Excite News: "Qaeda No.2 away during attack: Pakistan official | Jan 14, 9:11 AM (ET)
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeted al Qaeda's second-in-command, U.S. sources said, but Ayman al-Zawahri was away at the time, according to a senior Pakistani official on Saturday.
The strike on Friday killed at least 18 people, including women and children, and three houses were destroyed in a village near the Afghan border, residents said.
Pakistan condemned the airstrike and would summon the U.S. ambassador to protest the attack, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. He had no information about Zawahri.
CIA-operated unmanned drones were believed to have been used in the attack on Damadola village, across the border from Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. sources said." ...
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Pakistan tribal lawmaker says US plane kills [18] civilians .. no Al Quaida ...
Xinhua - English: "Pakistan tribal lawmaker says US plane kills civilians | www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-13 21:52:32
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- A lawmaker from Pakistan Bajur tribal region said on Friday that an American spy plane fired missiles on three civilians' houses, killing 18 people, including women and children.
'A U.S. spy plane have been flying in the Bajur region for three days. The plane did such flight early morning and bombed three houses of locals in the Damadola village, 50 kilometers away from the Pak-Afghan border,' Member of Pakistan's National Assembly from the Bajur tribal region Sahibzada Haroon ur Rashid told journalists on phone from Bajur.
Damadola is around 200 km northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Rashid said that the plane first threw light and then made a circle around the target and fired eight missiles on the houses of three local tribesmen.
A total of 18 people were killed in the attack which carried out at 3 a.m. on Friday, he said. Four other people, including two children, were injured and they are said to be in critical condition.
Rashid said that no al-Qaeda member or foreign citizen among those died.
'It is inhuman act to kill civilians under the excuse of foreign militants,' he said." ...
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- A lawmaker from Pakistan Bajur tribal region said on Friday that an American spy plane fired missiles on three civilians' houses, killing 18 people, including women and children.
'A U.S. spy plane have been flying in the Bajur region for three days. The plane did such flight early morning and bombed three houses of locals in the Damadola village, 50 kilometers away from the Pak-Afghan border,' Member of Pakistan's National Assembly from the Bajur tribal region Sahibzada Haroon ur Rashid told journalists on phone from Bajur.
Damadola is around 200 km northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Rashid said that the plane first threw light and then made a circle around the target and fired eight missiles on the houses of three local tribesmen.
A total of 18 people were killed in the attack which carried out at 3 a.m. on Friday, he said. Four other people, including two children, were injured and they are said to be in critical condition.
Rashid said that no al-Qaeda member or foreign citizen among those died.
'It is inhuman act to kill civilians under the excuse of foreign militants,' he said." ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Mr. Bush is planning to ignore ban on 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment whenever he chooses
Unchecked Abuse: "| Wednesday, January 11, 2006; Page A20 | Washington Post Editorial
CONGRESS VOTED by an overwhelming margin last month to ban all U.S. personnel from inflicting 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment on any prisoner held anywhere by the United States. President Bush, who had threatened to veto the legislation, instead invited its prime sponsor, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), to the White House for a public reconciliation and declared they had a common objective: 'to make it clear to the world that this government does not torture and that we adhere to the international convention of torture.' His national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said that 'the legislative agreement that we've worked out with Senator McCain' makes the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment 'a matter of law that applies worldwide, at home and abroad.'
From all that, it might be concluded that the Bush administration has committed itself to ending the use of practices falling just short of torture that it has used on foreign detainees since 2002. But it has not. Instead, it is explicitly reserving the right to abuse prisoners, while denying them any opportunity to seek redress in court. Having publicly accepted the ban on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Mr. Bush is planning to ignore it whenever he chooses. As a practical matter, there may be no change in the operations of the CIA's secret prisons, where detainees have been subjected to such practices as painful shackling, mock execution, induced hypothermia and "waterboarding," or simulated drowning. ...
CONGRESS VOTED by an overwhelming margin last month to ban all U.S. personnel from inflicting 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment on any prisoner held anywhere by the United States. President Bush, who had threatened to veto the legislation, instead invited its prime sponsor, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), to the White House for a public reconciliation and declared they had a common objective: 'to make it clear to the world that this government does not torture and that we adhere to the international convention of torture.' His national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said that 'the legislative agreement that we've worked out with Senator McCain' makes the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment 'a matter of law that applies worldwide, at home and abroad.'
From all that, it might be concluded that the Bush administration has committed itself to ending the use of practices falling just short of torture that it has used on foreign detainees since 2002. But it has not. Instead, it is explicitly reserving the right to abuse prisoners, while denying them any opportunity to seek redress in court. Having publicly accepted the ban on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Mr. Bush is planning to ignore it whenever he chooses. As a practical matter, there may be no change in the operations of the CIA's secret prisons, where detainees have been subjected to such practices as painful shackling, mock execution, induced hypothermia and "waterboarding," or simulated drowning. ...
Suicide bombers kill 14 at Iraqi ministry, 22 wounded
Excite News: "Suicide bombers kill 14 at Iraqi ministry | Email this Story | Jan 9, 8:00 AM (ET)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers dressed as senior police officers blew themselves up inside the Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 22 as Iraq marked National Police Day. ...
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Copter crash kills 12; five U.S. Marines slain
Copter crash kills 12; five U.S. Marines slain: "Copter crash kills 12; five U.S. Marines slain | Last update: January 08, 2006 – 10:39 AM
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, killing all 12 Americans believed to be aboard, while five U.S. Marines were slain in separate weekend attacks, the military said today. ...
In other violence Sunday, five people were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad, including a policeman killed by a suicide car bomber that targeted an Interior Ministry patrol. Seven others were wounded. ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, killing all 12 Americans believed to be aboard, while five U.S. Marines were slain in separate weekend attacks, the military said today. ...
In other violence Sunday, five people were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad, including a policeman killed by a suicide car bomber that targeted an Interior Ministry patrol. Seven others were wounded. ...
Thursday, January 05, 2006
130 Iraqis, 7 U.S. soldiers killed in bombings - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
130 Iraqis, 7 U.S. soldiers killed in bombings - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com : "130 Iraqis, 7 U.S. soldiers killed in bombings | MSNBC News Services | Updated: 8:13 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2006
One attack near Shiite mosque, another at police recruiting site"
One attack near Shiite mosque, another at police recruiting site"
KARBALA, Iraq - In one of the deadliest days in Iraq since the U.S. military overthrew Saddam Hussein, bombs killed at least 130 Iraqis and seven U.S. soldiers on Thursday — shattering hopes that last month’s election and the new year would herald a more peaceful era.
Nearly 200 people were wounded in the attacks on Iraqis in two cities. Another three bombs exploded in Baghdad, two of them detonated by suicide bombers. And insurgents sabotaged an oil pipeline near the northern city of Kirkuk, causing a huge fire ...
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