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Canary Trap was launched by me as a personal blog in 2008. Since then it has evolved into a platform for exclusive, well-researched, and objective information relating to corruption, human rights, intelligence, terrorism, and politico-security matters.
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Will the dead be cremated as part of Europe’s austerity?
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Czech Republic this is a serious debate. In Prague, the capital of the most representative of what Ronald Rumsfeld called “new Europe”, burial is turning out to be expensive. -
After attacks, Afghan endgame seems more of a mirage
Posted on April 30, 2012 | No CommentsThe irony is that in a region of such noisy anti-Americanism, there is no regime which is actually interested in the US departing from Afghanistan, whatever the public postures. -
Cool Syria to focus on Afghanistan in Chicago
Posted on April 14, 2012 | No CommentsLet me jump the gun on the global pundits. The great charge on Damascus is about to be called off, sorry toned down. -
Assad’s troops close in on foreign mercenaries
Posted on February 17, 2012 | No CommentsAn infinitely more serious situation has arisen in a part of Homs where Foreign Mercenaries and special forces are surrounded by the Syrian Army. -
Indian vote at UN notwithstanding, Syria not falling soon
Posted on February 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe West and Israel obviously find it easier to manage a Mid-East without independent minded trouble makers like Qaddafi and Assad who had a history of being on the wrong side during the cold war. -
Have Taliban promised US that women will be treated kindly
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsHave the Taliban, a “nightmare” of the 1990s, been transformed into harbingers of a sparkling new dawn for Afghanistan, by the sheer passage of time? -
Remembering a crisis as Pak sinks into another
Posted on December 25, 2011 | No CommentsPresident Bill Clinton’s five day visit to India in 2000 followed by a five-hour stopover in Islamabad convinced New Delhi that the world order had changed. Relationships were to be shaped by the new post cold war realities, not old loyalties.
