The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to "finish the job" in Afghanistan and promised to unveil a decision soon on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. (Read More)
National Review Online:
Touting what they call Eric Holder’s “reasonable decision” to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters to Manhattan for a civilian trial, my friends Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith put themselves in a quandar (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
AS CONSPIRACY theories go, it is up there with the CIA assassination of president John Kennedy and the faked moon landings. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, have spawned a cottage industr (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
In a surprising move, the Pakistani Taliban has denied responsibility for the recent attacks in Pakistan. Instead, they blame Xe Services as well as the country’s own security forces. Author and investigative journalist Webst (Read More)
Washington Post:
BAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American offic (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday. (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
By Ed Ward, MD11-20-9TO HELL WITH THE GODS OF ZIONISM! – FOR THAT IS WHERE THEY BELONG.Your rights end at the tip of my nose and vice versa. All else is zionist fascism and blasphemy of god, constitution and mankind. And if t (Read More)
The Guardian:
On today's WashPost op-ed pages, Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Justice Department under GWB, defend Eric Holder's decision and say that in fact it's military tribunals that don't work that well:In deciding t (Read More)
Pajamas Media:
Leaders of a nonviolent Columbus mosque finger local al-Shabaab supporters — who want control of the mosque — for intimidation by arson.
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Gideon Rachman's Blog:
By Roula Khalaf, the FT’s Middle East editorIt was a distinctly un-Saudi affair. The traditionally cautious kingdom, careful to the point where its diplomatic initiatives must be guaranteed to succeed before they are even lau (Read More)
National Review Online:
Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough-guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. “After eight y (Read More)
Washington Post:
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no (Read More)
Huffington Post:
On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can't support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. "We ought not to add troops in Afghanistan," Specter said, adding that he (Read More)