BBC | August 1, 2011
Syrian troops backed by tanks have renewed attacks on the city of Hama on the second day of a crackdown on anti-government protesters, activists say.
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SYRIA: Syrian Tanks Launch Fresh Attack on City of Hama
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Government, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Kingdom, United States, tagged Basha al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, EU, Protesters, Russia, security forces, Syria, Syrian unrest, United Kingdom, United States on August 1, 2011|
SOMALIA: Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
Posted in Africa, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Ethiopia, Foreign Aid, Government, Horn of Africa, Hostages, Internal Displaced Persons, Kenya, Refugee Camps, Somalia, Terrorists, United Nations, United States, tagged al-Qaida, Al-Shaabab, American Refugee Committee, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, famine, horn of Africa, humanitarian disaster, humanitarian relief, Islamist militants, Mogadishu, Peacekeepers, Somalia, Transitional Federal Government (TFG), United Nations, World Food Programme on August 1, 2011|
The New York Times | Jeffrey Gettleman | August 1, 2011
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.
LIBYA: NATO drones: Pentagon mulls NATO request for more U.S. drones in Libya campaign
Posted in Air Strike, Drone, Government, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, United States, tagged gaddafi, Libya, Nato, Obama Administration, predator drones, US Department of Defense on July 21, 2011|
Los Angeles Times | David S. Cloud | July 21, 2011
The Obama administration is considering sending more Predator drones and other surveillance planes to bolster the NATO air war in Libya, and has reopened a debate over whether to give weapons to the rebels seeking to overthrow Moammar Kadafi, a senior Defense Department official said.
NATO commanders requested the sophisticated surveillance aircraft after concluding that they were running out of military targets in Libya after four months of bombing and missile strikes against Kadafi’s military forces and command facilities, U.S. and NATO officials said. (more…)
Pakistan: Civilian Deaths from CIA Drone Strikes: Zero or Dozens?
Posted in Air Strike, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Drone, Government, Pakistan, South Asia, United States, tagged ACLU, Brennan, CIA, CIVIC, Civilian Casualties, drones, Pakistan, unmanned drones, US forces, USA, victims, war victims, White house on July 19, 2011|
ACLU | Jonathan Manes | July 19, 2011
For well over a year now, the ACLU has been urging the government to level with the public about the number of civilians that are being killed in its drone strike/targeted killing operations. The government has been tight-lipped — refusing even to confirm or deny the existence of any records relating to civilian casualties in CIA drone strikes. Last month, however, John Brennan, the White House’s top counterterrorism advisor broke this silence, telling reporters that “in the last year ‘there hasn’t been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that we’ve been able to develop.'” (more…)
LIBYA: Libya bill would redistribute $4 billion
Posted in Africa, Foreign Aid, Government, Libya, United Nations, United States, tagged gaddafi, humanitarian aid, Libya, UN, US Senate on June 14, 2011|
Politico | Meredith Shiner | June 13, 2011
The Senate Banking Committee will vote Thursday on a bipartisan bill to distribute an initial $4 billion in the Qadhafi government’s frozen assets to the Libyan people, the panel’s top two members announced Tuesday.
“The Libyan Assets for Humanitarian Relief Act” would authorize President Barack Obama to confiscate Qadhafi’s assets, use those resources exclusively for humanitarian aide to citizens of the war-torn nation and enable Congress to oversee the distribution of the funds. (more…)
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