Attack of the Drones: US justifies strikes
Obama administration gives first detailed justification of ‘targeted killing’… President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser has for the first time set out a case for the use of UAVs in targeting al Qaeda members. John Brennan went further than any previous official, and notably said that while attacks would not be carried out when there [...]
New revelations about the life on the run of the world’s most wanted man… One of Osama Bin Laden’s wives, currently in the custody of Pakistani security forces, has been revealing details about his life while on the run from US forces for nearly ten years. According to the New York Times, officials in [...]
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How a Nobel Prize-winning president is leading the charge in a new type of warfare… Could Barack Obama’s presidency mark the beginning of an era of surgical, undercover, technological warfare? Following the debacle of Iraq and what has become a quagmire in Afghanistan, the United States has increasingly been pursuing a policy of [...]
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New report suggests vanishing influence in South Asia and elsewhere… The latest evidence on the fight against the terror organisation in South Asia paints a bleak picture of group’s prospects. Al-Qaeda may well have almost completely lost its foothold in South Asia, where once it had strong links with the homegrown group, Jemaah [...]
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Always ideologically-alligned, now Somalia’s al-Shabaab militant group officially joins forces with al-Qaeda… A new video has been released by al-Qaeda’s media arm, al-Sahab, featuring the group’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. In what is likely a publicity move for a seiously weakened al-Qaeda, Zawahiri announced that he was officially welcoming the Somalia militants into al-Qaeda: [...]
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Should the United States negotiate with the Taliban? United States military forces in Afghanistan are being killed by an unexpected adversary: members of the Afghan army, America’s coalition partner. A secret Pentagon study leaked to the New York Times which covers the period May 2007 to May 2011 reports that 58 American troops [...]
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Rumours and gossip hit social media as dispute between government and military continues… Recently the rumors about a military coup were being pushed along by TV channels and were all over on social media in Pakistan, especially on Twitter. The hashtag #PakistanPM was trending globally. The Twitterati were informing each other about the [...]
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The United States needs to reassess its use of unmanned drones… The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. unmanned aerial drone strike inYemen on May 25, 2010, hit the wrong target. The United States thought that it was striking at Al-Qaeda. Instead, the strike killed one of the political enemies of Yemen’s [...]
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