Yemen: A Place Where Expressing Your Opinion Can Get You Killed

There were 260 separate instances in 2012 in which journalists faced harassment, threats, forced disappearance and attempted murder.

by Belkis Wille

Who Will Drones Target? Who In The US Will Decide?

White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure to vet both military and CIA targets. The move concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war zones at the White House. […]

Who Will Drones Target? Who In The US Will Decide?

White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure to vet both military and CIA targets. The move concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war zones at the White House. The process, which is

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Pentagon refuses to question Yemeni president in USS Cole case

  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A military judge in the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole has denied a defense request to question Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as a witness in the case. The ruling by Army Col. James Pohl is subject to […]

Pentagon refuses to question Yemeni president in USS Cole case

 

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A military judge in the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole has denied a defense request to question Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as a witness in the case.

The ruling by Army Col. James Pohl is

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Saleh’s treatment in US rings familiar tone in international relations

(MintPress)— Yemeni dictator Ali Abdulla Saleh is reportedly on his way to the United States to receive medical treatment for blast wounds suffered in an assassination attempt last June. The refuge for the Yemeni leader comes as a Yemeni uprising has called for the end of his three-decade rule while demanding Saleh to go on trial for the […]

Saleh’s treatment in US rings familiar tone in international relations

(MintPress)— Yemeni dictator Ali Abdulla Saleh is reportedly on his way to the United States to receive medical treatment for

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