Posts Tagged ‘Intelligence’
U.S. to Spend $33-40 billion on Drones through 2020
U.S. Congressional Budget Office Report: Policy Options for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Download Full Report: pdf | Alternate Source: pdf Executive Summary Over the next 10 years, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to purchase about 730 new medium-sized and large unmanned aircraft systems based on designs currently in operation, while [...]
Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI
U.S. Military, Joint Chiefs of Staff | 29 July 2010 Pentagon Press Conference As Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense , Pentagon Briefing Room Thursday, July 29, 2010 EXCERPT Q: British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that he can’t tolerate the idea [...]
Wikileaks: Osama bin Laden died in a Peshawar hospital, and other howlers
The News | By Rahimullah Yusufzai | 30 July 2010 WikiLeaks falsehood PESHAWAR: Revelations by Wikileaks based on classified US military files on the Afghan war contain a trove of interesting and sometimes true information, but an element of falsehood is also there, such as one intelligence report in June 2007 that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin [...]
German drone pilots eye Afghanistan… from Israel
CNBC | 27 July 2010 EIN SHEMER AIR BASE, Israel - As World War Two raged in the years before Israel's founding, colonial British planes were scrambled here to fend off German forces. Now the German Luftwaffe is back, preparing for a far more remote fight with the modern equipment and expertise of the Jewish state established after [...]
The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War
Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, containing classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and provided them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel, all of which ran [...]
Pakistani spy agency denounces US intel docs
China Daily | 26 July 2010 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's most powerful spy agency on Monday lashed out against a trove of leaked US intelligence reports that alleged close connections between it and Taliban militants fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, calling the accusations malicious and unsubstantiated. The reports, which were released [...]
Afghans may not mind a return of the Taleban
Kabul Press | By Matthew Nasuti | 21 July 2010 America’s war plan founded on a fading premise It may be a myth that most Afghans remember the harshness of Taliban rule The Taliban of today is not a reclusive monolith of rural mullahs and students. It is a broad-based grouping of religious, tribal and nationalistic forces (provincial [...]
Islamabad Station Chief until 2009 to Run CIA’s National Clandestine Service
Times of India | 21 July 2010 Retired US spy hired to run CIA covert service WASHINGTON: The CIA brought one of its most experienced spies out of retirement to run the far-flung US intelligence network, the agency said Wednesday. John D Bennett witnessed the emergence of al-Qaida in Africa in the 1990s and was on the front lines of [...]
America’s Resentful, Reluctant Partnership with Pakistan
Al Jazeera | By Robert Grenier (Ex-CIA) | 20 July 2010 US seeks Pakistan PR triumph A preacher I once knew said something which has resonated with me ever since. "There is no end to the good you can do," he said, "provided you are willing to give someone else the credit." No doubt, a substantial amount of good will come from the $500mn in [...]
Psy-Op? American said to edit alleged online Al Qaeda magazine (that can’t be found)
Colbert Report | 1 July 2010 Al Qaeda Starts Inspire Magazine Is this some twisted American Psy-Op -- sorry, MISO (Military Information Support Operation), as it is now called -- or just some disaffected American Muslim hounded as a terrorist, who lost his job, and decided to live up to his tormentor's expectations? It is hard to say. An [...]
