War on Terror

Al-Qaeda Sees Opportunity In Gaza Conflict

Asia Times Online | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda, Terror, Gaza Israel, Gaza, Pakistan, Hamas, Al-Qaeda Gaza, Israel, Israel Gaza, War on Terror, World News

KARACHI - The ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza against Hamas, which has aroused the Arab street, although Egypt and Saudi Arabia support the action, ...

Read Whole Story

Doing the Right Thing in Somalia

Frankie Martin | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Senator Russ Feingold, Uganda, Rendition, Islam, Cia, War on Terror, Africa, Politics, Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, Al Shabab, Ethiopia, World News, Union of Islamic Courts, Hillary Clinton, Somali Pirates, African Union, Terrorism, Djibouti, Burundi, Barack Obama, Us Somalia, Un Somalia Peacekeepers, Us Foreign Relations, Uic, Un Peacekeepers, Ban Ki-Moon, Humanitarian Crisis, World News

An international stabilization force may well be what is needed in Somalia, but the tough groundwork will have to be laid first. And for this, the Somali people must be on board.

Read Post

Muslims "Off" a Plane

Wajahat Ali | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Muslim Family Airplane, Airtran, Tsa, Colin Powell, Obama Muslim, wwII Internment Camps, War on Terror, Internment Camps, Gallup Polls, Atif Irfan, Fbi, Airport Security, Who Speaks for Islam?, Flying After 9/11, TSA Security, Air Travel, Racial Profiling, Arab Americans, Al Qaeda, Inayet Sahin, Airport Security Water Bottles, Muslim Prejudice, Patriot Act, American Muslims, Fear-Mongering, Muslims and Air Travel, Transportation Security Administration, Extrajudicial Detention, Politics News

We in the US are currently engaged in a "war on terror," but this does not give a democratic and free country license to be overwhelmed by fear of its own Muslim and Middle Eastern citizens.

Read Post

India Gives Pakistan Most Detailed Evidence Yet Over Mumbai Attacks

AP | SAM DOLNICK | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: India, India Gives Pakistan Evidence on Mumbai, India Pakistan Evidence, Evidence on Mumbai Attacks, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mumbai, Pakistan India Relations, Pakistani-Based Militants, India Pakistan Relations, War on Terror, World News

NEW DELHI — India handed Pakistan detailed evidence on the Mumbai attacks on Monday that included information on interrogations, weapons, and da...

Read Whole Story

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: France Tries Accused 9/11 Plotter In Tunisia Blast

AP | PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: September 11, France, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Tunisia, Terrorism, 9/11, France Tries 9/11 Terrorist, Synagogue Bombing Tunisia, France Tunisia Trial, France Tunisia Bombing, War on Terror, World News

PARIS — A European convert to Islam allegedly caught on camera beside Osama bin Laden denied Monday any role in a 2002 suicide attack on a Tunis...

Read Whole Story

Revisiting the "Clash of Civilizations"

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obituaries, Samuel Huntington, Middle East, Ideological Warfare, Iran, War on Terror, Clash of Civilizations, Politics News

Huntington theorized that, with the end of the Cold War and the removal of ideology as a source of conflict, it would be cultural and religious differences that would now propel history.

Read Post

America, Abandoned On Its Own Petard?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Obama Transition, Obama, International Relations, Mindset, John F Kennedy, Pearl Harbor, War on Terror, Cuban Missile Crisis, Terrorism, 9/11, US Intervention Abroad, Us Foreign Relations, World War II, War on Terrorism, Politics News

What if, just like us, other countries are content to let America be in the crosshairs of terrorist regimes and turn a jaundiced eye rather than roll their sleeves up and help?

Read Post

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is An Ancient Story

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 12.29.2008 | World

Read More: Islam, Gaza, War on Terror, Middle East, Gaza Airstrikes, Israel-Palestine, Israel, Palestine, Christianity, Israel Defence Forces, Spirituality, Judaism, Religion, Rockets, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News

I've been living in Israel now for almost a decade, and have survived biological warfare threats from Saddam, Intifada #2, terror attacks targeting Israeli civilians, and the war with Lebanon. But today, I feel pissed off.

Read Post

Indifference to the Dead and Dying

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Human Rights, War on Terror, Israel, Gaza, Gaza Airstrikes, World News

Collectively punishing the mothers and children of Gaza does not just violate international law, it does not just kill the people of Gaza, it kills any chance of a future peace.

Read Post

Benazir the Martyr: an Anniversary on the Brink of War

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

Read More: Lahore, Benazir Bhutto Assassination, Benazir Bhutto Cause of Death, Rawalpindi, Pakistan War on Terror, War on Terror, Benazir Bhutto, Nusrat Begum, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Mumbai Attacks, Murtaza Bhutto, Bhutto Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto Killed, Pakistan Democracy, Pathan, Pashtun, World News

As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.

Read Post

IDF Photos of Hamas Targets in Gaza Before Strike

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

Israel Defense Forces released aerial photos of the Hamas facilities targeted by fighter pilots on Saturday's Operation Cast Lead. The red outline indicates the Hamas facilities targeted.

Read Post

Israel's President Shimon Peres, On the Attacks in Gaza

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israel, Shimon Peres, Gaza, War on Terror, Terrorism, Rockets, World News

Peres: "It is the first time in the history of Israel that we, the Israelis, cannot understand the motives or the purposes of the ones who are shooting at us. It is the most unreasonable war, done by the most unreasonable warriors."

Read Post

Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture

Allen Keller | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abuse, Human Rights, War on Terror, Presidential Pardons, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Bush Pardons, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

At their essence, human rights, including a ban on torture, are about respecting human dignity. They are guiding principles for how and what governments ought and ought not do.

Read Post

Bin Laden's New Weapon of Mass Destruction

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bin Laden, Banking Crisis, Afghanistan, Mortgage Relief, Recession, Subprime Mortgages, War on Terror, Terrorism, Financial Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Politics News

Afghanistan is the central front in the war on terror. But perhaps we'd be wiser to leave bin Laden in his cave, abandon the wrong-headed misnomer of a "war on terror," and give up attempting to build a new democracy on the other side of the world.

Read Post

After Rising From Terrorism And Natural Disaster, Bali Tourism Faces New Threat

GlobalPost.com | Peter Gelling | Posted 12.22.2008 | World

Read More: Indonesia Tourism, Bali Bombings 2002, Economic Crisis, Bali Attacks, Tourism Bali, American Tourists Bali, Bali, War on Terror, Is Bali Safe, Economic Crisis Bali, Bird Flu Bali, Tourists Bali, Indonesia, Bali Terrorist Attacks, Mumbai Attacks, Island of the Gods, Asia, Financial Crisis, World News

JAKARTA -- The story of Bali in the last six years is one of miraculous comebacks. In the face of Islamic extremism, natural disasters, outbreaks o...

Read Whole Story

Rumsfeld, Ashcroft Could Face Legal Jeopardy For War Abuses

Newsweek | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Officials Torture, Bush Officials, Rumsfeld, Bush Officials Abuses, John Ashcroft, Rumsfeld Legal Jeopardy, Bush Legal Jeopardy, War on Terror, Bush Officials Legal Jeopardy, Politics News

The United States, like many countries, has a bad habit of committing wartime excesses and an even worse record of accounting for them afterward. But ...

Read Whole Story

President Bush and the Flying Shoes: A Cautionary Tale

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Al-Zaidi, Obama, President Bush, Iraq, Gates, Shoe, War on Terror, Politics News

That an Iraqi journalist, whose family had been victimized by Saddam Hussein, came to so loathe the American president should serve as the final grade on the Bush administration.

Read Post

Reckoning Renditions to America's Allies

Frank Naif | Posted 12.16.2008 | World

While it's true that Guantanamo has been a blow to US prestige and moral leadership, the policy of rendition has unnecessarily complicated relations between the US and long-time allies.

Read Post

Don't "Split the Baby" with National Security Courts

Ginny Sloan | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Guantanamo, Justice, National Security Courts, Terrorism, Ginny Sloan, The Constitution Project, Human Rights, War on Terror, Bush Administration Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Hybrid Courts, Habeus Corpus, Due Process, War on Terrorism, Politics News

Proponents of national security courts claim that these new hybrid courts would eliminate burdensome procedural rules that protect the rights of defendants.

Read Post

9 Is Not 11

Arundhati Roy | Posted 12.12.2008 | World

Read More: 9/11, Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai, Mumbai Terrorism, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan, September 11th, Terrorism, George W. Bush, World News

November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan, and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.

Read Post

Hajj and Terrorism

Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.12.2008 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Kirkuk, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, 9/11, Hajj Pilgrimage, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Islamic Radicalism, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hajj, Mumbai Attacks, World News

Radical Islam can only be defeated from within. The sooner President-elect Barack Obama understands this, the faster innocent lives will be spared.

Read Post

The God Series: Because Religion Is the Battleground of the 21st Century

Larry Beinhart | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Abortion, Politics, Religion, Chechnya, Sex, Tony Blair, War, God, Mumbai, Spirituality, War on Terror, Crusade, The God Series, Politics News

What is it about faith that made it suddenly re-emerge as the driving force in American politics and in the politics of the Islamic countries?

Read Post

Sri Lanka Uses YouTube As Weapon Of War

World Politics Review | Posted 12.11.2008 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Terrorism, Youtube, Asia, Youtube Weapon of War, Sri Lanka Information War, War on Terror, Sri Lanka Insurgency, World News

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- In the silent, low-res imagery of the closed-circuit video footage that rapidly spread across YouTube, the young Tamil woman app...

Read Whole Story

Fatah al-Islam Leader Believed Dead, Message Delivered By Online Statement

Al Jazeera English | Posted 12.11.2008 | World

Read More: Fatah Al-Islam Online Statement, Nahr Al-Bared, Lebanon, Palestinian Refugee Camp, Fatah Al-Islam, Fatah Al-Islam Leader Dead, Lebanese Army, Terrorism, Fatah Al-Islam Syria, Syria, War on Terror, World News

The leader of Fatah al-Islam has been "captured or killed" in Syria, an online statement believed to be from the armed group has said. Shaker al-Ab...

Read Whole Story

Joe Klein: Pakistan Has Been Playing Us For Fools Since 9/11

TIME | Joe Klein | Posted 12.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Joe Klein, Warwire, Pakistan, War Wire, Joe Klein on Pakistan, Pakistan Playing US for Fools, War on Terror, Home News

Word that Pakistan has arrested--no, detained--Masood Azhar, the leader of the terrorist group that pulled off the Mumbai assault is being greeted by ...

Read Whole Story