News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 54
AFGHANISTAN: Holbrooke Heralds US Engagement Pre-Election
- Inter Press Service
Facing a worsening security situation in Afghanistan, as well as rapidly approaching elections in that country, the Obama Administration is touting a new, broad approach to winning the fight against insurgent groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
AFGHANISTAN-US: Mission Essential, Translators Expendable
- Inter Press Service
Basir 'Steve' Ahmed was returning from a bomb-clearing mission in Khogyani district in northeastern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber blew up an explosive-filled vehicle nearby. The blast flipped the military armoured truck Ahmed was riding in three or four times, and filled it with smoke. The Afghan translator had been accompanying the 927th Engineer Company near the Pakistan border on that October day in 2008 that would forever change his life.
RIGHTS-SAUDI ARABIA: Indefinite Detention in the Name of Counterterrorism
- Inter Press Service
Human rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia of unlawfully detaining thousands of people without trial or conviction under its counterterrorism programme since 2003.
RIGHTS: Obama Seeks to Block Release of Abuse Photos
- Inter Press Service
The United States Supreme Court will hear the U.S. government’s appeal on a lower court ruling requiring the release of photos showing the abuse of prisoners held in overseas facilities.
RIGHTS: Big Powers Faulted for Abuse of Geneva Conventions
- Inter Press Service
When human rights groups accused the United States of violating the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of prisoners-of-war (PoWs) in Iraq and Afghanistan, the administration of former President George W. Bush either displayed arrogance or feigned ignorance of the implications of abusing humanitarian laws.
POLITICS: Pakistanis See U.S. as Biggest Threat
- Inter Press Service
A survey commissioned by Al Jazeera in Pakistan has revealed a widespread disenchantment with the United States for interfering with what most people consider internal Pakistani affairs.
POLITICS: Rights Groups Appeal For UN Investigation of Rendition
- Inter Press Service
Charging that the U.S. government was complicit in the forced disappearance of an influential Muslim scholar four years ago, human rights groups in the U.S., the U.K., and Switzerland have asked the U.N. to investigate.
POLITICS: U.S. Officials Protect Pak Military on Aid to Taliban
- Inter Press Service
Despite evidence implicating the current Pakistani Army chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, in a major military assistance program for the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan over the past few years, senior officials of the Barack Obama administration persuaded Congress to extend military assistance to Pakistan for five years without any assurance that the Pakistani assistance to the Taliban had ended.
RIGHTS-US: Jawad Case Uncertain Despite Release Order
- Inter Press Service
One of Guantanamo's youngest prisoners, ordered by a federal judge to be released after almost seven years in detention because his 'confession' was obtained through torture, may face further hurdles before being set free.
POLITICS: U.N. Calls for "Green Zone" in Strife-Torn Somalia
- Inter Press Service
Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go the way of Iraq.
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