"This, now, is the real War on Terror. But this time it will be led from inside the Middle East, gain universal support and change the regional political balance of power for generations to come." Sharmine Narwani is a commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East. You can follow Sharmine on twitter @snarwani.
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com; Huffington Post 20.12.13: "...the article by Andy Soltis accompanying the [Murdoch owned New York] Post headline last week began quite inaccurately. “A U.S. drone strike targeting al-Qaeda militants in Yemen,” went the first line, “took out an unlikely target on Thursday -- a wedding party heading to the festivities.” Soltis can, however, be forgiven his ignorance. In this country, no one bothers to count up wedding parties wiped out by U.S. air power. If they did, Soltis would have known that the accurate line, given the history of U.S. war-making since December 2001 when the first party of Afghan wedding revelers was wiped out (only two women surviving), would have been: “A U.S. drone... took out a likely target.”
November 24, 2015 by Brad Hoff
While the document was referenced and analyzed in literally hundreds of independent/alternative and foreign media reports, major U.S. news maintained its silence, even after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), head of the DIA at the time the report was prepared, confirmed its accuracy and importance in an Al Jazeera interview with Mehdi Hasan.
The New York Times has finally acknowledged the 2012 DIA report a full six months after its release through FOIA , including new statements confirming its high importance, in a lengthy investigative piece about the rise of ISIS. To my great surprise the article sources my initial reporting of the Pentagon document...
Anti Avsan (M) [...] Herr talman! Särskilda bestämmelser som syftar till att bekämpa terrorism infördes i svensk lagstiftning redan 1973 genom lagen om särskilda åtgärder till förebyggande av vissa våldsdåd med internationell bakgrund. Reglerna syftade till att göra det möjligt att hindra presumtiva terrorister från att komma in eller stanna kvar i Sverige och till att skapa utrymme för kontroll i de fall dessa personer av asylrättsliga skäl ändå måste beredas en fristad här i landet. Bestämmelserna har ändrats vid ett flertal tillfällen. Sedan den 1 juli 1991 finns bestämmelserna i lagen om särskild utlänningskontroll.
Dana Priest & William Arkin: "The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how
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JEAN-PIERRE PERRIN, Liberation 26.8.: "... l’homme qui a pris Tripoli à la tête des rebelles libyens et en est aujourd’hui le gouverneur militaire de fact... La CIA l’a pisté, traqué, et, finalement capturé en Malaisie en 2003. Elle l’a ensuite transféré
The signals of growing turbulence in a range of military environments - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and beyond - send a worrying message to Washington. Paul Rogers "Afghanistan and Iraq played little part in the United States’s mid-term elections,
There is a rich literature on denial of atrocities including most notably the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. (Cohen, Stan, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering, London, Polity, 2001).
The debate about what happened at Masada is conducted with such energy and venom in Israel because it symbolises two views of the country and its present policies. These are as relevant in 1997 as when Josephus wrote 2,000 years ago. One is that Israel is a besieged fortress whose defenders must fight to the end against an implacable enemy. The other, upheld by Professor Ben-Yehuda, is that today, as in the past, the refusal to compromise of such extremists as the Sicarii at Masada and the leaders of the doomed revolt against Rome bring only death and destruction to the Jewish people. -- Patrick Cockburn, Independent March 1997
analysis of the concept of terrorism after the murder in Woolwich 25.5. " Labeling the violent acts of those Muslim Others as "terrorism" - but never our own - is a key weapon used to propagate this worldview. The same is true of the tactic that depicts their violence against us as senseless, primitive, savage and without rational cause, while glorifying our own violence against them as noble, high-minded, benevolent and civilized (we slaughter them with shiny, high-tech drones, cluster bombs, jet fighters and cruise missiles, while they use meat cleavers and razor blades). These are the core propagandistic premises used to sustain the central narrative on which the War on Terror has depended from the start (and, by the way, have been the core premises of imperialism for centuries).." "The defining tribalistic belief [...is...] a potent drive - something humans instinctively want to believe - and is therefore one that is easily manipulated by skillful propagandists."
By T.C. Sottek on February 23, 2016 in The Verge
The funny thing about the FBI and tech writers accusing Apple of refusing to hack the iPhone as a "marketing strategy" is that siding with terrorists is a bad strategy. Apple is not doing that, of...
Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, has called for a boycott of Apple until it cooperates with the FBI.
by Pepe Escobar, August 30, 2011: "His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him. " "Libya may now be facing the specter of a twin-headed guerrilla Hydra; Gaddafi force
Amaq, un'agenzia di stampa affiliata all'ISIS, afferma che l'attacco di Mosca "si inserisce nel contesto di una furiosa guerra tra Stato islamico e paesi che
BH pour Boko Haram — « book » en pidgin English, et « interdit » en arabe, l’expression signifiant le rejet d’un enseignement perverti par l’occidentalisation.
BBC 20.4.: "Law enforcement officials and family members have identified the Tsarnaev brothers as ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed. But agents closed the case after finding no cause for concern." In an interview on Russian television, the mother of the two suspects said the FBI had been in contact with her son for several years. It is not known which country made the request, but the BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says it is likely to have come from the Russians.
The southern Philippines has a long history of conflict, with armed groups including Muslim separatists, communists, clan militias and criminal groups all active in the area. BBC News looks at the main factions operating in the region.
Diplomatic correspiondent Bridget Kendall 30 March 2010: " These days, a national terrorist tragedy no longer prompts the Russian press to rally round the government. Since the financial crash that played such havoc with the economy a year and a half ago,
25.5.: "Shortly after the killing of Drummer Rigby [in Woolwich], 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo was filmed by a passer-by saying he had carried out the attack because British soldiers killed Muslims every day [...] A friend of Mr Adebolajo, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested on Friday night on BBC premises following an interview with BBC Newsnight. The arrest was not directly related to the murder of Drummer Rigby, the Met Police said. Mr Nusayabah told the programme that Mr Adebolajo had rejected an approach by MI5 to work for them around six months ago."
Federal agents detained the anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Miami Tuesday shortly after he held a press conference where he told reporters that the government was not looking for him and he felt no need to hide.
Bush told a group of conservative journalists that he notices more open expressions of faith among people he meets during his travels, and he suggested that might signal a broader revival similar to other religious movements in history.
Newsweek Aug 15 (via archive.org): "CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. "
RT 18.4.: "The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has been approved by the House of Representatives. One of the Congressman evoked Monday's deadly bombings in Boston as a reason to pass it. RT America's website producer, Andrew Blake is closely following the debates over the bill "