Posts Tagged ‘Obama’

Empire strikes back

IN the current US presidential election campaign, President Obama has been accused by his Republican rivals of being “weak” on foreign policy and presiding over America’s decline.

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Taliban deny Mullah Omar wrote to Obama

KABUL – The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group’s leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year.
The White House received a letter in 2011 which purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, asking the United States to deliver prisoners whose transfer is now central to American efforts to broker peace in Afghanistan, an Obama administration official said …

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Taliban deny their leader sent letter to Obama

The Afghan Taliban on Saturday denied that their leader Mullah Omar had written to President Barack Obama last July. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said reports that Omar had sent a letter indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan were “baseless allegations.” “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is strongly condemning these rumors and allegations,” Mujahid said in …

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Mullah Omar sent letter to Obama to end war

WASHINGTON: Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan, current and former US officials told The Associated Press. The letter purportedly from Omar was unsigned. It was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July and was intended for [...]

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Panetta believes Israel may strike Iran this spring

United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, according to reports. The Washington Post first reported that Panetta was concerned about the increased likelihood Israel would launch an attack over the next few months. CNN said it confirmed the report, citing a senior Obama …

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Romney wins in Florida, turns sights on Obama

TAMPA: Mitt Romney clobbered Newt Gingrich by 14 percentage points in Florida’s Republican primary vote and moves on to the next state, Nevada, on Wednesday with a fat campaign bankroll and a renewed sense that he is the inevitable challenger to President Barack Obama in November. Ten days after Gingrich hammered Romney by a similar [...]

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Obama owns up to drone strikes

WASHINGTON, Jan 31: US President Barack Obama has confirmed that unmanned aircraft that regularly strike suspected militant targets in Pakistan’s tribal areas are launched by the United States and that the drones

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Obama acknowledges drone strikes; Amnesty seeks legal basis

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: The United States has officially admitted that it carries out drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas with President Barack Obama defending the use of unmanned aircraft in eliminating al Qaeda militants. After the US president’s candid confirmation, the Amnesty International on Tuesday asked the United States to disclose details of the legal and [...]

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US ‘worst-kept secret’ comes out

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday offered his first confirmation that the United States has engaged in drone attacks in Pakistan, the deadly aerial strikes that have outraged the Pakistani people and strained Islamabad-Washington ties.In the course of a discussion with web users on Google PLus Youtube, Obama said the drone attacks have been used to target al-Qaeda and its affiliates, …

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Pakistan contests US president’s stance

ISLAMABAD – Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdul Basit has said that the US drone attacks are unlawful, counterproductive and hence unacceptable.The Foreign Office spokesman made these remarks in response to a statement made by US President Barack Obama saying that drone aircraft had targeted militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghan border.“We are of the …

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Obama confirms drone attacks in Pakistan

US President Barrack Obama has for the first time officially acknowledged that the US drones have been hitting Taliban and al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan. When asked about the use of drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, Obama said “a lot of these strikes have been in the FATA”, a foreign news agency reported. “For the most part, …

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Biden admits he advised Obama not to carry out Bin Laden raid

US Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a conference of House Democrats in Maryland today, and in discussing the SEAL Team raid that successfully took out Osama bin Laden, he admitted that he advised President Obama not to carry out the mission because “we have to do more things to see if he’s there.” The vice president gave an insider account of the internal discussions in the …

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Pak not sidelined in Taliban peace talks: US

The United States has termed as “untrue” sentiments inside Pakistan that it was being sidelined by the Obama Administration in peace talks with the Taliban.
“Absolutely untrue”, state department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said, when asked there was a feeling inside Pakistan that they are being sidelined in these talks with Taliban.
“We have at every opportunity been clear that we think that …

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Obama offers populist vision in campaign-year address

WASHINGTON, Jan 25: US President Barack Obama wants large tax hikes on millionaires to finance a fair economy for all, a populist vision aimed at convincing crisis-weary voters he merits a second White House term.

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Obama ignores strained Pak ties

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama Tuesday touted his military successes – the killing of Osama bin Laden and bringing American troops home from Iraq – in his election-year State of the Union address, vowing that the US will remain the “one indispensable nation” as long as he is in the Oval Office.
But the president glossed over the serious challenges the US faces in battling with …

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Obama stands tall on foreign policy

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama brandished the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi as an election year show of foreign policy force aimed at disarming his Republican foes. Trumpeting his commander-in-chief credentials in an annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, Obama made it clear that the traditional avenue of attack – [...]

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US double standards and Iran

Javid Husain
The latest US sanctions against Iran signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 31, 2011, would bar foreign firms dealing with the Central Bank of Iran from access to the American financial system. Since the Central Bank of Iran deals with most of the country’s oil-related transactions, this measure when fully implemented would have the effect of badly hurting …

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