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- Another fine analysis piece on the BBC about the #Woolwich killing - this time from Mark Easton. bbc.in/10T0MA3 1 day ago
- Attacks on Braintree mosque and Gillingham mosque attacked following #Woolwich killing. tinyurl.com/o9l7kmp tinyurl.com/npnsk54 1 day ago
- RT @ggreenwald: You get 3 guesses as to the motive cited by the perpetrators of the horrendous machete attack in London http://t.co/IWQuRY2… 1 day ago
- Most insightful piece yet into yesterday's savage killing of someone presumed to be a soldier. It is by @BBCDomC . bbc.co.uk/news/uk-226241… 1 day ago
- UK wants Belhadj case in secret court - pulse.me/s/lQLix 3 days ago
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Tag Archives: afghanistan
British Troops Accused of Killing 4 Afghan Boys
Both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph yesterday carried reports that the UK government has been asked to launch an urgent inquiry into claims that during an incident in October 2012 British troops killed four Afghan boys aged 12, 14, … Continue reading
The Promise of God vs the Promise of Bush
The recent highly embarrassing revelation (well for the US and the UK governments anyway who will have to explain to their people what on earth they have been doing in Afghanistan for the past ten plus years) that a leaked … Continue reading
US Marines Urinate Over Dead Afghan Mujahideen
YouTube have stopped allowing people to easily view the shocking video of several US marines urinating gleefully over the bodies of dead Afghan mujahideen. You now have to sign in using an official Google login which many people may not have. … Continue reading
The US in Afghanistan – Bankrupt Financially and Morally
The news today that the United States has admitted that thirty of its troops – mostly special forces – have been killed in Afghanistan when their helicopter was downed, reportedly by the Taliban, serves to highlight the bankruptcy of US … Continue reading
Muslims are grappling with models of statehood
I have a post currently up on Cif about the nature of an ‘Islamic state’.
Posted in Government, Islam
Tagged afghanistan, iran, islamic state, noah feldman, secular state, sudan
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Interview with Taliban spokesperson
The Saudi-owned international Arabic newspaper, Ash-Sharq al-Awsat yesterday carried a detailed interview with a Taliban spokesperson, Mullah Qari Yusuf Ahmadi (pictured above) which can be read in full here in English. As far as the current conflict goes and the … Continue reading
Wikileaks lifts lid on official lies about civilian deaths in Afghanistan
Today’s publication in the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel of leaked US military documents – over 90,000 reports – relating to Afghanistan have raised anger in the US government who have accused Wikileaks of putting the lives of US … Continue reading
The ‘Times Square Bomber’ and the innocent dead
The news in today’s papers that the Pakistani born US citizen Faisal Shahzad has pleaded guilty to all ten charges against him relating to the attempted car bombing of Times Square should in a more sensible world urgently prompt a … Continue reading
Con Coughlin – a talking anus
A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for Cif looking at how Con Coughlin – a senior executive at the Daily Telegraph – had written a number of articles over many years consistently aiming to scaremonger about Iran’s alleged … Continue reading
