Tag Archives: war
Peacekeepers replaced with The United Nations force in Africa
The United Nations has threatened to forcibly disarm rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an early test of the robust new mandate for the multinational peacekeeping contingent that includes going on the offensive there.In an uncharacteristically stern warning on Tuesday, the United Nations ordered individuals near the eastern city of Goma to turn in […]
University study shows war an unnatural occurrence
Primitive society was not driven by war, scientists believe. Researchers from Abo Academy University in Finland say that violence in early human communities was driven by personal conflicts rather than large-scale battles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23340252 They say their findings suggest that war is not an innate part of human nature, but rather a behaviour that we […]
Guantanamo gets an upgrade
The United States Southern Command has requested $49 million to build a new Camp 7 prison building at Guantánamo Bay where so-called high-value detainees were formerly held by the Central Intelligence Agency and complete other renovations they say are necessary since Congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely. http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/pentagon-wants-to-build-new-prison-at-guantanamo/ The potential taxpayer bill for […]
Syria outlines the conspiracy
The Syrian soldiers killed by Al Qaeda in Iraq, reflected the hardened sectarian animus spreading from the Syrian conflict, in which insurgents from the Sunni majority are battling to topple Mr. Assad and his Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/world/middleeast/islamic-state-of-iraq-says-it-killed-syrian-soldiers.html?ref=world&_r=0 Syria’s grand mufti referred to insurgents as ” a conspiracy of foreign enemies, […]
CIA faces senate accusations on torture
The CIA faces a sweeping indictment of its interrogation program, a blistering, 6,000-page Senate study that includes incendiary accusations that agency officials for years systematically misled the White House, the Justice Department and Congress about torture or the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/us/politics/cias-harsh-interrogations-pose-hurdles-for-john-brennan.html?hp&_r=0 The program was ill-conceived, sloppily managed and far less useful […]
Dirty Babylon 