Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Yemen: Pentagon’s War On The Arabian Peninsula
January 4th, 2010Via: Global Research: Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia – whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable of the entire post-World War II era – on one hand and Iran on the other. It is perhaps impossible to determine the exact moment […]
BLACKWATER CHARGES DISMISSED
January 1st, 2010Via: Reuters: Iraq expressed its disappointment on Friday with a U.S. federal court ruling that threw out all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of gunning down Iraqi civilians in 2007. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the five men had committed a “serious crime” in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad, which strained […]
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 […]
Pakistan: Detained Americans had Nuclear Power Site Map
December 28th, 2009Were they wearing Dockers? Via: Guardian: Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities. The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and government officials have made a series […]
“I don’t understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list.”
December 27th, 2009More: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport: A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked […]
Mumbai Terror Suspect David Headley Connected to U.S. Intelligence, Heroin Smuggling
December 23rd, 2009Via: Times Online: A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year’s attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rogue, Indian officials believe. David Headley, 49, who was born in Washington to a Pakistan diplomat father and an American mother, was arrested in Chicago in […]
Cost to Fight Each Al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan Per Year: $300 Million
December 23rd, 2009War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler Via: ABC News: As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda “cancer” in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about […]
AT&T Workers Sue for $1 Billion in Overtime Pay
December 17th, 2009Mark Klein’s, Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…And Fighting It, not only lays out the most detailed account (in the public domain) of how the NSA conducts mass communications intercepts, it also covers the grim corporate culture at AT&T. If you want to constantly think that you’re about to get laid off, AT&T is the […]
U.S. Predator Drones Use Unencrypted Communications Links in Theater?
December 17th, 2009I’ve seen some stupid shit in my day, but this one takes the cake… Unless… It’s by design and intended to help the insurgents. Or, it might be that this is part of a military deception operation where a video feed is broadcast in the clear for PSYOP or other purposes to insurgents: Military deception […]
