by CONN HALLINAN Conn Hallinan can be read at dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com and middleempireseries.wordpress.com CounterPunch October 05, 2011 Lost in debate over whether the Obama administration had the right to carry out the extra-legal execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemini cleric and al-Qaeda member, is who pulled the trigger? It is not a minor [...]
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Prof. Robert D. Crews : Taliban remains strong ten years on
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Australia may seize David Hicks’s Guantanamo book cash
BBC 21 July 2011 Australia has launched a legal bid to seize the profits from a book written by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Legal officials say any money made by David Hicks from his memoirs should be regarded as the proceeds of crime. Australian Hicks pleaded guilty to helping the Taliban at a US [...]
Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared
Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared by Gareth Porter Published on Monday, July 4, 2011 by Inter Press Service WASHINGTON – Data on attacks by armed opposition forces and U.S. combat casualties since the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan was completed last summer provide clear evidence that the surge and the [...]
Report: U.S. considering strategic outreach to Hezbollah
Report: U.S. considering strategic outreach to Hezbollah Washington Post says Obama administration weighing dialogue with Lebanese militant group’s political wing, in an effort similar to that attempted by U.K. in its dealings with Sinn Fein in the 1990s. Haaretz Sun, March 20, 2011 The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is considering reaching out to [...]
Nato escorts Taliban chief to secret talks
Afghan and American official have been holding secret talks with the second ranking figure in the Taliban in the firmest indication yet that substantive peace talks have begun. By Praveen Swami, Diplomatic Editor, and Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor Telegraph - 20 Oct 2010 The Daily Telegraph has learned that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was released [...]
Al-Qaida and Taliban threat is exaggerated, says security thinktank
Strategy institute challenges idea that troops are needed in Afghanistan to stop export of terrorism to west Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk – 7 September 2010 The threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban is exaggerated and the western-led counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan risks becoming a “long, drawn-out disaster”, one of the world’s leading security thinktanks warned [...]
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