An Iraqi sports broadcaster was killed Sunday by a bomb attached to his car in northern Iraq, while two other journalists were wounded in a similar blast in Baghdad, officials said.
The attacks underscored the continued dangers to Iraqi journalists who frequently have been targeted or caught up in the violence plaguing the country.
Alaa Abdul-Wahab, a [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 31, 2009
Iraqi sports journalist killed in northern Iraq…
May 31, 2009
New ID rules begin June 1 for Mexico, Canada trips…
BLAINE, Wash. – New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States’ northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue.
The rules are being implemented nearly eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks and long after the 9/11 [...]
May 31, 2009
AL Gore compares global warming deniers to flat earthers…
Former Vice President Al Gore is about to launch a major advertising campaign to raise awareness of global warming and will appear on 60 Minutes this Sunday to promote it.
In a brief teaser for the interview aired by CBS, Leslie Stahl says to Gore, “There’s still a lot of skepticism about whether global warming is [...]
May 31, 2009
Israel’s Netanyahu holds firm on Gaza blockade…
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday there would be no let-up in Israel’s much-criticised blockade of Gaza, warning that the ceasefire with the territory’s Hamas rulers remained fragile.
“We are being asked to ease the living conditions of the population and allow goods and equipment in, but we have other priorities in [...]
May 31, 2009
Christian Soldiers in Afghanistan…
by Valerie Elverton Dixon
Source: Sojourners
William Faulkner once said: “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” We often think about time and history as a straight line leading from the past, running through the present, heading into the future. With this conceptualization, the past is past and gone. However, there is another [...]
May 31, 2009
The surveillance society is an EU-wide issue…
by Tony Bunyan
Source: guardian.co.uk
The EU’s new five-year plan for justice and home affairs will export the UK’s database state to the rest of the EU…
Every five years the EU adopts a five-year plan for justice and home affairs affecting many areas of EU citizens’ civil liberties – policing, immigration and asylum, criminal law, databases and [...]
May 31, 2009
Israel begins its biggest civil defense drill to prepare for possibility of war…
Israel began the biggest civil defense drill in its history on Sunday, putting soldiers, emergency crews and civilians through rehearsals for the possibility of war at a time of rising tensions with Iran.
The five-day drill, code-named Turning Point III, will include simulated rocket and missile attacks on Israeli cities, including preparations for a nonconventional strike. [...]
May 31, 2009
Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ministry…
LONDON (AFP) – Two British soldiers serving in Afghanistan were killed by an explosion on Saturday while on patrol in Helmand Province in the south of the country, the Ministry of Defence in London announced.
One of the soldiers was from the Light Dragoons and the other from the Parachute Regiment and they were serving with [...]
May 31, 2009
Four killed, Afghan governor wounded in blasts…
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – Four people were killed and a provincial governor wounded in Afghan unrest Saturday, authorities said, a day after dozens died in fierce battles between Taliban rebels and troops.
The four civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed when a roadside bomb, similar to those used by Taliban insurgents, struck their [...]
May 31, 2009
Obama’s new war doctrine: ‘Cyber dominance’…
The US military is moving ahead with plans to create its first “cyber command” designed to bolster America’s potential to wage digital warfare as well as defend against mounting cyber threats, officials said on Friday.
After President Barack Obama announced Friday his plans to overhaul cyber security policy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was expected to soon [...]
May 30, 2009
If Iraq was a Mistake, Why are We Still There?
by Camillo Bica
Source: CommonDreams.org
However one frames the debate, it is apparent to any fair minded and rational person that the invasion of Iraq, based as it was on misinformation at best, lies and deceptions at worst, was a mistake and should never have occurred. Certainly President Obama has made this claim on numerous occasions as well [...]
May 30, 2009
Iran official blames U.S. in deadly mosque bombing…
TEHRAN (Reuters) – An Iranian official accused the United States on Friday of involvement in a mosque bombing that killed more than 20 people in volatile southeastern Iran, two weeks before a presidential election.
Washington denied the allegation.
Jalal Sayyah, of the governor’s office in Sistan-Baluchestan province, said three people had been arrested in connection with the [...]
May 30, 2009
UN probe of Gaza war to start at weekend…
A team of U.N. investigators will visit Gaza next week to examine whether Israeli troops and Hamas militants committed war crimes during their three-week conflict, the global body said Friday.
The mission led by South African prosecutor Richard Goldstone will depart Geneva for the Middle East on Saturday and is expected to cross into Gaza from [...]
