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U.S. does not intend to leave unanswered the attack on board the Northwest airline, which at Christmas, tried to blow up the 23-year-old Nigerian. As an act of retaliation against al-Qaida, the attempted bombings, the U.S. military is prepared to inflict a series of strikes against suspected militant bases in the territory of Yemen. Government Middle East country not only agreed to the bombing, but also promised to help the U.S. to find and destroy the extremists.
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The US used to be a very likeable country till the neo-cons took over in 2001. Its democracy defined by its due process and, somewhat conditional, equal opportunity for all held out a great appeal for the freedom-loving human beings. Despite the democratic dimension, dangerous lobbies mostly dominated its political system with boisterous backing of Mammon. Accordingly a US administration, generally, has to heed horrendous vested interests while deciding its policy. The latter are represented by what President Eisenhower in the 1960s pinpointed as the Military Industrial Complex as well as special-interest groups like the Zionists. Being an advanced society, ...

The six-year war in the landlocked region of Nagorno-Karabakh left around 30,000 dead. It entangled Armenia and... ...

Germany is fast becoming the political weak link in the West's engagement in Afghanistan, and it’s time for the chancellor to lay the cards on the public table, Jeff Black comments for ISN Security Watch. The US and Britain have already said, more or less, what they plan to do: Send more troops (30,000 more from America, 500 from the UK); build up the Afghan security forces; leave as soon as possi ...

IT'S THE first step in a long road to recovery for thousands of people who lost their childhoods. The Federal... ...