Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 40
AFGHANISTAN: McChrystal's Support for Raids Belies New Image
- Inter Press Service
Gen. Stanley McChrystal has recently acquired the image of a master strategist of the population-sensitive counterinsurgency, reducing civilian casualties from airstrikes and insisting that troops avoid firing when civilians might be hit during the recent offensive in Helmand Province. One recent press story even referred to a 'McChrystal Doctrine' that focuses on 'winning over civilians rather than killing insurgents.'
RIGHTS: Two-Thirds of Boys in Afghan Jails Are Brutalised, Study Finds
- Inter Press Service
Nearly two of every three male juveniles arrested in Afghanistan are physically abused, according to a study based on interviews with 40 percent of all those now incarcerated in the country's juvenile justice system.
RIGHTS-PERU: Alleged Letter-Bomb Killer Faces Justice
- Inter Press Service
The arrest in Peru of a former Army Intelligence Service (SIE) agent, retired Captain Víctor Penas, may clear up the murder of journalist Melissa Alfaro, and the mutilation of human rights defender Augusto Zúñiga, both victims of letter-bombs in 1991.
U.S.: Republicans Seek Deal on Detainees
- Inter Press Service
The prominent scholar who believes that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-styled mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, should receive no trial is nonetheless advising Sen. Lindsey Graham on a proposal to the White House to create 'an overarching detainee framework', including a new approach to habeas corpus petitions and indefinite detention of 'too dangerous to free' detainees without trial.
TUNISIA: Rights Groups Condemn Harassment of Ex-Prisoners
- Inter Press Service
The Tunisian government should stop the harassment of political prisoners after their release from jail, say rights groups in two new reports.
Q&A: 'Military Commissions Are a Second-Class Justice System'
- Inter Press Service
David Frakt is a professor at the Western State University College of Law and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve JAG Corps.
RIGHTS: JSOC Interests Snag Plan to Free Afghan Detainees
- Inter Press Service
An initiative to revise the procedures for reviewing the cases of detainees in order to free marginal insurgents and innocent Afghans has run afoul of the interests of officers of the powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in defending their role in earlier detention decisions.
U.S.: Families Sue Over Guantanamo Deaths
- Inter Press Service
The families of two prisoners who died at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are asking a federal court to reconsider its ruling dismissing their lawsuit, which seeks to hold federal officials and the U.S. government accountable for their sons' torture, arbitrary detention, and ultimate deaths.
POLITICS: Sahel Leaders Meet on al Qaeda Threat
- Inter Press Service
Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda's North African affiliate in the region.
POLITICS: Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
- Inter Press Service
Mike Furlong, a top Pentagon official, is alleged to have run a covert network of contractors to supply information for drone strikes and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the U.S. government.
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