Articles from 'November 2009'
Suspected US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A suspected US missile attack targeting Al-Qaeda-linked militants killed eight people in Pakistan's mountains on the Afghan border as CIA chief Leon ...
CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former ...
Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan
On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought ...
Why Pakistan Won't Fight the Afghan Taliban
President Barack Obama is about to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, but the success of whatever option he chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan ...
History Promises Disaster in Afghanistan for Blind America
If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it's in connection with Nazi Germany. Nowadays, you can't make assumptions about what ...
US concerned about definition of aggression as international crime
THE HAGUE — A United States ambassador said Thursday that Washington was concerned about how aggression will be defined as an international crime. "I would ...
Afghans say President Karzai's five-year handover is not soon enough
"People hate the Americans from the bottom of their hearts," Haji Akhtar Mohammed Shinwari said as he recalled how the US military had brought death ...
The fallout of Quetta drones
Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine revealed in October edition, that the number of US predator drone strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the ...
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: U.N.
GENEVA - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the ...
Health Care, Essential to Democracy
by Katie Robbins and Andy Coates Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer for a vote on an anti-abortion ...
Two US Soldiers Killed In Afghan Blast As Karzai Sworn In - NATO
KABUL (AFP) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed by a car bomb in southern Afghanistan Thursday, at the same time Afghan President Hamid Karzai was ...
U.S. headed for Vietnam War-like disaster in Afghanistan, two experts warn
TORONTO — The United States is being dragged into a bloody Vietnam War-like morass because of a misguided obsession with establishing a national government in ...
Credit card rate freeze killed
An attempt to freeze credit card rates and fees until more strict regulations take effect in February died Wednesday in the Senate when Republicans blocked ...
The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give
Sure, the quote in the over-title is only my fantasy. No one in Washington -- no less President Obama -- ever said, "This administration ended, ...
Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer
What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, ...
Canada shamed on Afghan prisoner torture
OTTAWA–A senior diplomat delivered a series of explosive allegations to a rapt House of Commons committee Wednesday, telling MPs that Afghan prisoners transferred by Canadians ...
Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation
Just when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan the American envoy ...
Afghan detainees surrendered by Canada were tortured: Envoy
OTTAWA — A senior Canadian diplomat said he was on orders from his Ottawa superiors to leave no paper trail about his allegations that Canada ...
Soviet lessons from Afghanistan
All the most senior ministers were at the Afghan strategy meeting. They knew things were not going well, but from their leader there was a ...
'We may have to sacrifice just two more jobs to get millions back for Americans'
President Barack Obama "is being failed by his economic team" and should replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House economic policy director Larry Summers, ...
Suspected U.S. drone kills 4 in Pakistan-officials
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Wednesday killing four people, ...
CA Dems to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
The California Democratic Party just sent a loud message to President Obama, who is pondering the next U.S. move in Afghanistan: Get out.The state's Dems ...
Bill would stop move of Gitmo detainees to region
An Iowa congressman said today he would introduce legislation to bar the Obama administration from moving detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Thomson Correctional Center ...
Obama admits Guantanamo won't close by Jan. deadline
BEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline ...
U.S. Democrats demand analysis of drug price rises
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 - Congressional Democrats are seeking government investigations into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as Congress finalizes an overhaul of the ...
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