NATO doubts Taliban can mount spring offensive
munaeem | 31 January, 2007 18:25
Via Canada.com :
NATO doubts Taliban can mount spring offensiveTaliban militants are expected to step up their attacks in Afghanistan soon, but the militia has lost strength and does not have the capability to launch a "spring offensive," a NATO spokesman said Wednesday.
Instead, it will be NATO troops who will be launching the real offensive, Brig. Gen. Richard Nugee said, referring to upcoming military operations but giving no details.
In my opinion his assessment of the situation is wrong. They have been forced to retreat back because of mounting pressure from US on Pakistan. Sources say that their military capability is intact.
Portrait Of The CIA As An Artist
munaeem | 31 January, 2007 10:59
According to Frances Saunders, in her well-documented book, “The CIA and the Cultural Cold War,” the CIA financed and groomed the avant-garde art movement from which abstract expressionism, performance art and the other freak shows of the art world emerged. In the 1950s,... [read more]
Iraq’s colonial occupier, the US, denounces “foreign meddling”
munaeem | 31 January, 2007 10:57
Via World Socialist Web Site : Iraq’s colonial occupier, the US, denounces “foreign meddling”"In recent weeks US government and military officials, aided and abetted by the American media, have stepped up the war of words against Iran."As they did precisely four years ago, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the political and media establishment is attempting to build up a case for military action... [
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