A full accounting of the depredations of the task force may be some time in coming, however, as the Obama administration refuses to comment on its ongoing assassination spree in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Military assaults from abroad -- including the ongoing drone assassinations by the U.S. -- have seen Al-Qaeda-like groups expand in the last 25 years from a few hundred in Afghanistan to tens of thousands today, with footholds in a dozen states across the entire region.
Whereas Arab violence generates adrenalin-pumping headlines and is mostly reported outside any serious context -- e.g., the U.S. devastation of Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the Koran burnings, the ongoing drone assassinations -- the violence that emerges from U.S. policy is softened with so much context it's often a struggle to figure out if anything happened at all.
It was, in part, a response to growing anger in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere over the CIA's ongoing drone assassination campaigns with all their "collateral damage", and to the White House's reported "kill list".
Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief Donald Berwick, tenuously clinging to a recess appointment, faces ongoing political assassination in part because of his support for comparative effectiveness research, which Republicans call a stalking horse for UK-style "rationing".
Despite ongoing turbulence (and an assassination attempt against him in 2005), Conté maintained power until his death on December 22 , 2008
Over the last few weeks, Mideast Wire has translated a lot of articles - from a variety of sources and viewpoints - about Syria, Lebanon and the ongoing investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
Conspiracy theorists whisper that Syria may also hope for a softening of the ongoing UN investigation into political assassinations in Lebanon that have been widely linked to Syrian agents.Yet there are also important Lebanese internal dynamics at play.
She suggested an investigation along the lines of the ongoing international inquiry into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Although some 1,800 people were killed, the incident was largely overshadowed in the press by the ongoing coverage of the Lincoln assassination.
