Insurgency

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• War and Profits

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 579
  War and Profits by Stephen Fleischman | November 25, 2009 We know why there are wars, and we’ve known it for a long time. Good wars, that is, necessary wars, not wars by powerful foreign invaders, wars that might threaten our country. Everybody knows we’re in the ...
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• Chaos in Thailands Muslim South

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  Muddy Waters In Thai Deep South -- ISN More shootings in Thailand’s troubled south show that no end is in sight for an often brutal insurgency, despite the armys hearts and minds efforts, Simon Roughneen writes for ISN Security Watch. Lieutenant-General Pichet Wisaijorn, regional commander of the Thai 4th ...
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• BNF Policy Brief: Matthew Hoh and Bob Baer

  
  Past in Print Weblog — Authority: 115
  Former State Department official Matthew Hoh and former CIA agent Robert Baer answer the question: What is fueling the insurgency in Afghanistan? Clip via Brave New Films more about “ BNF Policy Brief: Matthew Hoh and Bob… “, posted with vodpod   Tagged: afghanistan, insurgency, matthew-hoh, ...
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• How to succeed in Afghanistan

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  President Obama is to announce his long-awaited decision on Afghanistan on Tuesday. It’s still not clear what he’ll say in his prime-time speech to the nation, from the military academy at West Point. But yesterday the president said he will “finish the job” in Afghanistan. And today the White House indicated ...
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• Taliban insurgency

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  President Barack Obama has said it is his intention to “finish the job” in Afghanistan after eight years of conflict there. Mr Obama is now to announce his decision on US troop reinforcements in Afghanistan in a prime-time TV address next Tuesday. Some US media reports have suggested that the President intends to ...
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• Peru Court Studies Appeal of Fujimori Verdicts

  
  Peruvian Times — Authority: 466
  Peru’s Supreme Court began today to evaluate ex-president Alberto Fujimori’s appeal to annul the verdicts handed down to him earlier this year, for the Barrios Altos and La... [For the complete story, enter PeruvianTimes.com]
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• 12 People Killed In Insurgent Attacks in Afghanistan.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  As U.S President Barack Obama convenes with his cabinet and his senior military commanders to revise the the U.S policy in Afghanistan, the country witnessed another spate of deadly insurgent attacks that carried a ripple of terror across Afghanistan. Separate bombings and shooting attacks throughout Afghanistan, ...
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• Freed NPA prisoner to answer for his ‘lapses’

  
  Davao Today — Authority: 139
  By GRACE S. UDDIN Released New People’s Army prisoner Corporal Dominador Alegre said he will face whatever sanctions his higher command will impose for the successful NPA raid in his Monkayo detachment that led to his capture three weeks ago.
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• British inquiry into Iraq war

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  The man in charge of the official British inquiry examining events surrounding the Iraq war has said his committee will not produce a report that is a “whitewash.” Sir John Chilcot, a retired career civil servant, has promised to produce a “full and insightful” account. Evidence from senior government figures ...
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• Pakistani forces attack Taliban in NW, kill 22

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Hassan Orakzai Reuters HANGU, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces backed by tanks and artillery attacked Taliban positions in the northwest of the country, killing 22 militants, a senior police official on Monday. The attack was part of a broader campaign against militants in Pakistan, a ...
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• Video: CIA / US is behind ALL insurgency and terrorism in Pakistan – Webster Tarpley

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  Webster G. Tarpley is an author, investigative journalist, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies. His writings and speeches describe a model of false flag ...
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• Meanwhile, Al-Qaeda in Iraq Regroups, Significanly Escalates Attacks

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  I haven’t been closely following the latest from Iraq so take this with a grain of salt. But what the Washington Post’s Ernesto Londono reports today about al-Qaeda in Iraq sounds kind of terrifying: the Sunni insurgent group separate from the al-Qaeda we’re fighting in Afghanistan, is preparing an organized ...
  3 days ago

• Fisking Anupong

  
  The Nation's State — Authority: 110
  I personally don’t like fisking questionable statements and articles in the news because it is time consuming. Yet sometimes, an article is so littered with politician’s blatant lies and journalistic incompetence that it simply begs to be deconstructed. The Bangkok Post’s recent article Army ...
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• Nir Rosen’s New Take On Iraq – “An Ugly Peace”

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  In the November/December 2009 issue of the Boston Review, Nir Rosen has a piece called “An Ugly Peace.” In it, Rosen writes about the new status quo in Iraq that was created by the end of the sectarian war and the U.S. Surge, something that he was reluctant to talk about in previous articles. He writes that ...
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• Nepal peace pact in tatters on third anniversary

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Sudeshna SarkarKathmandu, Nov 20 (IANS) Nepal’s historic peace pact, which ended a decade of violent communist insurgency, turned three years Friday under the threat of unravelling.On this date in 2006, the shadowy leader of Nepal’s Maoist guerrillas, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, emerged in the capital from ...
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• Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Gray Line: The Education of “Combat Platoon”

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 139
  
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• What do Malay-Muslims really want?

  
  The Nation's State — Authority: 110
  * All images copyright * Ramadan and the Central Mosque in Pattani City. August 26, 2009 The question of what Malay-Muslims really want is a serious blind spot in the southern insurgency. Obviously, it would seem a critical issue to understand not only the grievances fueling the insurgency but to ...
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• Afghan president sworn in to second 5-year term (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country’s security forces should take the lead in tackling the insurgency there, and that the forces should be able to take control of security in the next five years. View post: (AP)"> (AP)">Afghan president sworn in to second 5-year term (AP)
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• Plutocracy of blood? Afghanistan post-election

  
  Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist — Authority: 396
  How much blood has been spilled in Afghanistan? It is very difficult to say; official estimates speak of an improbable 12,000 to a more probable, but still conservative, 32,000 casualties . Of these deaths, the “insurgents” of various affiliations (so not only the Taliban) would have been responsible, according ...
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• Iraq vote in doubt

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt. Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, revoked Article 1 of the law and called for the representation in parliament of displaced people to increase to 15%. Most Iraqis who ...
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