Archive for January, 2010
U.S. Assassination Target, Muslim American, Awlaki on “RAND Islam”
"After 9/11, Aulaqi publicly condemned the attacks." — Washington Post. "The fact that the U.S. has administered the death and homicide of over one million civilians in Iraq, the fact that the U.S. is supporting the deaths and killing of thousands of Palestinians, does not justify the killing of one U.S. civilian in New York City or [...]
Coalition Forces Apologise for One More Cold Blooded Murder
Washington Post | By Joshua Partlow | 29 January 2010 Killing of cleric prompts outrage in Kabul and apology from coalition forces "After they shot him, they didn't stop. They just kept driving." — a laborer at the scene "A lot of innocent people have been killed by the Americans." — Shabaz Khan, 20, a student. "It hurts our overall [...]
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 [...]
Jeff Huber: The Counterinsurgency (COIN) Myth
Antiwar.com | By Jeff Huber | 11, 13 & 18 January 2010 The COIN Myth Part I The U.S. military’s fabled counterinsurgency field manual (FM 3-24) is an authoritative-sounding 281-page volume of balderdash. Even the legend of its origin is a fabrication. Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of forces in Iraq and now in charge of [...]
Afghan-Taleban Statement on the London Conference
Voice of Jihad | 28 January 2010 Statement of the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding the London Conference The world knows that America brutally and illegally attacked the Islamic Emirate and our nation after 9/11 under the pretext of the so-called War on Terror, occupying our dear country. This global crime [...]
Full Text of Obama’s State of the Union Speech
Jump to State of the Union 2010 Although directed mainly to domestic matters, U.S. President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address is significant to a global audience for the little that he did say, and that which he didn't. What he didn't say For all the hoopla about how Pakistan is critical to America's military and diplomatic [...]
One Holocaust Justifies Another
Haaretz | By Gideon Levy | 28 January 2010 Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at [...]
U.S. “Black Ops” Teams Deeply Involved in Yemen
Washington Post | By Bana Priest | 27 January 2010 U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional [...]
Osama bin Ladin’s Letter to the Americans (6 October 2002)
Jump to Start of Post, or to Osama bin Ladin’s Letter: 1. Why are we fighting and opposing you? 2. What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you? 3. Conclusion With the recent release of an—almost certainly fake—"Osama bin Ladin" voice recording, "experts" are being quoted to attribute motives and interpretations to the [...]
“If you had any heart, you would be crying for the Palestinians” — Finkelstein
YouTube | 20 January 2010 Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo (more...)
