Afghan policemen secure the area near a road block formed by security forces… An Afghan policeman secures the area near a road block formed by security… KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Two suicide bombers attacked a British compound in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least three people and wounding two, police and eyewitnesses said. An official from the British Embassy, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the incident, confirmed that there had been an attack against the British Council building on the west side of Kabul. He said the British Embassy was in contact with Afghan authorities at the scene. A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah…
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NATO’s Libya mission shifts (CNN) — Six months and more than 17,000 air sorties after it began, NATO’s Operation Unified Protector in the skies over Libya grinds on. What was envisaged in March as a rapid engagement to prevent Moammar Gadhafi’s forces from razing Benghazi to the ground has evolved into a long slog. And increasingly NATO operations have dovetailed with those of the rebels — with the aim of making pro-Gadhafi forces incapable of offensive action. The initial mandate set out by the United Nations Security Council resolution 1973 was to protect civilians under threat or attack, to enforce an arms embargo on the country and implement a no-fly zone. “What was initially supposed…
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North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il on Saturday arrived in his armoured train in Russia and plans to meet President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin said. During the visit, his first since 2002, Kim is expected to meet with the Kremlin chief for talks in Siberia to discuss North Korea’s nuclear programme, bilateral economic projects and a worsening food crisis in the isolated state. “A meeting between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Kim Jong-ll will be the main event of the visit,” the Kremlin said in a statement, saying Kim would also visit the Far Eastern and…
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “I didn’t realize how high a price we were going to pay for that lie.” -President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960. “Think of the use of drone air strikes as summary executions, extra-judicial killings justified by faceless bureaucrats using who-knows-what “intelligence,” with no oversight…a world where joystick gods manipulating robots deal death from the skies and then go home and hug their children.” -U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, 2011(1). It was banal, when United States political and military leaders immediately dismissed the London-based Bureau for Investigative Journalism’s report documenting that since 2004 almost 2,300…
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Euphoric Libyan rebels took control of most of Tripoli in a lightning advance Sunday, celebrating the victory in Green Square, the symbolic heart of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. Gadhafi’s defenders quickly melted away as his 42-year rule crumbled, but the leader’s whereabouts were unknown and pockets of resistance remained. State TV broadcast Gadhafi’s bitter pleas for Libyans to defend his regime. Opposition fighters captured his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, who along with his father faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Another son was under house arrest. “It’s over, frizz-head,” chanted…
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Syrian President Bashar Al Assad warned the West his nation would not tolerate any outside interference, saying that anti-government unrest sweeping the country had become more militant. Assad faces growing Western calls to step down over his harsh crackdown on more than five months of pro-democracy protests in which the United Nations says around 2,000 civilians have died. No country has proposed the kind of action against Syria which NATO forces have carried out in support of Libyan rebels…
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Cairo – The appearance of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi’s son at a Tripoli hotel Tuesday following reports that he was in rebel custody sparked doubts about claims by the regime as well as the insurgents. The opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya expressed skepticism over the authenticity of the footage aired on international channels that showed Saif al-Islam Gaddafi driving in the capital, nearly all of which is said to be in the hands of the rebels. Saif al-Islam, whom rebels said they had captured, was shown in his car with a…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian investigators on Tuesday arrested a retired police officer on suspicion of organizing the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. But this arrest, like the arrest of the suspected triggerman in May, still does not address the issue of who might have ordered the killing of Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of the Kremlin and its chosen strongman in Chechnya. Tuesday’s arrest of retired Lt. Col. Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was first reported by editors at Politkovskaya’s newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, and later confirmed by investigators. Pavlyuchenkov was paid “by a person whose identity is still unknown” to…
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