"This, now, is the real War on Terror. But this time it will be led from inside the Middle East, gain universal support and change the regional political balance of power for generations to come." Sharmine Narwani is a commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East. You can follow Sharmine on twitter @snarwani.
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com; Huffington Post 20.12.13: "...the article by Andy Soltis accompanying the [Murdoch owned New York] Post headline last week began quite inaccurately. “A U.S. drone strike targeting al-Qaeda militants in Yemen,” went the first line, “took out an unlikely target on Thursday -- a wedding party heading to the festivities.” Soltis can, however, be forgiven his ignorance. In this country, no one bothers to count up wedding parties wiped out by U.S. air power. If they did, Soltis would have known that the accurate line, given the history of U.S. war-making since December 2001 when the first party of Afghan wedding revelers was wiped out (only two women surviving), would have been: “A U.S. drone... took out a likely target.”
November 24, 2015 by Brad Hoff
While the document was referenced and analyzed in literally hundreds of independent/alternative and foreign media reports, major U.S. news maintained its silence, even after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), head of the DIA at the time the report was prepared, confirmed its accuracy and importance in an Al Jazeera interview with Mehdi Hasan.
The New York Times has finally acknowledged the 2012 DIA report a full six months after its release through FOIA , including new statements confirming its high importance, in a lengthy investigative piece about the rise of ISIS. To my great surprise the article sources my initial reporting of the Pentagon document...
Anti Avsan (M) [...] Herr talman! Särskilda bestämmelser som syftar till att bekämpa terrorism infördes i svensk lagstiftning redan 1973 genom lagen om särskilda åtgärder till förebyggande av vissa våldsdåd med internationell bakgrund. Reglerna syftade till att göra det möjligt att hindra presumtiva terrorister från att komma in eller stanna kvar i Sverige och till att skapa utrymme för kontroll i de fall dessa personer av asylrättsliga skäl ändå måste beredas en fristad här i landet. Bestämmelserna har ändrats vid ett flertal tillfällen. Sedan den 1 juli 1991 finns bestämmelserna i lagen om särskild utlänningskontroll.
Dana Priest & William Arkin: "The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how
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JEAN-PIERRE PERRIN, Liberation 26.8.: "... l’homme qui a pris Tripoli à la tête des rebelles libyens et en est aujourd’hui le gouverneur militaire de fact... La CIA l’a pisté, traqué, et, finalement capturé en Malaisie en 2003. Elle l’a ensuite transféré
The signals of growing turbulence in a range of military environments - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and beyond - send a worrying message to Washington. Paul Rogers "Afghanistan and Iraq played little part in the United States’s mid-term elections,