Big Brother
David Teather in New York
Saturday January 21, 2006
The Guardian
David Teather in New York
Saturday January 21, 2006
The Guardian
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
Google is defying a request by the US government to hand over data revealing what its users are searching for online. The Bush administration wants a list of requests entered into Google's online search engine in an unspecified single week. It also wants 1m randomly selected web addresses from Google's databases.
The White House said the information is part of an effort to protect children from online pornography, and would not violate personal privacy - but the request immediately raised concerns.
By Shmuel Rosner
Haaretz Correspondent in Washington and AP
20 Jan 06
By Shmuel Rosner
Haaretz Correspondent in Washington and AP
20 Jan 06
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon analyst Larry A. Franklin was sentenced Friday to a 12 years and seven months imprisonment for passing classified information to former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists.
Franklin was also found guilty of sharing classified information with Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon. He was also fined $10,000.
Comment: Comment: So when can we expect prison terms for the Israeli side of the spying operation?
by Jersey Girls: Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Monica Gabrielle, Mindy Kleinberg
January 19, 2006
by Jersey Girls: Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Monica Gabrielle, Mindy Kleinberg
January 19, 2006
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
We are now almost four and a half years post 9/11, and once again, Usama bin Laden is grabbing the headlines with the release of his latest threatening audiotape.
It is utterly horrifying that bin Laden still, after all this time, has the ability to strike terror in our hearts with his threat to strike our nation's heartland.
Additionally, we are incredibly disturbed to learn that even with the use of his illegal domestic NSA spying program, President Bush first learned of the bin Laden audiotape, along with American citizens, as it was being aired on national television.
Comment: Comment: "The President's unsettling statement regarding Bin Laden on March 13, 2002, "I don't know where he is. You know, I just dont spend that much time on him ... I truly am not that concerned about him." seems to illustrate that this Administration did not understand our enemy nor the threat that they posed."
What these poor women don't even think about is the fact that the murderer of their husbands lives in the White House.
by Michel Chossudovsky
27 december 2002
by Michel Chossudovsky
27 december 2002
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
Unknown to most, UNOCAL's partner in the Cent-Gas trans-Afghan pipeline consortium, the Saudi Company Delta Oil is owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans which allegedly have ties to bin Ladens Al Qaeda.
According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz younger sister is married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of dollars to the Al Qaeda network.
Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean, the man chosen by President Bush to lead the 9/11 commission also has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi.
Guardian.co.uk
June 16 2002
Guardian.co.uk
June 16 2002
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
[...] On 11 September, while Al-Qaeda's planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Carlyle Group hosted a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guests of honour was a valued investor: Shafig bin Laden, brother to Osama.
CNN.com
October 7, 2002
CNN.com
October 7, 2002
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said.
Karzai's comments came on the eve of the anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan as part of the war on terrorism.
By David Wastell in Washington
16/12/2001
By David Wastell in Washington
16/12/2001
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
AMERICAN intelligence agencies have positively identified the distinctive voice of Osama bin Laden giving orders to his troops in the mountains of Tora Bora.
Evidence that the terrorist leader has been personally directing al-Qa'eda forces confirms the widespread conviction that he is making his last stand in the cave complexes now under siege by Afghan, American and British forces.
Comment: Comment: Problem is, only later did we discover that the stories about the vast complex in the mountains where Osama hid out with his band of Merry Men was all an imaginative creation in the minds of American Intell... or the Neocons. Hard to tell these days they all lie so much.
CNN.com
October 26, 2002
CNN.com
October 26, 2002
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
LONDON, England -- The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it published Saturday was written late last year by Osama bin Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon."
U.S. intelligence officials say they have the purported will, but are not able to say if it is genuine. CNN has not been able to verify that the document is bin Laden's will.
"He did write the will as someone saying good-bye," Hani Nakshabandi of the Arab news magazine Al Majalla told CNN.
He said one of the magazine's reporters obtained the four-page document, said to be signed by the leader of the al Qaeda terrorist network and dated December 14, 2001, in Afghanistan.
In the document, which was translated for CNN, the writer expresses disappointment with the Taliban, who harbored him in Afghanistan, speaks of betrayal, and urges his children to shun al Qaeda.
Comment: Comment: Now isn't that just so heart-rending... especially the parts about how he was betrayed and warning his sons to stay away from Al Qaeda. But what about the part where he claims responsibility for 9-11. For those who have examined the evidence and come to the realization that 9-11 was an "inside job" in which the U.S. government was at least complicit, this is a dead giveaway.
But still, the fact remains, there have been no confirmed sightings of bin Laden since December of 2001.
By Toby Harnden in Washington
28/12/2001
By Toby Harnden in Washington
28/12/2001
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
OSAMA BIN LADEN heaped praise on 'the 19 students who shook the American empire' in the September 11 attacks in a chilling video shown in full last night by an Arab television station.
The recording was dismissed by the Bush administration yesterday as sick propaganda possibly designed to mask the fact the al-Qa'eda leader was already dead.
Comment: Comment: This was obviously before Bush and the Gang realized how handy Osama bin Underthebed could be. Keep in mind, also, that CIA officials were reported to have met with Osama in a hospital in Dubai in July of 2001... just two months before 9-11, and four months before the above referenced tape was released which was pooh-poohed by the Bush Gang...
CNN.com
January 21, 2002
CNN.com
January 21, 2002
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
Speculation about the whereabouts and health of Osama bin Laden picked up over the weekend when Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said he thought bin Laden had likely died of kidney failure.
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