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'US lost sleep over Soviets planting Bose imposter'

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:21:16 GMT

NEW DELHI: Former PM Jawaharlal Nehru trying to strike a balance between “Soviet friendship and US money”, the growing strength of RSS and rumours that Subhash Chandra Bose was alive and waiting to make a “big comeback” are some of the concerns...
Source: Times of India

US missed chance in 2001 to capture bin Laden

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:12:50 GMT

US forces missed a clear opportunity to capture Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora district of the White Mountains in Afghanistan in December 2001, a US Senate committee report to be officially released today says, placing much of the blame on military...
Source: The National Newspaper

West turned blind eye to corruption, former Afghan narcotics minister says

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:07:09 GMT

"I've never been supported by the international community; I was not supported by my own government," Qaderi told The Canadian Press. "I never felt I was supported by anybody. That will automatically make you ill."
Source: Macleans.ca

India not to interrogate Headley, Rana, says NSA

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:06:20 GMT

Port of Spain, Nov.29 (ANI): India's National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has said that New Delhi has no plans to interrogate either David Coleman Headley, an alleged Lashkar operative based in the United States of Pakistani origin, or his associate,...
Source: Newstrack India

Bush Lost Bin Laden?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:41:07 GMT

"Osama Bin Laden was within military reach when the Bush administration allowed him to disappear into the mountains of Afghanistan rather than pursue him with a massive military force, a new Senate report says.
Source: Macsmind - News, Conservative Commentary, and Common Sense

Three Models of Social Change

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:10:45 GMT

Pearl Harbor model of change. One is the catastrophic event model, which I call the Pearl Harbor model, where a dramatic event fundamentally changes how we think and behave.
Source: Treehugger

Homeland Security Brownshirts Pay Pastor Manning a Visit

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:01:13 GMT

Secret Service or CIA? CIA has no mandate to make visits to American citizens. Why two NYPD detectives? Is his church in New York City? One must be in chains to recognize the freedom we take for granted. God Speed Pastor Manning.
Source: Atlas Shrugs

Inhofe unimpressed by stars and science

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:45:17 GMT

A growing number of officials recognize the national security implications of global climate change.
Source: Political Animal

Quoted in 'Where Does Blackwater Play in the CIA-DNI Conflict?'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:44:15 GMT

said in Emptywheel:

The relationship between the White House and the CIA on covert action hasn’t changed at all

Quoted in 'Should Bin Laden Be Told He Has Right to Remain Silent and Given a Lawyer? Kucinich Says Everyone Should Get the Same 'Basic Rights''

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:47:26 GMT

said in CNSNews.com:

The big problem I have is that you’re criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we’d have mixed theories and we couldn’t turn him over—to the CIA, the FBI or military intelligence—for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now we’re saying that he is the subject to criminal court in the United States. And you’re confusing the people fighting this war

Photo from Getty Images

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:31:00 GMT

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC.

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:06:01 GMT

Robert Baer on 9/11

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:06:34 GMT