From the British computer trade journal The Register, March 22: US Marines in Iraq staged an elaborate fake gunfight to foil an overhead surveillance drone and cover up a murder, according to court testimony. Wired reports that the Marines successfully… Read moreIraq: Marines spooked drone to cover murder
In a military trial at Fort Campbell, KY, Pfc. Bryan Howard, 19, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the slaying of her family. He also pleaded guilty to conspiracy… Read moreGI pleads guilty in Iraq rape-murder case
European Union election observers won’t be sent to Nigeria’s delta region during next month’s landmark elections due to the ongoing attacks and kidnappings which have prompted thousands of foreigners to flee the oil heartland in the past year. “We are… Read moreNigeria: petro-violence bars EU observers
Muslim pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria’s Gombe state beat a teacher to death March 21 after accusing her of desecrating the Koran, police and witnesses said. Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was apparently overseeing an “Islamic Religious Knowledge”… Read moreMore sectarian violence in Nigeria
Pashtun tribesmen loyal to Pakistan’s government exchanged mortar and rocket fire with purported al-Qaeda militants in South Waziristan for a third day March 21, leaving at least 114 dead. Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said 84 Uzbek militants and 30 local… Read morePakistan: battle escalates for Waziristan
The threat of terrorism has allowed governments around the world to crackdown on the rights of ethnnic minorities, according to the latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights Group International. The report finds that key allies of the US… Read moreReport: ethnic minorities under threat in GWOT
Mamdouh Habib, a “rendition” victim and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, is running for a state parliamentary seat in New South Wales, Australia. He was picked up in Pakistan in October 2001, transferred to Egypt where he was tortured, then… Read moreEx-Gitmo detainee runs for office in Australia
Indonesian police shot dead a suspected Islamist militant believed to be linked to Abu Dujana, the purported current leader of the Jemaah Islamiah network, blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people. One militant was also… Read morePolice kill jihadist in Indonesia
As Bangladesh prepares to hang six militants convicted in a string of bombings, a newly “interrogated” member of the network claims some 5,000 followers of outlawed Islamist groups are still active in the country, and receiving aid from supporters abroad,… Read moreBangladesh: terror suspect claims 5,000 militants
Continuing protests over the suspension of the chief justice, thousands of opposition activsts and lawyers rallied in major cities across Pakistan and clashed with police, demanding President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation. In Islamabad, around 1,000 protesters staged an angry rally outside… Read morePakistan: protests sweep nation over judicial crisis
US-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are using a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Israel, the campany that produces the devide said in a statement released ahead an upcoming air show in Australia.. Elbit, one of Israel’s leading… Read moreIsraeli mini-UAVs used in Iraq, Afghanistan
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, March 14: On the 4th Anniversary of the US-led war on Iraq Let’s Raise the Freedom Flag and Unify Our Ranks to Boot out the Occupation and Sectarian Gangs from Iraq Iraqi people: On this… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress on fourth anniversary of invasion
