U.S. inaction against Taliban endangers Afghan government, officials say (Detroit Free Press)
WASHINGTON For seven years, the Bush administration has pursued Al Qaeda but done almost nothing to hunt down the Afghan Taliban leadership in its sanctuaries in Pakistan, and that has left Mullah Mohammad Omar and his deputies free to direct an escalating war against the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
Terrorism and Clinton keep Obama busy (Malta Star)
US President-elect Barack Obama has been warned by intelligence chiefs to brace himself for an early terrorism act to ‘welcome’ him to the job.
Terrorism accused wanted to sway policy on wars, court told (Whyalla News)
FIVE Sydney men accused of conspiring to prepare a terrorist act were trying to influence the Government’s policy about participation in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a court has been told.
Philippine rebels say special forces officer is ‘prisoner of war’ (AFP via Yahoo!7 News)
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) – A Philippine Special Forces officer who went missing more than a week ago is being held as a "prisoner of war" by the communist New People's Army, a rebel spokesman said Sunday.
Now, Brit intelligence warns Obama of ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda (New Kerala)
Washington, Nov.15 : Security and intelligence officials in Britain have endorsed the views of their American counterparts vis- -vis the huge threat that al Qaeda poses to the incoming Barack Obama administration.
Contemporary Life in Afghanistan Placed in Stark Focus at The New York Public Library (Art Daily)
U.S. Marines, 2nd Battalion, Echo Company on weapons search in Asadabad, August 2005. Stephen Dupont. “Searching for Weapons,” 2005. The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Art and Architecture Collection.
A second informer awaits Dix debut (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
His name is Besnik Bakalli, and as the Fort Dix terrorism trial enters its fifth week in federal court in Camden, he is waiting in the wings.
Brig’s future considered for detention of terror suspects (The Post and Courier)
HANAHAN The Navy Brig shouldn’t be considered a detention site for terror suspects if President-elect Barack Obama gets his way and shuts down the operation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham said. Almost everything about the brig in Hanahan is wrong for holding terror detainees into the future, including its location near Lowcountry urban population areas, he said.
