Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS B.RAMAN President Barack Obama, Gen.David Petraeus, the US Commander in Afghanistan, and other American leaders have rightly condemned the proposed burning of the Holy Koran by Pastor Terry Jones, who leads a congregation of about 50 followers in the city of Gainesville, Florida, on 9/11 coinciding with the [...]
ATTACKS ON SHIAS IN PAKISTAN, A MESSAGE TO IRAN TOO
September 5, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.674 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), which is an affiliate of Al Qaeda, have both claimed responsibility for the murderous attacks through suicide bombers on Shia processions during the holy fasting period at Lahore on September 1, 2010, and Quetta on September [...]
ARREST OF SOME HINDUS AS TERRORISTS: CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER
August 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Some curious and intriguing aspects of the recent allegations of our investigating agencies against some Hindus of involvement in acts of terrorism against Muslims need to be highlighted. 2. The first relates to the incendiary explosion in the Samjauta Express. The second relates to the explosions in the Mecca [...]
WIKILEAKS: THE IMPLICATIONS
July 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The leakage of nearly 90,000 documents relating to the Afghan war for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 by Wikileaks, a US web site which disseminates secret information of public interest received from whistleblowers after verifying the authenticity of the secret information, could damage the chances of [...]
HOW LONG WILL US COVER UP PAKISTAN?
July 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN According to Wikipedia, a 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, was arrested by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command in May 2010. Manning was detained without charge in a military jail at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. 2. To quote the Wikipedia: "In early July, he was faced [...]
G.K.PILLAI & S.M.KRISHNA
July 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN A team of investigators from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Govt. of India had been to the US in the beginning of June to question David Coleman Headley, an American citizen of Pakistani origin, who is presently awaiting sentence by a [...]
SITUATION IN IRANIAN BALOCHISTAN: AN UPDATE
July 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN "The Iranian authorities have been projecting the Jundallah as a surrogate of the US intelligence operating from sanctuaries in Pakistani territory. They have been alleging that the periodic terrorist strikes in Iranian Balochistan are being mounted from Pakistani territory. While they accuse the Pakistani authorities of inaction against the [...]
US-IRAN: Mosque Blasts Denounced by Obama, Clinton
July 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jul 16, 2010 (IPS) – Both U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday denounced Thursday’s suicide bomb attacks on a Shi’ite mosque in Sistan-va Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran by a Sunni extremist group that Tehran charges is being supported [...]
KAMPALA BLASTS: INDIAN CASUALTIES?
July 13, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 666 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Seventy-four persons, 60 of them reportedly Ugandan nationals, were killed and 70 others injured on July 11,2010, in two explosions suspected to have been carried out by Al-Shabaab, the Somali wing of Al Qaeda, at a local rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant at [...]
AL QAEDA IN NORWAY
July 9, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.665 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN A message of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s No. 2, broadcast by Al Jazeera on May 21, 2003, had called for reprisal attacks against the US and some of its allies for occupying Iraq. 2.The message, inter alia, said: "O Muslims, take matters firmly against the [...]
