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Witness: Pakistani intel officer ordered attack on Mumbai Jews
By Sebastian Rotella This report is part of a ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation. A version of this article appeared in the Washington Post. An officer in Pakistan’s intelligence service chose a Jewish center as a target for the 2008 Mumbai attacks and then helped launch a new plot against…
Anti-Americanism rife in Pakistan army institution: Wikileaks
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Officers received training biased against the United States at a prestigious Pakistan army institution, according to Wikileaks, underscoring concern that anti-Americanism in the country’s powerful military is growing amid strains with Washington. A U.S. diplomatic cable said the former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, found officers…
U.S. senators see Afghan hope, Pakistan fear
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US lawmakers on saw momentum for political reconciliation in Afghanistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, but voiced fear that the fight against extremism was floundering in Pakistan. Senator John Kerry, who recently visited the region, said US forces’ killing of bin Laden in Pakistan…
U.S. hopes Iraq will ask troops to stay: Gates
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he hopes Iraqi leaders will ask US troops to stay in their country beyond a year-end deadline but acknowledged the United States was unpopular there. While extending the US military presence beyond this year would send an important message to Arab…
U.S., Bill Gates call on rich nations to back poor farmers
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates joined a top US official Tuesday in urging rich nations to invest in the world’s poor farmers to help end hunger — a move he said would also help improve food security. “Looking at the food prices we’ve got — at…
Obama and British PM Cameron in talks about Arab Spring protests
LONDON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama held talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday, grappling with the turmoil across the Arab world and the NATO effort to dislodge Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi. Obama, on the third day of a European tour, swapped the glitter of a royal state…
Pope shuts down famous ‘party monastery’ with ‘prancing nuns’
ROME – Pope Benedict XVI has shut down a famous community in Rome that organised dances by a former nightclub dancer nun and hosted VIPs like Madonna, earning the disfavour of the Vatican. The closure of the monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, which holds some of the Church’s most…
Former Egypt dictator and sons to be tried over killings, corruption
CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were on Tuesday referred to a criminal court on charges of ordering the killings of anti-regime protesters and graft, the public prosecutor’s office said. The prosecutor’s office said that Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal have been charged…
Netanyahu: Israel willing to make ‘painful’ land concessions for peace
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel is prepared to make “painful compromises” for peace with the Palestinians, including the handover of land they seek for a state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday. Addressing a joint meeting of Congress, a bastion of support for Israel, after a testy exchange last…
Report: Friends of former IMF chief tried to bribe assaulted maid’s family
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have spent the last week and a half behind bars and under house arrest since he allegedly tried to rape a hotel maid in New York on May 14, but associates of his have been busy on his behalf. The New York Post reports…
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