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
Residents of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu report that hundreds of militants clashed with Ethiopian and Somali government forces, in fighting that left dozens dead in the northeastern quarter of the city March 20. Insurgents set fire to the bodies of killed… Read moreSomalia: pitched battle in Mogadishu —as “official” regime moves in
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
Police blocked opposition supporters from protesting outside the Egyptian national legislature, the People’s Assembly, after the body adopted of a set of constitutional amendments the opposition says aim to ensure the ruling National Democratic Party’s power and the succession of… Read moreEgypt: People’s Assembly under siege
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
A suicide bomber exploded his car beside a US Embassy convoy in Afghanistan’s capital March 19, killing a 15-year-old pedestrian and wounding five security guards. The first suicide attack in Kabul since December knocked one armored sport-utility vehicle across Jalalabad… Read moreAfghanistan: more suicide bombings
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
Police arrested more than 100 protesters in San Francisco and New York City March 19 as the US marked the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. “Stop the money, stop the war,” protesters chanted outside New York’s Stock Exchange as… Read moreOver 100 arrested in Iraq war protests
Saddam Hussein’s former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was hanged for crimes against humanity on March 20. Ramadan was sentenced in November to life in jail for his role in the 1982 killing of 148 Shi’ites in the town of… Read moreIraq: Ramadan executed for mass murder of Shi’ites —amid mass murder of Shi’ites
