According to investigative reports by ABC, the CIA has carefully maintained ties and links with the Pakistan-based insurgent group Jundallah, a band of Baloch separatists fighting for an independent Balochestan, a region which straddles southeast Iran and southwest Pakistan. Iranian… Read moreIran: US backing Baluch rebels?
Cao Gangchuan, China’s defence minister, pledged to maintain military ties with Sudan during the visit of Sudanese officials to Beijing. China has blocked efforts in the UN Security Council to dispatch peacekeepers to the violence-plagued western Sudanese region of Darfur,… Read moreChina and Sudan reaffirm military ties
Eleven electricity plant workers were killed in an ambush as they drove to work in northern Iraq April 4. Police said gunmen stopped a vehicle carrying the workers near Hawija, about 70 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk, then sprayed it with… Read moreKirkuk: insurgents kill workers
Interpol issued an international arrest warrant April 3 for three Israelis accused of training illegal paramilitary groups in Colombia. Yair Klein, Melnik Ferri and Tzedaka Abraham are being sought on charges of criminal conspiracy and instruction in terrorism, facing nearly… Read moreColombia seeks Israelis in paramilitary scandal
Haaretz, citing Israeli military sources, reported April 2 that the Israeli Defense Forces are preparing for the possibility of a Syrian attack on the Golan Heights that will start as a result of a “miscalculation” on the part of the… Read moreIsrael planning Syria attack?
As Somali insurgents square off against Ethiopian and government troops in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu, bands of pirates have been making life increasingly difficult for ships coming in and out of the city’s harbour. An Indian cargo vessel was… Read moreSomalia: Mogadishu evacuated; pirates besiege harbor
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, April 3: Descendants of Japanese American Internees File Amicus Brief in Support of Muslim Immigrants Today, descendants of Japanese Americans interned during World War II filed the first of three amicus briefs in support… Read moreJapanese-American WWII interns’ kin support Muslim immigration detainees
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, April 2: Supreme Court Denies Immediate Review of Guantanamo Cases Clients May Wait Another Year in Detention Without Meaningful Way to Challenge Imprisonment The Supreme Court announced today that it would not be hearing… Read moreSupreme court puts off review of Gitmo cases
Nine children were among 12 people killed when a suicide truck-bomber drove into a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk April 2. A further 192 were injured in the blast, and many of the victims were children… Read moreIraq: more terror in Kirkuk
“As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network’s operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.” Thus begins “New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs… Read moreAl-Qaeda: the next generation …based in US ally Pakistan!
The NYPD April 2 defended its surveillance of political activists before the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC). The NYPD statement admitted “detectives collected information both in-state and out-of-state to learn in advance what was coming our way,” but said the… Read moreNYPD flexes espionage muscle
A high-level al-Qaeda suspect who was in CIA custody for more than four years has alleged that his US captors tortured him into making false confessions about terrorist attacks in the Middle East, according to newly released Pentagon transcripts of… Read moreGitmo tribunal reveals torture charge
