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.
IPS’s coverage of terrorism
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (30.07.2010 02:42h): Pakistan Poll Finds Widespread Disillusionment
The recent Wikileaks dump of war-related documents has brought little new to the debate over Washington's ongoing military involvement in Afghanistan, but allegations that Pakistan's intelligence services are aiding the Taliban has brought renewed attention to U.S. concerns over its reliance on Islamabad in battling Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.07.2010 15:22h): Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Increasingly Under Siege
Monday's release by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of classified documents detailing the travails of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Pakistan's secret support for the Taliban from 2004 through 2009 comes amid a growing crisis of confidence here in the nearly nine-year-old war. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.07.2010 14:14h): Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable
The 92,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and reported Monday by the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, offer no major revelations that are entirely new, as did the Pentagon Papers to which they are inevitably being compared. [
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Q&A (24.07.2010 10:32h): Peru Wages 'Slanderous Campaign' Against Inter-American Court
Politicians and the military in Peru are verbally attacking the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in order to "debase the concept" of fundamental human rights and implicate the Court in an "alleged defence of terrorism", its president, Judge Diego García-Sayán, told IPS. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.07.2010 10:32h): Mexican Govt Turns a Blind Eye to Orphaned and Disabled Children
A baby hits the floor when his father, who was holding him in his arms, is murdered in Mexico. A two-year-old watches from her stroller as six drug addicts are killed in a rehabilitation centre, including her mother. The mother of another three-year-old never makes it to collect him from his nursery. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.07.2010 16:27h): Obama-Cameron Meet Overshadowed By BP and Libya
British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to Washington, DC on Tuesday was supposed to be an opportunity for the Conservative Party leader to build a rapport with U.S. President Barack Obama. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.07.2010 16:27h): UN's Big Five Facilitate Arms Transfers to Rights Violators
The five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - are accused of facilitating the transport of conventional weapons and cluster munitions to countries where they could be used to commit human rights violations and war crimes. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (19.07.2010 07:03h): Somalia Centre Stage Ahead of AU Summit
The African Union summit opens in Kampala on July 19 amid heightened security following twin bomb attacks a week earlier. [
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COLOMBIA (19.07.2010 07:03h): 'Let's Talk About the Disappeared'
Every day, Luz Marina Hache sees her disappeared husband, Eduardo Lorne, in their 25-year-old son. He sleeps the same way, is equally studious, and like his father, he is infuriated by injustice. He has the same beautiful face that she remembers. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (16.07.2010 09:10h): Obama Says U.S. Will "Redouble" Efforts Against Al-Shabaab
U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington will "redouble" its efforts against the Somali Islamist group al- Shabaab The Youth , whose deadly bombings in Kampala Sunday are likely to result in stepped-up U.S. military and other assistance to the Transitional Federal Government TFG in Mogadishu. [
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EU (08.07.2010 10:41h): This Big Brother Is in the U.S.
Private information on innocent citizens will be handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities under an agreement slated for approval by the European Parliament this week. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (08.07.2010 10:41h): McChrystal Probe of SOF Killings Excluded Key Eyewitnesses
The follow-up investigation of a botched Special Operations Forces SOF raid in Gardez Feb. 12 that killed two male government officials and three female civilians, ordered by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal Apr. 5, was ostensibly aimed at reconciling divergent Afghan and U.S. accounts of what happened during and after the raid. [
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Death by Remote (06.07.2010 01:48h): But Is It Legal?
As the Barack Obama administration continues to roll out justifications for its policy of targeting U.S. citizens and others thought to be attacking U.S. troops, legal and national security experts are pondering a central question: What if there's a mistake and the wrong person gets killed? [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.07.2010 15:10h): 'This Is Worse Than Guantanamo'
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner at a refugee detention centre in Slovakia has said he is prepared to die in hunger strike after living five months in conditions he says are worse than in the infamous U.S. prison. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.07.2010 15:10h): Britain to Probe Collaboration with CIA Renditions
Breaking from President Barack Obama's insistence on "moving forward, not backward" in investigating U.S. detainee torture, the British government appears poised to investigate its own complicity with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA in "rendering" British citizens and residents and subjecting them to "enhanced interrogation" techniques. [
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U.S. (03.07.2010 15:10h): Stuck in No-Fly Limbo
Ten U.S. citizens or lawful residents are suing the government for placing them on the "no-fly" list without notice or due process and then giving them no way to get their names off the list. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.07.2010 06:25h): Unmanned Drones - Targeted Killing vs. "Collateral Murder"
When a Pakistani-U.S. national pleaded guilty last week to a failed attempt to detonate explosives packed in a vehicle in the heart of New York City, he admitted that one of the reasons he targeted the busy Times Square neighbourhood was to "injure and kill" as many people as possible. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.07.2010 06:25h): Inspectors Call Afghan Police Tracking System a Failure
A system designed to track the success of Afghan police training is deeply flawed, says a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan SIGAR . [
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US-AFGHANISTAN (01.07.2010 06:25h): What Now?
Nearly a week after the abrupt demise of Washington's top commander in Afghanistan, U.S. strategy for reversing the flood of bad news that has been recently pouring out of that strife-torn country remains as unclear as ever. [
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POLITICS (26.06.2010 11:06h): All Quiet on the Australian Front on Role in Afghanistan
The lack of debate here concerning Australia's military involvement in Afghanistan is unlikely to change in the near future despite the recent deaths of five Australian Defence Force ADF personnel in the war-ravaged nation. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis
Despite President Barack Obama's denial that his decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus signified any differences with McChrystal over war strategy, the decision obviously reflects a desire by Obama to find a way out of a deepening policy crisis in Afghanistan. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): U.S. Private Security in Afghanistan "Pay Off Warlords, Taliban"
Every day, as many as 260 trucks filled with supplies for U.S. troops - from muffins to fuel to armoured tanks - are driven from the Pakistani port of Karachi across the Khyber pass into Afghanistan. [
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BOOKS-US (24.06.2010 01:04h): The More They Promise Change…
A year and a half into the presidency of Barack Obama, any hopes that he would usher in a dramatic rethinking of U.S. foreign policy have been more or less definitively dashed. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): Canadian Rendition Probe Expands to U.S., Syria
The Canadian government has quietly been conducting an international criminal probe of the actions of Syrian and U.S. authorities in the case of Maher Arar, the Canadian who was arrested in 2002 by U.S. officials and then rendered to a Syrian jail where he was held incommunicado and tortured for 10 months before being released without charge, it was revealed Monday. [
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The Dark Side - IPSs Coverage of Terrorism - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling on "Terror Support"
In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court decision upholding a law making it a crime to provide any "material support" to an organisation designated as a "terrorist" by the U.S. government, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged that the law "actually threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organisations that must interact directly with groups that have engaged in violence". [
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