Sources in the US military have confirmed the capture of a key senior Iraqi militant and the killing of two others in a raid in Diyala, a central province in Iraq. The men are believed to be loyal supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr. The captured un-named militant is also believed to have […]
Karzai against use of US airpower
Afghan president Hamid Karzai has gone on record saying that the US forces and the coalition forces in his country stop using air-power because of growing number of civilian casualties and rising resentment among Afghans. Karzai told a television network that he had recently delivered the message privately to President George W Bush. "The Afghan people […]
Taliban showing resilience in Afghanistan
Reports from Kandahar suggest that Taliban has wrested control of a host of rural areas along the provincial borders. At the moment they are confined a few isolated, inaccessible, lawless mountain valleys but their power, military and political, is growing. Pashtun tribal leaders in Peshawar say the Taliban are preparing a major offensive in February […]
The Islamist: A view deep down
The recent death of Kafeel Ahmed who rammed a jeep into the Glasgow Airport on June 30 and walked out of the vehicle after setting himself on fire- highlights once again the barbarity of all that is committed on the Jehadi plank. It is against this backdrop that The Islamist (Penguin, 2007), a recent book […]
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