Posts Tagged ‘CIA’
Bin Ladin’s Confession of Guilt for 9/11 is a Fake CIA Tape
Mail Online | By Sue Reid | 11 September 2009 Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? Bin Laden had already insisted four times in official Al Qaeda statements made to the Arab press that he played no role in 9/11. Indeed, on the fourth occasion, on September 28, [...]
SOCOM Pushing to Join CIA’s War in Pakistan
The Atlantic | By Marc Ambinder | 29 May 2010 Text, Context, Subtext of a Washington Post Scoop While the United Nations is complaining formally about the CIA's predator drone program in Pakistan, at U.S.-Pakistani fusion intelligence centers, the Pakistanis generally have direct access to the live video feeds used by Predator drones. [...]
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 [...]
CIA drone operators commit “murder in violation of the laws of war”
Antiwar | By William Fisher | 1 June 2010 US Drone Strikes Draw International Scrutiny On the heels of reports that the Barack Obama administration altered a new manual on military commission rules to accommodate an illegal drone program, a senior United Nations official is expected to call on the U.S. this week to stop Central Intelligence [...]
Afghan-Taleban Statement on the Forthcoming Jirga
Voice of Jihad | 1 June 2010 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Convening of the So-called Consultative Jirga in Kabul The holding of the so-called National Consultative Jirga under the name of peace is a part of the failed efforts of the invading Americans and their surrogates in Afghanistan. The idea for [...]
Vietnam and the Bush-Obama Wars
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 28 May 2010 Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’ Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam By Gordon M. Goldstein Holt, 300 pp., $16.00 (paper) The debate over foreign policy that culminated in President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on December 1, 2009, concerns a war [...]
Covering Faisal Shahzad: How Israeli-Indian Media Influence Misleads the American People
Dissident Voice | By Maidhc Ó Cathail | 26 May 2010 Framing Pakistan How the Pro-Israel Media Enables India’s Surrogate Warfare “We have very little doubt that the Indians and the Israelis, that are all over Afghanistan with German passports pretending to be military contractors, are operating 17 camps along the Taliban regions [...]
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true
The American Conservative | By Alexander Cockburn | 1 July 2010 Unlike the French or the Italians, for whom conspiracies are an integral part of government activity, acknowledged by all, Americans have been temperamentally prone to discount them. Reflecting its audience, the press follows suit. Editors and reporters like to offer themselves as [...]
Drone Attacks in Pakistan have a 2.5% strike rate against Al-Qaeda
Teeth Maestro | By Dr. Awab Alvi | 15 May 2010 The Pakistan Body Count, a website run and managed by Zeeshan Usmani, a professor at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute has documented over 124 drone attacks since 2004 and as per the last documented attack on May 11th 2010 in Miranshah shows that only 30 Al-Qaeda operatives have perished in the [...]
Drones and the Rule-Based Global Order
Yglesias | By Matthew Yglesias | 29 May 2010 Simply put, having the CIA conduct a secret undeclared de facto war in Pakistan is kind of the reverse of rules-based activity. Trouble in droneland: The American military released a scathing report on Saturday on the deaths of 23 Afghan civilians, saying that “inaccurate and [...]
