In the very first issue of WW4 REPORT, just two weeks after 9-11, we noted the terrifying plunder of post-Soviet nuclear materials by black-marketeers who could presumably sell them to the highest-bidding terrorist group. Just two weeks ago, the Bulletin… Read moreCaucasus nuclear smuggling case: Georgian “provocation”?
So who was behind this one? Takes place near Peshawar’s main Sunni mosque, but also near the city’s Shi’ite community center, and during the Shi’ite holy month of Moharram. Some people specualte these ongoing outrages are a CIA conspiracy. But… Read moreMore Pakistan terror: sectarian —or random?
And speaking of Dick Cheney… From McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 25: WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney exerted “constant” pressure on the Republican former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration’s use of flawed… Read moreSen. Rockefeller: Cheney blocked Iraq probe
Of course everyone wants us to think its really about the Jews. From The Raw Story, Jan. 26: An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the… Read moreCheney’s Halliburton stock options: still soaring
This sad story is all the more telling given that the “Salvador option” reveals El Salvador as a test war for Iraq—with the sinister John Negroponte a key architect of both. The failure of the Times to even mention this… Read moreDissent grows in El Salvador over Iraq role
A glimmer of hope is that the outcry following the slaying of Hrant Dink is coming from Turks as well as Armenians. Perhaps his death will not have been in vain—or will there be an inevitable backlash? From the UK-based… Read moreIstanbul: streets filled for slain editor’s funeral
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a military convoy Jan. 22 near Mirali, in Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan, killing four troops and a civilian woman, and injuring 23, including 20 soldiers. The convoy was a joint force of… Read moreWar engulfs Afghan-Pakistan borderlands
From Reuters, Jan. 24: MOGADISHU – A U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship has launched a second air strike against suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified U.S. officials. No confirmation of Monday’s… Read moreNew US air-strikes reported in Somalia
The assassination of Hrant Dink has, fortunately, sparked renewed challenges to the censorious Article 301. But the Turkish state seems to be trying to squelch the debate. Would Dink have wanted his funeral to be used in this manner? From… Read moreTurkey: Article 301 debate on hold as slain editor laid to rest
Freedom’s on the march. From the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 24: One of the Bush administration’s most far-reaching assertions of government power was revealed quietly last week when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified that habeas corpus — the right to… Read moreGonzales: Constitution doesn’t guarantee habeas corpus
From AP, Jan. 24: Former Social Distortion Bassist Killed Placentia, Calif. — Brent Liles, a former bassist for the 1980s punk rock group Social Distortion, was struck and killed by a truck while riding a bicycle, authorities said Wednesday. He… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Freedom’s on the march. From AlJazeera, Jan. 18: The US defence department has released new rules allowing terror suspects to be convicted and possibly executed on the basis of hearsay evidence and some coerced testimony. The rules, which the department… Read morePentagon terror trials to allow hearsay evidence
