Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Cousin of 9/11 “Hijacker” Worked for Mossad Since 1983
February 20th, 2009Via: New York Times: For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school. To Israel, he appears to […]
FBI Finds Allen Stanford in Virginia
February 20th, 2009Not Langley, Virginia. The FBI didn’t arrest him. Via: Reuters: Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an $8 billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was found in Virginia on Thursday and FBI agents served him with a complaint from U.S. regulators. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted […]
How Much of the Federal Debt Is Financed with Drug Money?
February 20th, 2009Via: Clusterstock: Allen Stanford forfeited $3 million in drug money back in 1999, and it’s a sure thing that within his multi-billion empire he had many more drug dollars under his care. This is true not just of Stanford, but of the whole Caribbean offshore banking complex, as drug dealers are obviously interested in the […]
UK: Serious Fraud Office Looking at Stanford Link
February 19th, 2009Via: Reuters: The Serious Fraud Office is monitoring a possible link from the scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford after media reports that his firm was audited from the United Kingdom. Antigua-based accounting firm C.A.S. Hewlett, which the Evening Standard reported had audited Stanford’s books, moved its operations to London after its founder Charlesworth ‘Shelley’ […]
Stanford Under Federal Drug Investigation
February 19th, 2009A Texas billionaire laundering drug money… Imagine my complete and total shock. But did you know that it’s SIR Allen Stanford? That’s right! He’s the first American to be knighted by Antigua and Barbuda. I wonder how close this guy is to Dubya and the gang… Via: Reuters: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and […]
‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan
February 19th, 2009Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted. Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province. The coalition helicopter had intended to deliver pallets of supplies to a police checkpoint in Ghazni, a remote section of […]
FAA: Falling Metal Did Not Come From Airplane
February 19th, 2009I thought it might be part of the Iridium debris, but.. cast iron? Is that even used in satellites? I’m not sure, but I doubt it. Via: CBS News: The Federal Aviation Administration says a piece of hot metal that crashed through the roof of a Jersey City business did not come from an airplane. […]
BANK RUN: DEPOSITORS TURNED AWAY FROM STANFORD BANKS
February 19th, 2009Via: AP: Panicky depositors were turned away from Stanford International Bank and some of its Latin American affiliates Wednesday, unable to withdraw their money after U.S. regulators accused Texas financier R. Allen Stanford of perpetrating an $8 billion fraud against his companies’ investors. Some customers arrived in Antigua by private jet and were driven up […]
The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium
February 18th, 2009What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin. My theory will be confirmed if we hear that Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan includes counter-narcotics operations. Why now? First of all, heroin is cheap. Too cheap: A gram of […]
Biggest Fraud Ever: Iraq “Reconstruction”
February 17th, 2009Fraud. Top to bottom fraud, as we already knew. Via Independent: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of […]
