U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomberBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.
U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Mali... (more)
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'Friendly fire' footage revealedThe cockpit video at the centre of a row over the "friendly-fire" death of a British soldier in Iraq has been obtained by the Sun newspaper.
An inquest into the death of Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, from Berks, was adjourned after the coroner said the tape was central to the case.
The video was classified "secret" by the US, but minister Harriet Harman wants all evidence made available.
The Sun says it shows a 2003 US aircraft attack on a ... (more)
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IRAQ: Children living without limbs lack supportBAGHDAD, 4 February (IRIN) - Fatah Barakat, 10, will never forget getting caught in crossfire between Iraqi militia fighters and US-led forces in Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad, a year ago. A grenade that exploded near him blew off his right leg. Now, Fatah has a habit of holding onto his left leg.
"Since I lost one of my legs, I like to make sure that the other one is still here. My mother tells me that I have to stop doing this. But it is hard for me, knowing that I will never b... (more)
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Iran envoy 'abducted in Baghdad' An Iranian diplomat has been kidnapped by gunmen in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Tehran has confirmed.
Jalal Sharafi, the embassy's second secretary, was abducted from his car on Sunday in central Karrada district by men wearing Iraqi army uniforms.
Iran condemned the kidnapping and said it held the US responsible for his life. A US military spokesman said no US or Iraqi troops were involved.
The news comes amid US-Iranian tension over Iranian activit... (more)
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'Putrid' orange snow falls in SiberiaWhen Frank Zappa penned the hit single "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" back in 1974, his words were meant as a warning to Eskimos to avoid the spots "where the huskies go." Yesterday Russian authorities were forced to repeat the American singer song-writer's advice for altogether different reasons after putrid smelling yellow, green and orange snow fell across a substantial swathe of Siberia.
The bizarre phenomenon caused consternation across the affected regions of Omsk and Tomsk, wh... (more)
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The Deadly Nature of "Non-Lethal" WeaponsPlasma clouds, microwave beams, electrified bullets -- military contractors have been developing futuristic new combat technologies under the public radar. Already, the TASER stun gun has emerged from the pages of speculative fiction, and into the hands of military, corrections, and law enforcement personnel (See "Stunning Revelations," November 2006). But stun technology is just one tool in the arsenal for developers of proposed "non-lethal" weapons.
Guard that perimeter<... (more)
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Full Spectrum Dominance: Some things you need to know before the world endsFull Spectrum Dominance
It is not often that the empire is put in the position of one its victims, in fear of the military and technical prowess of another country, forced to talk of peace and cooperation, just as Iraq and others, hoping to put off an American attack, were forced to do over the years; just as Iran now. No, China is not about to attack the United States, but the Chinese shootdown of a satellite (an old weather satellite of theirs) in space on January 11, has... (more)
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U.S. hell-bent for Iran warThe Bush-Cheney administration seems hell-bent on provoking war with Iran, and the U.S.-Iran confrontation is getting very dangerous. The heaviest concentration of U.S. naval strike forces since the 2003 war against Iraq is concentrating off Iran.
In a disturbing replay of that conflict, CIA drones and U.S. Air Force recon aircraft - along with U.S. and British Special Forces - are overflying Iran and probing its nuclear and military installations. The CIA and Britain's MI6 are st... (more)
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Why the Surge will push us into a War with Iran “If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted, bloody involvement in Iraq, the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large.”
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter No one has done more to expand Iran’s power in the region than George Bush. He routed the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and then to... (more)
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UK Telegraph Reveals Brit Terrorist Ops in IraqIt is interesting the Telegraph.co.uk, “Lord” Conrad Black’s online version of a neocon newspaper, would publish a story admitting that the Joint Support Group, described as “a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit,” manages “covert human intelligence sources or agents,” including double agent... (more)
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Top secret army cell recruiting Iraqi insurgent double agents Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone", the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group (JSG), and it has proved to be one of the Coalition's most effective and deadly weapons in the fight against terror.
Its members - servicemen and women of all ran... (more)
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Bush, Dems Work Together to Kill Iraqis, Iranians“President Bush made a conciliatory political pilgrimage Saturday to an annual gathering full of newly empowered House Democrats and urged bipartisan action on a host of issues that could determine the success or failure of his last two years in the White House,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. “Bush’s 19-minute speech before about 175 members of Speaker Nancy... (more)
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Terra Propaganda in LondonYou know, if the propagandists want to be even slightly convincing, then they may wish to write articles that actually "seem" factual. Take for example this latest terra alert - this one in the UK - about the big Al-Qaeda (Osama? Where is Osama?) threat about to take out all of Britain:
"ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of t ... (more)
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UK Government Plays Fear Card To Trump Blair ScandalsBy an amazing coincidence, a criminal inquiry into a cash for peerages scandal in Britain that last week threatened to cost Tony Blair his premiership, was immediately followed by a number of scary scenarios involving terrorism and bird flu, stealing the headlines and sparing Blair's blushes.
We should not seriously consider for a second that Blair's government had anything to do with a quick fire series of fear-laden stories that amply terrified the Briti... (more)
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Police chief: Beheading plot being used as distraction from Blair woesThe senior policeman leading the investigation into an alleged plot to behead a Muslim British soldier believes the inquiry has been "hijacked" by the Government.
Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw was "seething" when he discovered Whitehall officials leaked sensitive details of Operation Gamble to the media in an apparent attempt to divert attention from the problems engulfing Tony Blair.
And he is said to be increasingly frustrated that the anonymous briefin... (more)
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Blair accused of 'callous cover-up' over Saddam's human shields Tony Blair has been accused of a cover-up over why a passenger jet was allowed to land in Kuwait during the first Gulf War, condemning almost 400 Britons to brutal captivity.
The men, women and children on the British Airways Boeing 747 were bombed on the runway by the Iraqi airforce before being split up and sent to 70 locations to act as Saddam Hussein's human shields.
It is claimed that the jumbo jet was allowed to go ahead with its schedule... (more)
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U.S. contractors becoming a fourth branch of governmentWASHINGTON - In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the government's reflexive answer to almost every problem.
They hired another contractor.
It did not matter that the company they chose, CACI International, had itself recently avoided a suspension from federal contracting; or that the work, delving into investigative files on other c... (more)
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Blackwater, Inc. and the privatization of the Bush war machine As President Bush took the podium to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday, there were five American families receiving news that has become all too common: Their loved ones had been killed in Iraq. But in this case, the slain were neither “civilians,” as the news reports proclaimed, nor were they U.S. soldiers. They were highly trained mercenaries deployed to Iraq by a secretive private military company based in North Carolina – Blackwater USA.
Th... (more)
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Fight against Iran too familiarWhile the Bush/Cheney administration seems hell-bent on provoking war with Iran, Americans appear far more alarmed by the dangers of global warming. Many of them must regret not voting for "Ecological Al" Gore in 2000.
While icebergs melt, the U.S.-Iran confrontation is getting very dangerous. The heaviest concentration of U.S. naval strike forces since the 2003 war against Iraq is concentrating off Iran.
In a disturbing replay of that conflict, CIA drones and U.S. ... (more)
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Murdoch Confesses To Propaganda On IraqLast Friday, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Rupert Murdoch sat on a panel where he lamented what he described as a “loss of power” due to the ascension of the Internet and other new media. The notion that this captain of one of the most dominant media conglomerates in the world is trembling in the shadow of bloggers is simply absurd. Especially when you consider the fact that his company is also a dominant player on the Internet with an agg... (more)
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Quarantine U.S.A.These guys give me the creeps.
On Friday there was an article in the New York Times (“In a Daylong Drill, an Agency Tries to Prepare for a Real Outbreak of Avian Flu”, Donald McNeil Jr.) that gave the details of the drills that are being conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) in case a full-blown pandemic breaks out in the United States. The exercises were supervised by CDC chief, Dr. Julie Gerberding, the agency’s director. A number... (more)
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Iranian nuclear scientist 'assassinated by Mossad' A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.
Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium i... (more)
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U.S. website: Mossad killed Iranian nuclear physicistA senior nuclear physicist involved in Iran's nuclear program who died under mysterious circumstances two weeks ago was killed by the Mossad, according to a report released in a U.S. website this weekend.
The website - Stratfor.com - features intelligence and security analysis by former U.S. intelligence agents.
Professor Ardashir Hosseinpour, a world authority on electromagnetism, was until recently working on uranium enrichment at the facility in Isfahan, one of t... (more)
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Forgotten February: A brief peek at America’s unrestrained brutalityJust in case anyone needs reminding that “USA” has always stood for “United States of Aggression,” below are a forgotten few from February’s Files.
February 1898
In 1897, Teddy Roosevelt stated bluntly, “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” His wait lasted less than a year.
February 15, 1898, was a muggy Tuesday night in Havana Harbor. Some 350 crew and officers s... (more)
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U.S. can't prove Iran link to Iraq strife WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials acknowledged Friday that they had yet to compile evidence strong enough to back up publicly their claims that Iran is fomenting violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.
Administration officials have long complained that Iran was supplying Shiite Muslim militants with lethal explosives and other materiel used to kill U.S. military personnel. But despite several pledges to make the evidence public, the administ... (more)
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Ministers plan 'Big Brother' police powers A swathe of controversial "Big Brother" style crime-fighting techniques are to be introduced by the Government under the cover of the 2012 London Olympics, a leaked memo has revealed.
The document, drawn up by officials at the Home Office and sent to 10 Downing Street, paves the way for a much wider use of the police's DNA database to identify suspects through their relatives.
Police are also to be empowered to scan postal packages to find drugs... (more)
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