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Zafir Jamaal
USA imperialism is not just going badly in Iraq. Following a dramatic increase in local resistance to the occupation of Afghanistan, and it’s rule by a USA-created oil industry government, the United Nations have confirmed that they are withdrawing from much of southern Afghanistan, which is now totally under the control of Taliban supporters.
Danny Dayus
Barely two years after the USA invasion of the ‘Axis of Evil’ that was Taliban Afghanistan, a Karzai government spokesmen confirmed today that a key Taliban government minister has been released from USA custody, is back in his Qandaha home, and may soon take a place in the government.
Laksamana.net
Protests against USA President George W. Bush were staged in several cities across Indonesia today, one day ahead of his brief visit to Bali. In Jakarta, about 300 members of the Indonesian Muslim Students Action Front (KAMMI) rallied outside the USA Embassy, torching pictures and an effigy of Bush, as well as American flags.
Richard T. Cooper
The Pentagon has assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets to an Army general who sees the war on terrorism as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan.
William M. Arkin
"Ladies and gentleman, this is your enemy,” Boykin said to the congregation as he flashed his pictures on a screen. “It is the principalities of darkness It is a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy.”
Hasan Abu-Nimah
The UN has inherited the very built-in defects that caused the demise of the League of Nations, and the veto power which the “victors” had carved for themselves turned to be a destructive privilege, and a tool for serving superpower illegitimate interests, manipulation and outright political blackmail. The depressing outcome is a UN self-contradicting system, protecting aggression and injustice, deepening international discord, spreading despair and frustration and, therefore, threatening rather than protecting the world peace and security, as the charter had originally promised.
Matthew Riemer
Albright’s most egregious lie revolves around the cruise missile strike on a Sudanese pharmaceutical warehouse in the capital, Khartoum, in August of 1998. The parallels between this event and the current war in Iraq are so obvious as to be ridiculous.
Syed Saleem Shahzad
With Afghanistan daily slipping into more anarchy and chaos, United States authorities, aware that they are unlikely to ever bring stability to the country by military means, continue to explore political avenues that ultimately could pave the way for them to withdraw from the country.
Phil Reeves
In Kabul yesterday, guerrillas attacked a training centre for recruits to the Afghan national army where American troops were observing an exercise. One American soldier was slightly hurt, but the attack was further evidence that the anti-government forces were willing to take their fight to the capital itself, despite the presence of 5,500 Nato-led peace-keeping troops.
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