Pranksters Distribute Fake New York Times Declaring ‘Iraq War Over’ The Yes Men identified as the team behind the joke pages by Ed Pilkington The US defence department yesterday declared the end of the Iraq war and the immediate withdrawal…
Category: International
UN human rights chief urges end to death penalty in Afghanistan
by Leslie Schulman at 10:56 AM ET UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged Afghan President Hamad Karzai to put a stop to executions and join nations calling for a death penalty moratorium. The call came…
40 Afghan civilians killed as U.S.-led air strike hits wedding party
Villagers in Wech Baghtu, Kandahar say 37 people have died, including 23 children and 10 women after planes flattened houses shortly after US troops had fought Taliban insurgents nearby on Monday afternoon. Photo: EPA/UK Telegraph KABUL, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) —…
Afghan Election Could Be Scrapped Due to Instability
The Financial Times reports members of the Afghan government, European diplomats and NATO military officials are pushing to delay, or even scrap, next year’s presidential election in Afghanistan. They argue that the poll could dangerously aggravate political tensions. Analysts said…
The Collapse of Omar Khadr’s Guantánamo Trial
by Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, Oct. 28, 2008 Hardly a day goes by without some extraordinary news from the military commissions, the system of “terror trials” conceived in the office of the vice president in November 2001, and their days now…
Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Protest U.S. Plan to Stay Until 2011
Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr take part in a rally in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, to protest a draft U.S.-Iraqi security agreement. The mass show of opposition comes as the United States and Iraqi…
Afghanistan: 20 Million People Under the Poverty Line
Around 20 million people out of estimated 26 million population of Afghanistan are living under the line of poverty. PHOTO: RAWA.ORG by BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA), October 17, 2008 On the basis of the official statistics, the level of…
“War is the crime of our times.”
Despite the Threat of Harsh Punishment, Soldier Says “No” to Deployment in Afghanistan By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet, October 23, 2008 “I believe war is the crime of our times,” Blake Ivey, a specialist in the U.S. Army, said over the…
Parwez Kambakhsh sentenced to 20 years
by AMIR SHAH, Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2008 KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence for a journalism student accused of blasphemy and instead sentenced him Tuesday to 20 years in prison. The death sentence against…
NATO airstrike kills another 25 Afghan civilians
Report: NATO Air Strike in Helmand Kills At Least 25 Civilians Antiwar.com, October 16, 2008 NATO forces launched an air strike in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province early this afternoon. According to local officials, the attack killed between 25 and…