Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Pakistan Army Is Said to Be Linked to Many Killings in Swat
September 15th, 2009Via: New York Times: Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local residents say is the work of the military. In some cases, […]
British Secret Intelligence Service Calls the Cops on Itself
September 14th, 2009Via: Telegraph: The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has referred an unidentified case involving alleged complicity in torture to the Attorney General who has in turn referred it on to the Metropolitan Police, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. The police are already investigating MI5, the Security Service, over allegations that they colluded in the torture of […]
Danish Government Stops Publication of Book Written by Special Forces Soldier
September 14th, 2009Via: Copenhagen Post: A 42-year-old Special Forces soldier may be jailed for revealing sensitive information in a book about the elite force’s missions in Afghanistan. Sgt First Class Thomas Rathsack’s book ‘Jæger – i krig med eliten’ (‘Hunter – at war with the elite’) was due out on 25 September. But the Defence Command has […]
The Coming Consequences of Banking Fraud
September 12th, 2009Via: Seeking Alpha: The Double Dip Recession, or the “W” shaped recovery that a minority of economists, such as Joseph Stiglitz, is now stating as a strong possible outcome of this current rally, should not be discussed in the realm of economics but rather in the more apropos realm of financial fraud. The fact that […]
Miami’s Ex-DEA Chief Charged with Shredding Documents for Allen Stanford
September 11th, 2009Via: Miami Herald: The former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office who led the agency’s cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel Noriega and Medellin cartel kingpin Fabio Ocho, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for ordering the shredding of records once belonging to disgraced banker Allen Stanford. Tom Raffanello, who […]
Glock’s Secret Path to Profits
September 11th, 2009You can’t even shake a stick at all the weird stuff in this one. Via: Business Week: Allegations of corruption permeate Gaston Glock’s empire. His former business associate, Charles Marie Joseph Ewert, now resides in a prison in Luxembourg, having been convicted in 2003 of contracting to have Glock killed. The murder plot—thwarted when the […]
FBI Informant Says Agents Missed Chance to Stop 9/11 Ringleader Mohammed Atta
September 11th, 2009Via: ABC News: On the eve of the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an FBI informant who infiltrated alleged terrorist cells in the U.S. tells ABC News the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become […]
Cayman Islands Heads for Bankruptcy
September 8th, 2009How about if they just tax the money related to the drug trade? *wink* Via: Guardian: The white sands of Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman have long caressed the toes of the world’s wealthiest financiers, who flock to this balmy spit to avoid the taxman’s prying eyes. But the world’s biggest hedge-fund venue and […]
Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power: GQ Censors Article About False Flag Bombings in Russia
September 6th, 2009Gawker: Scans of English Version and Attempts at Russian Translation The article is definitely worth reading. Via: NPR: For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn’t the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found. […]
Former U.S. Official Arrested on Cocaine Smuggling Charges
September 6th, 2009Via: AP: A former high-ranking US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. … Authorities say Cramer helped a large-scale drug trafficking organisation move cocaine into the United States, according to a criminal complaint made […]
