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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
By Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen The New York Times - 27 October 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, [...]
Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
By Noah Shachtman Wired 19 October 2009 America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring [...]
CIA sued 10 million euros for cleric kidnap
Middle East Online - 8 October 2009 Milan Muslim preacher seeks compensation as Italian court seeks jail sentences for CIA officials. ROME – A lawyer representing a Milan-based Muslim preacher who was allegedly snatched by CIA agents and tortured in Egypt has demanded 10 million euros (14 million dollars) in damages, the ANSA news agency [...]
Doctors had ‘central role’ in CIA torture
Middle East Online First Published 2009-08-30 US health professionals played central role in developing, implementing, justifying torture. WASHINGTON – A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a “central role” in advising and implementing the CIA’s abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued its [...]
CIA threatened suspects with family rape, child murder
Middle East Online First Published 2009-08-25 US Attorney General names prosecutor to probe alleged CIA prisoner abuse during Bush era. WASHINGTON – The US attorney general named a prosecutor Monday to investigate possible crimes in secret CIA interrogations amid disclosures of threats to kill suspects’ children and rape their female relatives. The revelations came in [...]
CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison
By Sherwood Ross Sherwood Ross formerly reported for major dailies and wire services. To contact him or contribute to his Anti-War News Service: sherwoodr1@yahoo.com INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE “The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine. “A forensic examiner found that [...]
Destabilization 2.0 –Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran
By James Corbett “The Corbett Report” — June 24, 2009 It’s the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can [...]
CIA declassifies report on Israel’s nukes
The 1960 report defends Israel’s nuclear ambitions, offers guidance on handling today’s nuclear-hopefuls. By Walter Pincus Washington Post “We do not believe that Israel will embark on the development of nuclear weapons with the aim of actually starting a nuclear war,” reads the declassified 48-year-old CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate.
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