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Press TV
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:21 EST

© RAWA.org
CIA bosses meet their brethren in Pakistan's ISI at a Mujahideen camp they established to train the Taliban/al-Qaeda in the 1980s

The Central Intelligence Agency is still secretly providing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to Pakistan's spy service.

The financial support accounts for as much as one-third of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency's budget, and the CIA says it also includes money paid for the capture or killing of wanted militants, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday.

The CIA continues its clandestine financial program well aware of the fact that ISI is maintaining ties and providing support for the Afghan Taliban militants and other extremists. Top US officials have repeatedly expressed concern about ISI-Taliban ties.

The payments were first approved by former president George W. Bush and have continued under President Barack Obama, the report stated, adding that a fierce debate has now started within the US government.

Compared to the vast amount of publicly declared military and civilian aid to Pakistan, in defense CIA officials told the paper that their payments were a bargain.

MailOnline
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST

Fresh claims that British soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners are to be investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

Captured: A suspected insurgent seized in Iraq

They include allegations of rape and torture, some by female British soldiers.

But hundreds more alleged cases could remain buried for ever, the lawyer representing the Iraqi complainants said yesterday.

Cyril Mychalejko
Upside Down World
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04 EST

Latin America may soon become the next front in Washington's so-called "War on Terror."

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) , Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, held a hearing on Oct. 27 to investigate his "serious concerns about expanded Iranian influence in the region." Engel believes Iran's diplomatic and commercial relations with a number of Latin American countries is a threat to the region's, and more importantly the U.S.´s security and stability.

Testimony heard at the hearing repeatedly singled out Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and to a lesser extent Brazil.

Despite Iran not having any military presence in the region, Norman A. Bailey, former head of intelligence for Cuba and Venezuela under the Bush Administration, told members of Congress that, "It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the principal motivations of all this activity [by Iran] is to be able to retaliate against the United States if it is attacked."

Comment: Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and to a lesser extent Brazil are cited as possible sites for terrorist activity... hmmm, what do those countries have in common? They all have relatively humanistic governments that are working to break free from the Washington Consensus, with Brazil the least inclined to upset the applecart.

Press TV
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:57 EST

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of new photographs showing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by their Americans captors.

Gates said that public disclosure of the photos would endanger US citizens, US armed forces, and employees of the US government deployed outside the US.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sued for the release of 21 color photos under the Freedom of Information Act.

The shadow behind US-Israeli war games

Paul Wood
BBC
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23 EST

"We're here for some very specific reasons, some specific threats that the Israelis are interested in, that we're interested in. And that's as far as I want to go down that road."

Com Carl Meuser of the US Navy destroyer Higgins was interrupted at this point by an anxious public affairs officer. The scenario neither wanted to discuss with the circle of visiting journalists aboard his ship was this: Israel bombs Iranian nuclear facilities - and Iran hits back.

In that case, Israel would definitely need the missile shield - sophisticated long-range radars and Patriot anti-missile devices - being tested in joint war games this week.

YouTube/The Paradigm Shift
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:57 EST

Warning. This video contains images that depict the reality and horror of war.

Press TV
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:50 EST

Saudi Arabia's King Abdallah receives the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as both countries become more involved in the deadly war in Yemen.

The meeting between King Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud and CIA Director Leon E. Panetta took place in Riyadh on Sunday, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Apparently, King Abdallah also held another meeting on the same day with the Head of Russian Federal Commission of Military and Technical Cooperation Michael Dimitriv.

The report, however, did not include any specific details about the topics that were discussed during the two meetings, simply announcing that there was an exchange of greetings between the king and US President Barack Obama through the CIA director.

Janine Zacharia
Bloomberg
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:09 EST

© Unknown
Dr. Robert Einhorn & MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz

2007 Herzliya Conference Series on the Balance of Israel’s National Security

A U.S. arms-control official said today there is "strong evidence" Iran sought to develop the means to put a nuclear weapon on a missile prior to 2003 and perhaps afterward.

Robert Einhorn, the State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, said the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna will report on the issue next week.

The IAEA will "address Iran's continuing failure to cooperate with the IAEA's investigation of the possible military dimensions of its nuclear program, including strong evidence that it has done work on a missile warhead for delivering nuclear weapons," Einhorn said.

Comment: Do you get the feeling you've heard this song before? Sounds remarkably like the run-up to the Iraq invasion. It's not surprising considering the company Mr. Einhorn keeps as a member of Cornell University's Quill & Dagger Society:

[Quill & Dagger] Society influence appears to be strongest in the U.S. government and large corporations.

From 1913 to 1984, Quill and Dagger had at least one member in the U.S. Congress every single year.[17] In recent decades, the society has had a strong presence in the U.S. State Department and related government positions, with two National Security Advisors[18], two Directors of Policy Planning, and numerous assistant secretaries and senior advisers. Additionally, two members recently served as World Bank presidents, and a large number of members serve on the Council on Foreign Relations. Many of these government officials interact regularly in their professional duties.[19] At least five prominent members of George W. Bush's administration are Quill and Dagger members: Stephen Friedman, Stephen Krasner, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, and Carol Kuntz.

During the 1930s through 1950s, the chairmen of Standard Oil[20], Sun Oil (now Sunoco)[21], and Continental Oil (now ConocoPhillips) companies were Quill and Dagger members, and many other advanced positions in these corporations were held by society members. Younger members who entered the oil industry at this time would gain industry prominence later in the century, with one becoming chairman of Amoco in the 1990s.[22] In the 1960s, the management of Union Carbide, the oldest chemical and polymer company in the country, passed directly from one member to another.[23] In recent years, similar networking appears to be at work in the leading investment banks. With a chairman and managing director at Goldman Sachs in the past decade, a number of recent graduates have received offers and signed there.

But we aren't going into Iran for the oil, or because Israel told us to, no sir!

Anshel Pfeffer
Uruk Net
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:49 EST

Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki

The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned."

Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki also told the yeshiva students that religious individuals made better combat troops.

Speaking Thursday at the Hesder yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron, Rontzki referred to Maimonides' discourse on the laws of war. That text quotes a passage from the Book of Jeremiah stating:

"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord with a slack hand, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood."

Kim Zetter
Wired
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:03 EST

A group identifying themselves as "anti-fascist hackers" broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour.

The hackers posted Irving's e-mail correspondence online, as well as the user name and password for his web site account and AOL e-mail account, which shared the same password. The hackers also posted the e-mail addresses and other personal information - such as names, phone numbers and shipping and credit card billing addresses - of people who made donations through his web sites, purchased his books or bought tickets for his appearances.

Irving's username and password for his Authorize.net account, which handles the credit card transactions on his web site, were also exposed.

The data was posted on the WikiLeaks site Friday evening in advance of Irving's Saturday speaking engagement at the Catholic Kolping Society of America in New York City. The organization reportedly canceled the event on Friday after someone contacted it.

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