Tag - Al-Qaeda
Having suffered setbacks in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Al Qaeda has turned its attention towards an impoverished Yemen to relaunch the Islamic Jihad against Western targets both in the Arabian peninsula and abroad. Since the september eleventh bombings in...
Wild passion can be dangerous, especially when it comes from extremist groups like the al-Qaeda. Their latest weapon, according to The US Army is to deploy women for terrorist attacks, as women have the advantage of becoming almost sure shot live...
Karl Marx had long ago pointed out how there is nothing called idealism. Everything runs on the cogs of money. Every struggle is between those who have money and those who don't. At one level, Bush is in Iraq because he does not have oil. Now it has...
With the situation in Iraq hardly improving, a strong disagreement has occured between the coalition government and the US forces over some of the miltary operations aimed at the insurgents. The Iraqi government and the US forces firmly disagree over the...
A suicide bomber attacked a reconciliation meeting of Shiite and Sunni leaders, provincial officials and security commanders in Baqubah on Monday. Baqubah is the capital of Diyala province and is located about 50 km to the northeast of Baghdad.
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Iraq misery and the horrendous incidents one after the other send shudder to the spine. These are mere the glimpses and the scenario in Iraq is grimmer than what it actually seems to be. This was imminent when US has let loose the likes of...
Ex-president Jimmy carter is right. He says that Israel and the US are making a big mistake by treating Hamas as a pariah while mollycoddling an undeserving Fatah, despite the fact that Hamas won the Palestine elections fair and square.
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Violence seems to be continuing its honeymoon in Iraq. At least 12 people, mostly women and children, died in a mortar attack on Sunday, as bullets and bomb blasts fail to cease. With almost all the victims of violence being Sunnis, we are forced to...
Violence in Iraq seems to be unabated. And as militants up their ante against the state, Iraq and Jordan have joined hands to fight their common enemy, the Al Qaeda.
In another incident in Iraq, more than 200 innocent lives were lost in a bomb...
The bloodshed and atrocities have become the fate of the civilians on either side - be it Israel or Palestine, but now a ray of hope originates with the marvelous offer of Arab league, whereby they are ready to recognize Israeli state if it leaves...
Despite US increasing troop numbers, patrolling streets, crackdown on militants - rising violence in Iraq mocks at US claims to quell violence and now US plans to elongate its stay in Iraq until 2009, which makes everyone apprehensive whether US be...
A shocking revelation for many Americans, but a reality in the Middle East - nationals of Saudi Arabia constitute the majority chunk of Al Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Since the beginning of the Iraq occupation, the White House is hell-bent on...
Some striking developments in Iraq - Will these be favorable for the US? Only time will reveal. Nevertheless, there is some excitement for the fatigued US army, as some tribal insurgents have now decided to fight alongside US army against the...
Volatile Gaza region is looming large with its socio-political upheavals. The worst fears of alienated Hamas falling to Al-Qaeda's help seem true, as the occupier is in urgent need of outside help and help is denied to it by its neighbors and...
Operation Iraqi Freedom that started 4 1/2 years ago in the year 2003 has 'changed its course' from 'disarmament of Iraq' to, at one time, 'Mission Accomplished' to 'eliminate' al-Qaeda that has only forced US to 'stay on the course' with increasing...
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