A very amusing New York Times profile July 21 of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, the former firebrand cleric who is now exiled in Lebanon and barred from returning to his former home of Britain. The man who once praised the… Read moreKinder, gentler Omar Bakri disses “Sheikh Google”
In a strange case of role-reversal, BBC July 20 takes the more Bush-friendly tack in reporting a new executive order on treatment of detained “terror suspects,” writing in the lead that it bans “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” while the… Read moreBush executive order bans torture —or approves it?
The latest piece of overwrought effluent from Kurt Nimmo once again exemplifies the fundamental flaw with the Conspiracy Industry. Those sources from the mainstream media which support the Conspiracy Theory are taken as gospel truth; those which point the other… Read moreAlert CIA: Kurt Nimmo knows Osama’s fate
From The Economist, July 5: Don’t mention the GWOT A new vocabulary is needed to confront terrorism The “global war on terror” is what America calls its response to the September 11th attacks. Never mind the cliché, or the fact… Read moreUK to ditch GWOT nomenclature?
The National Intelligence Estimate has reached such findings before. Yet more evidence of what an astonishing success the Global War on Terrorism has been. From McClatchy Newspapers, July 11: Calling al-Qaida the most potent terrorist threat to U.S. national security,… Read moreNational Intelligence Estimate: al-Qaeda stronger than ever since 9-11
The Pentagon said July 6 it has appealed a decision by a military judge to dismiss the case of a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan. It is the first use of the appeals process… Read morePentagon appeals Gitmo detainee’s case
Twenty-Two Years After the Philadelphia Massacre by Hans Bennett, The Defenestrator “Attention, MOVE: This Is America!” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor declared through a loudspeaker, minutes before the May 13, 1985 police assault on the revolutionary MOVE organization’s home. This… Read more“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”
Continue Reading“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”In a surprise development, the US Supreme Court agreed June 29 to hear an appeal they had refused to hear in April, asking whether “foreign citizens imprisoned indefinitely” by the US military can go to federal court and whether their… Read moreSupreme Court to hear Gitmo cases
The press is abuzz with the June 26 release of the CIA’s “family jewels,” nearly 700 pages of documents concerning domestic meddling, foreign assassinations and other real and potential violations of the Agency’s charter that then-director James Schlesinger ordered compiled… Read moreThe CIA’s “family jewels” and historical irony
Late on June 21 the US House of Representatives voted 214-203 against an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill that would have closed the US Defense Department’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), a combat-training school for Latin… Read moreSOA survives House vote; Cuba regime change funds approved
Following the recent revelations about Ethiopia, a second African country has been named as hosting secret US detention center for terror suspects. Seymour Hersh‘s latest in the June 25 New Yorker, “The General’s Report”—a reference to Antonio Taguba, who investigated… Read moreSecret CIA prison in Mauritania?
A trial on the apparent CIA kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan has been suspended to allow time for Italy’s supreme court to rule on whether prosecutors overstepped their constitutional bounds. The trial is not expected to resume until… Read moreCIA kidnapping trial suspended in Italy
