A taped message purported to be from fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar was broadcast on Geo TV, a commercial station in Pakistan June 25. The voice on the tape issued a challenge to the Afghan government and foreign troops fighting… Read moreMullah Omar speaks —again
While federal authorities tilt at windmills in Miami, it seems the real al-Qaeda is still very much alive. From AP, June 24, via the UAE’s Khajeel Times: Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri vowed in a videotape on Al Jazeera… Read moreZawahiri speaks —again
Voice of America reports June 26 that the US will be deploying Patriot missile batteries in Japan under an agreement reached May 1 in response to the supposed threat from North Korea. AFP adds that the US Missile Defence Agency… Read moreUS plans Japan anti-missile base, neo-militarists pleased
Remember how the firefighters, cops and rescue workers who answered the call of duty at New York’s Ground Zero were exploited shamelessly for war propaganda—as if saving lives in New York was somehow the same as taking lives in Iraq?… Read moreNYC: no 9-11 liability
From Newsday, June 23: In a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its patriotic fervor, residents were shocked Thursday to discover that seven American flags displayed outside homes had been set ablaze overnight, including one on a block named for a firefighter… Read moreOld Glory torched in Brooklyn intifada?
The standards for what constitutes a terrorist conspiracy continue to get radically dumbed down. Most Americans don’t seem to care, as those targeted invariably belong to some fringe and seemingly extremist sect. In this case, it appears to be an… Read moreMiami “terror” busts: conspiracy or thoughtcrime?
A Somali cleric who is on the US list of terror suspects was elected as head of the Islamist militia that controls the capital, Mogadishu, and much of the country’s south. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was elected in absentia June… Read moreAl-Qaeda suspect elected to lead Somalia
Kidnapping workers is the latest tactic of the Iraqi insurgents that some on the supposed left persist in glorfying as the “resistance.” On June 25, unidentified gunmen kidnapped 16 employees of a technology institute in Taji, north of Baghdad. Taji… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress protests abduction of workers
From Israel’s largest newspaper, Yediot Aharanot: Refuseniks call on soldiers to refuse striking Gaza June 23 by Yossi Yehoshua The Courage to Refuse organization, which advocates soldiers’ refusal to serve in the occupied territories, renewed its activity on Thursday in… Read moreIsraeli Refuseniks: quit firing at Gaza
Italy down. Spain down. Now Japan. From AP, June 20: TOKYO — Japan ordered the withdrawal of its ground troops from Iraq on Tuesday, declaring the humanitarian mission a success and ending a groundbreaking dispatch that tested the limits of… Read moreJapan announces Iraq withdrawal
Here is the proof that the United States is not totalitarian state. Under totalitarianism, the government spies and collects data on its own citizens, without the formalities of warrants or court orders. In the United States, in contrast, these functions… Read moreBig Brother goes corporate
From The New Standard, June 22: Lynne Stewart, a lawyer convicted of terrorism-related charges, has asked a federal court to compel the federal government to disclose whether the National Security Agency’s illegal warrantless domestic-spying program helped the prosecution in its… Read moreDid NSA spy on Lynne Stewart?
