‘From Client-States’ Archives
Americans-Afghans Ban Coverage of Mujahideen/Taleban Attacks
International Business Times | By Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi | 2 March 2010 Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks KABUL - Afghanistan on Monday announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as NATO forces seize their [...]
British Intelligence on Ayub Khan’s Generals (1966)
Business Recorder | 27 February 2010 Declassified British Intelligence About Pakistan Army: CHANGES IN THE HIGH COMMAND REF: DO 196/316 2-INT/RAW.6/60/1 British High Commission, Rawalpindi. 5 May, 1966 M.K.Ewans, Esq., Common wealth Relations Office, S.W.1. Dear Ewans, Would you please refer to my letter 2-INT/RAW.6/60/1 of 28 [...]
CCTV Footage of Mossad’s Murder
Gulf News | By Abbas Al Lawati and Wafa Youssef | 21 February 2010 Dubai's sophisticated security apparatus checkmates Mossad Since the killing of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room on January 19, Dubai Police have released pictures, images of their alleged passports and alleged names of 11 suspects, for whom arrest warrants have also [...]
Afghan-Taleban vow guerrilla warfare
Pak Tribune | 12 February 2010 Taliban vow guerrilla warfare against Afghan, NATO troops KABUL: The Taliban vowed on Thursday to fight back with a “hit and run” guerrilla campaign against Western and Afghan forces preparing to storm one of their key strongholds in southern Afghanistan. Thousands of US Marines and NATO and Afghan [...]
Video: Ayalon Stepping Down to Apologise and Shake Hands with Turki
Al Arabiya News Channel | 7 February 2010 Rejects Ayalon’s claims over Saudi support to Palestine Handshake Israeli apology to Saudi: Prince Turki RIYADH (Al Arabiya) Saudi's former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said on Sunday Israel's deputy foreign minister shook hands with him at a Munich security conference to apologize [...]
C.I.A.’s “Pashtun Red Cell” Exposed
Scandal in Turkey: Yasemin Çonger, Chris Mason, and the C.I.A. The Turkish media are rife with speculation that a former U.S. Navy and State Department officer who is married to Yasemin Çongar, once the Washington bureau chief of the Turkish newspaper Milliyet and now affiliated with Taraf, is a C.I.A. agent. The main evidence linking the two [...]
More Innocent Civilians Killed by Americans in Pakistan
The News | By Malik Mumtaz & Mushtaq Yusufzai | 3 February 2010 17 die as drones rain 18 missiles on NWA MIRAMSHAH/PESHAWAR: In the biggest attack so far by the American spy planes in the Pakistani tribal areas, the US drones on Tuesday rained a barrage of missiles on different locations of Dattakhel Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency [...]
U.S. Murders 123 Innocent Pakistanis in January to Kill 3 Alleged Terrorists
The News | By Amir Mir | 1 February 2010 US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men in January LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The [...]
Karzai to Set Up Reconciliation Council
The News | 29 January 2010 All Eyes Set on Ending Afghan War LONDON: The Afghan government and its Western allies now have their eyes firmly set on ending the eight-year war and recognise the only way to do that is to talk to the Taliban and give them a role in Afghanistan’s future. President Hamid Karzai will first set up a National Council [...]
Al-Jazeera’s “Osama bin Ladin” Tape: Alternative Translation
Just as consensus was emerging that Osama bin Ladin was long dead and Al Qaeda a spent force, a 1-minute voice recording has emerged, in a video with an old photograph of an extremely young Osama bin Ladin, that starts with the incongruous greeting, "From Osama to Obama" . With exquisite timing for U.S. info-war objectives, the voice [...]
