IPS Inter Press Service –The Dark Side —IPS’s coverage of terrorism
Terrorism,and the fight against it,has become all too common in today’s news agenda. But news is a minefield of propaganda from different sides. Find out about the facts and the reasons,read IPS coverage of terrorism,its consequences and the reactions it generates from all over the world.
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.02.2012 01:01h): Early End to U.S. Combat Role in Afghanistan Draws Cheers,Jeers,Confusion
U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement Wednesday that U.S. troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions,as well as a fair bit of confusion,from both critics and supporters of the 11-year-old war here. [
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BANGLADESH (04.02.2012 01:01h): Coup Bid Reveals Extremism Within Army
Bangladesh's army has won paludits as leading United Nations peacekeepers,but the January coup attempt against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has exposed lurking religious extremism within its ranks. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.02.2012 20:23h): Pakistan Denies "Intimate"Taliban Links
Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous"a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban,and suggesting that the group believes it is poised to regain power. [
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PAKISTAN (30.01.2012 00:17h): New Rehab Plan Brings Hope for War-Disabled
The prolonged United States-led war against terrorism has left a large number of people disabled in Pakistan,compelling the government to institute a rehabilitation plan that will include imparting vocational skills. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.01.2012 01:56h): U.S. Condemns Boko Haram Attacks
The U.S. State Department Tuesday "strongly"condemned recent lethal attacks carried out by the Islamist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria,but also warned against an excessive reaction by the government's security forces. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.01.2012 08:41h): U.S. Probe of Border Attack Hardened Pakistani Suspicions
The Pakistani military leadership's response to the U.S. report on its helicopter attack on two Pakistani border posts Nov. 26 assailed the credibility of the investigation by Air Force Brig. Gen. Steven Clark and expressed doubt that the attack could have been "accidental". [
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HONDURAS (24.01.2012 03:24h): Pressed by the U.S.,Lobo Amends Extradition Laws
Following a surprise meeting between President Porfirio Lobo and U.S. government officials,Honduran lawmakers voted to amend the constitution to allow extradition of its nationals. [
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PAKISTAN (18.01.2012 12:48h): Taliban Bombs Get Deadlier
In their efforts to kill and injure more people as part of a terror campaign in northern Pakistan,the Taliban militia have resorted to lacing bombs with toxic chemicals that leave survivors with complicated wounds. [
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PAKISTAN (15.01.2012 12:34h): Forests Fall Victim to the Taliban
The forests of northwestern Pakistan have become the latest victim of the Taliban's increasingly desperate quest for resources to sustain and fund its military programme. [
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PAKISTAN (14.01.2012 01:35h): New Price Tags on Stranded NATO Supplies
From a distance,the neatly stacked red,blue and orange containers suggest that business is good at Karachi's Kemari port. [
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U.S. (14.01.2012 01:35h): A Decade in the Purgatory Called Guantanamo
Hundreds of protesters,dozens outfitted in orange jumpsuits and black hoods,took to the streets outside the White House on Wednesday to demonstrate against torture and indefinite detention on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay,Cuba. [
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PAKISTAN (07.01.2012 02:42h): Girls Defuse This Taliban Bomb
Suicide bombing is down,bomb attacks are fewer,but the Taliban are keeping up attacks on girls'schools. In retaliation,a growing number of girls are going for school education –without school buildings. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.01.2012 23:18h): Nigeria on Edge Trying to Avert North-South Clashes
Africa's top oil producer is on edge,poised to deter possible sectarian clashes between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south,while Christians are becoming more vulnerable to attacks from Islamist militants. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (31.12.2011 17:42h): Defence Act Affirms Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens
Civil liberties groups and many citizen activists are outraged over language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 NDAA that appears to lay the legal groundwork for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without trial. [
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AFGHANISTAN (30.12.2011 08:38h): Killing Heroin With Saffron
Weaning Afghanistan's poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of the world's illicit heroin has never been easy,but Kashmir's saffron cultivators may have the answer. [
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ARGENTINA (24.12.2011 01:02h): Anti-Terrorism Law Upsets Harmony Between Government and Activists
Human rights groups and legal experts are concerned that a law passed by the Argentine Congress in the early hours of Thursday morning to crack down on terrorism could be used to criminalise social protest. [
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PAKISTAN (22.12.2011 06:31h): In Arms Against Saints
The Taliban have destroyed schools,bombed music shops and carried out gruesome executions in Pakistan's territories bordering Afghanistan. But what they may never be forgiven for is the destruction of ancient shrines where revered Sufi mystics are interred. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.12.2011 02:10h): Mass Tragedy Feared as Closure of MEK Camp Looms
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq MEK ,an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics,to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another location in the country or risk the lives of as many as 3,200 people. [
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INDIA (14.12.2011 12:59h): Kashmir Clamours for Normalcy
As armed insurgency in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir ebbs,the elected state government is keen to hasten a return to normalcy by easing draconian security laws and reopening movie theatres and liquor shops,banned by fundamentalist militant groups. [
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PAKISTAN (10.12.2011 17:05h): Soldiers'Families Demand Revenge Against U.S.
As Islamabad and Washington wrangle over responsibility for the Nov. 26 cross-border airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troops,families of the dead soldiers are demanding revenge on the United States. [
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AFGHANISTAN (10.12.2011 05:14h): The Pressure Is Now on Central Asian Supply Route
The Northern Distribution Network,the key re-supply route for U.S. and NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan,is set to experience a spike in traffic due to the closure of the Pakistani-Afghan border. But it will take several weeks for the United States and NATO to work out the logistics of rerouting cargo. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.12.2011 12:10h): Rejecting Apology,U.S. May Hasten End of Pakistan as Client
President Barack Obama has sided with U.S. military and Defence Department officials in rejecting a proposal by the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan for a U.S. apology for last weekend's attack on two Pakistani border posts,and approving an investigation into the attack that won't be completed until Dec. 23 at the earliest. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.12.2011 13:29h): Taliban Slide ‘From Hero to Zero'
Religious and political forces in Northern Pakistan,which hitherto drew strength from their association with the Taliban have begun to distance themselves from the militants,as the latter's legitimacy plummets in the border regions. [
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PAKISTAN (01.12.2011 13:35h): DNA Lab Comes to Track Terrorists
A much-needed DNA laboratory is to be set up at the Forensic Science Department of the Khyber Medical College in Peshawar,capital of the violence- battered Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in Pakistan. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.12.2011 13:35h): Pak Border Post Attack a Big Loss for U.S. War Policy
The U.S. military and the Barack Obama administration have been thrown into confusion by the attack on two Pakistani military posts near the border with Afghanistan Saturday morning,even as the attacks provoked the Pakistani government and military leadership into much stronger opposition to U.S. policy in the region. [
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