Posts Tagged ‘Intelligence’
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 [...]
Remembering the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty
Mondoweiss | ByPhilip Weiss | 31 May 2010 The U.S.S. Liberty and the culture of impunity The attack on the USS Liberty is one of the great enigmas of US-Israel relations. On June 8, 1967, in the middle of the Six-Day War, Israeli planes attacked an American spy ship, the Liberty, that was in international waters off the coast of Egypt, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
U.S. considering invasion of Pakistan
Washington Post | By Greg Miller | 29 May 2010 Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials. Ties between the alleged Times Square [...]
On Conspiracy Theories
The Express Tribune | By Arshad Zaman | 28 May 2010 Apart from the logic of an argument and the language in which it is expressed, there is — what in 17th century Europe was called — a ‘climate of opinion’ that regulates which arguments will be admissible in polite company and which will simply not be heard. In some circles today it [...]
Hakimullah Mehsud Miraculously Reborn
Antiwar.com | By Jason Ditz | 28 April 2010 US Again Fails to Kill Pakistani Taliban Leader Hakimullah 'Basically OK' Reports ISI For most people, one time being killed by the United States is plenty. Even the most hardened insurgent can rarely claim to have been killed more than a couple of times before it takes on an air of permanence. [...]
“Colonel Imam” Abducted in North Waziristan
Asia Times | By Syed Saleem Shahzad | 28 April 2010 Showdown looms in North Waziristan ISLAMABAD - Militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area on Tuesday issued a statement claiming that skirmishes had broken out early in the morning when the military tried to enter Miranshah, the tribal headquarters. There was no official [...]
Mumbai Attacks Were a ‘False Flag’ Operation — Congress Functionary
The Milli Gazette | By Amaresh Misra | 28 March 2010 Headley Saga: Mumbai attack was a joint IB-CIA-Mossad-RSS project With the row over India getting access to David Headley growing acrimonious each day, the CIA's double agent saga seems all set to open up a can of incredible worms. First, the case unmasks the pro-US face of the Indian [...]
