De spier Contractanten van de Boeien van het Plan van de Defensie
De voorgestelde Begroting zou aan de Bedrijven van het Gebied ten goede komen
Door Dana Hedgpeth
Een looppas van gezonde winsten voor defensiecontractanten die bijna een decennium heeft geduurd zal voor minstens een ander jaar verdergaan, analisten en bovengenoemd bedrijfstafmedewerkers nadat het beleid van Bush vorige week zijn nieuwe defensiebegroting voorlegde.
Het $515.4 miljard defensie het besteden voorstel voor fiscaal […]
Door Ahmed Ali
Het geweld rond de voortdurende V.S. de militaire acties in deze stad heeft kinderen van hun kinderjaren geroofd.
Slechts twee provinciale scholen en één privé kleuterschoolschool functioneren in deze gevestigde stad van 280.000, 50 het km- noorden van Bagdad. De meeste kinderen kennen noch school noch spel.
Of zelfs het voedsel dat zij hebben gewild. „Wij ouders kunnen […]
Majid Khan is seen in 1999 during his senior year in high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Khan, 27, is now jailed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Khan Family / Center for Constitutional Rights / AP
In 2005, CIA officials ordered the destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of prisoners in the […]
A new court at Guantánamo would allow the U.S. military to keep its secrets by cutting off terror suspects’ testimony from the ears of observers at the flick of a switch.
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — On the eve of the resumption of its war crimes trials, the military on Sunday unveiled a […]
AlJazeera
Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether she and Musharraf can forge a powersharing agreement
Bhutto said Omar Sheikh murdered Osama bin Laden In 2006, Musharraf wrote a book in […]
Xinhua
The U.S. forces allegedly killed three people and wounded a fourth from one family in a town in Salahudin province, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, a source from the U.S. and Iraqi liaison office said.
The incident took place at dawn in the town of al-Dowr, 30 km north of the provincial capital of Tikrit, the […]
AFP
When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realised he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing.
As one of Saddam Hussein’s most gifted engineers, Tawfiq knew that the Iraqi dictator had shut down his nuclear, chemical and […]
Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized […]
The White House has overlooked the basic rule of ‘know your enemy’ in its anti-terrorist strategy in the ‘war on terror’, an analyst says.
“The attention of the US military and intelligence community is directed almost uniformly towards hunting down militant leaders or protecting US forces, [and] not towards understanding the enemy we now face,” […]
A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to […]
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
A bitter diplomatic row between Germany and the United States deepened yesterday after Berlin flatly rejected demands from Washington that it deploy troops in war-torn southern Afghanistan and angrily dismissed the request as “impertinent” and a “fantastic cheek”.
Germany currently has some 3,200 soldiers stationed in comparatively tranquil northern Afghanistan and the […]
Martin Fletcher in Baghdad and Robin Pagnamenta
Oil production in Iraq is at its highest level since the US-led invasion of 2003, reaching 2.4 million barrels a day, thanks largely to improved security measures in the north.
The country’s Oil Ministry will shortly invite international oil companies to bid for contracts to help Iraq to boost […]
U.S. Army unit Probed for killing Iraqi prisoners
The US Army has opened a criminal investigation into an allegation of “battlefield deaths” of detainees captured by a US brigade that operated last year in southwest Baghdad, an army spokesman said.
The allegation involved the 2nd Combat Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, which returned to its home […]
Research conducted by a leading British polling group shows that more than one million Iraqis have died as a result of war in their country.
The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household because […]
In its bid to halt Iran’s nuclear program, the US has called on Turkey to be ‘vigilant’ over financial operations with Iranian banks.
The US Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart A. Levey called on Ankara to be ‘vigilant’ over financial operations with state-run Iranian banks, AP said.
Levey said Ankara should scrutinize activities of […]
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