Archive for July, 2010
Remove American Forces from Pakistan
Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 30 July 2010 It’s official: although careful not to leave any footprints, the U.S. has boots on the ground in Pakistan. U.S. troops in Pakistan ensure compliance by the government, under threat of overt occupation. This was revealed on Thursday 22 July 2010, when U.S. lawmakers Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul [...]
The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s
YNet | By Shaul Rosenfeld | 30 July 2010 Hypocrisy’s finest hour Revelations of West’s crimes in Afghanistan highlight anti-Israel hypocrisy In an interview with PBS earlier this year, Richard Goldstone was quite amazed by a question regarding the suspicion that he and others may, heaven forbid, adopt a double standard in respect to [...]
Dutch troops to withdraw from Afghanistan in August
China Daily | 30 July 2010 THE HAGUE - The Dutch troops deployed in Afghanistan will leave as scheduled starting August 1 after concluding a four-year mission in the country, Dutch military chief General Peter van Uhm said Thursday. While being stationed in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan over the past four years, Dutch [...]
Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI
U.S. Military, Joint Chiefs of Staff | 29 July 2010 Pentagon Press Conference As Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense , Pentagon Briefing Room Thursday, July 29, 2010 EXCERPT Q: British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that he can’t tolerate the idea [...]
Wikileaks: Osama bin Laden died in a Peshawar hospital, and other howlers
The News | By Rahimullah Yusufzai | 30 July 2010 WikiLeaks falsehood PESHAWAR: Revelations by Wikileaks based on classified US military files on the Afghan war contain a trove of interesting and sometimes true information, but an element of falsehood is also there, such as one intelligence report in June 2007 that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin [...]
On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 28 July 2010 On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan; the tip of an old iceberg I’ve been resisting diving into the WikiLeaks controversy, in part because the information contained in the documents – including allegations of Pakistani complicity with the Taliban - is not new. Yet at the same time you can’t [...]
Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In “My Life with the Taliban”, Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]
An Islamic ‘marriage-with-relinquished-rights’ gone awry in UK
asharq alawsat | By Dr. Hamad Al-Majid | 29 July 2010 The Misyar Question! A Nikah al-Misyar is a contract of marriage that meets all the conditions of a valid marriage contract under Islamic law --essentially, offer and acceptance by both parties, a specified dowry, and the consent of the guardian--but incorporates a voluntary relinquishment [...]
Exhibition to commemorate the U.S. bombing of Japan
Times of India |29 July 2010 Atom-bomb exhibition to be held in London HIROSHIMA: The annihilation of mankind in Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings in World War II by the US will be on exhibit next month at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here. The exhibition, "After the Bomb Dropped: How Hiroshima and Nagasaki Suffered," will run [...]
Remembering the only use of nuclear weapons, killing 215,000 innocent civilians
RIA Novosti | 29 July 2010 UN chief to pay tribute to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Japan next week to pay tribute to the victims of U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II and hold talks with the country's government, UN spokesman [...]
