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Is Pakistani Taliban Leader Dead?    Iranian Official Acknowledges Torture of Protesters    Obama Embraces a Bush Tactic: Signing Statements    Iraqis Take the Lead, With US Close By    Long-Term, Costly US Effort in Afghanistan Expected    Criminal Investigation Into CIA Treatment of Detainees Expected    Terror Analyst Says Indonesian Terrorist 'Not Dead'    Report: Jewish Fatah Member Nominated for Party's Revolutionary Council    Israel's Lieberman Summons Envoy in US Over Leaked Rebuke of Government    UK Envoy Claims Most Fighting With Taliban in Afghanistan Could Change Sides    Chavez Asks Colombia's Uribe to Explain Base Plan    New British Army Chief Under Fire Over '40 Years' Claim    US in Afghanistan: No Honor in 'Killing by E-Mail'    UK Ministers Must Explain Destruction of 'Torture Flight' Papers, Says Panel of MPs    Pakistan: It Is a Tricky Job to Confirm Baitullah Mehsud's Death    Sri Lanka: Government and Pro-Rebel Party Win Local Elections    Fatah: Return Jerusalem Before Talks Go On    Georgia War Changed Map for Good: Russia's Medvedev    Afghan Presidential Contender Denies Karzai Deal    Conflicting Reports Emerge of Clash in Pakistan    Minister: Germany Could Be in Afghanistan for Another 10 Years    Afghan Taliban Say Unhurt by Mehsud Death, Resistance Will Continue    NATO Friendly Fire Wounds 5 Afghan Policemen    Afghan Jail Conditions Hamper Gitmo Prosecutions    Top Somali Islamist Leader Lashes US Policy    Clinton: US to Work With Afghan Election Winner    Karzai Wins Afghan Warlord's Support as Others Fear the Cost    US and Britain Again Target Afghan Poppies    Militants Say Pakistan's Mehsud Alive, Deny Report    Interim Honduras Govt Insists Zelaya Won't Return    How About a Posse Comitatus Act for Latin America?    Playing Politics With a Ghost    Bubba Scores a Reversal    Treat North Korea As a Child Psychologist Would    Read Between the Lines    Turning the US Army Against Americans    Perpetual War for Perpetual War    
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News
Updated August 9, 2009 - 11:21 PM EDT
Is Pakistani Taliban Leader Dead?
 
  Conflicting Reports of Pakistan Taliban Clash
  It Is a Tricky Job to Confirm Baitullah Mehsud's Death
Long-Term, Costly US Afghan Effort Expected
 
  Afghan Taliban Say Unhurt by Mehsud Death
  New British Army Chief Under Fire Over '40 Years' Claim
  Minister: Germany Could Be in Afghanistan for Another 10 Years
  NATO Probes Two Afghan Civilian Casualties
  Afghan Presidential Contender Denies Karzai Deal
Iranian Official Admits Torture of Protesters
 
  Defendants 'Confess' Helping West at Iran Mass Trial
  Iran Resumes Trials of Opposition Leaders, but Could They Backfire?
Israeli FM Summons Envoy for Rebuke of Govt
 
  Fatah: Return Jerusalem Before Talks Go On
  Palestinian President Reappointed Head of Fatah
  Jewish Fatah Member Nominated for Party's Revolutionary Council
Obama Uses a Bush Tactic: Signing Statements
Iraqis Take the Lead, With US Close By
Viewpoints
Turning the US Army Against Americans  by Dan Kennedy
How About a Posse Comitatus Act for Latin America?  by Jacob Hornberger
Panetta Seeks to Whitewash CIA Crimes  by Sherwood Ross
Playing Politics With a Ghost
by Scott Ritter
Bubba Scores a Reversal
by Gordon Prather
Read Between the Lines  by John Pilger

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Frontline
Terror Analyst Says Indonesian Terrorist 'Not Dead'
Criminal Investigation Into CIA Treatment of Detainees Expected
Prospect of Military Intervention Raised Over Climate Change
Afghan Jail Conditions Hamper Gitmo Prosecutions
Georgia Parents Fight Military High School
 
'War on Terror'
UK Ministers Must Explain Destruction of 'Torture Flight' Papers, Says Panel of MPs
US: Deportation for Yemeni Cleric Convicted of Financing Terrorism
Yemen Welcomes US Detainee Release, Calls for More
We Cannot Eliminate All Risk of Torture, British Ministers Admit
UK Prime Minister Considers Scheme to Aid Britons Injured in Bali, Egypt and Mumbai
Iran
Accused Spies Offer Apologies at Iran Trial
UK Denounces Iran Trial of British Embassy Staffer
With Iran Blaming West, Dual Citizens Are Targets; Location of 2 Men Unknown, Families Say
Iraq Asks Iran About 3 Detained Americans
Report: US Hikers Detained by Iran Are Moved to Tehran
Ahmadinejad to Name New Cabinet in Mid-August
Iraq
Eight-Year-Old Boy Describes Two-Year-Long Kidnapping Ordeal
Saturday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 3 Wounded
Israel/Palestine
Report of New Middle East Peace Plan Premature
Report: Terror Cell Plotted to Kill Israeli Ambassador to Egypt
'Israel Should Drop Apologetic Tactics, Admit It Is at War,' Says Pro-Israeli Italian Legislator
Soldier Arrested in Golan Heights Misfire Death Was Playing With Weapon
Palestinian Killed in Gaza Tunnel Collapse, Say Medics
Lebanon
Hezbollah No. 2 Says Group Ready for War With Israel
Summer War Between Lebanon and Israel Very Unlikely, Predict Analysts
Report: Israeli Intelligence Equipment Found Transmitting From Lebanon
Turkey
Soldier Killed in PKK Attack in SE Turkey
Africa
Top Somali Islamist Leader Lashes US Policy
Mauritania Bomber Injures 3 Near French Embassy
Congo Minister's Wife Released After South Africa Kidnapping: Police
As Algeria Grows More Islamic, Nightlife Suffers
Australia
Australia's Reversal of Ban on Hezbollah-Linked Television Channel Angers Jewish Groups
Americans Keep Dying
East Texas Soldier's Family: 'He Didn't Expect to Come Back' From Afghanistan
Oklahoma Marine Leaves Behind Wife Pregnant With First Child
Tennessee Family Mourns Soldier Killed by Bomb in Afghanistan
Spring Township (PA) Mother Mourns Her Soldier Son
Sullivan (IL) Native Dies From Non-Combat Injury in Afghanistan
Knoxville (TN) Marine Dies of Combat Injuries in Afghanistan
Concrete (WA) Green Beret Killed in War in Afghanistan
Navy Corpsman (FL) Killed in Afghanistan Remembered by Friends
Roxboro (NC) Native Killed in Afghanistan Remembered
Clermont (FL) Soldier Killed in Combat in Afghanistan
Natchez (MS) Man Killed by Afghan Roadside Bomb
 
Pakistan
Pakistan Welcomes Mehsud's Death but Warns 'War Not Won'
Pakistan Troops Capture 15 Terror Suspects
Former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik Murdered
Pakistanis Admit Helping in Mehsud Missile Strike
Bomb Near Pakistan School Wounds 6
Back to School in Pakistan's Swat Valley
Two Pakistan Political Parties Independently Try to Shoot Down Anti-Musharraf Resolution
Pakistan Denies Afghanistan Transit Facilities to Import Oil From India
Afghanistan Election
Karzai Wins Afghan Warlord's Support as Others Fear the Cost
Clinton: US to Work With Afghan Election Winner
Afghan Presidential Challenger Blasts Government Security
NATO in Afghanistan
NATO Friendly Fire Wounds 5 Afghan Policemen
US in Afghanistan: No Honor in 'Killing by E-Mail'
US and Britain Again Target Afghan Poppies
UK Envoy Claims Most Fighting With Taliban in Afghanistan Could Change Sides
Afghanistan: Three Australian Soldiers Injured in Roadside Bomb
British Troops Say They Lack the Right Equipment to Fight in Helmand
New British Army Chief Scraps Shopping List for Afghanistan
UK Special Forces Target Afghan Taliban 'Spectacular' Death Team
US Military Works to Foil Afghan Bombers
Safety of Russian Planes in Afghan War Questioned
Indonesia
Most Wanted Militant, Wanted for Last Weeks' Bombing, Eluded Capture for Years
Police: Suspect Planned Attack on Indonesia Leader
Myanmar
Myanmar Opposition Unites at UN
In Myanmar, Carefully Sowing Resistance: Fragile Opposition Wary of Confrontation
Security Tight in Myanmar for Protest Anniversary
Asia
Sri Lanka: Government and Pro-Rebel Party Share Wins in Local Elections
India Intercepts, Investigates North Korean Sugar Ship
Troops Says Kills 6 on Kashmir Border, Incursions Rise
Exiled Uighur Activist Say She Is 'Woman of Peace'
Georgia
Medvedev Says Georgian Army Buildup Causes 'Concern'
Georgia War Changed Map for Good: Russia's Medvedev
Russia Leader: Sarkozy Deal Keeps Peace in Georgia
Europe
Cameron's EU Alliance Hit by Split Over Lisbon Treaty
Moldova's Pro-Western Parties Reach Coalition Deal
Venezuela/Colombia
Chavez Asks Colombia's Uribe to Explain Base Plan
Chavez: Venezuela to Return Ambassador to Colombia
Honduras
Interim Honduras Govt Insists Zelaya Won't Return
President's Ouster Highlights a Divide in Honduras
Mexico
Security Forces Deploy for Mexico Summit Amid Drug Attacks
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/07/2009
The Return of the Bomb

Ivan Eland
8/08/2009
Treat North Korea As a Child Psychologist Would

Philip Giraldi
8/06/2009
Export Cars, Not Democracy

Nebojsa Malic
8/05/2009
The Lessons of August

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/04/2009
Who's to Blame When Vets Turn Homicidal?

Charles V. Peņa
7/29/2009
Odds Against Nuclear Disarmament

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

David R. Henderson
7/17/2009
NPR: 'Murder' a Controversial Concept

Alan Bock
7/06/2009
Independence, Empire Don't Mesh

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism
Additional Contributors
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Doug Bandow
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Christopher Deliso
Sibel Edmonds
Tom Engelhardt
Mike Ewens
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
John Pilger
Murray Polner
Gareth Porter
Gordon Prather
Charley Reese
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Rothschild
Michael Scheuer
Norman Solomon
Paul Sperry
Joseph Stromberg
Jon Basil Utley
Jude Wanniski
Teresa Whitehurst
Andy Worthington


 
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