US strategists would have quickly realized that, by virtue of its bases, the US had since 1945 governed all Euro-Russian relationships. The European contribution to NATO’s firepower was insignificant compared with US nuclear weapons installed in Europe. If US bases were removed, the ability to govern European-Russian relations would be lost. How to keep them? The answer: new enemies were needed.
CAIRO: Egyptian politicians and intellectuals rejected a call by the American Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey to discuss the crisis of civil society in the country at a meeting that was supposed to be held Sunday. Leading politicians and journalists had been invited to the ambassador’s meeting, but the rejection comes on the heals of Al-Ahram’s Hala Mustafa’s meeting with Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen, which led to much criticism for the meeting.
General William Ward denied that it was inappropriate for the US military to hold the Africa Endeavour exercise in the West African nation, where riots broke out after an election to replace late president Omar Bongo.
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WASHINGTON — Eight years after 9/11, the specter of terrorism still haunts the United States. Just last week, F.B.I. agents were working double time to unravel the alarming case of a Denver airport shuttle driver accused of training with explosives in Pakistan and buying bomb-making chemicals. In Dallas, a young Jordanian was charged with trying to blow up a skyscraper; in Springfield, Ill., a prison parolee was arrested for trying to attack the local federal building. Meanwhile, the Obama administration struggled to decide whether sending many more troops to Afghanistan would be the best way to forestall a future attack.
Hein Goemans, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, has compiled an index of the causes and outcomes of 202 unconstitutional seizures of power since 1960. Recently, he teamed up with Nikolay Marinov, a political scientist at Yale University, to hunt for patterns.
YALA, Thailand, Sep 18 (IPS) – With an insurgency threatening to worsen, Thailand’s military is turning to civilians like Nipa Waya to return fire in the three southern provinces close to the Malaysian border.
September 17, 2009 “Long War Journal’ — Yesterday’s daring raid in southern Somalia that targeted and killed a senior al Qaeda leader wanted for several deadly attacks is the latest in a series of covert operations carried out by US and allied special operations. At least four other high-profile raids by ground forces took place in Pakistan, Madagascar, and Syria over the past several years, while others have gone unreported, according to US officials.
A number of new reports have, in recent weeks, highlighted evidence of illegal human experimentation on US-held “terrorism” prisoners undergoing torture. Those reports come on the heels of a “white paper” by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), “Aiding Torture: Health Professionals’ Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated”, in the May 2004 inspector general’s report.
Who are these Americans who are arriving in Pakistan in the tens and hundreds at a time when the US embassy in Islamabad follows a strange practice where a staffer personally calls any US citizen in the United States in order to warn them about coming to Pakistan for personal reasons or pleasure, apparently because of the security situation?