law of war in the war on terror
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...2009. "A Resolute Ally in the War on Terror," Opinion: The Weekend Interview. The Wall Street ...
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...He refers to matters such as the "war on terror", the deployment of Canadian police officers in st...
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... goal of meeting the challenge of global terrorism and failed states. For Daalder and Goldgeier, NATO...
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...In 2009, the 'war-on-terror' cases also continued to play a substantial role i...
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... intervention protects Canadians from terrorist threats and therefore enhances Canada's national s...
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The Harper government claims that it is keen to develop a strong policy towards Latin America. Yet it is a flawed approach, supporting US policy at a time when it is at its lowest point in decades, while ignoring both a clear leftward swing of elected Latin American governments in the last five years and the significant importance of Cuba in the region. This paper examines the Harper government's approach to Cuba. Following some general comments on the evolution of Canadian policy towards revolutionary Cuba, it examines some of the errors in the Harper approach, suggests an explanation for the approach employed, and makes suggestions about policies that Ottawa should consider to improve relations. In sports terms, Cuba "punches above its weight"-a fact which is known widely in Latin Ame...
... - and its preoccupation with the "war on terror" - has left its prestige mostly in tatters. Despit...
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...All OEF counter-terrorism operations will be conducted in close coordination...
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In what amounts to a sharp rebuke of Washington's "war on terror" tactics, a United Nations anti-torture panel yesterday called for the immediate closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba and a U.S. ban on holding suspects in secret jails abroad.
The (United States) should take immediate measures to eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment of detainees by its military or civilian personnel, in any territory under its jurisdiction," said the panel of 10 independent experts in the report. Some interrogation techniques, they added, "have resulted in the death of some detainees during interrogation.
"The United States government had, on a number of occasions, invited this UN panel to go down to Guantanamo," said Tony Snow, White House press secretary. "They chose not ...
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... particularly in the context of the "war on terror". Drawing on Lockean constitutional theory for nor...
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... its most sacred sites to an unrepentant terrorist still firmly resolved to destroy the Jewish state....