Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Trafficking Out of Afghanistan
February 28th, 2008The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or more popularly “MI6?) was going to run a covert operation that would have been tasked with providing combat training to the Taliban/enemy/terrorists/etc. as well as, “vocational training, including farming and irrigation techniques.” The article states that the purpose of the “vocational training” would have provided the Taliban fighters […]
Guatemala to Expose Army Torture Files
February 26th, 2008Somehow, the Reuters article below doesn’t mention the CIA even once… As usual, the reader needs to look elsewhere for the basic, contextual facts: Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades: …my husband had indeed been captured alive, had been held for two and a half years […]
Energy Conflicts and Differential Profits: Poor Performance of Oil Stocks Predicts Middle East Conflicts
February 19th, 2008Via: Alternative Information Center — Economy of the Occupation 10: Cheap Wars: The key beneficiaries of this new, indirect link are the large oil companies. The geographic centre of this process is the Middle East. After the Vietnam War, the Middle East has become the hot spot of global conflict, with obvious corollaries for the […]
How the Spooks Took Over the News
February 15th, 2008Via: Independent: So, who exactly is producing fiction for the media? Who wrote the Zarqawi letters? Who created the fantasy story about Osama bin Laden using a network of subterranean bases in Afghanistan, complete with offices, dormitories, arms depots, electricity and ventilation systems? Who fed the media with tales of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, […]
Afghanistan: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters
February 6th, 2008“The British Army provided security cordons around meetings between two senior British intelligence officers and leading members of the group responsible for producing the opium that is used to make 90% of the world’s heroin.” —Britain in Secret Talks with the Taliban But it gets so much better! The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or […]
Problems with Five Undersea Fiber Optic Cables
February 6th, 2008It’s a definite WTF moment. Via: Khaleej Times: A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran […]
French Bank Says Trader Hacked Computers
January 28th, 2008Well, well, well… I’m glad I included the BS option in my initial post on this incident. Please see, Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever,” and pay close attention to the part about the timing: We’ll see how clever they are when the Good Fellas show up to collect. At […]
Disgraced and Vilified, Indonesia’s Ex-Dictator Suharto Dies Aged 86
January 28th, 2008I’m surprised Suharto’s likeness hasn’t already been added to Mt. Rushmore. Via: The Canadian Free Press: Former Indonesian president Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86. Although he oversaw some of the worst bloodshed of the […]
CIA Drug Planes Tip of the Iceberg
January 20th, 2008Via: Mad Cow Productions: Two American-registered drug planes busted in Mexico carrying four and 5.5 tons of cocaine are just the “tip of the iceberg” in a blockbuster aviation deal which sold 50 American-registered aircraft to the Sinaloa Cartel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. According to an indictment released over the holidays by Mexico’s Atty. General, […]
Opium Fields Spread Across Iraq
January 18th, 2008Do you get it yet? Via: Independent: The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops. Afghan with experience in planting poppies have been helping farmers switch to producing opium in fertile parts of […]
