Several reports have emerged today that an unmanned US spy drone was downed in Pakistan’s South Waziristan Agency. A remarkably diverse set of explanations for the event have emerged, leaving what if anything really happened clouded in mystery.
One report has Pashtun tribesmen claiming to have downed the craft and Pakistani forces recovering it. Another has [...]
With the Bush Administration reportedly conducting a major review of Afghanistan policy, a soon-to-be-finished National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan will remain classified and unavailable to the general public. Officials say that a draft version of the report paints a “grim” picture as the war approaches the seven year mark.
The documents are by default classified but [...]
With tensions between the two nations still high after last month’s brief war, Georgian Interior Minister Shota Utiashvili claimed today that his nation has shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone. He said the incident occurred near the town of Gori, and speculated that the drone was “patrolling the territory where the Baku-Supsa pipeline runs.”
Russia’s Defense [...]
Thousands attended Monday’s anti-Iran rally in New York City, and while the protesters had all the Israeli flags and comparisons between the Iranian government and Nazi Germany that one might expect of such an event, they had to do it all without two of the meeting’s more high profile speakers.
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin [...]
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to pressure President Bush to halt its recent policy of escalating attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas during their upcoming meeting in New York. The recently elected President Zardari is under increasing pressure to find a more coherent strategy for his government’s terror war amid speculation that US raids [...]
A group calling itself Fedayeen Islam has claimed credit for Saturday’s attack on the Islamabad Marriott Hotel.
Though the authenticity of the claim could not be verified, Al-Arabiya television reported a correspondent received a text message containing a phone number. When the number was called a recorded message took credit for the blast. The voice reportedly [...]
The rescue effort continues after yesterday’s deadly suicide bombing on Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel, and with the full toll of the blast still not known a nation which has become increasingly accustomed to terrorist attacks is now reflecting on the consequences of what many are calling “Pakistan’s 9/11.” The conclusions are almost universally negative.
Several analysts have [...]
With the IAEA’s next Board of Governors meeting set to begin tomorrow, the probe into Syria’s alleged secret nuclear facility appears to be faltering over lack of evidence. While the analysis of the samples taken from the facility during the IAEA’s June visit to the site are only partially complete, the tests so far have [...]
Fighting in Afghanistan came to a virtual standstill today as all major combatants agreed to halt offensive operations in honor of International Peace Day. UN envoy Kai Eldi described the drop in violence as “remarkable,” with only one attack (the killing of two guards in Ghazni Province) being reported at all.
NATO’s top commander ordered his [...]
A truck containing a metric ton of explosives slammed into the front gate of the five star Marriott Hotel in Islamabad today, in an incident some officials are already calling “Pakistan’s 9/11“. The attack has killed at least 60 people and injured 257 more, though it is feared that the final death toll could reach [...]
