Obama Stuck between Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan
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By Nicola Nasser*
It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Military Translators Risk Low Pay, Death
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By Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – Murtaza "Jimmy" Farukhi was killed while on patrol with the U.S. Marine Corps on Sep. 9, 2008, at the age of 23. He was not a soldier, but a local translator employed by Columbus, Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Govt Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
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By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – The U.S. government continues to withhold even the most basic information about prisoners in the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a New York-based legal rights organisation.
An April 2009 ACLU [...]
COLOMBIA: A Country in Flight
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Analysis by Javier Darío Restrepo
BOGOTÁ, Aug 12 (IPS) – While the street sweepers clean up huge piles of rubbish in the Tercer Milenio park in the centre of the Colombian capital, young police officers have been posted there to prevent any more people displaced from their rural [...]
SRI LANKA: With End of War, Media Shifts Focus
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Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Aug 12 (IPS) – The main news-pages in Sri Lanka these days are dominated by reports of clashes between two Muslim groups, the drama of two baby elephants separated from their mothers and government efforts to ban porn sites and curb adult-only movies. [...]
THE MOLE IN THEIR MIDST: TOP GUNS OF PAK TALIBAN SUSPECT EACH OTHER
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.549
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B.RAMAN
There is a full-scale Psywar going on in Pakistan over the sequel to a successful missile attack by a US Drone (pilotless plane ) on the house of the father of the second wife of Baitullah Mehsud , Malik Ikramuddin, in the Zangarha [...]
MOROCCO: Western Sahara Drains Development
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By Daan Bauwens
RABAT, Jul 31 (IPS) – Informal talks are being held in Vienna between the different parties involved in the long lasting conflict over the Western Sahara. A new plan proposed by the Obama administration will be discussed between the Polisario and the Kingdom [...]
