Tag: uss cole
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9/11 updates: bin laden, bunker, cross, parliment & pandora’s box
bin laden videotape not new, monitoring site saysfrom reuters: A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm. The tape, titled “To Our People in Pakistan,” was broadly released in Arabic and Urdu on…
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warwhores: cia, saic, certified & embedded
journalists’ recent work examined before embeds*pentagon reporter-screening crisis deepens*aftra joins outcry over allegations of pentagon embed vetting*pentagon probes war-reporter screening*video: report says cia faked executions of terror suspects*cia used gun, drill in interrogation of alleged cole mastermind*saic awarded $49m task order by naval surface warfare center*2009 now deadliest year of afghan war*video: worst abuses redacted…
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obamessiah: 9/11, taxes & the ‘buy american’ remorse
obama to meet victims & relatives of 9/11 attacksfrom washington post: President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said. The previously undisclosed…
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9/11 + 7: playing politics
rnc features ominous 9/11 ‘tribute’from raw replay: The three-minute video, which featured graphic, disturbing images of a plane flying into the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers’ collapse, attempts to conflate all of America’s struggles in the Middle East into a singular crusade against a uniform enemy. “The first attack occurred in Iran,” the…
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probe of uss cole bombing unravels
from washington post: Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials… Despite the initial promises of accountability, only limited public inquiries took place in Washington, unlike the extensive investigations…