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CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Assassination Plan
Source: Wall Street Journal

"By SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with th …

Britain is hiring cyber-criminals to "fight" cyber-crime: Stay tuned for the (predictable) fall-out.
Source: ABC News

So much for the myth of the "good character" requirement for joining a Western power's top spy outfit, M16/aka Her Majesty's Secret Service. With the idea of 'fighting fire with fire," Britain has decided that it's okay to let cyber-criminals join its Secret Service, M16.

Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House
Source: The New York Times

The proclamation that President George W. Bush issued on June 26, 2003, to mark the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture seemed innocuous, one of dozens of high-minded statements published and duly ignored each year.

In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Past Use - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The program began with Central Intelligence Agency leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist interrogations without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training.

Two Taliban Are Killed in Revenge by Afghans
Source: The New York Times

On Saturday, something typical happened in eastern Afghanistan: Two Taliban guerrillas assassinated a top local politician. But on Sunday, something very unusual occurred, according to witnesses and Afghan intelligence officials.

The End of Hypocrisy: Crime's Gleeful Abandon in Gaza
Source: The Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel Newspapers

The escalation of the on-going American war crime in Iraq -- the so-called "surge" -- is lauded as a "success beyond our wildest dreams" by the new, "progressive" manager of the empire, Barack Obama.

Israel is America's hands
Source: onlinejournal.com

It takes a severely psychopathic mind to fire missiles into crowds of unarmed civilians. Such an act is indistinguishable from a car bomb attack.

Rare Suicide Attack Kills Four in Iran
Source: PressTV

A suicide attack in the city of Sarawan, in Iran's southeastern Seistan-o-Baluchistan province, carried out by the Taliban-style radical Sunni party Jondollah has killed four and injured 20.

Herding Humans For Profit
Source: informationclearinghouse.info

American leaders and all the foreign leaders who work with them represent the greatest evil that this world has ever known.

A Brief History of CIA Involvement in Drug Trafficking
Source: thepeoplesvoice.org

During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many GI's in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin.

Pak TV channel says 26/11 hatched by Hindu Zionists
Source: Times of India

NEW DELHI: Mumbai's 26/11 was actually a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists", including the Mossad, said a self-styled Pakistan security expert on a Pakistan news television show, uploaded on www.hotklix.com.

The International Backers Of The Mumbai Attacks
Source: roguegovernment.com

History is replete with examples of U.S./Israeli use of a surrogate to attack their enemies. William John Fox pointed this out in his exemplary analysis, Deliver Us From Chaos: Ten Political Commandments.

Mumbai Attacks Look Like A Western Intel Operation
Source: roguegovernment.com

Let's face it; the only groups that would gain from the killing and wounding of hundreds of innocent people in India are western governments.

Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
Source: wsws.org

What is involved in many of these operations is the use of special task forces known as "hunter-killer teams," in essence assassination squads. In most of them, however, the military has utilized air support resulting in the deaths of large numbers of civilians.

Khalid Amayreh - The lying woman of Washington
Source: sabbah.biz

This is the woman who reacted to the widespread destruction by Israel of Lebanese population centers and the dropping by the Israeli air force of 2-3 million cluster bomblets, enough to kill or maim 2-3 million children, by saying, "Israel has the right to defend itself."

James claims to be victim of CIA plot
Source: www.presstv.ir

Corp. James said he had been 'set up' by the CIA because the Americans were angry that Gen. Richards sought a peaceful strategy to deal with the Taliban rather than adopting the US approach of attacking the insurgents, Times Online reported.

US Renounces Afghan 'Defeatism' | BBC NEWS
Source: BBC News

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has rejected as "defeatist" a comment by a top British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. More Articles

C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan's most senior officials with new information about ties between the country's powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan's tribal areas More Articles

Chinese Interrogation Techniques Used at Guantánamo - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart...copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American pris …

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation
Source: The New York Times

Journalists like to talk about the back story, the story behind the story. The back story can be nothing more than vaguely sourced gossip traded among pundits and politicos before they go on talk shows.

Tribal Leader Responsible for Bhutto's Death, Says CIA
Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA has concluded that a Pakistani tribal leader's network was behind the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, according to a U.S. intelligence official.

Judge Refuses to Order Hearing on C.I.A. Tapes - New York Times
Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday refused, at least for now, to order a hearing at which the government would have to explain in detail the destruction of C.I.A. videotapes showing the harsh interrogation of two suspected Al Qaeda operatives.

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