Posts Tagged ‘War Crimes’
Killer drones: Where’s the accountability?
AZ Daily Sun | By Nat Hentoff | 14 July 2010 When the Obama administration officially declared that an American citizen -- Anwar al-Awlaki, a radically influential global preacher of murderous jihad -- is on a targeted list to be tracked and killed by CIA pilotless drones, New York Times reporter Scott Shane made a constitutional point that had [...]
Gurkha soldier removed for beheading Taliban militant
Sify News | 18 July 2010 London: A Gurkha soldier in the British troops in Afghanistan has been ordered to return and is facing court martial after he decapitated a dead Taliban fighter with his ceremonial knife to prove the militant's identity. The soldier, who is in his early 20s, initially told investigators that he unsheathed his [...]
As Civilian Casualties Rise U.S. Soldiers Commit Suicide in Record Numbers
CNN | By By Mike Mount | 16 July 2010 June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics show Washington (CNN) -- More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed [...]
Anti-War Conference in Albany, NY (23-25 July 2010)
Times Union | By Dennis Yusko | 18 July 2010 From fighting a war to fighting war Veterans more vocal in anti-war movement "Fear turns into hatred and overcomes everything you are," McCord said from his Wichita home. "You turn into a monster over there. I feel it is my duty to speak out on the wars and what I witnessed." ALBANY -- Ethan [...]
MI5/6 Complicit in Abduction, Torture of Non-White U.K. Citizens
Guardian | By Ian Cobain and Owen Bowcott | 14 July 2010 Covert words that paint a vivid picture of complicity in torture Foreign Office and No 10 interventions revealed Emails and memos began months after September 11 Early January 2002. The Taliban regime in Kabul had been toppled, Nato forces were spreading out across Afghanistan, [...]
US CENTCOM Chief, Gen. Mattis: It’s fun to kill people
Common Dreams | By Tom Turnipseed | 13 July 2010 Killing For Fun; Military Madness Successful professionals enjoy their work. The Obama administration has picked a successful and happy warrior in Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to head the US Central Command. The command includes all US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, the entire Middle East [...]
Afghanistan’s Srebrinica: Massacre, and Mass Graves in Dasht-e-Leili
Physicians for Human Rights War Crimes Video Afghanistan's Srebrenica: Under the leadership of CIA agent, notorious Afghan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the U.S. in November 2001, buried in mass graves in the [...]
Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”
In a brilliant reflection on Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, Nosheen Ali exposes how the book constructs a patronising and misleading narrative of terror in which the realities of Northern Pakistan and Muslim life-worlds are distorted through simplistic tropes of ignorance, backwardness and extremism, while histories of US geopolitics and [...]
Bosnians mark Srebrenica genocide
Islâmi Davet - Islamic Invitation | 11 July 2010 Fifteen years after Serbs slaughtered almost 8,000 Muslims in what is believed to be one of the worst massacres in Europe, Bosnians hold a special ceremony to remember the victims. Bosnians gathered at Potocari memorial in Srebrenica on Sunday to honor the victims of the Srebrenica [...]
Likudniks in U.S. Government; and U.S. War Crimes Exposed
Antiwar | By Scott Horton | 4 July 2010 Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent, the US military’s inability to do battlefield vetting of Afghan war prisoners, [...]
