Free Republic

With both ...Obama and John McCain calling for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan, there have been a slew of articles arguing this will at best not work and, at worst, fuel the insurgency...Zbigniew Brzezinski,...prominent supporter of Barack Obama, ...risks repeating the defeat suffered by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan."... Our strategy is getting in deeper and deeper.” ...Canada’s Globe and Mail, ... ”We knew by 1985 that we could not win,” it quotes veteran Ruslan Aushev as saying. It then took Moscow four more years to extricate hundreds of thousands of troops... Gulf News, Patrick Seale says that...

Islamabad, July 24: Pakistan's security and intelligence agencies have been put on high alert following reports that local Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has prepared a hit list of 300 high-profile figures, including top political leaders. Among those that could be targeted are the leadership of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, Awami National Party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement and anti-Taliban Shia and Sunni clerics, said source close to an intelligence agency. Personnel from intelligence and law enforcement agencies, officials from the federal interior and provincial ministries and journalists could also be targeted by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan of Mehsud, who was blamed for...

Everything was on fire. The trucks. The bazaar. The grass. It looked surreal. It looked like a movie. That was what Spc. Tyler Stafford remembered thinking as he stepped onto the medical evacuation helicopter. The 23-year-old soldier would have been loaded onto the bird, but the poncho that was hastily employed as his stretcher broke. His body speckled with grenade and RPG shrapnel, the Vicenza, Italy, infantryman walked the last few feet to the waiting Black Hawk. That was Sunday morning in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province. At a forward operating base — maybe as big as a football field —...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers killed "dozens" of militants, including foreigners, in a clash on a highway in southern Zabul province on Thursday, the defence ministry said. The clash broke out following reports of an ambush by the insurgents in Zabul, the ministry said in a statement. "Thirty-four bodies of terrorists, among them a number of foreigners, have been collected from the battlefield," it said, adding some ammunitions were also seized. It did not say if there were any casualties among the Afghan troops. The interior ministry said police forces were also involved and put the number of Taliban deaths...

Afghan Fundamentalism: The Role of the U.S., Russia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia David Storobin, Esq. - 12/12/2004 Victor Boot was a graduate of Military Institute for Foreign Languages in Moscow, a known school for Russian intelligence. He was the son of the son-in-law of foreign Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who initiated the Russian policy of secretly assisting Islamic terrorists. In 1997, Boot arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the first time. From UAE, it was easier for Boot to funnel Russian weaponry to Afghanistan. In June 2001 - less than three months before September 11 - Pakistani intelligence described...

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed groups of enemy fighters during operations in Afghanistan this week, military officials said. While coalition forces yesterday searched compounds in the Sayed Abad district of Wardak province for a Taliban commander, a cadre of militants inside a barricaded house attacked troops with grenades, machine guns and small-arms fire. Coalition forces fought back using small arms and grenades, and they called in an air strike, killing an unknown number of the enemy fighters, military officials said. Combined forces also came under ambush during a July 21 operation in the Maruf district...

A Royal Marine who threw himself on to an exploding grenade to save the lives of his comrades is to receive the George Cross. Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher stepped on a trip-wire which triggered the device during a night raid on a Taliban compound in Afghanistan. Realising that three other members of his patrol would be killed if he did not act, he launched himself forward to smother the explosion, managing to twist on to his back to let his rucksack take the full force of the blast. Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher with his shredded rucksack. Having stepped on a...

Coalition partners meeting: ‘Foreign attacks on Pakistan won’t be tolerated’ * Pakistan’s territory will not be used for terrorist attacks * Issues of militancy, extremism will be brought before parliament for discussion By Zulfiqar Ghuman ISLAMABAD: The government’s coalition partners unanimously agreed on Wednesday that no foreign attacks would be tolerated on the country’s sovereign soil. During a seven-hour meeting between the heads of the ruling parties at Prime Minister’s House, the coalition partners said that no one would be allowed to use Pakistan’s territory to stage terrorist attacks on foreign countries, and challenge the writ of state. The meeting...

Barack Obama said: "We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there." Mr. Obama should have supported the surge in Iraq, but that doesn't mean that advocating one in Afghanistan makes sense ==== snip ====== Regional Command East has been applying a standard formula in 14 Afghan provinces, usually with great success. Even privates can tell you that it's about living among the people, building projects for them, and, in the Pashtun belt, getting the tribes on your side >==== snip ====== Nuristanis -- who were converted from paganism to Islam only...

AMMAN: The US Democratic candidate Barack Obama said that a conspiracy is being planned in tribal areas for attacking the United States. Talking with journalists on arriving in Jordan from Iraq, Barack Obama said that the situation in tribal areas is deteriorating and more US troops are needed in Afghanistan. Obama said that he is willing for the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan within 16 months after he becomes the US president. King Abdullah warmly received him on arriving in Jordan.

The Afghan government believes that key leaders in the Pakistani army and intelligence service (the ISI) are still making deals, some of them secret, with the Taliban and Islamic radical groups, to make it easier for Afghanistan to be attacked, while providing Pakistan some immunity from terrorism. This kind of cynical arrangement is a staple of politics, especially in the Moslem world. Islamic radical groups will grant such immunity from attack in return for favors, then later resume attacks. So while the Afghan accusations may sound bizarre to Western ears, they make a lot of sense along the Afghan-Pakistan border....

THE Taliban were in disarray last night after their Helmand province leader surrendered — fearing the SBS was about to kill him.

Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan Reuters July 22, 2008 KABUL (Reuters) - A senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan surrendered to Pakistani authorities and British forces killed another leader, dealing a "shattering blow" to the militant group's leadership, the British army said on Tuesday. Mullah Rahim, the top commander for southern Helmand province, gave himself up after British forces had killed two other Taliban leaders in little over three weeks. Hours after his surrender, another senior Taliban commander, Abdul Rasaq, also known as "Mullah Sheikh", was killed in a British missile strike 15 km (9 miles) north of the...

LAHORE: The repeated assertions by the American and Afghan officials that the tribal areas of Pakistan have turned into a safe haven for Al Qaeda militants have finally been endorsed by the Pakistani intelligence agencies in their recent report to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, admitting for the first time that the number of the ‘foreign fighters’ present in the Pak-Afghan tribal belt is around 10,000. According to sources in the PM Secretariat, the revelation has been made in a classified report submitted to PM Gillani recently by the ISI, ahead of his upcoming visit to the US during which he...

Obama's Balancing Act Abroad In The Middle East, Obama Juggles Troop And Territory Issues That Are Delicate And Potentially Explosive AMMAN, Jordan, July 21, 2008 (CBS) This week is more than a series of photo ops. Barack Obama hopes to convince voters back home that he's comfortable on the world stage and can juggle a number of delicate and potentially explosive foreign-policy issues, CBS News anchor Katie Couric reports. During the primaries, Obama built his candidacy on the premise that he believed the Iraq War was a mistake he opposed all along. As he said: "a war that never should have...

Cartoons in Pakistani Press on Pakistan-U.S. Relations Following the swearing in of the new government in Islamabad under Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in March 2008, Pakistan-U.S. relations have come under strain. The key areas of dispute involve the new government’s policy of dialogue with the Taliban and the Taliban’s attack on Afghan, U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. During the past few months, a number of cartoons in Pakistani press have reflected the strain on Pakistan-U.S. relations.For more on Pakistan and Afghanistan, visit the MEMRI Urdu-Pashtu Blog at http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu.The following are examples of these cartoons: Asif Zardari Approves U.S....

While the hopeful POTUS DNC candidate jets around Europe and the Middle East to meet with leaders he will be "dealing with for the next eight to 10 years," - along with an adoring media circus in tow - it's amazing how all reports of his "tour of duty" manage to ellude the gaping hole in Obama's Middle East foreign policy strategy. Were he serious about his transfer of the battle against the Global Islamic Jihad Movement to Afghanistan, his first stop should have been Pakistan. Instead, that is the one place Obama fears to tread. He has not laid...

In his interview with CBS News, Obama says: Logan: Because you do have a situation seven years on into this war where Osama bin Laden and all his lieutenants and all the leaders of the Taliban, they’re still there. And they’re inside Pakistan. Obama: Right. It’s a huge problem. And first of all, if we hadn’t taken our eye off the ball, we might have caught them before they got into Pakistan and were able to reconstitute themselves. Several times in recent interviews, Obama has referred to "taken our eye off the ball" in terms of the invasion of Iraq,...

PESHAWAR, July 20: Accusing the secret agencies of creating law and order situation in the Federally Administered Tribal areas (Fata), Awami National Party has asked the federal government to rein in the intelligence agencies to control the soaring militancy in the region. “The people of tribal areas have been bearing the brunt of the ill-directed and flawed policies of the federal government,” said Abdul Lateef Afridi, ANP in-charge of tribal areas, at a news briefing after chairing a meeting of party Fata chapter meeting at Bacha Khan Markaz here on Sunday. He added that on one hand tribal people lived...

The Pakistani Stumbling Block by: Rachel Paulk, July 21, 2008 The largest obstacle facing the NATO troops in Afghanistan is Pakistan. Afghanistan’s most volatile area is its porous northeastern border with Pakistan because the mountainous terrain prohibits enforcement of a secure border between the two countries. This terrain also provides safe breeding ground for the terrorist organizations forced to relocate. Osama bin Laden hid in this area following the Taliban’s removal from serious control of the country after the September 11, 2001 attacks. On the other side of the border, Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) contains poor ethnic tribes...

A Pakistani filmmaker has launched a campaign to secure the release of 78 American teenagers from a Taliban-backed madarsa in the country and asked the US to step in to check students enrolment in radical seminaries to close ''the pipeline to jihad''. Imran Raza, who helped secure the release of two US teenagers of Pakistani origin, found up to 80 other such boys and girls in Karachi-based Jamia Binoria madarsa while shooting Karachi Kids a documentary on American children in Pakistan's seminaries that will be released next week. Raza's film focuses on Noor Elahi Khan, 17, and Mahboob Elahi Khan,...

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2008 – An undetermined number of enemy fighters were killed today in separate air strikes in Afghanistan, with one of the engagements prompting an investigation into reports that Afghan National Police officers were killed. Combined Joint Task Force 101 officials said they’ve launched an investigation into an incident in which a combined U.S.-Afghan patrol came under attack by a “non-uniformed hostile force” early this morning in the Ana Dara district of western Afghanistan’s Farah province. The combined patrol signaled their status as coalition forces, but continued to receive fire, officials said. Coalition forces then returned small-arms fire...

With the two presidential hopefuls arguing over how to fight the Afghan war, and one of them currently in the battle-scarred country - the Bush administration recently held a secret meeting to brainstorm how to win it. U.S. intelligence officials summoned top Afghanistan experts to Virginia, including ex-ground commander Army Lt. Gen. David Barno, to chart a plan for victory, the Daily News has learned. One point several of the experts agreed on: Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are clueless about the seven-year war, because each wants a troop surge. "Both candidates putting so much emphasis on troop...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 20 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may not have been shy about projecting U.S. military power, but even he didn't dare send American troops into Pakistan's tribal lands to snatch or kill al Qaeda leaders. But now Pakistanis fear the U.S. presidential campaign has heated up the foreign policy debate over how to handle the Taliban and al Qaeda threat to a point where American leaders could throw caution to the wind by taking unilateral action. "If this was a possibility in the past, it's a high possibility now," said a senior security official...

173rd’s fight not symbol of more violent Afghanistan, says Preysler "The sky is not falling," Col. Charles "Chip" Preysler, commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, said Saturday from Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Preysler spoke via telephone less than a week after his paratroops and their Afghan allies were involved in a fierce attack at a small post near the village of Wanat. In the July 13 battle, nine of his men were killed and 15 others wounded. But the attack is not a sign of conditions worsening in the country, he said. The battle occurred just after dawn at a...

On Sunday, July 13, a remote combat outpost near the village of Wanat in Afghanistan's rugged Kunar province on the Pakistan border was nearly overrun by a combined force of some 200 Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. The outpost was manned by men from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and Afghan Army personnel. The attack was well coordinated and designed for one purpose -- to overrun the outpost and kill everyone in it. No way were the outnumbered Sky Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, C Co., 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment going to let that happen. Today's Stars & Stripes contains...

I read and heard a lot in the news today about "Taliban regime resurgent"I wonder who would be trying to give aid and comfort to an enemy in a time of war?

Following an Islamic court's verdict, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Mohmand agency on Saturday publicly shot dead commander and deputy commander of its opponent Islamic militia and captured their 120 armed followers after killing 18 of their fighters, claiming that Shah Group's presence in the agency has been finished. "We arrested Shah Khalid, known as Shah Sahib, his deputy chief Maulvi Obaidullah along with their 120 companions late Friday night after killing their 18 fighters in exchange of gunfire." Dr Asad, spokesman of Taliban amir in Mohmand agency, told this correspondent via phone. "According to the orders of shariah court, comprising of Islamic...

Like a bad dream, the gory images have come back to haunt the land of famished fields and parched valleys veiled in dense layers of dust. Just about when the picture of a woman — covered from head to toe in a blue burqa with a narrow screen in front of her stony eyes — shot in the back of her head was turning grainy, the nightmare revisited Ghazni city last week. Two women, wrapped in blue, were asked to kneel on the ground. And then a few fierce-looking men, with hate dripping from their eyes, nudged the women's bowed...

The Afghan journalist who filmed and photographed the July 12 execution of two women by the Taliban says he was detained and held for two days by authorities in Afghanistan for suspected ties to terrorists. The footage and photographs of the executions were distributed by the Associated Press and widely circulated on the Internet, giving rise to suspicions that the photographer, Rahmatullah Naikzad, was connected with the Taliban. In an exclusive telephone interview, Naikzad told FOXNews.com that he turned himself in to Afghan authorities early this week and was held in custody and investigated for 48 hours. He said officials...

War On Terror: After 9/11, Pakistan promised to close its radical madrassas as part of anti-terror reforms. Now we learn they're not only still open, but also recruiting and brainwashing American boys.All told, 600 American children are being indoctrinated into jihad in 22 madrassas across Pakistan. A U.S. filmmaker stumbled on them while tracing the path of the London suicide bombers. He discovered they attended the same radical Islamic schools. A congressional delegation has confirmed his findings. One particularly radical school in Karachi freely displays a banner at its main gate urging Muslims to join the Taliban. At least 80...

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed several militants and seized weapons in Afghanistan in operations this week, military officials said. During a combined force patrol in the Nahr Surkh district of Helmand province, militants engaged troops with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades from a fortified position. The patrol, which responded with small-arms fire, called for fire support. The retaliatory measures killed an unknown number of militants, military officials said. Elsewhere in Afghanistan on July 16, Afghan national security forces, assisted by coalition troops, confiscated a large weapons cache in the Sheberghan district of Jawzjan province. Acting...

Al Qaeda continues to grow its network and expand its capabilities in northwestern Pakistan, US military and intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. The peace agreements have given the Taliban and al Qaeda time and space to re-establish their networks, which pose a threat not only to Pakistan, but the West as well.

The Pakistani Army has launched a military operation against the Taliban in the settled district of Hangu in the Northwest Frontier Province. The military took over security in Hangu from the Frontier Corps on July 16 after imposing a curfew and warning the residents to leave the area and not to shelter the Taliban. "People who fail to move to relief camps will be considered to be anti-government," a pamphlet distributed by the district administration warned. The Army moved more than 1,500 infantry into the region. The force is backed by Cobra attack helicopters and artillery. The target of the...

Recent insurgent activity, including several spectacular al Qaeda styled terrorist attacks, has thrust Afghanistan into a quandary unseen since the US-led Coalition invaded the country seven years ago. Attacks are up throughout the country, including the once secure capital of Kabul, as NATO led forces attempt to thwart further insurgent gains on a multitude of fronts. Coalition forces have surged into three separate areas on the volatile border with Pakistan’s Taliban infested tribal states bringing regional tensions with Afghanistan’s neighbors at an all time high. Meanwhile, US, Canadian and British troops have unleashed a salvo of decapitation strikes against the...

LONDON/ISLAMABAD: US troops in Afghanistan are massing close to the border with Pakistan, poised to launch bombing raids on suspected terrorist bases in the North Waziristan region, British and Pakistani newspapers reported on Wednesday. Nine American soldiers were killed and 15 wounded on Sunday in an attack by militants on a US base in Kunar province, close to the Pakistani border. The Times said troops have been airlifted from the village of Lowara Mandi and that heavy artillery and armoured vehicles were also being moved into position for possible cross-border attacks on Pakistan. The paper said US admiral Michael...

WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has called for forming an alliance with the Pakistani people and supporting the new democratic government. ìWhat we need to do is to form an alliance with the Pakistani people, saying that we are willing to significantly increase aid for humanitarian purposes, for schools, for hospitals, for health care. We want to support democratic efforts in Pakistan,î he told CNN. Obama, who has co-sponsored Biden-Lugar measure in the US Senate on tripling socio-economic assistance for Pakistan over a decade, also underlined that in order to be effective in the fight against Taliban and...

US troops in Afghanistan massed close to the border yesterday for a possible attack on al-Qaeda and Taleban bases in the lawless North Waziristan tribal belt in Pakistan. Reports from the area said that hundreds of Nato troops were airlifted across the mountains from the village of Lowara Mandi, which has been an important base for cross-border attacks in Afghanistan. Heavy artillery and armoured vehicles were also being moved into position. The deployment followed a claim by the Afghan Government on Monday that the Pakistani Army and its spy agency had become “the world's biggest producers of terrorism and extremism”....

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2008 – Pakistan must do more on its side of the border with Afghanistan to combat terrorist extremists, U.S. defense leaders said here today. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, address the media during a press availability at the Pentagon, July 16, 2008. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “We're seeing a greater number of insurgents and foreign fighters flowing across the border with Pakistan, unmolested and unhindered,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen,...

Canadians kill Taliban commander in Kandahar Victory marred by insurgent attacksMASUM GHAR, Afghanistan -- Canadian military officials claimed a major victory on Wednesday with the death of the second-in-command of Taliban forces in Kandahar province in an airstrike. The governor of Kandahar and the Canadian military held a joint news conference to announce the death of Mullah Mahmoud who was said to be in command of 250 fighters in the region. "Let there be no doubt, our troops have the initiative in Kandahar province," said Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson, commander of Canadian soldiers in Kandahar. "Afghan troops and ISAF soldiers are...

Threat of US strikes 'looms large' By SHAIQ HUSSAIN submitted 1 hour 46 minutes ago ISLAMABAD�"The threat of US ‘surgical’ strikes on Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts in Waziristan and other tribal areas is ‘real’, and Pakistan’s top security brass, taking it seriously, has initiated a critical process of consultations to cope with any emergent situation.Background interviews with the officials privy to developments on Pakistan’s shared frontier with Afghanistan revealed that the invasion by the US-led coalition forces is not imminent at this stage but the threat of surgical strikes on militants’ hideouts in the tribal belt was very much real....

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2008 – Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan yesterday resulted in coalition forces killing several insurgents as well as eight civilian bystanders. In Bakwa, Farah province, eight innocent bystanders were killed and two others were wounded when a coalition aircraft dropped a precision bomb on insurgents attacking a coalition convoy, military officials said. The convoy was conducting a routine patrol when insurgents attacked using machine-gun and artillery fire. Coalition forces called for aerial fire support against the insurgents, who were concealed within houses lined along the nearby street, officials said. The incident is under investigation, military officials said. Afghan...

Afghan troops kill over 150 insurgents from Pakistan Kabul | July 16, 2008 9:05:09 PM IST The Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan border police and US special forces have killed more than 150 fighters, mostly Pakistanis, in a military operation in south eastern Paktika province, a spokesman said Wednesday. "Last night, more than 350 fighters, most of them Pakistanis, entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, and attacked in the Barmal district of south-eastern Paktika province," Ghamai Khan Mohammed Yari told DPA in a telephone interview. He said the ANA and border police, aided by a coalition airstrike, "counter-attacked the militants and after...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has suspended a series of meetings with Pakistan because of what it called the "violent policies" of the Pakistani army and intelligence agencies and their suspected involvement in a string of attacks. Pakistan said the accusations were "baseless" and had created an "artificial crisis" that would sour bilateral relations.

British Forces in Afghanistan have killed their second senior Taliban leader in a little over two weeks, striking a critical blow to the insurgency's command and control capabilities in Helmand. Scimitar Combat Vehicles Bishmullah was a senior key facilitator and logistician responsible for the Northern Helmand region. He is believed to have commanded numerous fighters and was identified by Task Force Helmand as a key player in the insurgency, and criminality, before the strike. He was killed in a firefight in Now Zad in the early hours of Saturday, 12 July 2008, just 15 days after Sadiqullah, another senior Taliban...

Afghan NATO force hits targets inside Pakistan KABUL, July 16 (Reuters) - NATO forces in Afghanistan attacked targets inside Pakistan with artillery and attack helicopters after coming under rocket fire from across the border, the alliance said on Wednesday. ISAF forces “received multiple rocket attacks from militants inside Pakistan, July 15,” the force said in a statement. “The troops identified a (compound) as the point of origin of the attacks and responded in self-defence with a combination of fires from attack helicopters and artillery into Pakistan.” It was not clear when ISAF troops launched the strikes and spokesmen for the...

After deploying troops across the Kurram Agency along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has sent soldiers to the North Waziristan Agency (NWA), raising fears of a strike into the tribal areas in Pakistan's northwest. Quoting official and tribal sources in NWA, The News said Wednesday that NATO troops started arriving near the border areas Monday night. "Some of them had been brought in choppers and others by armoured personnel carriers. The troops had also shifted heavy arms and ammunition, including tanks, heavy machine guns and artillery to the border," Haji Yaqub, a resident of the border...

Hundreds of Nato troops took positions across North Waziristan Tuesday, creating panic among the already terrified tribesmen. Nato troops started arriving near the border Monday night. “Some of them had been brought in choppers and others by armoured personnel carriers. The troops had also shifted heavy arms and ammunition including tanks, heavy machineguns and artillery to the border,” said Haji Yaqub, of Ghulam Khan. The troops deployed near Ghulam Khan, Saidgai, Shawal and Mir Safar. “They started setting up bunkers very close to the border while gunship helicopters are continuously hovering over the border,” said Roohullah, of Saidgai. He said...

Pakistan Tribesmen Say NATO Forces Massing On Afghan Border MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP)--Tribal elders on Tuesday raised the alarm over a buildup of hundreds of NATO-led troops on the Afghanistan side of the border, but Pakistan's military downplayed fears of any intrusion. The gathering of foreign forces came as Pakistan was under pressure from the U.S. to curb cross-border attacks by Taliban militants, with the U.S. military chief flying into Pakistan last weekend for urgent talks. "We have heard there is a buildup of foreign troops," said Malik Mohammad Afzal Khan Darpakhel, a local tribal leader in North Waziristan who isn't...

(CNN) -- A 16-year-old Canadian prisoner weeps and buries his face in his hands in an interrogation video that provides the first public look at such an interview at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The video was released Tuesday by attorneys for Omar Khadr, now 21, whom Canadian intelligence agents questioned in 2003 and 2004 at Guantanamo. The video segment released Tuesday is from 2003. Khadr was 15 in 2002 when he was taken into U.S. custody in Afghanistan and accused of killing an American soldier. He was one of about eight juveniles at the prison, although...