issued a statement claiming that skirmishes had broken out early in the morning when the military tried to enter Miranshah, the tribal headquarters. There was no official [...]
The conquest of America
The Express Tribune | By Arshad Zaman | 29 April 2010 The central front in America’s wars is not in distant lands, but in the US. While America masters the world, the war lobby has so subjugated the American people that they are no longer masters of their own spirit and ideals. “Of all the enemies to public liberty,” James Madison had [...]
Déjà vu: Afghanistan as Vietnam
Global Research | By Professor Alfred W. McCoy | 18 April 2010 From Vietnam to Afghanistan: America and the Dictators From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai The crisis has come suddenly, almost without warning. At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined. The insurgents [...]
The Obama Doctrine, Revisited
The American Prospect | By Spencer Ackerman | 7 April 2010 The administration's effort to transform American foreign policy has been much more successful abroad than it has been at home. Several weeks before President Barack Obama announced an escalation of the Afghanistan War at West Point, a group of journalists and think-tankers met [...]
Coup d’état in Kyrgyzstan
EurasiaNet | 6 April 2010 Kyrgyzstan: Bakiyev Confronts Political Crisis Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian state that experienced the Tulip Revolution in 2005, is once again going through a bout of political instability, one with uncertain ramifications for President Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s administration. Unrest erupted on April 6 in the [...]
