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Amnesty says torture routine in Mauritania
DAKAR, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Mauritanian security forces routinely torture detainees, using electric shocks, burns and sexual violence, and this has increased since a military coup in August, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. [News - Al Qaeda] [Read More]
Quick Hit: Eighteen Female Insurgents Turn Themselves In
The New York Times reports that eighteen female insurgents turned themselves in to American-led forces in Iraq in accordance with a new amnesty plan. The women, said to have been signed over to Al Qaeda by father and mullahs, are asked to sign their allegiance to the formal political process, disavow violence, and in exchange, they will receive protection. (They will still face criminal charges.) Wouldn't it have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall as these women discussed and planned the
Pakistan tells India it wants to defuse tension
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan offered on Tuesday to help India investigate the militant assault on Mumbai saying it wanted to defuse tension as it considered an Indian demand that it hand over 20 of India's most wanted men. [News - Al Qaeda] [Read More]
Inside Blogotics
Inside Blogotics That the media is in the tank for President-elect Barack Obama has been a longstanding complaint of conservative bloggers. Now al Qaeda is joining in agreement.
Mumbai, Kashmir and the limits of American influence
CIA map of the disputed Kashmir territories, 2003 There has been a great deal of talk recently about the need for a broader regional strategy to defeat the Taliban, al Qaeda and other Islamist radicals in Afganistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan. President-elect Obama, Secretary Gates, General Petreaus, and Secretary-designate Clinton seem to be on the same page about this, all agreeing that engineering an India-Pakistan detente would free up the Pakistani army. The jihadists who attacke
Mumbai's Aftermath: Euphemisms, Apologetics, and Double Standards Becloud War on Terrorism
By Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman The horrific slaughter in Mumbai of almost 200 innocents and injury of 300 more by terrorist commandos shouting "Allah Akbar!" has already been morphed by the international media into the murky realm of euphemism and apologetics. Al Jazeera and The Guardian label the Al Qaeda-associated Islamist terrorists responsible as "gunmen"; CNN calls them "militants." Some analysts identified the underlying cause as the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Ot
Two terrorism suspects arrested in Italy
MILAN, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Two Moroccan factory workers living in the Milan suburbs were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of plotting to carry out bomb attacks on the outskirts of Italy's financial capital. [News - Al Qaeda] [Read More]
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