Jul 5, 2010 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Daily Telegraph: IRAN'S culture ministry has given its blessing to a number of "Islamic" haircuts for men, with ponytails failing to make the list. Iran's ILNA news agency and other agencies carried pictures of mostly clean-shaven male models sporting short hair, some styled with gel, in a "journal of Iranian hairstyles approved by the ministry of ...
Continue ReadingJul 3, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Jerusalem Post: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the latest US sanctions passed against the Islamic Republic "pathetic" on Saturday in his first speech since the new measures were signed into law by US President Barack Obama on Thursday, Reuters reported. The US legislation affects the gasoline, financial, insurance and shipping sectors, among others, as it seeks to ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistanis lashed out Friday at the U.S., blaming its alliance with their government and its presence in Afghanistan for spurring two suicide bombers to kill 42 people at the country's most important Sufi shrine. The reactions showed the challenge facing Washington and the Pakistani government when it comes to rallying public ...
Continue ReadingJul 1, 2010 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Wired: Just in time for a wave of (mostly thwarted) homegrown U.S. terrorism: Al-Qaida has apparently launched a new magazine to move politically frustrated Muslim youth in the West down the road of violent extremism. Think of Inspire as a lifestyle rag for the conspiracy-minded takfiri, filling the inexplicably vacant media space between O: The Oprah ...
Continue ReadingJun 29, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - - Suspected U.S. missiles hit a house Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border where the army has been battling Taliban fighters, intelligence officials said. At least 10 suspected militants were killed, including a possible Al Qaeda operative. The two missiles struck the house, which was near Wana, ...
Continue ReadingJun 25, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Independent: The revolving door spectacle at the top of America's military brass may have been executed with swift efficiency by Barack Obama but the fallout may just be beginning as Republicans prepare again to challenge his plans to begin a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan next year. Fresh and possibly unfriendly scrutiny of President Obama's war strategy ...
Continue ReadingJun 25, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United States interests, Pakistani and American officials said. The dismissal of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal will almost certainly embolden the ...
Continue ReadingJun 23, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden is on the final leg of his trip home to Colorado, 10 days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment. A jubilant Gary Faulkner stepped into the security check ...
Continue ReadingJun 13, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Telegraph: Pakistan's intelligence services are supporting the Taliban with training, cash and sanctuary on a larger scale than previously thought as they battle Nato forces in Afghanistan, according to a survey of insurgent commanders. The study also claims that President Asif Ali Zardari made a secret visit to Taliban prisoners in a Pakistani prison to arrange ...
Continue ReadingJun 7, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
ABC News: The Afghan war was enormously popular when it began on a fall Sunday eight and a half years ago. Less than a month had passed since the September 11 attacks, and President Bush could draw on deep wells of support when he ordered air strikes against Kabul , Jalalabad and the Taliban stronghold at ...
Continue ReadingMay 14, 2010 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Big Journalism: Washington, DC – The two presidents – Karzai and Obama – were on stage together in the East Room of the White House for forty minutes on May 12. They each talked about how they had differed in the past and how committed they are to going forward together. Both leaders expressed great hope ...
Continue ReadingMay 12, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track. "What I've tried to emphasize is the fact that there is going to be some hard fighting over the next several months," ...
Continue ReadingMay 10, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - Two intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles struck vehicles in a tribal region near Afghanistan, killing at least three people. The identities of those killed in the attack early Tuesday in the Doga area of North Waziristan were not immediately known. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized ...
Continue ReadingMay 9, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Jake Tapper's Political Punch: In his first Sunday morning interview, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Pakistani Taliban was behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing of Times Square last week. “We’ve now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack,†Holder said on “This Week.†“We know that they helped facilitate it. ...
Continue ReadingMay 9, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The failed bombing in New York's Times Square is a possible signal that militant leaders in Pakistan have shifted their focus to targets in the U.S. and other Western countries instead of sticking to their home base, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials. The attack, they also warned, could be only the first by ...
Continue ReadingMay 9, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (AP) - - Suspected US missiles struck a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing five people in the latest American strike targeting militant leaders, intelligence officials said. The strikes were in North Waziristan, a tribal region that has long been a haven for Taliban- and al-Qaida-linked militant networks battling American and NATO forces across ...
Continue ReadingMay 1, 2010 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Ann Arbor (AP) - -President Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who denigrate government as "inherently bad" and said their off-base line of attack ignores the fact that in a democracy, "government is us." Obama used his commencement speech at the University of Michigan to respond to foes who portray government as ...
Continue ReadingApr 30, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Atlantic: President Obama plans to visit the catastrophe zone off Lousiana's coast within the next 48 hours as SecDef Gates mobilizes the Lousiana National Guard and WH convenes a principal-level homeland security response meeting. Republicans begin to question speed of Obama's response. Hannity: "They did nothing for nine days." ... Why is this oil ...
Continue ReadingApr 28, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Hackey ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is now believed to have survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year, but has lost clout within the militant network, a senior intelligence officials said Thursday. The revelation contradicts initial confidence among U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials that the brash militant leader had been killed in the mid-January ...
Continue ReadingApr 23, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — NATO's top official said Friday the 28-nation alliance is on track with its new strategy for winding down the war in Afghanistan next year, despite security setbacks and a continuing shortage of foreign trainers for the fledgling Afghan police and army. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen offered a mostly upbeat assessment ...
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