By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Osama bin Laden, the elusive head of the Al Qaeda, is dead. The Obama administration thumps its breast as it announces this feat, which reads like an action-thriller movie with US Navy SEALS and CIA-led operatives as the intrepid heroes completing their mission with deadly precision and efficiency, and…
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Counterfactual: Marc Thiessen, The Torture Apologist A Curious History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program
By JANE MAYER CommonDreams.org/The New Yorker International Posted by Bulatlat.com On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of Al Qaeda’s attacks on America, another devastating terrorist plot was meant to unfold. Radical Islamists had set in motion a conspiracy to hijack seven passenger planes departing from Heathrow Airport, in London, and blow them up in…
The Shadow War: Making Sense of the New CIA Battlefield in Afghanistan
By TOM ENGELHARDT & NICK TURSE Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones. As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so were our intelligence agencies,…
Now We See You, Now We Don’t
By Kathy Kelly Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat ‘In early June 2009, I was in the Shah Mansoor displaced persons camp in Pakistan, listening to one resident detail the carnage that had spurred his and his family’s flight there a mere 15 days earlier. Their city, Mingora, had come under massive aerial bombardment. He recalled…
US Reported to Kill 12 in Pakistan
As the American campaign against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas seemed to intensify on Friday, two missiles fired from remotely piloted American aircraft killed 12 people on Friday in an attack on a village compound in North Waziristan, according to a local journalist and television reports. BY PIR ZUBAIR SHAH…
Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?
BY JOHN MUELLER Foreign Affairs Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable — but rarely heard — explanation is that there are no terrorists within the United States, and few have the…
The Liquid Bomb Hoax: The Larger Implications
The criminal frame-up of young Muslim-South Asian British citizens by the British security officials was specifically designed to cover up for the failed Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Anglo-American backing for Israel’s destructive but failed invasion of Lebanon. By James Petras Posted by Bulatlat.com The charges leveled by the British, U.S. and Pakistani regimes…
They Track Journalists, Don’t They?
By Amy Goodman Democracy Now! Posted by Bulatlat.com ABC News reported on Monday that a senior federal law enforcement had revealed that the government is now tracking phone calls made by journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and ABC News. We speak with Brian Ross, chief investigative reporter at ABC News. On Monday,…