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Rice urges 'robust' Pakistani response to attacks
Post Date: 2008-12-04 02:49:19 by Rotara
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By ANNE GEARAN, AP Military Writer Anne Gearan, Ap Military Writer – 34 mins ago ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Pakistani government Thursday that it must mount a "robust response" to the terror shootings in India, which blames the carnage on terrorists operating from neighboring Pakistan. After expressing U.S. condolences for the more than 170 deaths in India, Rice flew to Pakistan for meetings with civilian and military leaders. The U.S. wants broader sharing of intelligence and a commitment by Pakistan to root out terror groups that have found a comfortable perch in the Muslim country. On the flight from New Delhi, Rice told ...
Report: Mumbai terrorists may have been fueled by cocaine, LSD (Were the Mumbai Terrorists Fueled by Coke?)
Post Date: 2008-12-04 00:22:20 by Rotara
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Did the jihadists who tore up Mumbai last week rely on party drugs usually associated with Western decadence to stay awake and alert throughout their three-day killing spree? Britain's Telegraph newspaper suggests that they did, citing unidentified officials claiming physical evidence shows the assailants used cocaine and other stimulants to sustain their violent frenzy. And if the notion of self-anointed holy warriors on a coke binge sounds incongruous, the report also maintains that the killers imbibed the psychedelic drug LSD while fighting advancing security forces. "We found injections containing traces of cocaine and LSD left behind by the terrorists, and later found drugs ...
MAJ JAMES MOMON ADMITS TAKING BRIBES AND KICKBACKS IN KUWAIT - WILL TESTIFY FOR THE FEDS - SOURCES SAY UP TO 30 OFFICERS IN CRIME RING
Post Date: 2008-12-03 07:43:54 by PSUSA
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The corruption probe of a crime ring composed of up to, what sources say, are thirty U.S. military officers in Iraq and Kuwait, took another turn recently when Army Maj. James Momon admitted taking bribes and kickbacks and agreed to testify for the Feds against his former contractor cronies. The 36 year-old career man is the latest in a series of crooked and greedy officers to be caught in a group that was brazen in its collection of millions of dollars. Some of the loot was paid off in shopping bags full of hundred dollar bills. In other cases, money was wired to foreign bank accounts and cash was given - in the case of Maj. John Cockerham (see related stories box below) to his wife - ...
The Meaning of Mumbai
Post Date: 2008-12-03 06:08:25 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! South Asia, the new arena by Justin Raimondo The Mumbai massacre comes at a time when the U.S. is about to switch battlefields in its avowedly "generational" war on terrorism, from the Middle East to South Asia. As we move our forces eastward into Afghanistan and, inevitably, Pakistan, the events in Mumbai light up the geopolitical landscape like lightning at midnight, prefiguring a new and even bigger quagmire than the one we're supposedly leaving behind in Iraq. Forget the differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites. That's so yesterday. What we're dealing with now, in the Pakistani-Indian rivalry, is a true war of civilizations, pitting ...
Biological terror attack likely by 2013, panel says
Post Date: 2008-12-02 10:35:14 by Jethro Tull
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Biological terror attack likely by 2013, panel saysStory HighlightsNEW: Terrorists with biological weapons could kill millions, panel's chairman says Biological attack more likely than nuclear attack, report says Materials for biological weapons more easily obtained, panel's chairman says Number of nations with nuclear weapons also growing, panel saysNext Article in U.S. » if(window.location.pathname.indexOf('/2008/US/12/02/terror.report/index.html')!=-1){ var nxtStryCSIMgr = CSIManager.getInstance().call('/.element/ssi/auto/2.0/sect/US/nextStory0.exclude.html','','cnnNextStoryCSI');} Read VIDEO var clickExpire = "-1"; ...
Strategic Motivations for the Mumbai Attack
Post Date: 2008-12-02 06:59:07 by Ada
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Militant Attacks In Mumbai and Their Consequences Last Wednesday evening, a group of Islamist operatives carried out a complex terror operation in the Indian city of Mumbai. The attack was not complex because of the weapons used or its size, but in the apparent training, multiple methods of approaching the city and excellent operational security and discipline in the final phases of the operation, when the last remaining attackers held out in the Taj Mahal hotel for several days. The operational goal of the attack clearly was to cause as many casualties as possible, particularly among Jews and well-to-do guests of five-star hotels. But attacks on various other targets, from railroad ...
No Sympathy For Charles Graner
Post Date: 2008-12-02 06:02:34 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! As the sun sets rapidly on the Bush Administration there is a growing anxiety that it will not be held fully accountable for its crimes — particularly torture. In one instance, the atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are now at serious risk of being resigned to the dustbin of infamy, wholly tagged to a few “bad apples” and in isolation to any larger policy of coercive tactics, including torture, approved and pursued by the White House, Central Intelligence Agency and Department of Defense. It is with that frustration that writers like Mark Benjamin of Salon are attempting to yank our attention back to Abu Ghraib and the fact that only ...
WWI: "Just before the United States entered that war, our politicians bailed out the Wall Street bankers, reimbursing them for huge, unsecured loans to European governments."
Post Date: 2008-12-01 12:39:56 by bluegrass
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My letter, in the October 19 Sunday WCF Courier WCF Courier, Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:16 AM CDT Read about another swindle JERRY BAKER CEDAR FALLS --- My residence in Cedar Falls, is in a "financial district." It's next door to the Lincoln Savings Bank, half a block from both the US Bank and the Cedar Falls Credit Union, and a block from the Liberty Bank and Wells-Fargo. In 1917, my mother's boy friend was her cousin Willie Simon. He was apparently not related to the William Simon that was U.S. Treasury Secretary during 1974-1977. However, he was related to my mother's uncle John Schmidt, who, in 1917, was President of the Elliott Savings Bank in Montgomery ...
Nobody supports the Taliban but people hate the government
Post Date: 2008-12-01 06:28:39 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! As he leaves Afghanistan, our correspondent reflects on a failed state cursed by brutal fundamentalism and rampant corruption The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands – all but a square mile at the centre of the city – and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul. Hamid Karzai's deeply corrupted government is almost as powerless as the Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad's "Green Zone"; lorry drivers in the country now carry business permits issued by the Taliban which operate their own courts in remote areas of the country. The Red Cross has already warned that humanitarian ...
You Can Make This Stuff Up
Post Date: 2008-11-30 09:38:45 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Vince Flynn writes of a world in which terrorists are always at the door. Unfortunately, official Washington hasn’t realized he’s a novelist. The Bush aide who claimed “We create our own reality” could have added that novelist Vince Flynn would be a consultant. Flynn’s books have been discussed by cabinet members and intelligence-agency heads. He claims his potboilers are the bedtime reading of Presidents Clinton and Bush. Last month, he landed at the top of the New York Times bestseller list with Extreme Measures. And after signing a lucrative deal with CBS Films, he is sending the protagonist of his novels, CIA super-killer Mitch Rapp, to ...
Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border
Post Date: 2008-11-29 21:16:27 by Horse
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MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. "The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched. He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran "that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost." He also said the U.S. Naval presence in the Persian ...
Gates Plans Military State For Obama
Post Date: 2008-11-29 20:10:28 by christine
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US DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES will “stay as Pentagon Chief,” reported BBC news on November 25 2008. Only two days before the announcement, Gates met with his co-militarist, Canada’s Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, to discuss plans for an Afghan “surge.”
“Violence is up in Afghanistan,” Gates told Canadian reporters. “It’s clear there’s a need for more troops to try to deal with this increased security problem,” Gates remarked
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A MILITARY STATE COMING TO AMERICA
THE DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2007 is about to be put into practice by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The ACT usurps individual US States’ rights in managing National ...
How Did Israel Manipulate the US Into Attacking Iraq And Declaring A "War On Terrorism"?
Post Date: 2008-11-28 10:48:40 by richard9151
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How Did Israel Manipulate the US Into Attacking Iraq And Declaring A "War On Terrorism"? by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq It is critical for anyone who is really after knowing the truth to consider two of the most significant events involving Americans since the year 2000. (1)The war on terrorism and (2) the attack on Iraq. How did we come to be involved with these events and also how did we go about assessing blame and identifying the culprits? Looking carefully and dispelling the hype pushed on us by an untrustworthy media would expose significant facts. Let’s look at the two events briefly: 1. 911 Attacks: The following is from the Globe Intel website: Quote; Israeli Prime ...
Iraqi parliament OKs US troops for 3 more years
Post Date: 2008-11-28 01:16:22 by freepatriot32
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BAGHDAD – The long, costly story of American military involvement in Iraq moved closer to an end Thursday when Iraq's parliament approved a pact that requires all troops to be out in three years, marking the first clear timetable for a U.S. exit since the 2003 invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. The vote for the security deal followed months of tough talks between U.S. and Iraqi negotiators that at times seemed on the point of collapse, and then days of hardscrabble dealmaking between ethnic and sectarian groups whose centuries-old rifts had hardened during the first four years of the war. The war has claimed more than 4,200 American lives and killed a far greater, untold number ...
Afghan president wishes he could shoot down U.S. planes
Post Date: 2008-11-27 16:06:48 by richard9151
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Afghan president wishes he could shoot down U.S. planes By Vancouver Sun November 27, 2008 Wednesday, November 26, 2008 -- KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he would bring down U.S. planes bombing villages if he could, in a sign of growing tension between Afghanistan and its Western backers as the Taliban insurgency grows in strength. As Western dissatisfaction with Karzai has grown over his failure to crack down on corruption and govern effectively, the Afghan president, facing elections next year, has hit back over the killing of dozens of civilians in foreign air strikes. In recent weeks, Karzai has repeatedly blamed the West for the worsening security in ...
Zulu-like reaction to Obama "victory"...
Post Date: 2008-11-26 17:43:43 by X-15
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Gen. James Jones OBAMAs White House national security - ramping up the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
Post Date: 2008-11-25 21:03:16 by Jethro Tull
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-Snip Gates and retired Gen. James Jones would bring decades of experience to the administration of a 47-year-old commander in chief who campaigned on a pledge to redeploy combat troops in Iraq within 16 months while simultaneously ramping up the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.-Snip Click for Full Text!
Afghanistan demands 'timeline' for end of military intervention
Post Date: 2008-11-25 19:55:33 by Ada
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President Hamid Karzai demanded on Tuesday at a meeting with a UN Security Council team that the international community set a "timeline" for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said. Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how long the US-led "war on terror" was going to be fought in Afghanistan or it would be forced to seek a political solution to a Taliban-led insurgency. "The international community should give us a timeline of how long or how far the war on terrorism will go," Karzai's chief spokesman Homayun Hamidzada cited the president as telling the meeting. "If we don't have a clear ...
A Truth Teller for Our Times
Post Date: 2008-11-24 06:44:27 by Ada
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By October 2005, when American casualties in Iraq had not yet reached 2,000 dead or 15,000 wounded, and our casualties in Afghanistan were still modest indeed, informal "walls" had already begun springing up online to honor the fallen. At that time, I suggested that "the particular dishonor this administration has brought down on our country calls out for other 'walls' as well." I imagined, then, walls of shame for Bush administration figures and their cronies – and even produced one (in words) that November. By now, of course, any such wall would be full to bursting with names that will live in infamy.
That October, we at TomDispatch also launched quite a different project, another ...
The Libertarian Case Against the War in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-11-24 06:28:53 by Ada
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Introduction Shortly after the U.S. government’s attack on Afghanistan in October 2001 (which, of course, followed the September 11 attacks on the United States), the Canadian government joined the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries in an occupying coalition in Afghanistan. The first major wave of Canadian troops arrived in Afghanistan in February 2002. The Canadian troops’ major mission was to keep order in the Afghan capital of Kabul. At various times through these almost-seven years, the Canadian government has stated that it would remove its troops at a time certain in the near future. Then as the target date got closer, the government kept the troops ...
The Science of the Future of War - Recommended
Post Date: 2008-11-22 09:30:57 by tom007
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The new book by Malcom Potts and Thomas Hayden will be widely available December 1, and is currently available on Amazon. Hear more about the book from the authors in a Q&A with Wired.com. TODAY'S MOST BRUTAL WARS are also the most primal. They are fought with machetes in West Africa, with fire and rape and fear in Darfur, and with suicide bombs and improvised explosive devices in Israel, Iraq, and elsewhere. But as horrifying as these conflicts are, they are not the greatest threat to our survival as a species. We humans are a frightening animal. Throughout our species’s existence, we have used each new technology we have developed to boost the destructive power of our ...
Fate of Lakotahs Highlights America's Failed Native American Policies
Post Date: 2008-11-21 06:16:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Fate of Lakotahs Highlight America's Failed Native American Policies - by Stephen Lendman On November 6, South Dakota's governor Michael Rounds declared a state of emergency as heavy snow blanketed the state and threatened all parts of it - including Native American reservations. They, however, were excluded from his declaration. They'll get no badly needed help, and it's an all too familiar story for our nation's original inhabitants. They've been abused and slaughtered for over 500 years. At Mabila, Acoma Mesa, Conestoga, the Trail of Tears, Pamunkey, Mystic River, Yellow Creek, Sand Creek, Gnadenhutten, and Wooded Knee. At far too many other places as well at a ...
Antiwar groups fear Obama's hawkish Cabinet...
Post Date: 2008-11-20 21:22:54 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Activists note that most of the candidates for top security posts voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq or otherwise supported launching the war. Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues. The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for ...
Hitler Passed on Trial Weaponry; China Won't
Post Date: 2008-11-20 15:58:45 by X-15
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The U.S. political journalist Jon Bodenet, prominent during the last presidential election campaign, sent me the following informative e-mail dated Nov. 8: "Lev, your perspective on China is indeed insightful and daunting. But the president elect has vowed to take down our missile defense system, cancel new military projects and cut defense spending while increasing spending on a huge somewhat nebulous domestic civilian security force. I do not understand how this will protect Americans from Chinese aggression. While China has an antimissile program and is embarking on a space based weapons program, our president elect seems to have his party’s backing for deep defense cuts. If ...
Gulf War troops poisoned, neglected
Post Date: 2008-11-19 11:36:50 by christine
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A new government study backs up veterans of the 1991 Gulf War who said they were literally, and physically, sickened during their service there. The American people have an obligation to help them One of the most dangerous threats to the health of American troops in combat might be the United States government. That conclusion can reasonably be drawn after a government panel reported that one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War — about 172,000 troops — is ill from exposure to toxic chemicals, most of them administered by the U.S. government. For years, the government has resisted persistent claims by thousands of Gulf War veterans that their service there had somehow ...
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