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1. Post-9/11: Clash of civilizations
2. "We didn't even get a part of his remains"
3. ‘What will change the system: when the little man refuses to pay a bribe’
4. Bihar: The privatization of terror
5. When US turned a blind eye to poison gas
6. Inside Saddam's devil's kitchen
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1. Post-9/11: Clash of civilisations Pioneer
Any honest assessment on the anniversary of the World Trade Centre
tragedy must surely conclude that there is no global coalition against
terrorism. There never really was. The coalition was a polite term coined by
US President George Bush Jr to garner the support (or mitigate the
opposition) of the international community for his punitive strikes against
the Osama bin Laden-Mullah Omar regime in Afghanistan, to give his people the
satisfaction that the atrocity was being avenged and simultaneously topple a
regime inimical to America's strategic interests. Both objectives being
quickly achieved, the coalition (sic) simply evaporated, unnoticed.
Post-9/11: Clash of civilisations Pioneer
2. "We didn't even get a part of his remains" Midday
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September
11 last year, have left many scars behind. Retired Lt Colonel S G Thatte and
his wife were two such people who lost their only son Harshad Thatte when the
twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were attacked by
terrorists. S G Thatte and his wife were at Thatte’s elder brother’s house in
Goregaon when the incident took place. They switched on the television for
the 7 o’clock news and to their shock, realised what had happened. “We
started to panic. We drove back to our house in Andheri because my son’s
contact number was there.”
"We didn't even get a part of his remains"
3. ‘What will change the system: when the little man refuses to pay a
bribe’ IExpress
Admiral R H Tahiliani heads the India chapter of Transparency
International, the international NGO described as a coalition against
corruption…..CORRUPTION can never be accurately measured since corruption
takes place behind the scenes. Nobody is going to own up…..It was one of our
members who pointed out that it was very well to condemn the developing world
as being the most corrupt, but the bribe-giver was just as culpable. So we
mooted the idea of another index for countries that bribe the most. India
does not figure in that because we are not an exporting country. That survey
looks at 20 big exporting countries like China, Korea, Britain and USA. This
is what I call grand larceny.
‘What will change the system: when the little man refuses to pay a bribe’
4. Bihar: The privatization of terror ATimes
For over two decades the State of Bihar has been home to one of the most
extraordinary social aberrations in the history of independent India: the
"private armies" raised by upper-caste landowners to protect their feudal
privileges. Among the most powerful of a succession of these private armies
is the Ranvir Sena, which has terrorized large areas of the state since its
formation in September 1994 at the Belaur village of Bhojpur district.
Bihar: The privatization of terror
5. When US turned a blind eye to poison gas Guardian
America knew Baghdad was using chemical weapons against the Kurds in
1988. So why has it taken 14 years to muster its outrage? As Iraq's use of
poison gases in war and in peace was public knowledge, the question arises:
what did the United States administration do about it then? Absolutely
nothing.
When US turned a blind eye to poison gas Guardian
6. Inside Saddam's devil's kitchen ATimes
He was introduced as the director of research and development at Falluja,
one of the remote factories in which the United States says Saddam Hussein
could be making chemical and biological weapons. His name is Dr Mohammed Frah,
and when he was asked if he had worked on any of the Iraqi President's
chemical weapons programs he played a straight bat: "In the early 1980s, I
worked for five years on the chemical and biological programs at Al Muthanna."
Inside Saddam's devil's kitchen Atimes
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