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First thoughts on second leaders’ debate
Gary Gibbon blogs on the opening exchanges of the second leaders debate
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As the founder of WikiLeaks claims there is evidence of “war crimes” in n secret Afghan war logs, Channel 4 News analyses claims Task Force 373 appeared to botch attempts to kill al-Qaida operatives.
US-Pakistan relations face new strain as a major data leak leads to fresh allegations of Pakistani support for Afghan rebels. Dr Farzana Shaikh, Chatham House talks to Channel 4 News.
“I have often thought whether my predecessor or I should have challenged more,” Baroness Manningham-Buller told the Iraq inquiry in the most haunting quotation of the day.
The former head of MI5 says that Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war “radicalised young people”, as Channel 4 News’ Jonathan Rugman reports on Baroness Manningham-Buller’s “haunting” statement.
If a deal with the Taliban is agreed, what will the cost be ? International Editor Lindsey Hilsum travels to Bamiyan where women and ethnic Hazaras fear they will be the ones who pay the price.
Writing for Channel 4 News as the UK death toll reached 300, former British commander Colonel Richard Kemp said the UK could not afford to leave the country until its objectives are achieved.
At Fort Huachuca (you say it Wa-choo-ka) near the Mexican border in Arizona they let me take the controls in the flight simulator that teaches young soldiers to fly unmanned drones half a world away. You don’t have to be a qualified fighter jet pilot anymore to be allowed to fly these things – or…
With the UN saying CIA use of drones in Pakistan is “illegal”, Channel 4 News correspondent Sarah Smith visits an army base training soldiers to use them as America’s main weapon against al-Qaida.
The interests of the United States and Israel are no longer indistinguishable, as US reaction to Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla illustrates, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.
Evidence suggests al-Qaida was behind the failed suicide bomb attack on the British ambassador to Yemen, says Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
A full round-up of and links to Channel 4 News FactCheck’s analysis of claims made by Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the second televised leaders’ debate.
In the first dispatch of the day from the FactCheck team we look at the “lying” leaflets claim levelled at Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg’s Trident claims and David Cameron’s pointing of fingers at the Lisbon treaty.
Gary Gibbon blogs on the opening exchanges of the second leaders debate
In a shift to British policy the UK is set to announce its first aid package to war-torn Somalia amid concerns that the country could harbour al-Qaida militants.
Pakistanis and Afghans are divided over what to make of the reported arrest in Karachi of the Afghan Taliban’s top military commander and deputy to Mullah Omar himself, writes Jonathan Miller.