By Haroon Siddiqui / The Toronto Star Stephen Harper has said - as had George W. Bush and as does Barack Obama - that we are in Afghanistan to ensure that the terrorists don't come here. The counter-argument has been that they might come here precisely because we are there.

Categories: Terrorism  War on Terror  Occupation  Canada  Al-Qaeda  

Added: August 31, 2010

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By Jason Ditz / AntiWar.com The Obama Administration's policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of "suspected militants" in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children.

Categories: Predator Drones  War on Terror  The US  Killings  Waziristan  

Added: August 25, 2010

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By Gulam Mitha / Countercurrents.org The greatest threat to Pakistan is anarchy that may emanate from Karachi and effect the entire nation, rich or poor. How the government intends to ensure that anarchy can be contained will be a momentous task. Does the government have that vision? Judging from the current situation in Karachi, the answer is no.

Categories: Floods  Pakistan  War on Terror  Homeless  Food  

Added: August 23, 2010

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail / Countercurrents.org But with the hunt for the elusive bin Laden having already cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, perhaps Americans should demand conclusive proof that Israel hasn't conned them into fighting a phoney "war on terror."

Categories: Osama bin Laden  War on Terror  Intelligence Agencies  Conspiracies  Mossad  

Added: August 17, 2010

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By Andy Worthington / Information Clearing House  In the history of the "War on Terror," few stories are as disturbing as that of Abu Zubaydah.

Categories: War on Terror  The US  Prisoner's Abuse  Propaganda  Justice  

Added: July 22, 2010

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By Al Jazeera The group was formerly the military wing of the deposed Islamic Court Union (ICU) that controlled much of central and southern Somalia in late 2006. However, they were forced out of Somalia by Ethiopian troops in support of the largely powerless UN-backed interim government.

Categories: Somalia  Youth  War on Terror  Ethiopia  F. B. I.  

Added: July 21, 2010

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By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady / The Independent A communiqué containing a blueprint for British troops to pull out from Afghanistan in four years' time has been leaked ahead of a major international conference this week

Categories: Afghanistan  Britain  Hamid Karzai  War on Terror  

Added: July 20, 2010

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By Lawrence Martin / The Globe and Mail You either support high standards of justice or you don't. In the Khadr case, most Canadians, along with their government, do not. It's a national disgrace.

Categories: Canadian Muslims  Guantánamo  Justice  War on Terror  

Added: July 17, 2010

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By ROBERT WRIGHT / NY Times Until the hour the U.S. pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan and stops the occupation of Muslim lands and stops killing the Muslims and stops reporting the Muslims to its government, we will be attacking U.S.

Categories: Jihad  War on Terror  Afghanistan  Iraq  Predator Drones  

Added: July 03, 2010

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By Prof. David Ray Griffin / Global Research

It has been permissible to ask whether the war during the past several years has been justified by those attacks so many years ago. But one has not been allowed to ask whether the original invasion was justified by the 9/11 attacks. However, what can be designated the "McChrystal Moment" - the probably brief period during which the media are again focused on the war in Afghanistan

Categories: 9/11  Afghanistan  The US  War on Terror  Taliban  

Added: June 27, 2010

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