Yemeni Troops Kill 26 in Attacks on Sanaa Protesters | Troops use anti-aircraft guns to attack demonstrators
Yemeni Troops Kill 47 in Attacks on Sanaa Protesters
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Post 9/11 Reality: Peaceful Dissidents Targets of Surveillance State
Since 9/11, peaceful activists with dissident views have increasingly been swept up into terrorist watch lists and are surveilled by the federal government and law enforcement agencies. Such developments not only raise civil liberties issues, but also raise questions...
Gadhafi Spokesman: NATO Strikes Killed 354 Civilians
NATO airstrikes in the Libyan town of Sirte struck a residential building and a home and killed 354 people, according to a spokesman for ousted leader Muammar Gadhafi. Pro-Gadhafi loyalists have been battling invading rebel forces on the streets of Sirte, Gadhafi's...
Evidence Grows of Blairs links to Gadhafi
Documents retrieved from Libya are adding to the evidence of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's intricate links with ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A correspondence was kept up between the two, in which Blair referred to Gadhafi as "The Leader" and Blair was...
US Pressuring Security Council to Vote Down Palestinian State
The United States is working diligently to pressure the other members of the United Nations Security Council to vote against next week's Palestinian bid for statehood, hoping to avoid embarrassment on the international stage by having to invoke its veto power. The...
Obama Cozies Up to Uzbekistan Dictator
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...
US Can’t Account for Nuclear Material It Has Exported
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...
US Ambassador: Haqqani Network Tied to Pakistani Government
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...
Nukhaib Massacre: Iraqi PM Orders Suspects Released
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.
Obama Escalates Yemen Drone Strikes
Obama Escalates Yemen Drone Strikes | JSOC strikes dramatically increasing in southern Yemen
