Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2008
Webster Tarpley’s analysis seems to be spot on
BEIJING (AFP) – Sixteen policemen in China’s Muslim-majority northwest were killed on Monday in a suspected terrorist attack, state media said, raising security fears four days before the Beijing Olympics.
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Posted by alfied on August 3, 2008
Every cloud has a silver lining. You find your neighbour and colleague dead, with a self inflicted shot gun wound to the chest (best to make sure when you are trying this suicide carry on);and, on the plus side you get to take his job as a general at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
As for the deceased, he has had difficult time of it. Tinsley’s previous boss, Michael “Buzz” Mosely, had already resigned in the wake of the Minot Nukes incident.
Minot Air Force base has to deal with four unfortunate deaths of its own. So a bad year all round.
Suspected cause of death is self-inflicted gunshot wound in the chest
A top general at Elmendorf Air Force Base is dead.Officials say Brigadier General Thomas Tinsley was discovered with a fatal gunshot wound to his chest shortly after 10 Sunday night inside his home on Elmendorf. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2008
1st August, 2008
The government is trying to bury the 2001 anthrax attack scandal (the anthrax came from a U.S. military base) by claiming that one of the key suspects – Bruce E. Ivins – was a “lone nut” who committed suicide. The government claims that the anthrax letters were an innocent mistake which was “part of an Army scientist’s warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin“. Case closed.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2008
Webster Tarpley
2nd August, 2008
Washington, August 1, 2008 Reliable Australian intelligence sources have issued a warning that US-UK intelligence is attempting to mount a false flag terror operation against China, quite possibly featuring a gaggle of patsies calling themselves the “Turkestan Islamic Party,” at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, where the eyes of the world will be concentrated next week. The goal of the operation will be to duplicate or surpass the bloodbaths the Mexico City 1968 and/or Munich 1972 summer games. Commandant Seyfullah of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) claims in a video tirade displayed by a US company’s website to represent the Turkish Moslems of Sinkiang province or Chinese Turkestan, where the Anglo-Americans have long sponsored an abortive separatist movement. Patsy leader Seyfullah and his Turkestan Islamic Party have been indirectly mentioned twice over the past two years by Ayman Zawahiri, the veteran British agent who functions as the real leader of “al Qaeda,” in effect sheep- dipping the little known TIP in the vast pool of “al Qaeda” notoriety. If the planned operation actually takes place, the current Chinese leadership will in the hopes of the plotters — loose face and forfeit the mandate of heaven, the prerequisites for continued rule. This could then be the prelude to the installation of a new Chinese government far less committed to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and to cooperation with Russia. It might be a first step towards splitting the SCO and turning Beijing against Moscow, which is the current goal of Anglo-American grand strategy.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2008
The idea that Diego Garcia is being used for torture is perfectly credible, but that the British authorities don’t know about it is enormously less so. On past form one would expect the British authorities to be collaborating fully in Bush’s programme of torture.
Adam Zagorin
31st July, 2008
Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terrorism suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. “This program has helped us to take potential mass murderers off the streets before they have a chance to kill,” the President said on Sept. 6, 2006. Since that admission, the White House has declined to elaborate or comment further on the program’s specifics, although multiple reports have surfaced regarding the existence of secret facilities in Poland and Romania.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2008
Of course, the fact that these attacks had nothing to do with “Al-Queda” or Steven Hatfill doesn’t mean we should give credence to claims that Ivins was responsible.
Glen Greenwald
1st August
The FBI’s lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top anthrax researcher at the U.S. Government’s biological weapons research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, where he was one of the most elite government anthrax scientists on the research team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID).
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Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Metro
Ten MPs are ready to quit to force Gordon Brown to resign, it is claimed.
There has been continued speculation about plots to oust him.
But the new bombshell threat was made to the Evening Standard newspaper.
A former minister told the newspaper: “I have spoken to several members of the Government who say they will resign if it proves necessary to provoke a change of leader before it is too late. There are probably at least 10.”
If true, it could mean the prime minister faces a mass resignation before Labour’s conference in September. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2008
The bogus “war on terror” is near its end; we are seeing a return to pre 9/11 State procedures
POSTED JULY 29, 3:08 PM
A new Pentagon sponsored Rand Corporation report concludes U.S. efforts to undermine al Qaeda have been, largely, unsuccessful and recommends a new strategy against the group.
In looking at how other terrorist groups have ended, the RAND study found that most terrorist groups end either because they join the political process, or because local police and intelligence efforts arrest or kill key members. Police and intelligence agencies, rather than the military, should be the tip of the spear against al Qaida in most of the world, and the United States should abandon the use of the phrase “war on terrorism,” researchers concluded. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2008
By Richard Payne/Guest Columnist Wicked Local
Thu Jul 31, 2008, 09:40 AM EDT
The late Senator Sam Ervin used to bang on about the virtues of honesty and the dearth of honest men in public life. Unfortunately, as Ervin’s Senate Watergate Committee discovered, politics and honesty do not travel well together. It’s not that politicians and public servants do not tell the truth but rather that they, like George Smiley’s errant spy Ricky Tarr, fail to tell the whole truth. That is because they dare not in the interests of professional survival. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2008
Guardian
Is this the moment when the end of Gordon Brown’s premiership comes clearly into sight?
July 30, 2008 9:38 AM
Well, David Miliband has unsheathed his typewriter and written an article for the Guardian, urging Labour to embark upon a “radical new phase” if it is to see off the Tory challenge. He talks about the future without once typing the word “Brown”.
As Patrick Wintour notes on page one of the paper today he offers “no overt disloyalty” but does not suggest – as ministers are now routinely supposed to – that the prime minister is the only man capable of undertaking the task ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 29, 2008
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In These New Times 