Category Archives: Terrorism

“Have a Nice Day, Buddy:” What The Actions of a Few US Marines Say About us All

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 15, 2012

 Jan 13 2012 by Sherene Seikaly and Maya Mikdashi Golden, like a shower, said one of the US marines as he urinated, along with three of his fellow officers, on three dead Afghans. Over the last forty-eight hours this grizzly spectacle … Continue reading →

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Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 14, 2012

By Ethan Casey Huffington Post Posted: 1/13/12 11:45 AM ET I haven’t fully digested the disgusting news that U.S. Marines have been caught on video urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, so this post is not offered as a coherent … Continue reading →

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Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climbdown

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 15, 2011

Defence funding bill allows American citizens to be arrested as terrorists on home soil and held indefinitely without trial Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 December 2011 04.34 GMT Article history Americans can be arrested on home soil and taken … Continue reading →

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COLONEL MUAMMAR GADDAFI: Sodomy and murder as spectacle

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 31, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed On hearing news of the Libyan leader colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gleefully proclaimed — while paraphrasing the words of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, Vini, vidi, vici, `I … Continue reading →

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Dead men tell no tales

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Vijay Prashad 21 October 2011 — The Greanville Post – Qaddafi, From Beginning to End NATO’s Agenda for Libya On the dusty reaches out of Sirte, a convoy flees a battlefield. A NATO aircraft fires and strikes the … Continue reading →

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Enforced disappearances. Missing, dead

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 17, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed A fruit trader. A businessman cum political activist. Two brothers. A timber trader. The timber trader’s elder brother. The elder brother’s business partner. Mohammad Salim Mian. Sujon. Jalal ud din. Lal Babu. Akbor Ali … Continue reading →

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9/11 again, responding to readers’

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 28, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews 9/11 again, responding to readers’ By rahnuma ahmed My two-part series on 9/11 and the blowback paradigm has elicited considerable response from readers, not, I must add, in the pages of New Age but through e-mails, addressed … Continue reading →

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CONCLUDING PART: Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews CONCLUDING PART Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11? Truth-ers disagree By rahnuma ahmed Before launching into my discussion of the `blowback’ paradigm, let’s take a quick look at the findings from a new poll of New Yorkers: … Continue reading →

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Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews PART I Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11? Truth-ers disagree By rahnuma ahmed In last week’s column, `9/11, growing disbelief at US govt’s account a decade later’ (New Age, September 12, 2011),  I’d wanted to write about … Continue reading →

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9/11, growing disbelief at US government’s account a decade later…

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 11, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Today, September 11, 2011, is the tenth anniversary of the attacks on New York city’s Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. Eleven days after the attack, president Bush, in his address to a joint session … Continue reading →

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