Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 27
U.N. Remains Deadlocked on Defining Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
When Israeli commandos killed nine mostly Turkish activists during a raid on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians last May, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the attack as a prime example of 'state terrorism'.
New York Terror Verdict Hailed as Vindicating Civil Trials
- Inter Press Service
The conviction of the first Guantanamo Bay detainee brought to New York for trial is triggering a wide range of reactions from politicians and legal experts.
U.S.: Health and Privacy Concerns Dog Airport Body Scanners
- Inter Press Service
Privacy advocates called on the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Tuesday to end its controversial new initiative of whole-body scans and enhanced pat-downs of airline passengers, calling the programme 'dangerous to health, ineffective and unconstitutional'.
Britain to Settle Rendition, Torture Case for Millions
- Inter Press Service
The British government will reportedly pay millions in compensation to seven British nationals who were unlawfully 'rendered' to U.S.-run prisons and tortured with the cooperation of British intelligence.
U.S. Envoy Secretly Offered Troops in Iraq after 2011
- Inter Press Service
A special envoy from President Barack Obama raised the possibility in a secret meeting with senior Iraqi military and civilian officials in Baghdad Sep. 23 that his administration would leave more than 15,000 combat troops in Iraq after the 2011 deadline for U.S. withdrawal, according to a senior Iraqi intelligence official familiar with the details of the meeting.
U.S.: Blue-Ribbon Panel Finds AfPak Strategy at 'Critical Point'
- Inter Press Service
The administration of President Barack Obama should begin shifting to a counterterrorism (CT) strategy requiring many fewer troops in Afghanistan if its pending review finds that the current counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy is not working, according to a new report by a bipartisan task force of 25 prominent analysts and former top foreign policy officials.
Outrage Mounts over Bush's Waterboarding 'Confession'
- Inter Press Service
After a three-year investigation, President Barack Obama's mantra — 'look forward and not backwards' — appears to have trumped the rule of law as a special prosecutor declined to pursue criminal charges against the Central Intelligence Agency operatives involved in the destruction of video recordings of interrogations of 'war on terror' suspects.
Q&A: 'There Is No War on Terrorism'
- Inter Press Service
'The U.S. intentionally confuses al Qaeda with other groups around the world fighting for their independence or liberation, but it's [just] a convenient way to whip up support and get people very afraid,' says author and journalist and Reese Erlich.
Behind Drone Issue in Yemen, a Struggle to Control Covert Ops
- Inter Press Service
The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there.
Obama Lawyers Defend 'Kill Lists'
- Inter Press Service
Lawyers for the Barack Obama administration told a federal judge Monday that the U.S. government has authority to kill U.S. citizens whom the executive branch has unilaterally determined pose a threat to national security.
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