Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder Adam Ferguson/VII Network Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has a new project. By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER Published: May 14, 2011 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside…
As evidenced by this year’s “Arab spring,” Osama Bin Laden’s political influence began to wane even before his death.
NATO bombs rain down on Moammar Gadhafi’s compound, the daughter of the Libyan dictator says she’s been telling her three young children bedtime stories about the afterlife “to make them ready.” “In a time of war, you never know when a rocket or a bomb might hit you, and that will be the end,” Aisha…
A Think Piece In the last chapter of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Paul Baumer, a young German soldier, sits alone in a garden trying to recover from a poison gas attack and the deep emotional scars and psychological wounds of war. At the age of 21, he is already a veteran…
THE SCOURGE OF WAR The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the rebels’, and certainly not for the people of the country. It has seemingly plunged Libya into a protracted…
US army soldier Bradley Manning is currently being held in defence department custody, at a military base in Virginia. He was arrested in July, after the FBI received a tip-off from convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo. In this Al Jazeera exclusive interview, Monica Villamizar spoke to Lamo about Manning’s arrest.
What a world! Much of North Africa remains roiled with mass protests against autocratic or crazed leaders. One predictable result has been skyrocketing oil prices with potentially adverse consequences for recovering economies. And, in the United States, a possible shutdown of government looms because America’s two political parties prefer to indulge in a game of…
Hundreds of thousands protest across Arab world