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Destabilizing Pakistan

Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s "secret" battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones – shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders or suspected Arab or Uzbek or Afghan "militants" have died. The numbers are often remarkably precise. Sometimes they are attributed to U.S. sources, sometimes to the Pakistanis; sometimes, it’s hard to tell where the information comes from. In the Pakistani press, on the other hand, the numbers that come back are usually of civilian dead. They, too, tend to be precise.

Don’t let that precision fool you. Here’s the reality: There are no reporters on the ground and none of these figures can be taken as accurate. Let’s just consider the CIA side of things. Any information that comes from American sources (i.e., the CIA) has to be looked at with great wariness. As a start, the CIA’s history is one of deception. There’s no reason to take anything its sources say at face value. They will report just what they think it’s in their interest to report – and the ongoing "success" of their drone strikes is distinctly in their interest.

http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/ ... -pakistan/

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EU rejects bank data deal with U.S.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers -- a vote the United States said disrupted an important source of information for anti-terror investigators.

EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament's president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly wants more safeguards for civil liberties and believes human rights has been compromised in the name of security.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... a-deal-us/

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Cluster Bomb Ban to Become Law – Without US

Just over a year after it was opened for signature, an international treaty banning cluster bombs received the final two ratifications it needed to become international law Tuesday.

Burkina Faso and Moldova ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions to much praise from human rights and victim advocacy groups. The treaty will become international law Aug. 1, when use, production and trade in cluster munitions will be banned and deadlines for stockpile destruction will be set.

States that have used cluster munitions in the past will also be obligated to provide support for communities affected by the use of the munitions and to assist in clearing contaminated land.

http://original.antiwar.com/matthew-ber ... ithout-us/

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US Ships Arms, Blocks Humanitarian Aid to Somalia

UN officials today issued their most public condemnation yet of US policy on Somalia, noting that the US government is preventing millions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid, including food aid, from reaching the Somali people.

The US defended the policy, saying that they had “evidence” that some of the contractors shipping the aid in were forced to pay protection tolls to militant groups. They have demanded the UN enact policies that officials say will restrict aid delivery even further in the nation, where the US-backed government controls only a few city blocks around the presidential palace.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/17/us-b ... o-somalia/

[Lit]

US Ships Arms, Blocks Humanitarian Aid to Somalia

UN officials today issued their most public condemnation yet of US policy on Somalia, noting that the US government is preventing millions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid, including food aid, from reaching the Somali people.

The US defended the policy, saying that they had “evidence” that some of the contractors shipping the aid in were forced to pay protection tolls to militant groups. They have demanded the UN enact policies that officials say will restrict aid delivery even further in the nation, where the US-backed government controls only a few city blocks around the presidential palace.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/17/us-b ... o-somalia/

The Somali people can have all the aid they wish (of which i bet the majority of the aid comes from the States) once the battle of piracy off the coast of Somalia ends. Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece flagged ships as well as other nations had their ships hijacked off the cost of Somalia...something needed to be done.

[Lit]

US Ships Arms, Blocks Humanitarian Aid to Somalia

UN officials today issued their most public condemnation yet of US policy on Somalia, noting that the US government is preventing millions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid, including food aid, from reaching the Somali people.

The US defended the policy, saying that they had “evidence” that some of the contractors shipping the aid in were forced to pay protection tolls to militant groups. They have demanded the UN enact policies that officials say will restrict aid delivery even further in the nation, where the US-backed government controls only a few city blocks around the presidential palace.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/17/us-b ... o-somalia/

Erhm:

Cyprus shipping: Governments must do more to combat Somali piracy

January 25, 2010 - Financial Mirror

http://www.financialmirror.com/Columnist/COMMENT/582

Maybe the Cypriot government can join the effort of the United States...

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Maybe the Cypriot government can join the effort of the United States...

Ohh wait, it already has...

Somali Piracy: U.K., Cyprus, Japan, Singapore, U.S. sign New York declaration

http://en.afrik.com/article16174.html

Mmmmmbox head

LOL

[Free Spirit]

US Ships Arms, Blocks Humanitarian Aid to Somalia

UN officials today issued their most public condemnation yet of US policy on Somalia, noting that the US government is preventing millions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid, including food aid, from reaching the Somali people.

The US defended the policy, saying that they had “evidence” that some of the contractors shipping the aid in were forced to pay protection tolls to militant groups. They have demanded the UN enact policies that officials say will restrict aid delivery even further in the nation, where the US-backed government controls only a few city blocks around the presidential palace.

http://news.anti&uncle.com/2010/02/17/us-blocking-humanitarian-aid-to-somalia/

Only a Plonker like you would sanction supplying the Somali warlords because that is who the aid goes to.
You're that twisted you even want to aid and stir up civil war and still put the blame on the west.
You must be the biggest dimwit on this forum, come back Quamerslad; you make him look quite sane.

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all i see is restrains on human rights and freedom in the excuse of anti-terrorism, a terrorism that USA itself provoked

[Free Spirit]

all i see is restrains on human rights and freedom in the excuse of anti-terrorism, a terrorism that USA itself provoked

You aren't Get Real's long lost half wit brother by any chance?