The Washington Examiner Tuesday, 01 Nov 2011, 4:39 PM PDT (NewsCore) – A new book based on a series of interviews with the Navy SEALs involved in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden claims to directly contradict the Obama administration’s depiction of the operation, The Washington Examiner reported Friday. “SEAL Target Geronimo: [...]
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Target: Africa
by John Feffer John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. He is the author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories, 2003) among other books. Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by Foreign Policy in [...]
Patrick Cockburn: Iran had better watch its step now Obama’s chasing votes
A fumbling Tehran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was dismissed as bizarre by the rest of the world. But the White House is taking it very seriously Independent Sunday, 16 October 2011 The plot in which an Iranian-American fromCorpus Christi,Texas, notorious locally for his Clouseau-like dimwittedness, tries to hire a Mexican gangster to [...]
Video : ‘Israelis, Saudis’ Behind Iran Terror Plot
A former CIA operative and chief of the Bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, believes that the only people that would benefit from the alleged Iranian terror plot to target the Saudi ambassador to theU.S.are the Israelis and the Saudis. In an interview with fox news Scheuer stated that “bothIsraelandSaudi Arabiaare much more dangerous enemies [...]
Why Did the United States Invade Afghanistan?
by Tim Kelly, Tim Kelly is a columnist and policy advisor at the Future of Freedom Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia, a correspondent for Radio America’s Special Investigator, and a political cartoonist. The Future of Freedom Foundation October 12, 2012 The tenth anniversary of theU.S. led war inAfghanistan came and went with very little attention [...]
US had ‘frighteningly simplistic’ view of Afghanistan, says McChrystal
General who led Obama’s ‘surge’ strategy says even now the military does not have the local knowledge to end the conflict Declan Walsh in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011 09.17 BST One ofAmerica’s most celebrated generals has issued a harsh indictment of his country’s campaign inAfghanistanon the 10th anniversary of the invasion [...]
The Due-process-free Assassination of U.S. Citizens is Now Reality
By Glenn Greenwald Salon September 30, 2011 – It was first reported in January of last year that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens whom the President had ordered assassinated without any due process, and one of those Americans was Anwar al-Awlaki. No effort was made to indict [...]
Ron Paul Condemns Killing of “al Qaeda’s” Awlaki
By Elizabeth Williamson WSJ September 30, 2011 GOFFSTOWN, N.H.–Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul condemned the U.S.-backed killing of al Qaeda figure andU.S.citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. “Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,” Mr. Paul said after a breakfast at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics. “If the American people accept [...]
