Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
U.S. Special Forces Getting Constellation of Mini Satellites To ‘Hunt Down People Considered To Be Dangerous To The United States And Its Interests’
May 22nd, 2013Those birds should be busy when they fly over Washington, D.C. Oh. Wait. Via: Wired: In September, the U.S. government will fire into orbit a two-stage rocket from a Virginia launchpad. Officially, the mission is a scientific one, designed to improve America’s ability to send small satellites into space quickly and cheaply. But the launch […]
Florida: Man Under Investigation for Links to Boston Marathon Bomber Killed by FBI
May 22nd, 2013Wife of man killed by FBI agent says he was never questioned about Waltham triple murder Via: Boston Globe: The wife and best friend of the Chechen man shot and killed here by an FBI agent on Wednesday insisted today that authorities never questioned him, or them, prior to the fatal confrontation, about an unsolved […]
‘And – you’re going to laugh – he said he was in the CIA.’
May 9th, 2013Update: Ariel Castro Found Hanged in His Ohio Prison Cell And that’s that. Via: USA Today: Ariel Castro, who was convicted last month on charges related to the capture and imprisonment of three women in Cleveland, has been found hanged in his prison cell, according to various sources. Castro, 52, was being held at the […]
Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
May 2nd, 2013The piece indicates that Hart had an eleven-year-old daughter. I couldn’t find any other original coverage of his death. All of the sources that I found link back to this Truthout piece. Via: Truthout: An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. […]
Israel Airport Security ‘Allowed to Read Tourists’ Email’
April 25th, 2013If you think this is good, why not go for the bonus round: Israel Cloned Travelers’ Passports to Carry Out Assassination. Via: AFP: Israeli security officials at Ben Gurion airport are legally allowed to demand access to tourists’ email accounts and deny them entry if they refuse, the country’s top legal official said on Wednesday. […]
‘After Boston, Lawmakers See Case for Use of Drones to Kill Americans’
April 24th, 2013Via: U.S. News and World Report: In the aftermath of the Boston bombing standoff that ended last Friday, lawmakers have changed their tune on whether a drone should ever be used to target an American citizen on U.S. soil. The use of drones to kill American citizens is not “inherently illegal,” as long as that […]
Top French Lawyer Olivier Metzner’s Body Found Near Private Island
April 24th, 2013Via: Guardian: One of the giants of the French legal system was found dead near his private island in Brittany on Sunday morning. A suicide note was discovered at his home nearby. Olivier Metzner, 63, nicknamed the “gangsters’ lawyer”, was a larger-than-life figure known for his spirited defence of high-profile and controversial defendants including the […]
The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen
April 24th, 2013Via: Democracy Now: The Obama administration’s assassination of two U.S. citizens in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old Denver-born son Abdulrahman, is a central part of Jeremy Scahill’s new book, “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.” The book is based on years of reporting on U.S. secret operations in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan. While […]
The Sad Kevin Harris Situation
April 16th, 2013People from Orange County, California are searching Google for information on Kevin Harris and they’re finding my ancient post on him from 2004. I used to live a couple of dozen miles from Harris. I found one of his booklets on my doorstep back then and, upon reading it, concluded that he was very obviously […]
U.S. Killer Robot Operators ‘Weren’t Always Certain Who They Were Killing’
April 11th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show. The administration has […]
