Tag: War On Terror

Key Global Issue

aka War on Terrorism

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2009-05-21 Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Cheney sharply criticized President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism policy and defended harsh interrogation methods that Obama has labeled torture.
2009-02-17 In the USA, the White House announced that 17,000 more troops would join the existing 65,000 Western troops in Afghanistan “to stabilise a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires.”
2009-01-25 In Afghanistan, president Hamid Karzai condemned a US operation within Afghanistan that he said killed 16 Afghan civilians.
The US said the raid, on Saturday in Laghman province, killed 15 armed militants, including a woman with an RPG. But Afghan officials said they killed civilians, including two women and three children. In Laghman's capital, hundreds of protesters demanded an end to overnight raids.
2009-01-23 Obama, in his first military action as president, sanctioned two missile attacks inside Pakistan, killing 22 people, reportedly women and children among them. The attacks drew criticism from Pakistani officials at the weekend.
2009-01-23 In Colombia, an entire battalion was dismantled over killings of civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
The 15th mobile brigade was completely replaced by a new unit, the 23rd mobile counterinsurgency brigade, whose 1,400 members have reportedly received training on human rights, according to official reports.
2009-01-15 "The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists, or good and evil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groups with little in common"
-- David Miliband, foreign secretary of Britain, in Guardian
2008-11 In Peshawar, Pakistan, American citizen and USAID worker Stefan Vance who was killed.
2008-10-31 In North Waziristan, Pakistan, two missiles fired from a USA drone aircraft demolished a house and killed at least 10 Islamist militants
2008-10-30 The next administration needs to do better. The place to begin is with the candid recognition that the Global War on Terror has effectively ceased to exist.
-- Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, in his article 'Expanding War, Contracting Meaning'
2008-10-29 Pakistani foreign ministry summoned the United States ambassador to Pakistan and expressed its strong protest over the missile strikes by American drones in the country's tribal regions












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