Obama, The War President
Helen Thomas | CommonDreams.org President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It’s called war. The President has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Where’s the change we can believe in? Bush left a legacy of two wars, neither [...]
Pentagon backtracks after Gates ‘admits’ Blackwater operating in Pakistan
Daniel Tencer | RawStory.com The Pentagon has gone into damage control mode after Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to confirm that security contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. The admission, quickly denied by Defense Department officials, has set fire to long-simmering rumors inside Pakistan about the involvement of for-profit contractors in the war against the Taliban. [...]
In Military Campaign, Pakistan Finds Hint of 9/11
Jane Perlez| Mark Mezzetti | NYTimes.com Pakistani forces pushing toward a lair of hard-core Taliban fighters found documents this week linked to a member of the Hamburg cell of Al Qaeda that is believed to have planned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a small village in the dun-colored hills of South Waziristan, soldiers found a German passport belonging to [...]
Sheehan: Wars Barely Register in U.S. National Psyche
In an exclusive interview with RT’s Anastasia Churkina, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan talks about the need of accountability, an end to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the American psyche ignoring the truth.
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
Reuters.com The article by Jean MacKenzie originally appeared in GlobalPost. This is part of a special series by GlobalPost called Life, Death and The Taliban. Click here for a related article Funding the Pakistani Taliban. KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to [...]
Obama asks for $1B to add to Army manpower
David Rogers | Politico.com The White House formally asked Congress late Thursday to shift at least $1 billion within next year’s defense budget to expand the Army’s active duty forces by another 15,000 troops in 2010. This would be the first installment toward Defense Secretary Robert Gates decision last month to seek 22,000 more active [...]
Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is ‘to destabilize Pakistan’
Then Maj. Gen. Hamid Gul, Director General of the ISI (far left), with William Webster, Director of Central Intelligence, Clair George, Deputy Director for Operations, and Milt Bearden, CIA station chief, at a training camp for the mujahedeen in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province in 1987 (RAWA.org) Jeremy R Hammond | ForeignPolicyJournal.com In an exclusive [...]
Clinton says 9/11 ringleaders are in Pakistan
Google | AP U.S. officials “firmly believe” that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the [...]
Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated
Steve Watson | InfoWars.net A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country. Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said to be [...]
US drone attacks cloaked in secrecy
With almost 700 civilians killed by their drone program in Pakistan, the CIA’s method for identifying their targets comes to light. Gareth Porter | AsiaTimes The United States Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned Predator drones in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations [...]
The Myth of Talibanistan
Corporate Mass Media and the Obama Administration is trying to hype their plan to escalate violence in Pakistan, but it’s just too ridiculous. Pepe Escobar | GlobalResearch.ca Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. The turbans are coming. This is the state of Pakistan today, according to the current hysteria disseminated by the Barack Obama administration and [...]
Suspected US missile attack kills 13 in Pakistan
Associated Press Intelligence officials say a suspected US missile attack has killed at least 13 people in northwest Pakistan. The officials say Saturday’s strike targeted a home in a remote area of North Waziristan. They say residents pulled out 13 bodies and at least eight wounded from the rubble. There are civilians among the casualties. [...]
US to step up attacks on Pakistan as it forces Taliban to talk
The United States is planning to escalate aerial bombing raids on Pakistan’s tribal areas in tandem with efforts to force moderate elements of the Taliban to the negotiating table, the Telegraph has learned. Dean Nelson & Ben Farmer | Telegraph.co.uk Officials in contact with the State Department said on Sunday that a new offensive would [...]
At Least 12 Killed in US Drone Strike in South Waziristan
AntiWar.com Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed today that the missile attacks on a house in Sararogha, South Waziristan Agency came from a US drone. Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Michael Mullen declined to comment on the specifics of the operation but said that the military has been “carrying out guidance from President Obama” in the region. At [...]
U.S. Airstrike Kills 20 in Pakistan
Zein Basravi | CNN.com/asia Twenty people were killed early Saturday after a suspected U.S. airstrike in northwest Pakistan, a intelligence official said. The incident occurred in South Waziristan near the Afghan border when a drone dropped two missiles on a home, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The U.S. military in Afghanistan routinely offers no comment on [...]
The Audacity of Mendacity
Obama’s real foreign policy agenda Justin Raimondo | AntiWar.com While the great debate over the “stimulus” spending bill was the focus of President Obama’s Monday sermon, some of the questions asked at a subsequent press conference dealt with foreign policy, including a pointed one by CNN’s Ed Henry, and it was a double zinger: “Thank you, Mr. [...]
The Mailed Fist and the Velvet Glove
Obama speaks to the Muslim world Justin Raimondo | Antiwar.com President Obama’s interview with al-Arabiya television is remarkable in several ways, but what strikes me the most is that it coincided with the first air strikes on Pakistan under his administration: 22 people were killed, including between four and seven Taliban/al-Qaeda bad guys. In the Arabiya interview, Obama was [...]
Obama Continues Pakistan Strike Policy
Richard Oppel Jr. | NYTimes.com Two missile attacks launched from remotely piloted American aircraft killed at least 15 people in western Pakistan on Friday. The strikes suggested that the use of drones to kill militants within Pakistan’s borders would continue under President Obama. Remotely piloted Predator drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency have carried out more than 30 missile [...]
Alex Jones Interviews Former Pakistani ISI chief Hamid Gul
Former Pakistani ISI chief Hamid Gul appeared on the Alex Jones Show and shared his contention that the 9/11 attack was an inside job, laying out details that were censored during a CNN interview on the same subject last weekend. Part 1 of 5
Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs”
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,” much to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told viewers that Gul’s opinions were “absolutely wrong and thoroughly discredited”. “When you look at [...]
