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  • Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack
    Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack by R. Leland Lehrman
    April 18th, 2005 - Public Advisory
    New information and threats, including this commercial video (available from the Iran Freedom Foundation home page) and other neoconservative rants regarding an "Iranian" nuclear threat have prompted an essential update to this piece regarding the extensive record of recently arrested Israeli, not Iranian operatives, often (…)

  • Report of covert aid to Iraqi candidates
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Yorker article says U.S. followed secret plan, despite Congress’ objections
    by Douglas Jehl, David E. Sanger, New York Times
    Washington — In the months before the Iraqi elections in January, President Bush approved a plan to provide covert support to certain Iraqi candidates and political parties but rescinded the proposal because of congressional opposition, current and former government officials said Saturday.
    In a statement issued in response to questions about a report in the (…)

  • Bin Laden’s driver to face trial
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan
    A US appeals court in Washington has ruled that the trial at Guantanamo Bay of a former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden can go ahead.
    The decision overturns a lower court ruling that the trials for detainees held at Guantanamo were unlawful.
    This latest ruling means in effect that the trials, known as military commissions, can now proceed.
    Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from Yemen, is accused of conspiracy to commit war crimes, including (…)

  • THOSE EVIL IDEOLOGIES
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EVIL IDEOLOGY
    By Peter Fredson
    July 18, 2005
    Newspapers today reported an extension of the Christian Morality Play by Tony Blair that explains everything people have been eagerly awaiting to hear about the Iraq war, terrorism and assorted suicide bombings. Here is the genial theory in a nutshell:
    “ASSOCIATED PRESS 2005-07-17 07:09:54” “LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair warned yesterday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, (…)

  • ABUSE, WHAT ABUSE?
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    The U.S. Army general widely considered the ‘architect’ of abusive prisoner interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and in Afghanistan used “creative” and “aggressive” tactics, but did not practice torture or violate law or Pentagon policy. Despite the recommendations of military investigators, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey C. Miller will not be reprimanded ? thus bringing to a close what could be the last of 15 separate investigations into detainee abuse.
    Members (…)

  • What the Hell is Congress doing? It’s time to Sweep the House
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What the Hell is Congress doing? Government lying and corruption has been exposed like never before and Congress is still naming Post Offices! After the ground-breaking Downing Street Memo Hearing last month- Bush and Cheney should be under full investigation if not behind bars by now.
    Most DC Democrats won’t even talk about the memo...
    ... and those that do only go so far as to ask for an inquiry. The evidence is already public knowledge- we don’t need no stinkin’ inquiry, we need (…)

  • Another Casualty in Rumsfeld’s Information-war
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another chapter was added to Donald Rumsfeld’s booklet of "Information warfare" yesterday when blogger Khalid Jarrar was picked up by Iraqi Secret Service (Mukhabarat) and taken to an undisclosed location. Jarrar has not been formally charged with a crime, but he is author of a popular blog (Tell me a secret) that provides valuable information to people outside of Iraq who are curious to know the real details of the ongoing crisis.
    In Iraq today the truth itself is in the crosshairs. Any (…)

  • "This is just ridiculous,’I don’t understand what we’re doing over there"
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This Is Just Ridiculous
    I Don’t Understand What We’re Doing Over There
    Milton Soldier Upset Army Won’t Let Him Out
    July 10, 2005 By Marcia Nelesen, Gazette Staff,Janesville, WI
    MILTON-Ryan Nofsinger figures he held up his end of the bargain.
    But Uncle Sam didn’t.
    The 22-year-old Milton resident served four years in the Army, including 14 months in Iraq.
    His discharge date was July 27. The paperwork was done. His family was counting the days on a calendar.
    And then Ryan got (…)

  • West turns blind eye as police put Saddam’s torturers back to work
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "It’s saddam’s fault for the torture, he trained them...see!" - Bush apologist IRAQI security forces, set up by American and British troops, torture detainees by pulling out their fingernails, burning them with hot irons or giving them electric shocks, Iraqi officials say. Cases have also been recorded of bound prisoners being beaten to death by police.
    In their haste to put police on the streets to counter the brutal insurgency, Iraqi and US authorities have enlisted men trained under (…)

  • Mathias Broeckers and the Gladio al-Qaeda Op
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mathias Broeckers’ blog (badly translated from the German by Google) reveals an interesting bit of information: the so-called London suicide bombers had purchased round-trip tickets, according to the British newspaper the Mirror. “The London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden,” writes Jeff Edwards for the Mirror. In response to this revelation, British police are pushing the line that the “al-Qaeda handlers” of the bombers duped the unwitting (…)