Syrians Head to Referendum, West Condemns Vote | Rebels urge boycott as vote goes ahead
Syrians Head to Referendum, West Condemns Vote
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Massive Impact: Last Month’s Supreme Court GPS Tracking Ruling Shuts Down Thousands of FBI Surveillance Plots
Supreme Court ruling shut down thousands of FBI surveillance plots | FBI still trying to recover illegal trackers
Rumors of Deal as Egypt Delays US NGO Workers’ Trial to Late April
Rumors of Deal as Egypt Delays US NGO Workers’ Trial to Late April | Prosector says NGOs had ties with CIA
Somalia Promises West Oil Riches in Exchange for Security
The prime minister of the government of Somalia, which has control over parts of the capital Mogadishu, promised the West a share in its oil riches in exchange for security and reconstruction in an interview this week. Significant oil reserves have been discovered in...
Taliban Claims Credit for Downing of US Drone
Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan have taken credit for the downing of a U.S. drone aircraft after it crashed near the Afghan border on Saturday. "The drone today in Machikhel was flying at low altitude and our fighters fired at and shot...
Violence in Syria Uninterrupted on Eve of Referendum
Violence has not abated in Syria one day after 70 countries met in Tunisia and demanded a ceasefire and just a day before a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a thinly veiled maneuver from President Bashar Assad's regime. The Syrian Observatory for...
NATO Pulls Out of Afghan Ministries After Killing of 2 US Officers
NATO abruptly pulled all its staff from the Afghanistan's government ministries on Saturday after two high-ranking U.S. military advisers were shot dead inside a highly secure command center at the interior ministry in Kabul by an Afghan police officer. The Taliban...
AP Study Finds Most Drone War Casualties Are Militants
A recent investigation by the Associated Press into ten U.S. drone attacks in the tribal regions of Pakistan concluded that about 70 percent of those killed were militants, countering common Pakistani perceptions that the majority killed are civilians. Reporters from...
Israeli Attack on Iran Would Pull US into Another Unnecessary War
If Israel decides to preemptively strike Iran's nuclear facilities, a subservient United States could be drawn into another unnecessary but substantial war in the Middle East. If Israel's warplanes, donated from the U.S., managed to penetrate Iranian air space and...
Classified Cable From 2005 Echoes Current Fear-Mongering on Iran
A classified State Department cable sent by America’s top diplomat in Tel Aviv in 2005 warned that Israeli officials believed Iran’s progress towards a nuclear weapon was nearing the "point of no return," echoing current U.S.-Israeli tensions regarding intelligence...
