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  • Former CIA Analyst Ray Mcgovern : Western Intelligence May Be Behind Mosque Bombing
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ray Mcgovern says US in most danger ever, from its own government
    Prison Planet | February 26 2006
    Former CIA analyst a and presidential advisor Ray McGovern does not rule out Western involvement in this week’s Askariya mosque bombing in light of previous false flag operations that have advanced hidden agendas of the ruling elite.
    During the mid-eighties, McGovern was one of the senior analysts conducting early morning briefings of the PDB one-on-one with the Vice President, the (…)

  • Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can’t Talk Anymore by Jeremy Scahill / GNN | March 15 2006
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the “Butcher of the Balkans.” If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic’s final revenge, that he “ended up cheating history” by dying before judgment was passed. But the world has already passed judgment on Milosevic and what is being cheated by his death is history itself.
    What the corporate media overwhelmingly (…)

  • The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "Salvador" option by Michael Hirsh and John Barry
    Newsweek
    Updated: Jan. 14, 2005
    Jan. 8 - What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"-and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. "What everyone agrees is that we can’t just go on as we are," one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. "We have to find a way to take the offensive against the (…)

  • FBI Documents Raise New Questions about Extent of Surveillance by Jonathan S. Landay
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by Knight Ridder/commondreams
    WASHINGTON - An FBI counterterrorism unit monitored - and apparently infiltrated - a peace group in Pittsburgh that opposed the invasion of Iraq, according to internal agency documents released on Tuesday.
    The disclosure raised new questions about the extent to which federal authorities have been conducting surveillance operations against Americans since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
    Previous revelations include FBI (…)

  • Israeli Attack on Jericho Jail Sparks Uprising in Gaza and West Bank by Donald Macintyre
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the Independent / UK
    Six Palestinian prisoners, including a militant accused of the murder of an Israeli government minister in 2001, surrendered last night after a nine-hour armed siege that began when British monitors abandoned the jail where the men were being held.
    The siege had triggered a wave of protest attacks and abductions directed against foreigners across Gaza and the West Bank and there were heavy exchanges of fire outside the (…)

  • U.S. Military Airstrikes Significantly Increased in Iraq by Tom Lasseter
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by Knight Ridder
    BAGHDAD - American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here.
    A review of military data shows that daily bombing runs and jet-missile launches have increased by more than 50 percent in the past five months, compared with the same (…)

  • F**king, spineless, gutless, b*llless Congressional Democrats
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once again our elected so-called leaders stick wet fingers in the wind, consult the political "Don’t-ever-take-a-stand-or-some-voter-realorimagined-somewhere-may-take-offense-and-not-vote-for-me" manual, and fail to back Russ Feingold in his (actually mild) censure resolution. It was okay for 20 Senate Dems. to vote to censure Bill Clinton for getting bl*wj*bs by a consenting adult on his own time, and for the House of Representatives to impeach him for the same thing, but not okay to even (…)

  • NEWT & DON’S BIG ADVENTURE: WAR PARTYING LIKE IT ’S 2071 !
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to prospective presidential candidate Newt Gingrich we’re in for the "The Long War" . A Really Long War .... Projected End Date : 2071 - 70 years since commencememt of "hostilities" , 9/11/01. Donny Rumsfeld wants the Long War to be fought by special forces "sudden reaction" teams .... Undercover ops...... There you have it . Rumsfeld and Gingrich tout 70 year old "Under-war".... I doubt even GOP regulars and allied brown- shirted shock troops will rally (…)

  • Are US Troops Acting as Death Squads in Iraq?
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.
    Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue — five children, two men and four women. A freelance photographer later saw the bodies being buried in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad where the raid took place.
    The U.S. (…)

  • Déjà en 2002... Attack Iran the Day Iraq War Ends, Demands Israel
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, November 5, 2002 in the Times/UK
    by Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas
    ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete.
    In an interview with The Times , Mr Sharon insisted that Tehran - one of the “axis of evil” powers identified by President Bush - should be put under pressure “the day after” action against Baghdad ends because of its role as a (…)