Ex-Chief of Turkish Army Is Arrested in Widening Case Alleging Coup Plot Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | ISTANBUL -- In an unprecedented move, a civilian court ordered the arrest of Turkey's former head of the army, the highest-ranking officer so far to be charged with leadership of an illegal network accused of seeking to overthrow the government, news outlets reported late Thursday. | Gen. Ilker Ba...
Goodbye and good riddance to Bin Laden...and Iraq? The best and worst of 2011 Foreign Policy | The administration's most important success in 2011? I'll go with the obvious: the Seal Team 6 takedown of bin Laden. Never discount the vital national interest in visiting harsh justice upon those who mastermind mass slaughter on the American homeland -- even 10 years delayed. The victims a...
Nigerian violence: Police disappear as Boko Haram brings terror to the streets The Daily Telegraph When a city of 9 million people comes under almost daily assault, the police would normally step up their presence. But not in Kano. | Residents pass by a burning police headquarters in Kano Photo: AFP/GETTY | By David Blair, Kano | 7:00PM GMT ...
Butler mistaken for terrorist Independent online Gerard Butler was once mistaken for a terrorist. | The 'Coriolanus' star was going through immigration in a London airport when he was stopped by suspicious security officials in 2001 and the actor – who had just completed a screen test for 'To...
Pentagon plots global expansion Independent online As traditional military operations are cut back, the Pentagon is moving to expand the worldwide reach of the US Special Operations Command to strike wherever threats arise. | On Thursday, the Pentagon unveiled a 2013 budget plan that would cut $487 b...
Jihadist pleads guilty to plotting WMD attack on military target The Examiner | Antonio Martinez, a/k/a Muhammad Hussain, a U.S. citizen from Baltimore, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against a U.S. Armed Services recruiting station in Catonsville, Marylan...
The threat to Salman Rushdie's life The Hindu Dr. Gurdial Singh Sandhu, IAS, Principal Secretary, Home Affairs, Home Guards & Civil Defence Jail, Government of Rajasthan, writes: | Kindly refer to the editorial “A national shame” in The Hindu on Monday, 23 January, 2012, and also...
Rally calls for NYPD commissioner to quit over anti-Muslim training film The Guardian | Mayor Bloomberg admits commissioner Ray Kelly's reputation has been 'dented' over video shown to hundreds of officers Members of the New York Muslim community gather at City Hall to protest against the showing of an anti-Muslim film to police offic...
Bin Laden raid commander plots global expansion The Boston Globe | WASHINGTON-U.S. officials say the Pentagon is moving to unleash special operations troops worldwide, as traditional military operations are cut back. | Defense officials have embraced a proposal by special operations chief Adm. Bill McRaven to push...
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From Palestinegate and Watergate to UNOgate WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | If Israel and the United States somehow seized or broke-in and stole information from the UNO City's IAEA as Iran claimed, information that aided in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, it would not be surprising. For years, both the U.S. and Israel have justified breaching ...
The dark truth behind the man who claimed he had Bin Laden in his sights The Independent | Variously described as a conman, a fantasist, a sociopath, and a super-patriot, Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema died alone on Saturday of complications relating to Aids, a police official in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said. The authorities were slow to announce his death as they had trouble identifying the body. No one came to collec...
