Европейские судьи поставляли наземный ориентир управляя в so-called войне `на терроре', говорят Роберт Verkaik, редактор закона, и он одним которому мы должны все иметь причину отпраздновать
Был похоронен глубоко под welter раскрытия принца Гарри заволакивания публикуемости втихомолку к Афганистану отпуск другого небольшой новости относительно союзников' so-called […]
Консервативный руководитель Дэвид Cameron обвинял правительство «ломать воинский covenant» по мере того как он запустил комиссию для того чтобы draw up предложения для того чтобы улучшить поддержку для вооруженных силы страны Британии.
Г-н Cameron сказанные министры препятствовал войскам вниз на оборудовании, healthcare, наличие семьи и вмещаемость и пообещали просмотрению обороны для того чтобы обеспечить тому будущее правительство Tory […]
Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were “winding down”.
The move came after an intense Israeli assault that killed eight more Palestinians overnight on Monday, adding to the more than 100 people killed in the past six days.
The Israeli army spokesman […]
APP
The top UN human rights official, reacting to the recent violence between Israel and the Palestinians,has called for an investigation into the reported killing of dozens of civilians, including children, in Gaza by Israeli military.
While recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemned the Israeli Defence Force’s “disproportionate […]
British lawmakers say ‘Washington and allies’ should not use force on Iran cautioning it could ‘provoke an extremely violent backlash’.
“Any military strike against Iran would have ‘grave repercussions’ for the Middle East,” The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee said in a Sunday report.
In its ‘Global Security: Iran’ report, the select committee also […]
Herald Tribune
In the next few days, President George W. Bush is expected to again claim the right to order mistreatment of prisoners that any civilized person would regard as torture. Bush is planning to veto a law that would require the CIA and all the intelligence services to abide by the restrictions on holding and […]
Daily Mail
US ally Saudi Arabia compared Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip to Nazi war crimes on Sunday and called on the international community to stop what it called the “mass killings” of Palestinians.
Israeli forces killed 61 people in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began […]
The death toll of the Israeli assault on Gaza rises to 60 people on Saturday, marking it the deadliest day of fighting in the coastal region.
Palestinian IMEMC news website quoted head of Gaza’s emergency services, Dr Muawiya Hassanein as saying that there were at least 26 civilians among those killed.
The dead included 5 children, […]
Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has provoked outrage after threatening Palestinians with a “holocaust,” but the same media who obsessed about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s “wipe Israel off the map” misquote are scurrying to defend Vilnai’s disgraceful comments.
“The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they […]
A freelance historian and journalist, Andy Worthington has spent several years looking at the undercurrents of post-war British social history - in particular the clash between the state and some of its most outspoken critics (protest movements, travelers and alternative communities).
In 2006, he turned his attention to the “War on Terror”. Like many decent-minded […]
Ed O’Loughlin
THE Israeli army has decided not to order a disciplinary probe into the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians in November 2006.
The dead men, women and children included at least 13 members of the Athamneh family, among them a one-year-old girl. Another 35 people were injured as 12 155-millimetre heavy artillery shells struck the north […]
BBC
Panorama asks why the British Army in Iraq used interrogation techniques that were banned over 30 years ago.
Panorama: On Whose Orders? BBC One 8.30pm on Monday 25 February 2008
In 1972 the techniques - hooding, stress positions, constant noise, sleep deprivation and being starved of food and water - were banned by the Heath government […]
Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country’s only peaceful region
By Patrick Cockburn
A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan.
The invading Turkish soldiers are in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas hiding in […]
The New Statesman
In July 2003, in the week following the death of David Kelly, a reader contacted the New Statesman and suggested that the media were missing the obvious. The Commons foreign affairs committee had just cleared the government of “sexing up” the September 2002 dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - a claim, […]
Bush White House Maintains Waterboarding Was Legal When Used
The Justice Department has opened an internal investigation into whether its top officials improperly authorized or reviewed the CIA’s use of waterboarding when interrogating terror suspects, according to documents released Friday.
The investigation was revealed at the request of Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon Whitehouse […]