World-News: 03 März 2010

In a report issued on Tuesday, the New American Foundation said that the US military has launched 114 airstrikes in Pakistan since 2004 and stated that one third of the people who have been killed were Pakistani civilians.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119903&sectionid=351020401

Former Pakistani Officer Embodies a Policy Puzzle

By CARLOTTA GALL

"The Taliban cannot be forced out, you cannot subjugate them," he said. "But they can tire the Americans. In another three to four years, the Americans will be tired."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24914.htm

U.S. Attack Kills 5 People In Pakistan

A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at least five people and wounding four others, officials said Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35764481/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

US kills 12 people in Pakistan

Two suspected US drone attacks on Wednesday in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border killed at least 12 people, intelligence officials said.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/12-killed-in-US-drone-strikes-in-Pak/H1-Article1-517631.aspx

US kills up to 16 in Pakistan

Two successive bombing raids by unmanned spy planes hit a building and vehicles late Wednesday in North Waziristan, a bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/urzzd

Extrajudicial Killing: US kills 11 people in Pakistan

US drones fired at least four missiles at two rebel hideouts in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency, killing 11 suspected militants and injuring two others, TV news channels reported.

http://snipurl.com/uvipy

US Attack Kills Nine People In Pakistan

The first strike, made up of five missiles, targeted a (suspected) militant compound and a vehicle in Mazoni village, about 10 km west of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah. Two missiles were fired into Datta Kheil area, 40 km west of Miranshah, in the second attack.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0317/pakistan.html

US kills 10 people in Pakistan attacks

Ten more militants were killed and two others sustained injuries in two separate US drone attacks on Hamzoni and Mezar villages in North Waziristan on Wednesday.

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?225651

Pakistan: US missiles kill four

MSNBC

03/21/10

Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles Sunday at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people, officials said. The attack occurred in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, two intelligence officials said. The drones fired three missiles, they added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media...

http://tinyurl.com/y9cschs

US Kills Another 8 People In Pakistan

At least eight people were killed and four injured in two suspected US drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan Sunday, security officials said.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/614733/cs/1/

Pakistan: Two killed in yet another target killing incident

Two people were killed in an incident of target killing in Panjgoor town of Balochistan on Tuesday.

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US Kills 4 People In Pakistan

"We have confirmation of four deaths, so far. The death toll could be more," an intelligence official in the area said.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100323223209542C903985

CIA may face prosecution for drone's raids in Pakistan

The US government's refusal to offer legal grounds for CIA's drones bombing raids in Pakistan may result in CIA officers facing prosecution for war crimes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121594&sectionid=351020401

From Information Clearing House

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As drones multiply in Iraq and Afghanistan, so do their uses
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100303/ts_csm/284491

CIA drone attacks produce America's own unlawful combatants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103653_pf.html

Informant: Kev Hall

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One in Three Killed by US Drones in Pakistan Is a Civilian
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-1

Informant: Ashley Smith

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Pakistan: Five killed in US drone attack

MSNBC

03/08/10

A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at least five people and wounding four others, officials said Monday. The house was located in Miram Shah in North Waziristan. There was no information on who was targeted in the attack, although the U.S., in recent months, has stepped up drone strikes on alleged Taliban and al-Qaida suspects in the region...

http://tinyurl.com/yhcgzx3

Pakistan: North Waziristan drone kills 10

Daily Times [Pakistan]

03/17/10

US drones fired four missiles at a house in North Waziristan on Tuesday, 40 kilometres west of the agency headquarters near the Pak-Afghan border, [allegedly] killing 10 Taliban. The airstrike occurred around 12:45pm in Manzarkhel village located in Dattakhel tehsil. … it was not clear who was targeted in the strike in the Dattakhel region, two officials said on condition of anonymity. An unknown number of people were injured...

http://tinyurl.com/yc9n43n

Pakistan: US missiles kill three

USA Today
03/23/10

A suspected U.S. missile struck a house in northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border Tuesday, killing three people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The identities of the victims in Miran Shah in North Waziristan were not known, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media...

http://tinyurl.com/yfgboox

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Drones Obama’s weapon of choice for killing militants in tribal areas
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9462/

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 22:40

Despite 935 documented lies, Rove book insists Iraq war was justified

The former White House political adviser blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency.

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/935-documented-lies-rove-book-insists-iraq-war-justified/

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 22:33

Obama's Budget Revealed

Money for Wars and Weapons, While More Americans Face Joblessness and Hunger

By Jo Comerford

The latest federal budget opens the American public to yet more pain, while shielding the military and the rest of the national security establishment from the same.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24907.htm

Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

By Matthew Jaffe

Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis -- one that will be even worse than the current one -- is looming, according to a new report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24903.htm

Mass Layoffs Increase in January

Employers laid-off 182,261 workers, seasonally adjusted, in 1,761 mass layoff events last month, the Labor Department said Tuesday. A mass layoff is when a single employer terminates at least 50 people.

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Postal Service to shed another 30,000 jobs

The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday that it would reduce its workforce by another 30,000 positions and slash overtime this year in an effort to reduce costs.

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15,000 S.F. workers face layoffs, shorter weeks

More than 15,000 San Francisco city workers across all departments will receive layoff notices Friday, and most of them will have the option of being rehired to work a shorter week, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/02/BA471C9UVR.DTL&tsp=1

More consumers file for bankruptcy protection

The economic recovery effort has not slowed consumer bankruptcy filings. They surged 14% in February compared with a year earlier, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-03-03-bankruptcy03_ST_N.htm

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 22:27

Is The Recovery Real?

By Paul Craig Roberts

A desperate government, which has wasted $3 trillion invading countries that pose no danger to the U.S. and wasted more trillions of dollars combatting a crisis brought on by the government's failure to regulate the financial sector, is likely to steal people's pensions as well as to gut Social Security and Medicare.

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 22:23

The Assassinations of Americans

Video

Congressman Ron Paul speaks on the floor about assassinations of Americans by their own government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24911.htm

Obama Authorizes Murder of US Citizen

Muslim cleric Aulaqi is 1st U.S. citizen on list of those CIA is allowed to kill

By Greg Miller

Because he is a U.S. citizen, adding Aulaqi to the CIA list required special approval from the White House, officials said. The move means that Aulaqi would be considered a legitimate target not only for a military strike carried out by U.S. and Yemeni forces, but also for lethal CIA operations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25155.htm

Does the Flag Condone Murder?

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

If the killers were not waving US flags, they would be called murderers. Terrorists. Terrorizing civilians to achieve political change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25159.htm

U.S.-born cleric added to CIA "kill list"

This makes al-Awlaki only the second U.S. citizen since 2001 whom CIA agents have authorisation to kill or capture.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article390979.ece

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Deep background

The American Conservative
by Philip Giraldi

Even in World War II, the United States did not attempt to assassinate U.S. citizens who went over to the enemy, but that has now changed with President Obama’s overseas contingency operations. On Feb. 3, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that the United States government has developed procedures for killing American citizens abroad who are ‘involved’ with groups threatening to carry out terrorist acts directed against other Americans. Three U.S. citizens have already been approved by the White House for summary execution as soon as actionable intelligence is developed to enable a pilotless drone’s hellfire missiles to do the killing... (for publication 04/01/10)

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/apr/01/00021/

Does the US government understand the terrorist threat?

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/31/10

Most Americans just assume that the U.S. government’s actions to protect them from terrorism, if not perfect, are rational, based on sound information and analysis, and undertaken with the intention to protect the most people possible. But the government’s response here to the tragic bombings on the Russian subway should raise questions about such assumptions...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2758

Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of US citizen

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

04/07/10

No due process is accorded. No charges or trials are necessary. No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family). None of that. Instead, in Barack Obama’s America, the way guilt is determined for American citizens — and a death penalty imposed — is that the President, like the King he thinks he is, secretly decrees someone’s guilt as a Terrorist. He then dispatches his aides to run to America’s newspapers — cowardly hiding behind the shield of anonymity which they’re granted — to proclaim that the Guilty One shall be killed on sight because the Leader has decreed him to be a Terrorist...

http://tinyurl.com/ykrnegz

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Targets US Citizen for 'Kill or Capture'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/137?akid=17.124981.0dNHOc&t=2

Should Obama Have Authorized the Killing of a Muslim Cleric?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/162?akid=18.124981.AuEovH&t=16

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Obama Administration Authorizes CIA to Kill US Citizen

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a US citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year."

http://www.truthout.org/obama-administration-authorizes-cia-kill-us-citizen58358

Assassination of US Muslim Cleric Is Illegal, Immoral and Unwise

Bill Quigley, Truthout: "Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue, this is illegal, immoral and unwise."

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 22:18

Hartz4-Plattform fordert Justizministerin Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger auf, die Freiheit des Rechts auf Leben zu schützen

„Das Grundrecht auf Gewährleistung eines „menschenwürdigen Existenzminimums“ (…) sichert jedem (…) diejenigen materiellen Voraussetzungen zu, die für seine physische Existenz und für ein Mindestmaß an Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen, kulturellen und politischen Leben unerlässlich sind.“ Es „hat (…) absolut wirkenden Anspruch (…). Es ist (…) unverfügbar und muss eingelöst werden.“ „Auf Deutsch,“ so Vallenthin, „Da gibt’s nichts dran zu rütteln!“

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 22:02

Irish Health Minister Joins Pharma Swine Flu Flying Pigs Club

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 12:53

Should The Police Be Required To Submit DNA Samples?

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 12:48

Welche Datenspuren der moderne Mensch hinterlässt

ZEIT ONLINE

Hannover (dpa) - Ob am heimischen PC oder bei Gespräch übers Handy, beim Einkauf mit der Kreditkarte oder der Fahrt in der S-Bahn: Der moderne Mensch ...

http://www.zeit.de/newsticker/2010/3/2/iptc-bdt-20100302-586-24088788xml

rudkla - 3. Mär, 09:56

Gewalt in Computerspielen verstärkt Aggression

Eine Metastudie sieht die Frage, ob Computerspiele Gewalt fördern, als beantwortet an, jetzt gehe es darum, wie man mit dem Risikofaktor gesellschaftlich umgehen soll.

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rudkla - 3. Mär, 09:50