Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
What Happened to the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (isgp.eu)
January 17th, 2010Update: Apparently, the Site Was Taken Down Because of a Address Chance isgp.eu: January 18, 2010, To those who were concerned, As many of you noticed, ISGP has been down for a week. Eurid, located in Brussels, had withdrawn the domain because they somehow found out I wasn’t living at the registered address anymore. Don’t […]
Bomb Kills Professor of Nuclear Physics in Tehran
January 12th, 2010Via: New York Times: A bomb attached to a motorcycle killed an Iranian professor of nuclear physics outside his home in northern Tehran on Tuesday, the state-run Press TV broadcaster reported on its Web site. State-run media blamed Iran’s western adversaries for the killing, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. […]
Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
January 11th, 2010Via: The Nation: German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair […]
CIA Attempted to Recruit Bomber
January 1st, 2010Via: BBC: The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan had been courted by the US as a possible informant, US intelligence sources have said. They said he had not undergone the usual full body search before entering the base in Khost province, and so was able to smuggle in an explosive belt. […]
CIA Officers Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Attack
December 31st, 2009Via: BBC: Eight Americans reportedly working for the CIA have died in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the worst against US intelligence officials since 2001. A bomber wearing an explosive vest entered Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province, near Pakistan. A Taliban spokesman said one of its members who was working for the Afghan […]
Murder of Antonio Ferrigno
December 28th, 2009Update 2: 1/1/2010: Trying to Get Reuters to Cover It I sent Reuters a note, letting them know about this and how there’s no mainstream coverage of the story in English. —End Update— Update 1: Cryptogon Reader Contributes English Translation of the Story Below: Thanks Domi: Murdered inhabitant of Rijswijk appears to be nuclear physicist […]
U.S. Air Force Confirms ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Drone
December 9th, 2009Via: AFP: The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to […]
The Death of Mike Connell
December 5th, 2009Via: Brad Blog: On December 18, 2008, Bush IT expert Mike Connell, a highly skilled pilot, was killed in a sudden crash while flying his small aircraft from Washington DC to his Akron/Canton home airport. The cause of the crash is still unknown and under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. … Although mainly […]
Reporter Associated with Bloomberg Lawsuit Against Federal Reserve Dies
November 29th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonkers, New York. He was 52. Pittman suffered from heart-related illnesses. The precise cause of his death wasn’t known, said his friend William […]
Senior Government Officials Killed in Russian Train Attack
November 29th, 2009Via: Guardian: Russia was tonight coming to terms with its most deadly terrorist attack in years after investigators confirmed that a powerful improvised bomb caused Friday’s devastating train crash in which at least 26 people, including several top government officials, were killed. The head of Russia’s FSB counter-terrorism agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said the bomb, hidden […]
