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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 contracts in Afghanistan overcharged the government. Prosecutors acknowledged in a court filing last week that their criminal
Read More »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 of villagers protesting against NATO raids which they said killed 11 civilians overnight, a local
Read More »Iran and Iraq exchange border fire
AFP Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries’ border yesterday, the first major incident between the two since Iran took over a disputed oil well in December. An Iraqi
Read More »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 campaign of attacks has already begun. The al-Qaida offshoot, the Islamic State of Iraq,
Read More »31 ‘insurgents’ killed in Afghanistan
Regional police claim Nato, Afghan and allied special forces killed over three dozen insurgent fighters in separate overnight operations in northern and eastern Afghanistan. Two regional police officials said Nato special forces in three
Read More »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 explosion occurred in Sadr City Wednesday evening, in an area
Read More »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, all convicted of “moharebeh” (enmity against God!), official statement of the organization says. “We condemn these executions
Read More »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 in Africa while he was an aide to Osama bin Laden cannot
Read More »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 country. The attacks stretched from cities in the north to the normally
Read More »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 for al-Qaida members will continue its armed presence and task of shielding U.S. diplomats
Read More »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 the administration and the private security company Blackwater, should be reexamined. Former Blackwater
Read More »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, citing torture and war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Read More »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 Iraq by the Iraqi government for using “excessive force.” Baghdad gave
Read More »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 against the founder of Blackwater, the security company being investigated for shooting deaths in Iraq. The accusations,
Read More »Ministers call for torture inquiry
Parliament’s Joint Human Rights Committee has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that the British Government was complicit in acts of torturing terror suspects. The cross-party group of MPs and peers examined details
Read More »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 a year, and to undo the secretive and coercive detention and interrogation policies
Read More »China’s police-state
John Chan | The Chinese regime’s ongoing police-military suppression of unrest in the north-western province of Xinjiang has created international tensions. While the US and other Western powers have largely remained silent, concerned that
Read More »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 information pertaining to the destruction of interrogation videotapes ordered CIA to release its 2004 Inspector General
Read More »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 of private security companies, and the existing lack of accountability concerning
Read More »MoD ‘misled courts over Iraqi deaths investigation’
A panel of three judges criticised “disturbing failures” in how the MoD handled applications to withhold evidence, saying that all future requests should treated by the courts “with very considerable caution”. The Government earlier
Read More »Bush admin discouraged probe into afghan killing
Bush administration officials discouraged an investigation into a mass killing in Afghanistan, government officials and human rights workers say. Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war were killed by forces under Gen.
Read More »Met to probe torture collusion claims
The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said. Officers are to investigate allegations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed that MI5 officers were complicit in
Read More »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 “National Sovereignty Day” marked the formal pullback of US troops from the
Read More »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 taking testimony from both Israelis and Palestinians. Richard Goldstone, a former chief UN war
Read More »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 and interrogation program during the Bush administration. The report had been expected to be made
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