Japan Rejoins US Anti-Terrorism Mission

Japan's defense minister ordered the navy Friday to return to the Indian Ocean on a U.S.-backed anti-terrorism mission, ending a three-month hiatus but deepening political divisions with the opposition.

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Washington: Acknowledging Pakistan's improved economic management in the face of some tough challenges, a senior International Monetary Fund official has urged enhanced world support for the country, a critical anti-terrorism partner in the region.

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The Obama White House's first state guest was the Indian Prime Minister, which was not surprising given that India is the big success story of the post-Cold war era that appears destined for an increasingly important global role.

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JEDDAH: Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al Sheikh asked the Ummah on Thursday not to compromise on the issue of terrorism and urged Muslims to unite against suicide attacks. 'There is no place for terrorism in Islam…Muslim intellectuals should address thi …

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Speaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman reports.

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The idea of bilateral Indian-Turkish or Indian- Israeli or a so called trilateral axis between them under the over all American umbrella has emerged, been encouraged and promoted by USA after the collapse of the USSR in late 1980s and after the 11 September in particular.

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INDIA'S JHARKAND JUGGERNAUT

Of all the states in India's troubled north east JHARKAND is the third worst effected but it has the greatest potential for a slide into total chaos from its present precarious situation.

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BEIJING: China has offered counter-terrorism system to Pakistan to curb terrorism.

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Federal agents on Saturday arrested a Colorado man who had been under surveillance as part of an anti-terrorism investigation that came to light in a series of New York City raids earlier in the week, according to media reports. raids

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the CIA's aggressive interrogation of terrorists by saying it kept the nation safe from "mass casualty attacks" for eight years.

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Former Homeland Security Secretary warns that national security will suffer if counter-terrorism warriors fear that bosses will second-guess their front-line actions after the fact.

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Nicola McGarrity is director of the Terrorism and Law Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of NSW: "Freedoms are losing out to fear ... warrantless searches ... [8 days] detention without charge".

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CAMP RILEA, Ore. (Army News Service, June 22, 2009) -- Airmen, Soldiers and Sailors tested months of planning and preparation, June 18-20, with a major U.S. Northern Command air defense exercise.

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Northcom | North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command are planning to conduct a combined exercise June 18 - 24 that will incorporate several military exercises with a National Guard exercise. These linked exercises are referred to as ARDENT SENTRY 09.

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A former Georgia Tech student was convicted Wednesday of plotting to aid a terrorist group by videotaping landmarks around Washington, D.C.

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If you walk weird, make funny faces, or sweat a little too much — watch out, when you walk into an airport. The U.S. military wants to use those irregularities as "indicators" of "possibly suspicious and harmful intent."

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President Barack Obama will attempt to regain control of a boiling debate over anti-terrorism policy with a major speech on Thursday — an address that comes on the same day that former Vice President Dick Cheney will be weighing in with his own speech on the same theme.

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Operation Rah-e-Rast

by Ahsan Waheed: Pakistan army cuts like a knife through mussels of global apprehension that had been curtly questioning (here, here, here) both, its resolve and resilience, to thrash out hard and firm: talibs of wide-eyed transgression.

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Pirates, quiver in your skiffs. Put down your rocket launchers and run. The USS Freedom has just landed. Or launched. Whatever, just be afraid.

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About 30 detainees have been cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON, April 27 (APP): The U.S. should persuade India to pull back its troops from Kashmir so that Pakistan could focus more effectively on the fight against violent extremism, a key Republican senator said as lawmakers urged Washington against dictating terms to Islamabad.

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On March 6, 2009, the great-grandson of first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and scion of a family dynasty, Varun Gandhi, while making rabble-rousing comments against Muslims during his election campaign in the town of Pilibhit

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The Obama administration failed — miserably — the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to impose blanket secrecy on anti-terrorism policies and avoid accountability for serial abuses of the law.

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The European Union will need time to solve the difficult issue of whether to help President Barack Obama shut the Guantanamo jail by taking in inmates, the bloc's anti-terrorism chief said on Thursday.

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The Dossier Difficulty

Before Pakistan got the Mumbai Dossier from India the general perception was that the Mumbai attack was a meticulously planned operation and that none except professionals had anything to do with it.

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The President-elect is laying plans to dissolve a White House security panel created in the wake of 9/11 and restructure counterterrorism policy under intelligence veteran John Brennan.

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