Investigations into several suicide bombings in Iraq now centre on a man held in detention in Norway. Mullah Krekar, founder of the radical Kurdish Islamist group Ansar-al-Islam was ordered held in custody by an appeals court in Oslo last week. The...
If only the gathering discontent over Iraq could be tidily relegated to the "against us" corner of the world; if only allies could be shocked and awed into consenting to U.S. policies; if only democracy could be established by the point of a gun, then President Bush...
When Israel's ambassador to Sweden vandalized a work of art that he found offensive on exhibition at Sweden's Museum of National Antiquities, Zvi Mazel did the world a service: he opened our eyes to Israel's descent into barbarism. Just as Israeli tanks bulldoze...
The Bush administration is pushing to ratify an international convention that civil libertarians say would pose serious threats to privacy rights at home and abroad. After delaying for about two years, U.S. President George W. Bush recently asked the U.S. Senate to...
Ruhel Ahmed probably does not know yet, but one of the strongest initiatives yet on behalf of him and other Guantanamo Bay detainees was launched in London Tuesday. The families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners in Britain, France and other European countries came together...
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It seems likely that the Iraq war, aside from a few phrases about our brave men and women in uniform fighting for freedom and perhaps a mention of Saddam’s capture, will not figure too heavily in tonight’s State of the Union address. Even though Howard Dean,...
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed Monday to send a team of experts to Baghdad to assess the feasibility of holding direct elections in Iraq this year, an idea the United States has already rejected as impracticable. ''The issue now is whether the technical,...
Satellite television and the Internet have spurred Middle East media operations to become more critical and investigative but financial losses could catch up with some of the pioneers of this change, say regional media experts. "The Arab media have changed a lot in...
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