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Report: Yemen sacrificing rights

Aljazeera  -  Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Yemen’s government has sacrificed human rights to preserve security in its battle against Shia rebels in the north and al-Qaeda fighters in the south, a new report by Amnesty International has alleged.
Yemen’s catalogue of human-rights abuses over the past two years includes unlawful killings, arbitrary arrest, torture, unfair trials and enforced [...]

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Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries’ role in civilian deaths

Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the Americans’ rules of engagement

David Leigh
guardian.co.uk – 25 July 2010
Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled into [...]

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John Pilger: The Charge of the Media Brigade

Antiwar Forum - July 07, 2010
The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split-screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. “He had a choice,” said the journalist, “lethal injection or firing squad.” “Wow!” said the anchorwoman. Cue a blizzard [...]

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Israel’s Attack on Egypt in ‘67 was not ‘Preemptive’

- Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist and editor of Foreign Policy Journal. He was among the recipients of the 2010 Project Censored Awards for outstanding investigative journalism, and is the author of “The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination”, available from Amazon.com. Visit: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com.
Palestine Chronicle    July 4, 2010
It is often claimed that Israel’s attack on [...]

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CIA’s Panetta: Few al-Qaida are in Afghanistan

CIA’s Panetta estimates under 100 al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan; most hiding in Pakistan
ANNE FLAHERTY
AP News    -   Jun 27, 2010
CIA Director Leon Panetta says there are probably only 50 to 100 al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan, with “no question” that most of the terrorist network is operating from the western tribal region of Pakistan.
That assessment comes as President [...]

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The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket

By David DeGraw
AlterNet   June 19, 2010
A few recent news items help expose the true drivers of current wars around the world.
#1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief [...]

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CIA’s secret Iraq weapon revealed: a Saddam gay sex tape

Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro and fake video of Osama bin Laden’s campfire drinking

Paul Harris
guardian.co.uk – 26 May 2010
In their time, America’s secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes to attack their country’s enemies, including, most famously, an attempt to do away with Cuba’s Fidel Castro by using [...]

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U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast

By MARK MAZZETTI
The New York Times – 24 May 2010

WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.
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Assassination of US Muslim Cleric is Illegal, Immoral and Unwise

By Bill Quigley*
Information Clearing House  May 10, 2010
Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is illegal, immoral and unwise.

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How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear — The Intelligence Factory

By PETRA BARTOSIEWICZ
CounterPunch - 18  January 2010
Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing [...]

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US Intelligence admits Iran nuke document forged

Anti-Iran nuclear document shown to be fabricated by unknown foreign intelligence agency.
By Gareth Porter – WASHINGTON
Middle East Online    31 December 2009
US intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic [...]

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Italy convicts CIA rendition agents

Al Jazeera -  04 November 2009
An Italian judge has convicted 23 US secret agents over the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam from a Milan street in an extraordinary rendition by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The trial was the first in the world to centre on the agency’s controversial programme, in which “terror” suspects are thought [...]

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