Tag: Afghanistan
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“al-qaeda doesn’t exist”
from corbett report: Part One of the Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist documentary from The Corbett Report, dealing with the founding and funding of what we know as Al Qaeda. This installment of the documentary goes into Zbigniew Brzezinski, Operation Cyclone, the ISI-CIA-MAK-US government funding circle and CIA connections to Osama Bin Laden. For more information…
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obamessiah: drills, pledges, comics & consequences
red team, blue team? bush/obama officials hold security drillfrom reuters: Officials from the Bush and Obama administrations crossed paths at the White House Tuesday to participate in a homeland security exercise. The scary hypothetical scenario was how the federal government should respond to a terrorist attack using improvised explosive devices on the transportation infrastructure and…
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geopolitiks: troops, bases, pills & ‘greek syndrome’
at least 20,000 more US troops for afghanisurge by mid-2009from afp: The United States plans to send between 20,000 and 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by summer 2009, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, said here Saturday. General David McKiernan, the US commander in Afghanistan, has asked for more than…
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feel the change! more neocons & hawks in obama cabinet
obama announces clinton, gates for his cabinetfrom ap: President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced a foreign policy team led by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates — both early supporters of a war in Iraq that he opposed and will be seeking to wind down. At a news…
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selection ’08: aftermath updates
obama advisers discuss preparations for war on iranfrom wsws: On the eve of the US elections, the New York Times cautiously pointed on Monday to the emergence of a bipartisan consensus in Washington for an aggressive new strategy towards Iran. While virtually nothing was said in the course of the election campaign, behind-the-scenes top advisers…
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selection ’08: palast, hypnosis, afghanisurge, riots, hoaxes & more
greg palast talks about acorn accusations on cnnfrom youtube: Greg Palast destroys the ACORN voter fraud myth. obama’s use of hidden hypnosis techniques in his speechesfrom brutally honest: THE EVIDENCE IS HERE: This document contains over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form…
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selection ’08: debates, deportation, hacks, raids & more
wwf stagematch, round2:obama & mccain wage counterinsurgencyfrom danger room: Last night’s debate was supposed to be all about the economy, or about who had the scummier friends. But more than a few rounds of the showdown in Nashville were devoted to military matters — specifically, on how best to wage a counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and…
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geopolitiks: drugwars, radar & private military
drug violence kills at least 49 in tijuana this weekfrom ap: Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana… More than 400 people have been killed in drug-related violence in the city across from San Diego, California, this year, including at least 49 this week… Execution-style killings, beheadings and…
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pakistan still in the crosshairs: questions, red alert & open fire
US jets violate pak airspace againfrom intl news: Two US jetfighters Saturday night again intruded into Pakistan airspace over South Waziristan area, causing panic among the tribesman. However, neither the security forces nor the tribesmen fired upon the fighter planes. Sources in the tribal agency confirmed to The News that two US jetfighters for about…
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war resister wins temporary stay in canada
from ap: An American Soldier who fled to Canada after learning his unit was being deployed to Iraq won a last-minute stay of deportation Sept. 22. Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled Jeremy Hinzman can stay in Canada while the court decides whether he can appeal his deportation order. “We’re elated,” Hinzman said moments after…
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9/11 + 7: truth, lies & everything else
video: 7 years on, osama bin laden still at largefrom raw replay: Seven years after the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Afghanistan is again the frontline of the US-led “war on terror” with extremist unrest intensifying and Osama bin Laden is still on the run. This video is from AFP, broadcast September 10, 2008.…
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geopolitiks: afghanisurge, false flags, pak & blackwater
12k more troops to afghanistanfrom danger room: “The Pentagon will be sending 12,000 to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, possibly as soon as the end of this year,” U.S. News is reporting… For more than a year, everyone from Gen. McKeirnan to Sen. Barack Obama has been calling for extra troops in Afghanistan. But…
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brzezinski’s envoy on ‘campaign-season tour of war zones’
obama arrives in afghanistanfrom ap: Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, the first stop on a campaign-season tour of war zones, a spokesman said. Less than four months before the general election, Obama’s first visit to Afghanistan, with a subsequent stop in Iraq, was rich with political implications, although the Illinois…
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geopolitiks: dog meat, poison & weather wargames
china may modify weather for olympicsfrom xinhua: If bad weather threatens the August 8 opening of Beijing’s Olympic Games, then meteorologists may change the weather, according to a Chinese meteorology official. Chen Zhenlin, a vice director with the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), made the statement Tuesday afternoon at a press conference held at the Beijing…