Archive for the 'War' Category
Egypt: Internet Down, Police Counterterror Unit Deployed; In Suez, Weapons Looted and Turned on Police
January 28th, 2011Via: AP: Internet service in Egypt was disrupted and the government deployed an elite special operations force in Cairo on Friday, hours before an anticipated new wave of anti-government protests. The developments were a sign that President Hosni Mubarak’s regime was toughening its crackdown following the biggest protests in years against his nearly 30-year rule. […]
Utah: Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Warfare Facility, Was Locked Down ‘To Resolve a Serious Concern’
January 27th, 2011Update: A Missing Vial of VX Via: Salt Lake Tribune: An overnight lockdown, triggered when vial of the deadly VX nerve agent went temporarily missing, was lifted early Thursday morning at Utah’s sprawling, 801,000-acre Dugway Proving Ground. —End Update— Update: Mystery Emergency Triggered Dugway Lockdown; Base Reopened Now Via: Salt Lake Tribune: An overnight lockdown […]
At Least 11 Cops Shot in 24 Hours
January 25th, 2011There aren’t many national headlines about the nonstop crimes committed by the police around the U.S. But, for our purposes, the number of cops that wind up dead on an annual basis (as a result of shootings and other assaults) is a fairly simple collapse metric to track, and I have been doing that. So […]
Large Leak of Documents ‘Reveal Slow Death of Middle East Peace Process’
January 24th, 2011I have no idea what to make of this. It’s massive and I haven’t looked and any of the documents yet. Here it is, but, as always, with a grain of salt… or CAST LEAD as the case may be. Via: Guardian: The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East […]
Winning Over Hearts and Minds: U.S. Turns Afghan Town to Dust with 49,200 Pounds of Ordnance
January 21st, 2011The before and after pictures sum it up. Via: Foreign Policy: On October 6, Flynn’s unit approved use of HIMARS, B-1, and A-10s to drop 49,200 lbs. of ordnance on the Taliban tactical base of Tarok Kalache, resulting in NO CIVCAS. Their clearance of Babur, Khosrow Sofla, Charqolba Sofla, and other villages commenced October 7, […]
Largest Ever West Coast Rocket Launch Carried National Reconnaissance Office Satellite Into Space
January 21st, 2011Update: Some Guesses Mentioned on CNN Just to clarify what’s being said below: It’s not a KH-11, which hasn’t been produced since 1990. See the Wikipedia page for “KH-12”: “KH-12” is an unofficial designation of the successor to the KH-11 KENNAN (“Crystal”) spy satellite. A system with the official designation KH-12 does not exist because […]
FAA Warns of Ongoing GPS Issues in Southeastern U.S. Due to Defense Department ‘Tests’
January 21st, 2011Interestingly (instinctively?), Cryptogon readers have been buying Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass by Harold Gatty for years. This one gets a tick in the Social Engineering box because of how the machine gets people to internalize and rely on whiz bang technology that can then be withdrawn with the flip of a switch. […]
JTF2 Command ‘Encouraged’ War crimes, Soldier Alleges
January 19th, 2011Via: CBC: A member of Canada’s elite special forces unit says he felt his peers were being “encouraged” by the Canadian Forces chain of command to commit war crimes in Afghanistan, according to new documents obtained by CBC News. The documents from the military ombudsman’s office show the member of the covert unit Joint Task […]
Hersh: Many Within Joint Special Operations Command Are, “Members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta.”
January 18th, 2011Via: Foreign Policy: “What I’m really talking about is how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government. Took it over,” he said of his forthcoming book. “It’s not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it — how Congress disappeared, how the press became part […]
New York Times on Stuxnet: Israelis Tested it at Dimona, Developed with Help from Siemens, Worm Sends Fake Data to Plant Operators Indicating Normal Centrifuge Operations as the Machines Destroy Themselves
January 16th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a […]
