Iran Human Rights: One man was hanged in the prison of Amol in northern Iran. According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, Mohammad S. (also known as Fattah) was hanged in the prison of Amol earlier this week. He was convicted of keeping 472 grams of heroin and was hanged earlier this week according to the report. The report did not mention Mohammad’s age and exact date of the ...

... Abdullah Abdullah dropping out of November’s runoff election, Afghan president Hamid Karzai was effectively reelected to a ... , logocratic bureaucracy. “Today I am very happy and proud to be an Afghan citizen whose vote fully counted in the 2009 presidential ... form of government from democracy to autocracy collectively praised the Afghan election as a powerful symbol of the country’s ...

... had some interesting discussions," Durbin told the Citizen. "Canada is one nation. You've got ... Canadian Forces turning over the Leopard tanks it already uses in Kandahar to the Afghan army, Durbin responded, "that might be one option ... Durbin wanted Russian and former Warsaw Pact helicopters for the Afghan military because he considered such aircraft are highly reliable and ...

USA Today Biden's Standing In White House In Question After Afghan Decision Huffington Post (blog) I think we know very little about what Joe Biden thinks and feels. We know a great deal about ... frontReuters On sidelines of White House summit, Republicans talk jobs, group pitches clean ...The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com Obama: 'Wouldn't be here' for skepticsThe Swamp (blog) ...

... human rights should have been enough for Canadian officials to suspect detainees in Afghan prisons were being tortured, says Paul Cavalluzzo, the senior ... Arar in a Syrian prison. Arar, a Canadian citizen, was passing through New York on his way home to Ottawa from a vacation ... Minister Stephen Harper. After Colvin reignited the Afghan torture controversy, Conservatives launched an all-out effort ...

... officials were told in 2007 that young boys had allegedly been sexually abused by Afghan security forces at a Canadian base in Afghanistan, but the concern at the time ... incident might be reported in the news media, according to military records obtained by the Ottawa Citizen. … Former Cpl. Travis Schouten told military officials he had witnessed an Afghan boy being sodomized by two Afghan ...

... Awakening. Today, the New York Times is reporting that out Special Forces have been successful in convincing several Afghan tribes to form militias to oppose the Taliban in what appears to be the beginning of an Afghan Awakening. The question remains whether President Obama will approve the Surge in US Army and Marine troops requested by Gen. McChystal ...

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... of Afghanistan's corruption problem is the case of the Afghan minister of mines, who reportedly accepted a bribe of ... increase in kidnappings for ransom of the relatives of wealthy Afghan businessmen. Afghanistan's other elections And in an under-covered story ... Tahawwur Hussain Rana -- a U.S. and a Canadian citizen, respectively -- are also accused of reporting to Ilyas Kashmiri, a onetime ...

... Taleban's Islamic Emirate, Qari Mohammad Taher Salafi, told the Afghan Islamic Press says that he is a Norwegian journalist. After a thorough investigation, they will give details to ... a local Salafi Taleban spokesman, Qari Dawat, told journalists that the abducted person was a citizen of Norway and was a journalist. The withdrawal of all the Norwegian troops from Afghanistan and the release of ...