(This article in the October issue of offers a radical alternative history of the roots of the so-called 'War on Terror'. It's closer to the truth than the story we are told by the US government, no matter which administration happens to be in power. -rep.)
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by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
Once upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the end of t...
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The conviction of Abdullah Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, in relation to the liquid bomb plot has been seen as a major triumph for British police and intelligence efforts. Yet, despite this being the second re-trial, the prosecution was still only able to convict the three for conspiracy to murder, including their intent to bring down an airplane – but not to prove their capability to carry out the plot.
Questions raised by...
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Posted: July 23, 2009
The murder of President Kennedy was a seminal event for me and for millions of Americans. It changed the course of history. It was a crushing blow to our country and to millions of people around the world. It put an abrupt end to a period of a misunderstood idealism, akin to the spirit of 1989 when the Soviet bloc to began to thaw and 2008, when our new American President was fairly elected.
Today, more than 45 years later, profound doubts persist about how Presid...
(Last month, I wrote about the attempt by Patrick Fitzgerald to stop the publication of Peter Lance's book, "Triple Cross". Lance saw my diary entry at Daily Kos, titled, and asked me to post his latest piece, challenging Fitzgerald to step up to the plate. So here it is, and I should note to DUers that I ultimately disagree with Lance about the true nature of "al Qaeda"... nevertheless, the attempts to suppress his book simply make no sense to me at all... unless a cover-up is underway. What's...
Well, I guess is going to have to sue HarperCollins, just like he . He says that Peter Lance's book, contains lies and false accusations about him, and thus, the book must be pulped!
The real problem with Lance's book is not that it is brimming with lies, but rather that Lance's tendentious prose enforces the general paradigm put forward by the 9/11 Torture Commission*, while at the same time exposing seriously problematic aspects of the run-up to 9/11 that fail to lay down and die like they ...
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Earlier this month, US-based lawyer William F. Pepper submitted a legal opinion in support of the Spanish investigation into various tortures that took place during the Bush administration.
Pepper encouraged the Spanish investigators to broaden their scope to include George W. Bush personally, saying;
"It would be an injustice not to prosecute those who occupied the highest positions of authority. It would be like processing Eichmann and overlooking Hitler..."
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. This is the reality of the so-called "War on Terror", at home. The NSA did not decrypt top-secret missives emanating from a CIA-commissioned, Bin Laden-constructed secret base in Afghanistan, and speedily pass on the info to the correct authorities... nor did astute FBI agents stumble across an "Al Qaeda" cell in the heart of the Big Apple!
Instead, an agent provocateur was dispatched to a mosque, spouting violent rhetoric and allegedly offering money to at least one member of the mosque to j...
Following on the latest frame-up from the FBI;
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It turns out that the British MI5 is even less patient. If you don't play along, you get labeled as a Muslim terrorist. You don't even get to be set-up! Abra-Cadabra! You're a "terrorist"!
Thursday, 21 May 2009
"...Three of the men say they were detained at foreign airports on the orders of MI5 after leaving Britain on family holidays last year.
After they were sent back to the UK, they were interviewed by MI5 officers who, they say, fal...
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"...For all his bluster, Shareef was, by any objective measure, a pathetic and hapless jihadist — one of a new breed of domestic terrorists the federal government has paraded before the media since 9/11. The FBI, in a sense, elevated Shareef, working to transform him from a boastful store clerk into a suicidal mall-bomber. Like many other alleged extremists who have been targeted by the authorities, Shareef didn't know that his brand-new friend —the eager co-conspirator draw...
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May 8, 2009
Why one should think of Afghanistan, not as a "failed state," but as a heroin-ravaged state
One of the most frustrating features of observing American foreign policy is to see the gap between the encapsulated thinking of the national security bureaucracy and the sensible unfettered observations of the experts outside. In the case of Afghanistan, outside commentators have called for terminating current specific American policies and tactics – many reminiscent of the US in Vi...
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On February 5, 2002, Peter Dale Scott spoke to an audience at the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center about 9/11 and his early analyses of what was going on... at the time. Constant readers (like myself) , know that his opinion has evolved with the accumulation of new data over the course of 7 years. So, this footage is posted not to shame, embarrass, or discredit; but to show, (to those who are fans and supporters of Scott's work), that a considered, historical...
On March 25th, the BBC brought its lively "debate" TV program The Doha Debates to Washington's Georgetown University, to tape an episode called "Time to get tough on Israel".
The format consists of the moderator, Tim Sebastian, and a set of panelists who verbally duke it out. The panelists on this episode consisted of ,, , and .
Gold and Dershowitz basically argued that Israel should be left alone to do whatever. Burg and Scheuer argued that the U.S. needs to step up and be "tougher" with Is...
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A team of nine scientists have unearthed startling data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive.
Thermite is used in steel welding, fireworks shows, and hand grenades. It is the combination of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produce a reaction known for extremely high tempe...
There is a fundamental misconception about the role of "intelligence agencies", like the CIA;
"The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapons capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformati...
"The very idea that I can be seriously discussed as a terrorist, when I'm sitting under Big Ben in the British Parliament, and touring the United States... doesn't that strike people in Canada as just crazy?" - George Galloway.
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The ripples of 9/11, seen here in the abuse of anti-terrorist legislation in Canada, to bar Galloway from speaking in Canada.
March 24, 2009
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On 9/11 the Bush administration declared a State of Emergency (SOE), which was formally proclaimed on September 14, 2001, and extended by Bush repeatedly thereafter, most recently on August 28, 2008.(1) Under cover of this SOE, Bush secretly enacted many extreme measures, ranging from suspension of habeas corpus to preparations for martial law in America; all these were undertaken as part of secret so-called "Continuity of Government" (COG) procedures associated with the SO...
This is ridiculous. Galloway is a peace activist, not a terrorist. Please also check out his audio interview with the Ottawa Citizen;
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and coverage by the Israeli paper, Ha'aretz;
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The UK Channel 4 News says in the above broadcast, "after an open letter of protest from Canada's Jewish Defense League, he's been declared inadmissable under the country's immigration act".
Way to go, JDL, you just barred a sitting British MP from entering the country.
Another triumph for the Harper H...
With President Obama digging in, in Afghanistan, it's important to take a breath, and review some problems that have been created and inflamed by U.S. intervention in that country. Particularly, the drug problem.
Please take 10 minutes to watch this first segment from "An Unholy Alliance", to get a taste of what blind, or misguided decision-making can result in, in that area of the world.
YouTube - Parts 2-6;
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Video google (entire film - better frame rate than YouTube version);
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BUSH LEAGUE JUSTICE:
Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta
To Be Tried For International Crimes?
by Anthony J. Hall
Professor of Globalization Studies - University of Lethbridge
George W. Bush and Omar al-Bashir
Serious allegations of criminality are swirling around ex-US President George W. Bush and current Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. In late February of 2009 it was reported that the Hague-based International Criminal Court was preparing to issue a warrant for...
(James Bamford has done another great deed for the public by revealing the extent of the NSA's wiretapping on U.S. soil, and how the NSA sub-contracts the vast majority of its work to Israeli high-tech firms bristling with "former" Israeli military intelligence agents, and in the case of Verint, a company with serious corruption issues. It was Bamford who popularized the existence of in his 2001 book, . In , he sheds light in the secret rooms of Verizon and AT&T, and shows the NSA to be a very ...
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Gwynne Dyer: Georgia's huge South Ossetia mistake
"The chronology tells it all. Skirmishes between Georgian troops and the South Ossetian militia grew more frequent over the past several months, but on August 7, Saakashvili offered the separatist South Ossetian government “an immediate ceasefire and the immediate beginning of talks”, promising that “full autonomy” was on the table. Only hours later, however, he ordered a general offensive.
South Ossetia’s president, Edu...
From the Dept. of Say What?
Posted 3/30/03
Only sheer brilliance or a crystal ball could foretell the next terrorist attack, right? Nope, says the inventor of a computer program that predicted anthrax might be sent through the mail six months before it happened. Cyc (as in encyclopedia), a project that is now part of the Pentagon's research on sniffing out terrorist plots, comes up with scenarios that could help focus screening efforts. It works by applying common sense to an extensive knowl...
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To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of MLK, CNN released a documentary this year called Eyewitness to Murder, which is also the flagship episode of Soledad O'Brien's "Black in America" series.
At the beginning of the episode, Soledad tells us that CNN will try to tell us the "full story" of the MLK assassination.
Not even close.
I picked four of the most egregious moments from the "documentary" to show how biased the presentation is; how CNN severely ch...
By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern - July 19, 2008 - consortiumnews.com
One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn’t mean it to be funny, but his testimony on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee might strike one as hilarious, were it not for the issue at hand — torture.
Ashcroft is the Attorney General who approved torture before he disapproved it, but committee members spared him accusations of flip-flopping.
He explained that he initially blessed t...
Last night, after Kucinich was done introducing his latest impeachment article, he made some time in his busy media schedule to answer some questions on various topics, from Continuity of Government to Whistleblower protection, with representatives from 911truth.org and myself. You can hear the entire Q & A here; (Link) - If the putfile stream doesn't play for you, here is a 4.6 MB MP3 download; (Link)
Here are the questions we asked, (there is more information in the audio, including a little ...
All 5 parts here:
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British author Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed deconstructs the establishment version of "al Qaeda" and thus, the "War on Terror", recorded on July 23, 2005.
According to Ahmed's careful scholarly research, published in two volumes, , 2002, and , 2006.
His work has won the praise of , among others.
This BookTV segment focuses on Ahmed's research for "The War on Truth", approx. 50 minutes.
See also: .
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Dennis Kucinich is calling for the impeachment of President Bush. The former presidential candidate and Ohio congressman accuses the president of misleading the American public into the Iraq war. The resolution contains thirty-five articles, including: Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false cause for war against Iraq, providing immunity for criminal contractors in Iraq, imprisoning children, creating secret laws, and spying on American citizens without a court order...
Ex-CIA analyst, Mel Goodman outlines failings of the Commission, including lack of accountability, conflicts of interest of the Commissioners, "balanced partisanship", a lack of prior Intelligence experience on the part of the Commission members, and a quick history of earlier Intelligence Commissions. - July 22nd, 2005.
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( Entire Congressional Briefing here: (Link) )
