The Bush administration buddied up with the dictatorship in Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan to the north, in order to place military bases there and provide supply routes to troops in Afghanistan. The fact that the leader of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, is a brutal dictator with a penchant for torture, never stopped the mountains of military [...]
President Obama has repeatedly said his top counterterrorism goal is to prevent terrorists from acquiring the building blocks to make nuclear or “dirty” bombs. He has pledged to “secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” But there are thousands of pounds of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium that the US [...]
The U.S. ambassador to Islamabad said Saturday that the United States believes the Haqqani insurgent network is tied to the Pakistani government, a charge that could further raise tensions between Washington and Islamabad. US officials earlier blamed the Haqqani network for the bombing of a US Combat Outpost in Afghanistan, as well as a 20-hour assault [...]
In an attempt to prevent a sectarian-rooted, inter-provincial quarrel from developing further, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered at least two detainees, who were arrested in connection with Monday’s Nukhaib Massacre, released immediately. He declared the argument “a small storm which is now over” and said that the prisoners were freed due to lack of evidence. However, talks over the massacre and subsequent arrests continued well into Saturday, and four detainees remain in custody.
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