Never Ending Siege, Blue star Escalates
U.S. warns of increased risk of summer attacks
No specific terror threat, officials say, but al-Qaida may be 'rebuilding'
White House to back Iraq policy on Hill
Hadley to meet with GOP senators to shore up waning support for war
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PAKISTAN’S BLUESTAR
The unlikely sight of troops in armoured cars storming a mosque in a Muslim nation greeted the world today as Islamabad launched its own version of Operation Bluestar, freeing the Lal Masjid of militants and killing its head Abdul Rashid Ghazi. ... | Read..
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It is never ending siege for US colonies, the countries of third world including South Asia. Pakistan happens to be the closest ally of US War against Terrorism and it is not seer coincidence that the Operation Blue star escalates to Pakistan. bangladesh reel under political uncertainity and the interim government works well for US interestes with full support of the Army. Pkistan enjoy direct Army Rule and the President is in Uniform. While, India boasts to be as stronger as US Democracy where administration, economy, judiciary, secutrity forces and culture and society.. everything is politiacalised most to serve US Hindu Zionist Imperialism. US does everything to implement Post modern Imperialism with full support from the Ruling Brahminical coradors of this subcontinent. Green Revolution resulted in Punjab crisis and Mrs Indidra gandhi sought a military solution with Operation blue Star! The Nation was torn with Terrorism and the follow up continues till this date. General Musharraf seems not to be a good student of history. Neither the other comradiors are well aware of past, present and future as they happen to be rather much more interested in their swiss Bank Accounts and holding to gether the Brahminical polities to maintain unquestionable dominance on the majority underprevileged people!
Operation Silence against the militants hiding in Lal Masjid Islamabad will have repercussions because the government mishandled the matter, said members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in reaction Tuesday. Security Forces have barred journalists from coverage of Lal Mosque Operation on Tuesday after ‘operation silence’ was launched. Reports said that as soon as the operation started Security Forces took control of Polyclinic, CDA and PIMS Hospital and asked the journalists including patients and their attendants who were already there to leave the hospital.
At this both the patients and Journalists protested against this act of security force. When journalists asked them to show the government circular in this regard they adopted rude attitude and threatened to shoot them dead if they tried to enter in the Hospital premises. The personnel of the Security Forces also warned the doctors not to share any kind of information leading to injured persons or dead bodies which took place during the operation with Journalists. Furthermore, their mobile phones have also been powered off.
Attacks on army convoys and police vehicles and a blockade of the Silk Road might be called part of the repercussions. The PPP’s Taj Haider and PML-N’s Mamnoon Hussain said they disagreed with the way the final round was conducted against the militants. “More time should have been given to save the lives of the children and female students of Jamia Hafsa,” said Hussain, who has held the post of Sindh governor during Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N government. He and Haider blamed the president for failing to end Operation Silence peacefully which they believe could have been done by implementing the accord reached between the prime minister and the mediating religious scholars.
Criticizing government’s policy to deal Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa issue, Leader of the Opposition in Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani said that the tragedy could have been avoided if the regime had acted in accordance with law, six or seven months earlier. In a press release issued here Tuesday, the Opposition leader in the Senate said that the loss of human lives on both sides in the Lal Masjid tragedy is unfortunate, regrettable and condemnable. Mian Raza Rabbani offered his condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives in the Madarsa and those officials of the security forces who have lost their lives. He said that the government, in the last stages failed to carry out structured serious dialogue to prevent the heavy loss of lives on both sides.
Meanwhile,Britain has issued a robust response to Al-Qaida's threat to teach it another "lesson" to top 7/7, if it continues to enrage the ummah with allegedly anti-Muslim acts, such as giving a knighthood to Mumbai-born novelist Salman Rushdie.On the other hand, as the Senate debate on Iraq heats up this week, Democrats and anti-war activists hope a growing number of Republicans turn against the war and in favor of a troop pullout.
Within a week of Parliamentary Committee asking the government to put a freeze on notification of SEZs, the Board of Approval (BoA) will meet tomorrow to consider 41 cases that would take the total clearances above 500.
The BoA, headed by Commerce Secretary G K Pillai, will consider granting formal clearances to Mukesh Ambani-promoted Navi Mumbai Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Hindalco aluminium SEZ in Orissa.
The proposal for a multi-product SEZ in Chhindwara, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath's Lok Sabha constituency, is also coming up for a nod.
The Navi Mumbai SEZ was deferred twice on issues, including protection of villagers' rights, raised by the Revenue Department. The Maharashtra government has given its clean chit on these issues.
The SEZ proposals of other prominent companies listed for tomorrow include that of Unitech, Parasvnath and Videocon. Videocon proposes to set up a biotechnology SEZ at Siliguri in West Bengal for which a foundation stone was laid last month.
The Standing Committee of Parliament headed by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had said that no further zones should be notified till the SEZ Act and rules are amended to address concerns of displaced farmers.
The United States on Wednesday criticised India's wheat import regulations as "unrealistic" after strict controls on weed presence, fumigation and inspection barred purchases of U.S. grain in a recent tender.While Pakistani commandos eradicated last pockets of resistance by militants at Islamabad's Red Mosque Wednesday after heavy fighting that claimed scores of lives, officials said. India follows the Chinese line of Open Market and Neo Liberalism hoping to compete with the Asian Giant in growth Rate while India remains the world's top outsourcing hub but faces an increasing threat from rival China because of India's high attrition rate, poor infrastructure and rising wages, a global research group said Wednesday.According to its 2006 global outsourcing survey, Frost & Sullivan said India was the top hub, followed by China, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Philippines and Canada.The survey reviewed some 300 multinational firms in seven sectors: financial services, technology, health care, fast-growing consumer goods, transportation, energy, and media and entertainment.
Capitalist Marxist Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhdev Bhattachary leads the Eviction Rural India drive with Nandigram singur experiments with full support from the Government of India and the Congress Party ruling the country! Other chief ministers do follow him. Thus, the Killing Fields do have the same characteristics in different geopolitics of this divided sub continent. Only the integrity and intensity of the Imperialist attacks do differ! While, in Pakistan and bangladesh the Ruling Class has the freedom to kill at will with adequate army coverage, Indian ruling brahminical class does the same thing with much more surgical precision with some elements of so called democracy!
For many economists, questioning free-market orthodoxy is akin to expressing a belief in intelligent design at a Darwin convention: Those who doubt the naturally beneficial workings of the market are considered either deluded or crazy.But in recent months, economists have engaged in an impassioned debate over the way their specialty is taught in universities around the United States, and practiced in Washington. They are questioning the profession's most cherished ideas about not interfering in the economy.And free trade is not the only sacred subject, Blinder and other like-minded economists say. Most efforts to intervene in the markets - like setting a minimum wage, instituting industrial policy or regulating prices - are viewed askance by mainstream economists, as are analyses that do not rely on mathematical modeling.That attitude, the critics argue, has seriously harmed the discipline, suppressing original, creative thinking and distorting policy debates.Most economists are still devoted to what is known as the neoclassical model. Philip Reny, chairman of the economics department at the University of Chicago - the temple of free-market economics - said the theory and methods were "taught to avoid personal biases and conclusions that aren't found in the data."
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered the storming operation after talks for the surrender of militant clerics and their heavily-armed followers failed early Tuesday. Explosions continued to echo from the sealed-off mosque and an adjacent girls' madrassa Wednesday afternoon as security forces searched for remaining fighters, booby-traps and unexploded ordnance.
Ghazi's body was Wednesday sent back to his remote home village of Rojhan Mazari in the central Punjab province for burial. The chief cleric, his brother Maulana Abdul Aziz, was arrested last week while trying to flee the mosque disguised in a burqa veil. He was was to be allowed to attend the burial, which Ghazi's family said should take place at another boys' madrassa in Islamabad instead.
U.S. counterterror officials are warning of an increased risk of an attack this summer, given al-Qaida's apparent interest in summertime strikes and increased al-Qaida training in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the editorial board of The Chicago Tribune that he had a "gut feeling" about a new period of increased risk.He based his assessment on earlier patterns of terrorists in Europe and intelligence he would not disclose.Chertoff's department has not made any move to increase the nation's color-coded terror alert system. Now, airlines are under orange — or high — alert, which is the second most serious level on a five-point scale. The rest of the country remains a step below at yellow, or elevated.
on the other hand,as the Senate debates taking a new course in Iraq, President Bush's national security adviser scheduled a meeting with more than a dozen Republican senators in a bid to shore up eroding support for the war.
Other U.S. counterterrorism officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, shared Chertoff's concern and said that al-Qaida and like-minded groups have been able to plot and train more freely in the tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border in recent months. Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding in the rugged region.
As the Senate debates taking a new course in Iraq, President Bush’s national security adviser scheduled a meeting with more than a dozen Republican senators in a bid to shore up eroding support for the war.
Stephen Hadley was to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday — one of many such forays in recent days — as the White House finalized a 23-page progress report on Iraq that concludes the government in Baghdad has made little progress in meeting reform goals laid down by Bush and Congress.
Iraq’s inability to pass laws considered key to national cohesion and economic recovery or achieve other major milestones has prompted a backlash by Bush’s one-time staunch political defenders.
At least 10 Republicans in recent weeks have said the United States should start reducing the military’s role in Iraq, with the latest challenge to the president’s Iraq strategy coming Tuesday from Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
18 benchmarks
Earlier this year, Congress passed a 2007 war spending bill that identified 18 benchmarks for political, security and economic reforms. The list was based on promises made by the Iraqi government when Bush decided to send in 30,000 additional U.S. troops.
The legislation required Bush to certify by July 15 and again on Sept. 15 that Baghdad was making significant strides in meeting the benchmarks. If he cannot, U.S. aid dollars must be cut, according to the law.
The law allows Bush to waive the requirement to cut funding.
Based on that list, the administration is likely to argue some progress has been made in reducing the level of sectarian violence and militia control. Iraq also has established several, but not all, of the needed joint neighborhood security stations in Baghdad, as well as increased the number of capable Iraqi security units.
On the other hand, the foiled terrorist attacks in Britain last month have prompted anxiety and soul searching in India, a country whose economy relies heavily on its citizens' ability to work overseas.Some of those arrested in connection with the thwarted bombings in London and Glasgow are Muslims from India. It is the first time since 1985, when a bomb downed Air India Flight 182 near the coast of Ireland, that Indian citizens have been implicated in a major international terrorist incident.The revelations have prompted fears that Indian professionals, Muslim or otherwise, will face increasing difficulty finding employment overseas.
Some Indians remember that the first hate crime victim in the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh filling station owner in Arizona shot to death by a man who apparently saw Sodhi's turban as a symbol of terrorism and anti-American hatred.
A pledge by Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain last week to review policies for screening foreign doctors was met with a plea from the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, not to single out citizens of any country for scrutiny.
"A terrorist is a terrorist and has no religion or community," Singh said he told Brown.
Pakistan is now counting the human and political cost of the armed assault on the Lal Masjid that killed radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi and at least 50 militant fighters.The standoff between the Pakistani government and the militant Lal Masjid has finally ended on Tuesday when commandos stormed the mosque and madarsa complex.After 15 hours of heavy fighting they flushed out militants holed up in the complex.But the big question left hanging was whether any women or children said to have been at the mosque's religious schools had been killed.The final body count is still unknown as mopping up operations at the Lal Masjid, are going on.
Pakistani troops killed Abdul Rashid Ghazi, a top cleric at the Red Mosque, during fierce room-by-room fighting on Tuesday to flush out holdouts entrenched inside a women's religious school in the capital, officials said.Once respected by the Pakistani establishment, the smooth-talking cleric at the center of the Islamabad mosque siege pushed authorities too far with his sometimes bizarre drive to enforce strict Islamic law in the city.
Meanwhile, speculation grew that a far higher death toll was being withheld to avert a major backlash by extremists and anger among the general public. Rumours circulated that the army had commandeered several refrigerated warehouses on the city's fringes and that bodies taken there in ambulances were to be buried in a mass grave located on military territory. Cheema rejected media reports that the government had requested delivery by emergency services of hundreds of shrouds for bodies.
The operation against the Lal Masjid has increased opposition to the President, Pervez Musharraf, among those who are sympathetic towards the Taliban and oppose his backing of the US-led "war on terror". Radical Islamists have been roused by what, for them, was an emblematic act of martyrdom.
It is supposed to be election year in Pakistan and the big question is whether the Red Mosque debacle has helped or hindered Musharraf's chances. From the beginning of the crisis, the general's critics have questioned the timing of the mosque drama and suggested that it was contrived to draw attention away from a domestic political crisis.
Musharraf has been beleaguered since he tried to sack the Chief Justice. His standing has been dented by faltering American support and the killing of more than 40 people by his political allies in Karachi in May.
To some extent, Lal Masjid will have re-established his damaged credentials as a bulwark against terrorism. He has had to enforce, brutally, his policy of enlightened moderation. By storming the mosque, he has been drawn further into a battle he has hitherto tried to avoid.
Musharraf has always striven to balance the demands of America, which has bankrolled his regime to the tune of $US10 billion ($11.6 billion) since 2001, and Islamic radicals.
This equilibrium has been underscored in blood in recent months, whereby every military action taken in Pakistan's tribal areas against pro-Taliban militants has been met with a series of suicide bomb attacks against soldiers and officials.
The murky relationship between jihadis, the mainstream military and Pakistan's military intelligence agencies is in flux. Many of the jihadist groups that have fought in Indian-held Kashmir and Afghanistan, and that are suspected of infiltrating militants into Lal Masjid, were financed and trained by military intelligence. Pakistani generals had considered the tens of thousands of jihadis a strategic asset, but now the high command is at a loss over how to decommission this "freelance" force.
The dark arts practised by the top brass over the past few years to control the radicals - fattening the established radical religious leaders with political power and cash - are losing their sway as younger, more extreme radicals have come to the fore.
Musharraf's American backers may come to look at Lal Masjid as a metaphor for his record on controlling extremism.
His drive since 2002 to reform madrassas has failed because of opposition from hardline groups. Pakistan saw a spectacular rise in madrassa numbers in the 1980s, when the schools, backed by funding from the West and Arab countries, became recruiting grounds for volunteers fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Some madrassas later supplied recruits for the Taliban.
Lal Masjid is a case in point. Critics noted that the mosque first earned a reputation for militancy in the 1980s, under its founder, Maulana Abdullah, who used to work for military intelligence. When he was assassinated, the mosque was taken over by his sons, Abdur Rashid Ghazi and Mohammed Abdul Aziz. Both are former civil servants.
That Ghazi has been transformed into a Islamist hero as a result of Pakistan's anarchic governance is lamentable. After he was accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate Musharraf, he boasted of how he merely lay low in Islamabad while the army scoured the country. The charges were later dropped. When he was arrested after weapons were found in his car, again intelligence officials ordered his release.
The Lal Masjid circus always had a contrived air of a deus ex machina, so when Ghazi declared on Tuesday, "My martyrdom is near", and later died during the raid on the mosque, it was doubly tragic. He had his strings pulled by greater forces - either intelligence agencies or militant groups.
War on Terrorism
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Countries in which Islamist terrorist attacks have occurred on or after 9/11.The War on Terrorism is a term used by the administration of US President George W. Bush to designate various military, political, and legal actions taken to ostensibly "curb the spread of terrorism" following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. Both the phrase “War on Terrorism” and the policies it denotes have been a source of ongoing controversy, as critics argue it has been used to justify unilateral preemptive war, perpetual war, human rights abuses, and other violations of international law.[1][2][3]
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peration Blue Star
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Operation Blue Star (June 3 to June 6, 1984) was an Indian military operation at the Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, the holiest temple of the Sikhs to flush out hundreds of armed sikh militants led by Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale using the religious complex as a safe haven.
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A picture of Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo kissing Bollywood star Bipasha Basu has caught the attention of the Indian media, and caused speculation about a romantic link between the sultry actress and the footballer. The two met in Lisbon at the weekend where they had gone for a show to announce the new seven wonders of the world, named following an online poll. Indian papers on Wednesday picked up a British tabloid picture showing Ronaldo, 22, kissing 28-year-old Basu.
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World Population Day: Respect women’s right to reproductive health
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will mark World Population Day today (Wednesday) with a pledge to reduce the population growth rate from 1.8 percent at present to 1.3 percent by 2020.
The day has been marked on July 11 the world over for the last 17 years. It aims to educate people about benefits of family planning and its impacts on progress.
According to official statistics, Pakistan is the seventh most populous country with 153 million-strong population. The annual population growth rate is 1.8 percent which is expected to double in the next 30 years.
In the 1980s, Pakistan’s population growth rate was 3.5 percent. Though it has been taken down to 1.8 percent, the target is set at 1.3 percent to achieve by 2020. This year’s theme of World Population Day is ‘Men as Partners for Maternal Health.’ It shows that the focus has been put on men’s role in supporting women’s rights, including their right to sexual and reproductive health.
“We see men and women as partners in family-making with mutual respect and trust. It promotes right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity” United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Dr Thoraya Ahmad Obaid was quoted to have said so in a report.
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Police recount horror of Maoist death-trap
Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:54 PM IST
By Sujeet Kumar
RAIPUR, India (Reuters) - The Maoist rebels who shot dead 24 policemen in the jungles of Chhattisgarh disfigured several victims' heads with axe blows and stripped the corpses of shoes and socks, police witnesses said on Wednesday.
Fresh details of Monday's grisly gunbattle in Chhattisgarh emerged from policemen who had survived what they describe as a well-designed ambush by rebels armed with AK-47 automatic rifles and mortars inside a hilly, dense jungle.
"Initially Maoists had fired a few shots in the air and panicked all of us," a police commander who was part of the 115-strong unit told Reuters by telephone. He wanted his name withheld because he is not allowed to speak to the press.
"Then there was a brief silence and we all thought that the rebels had run away," he added. "But then all of a sudden they attacked with mortars and AK-47s."
Some of the policemen knew the terrain and fled. The rest were trapped, the commander said. Police blame a lack of back-up forces for the number of police deaths that followed.
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World Population Moving More Toward Urban Areas
By Robert Raffaele
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This week marks the United Nations' annual observance of World Population Day (Wednesday July 11th) -- focusing attention on issues surrounding population growth worldwide. The annual event comes on the heels of a U.N. report that says the world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. VOA's Robert Raffaele has more.
The U.N. report offers some daunting statistics. By 2008, more than half of the world's population -- 3.3 billion people -- will be living in urban areas.
By the year 2030, that number is expected to grow to almost five billion, or 60 percent of the world population. The urban populations of Africa and Asia are projected to double during the same period.
Slum dwelling
The report emphasizes that poor people will continue to comprise much of the urban population. More than 90 percent of slum dwellers today are in the developing world.
South Asia has the largest share, followed by Eastern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
Thoraya Obaid is the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund.
Thoraya Obaid
"Policy makers and officials need to ensure that there is good urban landscape planning, so that there is good housing that does not turn into slums and that there are also the necessary social services that will allow people to have a decent life," she says.
Lawrence Smith, Junior is the president of the Population Institute, a non-profit group in Washington, D.C. that seeks to reduce rapid population growth.
Smith says one problem is that many developing countries do not have job training and other programs to help new, unskilled labor -- especially the young -- join the workforce.
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The nearly always-incoherent GW Bush has somehow managed to make an art of steering public attention away from the collapsing economy and the rampant greed and corruption in the US. The stock market has fallen for 5 weeks straight, and particularly on the technology-heavy NASDAQ index, the fictitious gains of the boom have been all but obliterated. His financial and political buddies have been exposed as crooks, and more and more questions are being asked about his role in all of this. What's a guy to do?! Well, the easy thing to do would be to start a war! History shows that at least at the beginning of a war, there's nothing better to distract the public. Bush started by declaring a "war on terror" on anyone and everybody who wasn't "with us", and now he is determined to attack Iraq. Never mind that all wars inevitably lead to even greater instability and unrest in the long-term - Bush and company are too obtuse to think that far ahead.
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merica's War Against Terrorism, 9/11Comprehensive directory covering the September 11th attack, previous and post attacks, counterterrorism, terrorism in and from other countries, ...
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Imperialism has been experienced by numerous countries and peoples across the globe. This Home Page is designed to access Web sites which contain information about various countries that were once colonies of imperialist powers. The first set of links deal specifically with the culture and history of India. The second set contains Web sites about various African nations. And the third contain resources on imperialism in Africa.
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American Empire
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International Socialist ReviewBut Vietnam also showed how U.S. imperialism can be beaten. The Vietnamese people's struggle for self-determination against the U.S. and the U.S.-backed ...
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Chavez raps US imperialism``We mustn't forget we're facing US imperialism,'' Mr Chavez said. A vote against his recall, he said, would be ``Christ's vote against imperialism''. ...
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Forrest Hylton: US Imperialism in Latin AmericaUS Imperialism in Latin America. September 11, July 4 and Systematic Torture. By FORREST HYLTON. Having been asked to comment on the US and the meaning of ...
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe.By the late 1800's Britain was losing its lead in the economic world. Developing countries such as United States and Germany were taking valuable market share away from Britain. How would Britain keep up in this quickly changing world? Many felt that the answer rested in imperialism or the practice of gaining colonies for economic, political, or militaristic benefit. Britain used its colonies for new markets and resources. Soon countries such as France, Japan, and the United States began to gain colonies of their own. Colonies became a source of pride as well as economic benefit. Europeans felt that they had an obligation to bring their "superior" culture to their colonies. Missionaries went to colonies in Africa and Asia to introduce their religion to the natives. People were fascinated by the stories of adventurers such as Livingstone and Stanley and motivated by the writings of Rudyard Kipling.
Although Latin and South America were not generally colonized by other countries, many of their economies were dominated by the United States and Europe. The United States built the Panama Canal which raised the US's interests in the area. Imperialism would slowly dissolve as colonies gained nationalism and demanded independence, colonies became too expensive to maintain, and public feeling was against imperialism.
Remembering 7/11
On July 11, 2006, a series of blasts on Mumbai's local trains rocked the city.
It's been exactly a year since, and the country pays homage to the victims who lost their lives in one of the biggest strikes anywhere in the world since 9/11...
7/11 'confession' CD leak has Mumbai cops in dock
The CD was leaked to a TV news channel and was aired on Tuesday.
ll for vote on ‘Europe empire’
Britain has been told that is was part of a new European empire — by Jos?anuel Barroso, the Brussels bureaucrat who would be emperor
Al-Qaeda threaten attacks over Rushdie honour
Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri said Britain should prepare for a 'very precise response' to Salman Rushdie's knighthood
Brown raises Madeleine concerns with Portugal
Gordon Brown used meeting with Portuguese PM to raise concerns about aspects of Madeleine McCann investigation
The Maoist rebels who shot dead 24 policemen in the jungles of Chhattisgarh disfigured several victims' heads with axe blows and stripped the corpses of shoes and socks, police witnesses said on Wednesday.
Bangalore police get new leads
A hard disk that belongs to UK terror plotter Kafeel Ahmed contains an animation video showing how a syringe can be used in a bomb, reports said. ...more
Relative of CBI chief murdered
The brother-in-law of the head of the Cen
