TEGUCIGALPA – The United States appears to be strengthening its anti-drug strategy in Central America, whose focus in the case of Honduras will include military operations with troops from both countries, to begin in the jungle region of Mosquitia on the Atlantic coast. Prior to last week’s visit by U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for …
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KABUL/WASHINGTON – The commander of U.S.-NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. James Terry, asserted last month that the homes systematically destroyed by U.S. forces across three districts of Kandahar province as part of Operation Dragon Strike in October and November "were abandoned, empty and wired with ingenious arrays of bombs". But in interviews with …
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CAIRO – Egypt’s armed forces, the de facto rulers of the country since last week’s ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, have already met several longstanding demands of the opposition, including the suspension of the constitution and dissolution of parliament. Some critics, however, say more must be done if the Mubarak regime’s authoritarian structure is to …
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Nebojsa Malic on ‘Independent’ Kosovo at 3
Justin Raimondo on the Mubarak of the Gulf
SULAIMANIYA – At least one person died and dozens were injured Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan’s second largest city as angry protestors attacked the local headquarters of one of the two ruling Kurdish parties, while an opposition building was set ablaze in the other major Kurdish city. The violence broke out in Sulaimaniya following a rally …
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Kevin Zeese on Ray McGovern’s beating
Tom Engelhardt: If only Washington had a brain
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday expressed "deep concerns" about the deadly attack on hundreds of sleeping anti-government protestors carried out by Bahrain’s security forces at a central square in the capital, Manama, Wednesday night. The incident, in which at least five civilians were killed and many more seriously injured, was certain to sharply …
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Pat Buchanan sure hopes so
