Talks between India and Pakistan will go ahead despite the weekend’s bombing in the city of Pune in western India. Can the already strained relations between the two countries survive this bombing? And for how long?
Nato investigators have been hearing new details of an airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan last year, which killed up to 142 people, mainly civilians. US forces launched the strike on fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban, following advice from German ground forces. Now a Nato report says the Germans witheld vital information from the pilots of the US jets before they dropped their bombs. Al Jazeera went back to the scene of the attack to find villagers still traumatised, as David Chater reports.
democast.tv Arabic-studies scholar from Bar ilan University in Israel, Dr. Mordechai Kedar explains what al-Jazeera’s interviewer wouldn’t let him say – that Jerusalem, never mentioned in the Koran, was deemed holy for Islam for political purposes.
Richard Kemp was the commander of British forces in Afghanistan in 2003. Speaking to Al Jazeera from London, he says the bombing in Kunduz province that claimed 142 lives last September highlights the confusion of war and the inexperience of the German ground commanders.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who allegedly tried to explode a US bound airliner on Christmas day, spent three years studying at the University College London (UCL). He was also the president of the university’s Islamic Society, which has since been under intense scrutiny – along with UCL administration. The UK is setting up a panel to consider ways to prevent extremism while protecting freedom of speech. Al Jazeera’s Nadim Baba reports. [January 25, 2010]
In the run-up to the country’s parliamentary elections Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri looks at the increasing number of Islamic hotels along the Turkish coast.
Osama Bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the failed attack on a US airliner on December 25 in a new audio tape. In the tape obtained by Al Jazeera, the world’s most wanted man warns Barack Obama, the US president, that there will be more attacks unless he finds a solution to the Palestinian crisis.
Robert Grenier, the former chief counter-terrorism official at the CIA, talks to Al Jazeera’s David Foster about America’s battles abroad. Grenier also served as the agency’s station chief in Islamabad in Pakistan.
The US is increasing its security assistance to Yemen following a failed airline bombing attempt in the US. A Yemen group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed to be behind the attempted attack and Yemeni officials said security forces clashed with suspected al-Qaeda fighters on Wednesday in the western part of the country. Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.