Posts Tagged ‘CIA’
Baloch rights
Dawn Editorial Sunday, 26 Jul, 2009 | 09:00 AM PST Much is said but little has been done to address the problems plaguing Balochistan. The grievances felt by the Baloch are genuine, and they have not only been ignored but exacerbated by the actions of the federation over the course of several decades. (more...)
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Officials Brief New York Times
| By ERIC SCHMITT and JANE PERLEZ | Published: July 21, 2009 Pakistan Objects to U.S. Plan for Afghan War ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are [...]
While Pakistanis die by the dozens, the British want their troops out, Now
How many more will die in vain before we withdraw? The attempt to exploit soldiers' deaths to win support for the shameful war in Afghanistan thankfully isn't working Seumas Milne | Wednesday 15 July 2009 22.00 BST All week politicians, media and the military have strained every nerve to turn public sympathy over the deaths of British [...]
By Undermining Moderate Muslims, America is Fanning Islamic Extremism in Somalia
The Africa Obama Didn’t Visit by Kelley B. Vlahos, July 14, 2009 President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa did not include Somalia, but the president needn’t go there to see that U.S. policy in Somalia has been an utter disaster. In fact, it would have been impossible for him to get anywhere near Mogadishu, because there is no [...]
Infrared Beacons Guiding Drone Strikes — Al-Qaeda
This post updates an earlier post (American Paid Waziri Spies Guiding CIA Drone Strikes) that had reproduced Noah Shachtman's 1 June 2009 post at Danger Room. CIA Drone Targeting Tech Revealed, Qaeda Claims By Adam Rawnsley | July 8, 2009 American drone strikes are finding their targets in Pakistan through a series of infrared homing [...]
U.S. Congress Complains about Pentagon’s Rogue Intellligence Operations
From FAS Secrecy News: Pentagon Intel Ops “Often” Evade Oversight Last month, the House Intelligence Committee complained that the Department of Defense has blurred the distinction between traditional intelligence collection, which is subject to intelligence committee oversight, and clandestine military operations, which are not. Because [...]
Bankers Working as Covert CIA Agents, Hundreds More to be Hired
World Economy Becomes Focus For CIA Recruiting by Tom Gjelten July 6, 2009 · Wall Street pros are trained to analyze markets, identify investment opportunities, and make deals — all for one purpose: to make money. Now the CIA is asking them, through radio ads, to consider putting that same experience to use for national security. One [...]
Documents Show Iraqi Dictator’s Fears
By SCOTT SHANE Published in the New York Times: July 2, 2009 WASHINGTON — In a series of interrogations before his execution, Saddam Hussein told an F.B.I. agent that on the eve of the 2003 American invasion, Iraq was trapped between United Nations orders to demonstrate that it had disarmed and a fear that appearing too weak would invite [...]
Zhao Ziyang’s Memoir: The Taliban of Tiananmen Square
Zhao Ziyang (d. 2005) was a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 protests by students (in Pashto, taliban, albeit with a small 't') who were massacred in the bloody 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, that he tried to prevent. Reflecting on his recently published memoir, as reported in the Bangkok Post of 14 May [...]
Pakistan “More Pressing Threat than Iran” — Ehud Barak
Also, the New York Times spins Adm. Mullen's testimony in a piece, on Pakistan's nuclear weapons, that borders on yellow journalism. According to the Jerusalem Post of 14 May 2009, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister, Defence Minister, and leader of the Labour Party, Ehud Barak, asserted in a recent briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and [...]
