Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
American Man On Mission to Hunt Down Osama Bin Laden Arrested in Northern Pakistan
June 16th, 2010I couldn’t help thinking about Jake and Elwood as I read through this one. Via: BBC: An American man who claimed to be on a mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden has been arrested in northern Pakistan, police say. They said that Gary Brooks Faulkner, 52, was detained in the mountains of Chitral district […]
Body in Ottawa River Is Likely Missing Nuclear Scientist
June 16th, 2010Via: CBC: The body pulled from the Ottawa River last week is almost certain to be that of the Chalk River scientist who went missing in January, according to a friend of the scientist. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, vanished five months ago in a case that confounded police and the community and yielded few clues to […]
Israel’s Leader Capital Markets CEO “Commits Suicide”
June 14th, 2010Via: Reuters: The chief executive of Leader Capital Markets, one of Israel’s top investment banks, has committed suicide, a company spokeswoman said on Sunday. Danny Barak, 48, jumped from his office on the 17th floor of one of Tel Aviv’s most prominent office towers on Friday, the spokeswoman said. Barak, who is survived by his […]
Daniel Ellsberg: WikiLeaks Founder’s Life Is In Danger
June 12th, 2010All states use their embassies and consulates to run intelligence operations. The U.S. Government is likely concerned that some of these activities, that are happening under official cover, could be compromised. Public exposure would represent a gigantic pain in the ass for the U.S. because of the Kabuki theater act that’s mandated to follow such […]
U.S. Special Operations Forces Deployed in 75 Countries
June 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials. Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed […]
The Coca-Cola Case
May 25th, 2010Via: National Film Board of Canada:
Increase in Covert Operations Across Middle East
May 25th, 2010Via: Reuters: A senior U.S. military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, officials said on Monday. Issued last September by General David Petraeus, the order authorized an escalation that included boosting military and intelligence assistance […]
Israel Responsible for Faking Aussie Passports, Diplomat Expelled
May 24th, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Australia’s relations with Israel have hit a new low, with the Rudd Government expelling an Israeli diplomat over the fake passports affair. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, told Parliament today that inquiries by Australian intelligence agencies into the use of fake Australian passports in Dubai had concluded the fakes […]
Hack Attacks On Car Control Systems
May 19th, 2010Via: BBC: The computer systems used to control modern cars are very vulnerable to attack, say experts. An investigation by security researchers found the systems to be “fragile” and easily subverted. The researchers showed how to kill a car engine remotely, turn off the brakes so the car would not stop and make instruments give […]
U.S. Government Can Execute Its Own Citizens With No Judicial Process And Based On Secret Intelligence
May 15th, 2010What do we learn from the New York Times in the article below? Some legal authorities are deeply uneasy about the U.S. Government’s arbitrary assassination of Americans. That is supposed to soothe us, I think. We can rest assured that someone feels deeply uneasy about the government murdering its own citizens. I don’t know about […]
