Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
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 […]
U.S. to Expand Pakistan Drone Strikes
May 6th, 2010Via: Al Jazeera: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been granted approval by the US government to expand drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions in a move to step up military operations against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, officials have said. Federal lawyers backed the measures on grounds of self-defence to counter threats the fighters pose […]
Obama Jokes About Predator Drones; Hundreds of Pakistani Civilians Murdered by Predator Drone Strikes in 2009 Alone
May 4th, 2010You’re killing us, Mr. President, tell us another one. The following is from, US Killed 700 Civilians in Pakistan Drone Strikes in 2009: On June 22, the US struck at a house officials called a “suspected militant hideout,” burying a few locals inside. When others rushed to the scene to rescue them, they launched another […]
Italian Aid Workers Arrested Over Afghan Assassination Plot
April 12th, 2010Via: Al Jazeera: Nine people, including three Italian medical workers, have been arrested in Afghanistan for allegedly plotting to kill a provincial official. Gulab Mangal, who is the governor of Helmand, said those held were planning attacks in Lashkar Gah, the province’s main city, “and the number one target was myself”. He said that the […]
Cable Ties Kissinger to Pinochet Assassinations
April 12th, 2010Via: AP: As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington’s Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows. Whether Kissinger […]
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Several Other Top Polish Officials, Killed in Plane Crash
April 10th, 2010Via: Guardian: The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 132 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning. The governor of the west Russian town of Smolensk confirmed there were no survivors from the Tupulov Tu-154 plane, which came […]
Scientist Researching Radio Frequency Waves for Cancer Treatment Killed in “Home Invasion Robbery”
April 7th, 2010Via: Palm Beach Post: Who would want to kill scientist Joseph Morrissey, who enjoyed an international reputation for his pioneering research into the use of radio frequency waves in cancer treatment? That’s the question friends and colleagues were asking late Tuesday after Morrissey, 46, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Nova Southeastern University, was […]
U.S. Approves Assassination of American Cleric
April 7th, 2010Via: New York Times: The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.
