At least 10 people have been killed in an attack on a NATO compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say. Kabul provincial police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said the attackers detonated a car bomb at the compound gate on Tuesday morning before attacking guards with small-arms fire. Those killed included the four suicide attackers…
posted November 22, 2012 by Aljazeera … Emails released by US Defence Department provide new information over burial of slain al-Qaeda leader. … The body of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was given an “Islamic burial” and buried at sea amid high secrecy, new emails released by the US Defence Department detailing the procedures…
by Fahad Ansari Posted May 2012 by Crescent International In war, numerous tactics are used to weaken the enemy with a view to its ultimate defeat. These range from bribery to insults, from ridicule and mockery to hostile propaganda, from threats of force to actual violence and expulsion. The precursor to all the above forms…
“This is unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated,” by Robert Dreyfuss posted June 7, 2012 by The Nation Leon Panetta, the over-his-head U.S. secretary of defense, is in Afghanistan today after a day on which the greatest number of civilians were killed so far in 2012. But Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, isn’t there. He’s in…
by Reza Pirbhai posted June 8, 2012 by Counterpunch In the early days of the ‘War on Terror,’ US General Tommy Franks declared, “We don’t do body counts.” He was referring, of course, to the dead of Afghanistan. That the names of 9/11 victims have been appropriately written in stone, only makes it doubly striking…