[uruknet.info] Military Resistance 10B2: Afghan Cooperation

February 5, 2012

Military Resistance 10B2: Afghan Cooperation February 4, 2012 – The Taliban believe that their own hearts-and-minds campaign is winning over Afghans or so they tell their interrogators and even converting a growing number of Afghan government officials and soldiers.Those are among some of the findings of a NATO report, “State of the Taliban 2012,” based [...]

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[uruknet.info] Walid Hanatsheh: Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience

February 5, 2012

February 4, 2012 The Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association calls Hanatsheh “a human rights defender who is currently in administrative detention.” As Health Work Committees (HWC) Finance and Administration Manager, he helped “provide necessary healthcare to over 500,000″ Palestinians. In 1994, he was detained, interrogated for 30 days, then released. In June 2002, [...]

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[uruknet.info] Get the Data: Obama’s terror drones

February 5, 2012

The remains of a house destroyed in a CIA drone strike in Waziristan, April 2009 (Noor Behram) February 4, 2012 As part of its ongoing investigation into the US covert war the Bureau has examined thousands of credible media reports relating to more than 310 Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes in Pakistan. These incidents were [...]

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[uruknet.info] Egyptian football protests: death toll reaches 11

February 5, 2012

Ten protesters and one security officer killed in Cairo and Suez in aftermath of deadly football violence February 4, 2012 At least 11 people have been killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces amid ongoing fallout from the 74 deaths at a football match in Port Said earlier this week. Five people were killed when [...]

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[uruknet.info] Abbas, Mashaal agree to form unity government

February 5, 2012

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) meets Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (R) and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani (2nd R) in Doha in this February 5, 2012 handout picture released by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO). REUTERS/Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/Handout February 5, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Maan) — President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief-in-exile Khalid Mashaal agreed to [...]

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Sarkozy ally says all civilisations not equal

February 5, 2012

Gueant’s latest comments come as Sarkozy’s campaign for France’s presidential election gears up [EPA] The French interior minister has said he is standing by his remarks that not all civilisations are equal, even as critics denounced his comments as dangerous and xenophobic. “I do not regret [the comments],” Claude Gueant said on Sunday, though he accused [...]

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Egypt to put NGO workers on trial

February 5, 2012

US-Egyptian ties are coming under increasing strains, with Washington reviewing its aid to Egyptian military [EPA] Egypt is to try 44 people over the alleged illegal funding of aid groups, according to a judicial source, a day after Washington said it would review aid to Cairo over the crackdown. “Forty-four people, including Egyptians, 19 Americans [...]

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Greece on ‘knife edge’ as debt talks stall

February 5, 2012

Politicians are trying to ensure cash-strapped Greece avoids sinking into a chaotic default next month [Reuters] Crisis talks on a debt deal for Greece among the three leaders of parties supporting the coalition government has been suspended. After five hours of discussions, Lucas Papademos, the Greek prime minister, said the talks would continue on Monday, [...]

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