From the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI), July 10: Mansour Osanloo, the president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, was kidnapped by plain clothes agents in… Read moreIran: transport union leader “kidnapped”
From The Economist, July 5: Don’t mention the GWOT A new vocabulary is needed to confront terrorism The “global war on terror” is what America calls its response to the September 11th attacks. Never mind the cliché, or the fact… Read moreUK to ditch GWOT nomenclature?
The National Intelligence Estimate has reached such findings before. Yet more evidence of what an astonishing success the Global War on Terrorism has been. From McClatchy Newspapers, July 11: Calling al-Qaida the most potent terrorist threat to U.S. national security,… Read moreNational Intelligence Estimate: al-Qaeda stronger than ever since 9-11
In the wake of the third deadly suicide bombing to hit the country in four months, Algeria’s government has vowed to eradicate armed Islamist groups—but also warned of new attacks. Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni called for “greater vigilance” from the… Read moreAlgeria pledges to crush Salafists, open energy sector
Some 800 members of the Awá indigenous people, who inhabit northern Ecuador on the border with Colombia, arrived July 11 in Quito after marching cross-country to demand the government recognize their rights to “ancestral lands.” Awá leader Byron Chuquisán said… Read moreEcuador: indigenous march for land rights
After two decades of silence, architect Rosa María Alvarado Martínez come forward July 9 to say that at least three bodies—likely the remains of student protesters killed by the army at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968—are buried under a… Read moreMexico: bodies found from Tlatelolco massacre?
Honda, Nissan, Hershey’s, Kellogg, Grupo Modelo and other multinational companies temporarily shut their plants in western Mexico after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) guerrillas claimed responsibility for the explosions. The government ordered an… Read moreMexico: guerillas bomb pipelines
A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace filled with children in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province July 10, killing 13 elementary-school students and at least four other people. Eight Dutch soldiers and at least 35 Afghans were wounded. The… Read moreAfghanistan: the new Iraq?
The Iranian government confirmed July 11 that a man was executed by stoning last week for adultery, and that 20 more men would be executed in the coming days on morality violations. The stoning of Jaffar Kiani, 47, was carried… Read moreIran: execution by stoning for adultery
July 11 marks the twelfth anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and little has changed for the survivors who continue to wait for a modicum of justice. Up to 30,000 survivors… Read moreSrebrenica: 12 years later, still no justice
Gee, just what Musharraf needs—the State Department weighing in for his repression, augmenting the (accurate) perception that he is Washington’s toady. Don’t they have enough sense to keep quiet? This brings Pakistan one step closer to an Islamist coup, which… Read morePakistan: US-approved state terror
This reminds us of an old R. Cobb cartoon. From the New York Times, July 9: New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring… Read moreNYC: “surveillance veil” for Lower Manhattan
