Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
CIA Used Defective Software to Task Drones on Assassination Missions
September 24th, 2010Via: Register: The CIA is implicated in a court case in which it’s claimed it used an illegal, inaccurate software “hack” to direct secret assassination drones in central Asia. The target of the court action is Netezza, the data warehousing firm that IBM bid $1.7bn for on Monday. The case raises serious questions about the […]
Court Dismisses Shell Human Rights Abuse Case
September 24th, 2010Via: TCE Today: A US appeals court has dismissed a case against Shell in which it was accused of assisting the Nigerian government to commit human rights abuses in its attempts to suppress local groups protesting against oil activities in the 1990s. In a written ruling, the three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals […]
Nicaraguan Diplomat Found Dead in New York; Throat Cut
September 24th, 2010Via: New York Times: A Nicaraguan official was found dead on Thursday, his throat slashed, in his Bronx apartment, the police said. The police identified the dead man as César Mercado, 34, a senior consulate officer who had been working in New York for eight years and had been performing the duties of consul general. […]
The CIA’s War in Pakistan
September 23rd, 2010Via: Independent: The US Central Intelligence Agency is running and paying for a secret 3,000-strong army of Afghan paramilitaries whose main aim is assassinating Taliban and al-Qa’ida operatives not just in Afghanistan but across the border in neighbouring Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to Bob Woodward’s explosive book. Although the CIA has long been known to […]
Real IRA Says it Will Target UK Bankers
September 15th, 2010As I’ve stated before, a way to assess if a terrorist organization is real, or a false flag, state sponsored scam, is to look at the targets of the attacks. If the attacks target civilians, make work for janitors or provide a lot of footage of chaos for the state’s media to play in an […]
Ukrainian Journalist, Vasyl Klymentyev, Missing and Presumed Dead
September 8th, 2010Via: Guardian: On 11 August 2010, the investigative journalist Vasyl Klymentyev set off from his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city. It was 8.55am. As editor-in-chief of Kharkiv’s Novy Stil (New Style) newspaper – a small publication known for unearthing juicy scandals about corrupt local officials – Klymentyev had many enemies and was rather cautious. […]
Belarus Web Activist Oleg Bebenin Found Hanged
September 6th, 2010Via: BBC: Officials in Belarus say a prominent opposition figure found hanged at his weekend home outside the capital, Minsk, on Friday committed suicide. Forensic examiners established that, apart from the noose mark on Oleg Bebenin’s neck, there were no other injuries, a local prosecutor said. Mr Bebenin, 36, founded Charter 97, a leading opposition […]
Mystery Over Russian General Found Dead on Turkish Beach
September 1st, 2010Via: Guardian: A mysterious accident in which one of Russia’s most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country’s foreign military intelligence service had been murdered. The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and […]
Mexico Gunmen Assassinate Second Mayor in Two Weeks
August 30th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Mexican gunmen assassinated the second mayor in less than two weeks in the violent northeast region of the country as a fight against drug traffickers intensifies. Marco Antonio Leal Garcia, the mayor of Hidalgo in Tamaulipas state, was killed when his truck was ambushed by the gunmen. His daughter was also injured in […]
Joint Special Operations Command Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for ‘Special Access Programs’
August 26th, 2010Via: Common Dreams: The US military’s most elite counter-terrorism force, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), prides itself on the secrecy of its operations. JSOC runs classified, compartmentalized task forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere around the world. It has operated secret prisons and detention sites globally and is the […]
