News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 60
RIGHTS-US: Senate Panel Probes Legality of Torture Memos
- Inter Press Service
'An ethical train wreck' was the phrase used by one witness to describe the legal reasoning behind the Justice Department’s recently released memos justifying the use of waterboarding and other forms of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'.
POLITICS-US: Back to Military Commissions?
- Inter Press Service
Human rights advocates and legal scholars fear that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama may resurrect the military commissions designed by his predecessor to try Guantanamo detainees after Obama’s 120-day moratorium on proceedings expires on May 20.
U.S.: McChrystal Choice Suggests Special Ops Strikes to Continue
- Inter Press Service
The choice of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal to become the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been hailed by Defence Secretary Robert Gates and national news media as ushering in a new unconventional approach to counterinsurgency.
POLITICS-US: Congress Resists Guantanamo Transfers
- Inter Press Service
As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantanamo 'terrorists in our neighbourhoods', France agreed to accept a 'cleared' Guantanamo prisoner and human rights groups continued to press for release of 17 Chinese Uigurs who the U.S. government has declared to be no threat to national security.
RIGHTS-US: Lawmakers Try to Block New Abuse Photos
- Inter Press Service
Civil libertarians are condemning a call by two influential U.S. senators for the White House to block the impending release of photographs showing detainees being abused by U.S. military personnel at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at other U.S. detention facilities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
RIGHTS-US: Psychologists Under Fire for Role in Interrogations
- Inter Press Service
A leading human rights organisation is charging that an American Psychological Association (APA) task force formed to advise the U.S. military on prisoner interrogations was 'stacked with Defence Department and [George W.] Bush Administration officials' and 'rushed to conclusions that violated the Geneva Convention.'
POLITICS-US: Officials Admit Pakistanis Reject U.S. Priorities
- Inter Press Service
The advances of the Taliban insurgents beyond the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in recent weeks and the failure of the Pakistani military to counter them have brought a rare moment of truth for top national security officials of the Barack Obama administration.
POLITICS-US: Unwieldy Terror Watchlist Hits a Million
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of thousands of people are being wrongly identified because of the government’s wasteful and inefficient management of the nation’s one million-strong terrorist watchlist, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
POLITICS-US: Af-Pak Troubles Coming to a Head
- Inter Press Service
Despite an overhaul of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, it appears that the U.S. strategy there is running into obstacles as varied as the U.S. Congress and the leaders of those countries, who are both visiting Washington this week.
PAKISTAN: Media in the Taliban’s Crosshairs
- Inter Press Service
Till two months back, Shireen Zada of the private television channel Express News would carry a pistol whenever he covered the news in the restive Swat Valley in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
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