Posts Tagged ‘Nigeria’
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 [...]
U.S. Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment: Country Excerpts
The Threat Perceptions of a Paranoid Hyperpower Admiral Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, presented the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 2 February 2010. The public proceedings are available as a video (at the Senate Select Committee on [...]
Al-Jazeera’s “Osama bin Ladin” Tape: Alternative Translation
Just as consensus was emerging that Osama bin Ladin was long dead and Al Qaeda a spent force, a 1-minute voice recording has emerged, in a video with an old photograph of an extremely young Osama bin Ladin, that starts with the incongruous greeting, "From Osama to Obama" . With exquisite timing for U.S. info-war objectives, the voice [...]
Securing Bab al-Mandab: The Raison d’être for the “Yem/Som” War
Global Research | By F. William Engdahl | 5 January 2010 The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled [...]
