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Pakistani army ordered to hit back US forces
Post Date: 2008-09-12 22:53:43 by angle
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Pak army put on high alert to confront any US agression The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country. Army Spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the orders in a brief interview with Geo News on late Thursday night. The decision was made on the first day of the two-day meeting of Pakistan's top military commanders to discuss the US coalition's ground and air assault in Waziristan region which killed dozens of civilians. Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired the meeting which began in Rawalpindi on Thursday at the Army General Headquarters. Pakistan's military commanders ...
Pakistan opposition angered by US attacks
Post Date: 2008-09-12 14:02:50 by richard9151
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hours, 31 minutes ago ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's main opposition party said Friday the country could pull out of the war on terror over stepped-up attacks by U.S. forces in the restive tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. An aide to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued the threat hours after 12 people were killed in the latest in a flurry of suspected U.S. missile strikes into Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan's government and military have protested to Washington over the strikes. However, new President Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders have reiterated their commitment to fighting ...
Liquid Bomb “Terror Plot” Collapses In Court
Post Date: 2008-09-12 13:30:50 by Indrid Cold
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The much vaunted liquid bomb “terror plot” that provoked paranoid airport security measures, an overnight change in baggage procedures, and at one point led to mothers having to drink their own breast milk, completely collapsed yesterday in court after the alleged ringleader was completely acquitted and none of the other suspects were charged with conspiracy to blow up an airliner. “Seven men admitted plotting to cause a public nuisance. An eighth man was cleared at Woolwich Crown Court,” reports the BBC. “But after more than 50 hours of deliberations, the jury did not find any of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft.” “Mohammad ...
A 9/11 'What I f?'
Post Date: 2008-09-12 07:09:28 by Zoroaster
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A 9/11 'What If?' By Peter Dyer September 11, 2008 What if we had never gone to war? What if, after the shocking crimes of September 11, 2001, the United States had pursued a different course? Share this article Bookmark Digg Email Printer friendly What if all the blood which has been spilled in the name of justice still flowed in living veins; all the American, Iraqi and other lives shattered were still whole; all the homes destroyed or lost still standing, still occupied by families who never harmed us? We have spent monumental treasure and energy on two wars. What if, instead, we had invested a fraction of that in a determined, unrelenting effort to bring Osama bin Laden ...
This is what happens when a crime is redefined as war
Post Date: 2008-09-12 06:34:04 by Ada
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The proper investigation of terrorist conspiracy has been wrecked by cynical politics. Meddling has again made us less safe The Guardian, Wednesday September 10 2008 The sun never sets on the war on terror, even as it degenerates into blood and recrimination. The Woolwich trial of eight members of a supposed 13-member gang all but collapsed on Monday. Despite evidence of intent to blow up an airliner, the jury convicted three defendants of conspiracy to commit murder but failed to reach a verdict on the central allegation. It has been an open secret in police circles that Operation Overt, the most complex in counter-terror history, was sabotaged by the American vice president, Dick ...
Bin Laden Laughs
Post Date: 2008-09-12 06:29:12 by Ada
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Bin Laden Laughs … as his predictions of America's impending bankruptcy come true Seven years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US government is finally getting around to installing radiation scanning devices at major airports. The 9/11 Commission cited this as a major vulnerability four years ago, when their report was released, but we're just now getting ready to test the equipment at Dulles airport. By the end of the year, four additional airports will be graced with Radiation Portal Monitors,[.pdf file] and, according to news reports, the Department of Homeland Security has plans to "eventually" install them at 30 major US airports. As the op editor of the ...
Venezuela's Chavez says US ambassador must leave
Post Date: 2008-09-11 21:53:23 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Venezuela's Chavez says US ambassador must leave By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 29 minutes ago President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. ambassador has 72 hours to leave Venezuela and that he's recalling his ambassador from Washington. Chavez said Thursday night that he is asking U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy to leave in part to show solidarity with Bolivian President Evo Morales, who expelled Washington's envoy in La Paz. "They're trying to do here what they were doing in Bolivia," Chavez said. "That's enough ... from you, Yankees," he said, using an expletive. The socialist leader said Venezuela's ambassador to ...
Palin leaves open option of war with Russia(vote bob barr in november)
Post Date: 2008-09-11 20:37:31 by freepatriot32
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FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin left open the option Thursday of waging war with Russia if it were to invade neighboring Georgia and the former Soviet republic were a NATO ally. "We will not repeat a Cold War," Palin said in her first television interview since becoming Republican John McCain's vice presidential running mate two weeks ago. Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News that she'd favor including Georgia and Ukraine, both former Soviet republics, in NATO despite opposition by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Asked whether the United States would have to go to war with Russia if it invaded Georgia, and the country was part of NATO, Palin ...
Georgia's Saakashvili warns NATO on Russia
Post Date: 2008-09-11 20:16:52 by Dakmar
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TBILISI, Georgia: Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili urged NATO on Thursday not to push his country away in the wake of Moscow's military campaign, warning that showing weakness would cause a "never-ending story" of Russian aggression. In an interview with The Associated Press before a visit by NATO leaders next week, Saakashvili said Russia invaded Georgia to keep the ex-Soviet republic out of the Western alliance. "If NATO sends a sign of weakness — and clearly this invasion was intended to deter, to scare NATO away — if NATO gets scared away, then this will be a never-ending story," Saakashvili said. Saakashvili has angered Russia by seeking NATO ...
A Murderous Theatre of the Absurd
Post Date: 2008-09-11 17:52:19 by richard9151
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In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines news as parody as those prominent in the British media seek to justify the official versions of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. By John Pilger 11/09/08 "ICH" -- - Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play. First question: Why are “we” in Afghanistan? Answer: “To try to help in the country’s rebuilding programme.” Who says so? Huw Edwards, the BBC’s principal newsreader. What wags the Welsh are. Second question: Why are “we” in Iraq? Answer: To “plant a western-style open democracy”. Who says so? Paul Wood, ...
Female veterans seeking to heal lives shattered
Post Date: 2008-09-11 10:43:39 by Eoghan
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JOINING the Navy to get an education seemed like a good idea to Tiffany Turner back in 2000, when the United States was enjoying undisturbed peace and prosperity. Just three years later, the young Bronx native found herself on board the USS Roosevelt, sailing from one dangerous port to another while the military fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When both conflicts spiraled out of control, Turner listened as her fellow sailors worried about the possibility of their Navy destroyer being attacked, sending each of them to a watery grave. Today, Turner is one of the 2,217 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars designated by the Department of Veterans Affairs as "homeless or at ...
Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
Post Date: 2008-09-11 09:41:29 by bush_is_a_moonie
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President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. The classified orders signal a watershed for the Bush administration after nearly seven years of trying to work with Pakistan to combat the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and after months of high-level stalemate about how to challenge the militants’ increasingly secure base in Pakistan’s tribal areas. American officials say that they will notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last ...
Next US terror attack 'could be by white Americans or Europeans'
Post Date: 2008-09-11 07:29:52 by Disgusted
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US intelligence officials increasingly fear that the next terror attack on the United States will be carried out by white Americans or Europeans. By Tom Leonard in New York As Barack Obama and John McCain head to New York's Ground Zero seven years after 19 Middle-Eastern hijackers brought devastation to the US mainland, counter-terrorism experts believe that any future attack will be made by terrorists with an "American face". They point to reports of white faces in terrorism training camps in Pakistan - the so-called "white men of Waziristan", a reference to the remote tribal area where both al-Qaeda and the Taliban have bases. Experts believe that dozens of ...
What Is The Secret Killing Weapon In Iraq?
Post Date: 2008-09-10 10:51:23 by christine
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Woodward compares clandestine program to Manhattan Project, could secret weapon be terrifying radiation canon? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward revealed to Larry King last night that the U.S. has embarked on a “secret killing program” in Iraq which has dramatically reduced attacks on coalition troops by wiping out terrorists, but what could this secret weapon possibly be? A CNN report details Woodward’s revelations. The program — which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb — must remain secret for now or it would “get people killed,” Woodward said Monday on CNN’s Larry King Live. ...
Global Homeland Security - Past, Present and Future
Post Date: 2008-09-09 17:03:58 by wudidiz
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Market Intelligence Brief Global Homeland Security - Past, Present and Future09.09.08 | The first seven years since 9/11 have been characterized by focusing HLS-HLD (Homeland Security and Homeland Defense) resources on urgent short-term needs, in an attempt to “harden” the free world’s most critical terror targets against future terror attacks. The next decade, we forecast, will see an even faster growth of these same markets, along with the introduction of new technologies. The following document reviews the global homeland security, homeland defense & counter terror intelligence (HLS-HLD) markets from 9/11 through 2018. The information presented here reflects some ...
Palin: 'Bot or Not?
Post Date: 2008-09-08 21:54:14 by tom007
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Palin: 'Bot or Not? By Noah Shachtman EmailSeptember 07, 2008 | 3:53:47 PMCategories: Drones Palincover1_3 Like me, you're no doubt obsessed with this year's political campaign. And like me, you've clearly had only one question on your mind, ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate: Is she cybernetic politicalbot, or not? It'll be tough to tell for sure whether she's a Stepford Candidate. But our friends at io9 has some helpful hints. Here are two: No-One Ever Sees Palin Go Through A Metal Detector At Airport Security. Sure, you can get away with that in Alaska - It's a different world up there, after all, and the only security they ...
Pakistan Pretends to Fight Taliban, for U.S. Cash By Noah Shachtman EmailSeptember 08, 2008 | 7:32:48 AMCategories: Agony of A-Stan, Perils of Pakistan _43999842_swatonePerhaps, despite all the evidence, you still believe that Pakistan is an authentic American ally, against Al Qaeda and the Talib
Post Date: 2008-09-08 21:30:50 by tom007
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Pakistan Pretends to Fight Taliban, for U.S. Cash By Noah Shachtman EmailSeptember 08, 2008 | 7:32:48 AMCategories: Agony of A-Stan, Perils of Pakistan _43999842_swatonePerhaps, despite all the evidence, you still believe that Pakistan is an authentic American ally, against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Dexter Filkins' remarkable story in this week's New York Times Magazine ought to cure you of any such notions: So here was Namdar — Taliban chieftain, enforcer of Islamic law, usurper of the Pakistani government and trainer and facilitator of suicide bombers in Afghanistan — sitting at home, not three miles from Peshawar, untouched by the Pakistani military operation that was ...
16 US troops commit suicide in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-09-08 13:32:57 by Eoghan
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Sixteen US troops from the 57th Unit of the Airborne Division have committed suicide inside a military base in Iraq, security sources say. Iraqi security sources have revealed that 21 US troops had committed suicide inside a former Iraqi air force base 27 days ago, Fars News Agency reported on Monday. According to the sources, the 21 troops were treated in a hospital but only five soldiers have survived and they are in a critical condition. Security officials said they used potent narcotics to kill themselves. The troops' motivations for suicide are not known but according to Iraqi sources the servicemen belonged to the 57th Unit of the US Airborne Division that was behind the ...
Vying To Be Toughest
Post Date: 2008-09-08 05:59:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Vying to Be Toughest - by Stephen Lendman Ignoring public sentiment, both party nominees stress "national security" and face off on who's toughest on "terrorism." For 2009, expect more of the same. A continued right wing agenda. Bigger budgets for militarism. Police state repression for enforcement. Little attention to public needs. No end to wars and occupation. Possible new ones against Iran, Pakistan, elsewhere in Eurasia, and a resurgent confrontation with Russia. Welcome to the future. Securing it for capital. More of the same after eight years under Bush. New policies the same as failed ones. Hopes again raised and then dashed. Repeating November 2006. ...
Source: Bush considering 8,000 troop cuts in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-09-05 20:12:52 by christine
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The top U.S. general in Iraq is recommending nearly 8,000 troop cuts in Iraq because of the improving situation there, a source close to the process has told CNN. A U.S. soldier talks to children while patrolling Baghdad?s Dora neighborhood on August 27. President Bush is considering Gen. David Petraeus' recommendation, which the official said is for a reduction of "well over 7,500 personnel," with the number including combat and support troops. Some units would leave Iraq over the next five months as they complete their missions. But the first possible significant reduction -- an army brigade combat team -- would leave without replacement early next ...
OBAMA 'ENLISTS' - DEM AGREES US IS FIGHTING 'WAR ON TERROR' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-05 16:00:41 by Jethro Tull
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LANCASTER, Pa. - Barack Obama says the United States is engaged in a "war on terror" - using the same wording as President Bush to describe the global battle against Islamic extremists. In his first sit-down interview with Bill O'Reilly of "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel, Obama said he absolutely" believes the United States is fighting a war on terror. Obama said the enemy was "al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam." Many Democrats reject the use of the term, which the administration has used to argue for a global ...
Iraq Looks to Buy New Fighter Jet Fleet - O Yes The US is INSANE
Post Date: 2008-09-05 10:36:27 by tom007
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Iraq Looks to Buy New Fighter Jet Fleet By Noah Shachtman EmailSeptember 05, 2008 | 9:58:00 AMCategories: Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Iraq's Insanity, Money Money Money, Planes, Copters, Blimps 070216f3431h081 Critics have blasted Iraq's government, for not spending more of its $79 billion surplus on rebuilding the country, while the U.S. continues to pour $10 billion a month into operations there. But Baghdad is finally starting to put at least some of that money to work. It's "seeking to buy 36 advanced F-16 fighters from the U.S.," the Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal characterizes the move as one that "could help reduce its reliance on U.S. ...
Cheney blames Russia for Ukraine's woes
Post Date: 2008-09-05 08:48:09 by angle
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KIEV (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday pledged support for Ukraine and pointed to Russia as the reason for the country's woes as he held talks with the squabbling president and prime minister. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has not spoken out on the Georgia crisis and abstained from a vote to impose restrictions on the movements of Russia's Black Sea fleet. Cheney spoke first with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and later met President Viktor Yushchenko as he looked to heal wounds in Ukraine's ruling coalition on a tour to bolster key US allies following the conflict in Georgia. "He acknowledged it's a challenging time for Ukraine because ...
Ukraine's Government Splits ~ Bonds Fall
Post Date: 2008-09-05 08:45:04 by angle
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KIEV -- Ukrainian bonds declined on Wednesday after the country's ruling coalition split, fueling speculation the government will be dissolved. The drop sent seven-year yields to a four-year high after President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine Party withdrew from its alliance with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko late Tuesday, two days after his office said her failure to condemn Russia's war with Georgia may end their cooperation. Click for Full Text!
Israel says stopped arms supplies to Georgia prior to conflict
Post Date: 2008-09-05 08:42:45 by angle
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Israel says stopped arms supplies to Georgia prior to conflict MOSCOW, September 4 - Israel imposed an embargo on arms supplies to Tbilisi a week before Georgia attacked its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the Israeli ambassador to Russia said on Thursday. (Abandoned Georgian armor and artillery - Image gallery) Russia's Defense Ministry earlier said Israel had sold unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and electronic artillery systems to Georgia and planned to supply armored vehicles and small arms. Some reports claimed that Israeli military experts had been training Georgian reconnaissance units since the fall of 2007. "A week before the conflict we decided to halt all arms ...
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