Posts Tagged ‘UK’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ISI: Wikileaks logs reflect soldiers’ fears, suspicions, and anxieties
Der Spiegel | 28 July 2010 By Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz, Hans Hoyng, Susanne Koelbl, Marcel Rosenbach and Gregor Peter Schmitz Logs Suggest Pakistani Intelligence Controls Course of War Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, appears frequently in the war logs obtained by WikiLeaks. They suggest that even as Pakistan served as an [...]
Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan
Guardian | By Simon Jenkins | 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American [...]
A German View of America’s “Af/Pak” War
Der Spiegel | Essay by Dirk Kurbjuweit | 7 July 2010 Afghanistan and the West The Difficult Relationship between Democracy and War Part 1: The Difficult Relationship between Democracy and War Part 2: The Beginning: Terror and Solidarity Part 3: The Course of Battle: The Beast and its Victims Part 4: The End: Aftermath and Innocence Part [...]
David Cameron taking a more stand-offish approach to the U.S.
China Daily | Xinhua | 21 July 2010 British 'more cautious in special relationship' with US LONDON - With new British Prime Minister David Cameron making his first trip to Washington for bilateral talks with US President Barack Obama, the director of one of Britain's leading think-tanks has highlighted the more cautious nature of the [...]
Islamophobia Sweeps Europe
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 18 July 2010 The continent which produced imperialism, slavery and Hitler now produces Geert Wilders. Belgium and France ban the burqah, a British MP has stated he will refuse to speak to constituents who refuse to reveal their face and Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders declares his aim [...]
Ex-M15 spy chief: Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11
China Daily | 20 July 2010 Ex-M15 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 "Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam," she [...]
