Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 29
AFGHANISTAN-US: Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidence
- Inter Press Service
New information on the Central Intelligence Agency's campaign of drone strikes in northwest Pakistan directly contradicts the image the Barack Obama administration and the CIA have sought to establish in the news media of a programme based on highly accurate targeting that is effective in disrupting al Qaeda's terrorist plots against the United States.
DEATH PENALTY-INDIA: No Noose Is Good News
- Inter Press Service
Campaigners against the death penalty in India are hopeful that a series of commutations of hanging sentences to life imprisonment this month will add up to a trend against the award of capital punishment.
Senate Urges Pentagon to Rein in Afghan Contractors
- Inter Press Service
Failures in vetting, training and supervising Defence Department private security contractors are putting U.S. and coalition troops as well as Afghan civilians at risk and unwittingly aiding Afghan militants by hiring security contractors provided by the Taliban and by warlords, warns a new report released last week by the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee.
Pakistan's Convoy Halt Forces U.S. to Reduce Tensions
- Inter Press Service
By continuing its halt in NATO convoys headed for Afghanistan through the Torkham border crossing into a second week, Pakistan's military leadership has brought an end to the unilateral attacks in Pakistan pushed by Gen. David Petraeus and forced Washington to make a new accommodation.
AFGHANISTAN: Nine Years in, Afghans Don’t Trust U.S.
- Inter Press Service
On the ninth anniversary of the U.S. military intervention in their country, a new report released here Thursday finds that Afghans remain deeply distrustful and resentful of the impact and intent of foreign forces there.
U.N. Admits Congo Crisis Beyond Its Limited Capacity
- Inter Press Service
Amid accusations that most U.N. peacekeepers turned a blind eye to the recent 'mass rape' of more than 300 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admitted that the mounting problems in the sprawling, crisis-stricken country are virtually beyond the capacity of the world body.
U.S. Still Taking a Hard Line on Peace Talks with Taliban
- Inter Press Service
Following serious setbacks to the U.S. military's war plan in Afghanistan, the Barack Obama administration has taken the first tentative step toward a negotiated settlement of the conflict by actively seeking to ascertain the willingness of the Taliban to enter into negotiations, according to a source familiar with the administration's thinking about the issue.
US-PAKISTAN: Rise in Cross-Border Attacks Spurs Backlash
- Inter Press Service
The steady increase in U.S. cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into the frontier areas of Pakistan — whether by drone missiles or attack helicopters — is causing a serious backlash from both the region's residents and Islamabad's government and military leadership.
U.S.: 9/11 Rescue Workers Still Waiting for Healthcare
- Inter Press Service
Election-year interparty political wrangling is threatening to again sabotage congressional efforts to provide medical help for tens of thousands of firefighters and other first responders whose health was damaged by the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Centre.
FBI Raids Seen as Political Retribution
- Inter Press Service
Recent raids by federal agents on the homes and offices of peace activists are being viewed by civil libertarians and civil society groups as further proof that the U.S. is morphing into a 'surveillance state' where the right to privacy and other constitutional protections are being quietly whittled away.
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