Isn’t This What Ejaz Haider Wanted: Conviction of Dr Afridi?

The assertion “that merely working for a foreign intelligence agency is not enough to render one a criminal” should be obvious. Foreign missions generally have intelligence personnel on cover postings. They also employ local people as household help. The domestic staff is not supposed to know, unless one or all of them also belong to [...]

American Military Course Teaching that Islam is America’s Enemy

A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following World War II precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima or the [...]

Are the Western Intelligence Agencies Using the NGOs in Pakistan?

In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the CIA to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani intelligence agents days after the Bin Laden raid a year [...]

How America is Tracking the World?

13 Ways You Can Be Tracked By the US Government Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism. Most collect information on people in the US. Here are 13 examples of [...]

Osama’s Compound in Abbottabad

The Floor That Didn’t Exist The compound was a perfect place for a discreet yet comfortable retirement. It was to the placid environs of Abbottabad that bin Laden, half a decade after his great victory on 9/11, decided to escape. By the spring of 2011, the terrorist mastermind was in his sixth year of hiding [...]

American Terrorism in Pakistan Continuing with Rulers’ Consent

Covert operations are nothing new in American history, but it could be argued that during the past decade they have moved from being a relatively minor arrow in the national security quiver to being the cutting edge of American power. Drone strikes, electronic surveillance and stealth engagements by military units such as the Joint Special [...]

Tarek Mehanna’s Statement Read to Judge O’Toole During his Sentencing on April 12, 2012

Exactly four years ago this month I was finishing my work shift at a local hospital. As I was walking to my car I was approached by two federal agents. They said that I had a choice to make: I could do things the easy way, or I could do them the hard way. The “easy ” [...]

Osama’s Eldest Wife Khairiah Responsible for His Death

Osama Bin Laden, physically and mentally frail and holed-up in a secret compound in a Pakistan garrison town, may have been sold out to the Americans by his eldest wife who was furiously jealous of the al-Qa’ida leader’s preference for a younger bride. An eight-month investigation carried out by a retired senior Pakistani army officer, [...]

Salala Strike a Result of Americans Not Trusting Pak Army to Know About the Troop Locations

A United States military investigation has concluded that checks and balances devised to prevent cross-border mishaps with Pakistan failed to avert a deadly NATO airstrike in November 2011 in part because American officials did not trust Pakistan enough to give it detailed information about American troop locations in Afghanistan. A report by the inquiry concluded that mistakes [...]

A Severely Injured Girl Rescued by a Doctor in America

A doctor found a little girl in a trash bin in the Swat Valley. Her face and arms were severely burned. Her caretaker named her Shakira, which means thankful. Shakira arrived inTexasrecently for reconstructive surgery. She has eyelashes but no eyebrows. She has all her fingers but is missing four nails. Her skin is so [...]