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  • RE-BRANDING OPPRESSION
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 11, 2008
    RE-BRANDING OPPRESSION
    John Chuckman
    There has been an ad on television recently, one featuring a young couple walking or drifting into a place of enchantment, a warm and colourful fantasy world, a kind of biblical Disneyland. Every step of their brief journey is met by people smiling warmly, moving slowly, even bowing, greeting them at each turn with Shalom!
    It is interesting that all the faces in the ad are the same kind of faces we might see in New York or (…)

  • Pak : Nato air strikes kill 7 in Khyber Agency
    9 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Updated at: 1900 PST, Sunday, November 09, 2008
    Source : "The News"
    BARA: Seven persons died and 3 others injured when Nato led fighter jets bombed Teerah valley along Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency on Sunday.
    The Nato led fighter jets targeting a group of 40 pedestrians on Morga mountains in Teerah valley pounded them with a number of bombs, killing seven of them on the spot and injuring three others.
    The dead and injured were taken to Tehsil Bara.

  • The Machine Grinds on
    9 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The machine grinds on relentlessly. Now it’s: give Obama a chance. This means: Public, go back to sleep. In the meantime Obama and the state machinery work at feverish pace.
    Take a look at the people who have quickly been announced as contenders for high office in the Obama administration.
    Rahm Emanuel, son of a right-wing Israeli terrorist; he filtered out anti-war Dems in the 2006 congressional primaries. As a result, the Dems had a smaller majority because his pro-war candidates did (…)

  • US drones attack kills 14 in Pakistan
    8 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: "Pakistan Observer"
    Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman condemns missile strike
    By Tariq Saeed
    Peshawar—The US led NATO forces operating in Afghanistan continued to add to their score of innocent killings in Pakistan as yet another missile attack by the US drones in North Waziristan Agency Friday morning left up to 14 people dead and injured many others.
    Reports reaching here said the suspected US pilot-less planes or the predators in their fresh (…)

  • Kashmir occupied : Troops ‘turn Srinagar into prison’
    8 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: "The Dawn"
    SRINAGAR, Nov 7: Troops carrying automatic rifles locked down occupied Srinagar on Friday as Kashmiris tried for a second day to hold a big rally against New Delhi’s rule and upcoming elections in the disputed region.
    Shops, businesses and schools remained closed across the Kashmir valley, which in recent months has seen some of the biggest pro-independence protests since a revolt against Indian rule erupted in 1989.
    Police and soldiers used loudspeakers in Srinagar (…)

  • Waziristan : Militants, tribesmen call for change in US policy
    6 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Militants and tribesmen on Wednesday urged US president-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to break with his country’s divisive anti-terror strategy, but many feared there would be little change.
    Some tribal leaders said they would give Mr Obama the benefit of the doubt for now. The Jamaatud Dawa, considered a “terrorist organisation” by the United States, said a change in direction could help heal rifts with the Muslim world.
    Jamaat-i-Islami (…)

  • Afghanistan : ‘Locals supported militants in attack on US post’
    6 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: "The Dawn"
    WASHINGTON, Nov 5: A deadly attack on a US outpost in eastern Afghanistan in July was executed with the support of local police and government leaders as well as villagers there, according to an internal US military report.
    The report, released on Tuesday, recommended that the district’s Afghan police chief and governor be replaced, if not arrested and tried for committing crimes against the government. It also said the incident was an example of repeated problems in (…)

  • 40 killed in US Afghan wedding strike, 23 children, 10 women
    6 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: Pakistan Observer
    Kandahar—The US and allied forces marines doing adventurism in War-trodden country Afghanistan also shared the jubilations over the US presidential elections and gifted Barack Obama with more the 40 dead bodies of the innocent Afghan women and kids on his making way to the White house.
    The US and coalition forces jet planes ruthless bombings on a marriage party in a remote village in Kandahar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday late evening left up to 40 people (…)

  • The next U.S. president must halt missile strikes on Pakistan
    5 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Islamabad—The next U.S. president must halt missile strikes on insurgent targets in northwest Pakistan or risk failure in its efforts to end militancy in the Muslim country, the prime minister warned Tuesday. Yousuf Raza Gilani said visiting U.S. Gen. David Petraeus “looked convinced” when he warned him the strikes were inflaming anti-American sentiment but that he got no guarantee the attacks would end.
    Gilani’s remarks in an interview with The Associated Press underscore how shaping a (…)

  • US terrorism : 3 missiles fired from Afghanistan
    3 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    3 November 2008
    Peshawar—Three missiles were fired on Angoor Adda from Afghanistan, however, there was no loss of life. According to foreign news agencies, the missiles were fired from Paktika province of Afghanistan in the night Saturday and Sunday.
    Meanwhile, tribesmen staged a big protest in Wana against US missile attacks and violations of Pak space by US drones.
    The participants chanted slogans against US and demanded to stop the killing of innocent (…)