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Arrested Terrorist Leader Exposes Extensive CIA Connections
TruthIsTreason/Kevin Hayden
Source: RT News & Steve Watson
The leader of a Pakistan based terrorist organisation closely affiliated with Al Qaeda has detailed how his group benefited from extensive political and financial support from the CIA in return for continued attacks against the government, the people and the infrastructure of Iran.
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Pakistan seeks return of woman convicted in U.S.
Kamran Haider, Reuters
Given what the US considers “interrogation”, can you really blame anyone for fighting back?
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan will take all steps to secure the release and return home of a Pakistani woman convicted in a U.S. court for shooting at her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said on Thursday.
Aafia Siddiqui, 37, was [...]
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Swine Flu
Drug companies manipulated the World Health Organisation into downgrading its definition of a pandemic so they could cash in on a swine flu outbreak, it is claimed.An inquiry heard yesterday that the WHO allegedly softened its criteria for declaring a H1N1 flu pandemic last spring – just weeks before announcing there was a worldwide [...]
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Yemen
Yemen’s government is to allow the US to set up a military base on its territory, a political analyst says. The US can no longer rely on Yemen’s government to fight al-Qaeda because it is losing its legitimacy and becoming weaker, Ali Al-Ahmed, a political analyst, told Press TV on Wednesday. Al-Ahmed added that his [...]
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CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract
BBC
The CIA has cancelled a contract with US private security firm Blackwater for its operatives to load bombs onto drone aircraft in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
CIA Director Leon Panetta wanted such work to be done by the organisation’s own employees only, officials said.
The New York Times revealed the existence of the secret contract with Blackwater, renamed [...]
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Pakistan
The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA’s program to attack suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with missiles shot from pilotless planes, a U.S. official confirms.
Afghanistan
Obama Advisers Backpedal on Afghanistan: “There Is No Timetable;” “We’re Not Talking About an Exit Strategy”.
But as administration officials touted the [...]
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Scahill: ‘The war is in Pakistan right now’
David Edwards and Muriel Kane/Rawstory
US’s unofficial war in Pakistan will ‘create enemies,’ author says
In the wake of President Obama’s plan to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan, questions are being raised about the use of private contractors in US operations there. The acknowledgement by Eric Prince, founder of military contractor Blackwater, that [...]
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Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants