Posts Tagged ‘Special Operations’
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 [...]
US toll reaches 1,000 deaths in Afghanistan war
China Daily | 29 May 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan - More US military deaths in the last 10 months of the Afghan war than in the first five years of the conflict. More boots on the ground than in Iraq. As the US military death toll in the Afghan conflict reached the 1,000 mark, a fight that has become "Obama's war" now faces its greatest [...]
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 [...]
CIA Made Fake Videos of bin Ladin Drinking and Boasting of his Gay Conquests
Guardian | By Paul Harris | 26 May 2010 CIA's secret Iraq weapon revealed: a Saddam gay sex tape Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro and fake video of Osama bin Laden's campfire drinking In their time, America's secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes to attack their country's enemies, including, most [...]
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 [...]
America’s War on Pakistan
Asia Times Online | By Syed Saleem Shahzad | 8 May 2010 US takes the war into Pakistan ISLAMABAD - The approval given to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by the administration of President Barack Obama to expand drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal regions is on face value a declaration [...]
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 [...]
Tariq Ali on Yemen
London Review of Books | By Tariq Ali | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 31-33) Unhappy Yemen I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad [...]
Planning for the Next War
TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]
America’s MetaBank Involved in Financing Terrorism and Murder
Islâmi Davet | 2 March 2010 Dubai asks FBI to investigate terror ties to US Amid ongoing investigation of the terrorist murder of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the UAE police have asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into alleged ties of the suspects to Americans. Dubai police asked the FBI to investigate US-issued [...]
