Daily Archives: June 23, 2008 »
Civilian sex assaults by Afghan soldiers ignored
By Rick Westhead | Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers “to ignore” incidents of sexual assault among the civilian population, says a military chaplain who counsels troops returning home
Read More »Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports
By Brian Stelter | Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign
Read More »White House Dismissed Legal Advice On Detainees
By Michael Abramowitz | Senior lawyers inside and outside the Bush administration repeatedly warned the White House that it was risking judicial scrutiny of its detention policies in Guantanamo Bay if it did not pursue
Read More »Bush ‘war crimes conference’ to convene in Mass
By Stephen C. Webster | On September 13-14, 2008, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, plans to convene a ‘convention’ at the school’s facilities; the attendees of which
Read More »Congress wrestles over spying bill
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Washington – Congress is on the verge of ending a year-long struggle with the White House over a contentious intelligence surveillance bill. In one of the toughest votes of the
Read More »NATO: 6,000 troops urgently needed in Afghanistan
BERLIN (Reuters) | Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only prolong the presence of Western forces in the country, a German NATO general said
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