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U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban

The United States has placed 50 suspected Afghan drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban on a Pentagon target list of 367 insurgents...

August 10, 2009

Report: Holder Will Order Torture Probe

Thomas R. Eddlem August 10, 2009

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that sources inside the U.S. Justice Department claim Attorney General Eric Holder will likely soon order a Justice...

North American Leaders Summit This Weekend

Thomas R. Eddlem August 8, 2009

President Barack Obama will meet with Canadian President Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon this weekend in Guadalajara, Mexico, for a North...

Pakistan’s Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud Is Killed

August 7, 2009

Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, told reporters in Islamabad on August 7, "According to my intelligence information, the news [that Taliban leader...

Ahmadinejad Sworn in as Iran’s President Amid Protests

August 5, 2009

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iran's president on August 5, as hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrated against his...

U.S. Journalists Come Home After N. Korean Pardon

August 5, 2009

Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists arrested by North Korean border guards on March 17 after straying into North Korean...

Communism Still Stands in the “Stans”

Thomas R. Eddlem August 5, 2009

The mass media tells us that communism around the world fell with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s almost...

George Orwell Arrives in Great Britain

Steven Yates August 4, 2009

According to Wired.com, following up a Sunday Express report, the British government plans to install and monitor CCTV cameras in 20,000 British homes....

Iran Detains Three American Tourists

August 3, 2009

At least two Iranian state-run TV stations — Press TV and al Alam — reported on August 1 that the nation's border police...

Terrorist Targeting of Police

William F. Jasper August 3, 2009

To the headlines listed below could be added hundreds more cataloging the concerted global attack by terrorist organizations against law enforcement. ...