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Iraq offers Iran anti-terror help
Dec 17th
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani offered Tehran his ministry''s support and experience in fighting terror Friday, just days after a suicide bomber killed 34 people in southeastern Iran.
Bolani, who is hoping to keep his job whe…
Blackwater/Xe sold to private investors
Dec 17th
Private US security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, bought by group of private investors.
Stop beating ourselves up
Dec 7th
We need toget rid of this self-defeatism. As long as we believe we can control our own destiny, we will.
Car bombs kill 13 in Iraq
Dec 4th
BAGHDAD: A series of car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, two of them targeting Iranian pilgrims, killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 80 others, Interior Ministry and police sources said.
Militants blew up a car bomb in front of a hou…
Arrest warrant for WikiLeaks chief as chaos spreads
Dec 1st
Interpol alerts all member states as chaos of leaks spreads from govts to financial markets across the world.
WikiLeaks under new pressure on cable dump
Dec 1st
WASHINGTON: WikiLeaks came under intense pressure Tuesday after its mass dump of sensitive US documents, with China demanding action, the website facing cyber attack and a defector announcing a rival site.
Two days after the whistle-blower website beg…
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks” top releases
Nov 30th
STOCKHOLM: The around 250,000 diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks began releasing at the weekend are but one of many spotlight-grabbing document dumps in the whistleblowing website''s short history.
And it is not the last: WikiLeaks'' fou…
World uneasy on upcoming Wikileaks dump
Nov 28th
WASHINGTON: Governments around the world on Saturday braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the fallout.
The whistle-blower website is expected to put online thre…
The Caps of Pakistan
Nov 27th
Mast Qalandar (MQ) (Editor’s Note: This was first posted at ATP four years ago on November 27, 2006. It remains one of our favorite ATP posts and we are re-posting it today on its fourth anniversary). Pakistan is a country of many ethnic groups and cultures. This is apparent not only in the looks of [...]
Maliki named Iraq PM for second term, calls for unity
Nov 26th
BAGHDAD: Nuri al-Maliki called for unity among Iraq''s factions on Thursday after he was named for a second term as prime minister, signalling an end may be in sight to an eight-month political impasse.
President Jalal Talabani''s nomi…
