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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
CIA ramps up role in Iraq to 'help' government defend against al-Qaeda elements the CIA actively supports in Syria & Libya
Any takers for "Ambassador to Syria"?
(The West Point report on the Libyan CIA mercenaries who constitute "al-Qaeda in Iraq", and now AQ Syria, here.
Washington: The Central Intelligence Agency is ramping up support to elite Iraqi anti-terrorism units (ie. Death Squads -AI) to better fight Al Qaida affiliates, amid alarm in Washington about spillover from the civil war in neighbouring Syria, according to US officials.
The stepped-up mission expands a covert US presence on the edges of the two-year-old Syrian conflict, at a time of American concerns about the growing power of extremists in the Syrian rebellion.
Al Qaida in Iraq, the terrorist network’s affiliate in the country, has close ties to Syria-based Jabhat Al Nusra, also known as the Al Nusra Front, an opposition militant group that has attacked government installations and controls territory in northern Syria. The US State Department placed Al Nusra on its list of foreign terror organisations in December, calling the group an alias for Al Qaida in Iraq. [In Full]
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Syria,
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War On Iraq
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Attention Please! This Is Your Captain Speaking.. Overheard On A Flight From Sana'a Yemen
.Overheard on an international flight from Yemen (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela, Gaza, Cuba...) recently.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Dedicated To A Nation Of 'Adult Children' Who Want Terrorism To Disappear (but not their neighbor or themselves)
.Conservative Columnist David Brooks On America, A Nation Of Adult Children who believe that living in a police state beats having to do anything to ameliorate the conditions that lead to it:
(Quote context, in regard to the 'Underpants Bomber' and concurrent citizen attention on alleged 'flaws' in the New American Police State Apparatus.)
"Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can take care of everything, and then grow angry and cynical when it becomes clear they can’t [...]
H/t Firedoglake
Which is QUITE a change in the American attitude from 9 years ago:
"On December 22, 2001, Richard Reid, the 'shoe-bomber,' attempted to detonate explosives on an American airliner. On December 27, Usama Bin Laden issued a new, menacing videotape. How did the Bush administration respond to these dramatic events? How did CNN cover the response?
Bush's response was to plant a live oak tree and go for a jog, and follow 'through on his promise to get a little bit of rest and relaxation on this trip down here to Crawford.' CNN reported this as a good thing. Bush also declined to comment on the Bin Laden tape, and CNN helpfully explained this silence as a wise decision not to respond to someone who 'might be dead.'"
In Full @ Juan Cole's Informed Comment
Pop Quiz!
Analyze the childlike, mercurial, historically amnesiac, American socio-cultural traits, and hypothesize how they affect the reasons, rationales, and denials in regard to the persecution of worthless wars that create 'terrorism' in the first place.
Well, since we can't control our childish desires to accumulate "stuff" at the expense of environmental destruction and slave-labor conditions (Even your chocolate... ...and flowers, Luvr!) those demands place on the extractive and manufacturing countries of the world (ie. the "third world"), we can start by putting everyone we 'fear' in prison... or something LIKE a prison.
(This article appeared in the January 4, 2010 edition of The Nation.)
America's Secret ICE Castles
By Jacqueline Stevens
December 16, 2009
"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear."
Friday, January 1, 2010
New Years Resolution... "Keep Perspective": *Terrorism Still Less Deadly in US Than Lack of Health Insurance*
.H/t to Firedoglake
"Since we still seem to be having a national freakout over some loser who got on a plane with a bomb in his underwear, which was apparently worthy of a presidential address, it might be a good idea to put the actual danger posed by terrorist attacks in some numerical perspective..."
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
DoD anti-terror training program question - "Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity? Correct answer: " protests."
FireFox users might also want this add-on
Among the multiple-choice questions included in its Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness training course — an annual training requirement for all DOD personnel that is fulfilled through Web-based instruction — the department asks the following: "Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity?"To answer correctly, the examinee must select "protests." [In Full]
Peace Out, Luv Duv, and don't forget to take it easy...
Da' Buffalo Amongst Wolves, "low-level terrorist"
Saturday, June 6, 2009
What Happens When You 'Fumigate' Only One Apartment In A Building? Ask Uzbekistan... The Next Apartment Over - Thomas P.M. Barnett
H/t: Gates Of Hell
Dagestan interior minister assassinated
By joshuah at 6 June, 2009, 3:57 am
Dagestan Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was assassinated by a sniper, a source at the republic’s law-enforcement bodies told Itar-Tass.
"At around 13:00, Moscow time, the minister together with Colonel Abdulzhapar Magomedov, director of the Interior Ministry’s tax crimes department, were standing near the Marakesh banquet hall, where the marriage of the Colonel’s daughter was to take place," the officer said.
A preliminary report said an unidentified man opened fire at the minister and the people around him from an apartment of a nine-storey house nearby.
Five people were rushed to the republic’s orthopedic-traumatological center.
"The minister was wounded in the heart and died without regaining consciousness. The other wounded people, including Col Magomedov, have been operated upon. They are in very serious condition," chief doctor at the orthopedic-traumatological center Magomed Omarov told Tass.
At present, police have launched an operation to apprehend the attackers.
Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was born on November 1, 1956. He has been Dagestan’s Interior Minister since May 1998.
Source/Full Story: ITAR-TASS
Uzbekistan: the next apartment over
ARTICLE: Militant attacks strike eastern Uzbekistan, Jane's, 03 June 2009
When you indulge in your opponents' desire for a "central front," you do the region a favor by drawing in a lot of violent extremists. But when you spray that apartment, in hopes of killing and/or driving off the cockroaches, then the next apartments over are forced to deal with the flow (up to now, Pakistan, but here, Uzbekistan too).
Posted by Thomas P.M. Barnett on June 6, 2009 7:44 AM
Excerpt:
Militant attacks strike eastern Uzbekistan
03 June 2009
On 26 May, the Uzbek government reported the most serious militant attacks to strike the country for several years when a suicide bomber and gunmen launched separate attacks in nearby towns in the Ferghana Valley region of the country.
Details of the attacks from the highly secretive country remain limited and often contradictory. However, responsibility for at least one of the attacks has been claimed by the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), whose previous activity has largely been confined to Afghanistan and the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan.
The attacks serve to highlight the risk of further violence in Uzbekistan's eastern region, where a mixture of government repression, widespread poverty and high unemployment has created a potent undercurrent of unrest. The subsequent claims of responsibility by the IJU will likewise raise concerns in Central Asia about the ¡involvement of organised militant groups capable of harnessing this discontent, and potentially applying expertise gained in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Copyright © IHS (Global) Limited, 2009
End of non-subscriber extract [Source, Janes]
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Ex-Chief Prosecutor At The Hague Says Kosovo Incumbent Prime Minister Implicated In Torture Of Serbs
That's right... The US just gave an al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist/drug dealing group national recognition.
“Fireworks lit up the night sky over Kosovo’s capital Pristina, where thousands of giddy ethnic Albanians braved subfreezing temperatures to ride on the roofs of their cars, singing patriotic songs and chanting: “KLA! KLA!” the acronym for the now-disbanded rebel Kosovo Liberation Army.To put it in terms that most Americans can easily understand, if not easily comprehend:
[Source WAS Forbes, SPIKED!... Now HERE]
“During his stint as NATO Supreme Commander (1997-2000), Wesley Clark was in permanent liaison with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Under Wesley Clark’s command, NATO directly sponsored a terrorist paramilitary army, with links to Al Qaeda and the trans-Balkan narcotics trade.” [source]
...and the pressure is ON!
Switzerland bans Del Ponte book
BELGRADE -- The Swiss Foreign Ministry has prohibited the promotion of Carl Del Ponte’s book “Hunt”. According to the ANSA agency, the former Hague Tribunal ... [Source]
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The Ex-Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Carle del Ponte, has published a book in which she reveals that many top leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army,
including the incumbent premier Hashim Tachi
...and (Former PM) Ramush Haradinaj
...were implicated in the torture of Serbs seized during the armed conflict in Kosovo.
After being murdered, the captives' bodies were used as donors to supply transplant organs.
Carle Del Ponte says the revelations are made post factum, because her attempt to launch an inquiry into crimes by Kosovo Liberation Army leaders received no backing [Source]
Thanks For Stopping By
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Because If You Can't Nervously Laugh About Global Mayhem, What CAN You Laugh About? - Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?
Opening this weekend, an new movie by Morgan Spurlock, creator of "Super Size Me". Tipped by SilentPatriot @ Crooks and Liars
Did he FIND Osama? More Here
But he'd better hurry up if he hasn't !
The Obama Girl is... Hot... on UBL's trail:
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” - G.W. Bush, 9/13/01
“I want justice…There’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive,’” - G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
“…Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he’s maybe in control of a cave. He’s on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we’re going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that’s what’s happening. He’s on the run, if he’s running at all. So we don’t know whether he’s in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open — we just don’t know….” - Bush, in remarks in a Press Availablity with the Press Travel Pool, The Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford TX, 12/28/01, as reported on official White House site
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
“I am truly not that concerned about him.” - G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
Friday, March 28, 2008
Patriots, Refugees, and Terrorists: "Was George Washington a terrorist?" - Findlaw Writ
By JOANNE MARINER
Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008
"Was George Washington a terrorist?" asked Bill Frelick, Human Rights Watch's refugee policy director, only semi-facetiously.
What sparked his question was the exceedingly broad definition of terrorist activity employed in U.S. immigration law. That definition, as expanded in the USA PATRIOT Act and REAL ID Act, applies to "any activity which is unlawful under the laws of the place where it is committed," when that activity involves the use of a weapon or "dangerous device" with the intent "to endanger, directly or indirectly, the safety of one or more individuals or to cause substantial damage to property." The actions of a present-day George Washington would most certainly be covered.
A concrete reason why this broad definition is worrying is that under current U.S. law, people who have engaged in terrorist activities, or who have provided support for terrorist activities--in many cases, even involuntary support--are presumptively barred from resettlement in the United States as refugees. Among the thousands of people negatively affected by this rule in recent years have been Colombians who paid small bribes under duress to paramilitary groups, Burmese who were forcibly conscripted into rebel armies, and Cubans who supported "counter-revolutionary" groups funded by the US government.
The patent unfairness of this broad ban has garnered congressional attention and, as of last year, the problem was supposed to have been remedied. In December, Congress passed legislation that broadened executive authority to grant waivers to deserving refugees who would otherwise be barred under the law's overly broad "terrorism"-related bans.
Yet the reform does not seem to have worked. In recent months it has become clear that, despite the changes in the terms of the law, the Department of Homeland Security is continuing to bar refugees who should benefit from the expanded waiver authority. These people have fled their countries to escape persecution, and they're being told that they're terrorists. What is going on?
Democrats and Mujahideen
Since the December amendments to the immigration laws, a number of refugees have received letters from the Department of Homeland Security informing them that they are being denied permanent residence in the United States because of facts that they stated on their applications for refugee status.
Among those who have received such letters are:
. Iraqi refugees who took part in failed efforts to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the 1990s;
. Afghans who supported the mujahideen groups that fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, including groups that the United States funded;
. Sudanese who belonged to the Democratic Unionist Party, a democratic party opposed to the current Sudanese government and a partner in U.S. negotiations in the region.
In rejecting these people's applications for permanent residence, DHS is relying on facts that, in many cases, were fully disclosed in their initial refugee applications. Circumstances that, in other words, were deemed acceptable under what were supposed to be tougher rules are now being relied upon to bar people from staying in the United States. In some instances, moreover, the department appears to be characterizing First-Amendment-protected speech as support of terrorism.
Politicians and Bureaucrats
Although the omnibus appropriations bill that was passed by Congress last December was lauded as an important immigration law reform, the officials at the Department of Homeland Security charged with implementing the new rules don't seem to have gotten the message. Before too many deserving refugees are barred from the United States as terrorists, there needs to be clear and authoritative guidance from on high.
Senior DHS officials need to review the rules being applied in these cases to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security is actually implementing the statutory waiver authority that it has been granted. Congress has spoken and the law has changed: "Terrorism"-related immigration bans should not be applied to refugees who do not pose any threat to the United States.
In the longer term, of course, the law's definition of terrorism should be narrowed to reflect a more meaningful, common-sense understanding of the term. While expanding DHS's waiver authority was a step forward, it is still absurd that a present-day George Washington would require a waiver to settle in the United States.
Joanne Mariner is a human rights attorney. Her previous columns on the detainee cases and the "war on terrorism" are available in FindLaw's archive.
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