Posts Tagged ‘Al Qaeda’
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
US/NATO Psy-Op/MISO in Afghanistan
The Nation | By I. M. Mohsin | 15 July 2010 Afghanistan: the psywar prongs June ended as the deadliest month for the foreign troops, more so the US. According to ISAF’s assessment, 103 soldiers got killed while many more were badly injured. Lacking missiles and air power, which is the monopoly of the foreign troops, the Taliban have to [...]
A German Critique of Obama’s War
Globkult Magazin | By Walther Stützle | 16 April 2010 (Lecture and discussion. East-West Forum - Gut Gödelitz, January 23, 2010) Afghanistan — The Failed Invasion (Translated from the German) English Translation: Afghanistan – The Failed Invasion I. False Start | II. Balance | III. Way out | IV. Concept Original in German: Afghanistan [...]
US/Israeli-Al Qaeda Member, Adam Gadahn Arrested in Pakistan
Dirk Bradshaw Blog | By T. West | 4 July 2010 Mossad Pretending to be al-Qaida’s Voice Captured, US Want it Kept Quiet Pakistan indicates they have arrested Adam Gadahn, an Ashkenazi from the state of Oregon. US intelligence claims that it is not Adam Gadahn that the Pakistanis have arrested. Why haven’t we seen this person with the [...]
Bogged Down, McChrystal Postpones the Helmand “Offensive”
New York Times | Editorial | 13 June 2010 Taking Stock in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is trying to strike a secret deal with the Taliban and Pakistan and doubts that the Americans and NATO can ever defeat the insurgents. Karzai is telling aides that he believed the United States, and not the Taliban, might have been responsible [...]
US believes it killed al Qaeda No. 3
China Daily | Agencies | 1 June 2010 "]WASHINGTON -- Al Qaeda's third-in-command, whose role spanned from operations to fundraising, is believed to have been killed earlier this month in a US missile strike in the tribal areas of Pakistan, officials said on Monday. The CIA has stepped up the pace of unmanned drone strikes in the tribal [...]
Tariq Ali on Yemen
London Review of Books | By Tariq Ali | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 31-33) Unhappy Yemen I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad [...]
Cheney Admits to War Crimes
Truthout | By Jason Leopold | 15 February 2010 Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration [...]
Insecure Americans, Abdulmutallab, & Terrorism
New American | By Joe Wolverton, II | 4 February 2010 “The government can’t deliver the mail, it can’t operate surveillance cameras at an airport; it can’t pay back its debts; it can’t tell the truth.” — U.S. Judge Andrew Napolitano On January 9, 2009, an apparently fit, though slightly limping Umar Abdulmutallab entered the [...]
Japan’s Premier Daily, Asahi Shimbun, Questions the Cheney-Rumsfeld 9/11 Story
Infowars Ireland | By Graham Pardun | 29 January 2010 The Mystery of 9/11 is ‘Now Unraveling,’ Says Major Japanese Weekly “The official story is not convincing.” – Councilor Yukihisa Fujita, National Diet of Japan This past December, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and Councilor Yukihisa Fujita provided a stunning [...]
