Red Cross Alleged India Tortured Kashmir Prisoners: US Cables
17 December 2010
Wikileaks: India "Tortured" Kashmir Prisoners, BBC News, 17 December 2010
EXCERPT: "The International Committee of the Red Cross sent evidence to US diplomats about widespread torture by Indian security forces in Kashmir, according to cables obtained by Wikileaks. Visits to detention centres in the region in 2002-04 revealed cases of beatings, electric shocks, sexual abuse and other types of ill-treatment. The organisation...
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Haqqani Madrasa in N. Waziristan Lies "beyond US Forces' Grasp"
17 December 2010
, The Washington Post, 17 December 2010
EXCERPT: "The CIA has launched more than 100 drone strikes in Pakistan so far this year, but one seemingly obvious target remains conspicuously unscathed. A religious school near the heart of the country's tribal areas has for years served as an operational hub for the most lethal adversary of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the so-called...
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CIA Station Chief's Identity Revealed in Legal Complaint
17 December 2010
, The New York Times, 17 December 2010
EXCERPT: "The Central Intelligence Agency's top clandestine officer in Islamabad was pulled from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer's cover was deliberately blown by Pakistan's military intelligence agency. The C.I.A....
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Three More Drone Strikes in Khyber Agency; Casualty Reports Vary
17 December 2010
Drone Strikes Kill 24 in Pakistan, Fourth in Two Days, Reuters, 17 December 2010
EXCERPT: "Three suspected U.S. drone missile strikes killed 24 militants on Friday in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber region on the Afghan border, intelligence officials said, the fourth attack in two days. The United States has widened drone attacks in Pakistan this year, but almost all of them have been in the North Waziristan tribal region, a known...
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