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3 Men Arrested in Connection with Times Square bomb
Three Pakistani men said to have supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested in a series of raids as the FBI followed the money trail of the failed attack.
Read More »Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad’s Sadr City
A car bomb kills seven people and injures 22 others outside a cafe in a Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The explosion occurred in Sadr City Wednesday evening, in an area
Read More »Counterterrorist Data Mining Needs Privacy Protection
A National Research Council report represents an attempt to address privacy concerns that have dogged past counterterrorist data mining programs like Total Information Awareness. By Thomas Claburn | In a sweeping new report that
Read More »Anti-Terror Laws Prone to Abuse, Amnesty Says
By Haider Rizvi | (IPS) -Numerous governments around the world are using anti-terror laws to suppress political dissent and civil liberties, according to a new report released by one of the world’s most respected
Read More »‘MI6 & Weapons of Mass Destruction’
By Larry O’Hara | Fascinating fall-out recently following the publication of Ron Suskind’s new book ‘The Way of the World’ (Simon & Schuster 2008) in which he argues two things of interest. Firstly, the
Read More »Libby questioned on forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued letters of inquiry Wednesday to Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, regarding a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. The
Read More »Double Standards in the Global War on Terror
TomDispatch | Oh, the spectacle of it all — and don’t think I’m referring to those opening ceremonies in Beijing, where North Korean-style synchronization seemed to fuse with smiley-faced Walt Disney, or Michael Phelp’s thrilling
Read More »Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery
Raw Story | A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a
Read More »Peaceful Protesters Become Terrorists in a Federal Database
By Patty Donovan | According to documents released on Thursday, July 17, 2008, undercover state troopers in Maryland infiltrated at least three groups peacefully protesting the death penalty and advocating peace. These troopers illegally
Read More »US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan
Indo-Asian News Service | Pakistan has accused the US of backing militancy within the country, saying this goes against the grain of the Washington-led global war against terror. Quoting “impeccable official sources”, The
Read More »“We Were Basically Hiring Terrorists”
Salon – Aug. 6, 2008 | BAGHDAD, Iraq — Donning pale yellow shirts with Iraqi flags stitched on the chest, Alah al-Janabi and Mahmoud al-Samorai stood recently in the blistering sun at the crowded
Read More »US: Amnesty slams Bin Laden driver’s Guantanamo trial
AKI | Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, convicted by a US military jury on Wednesday of supporting terrorism, did not receive a fair trial, said rights group Amnesty International. “The
Read More »Bin Laden driver convicted in war crimes trial
MSNBC | GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A military jury on Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty on some counts but cleared him of others in the first Guantanamo
Read More »Answers in anthrax case may have died with suicide
AP | It’s been nearly seven years, but folks in Oxford, Conn., still remember the workers in hazmat suits, scouring the pews of Immanuel Lutheran Church for unseen spores of anthrax. They remember lining
Read More »Anthrax scientist Bruce Ivins stood to benefit from a panic
The suspect in deadly mailings, who killed himself this week as the FBI closed in, could have collected patent royalties on an anthrax vaccine. By David Willman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 2,
Read More »Al-Qaeda expert re-killed by CIA
legitgov.org | It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ at the CIA! Abu Khabab al-Masri ‘died’ in January 2006 and again on Monday. Once again, the ‘mainstream’ media announces the re-killing of another ‘key al-Qaeda operative’ by a
Read More »Pakistani journalist in US jail on terrorism charges
WASHINGTON: Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what
Read More »Driver told FBI agents U.S. could have killed bin Laden
By Carol Rosenberg | GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden’s driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America’s fault that
Read More »Scandal of Diego Garcia Rendition Flights
By Andy Worthington | This has been a bad week for the British government, in relation to two of the running sores of its foreign policy, both centred on the Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia
Read More »Double standards of our ‘war on terror’
Truth about our covert alliances shatters the West’s cosy moral universe, says Matthew Carr Western governments like to depict terrorism as a uniquely moral evil which democratic states do not engage in. But history
Read More »The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims
By Juan Cole | The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have
Read More »Blair Advisers Oppose Brown’s Terrorism Plan in House of Lords
By Kitty Donaldson | Two of Tony Blair’s former ministers and his top domestic security official said they will vote against anti-terrorism laws proposed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the upper chamber of
Read More »Leaks, focus on single suspect undercut anthrax probe
By David Willman | The federal investigation into the deadly anthrax mailings of late 2001 was undermined by leaks and a premature fixation on a single suspect, according to investigators and scientists involved in
Read More »New technique can detect biological, chemical and explosive agents
By Steve Wampler | LIVERMORE, Calif. — Airplane passengers and baggage might be screened one day by a machine under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that can detect explosive, chemical and biological
Read More »Martyrs in the making at Guantanamo
By Tim Rutten | Thursday’s arraignment before a military tribunal of five Al Qaeda members accused of planning and assisting the 9/11 terrorist atrocities seemed custom-made to assist the loathsome defendants in achieving exactly what
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