Kabul, Afghanistan – When Farzana Barekzai and her small band of female campaigners knock at the home of Ahmadin Pahlawan, he greets them and points to a poster of President Hamid Karzai above the door to assure them: His vote isn’t changing.
Mr. Pahlawan didn’t need convincing [...]
By Tom Engelhardt
Don’t turn the page on history
We’ve just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers, here’s how the story goes: the Agency, evidently under Vice President Dick Cheney’s orders, didn’t inform Congress that, to assassinate al-Qaeda [...]
At least 95 people have been killed and 500 injured in six blasts near the government and diplomatic “Green Zone” in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the police said.
Witnesses said that the two main attacks on Wednesday appeared to target the foreign ministry and the finance ministry.
Police sources told Al Jazeera that the explosions, which took place within minutes of each [...]
Saudi Arabia has arrested 44 suspected militants who were planning attacks, the interior ministry says.
Weapons, ammunition and detonators were also found, in a series of operations over a three-week period.
The militants tried to recruit youths and finance “deviant” activity, the ministry said, quoted by local media.
Al-Qaeda-linked militants launched a violent campaign to destabilise the country [...]