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News Coverage Misinforms Americans on the Bergdahl Swap
By Sheldon Richman | FFF | June 10, 2014 In national-security matters, the news media couldn’t do a better job misinforming the public if they tried. The latest example is their portrayal of the five Taliban officials traded for Bowe Bergdahl. The media of course have an incentive to accentuate controversy. In the Bergdahl deal, […]
News Coverage Misinforms Americans on the Bergdahl Swap
By Sheldon Richman | FFF | June 10, 2014 In national-security matters, the news media couldn’t do a better job misinforming the public if they tried. The latest example is their portrayal of the five Taliban officials traded for Bowe Bergdahl. The media of course have an incentive to accentuate controversy. In the Bergdahl deal, […]
Doha official: Freed Taliban “will not be treated as prisoners”
Al-Akhbar | June 3, 2014
Qatar has moved five Afghan Taliban prisoners freed in exchange for a US soldier to a residential compound and will let them move freely in the country, a senior Gulf official said on Tuesday, a step likely to be scrutinized by Washington.
Doha official: Freed Taliban “will not be treated as prisoners”
Al-Akhbar | June 3, 2014
Qatar has moved five Afghan Taliban prisoners freed in exchange for a US soldier to a residential compound and will let them move freely in the country, a senior Gulf official said on Tuesday, a step likely to be scrutinized by Washington.
Boko Haram and Tentacles of Terror
The blind ignorance of Boko Haram and other extremist groups, who impose themselves on Islam, springs from an act of overinterpretaion, a wrong reading of religion. Regardless of what benefits the promoters of this parochial mentality may reap, there is one incontrovertible point: they are trying to deliver a blow to Islam. No doubt, they are the sworn enemies of religion and they pursue no objectives other than uprooting Islam.
By Ismail Salami
Afghanistan: Nightmare of Failure
The war and occupation of Afghanistan by US-led forces has gone on for almost thirteen years. The current war was preceded by another twenty-three or so years of war; first between the Soviets and US-funded mujahedin and then between the various mujahedin factions, with the final result of that episode of war being the triumph of the Taliban. That brings us up to October 2001 when US forces attacked Afghanistan for harboring Osama bin Laden.