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Whose bombs? Nafeez Ahmed on Glasgow airport attack

Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008

This article is a must read for a serious analysis of Glasgow airport attack and related incidents.

The Cutting Edge

Nafeez Ahmed

6th July, 2007

[The following is an extended deconstructive analysis quoting rather liberally from relevant sources. As far as I’m aware, it’s the first of its kind to be published in either mainstream or alternative circles. Therefore, please circulate widely.]

How to understand the attempted but largely failed terrorist plots uncovered since last Friday? Police officers on June 29 dismantled two car bombs made from gas canisters, gasoline and nails, parked in central London’s major theatre and shopping districts. A day later, two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee, filled with flammable material, into a terminal entrance at Glasgow airport. The series of attempted attacks follows hot on the heels of an attempted al-Qaeda attack in the United States earlier in June.

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Russia may join OPEC

Posted by smeddum on December 17, 2008

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Faber Report: Maddoc

Posted by smeddum on December 15, 2008

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The New Generation of “Non-Lethal” Weapons

Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008

 

Mike Ferner

Counterpunch

8th December, 2008

The Army Times reported on September 30 that a combat brigade, about 4,000 troops, which could be called on for “civil unrest and crowd control,” had been assigned inside the United States for the first time since Reconstruction. 

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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is Dead- Asia Times, 2002

Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2008

Raising the question of precisely who is being tried at a US miltary tribunal in Cuba. Will they ever show us a picture of him other than the usual one of a bedraggled looking individual?

A chilling inheritance of terror
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

Asia Times

30th October, 2002

KARACHI – Ever since the frenzied shootout last month on September 11 in Karachi there have been doubts over whether Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed head of al-Qaeda’s military committee, died in the police raid on his apartment.

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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the 9/11 Legend

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008

With the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed(if that actually is him) now taking place, this is timely moment to revisit  Chaim Kupferberg’s devasting, and often hilarious account of how KSM was woven into the 9/11 legend in the role of “mastermind”.

There’s something about Omar: Truth, Lies and the 9/11 Legend.

Chaim Kupferberg

Global Research

21st October, 2003

It was almost an afterthought.  On March 1, 2003, the War On Terror had finally served up the alleged paymaster of 9/11 – a shadowy Saudi by the name of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi.  Yet his arrest just happened to coincide with the capture of a much bigger fish – the reported 9/11 mastermind himself, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – thus relegating Mustafa Ahmed to the footnote section of the “official” 9/11 Legend.  But there was another, more explosive side to this tale. Only seventeen months before, a former London schoolboy by the name of Omar Saeed Sheikh was first exposed as the 9/11 paymaster, acting under the authority of a Pakistani general who was in Washington D.C. on September 11, meeting with the very two lawmakers who would subsequently preside over the “official” 9/11 congressional inquiry.  Omar Saeed, as reported back then by CNN, was acting under the alias of…Mustafa Ahmed.  So where is Omar now?  Sitting in a Pakistani prison, awaiting his execution for the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl – while another man fills the shoes of his pseudonym.  What follows is a reconstruction of one of the most extensive disinformation campaigns in history, and the chronicle of a legend that may now shine a devastating spotlight on some of the cliques behind 9/11 – and the FBI Director covering the paper trails.

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Gen. Hamid Gul on CNN 9/11 Inside Job

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

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BJP falters in state elections

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

smh.com

10th December, 2008

INDIAN elections held soon after the attacks on Mumbai indicate millions of voters have not allowed terrorism to determine the way they vote.

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Insurgent attacks on NATO trucks highlight US military crisis in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

By Barry Grey

WSWS
9 December 2008

A series of attacks on US and NATO military equipment depots in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday and Monday have underscored the increasingly dire security situation facing American and allied forces conducting the counterinsurgency war in neighboring Afghanistan.
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Arrest Provides More Evidence India, Israel, and the U.S. Behind Mumbai Attacks

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

This looks increasingly like an internal power struggle within India. If the BJP looks to engineer a coup and bring India firmly into the US camp, the government seems to be drawing closer to Russia and the SCO. The latter path is the logical one and will likely prevail: the Mumbai massacre would then be a product of the increasing desperation of the pro-US/UK/Israel faction.

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Sunday, December 7, 2008

It is becoming increasingly a hard sell to pin the blame for the Mumbai attacks on Pakistan and thus set the stage for an attack on Pakistan after Barack Obama enters the White House in a few weeks. It now appears Indian intelligence played a large part in the terrorist attacks. On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that a “counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen.
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McCain warns Pakistan of Indian air strikes

Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008

 

India would do well to launch a proper investigation before doing anything rash. At the core of this should be to continue of the work of  Karkare and to establish  precisely who engineered his death. The Americans seem overeager to find the hand of Pakistan behind this massacre, don’t they? As usual they have undisclosed “evidence” which , as on 9/11, amounts to nothing more than the claim that it was “the bad guys”. In a way, this is probably true : but it would be they themselves who are the bad guys.

The Hindu

7th December, 2008

 

ISLAMABAD: United States Senator John McCain has said there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks.

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