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U.S. forces kill Iraq family

Mick Meaney February 5, 2008 1

Xinhua The U.S. forces allegedly killed three people and wounded a fourth from one family in a town in Salahudin province, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, a source from the U.S. and Iraqi liaison

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Secret CIA flights to face top-level court inquiry

Mick Meaney February 5, 2008 0

Prosecutors from Spain’s National Court are seeking key witnesses in relation to alleged secret CIA flights in which dozens of Islamist prisoners were transported via Spain to Guantanamo Bay. The National Court suspects that

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The CIA op that should have prevented Iraq war

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AFP When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realised he had risked his life and those of his loved ones

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Illegal bug uncovered in second UK prison

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Richard Ford, Home Correspondent and Sean O’Neill Video briefing: who is Babar Ahmad? Bugging devices planted in a prison telephone were illegally used to record privileged conversations between an inmate and his solicitor, The

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The Year of Living Dangerously

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British plan to build Taliban training camp

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Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan By Jerome Starkey in Kabul Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of

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‘Basic rules ignored in war on terror’

Mick Meaney February 5, 2008 0

The White House has overlooked the basic rule of ‘know your enemy’ in its anti-terrorist strategy in the ‘war on terror’, an analyst says. “The attention of the US military and intelligence community is

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