World September 7th, 2009 (10)
#1 — BBC | Taliban demand air strike inquiry
The Taliban have called for a UN and human rights investigation into an air strike in Afghanistan on Friday that left dozens of people dead.
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#2 — CNN | Mexican legislative candidate, family killed
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — A legislative candidate was killed, along with his wife and two children, bringing campaigns for statewide offices in the southeastern state of Tabasco to a halt, the state-run news agency Notimex reported.
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#3 — Fox | Jones’ Resignation May Embolden Administration Critics
The resignation of White House green jobs adviser Van Jones could ultimately embolden conservatives who are critical of the Obama administration for its reliance on “czars” — the nickname for special advisers who do not need congressional approval.
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#4 — Fox | Obama’s Bottom Line on Gov’t Health Insurance Gets Blurry
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped of short of calling it a must-have part of an overhaul.
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#5 — Fox | Thousands of Civilians Flee Battles in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Thousands of civilians are fleeing the latest military operation against insurgents in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber tribal region, a government official said Sunday.
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#6 — DM | Flesh-eating superbug killed father in just four hours
Britain is facing ‘a new horror’ from a flesh eating superbug which killed a father just within four hours of him arriving in hospital with leg pains.
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#7 — DM | Gaddafi son blocks payout for IRA bomb families
The son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi said today his country would resist demands from IRA victims for compensation after Gordon Brown launched a frantic damage limitation exercise over the Lockerbie scandal.
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#8 — NY Times | Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded toward the president’s re-election, according to senior Western and Afghan officials here.
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#9 — Times | Top terror suspect is freed over secrets fear
The Home Secretary has released a man regarded as one of Britain’s most dangerous terror suspects from virtual house arrest to avoid disclosing secret evidence against him, The Times has learnt.
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#10 — Times | Queen is ‘unhappy over equipment shortages’
The Queen has spoken to Gordon Brown personally to express her anger over equipment shortages suffered by troops in Afghanistan, it was reported last night.
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beentheredonethat Says:
Taliban demand? TALIBAN DEMAND!! Well, answer their demand….with a 2,000 lb lazer guided bomb. Trust the western media to even mention this. Sadistic medieval killers, screw’em.
Posted on September 7th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
beentheredonethat Says:
Oh and by the way, NATO will never ever win this war until they realize that the fear of civilian casualties cannot influence battle plans to the effect that they are rendered practically useless and guaranteed to cost more coalition troops their lives or limbs. Sure these civilian deaths are unfortunate, but that’s war, at least a determined war with a clear goal to win. Time to stop wringing our hands in anquish after these attacks and launch the next sortie.
Posted on September 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm