MINGORA, Pakistan, May 8 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s military said on Friday it had killed 143 militants over the previous 24 hours in fighting in the Islamist bastion of Swat.
The struggle in the valley 130 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing Taliban insurgency alarming the [...]
May 8, 2009
Pakistan army says 143 militants killed in Swat…
May 8, 2009
Porn and cookies: UK lawmakers odd expenses claims…
LONDON – Porn movies. Horse manure. A chocolate Santa Claus. Expense claims by British lawmakers to pay for an array of items were exposed by a newspaper Friday, stoking public anger over lawmaker excess amid the global recession.
Britain’s Daily Telegraph published details of claims related to 13 ministers and offered examples of hundreds of other [...]
May 8, 2009
Obama administration renews sanctions on Syria…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has renewed sanctions on Syria, a senior U.S. official said Friday, despite Washington dispatching two top officials to Damascus this week to try to improve ties.
While the United States has made clear it wants better relations with Syria, a nation it has long accused of supporting terrorism, the renewal [...]
May 8, 2009
Massacre of civilians overshadows “AfPak” summit…
A summit meeting in Washington between President Barack Obama and his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts, Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari, has been overshadowed by the worst massacre of Afghan civilians since the US invaded the country in October 2001.
The tripartite summit was called by the Obama administration as part of its escalation of the [...]
May 8, 2009
Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases…
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush administration obtained in 2004.
For four years, records in the prisoners’ habeas corpus lawsuits challenging the legality of their detentions have been piling up in a [...]
May 8, 2009
Afghan Police Fire on Anti-US Protest…
KABUL — Police fired on rock-throwing protesters angry over civilian deaths they blamed on American bombing runs in western Afghanistan, a local official said today, as the U.S. military rushed a team to the site to investigate.
In the melee outside the governor’s office in the capital of Farah province, one protester was wounded by a [...]
May 8, 2009
Pentagon’s requests increased weapons spending…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s proposed $534 billion budget calls for more spending on projects like Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 fighter jet, a naval destroyer built by Bath Iron Works and Sikorsky’s Black Hawk helicopters.
The department wants to increase spending on procurement by 5.6 percent to $107.4 billion for the fiscal 2010 budget, which begins [...]
May 8, 2009
Lahore Attack Mossad & Co. strikes again…
“Al-Qaida is the top secret code name of special covert operations of the U.S. CIA, Israeli Mossad, British SIS, Indian RAW. Al-Qaida is a fake name, an imaginary illusion, a deceptive fraud, a fictitious hoax and a fraudulent scam of the unlawful war of terror, which is still being cunningly and clandestinely supported and promoted [...]
