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TopicKhalid Sheikh Mohammed

Topic: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

US defence secretary revokes plea deal with 9/11 mastermind, accomplices. Death penalty back on table

Keshav Padmanabhan -
The pre-trial deal would have seen Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & 2 accomplices plead guilty to all 9/11 attack charges in exchange for removal of death penalty as sentencing option.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — ‘principal architect’ of 9/11 attacks whose trial resumes today

Unnati Sharma -
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as 'KSM', also confessed to beheading journalist Daniel Pearl. He has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for 15 years.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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