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US contractor investigated for $1 billion fees in Afghanistan
Associated Press Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a U.S. contractor managing more than $1 billion in reconstruction...
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Afghan protest on civilian deaths turns violent,1 dead
SURKHROD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A civilian was shot dead in eastern Afghanistan on Friday after police fired at thousands...
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Iran and Iraq exchange border fire
AFP Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries’ border yesterday, the first major...
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Al-Qaida in Iraq warns of “dark days
AP BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida in Iraq’s new leader is warning of “dark days soaked with blood” and says a new...
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31 ‘insurgents’ killed in Afghanistan
Regional police claim Nato, Afghan and allied special forces killed over three dozen insurgent fighters in separate overnight...
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Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad’s Sadr City
A car bomb kills seven people and injures 22 others outside a cafe in a Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The...
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Amnesty International condemns executions in Iran of five political activists
Amnesty International today condemned the executions in Iran of four Kurdish political activists and another Iranian man,...
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NY Judge: Torture no grounds to dismiss indictment
AP A Guantanamo Bay detainee brought to the United States for trial on charges he helped the bombing of two U.S. embassies...
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119 Killed in Iraq
Security has been boosted in Iraq after 119 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in a string of attacks across the...
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U.S. Extends Blackwater Task In Iraq
The U.S. State Department says a controversial U.S. private security company claimed to have been enlisted in a CIA hunt...
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The Blackwater Targeted Killing Program
A U.S. district court will decide this week whether one of the darkest chapters of the Bush era, the relationship between...
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Lawyers: Ban Bush from Canada for war crimes
Canwest News Service A lawyers’ group has asked the RCMP to bar former U.S. president George W. Bush from entering Canada,...
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Ex-Employees Label Blackwater Chief Super-Villian
Blackwater — I mean, “Xe” — is back in the news, more than six months after the mercenary firm was kicked out of...
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Blackwater accused of murder in ‘crusade to eliminate Muslims’
A series of allegations including murder, weapons smuggling and the deliberate slaughter of civilians have been levelled...
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Ministers call for torture inquiry
Parliament’s Joint Human Rights Committee has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that the British Government...
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Guantánamo Bay: the inside story
Six months ago this week President Obama, on his second day in office, promised to close the Guantánamo detention camp within...
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China’s police-state
John Chan | The Chinese regime’s ongoing police-military suppression of unrest in the north-western province of Xinjiang...
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CIA ordered to speed up release of torture report
On Wednesday, the Federal judge overseeing the American Civil Liberty Union’s Freedom of Information Act request for CIA...
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Private security contractors lack accountability
A recent shootout in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that left 10 people dead is helping to focus attention on the issue...
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MoD ‘misled courts over Iraqi deaths investigation’
A panel of three judges criticised “disturbing failures” in how the MoD handled applications to withhold evidence,...
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Bush admin discouraged probe into afghan killing
Bush administration officials discouraged an investigation into a mass killing in Afghanistan, government officials and human...
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Met to probe torture collusion claims
The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said. Officers are...
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Bombings Across Iraq as Violence Continues to Soar
The death toll in a series of bombings today continued to rise, as Iraq faced the deadliest day since its celebration of...
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UN war crimes inquiry on Gaza winds up hearings
UN war crimes investigators yesterday wound up four days of public hearings about Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip after...
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CIA torture report delayed again
The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention...




