Source: Yahoo! News The government carried out assassinations during the Cold War, novelist and former secret agent John le Carre told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The espionage writer worked for the domestic and external intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 during the 1950s and 1960s. “Certainly we did very bad things. We did a lot of [...]
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AP – The number of Afghan civilians killed or injured in the war soared 31 percent in the first six months of the year, with Taliban bombings and assassinations largely responsible for the sharp rise, the United Nations reported.
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The Obama administration has greatly increased the use of armed drones in the war in Afghanistan. Also increasing are concerns from military analysts and human rights groups, who say the drones are committing targeted assassinations and killing innocent civilians; Americans just can’t see it. Host Scott Simon speaks with John Radsan of the William Mitchell College [...]
State-sponsored assassinations are back in season. Targeted snuff jobs of state enemies are on the rise from Dubai to Dagestan, from Yemen to Waziristan. Even the United States returned to the practice this week when US president Barack Obama ordered the assassination of a US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki,the radical Imam who after 9/11 moved from Virginia [...]
Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities.
Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, Damascus and Beirut. While [...]
