April 2009

Iran’s President ‘would support two-state solution’ for Israel By Alex Spillius, Daily Telegraph, April 26, 2009 Asked if he would support an agreement between the Palestinians and Tehran’s arch enemy, he said: “Whatever decision they take is fine with us. We are not going to determine anything. Whatever decision they take, we will support that. [...]

Divisions arose on rough tactics for Qaeda figure By Scott Shane, New York Times, April 18, 2009 The first use of waterboarding and other rough treatment against a prisoner from Al Qaeda was ordered by senior Central Intelligence Agency officials despite the belief of interrogators that the prisoner had already told them all he knew, [...]

The battle against piracy begins in Mogadishu By Ben Macintyre, The Times, April 16, 2009 We call them “pirates”, because that is how they most easily translate into Western culture, but the Somali marauders currently terrorising Indian Ocean shipping might better be termed ocean-going shiftas, heirs to a long and uniquely African tradition of banditry. [...]

Obama team mulls aims of Somali extremists By Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, April 11, 2009 Senior Obama administration officials are debating how to address a potential terrorist threat to U.S. interests from a Somali extremist group, with some in the military advocating strikes against its training camps. But many officials maintain that [...]

Report outlines medical workers’ role in torture By Scott Shane, New York Times, April 7, 2009 Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,” a long-secret report by the International Committee of [...]