Posts Tagged ‘Terrorism’
Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In “My Life with the Taliban”, Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]
Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan
Guardian | By Simon Jenkins | 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American [...]
US/NATO “Hunters” Killed Hundreds of Civilians
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 27 July 2010 Troops in Afghanistan Had Special Group to Exterminate "Terrorists" Hundreds of civilians were killed without public and official knowledge by coalition troops in Afghanistan. Secret plans to kill leaders of the extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda and the discussion of the alleged involvement of Iran and [...]
“Afghanistan is getting more dangerous by the month”
MSNBC | By Evan Vucci, Photojournalist, AP | 22 July 2010 'We don't have enough power to fight' Three weeks into the fight in the volatile Arghandab Valley, an American platoon of the Army's 101st Airborne Division is heading to the rear, weakened by horrific war injuries and unable to continue its mission. The platoon -- 1st platoon, Alpha [...]
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 [...]
Burying the India-Pakistan dialogue for now
Afghan Journal | By Sanjeev Miglani | 23 July 2010 The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have returned home, licking their wounds from their latest failed engagement. Both sides are blaming each other for not only failing to make any progress, but also souring ties further, with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his [...]
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
Inside the U.S. Intelligence and Security Behemoth
Washington Post | By Dana Priest & William M. Arkin | 19 July 2010 Read the story below Part I | Part II-A | Part II-B | Part III Go To Washington Post Website to: Watch the Intro Video | See the Map | Explore Connections Find Companies | Search the Data I. A hidden world growing beyond control These are some of the findings [...]
Salinger, CIA, and how Zionists collaborated with Hitler and Mussolini
The People's Voice | By Katherine Smith | 14 July 2010 J. D. Salinger - With Love and Squalor, For Esmé This essay will explore the relationship of America’s most famous recluse to The CIA, George H.W. Bush and the MK-Ultra mind control program. In his celebrated story For Esmé – With Love and Squalor, Salinger, trying to get a [...]
CIA Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Botched Rendition/Psy-Op
Washington | Greg Miller and Thomas Erdbrink | 15 July 2010 U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million for aid to CIA, officials say The CIA has authority to bring as many as 100 people into the United States each year under a provision of the 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act that enables the agency to bypass ordinary immigration [...]
