By Eric Kasum
Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?
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US Rescue Team Killed British Aid Worker?
By The Independent
An investigation was launched today into the death of a British aid worker in Afghanistan after it emerged that she may have been killed by a grenade thrown by US special forces trying to rescue her. Continue
“Cover-up” alleged over U.K. aid worker's death: American security forces in Afghanistan were on Monday facing accusations of a “cover-up” after it emerged that a young woman British aid worker who was earlier alleged to have been killed by her Taliban captors may have “accidentally” died in a grenade attack by U.S. forces during a botched rescue operation.
How the official story of Linda Norgrove's death unravelled: Kim Sengupta on the footage that gave the lie to initial accounts of how the activist died
Just tell truth begs family tragic aid worker killed rescue mission Afghanistan: The family of the British aid worker killed in Afghanistan during a rescue attempt by American special forces last night demanded to know the 'full facts' about the failed mission to save her.
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Obama's enthusiasm for drone strikes takes heavy toll on Pakistan's tribesmen: So far Barack Obama has signed off on over 125 strikes – twice the number authorised by George Bush during the last five years of his presidency. Manufacturers are scrambling to keep up with demand from the CIA.
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Who Needs Terrorists?
By Allen L. Jasson
If someone carries a bomb into a public place and detonates it killing themselves and a hundred people this is terrorism, but if someone drops a bomb from an aircraft flying at 35,000 feet and kills a hundred people in a village below, this is not terrorism? Continue
Surprise -- The Very Dark Side of U.S. History
By Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry, Consortium News
When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and destruction, it's viewed as a mistake or an aberration. In the following article Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry examine the long history of these acts of brutality, a record that suggests they are neither a "mistake" nor an "aberration". Continue
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