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Drugs theory in Afghan DHL killings
Seeded on Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:37 AM EDT (FT.com)
Investigators examining the mysterious killing of two foreign DHL executives by one of their own guards in Kabul on Saturday are considering a possible link to heroin smugglers.
Katrina Pain Index – New Orleans Three Years Later By Bill Quigley
Seeded on Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:53 AM EDT (countercurrents.org)
Katrina by the numbers. Shocking stuff.
Arlington Cemetery official fired for honoring the wishes of the families of deceased Iraq war soldiers.
Seeded on Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:36 AM EDT (AMERICAblog)
Arlington Cemetery official fired for honoring the wishes of the families of deceased Iraq war soldiers. The Bush admin. wants no media coverage.
State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
Seeded on Tue Jul 1, 2008 5:20 AM EDT (globalresearch.ca)
Specifically, the plan "recommends the creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, an organization it dubs the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG), to bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence and cover and deception.
Afri(oil)com
Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:23 AM EDT (Foreign Policy In Focus | Home)
The number of Americans who believe that the war in Iraq was a mistake has surpassed the number who felt the same way about Vietnam during that war. At the same time, a much quieter U.S. military build-up is underway on another continent.
Guantánamo became a terror training ground
Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:40 AM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)
GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan. He ran a kidnapping and extortion racket, and he controlled his turf with a band of gunmen who rode around in trucks with AK-47 rifles.
The Greatest Story Never Told: Finally, the US Mega-Bases in Iraq Make the News
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:09 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)
It's just a $5,812,353 contract - chump change for the Pentagon - and not even one of those notorious "no-bid" contracts either. Ninety-eight bids were solicited by the Army Corps of Engineers and 12 were received before the contract was awarded this May 28th to Wintara, Inc.
Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels
Seeded on Wed May 7, 2008 6:12 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.
DynCorp Manager Used Armored Car To Transport Hookers in Iraq
Seeded on Fri May 2, 2008 3:51 PM EDT (muckraked.com)
DynCorp's site manager was involved in bringing prostitutes into hotels operated by DynCorp. A co-worker unrelated to the ring was killed when he was travelling in an unsecure car and shot performing a high-risk mission.
Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding
Seeded on Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:10 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Amnesty International is launching a new ad featuring a hard-hitting torture scene showing simulated "waterboarding" in a campaign to outlaw the controversial interrogation practice.
300,000 vets have mental problem, 320,000 had brain injuries
Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:50 PM EDT (Associated Press - Google)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates.
NORAD Releases Mother Lode of 9/11 Tapes
Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:48 AM EDT (Wired News)
The Web site governmentattic.org says NORAD and U.S.
If We Don't Learn Our History, We're Doomed to Repeat It
Seeded on Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:08 AM EDT (georgewashington.blogspot.com)
Everyone has heard the saying "if we don't learn our history, we're doomed to repeat it". Let's see if history can teach us anything about 9/11:
Blackwater Iraq Contract Renewed
Seeded on Mon Apr 7, 2008 5:26 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
The US State Department said Friday it is extending its diplomat protection contract for private security firm Blackwater USA, despite the incident last September in which Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians.
Security plan for WTC means army of cops, barriers and traffic hell
Seeded on Mon Apr 7, 2008 5:25 AM EDT (NY Daily News)
Secret NYPD anti-terror plans would turn Ground Zero into Fort WTC - a bulked-up, battened-down, barricaded Ring of Steel, the Daily News has learned.
Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA
Seeded on Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:01 PM EDT (atimes.com)
Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place outside of Tibet and that the direction of the protesters is similarly in the hands of …
UK Top Cop Who Led CIA Probe Found Dead
Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:50 PM EDT (Associated Press - Google)
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday.
FOXNews' List Of Thwarted U.S. Terror Plots: Long On Hype, Short On Details
Seeded on Sun Mar 9, 2008 1:07 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
The blog where I found this list brings up some good points.
Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore
Seeded on Thu Mar 6, 2008 2:51 PM EST (The Boston Globe)
CAYMAN ISLANDS - Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in t …
Romania Base Suspected CIA Prisoner Site
Seeded on Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:27 PM EST (Associated Press - Google)
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania (AP) — It always happened at 1 a.m. In a secluded corner of this heavily guarded airfield, two snipers would creep across a rooftop and take their positions. Moments later, just below, a black minibus would arrive and wait.
CIA rendition flights landed in British territories
Seeded on Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:25 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
The British government revealed Thursday that CIA rendition flights, which critics say are used to transfer prisoners to be tortured, landed in British territory in 2002, despite Britain's previous denials of aiding rendition operations.
British soldiers executed up to 20 Iraqi detainees, say witnesses
Seeded on Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:26 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)
British soldiers in Iraq may have tortured, mutilated and executed up to 20 Iraqi detainees four years ago, according to five Iraqi civilians who say they saw the murders.
Papers reveal how alleged war criminal escaped UK arrest
Seeded on Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:23 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Scotland Yard allowed a suspected war criminal to escape from Britain partly because they feared an attempt to stop him would lead to a gun battle at Heathrow airport, police documents seen by the Guardian reveal.
US court throws out challenge to wiretap program
Seeded on Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:07 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
Deep State Coup Averted in Turkey
Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:48 AM EST (AntiWar.com)
On 22 January, Turkish police arrested 33 individuals, some connected with the military, in the largest concerted action against the "deep state" – that shadowy underworld linking extremists and criminals from the spheres of military, political, judicial and the academy.
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