Jeremy Scahill/The Nation A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has told The Nation that she will launch an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide bombing at the CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. “The Intelligence Committees and [...]
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Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
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CIA Agents Assassinated in Afghanistan Worked for “Contractor” Active in Venezuela and Cuba
Eva Golinger/chavezcode.com At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that the eight dead [...]
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CIA base hit by Afghan bombing key to US drone programme
Daily Times/SOTT The US facility struck this week by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan was a key anti-terror installation that oversaw a vital drone programme targeting Al Qaeda and the Taliban, reports said on Friday. The suicide attack killed seven CIA officers at Forward Operating Base Chapman, an installation that plays a major role in [...]
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What Happened At FOB Chapman
Chuck Spinney/Agonist This attached report in the Washington Post purports to explain how the CIA fell victim to a series of miscalculations that make it vulnerable to the devastating attack on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman, a CIA base in Khost Province, Afghanistan, but it does not pass the smell test. Of course, coming from [...]