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Saturday February 11th 2012

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Indian Efforts to Win Afghan Hearts and Minds

Indian Efforts to Win Afghan Hearts and Minds

Times of India | 11 January 2010 Winning Afghan hearts & minds with academia Afghan nationals today comprise the largest contingent of foreigners pursuing higher education in India. MUMBAI: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai often speaks fondly of the days he spent as a student in Shimla attending Himachal University. But what is lesser [...]

British Intelligence Agency Accused of Complicity in Torture

British Intelligence Agency Accused of Complicity in Torture

BBC | updated at 16:15 GMT, Friday, 31 July 2009 17:15 UK New revelations in 'torture' case An MI5 officer visited Morocco three times at the same time a UK resident says he was being tortured there as a terrorist suspect, it has emerged. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed is bringing test case claims against UK authorities [...]

US Admits Funding Somali ‘Govt’

From Anti-War.com | Marina Litvinsky and Jim Lobe, June 26, 2009 The U.S. State Department Thursday confirmed that Washington is providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia in a bid to thwart its defeat by a loose coalition of radical Islamist militias which, according to some analysts, are linked to [...]