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Flashback Arafat the obstacle has been exposed as a myth

Karma Nabulsi
The Guardian
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
The Palestinian leader's portrayal by the west and Israel has been a barrier both to understanding the conflict and to peace

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China's media scorns Blair's £200,000 'cash raking' lecture trip

Clifford Coonan
The Independent
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:37 UTC
Tony Blair earned the scorn of the Chinese media yesterday for accepting £200,000 for a three-hour spin through southern China, during which he gave a "cliched" speech and fitted in a quick jaunt around a high-class villa complex.

"Is he worth the money?" asked some Chinese newspapers and compared the former prime minister's oratorical insights to those of a village official.
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Document

DOJ Torture Memo # 6 Identified

Scott Horton
Harper's Magazine
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:13 UTC
I recently examined how the Bush Justice Department was developing a "Culture of Torture," that is, the Bush Administration's addiction to torture has become its defining element. Opposition to torture policies is not tolerated, as Daniel Levin and Michael Mukasey have learned. Silence can be tolerated among career employees, perhaps, but it will certainly check their advancement.

And now, courtesy of the ACLU, we learn some more about the logical corollaries of the culture of torture: secrecy and lies.
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Bad Guys

Propaganda Alert - MI5: Al-Qa'eda recruiting UK children for terror

Philip Johnston
Daily Telegraph
Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:44 UTC
Muslim children as young as 15 are being recruited by al-Qa'eda to wage "a deliberate campaign of terror" in Britain, the head of MI5 has said.


Comment: Given their previous track record it would seem that Al-MI5da are being typically Machiavellian and accusing their 'enemy' of just that which they are doing themselves.

As a pretext for longer detentions without trial the idea that teenagers are being recruited to the "terrorist cause" has to be one of the weakest yet.

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Nuke

SOTT Focus: The "Bin Laden Option" and the Missing Minot Nuke

Martha Rose Crow and SOTT Focus
SOTT.net
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:22 UTC
Right before September 11, 2001, the alarm bells were ringing across trading floors about some unusual trading in the US stock options market. An extraordinary number of trades were bet that American Airlines stock prices would fall.

The trades are called "PUTS" and at least 450,000 shares of American Airlines stock were involved. What raised the alarms was that more than 80 percent of the orders were "puts" and they far outnumbered "call" options (those betting the stock would rise). Usually, the numbers are fairly balanced on these kinds of trades so this imbalance caught traders' attention.

The next day, four American passenger jets were hijacked in a terrorist attack on American soil. Three of these jets belonged to American Airlines. Two allegedly crashed into the World Trade Center and one allegedly crashed into the Pentagon. The fourth aircraft was a United Airlines passenger jet that allegedly crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Light Sabers

Double-crossing in Kurdistan

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:50 UTC
The George W Bush administration would not flinch to betray its allies in Iraqi Kurdistan if that entailed a US "win" in the Iraq quagmire. And it would not flinch to leave its Turkish North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies in the wilderness as well - if that entailed further destabilization of Iran. Way beyond the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) vs Turkey skirmish, one of these two double-crossing scenarios will inevitably take place. Washington simply cannot have its kebab and eat it too.
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Propaganda

Propaganda Alert! Saad Hariri claims Syrian plot to kill Lebanon PM


Agence France-Presse
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:42 UTC
Lebanese parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri said on Tuesday that he had evidence of Syrian assassination plots against himself and Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.

Hariri made the claim in response to a question about alleged assassination plots against the leaders by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and head of intelligence Assef Shawqat.

"We have intelligence about this and we are following it up," he told reporters.


Comment: Read: Mossad Murders Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri


Comment: As always ask: who benefits? And you will have a better picture at who is doing what. In this case, Syria has nothing to gain, as it is already in the cross-hairs of the US and Israel. Killing Lebanese leaders would only make sure that the US and Israel get international support for invading and bombing Syria.

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Attention

Major Iraqi dam in danger of collapse


Agence France-Presse
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:02 UTC
Iraq's largest dam is in danger of collapse and could putting hundreds of thousands at risk in the cities of Mosul and Baghdad.
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Black Cat

Flashback al Qaeda subcontracted by British intelligence - MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden'

Martin Bright
The Guardian
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:38 UTC
British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
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Black Cat

MI5 mythmakers say Saudi king's 7-7 claim is 'a myth'

Robert Winnett and James Kirkup
The Telegraph
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:40 UTC
The intelligence services have become embroiled in a rare public row with the Saudi government by describing comments about the 7/7 London bombings made by the Saudi king as a "myth".

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King Abdullah accepted that al-Qa'eda remains a problem in his country
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