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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-06-29 15:08:06 by Kamala
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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq by Andrew G. Marshall Global Research, June 25, 2008 Email this article to a friend Print this article Shining Light on the "Black World" In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, "Worldwide Attack Matrix," which was "outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history." The plan ...
21 Rationales for War
Post Date: 2008-06-29 13:49:54 by Jethro Tull
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Want a reason for war with Iraq? Here are 21. A study by Devon Largio, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, reveals that between September 2001 and October 2002 10 key players in the debate over Iraq presented at least 21 rationales for going to war. Largio examines the public statements of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, Sens. Joseph Lieberman and John McCain, Richard Perle (then chairman of the Defense Policy Review Board), Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
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4,000 bound for Iraq await their orders
Post Date: 2008-06-29 10:16:14 by christine
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Nearly eight months of speculation, anticipation and uncertainty will end later this week for hundreds of soldiers in the Lehigh Valley region serving in the Pennsylvania National Guard. The U.S. Department of Defense is expected to announce when the 28th Division's 56th Stryker Brigade's 4,000 members will leave for Iraq, said Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Cleaver. The early-2009 departure date will represent the Pennsylvania National Guard's largest call-up since the invasion of Iraq and is part of the Pentagon's plan to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through next ...
Preparing the Battlefield
Post Date: 2008-06-29 06:32:46 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. L ate last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons ...
Officials: 30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009
Post Date: 2008-06-27 23:04:08 by angle
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through 2009, The Associated Press has learned. The deployments would replace troops currently there. But the decisions could change depending on whether Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, decides in the fall to further reduce troop levels in Iraq. Several officials familiar with the deployments spoke on condition of anonymity because the orders have not yet been made public. According to the officials, three active-duty Army brigade combat teams, one Army National Guard brigade and two Marine ...
US Air Force with new Hypersonic Aurua type Jet that does 10,000 MPH
Post Date: 2008-06-27 20:21:46 by Jethro Tull
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US Air Force with new Hypersonic Aurua type Jet that does 10,000 MPH - Here
Senate finalizes war funding bill
Post Date: 2008-06-27 12:14:41 by christine
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a war funding measure that includes money for a new GI Bill and other domestic measures. The $165 billion bill funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into early 2009 with no restrictions. It also includes extended unemployment benefits and the expansion of the GI Bill, two key domestic priorities of Democrats. The bill also provides more than $2 billion in disaster assistance for areas in the Midwest dealing with massive flooding. The House passed the bill last week after Democrats and Republicans reached a compromise that satisfied Bush administration officials. It now goes to the White House for the president's ...
Who's Planning Our Next War?
Post Date: 2008-06-27 09:01:11 by Jethro Tull
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Who's Planning Our Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan Of the Axis-of-Evil nations named in his State of the Union in 2002, President Bush has often said, "The United States will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." He failed with North Korea. Will he accept failure in Iran, though there is no hard evidence Iran has an active nuclear weapons program? ` William Kristol of The Weekly Standard said Sunday a U.S. attack on Iran after the election is more likely should Barack Obama win. Presumably, Bush would trust John McCain to keep Iran nuclear free. Yet, to start a third war in the Middle East ...
Stupid USA - How Iran Would Retaliate
Post Date: 2008-06-26 10:02:59 by TwentyTwelve
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Stupid USA - How Iran Would Retaliate From Hanna Jaeckel 6-26-8 Editor The analysis below has been read by a former Colonel of a foreign air force, currently in charge of a major Middle Eastern air force, and declared an "excellent analysis". It has also been read and approved by a researcher fully up to date on every single detail of Iranian defense ... military, training, weaponry, major armaments (missile and other systems), every detail not classified by the Iranian government. This is not fancyful imaginings - I have researched and followed this throughout the entire period of the Bush administration. I have, however, avoided "official" type language meant for ...
$2 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan questioned
Post Date: 2008-06-25 21:28:47 by bush_is_a_moonie
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he United States has paid more than $5 billion to reimburse Pakistan for counter-terrorism expenses that have often been exaggerated, if not fabricated, according to a government audit released Tuesday that blasts the Pentagon for poor management of the program. The report concluded that the Pentagon could not properly account for as much as $2 billion in payments to Pakistan over a three-year period from 2004 to 2007. Auditors uncovered an array of questionable costs, including $45 million for roads and bunkers that may never have been built; $200 million for the operation of air defense systems even though Al Qaeda has no known aircraft; and overcharges for meals and vehicles used by ...
Judge dismisses suit over veteran health care
Post Date: 2008-06-25 20:44:04 by bush_is_a_moonie
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A U.S. judged dismissed on Wednesday a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that claimed the government was failing to meet the mental health needs of former troops, who have a rate of suicide far higher than the general population. Two groups had sought a court order to require the department to improve the way it cares for veterans and processes benefits. U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Conti said Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth were demanding an overhaul of the VA system, "something clearly outside this court's jurisdiction." "Congress has specifically precluded district courts from reviewing veterans' benefits ...
Morality – Trotskyite vs. Christian
Post Date: 2008-06-25 06:47:08 by Ada
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Did Hitler's crimes justify the Allies' terror-bombing of Germany? Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War": "The stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the wisdom or morality of carpet-bombing German cities." Atheist, Trotskyite and newborn neocon, Hitchens embraces the morality of lex talionis: an eye for an eye. If Germans murdered women and children, the British were morally justified in killing German women and children. According to British historians, however, Churchill ordered the initial bombing of German ...
The Yellow Press
Post Date: 2008-06-25 06:28:30 by Ada
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A person my age has watched many things decline in America, and few get better. As one of my neighbors says, everything good is gone or going. In that category we must now include good reporting. When I started work in Washington in 1973, it was axiomatic that a newspaper reporter talked to many sources for any story. The story, in turn, reflected a number of viewpoints and perspectives. No reporter worth his bourbon would have dreamed of just printing some press release put out by the government. But that is now what they all seem to do, especially in covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Forgetting that the phrase "to lie like a bulletin" is military in origin – the ...
U.S. Has No Knowledge of an Attack on Iran
Post Date: 2008-06-25 00:15:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. has no knowledge of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Lieutenant Stephanie Murdock, a Fifth Fleet spokeswoman, said. ``To our knowledge there has been no bombing activity in Iran or on its nuclear sites,'' Murdock said in a telephone interview from the Persian Gulf. ``It's not something we have any knowledge of at this time,'' she added. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, speaking on condition of anonymity, said by telephone that the army wasn't aware of any incident involving Iran. There was speculation in financial markets earlier today that Iran's nuclear facilities had been attacked.
1 DAY BEFORE 911 WTC attack! DO u know what happened?WATCH!
Post Date: 2008-06-24 13:51:16 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This is CBS News and Jew Report so they won't tell you that a bomb went off in the Pentagon 3 1/2 minutes before what was alleged to be Flight 77 hit the building. The bomb killed 40 military auditors trying to trace that 2.3 trillion dollars in missing taxpayer's Pentagon money.
Taguba: Bush administration tortured detainees, 'committed war crimes'
Post Date: 2008-06-24 09:32:49 by Jethro Tull
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The U.S. general who led the Army's investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal says the Bush administration "has committed war crimes" as a result of what happened to detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay "when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture." Those declarations, by retired Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, are contained in the preface he wrote for a new report by Physicians for Human Rights, "Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact." The group said its findings — "based on internationally accepted standards for ...
At Last, Some Truth About Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-06-24 06:48:04 by Ada
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PARIS – After a sea of lies and a tsunami of propaganda, the ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally emerged into full view this week. Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq’s foreign-owned oil industry for the benefit of Iraq’s national development. The Baghdad regime is turning back the clock. This agreement comes as talks are continuing between the Washington and its Baghdad client regime over future US basing ...
Keeping America Safe: Prosecuting Children as Terrorists
Post Date: 2008-06-24 06:08:50 by Ada
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President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the rest of the warmongers and terror-pimps in the White House would have us believe that Omar Khadr is a monster. Khadr is the 21-year-old Canadian who is facing one of the first show-trials at Guantanamo. But let’s just step back a minute and consider Mr. Khadr’s case. The son of an alleged Islamic fundamentalist, Khadr was sent to one of those fundamentalist madrassa schools in Pakistan back when he was 14. From there, he went to Afghanistan, to join with the Taliban in fighting against the remnant warlord backers of the Soviet Union, which had attempted to run Afghanistan as a vassal state. Then came 9-11 and the October 2001 ...
How to train death squads and quash revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq
Post Date: 2008-06-23 18:47:58 by Horse
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Wikileaks has released a sensitive 219 page US military counterinsurgency manual. The manual, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004), may be critically described as "what we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places". Its contents are both history defining for Latin America and, given the continued role of US Special Forces in the suppression of insurgencies, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, history making. The leaked manual, which has been verified with military sources, is the official US Special Forces doctrine for Foreign Internal Defense or ...
The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch's Wall Street Journal
Post Date: 2008-06-23 06:09:37 by Stephen Lendman
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The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch's Wall Street Journal - by Stephen Lendman Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that "no self-respecting fish would (want to be) wrapped in a Murdock paper....His goal (isn't) quality journalism (it's) vast power, political power." Even Murdoch's private joke is that "God doesn't trust (him) in the dark." Nor should anyone ever, including Wall Street Journal readers. They've seen the paper's quality deteriorate ...
Army ‘vacuum’ missile hits Taliban
Post Date: 2008-06-22 10:48:53 by Jethro Tull
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British forces in Afghanistan have used one of the world’s most deadly and controversial missiles to fight the Taliban. Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave which sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies. -Snip
Battle shapes up over future of US role in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-06-21 17:03:35 by Jethro Tull
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Battle shapes up over future of US role in Iraq By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago BAGHDAD - The decisive battle of the Iraq war is shaping up — not in the streets of Baghdad but in the halls of government where the future of America's role across the region is on the line. ADVERTISEMENT American and Iraqi officials have expressed new resolve to hammer out far-reaching deals that would allow U.S. forces to remain on bases across Iraq once the U.N. mandate expires at year's end. The stakes in the talks are enormous. The outcome will shape not just Iraq for years to come — but, more important, America's strategic position all ...
From Inside a Cage at Guantanamo
Post Date: 2008-06-21 08:47:09 by Rotara
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The guards at Guantanamo are terrified. Even a man with no legs (amputated after being intentionally exposed to extreme cold by American guards in Afghanistan) is treated as a horrifying threat:"The bandages wrapped around Abdul's stumps were never changed. When he took them off himself, they were full of blood and pus. He showed the bandage to the guards and pointed to his open wounds. The guards ignored him. Later I saw how he tried to wash the bandages in his bucket of drinking water. But he could hardly move his hands, so he wasn't able to. And even if he had, where would he have hung them up to dry? He wasn't allowed to touch ...
Operation Enduring Pipeline
Post Date: 2008-06-20 06:47:40 by Ada
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Operation Enduring Freedom is the official label for the US military invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. After almost seven years of fighting, what has been gained? What might be gained? Militarily, US frustration with heavy casualties and lack of progress came to a head recently when Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed NATO allies for US casualties. “I know I’ve been a big nag, and I know I’ve been a pain, … but for NATO to continue to be tied up in politics [because of a lack of public support] and issues between governments that are irrelevant to whether we are making progress in Afghanistan, I just don’t have patience any more . . .We’ve got kids ...
House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran
Post Date: 2008-06-19 22:26:52 by rack42
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A US House of Representatives Resolution effectively requiring a naval blockade on Iran seems fast tracked for passage, gaining co-sponsors at a remarkable speed, but experts say the measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war. H.CON.RES 362 calls on the president to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also "demands" that the President impose "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran." Analysts say that this would require a US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. Since its introduction three weeks ago, the resolution has attracted 146 ...
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