Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 24, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zainab Mineeia WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (IPS) – A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to launch an independent commission to investigate arbitrary arrests and disappearances and to hold those [...]
TALIBAN’S CONTINUING ANGER AGAINST CHINA
September 5, 2008 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.437 Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Friday, September 05, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has not forgotten the role of China in exercising pressure on the then President Pervez Musharraf to order commando action [...]
US/PAKISTAN: Raid May Herald More Confrontational Policy
September 4, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Thursday, September 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Daniel Luban WASHINGTON, Sep 4 (IPS) – An apparent raid into Pakistani territory by U.S. forces stationed in Afghanistan has prompted angry denunciations from Pakistani officials and renewed questions about [...]
US SPECIAL FORCES LAUNCH HIT & WITHDRAW RAID IN S. WAZIRISTAN
September 4, 2008 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.437 Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online Thursday, September 04, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN “The USSR was defeated by the Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s because of the reluctance of the Soviet troops to attack their sanctuaries in the FATA [...]
POLITICS-SOMALIA: U.S. Policy Likely to Bring Blowback
September 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Wednesday, September 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – U.S. counter-terrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia have helped create an increasingly desperate humanitarian and security [...]
