Afghan elite ‘plundered $900m’ from leading bank Business is on brink of collapse after its funds were treated ‘like personal accounts’ By Julius Cavendish in Kabul Tuesday, 1 February 2011 Share Close Digg del.icio.us Facebook Reddit Google Stumble Upon Fark Newsvine YahooBuzz Bebo Twitter Independent Minds Print Email Sponsored Links Ads by Google Bernanke’s Secret [...]
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I have no idea what to make of this. It’s massive and I haven’t looked and any of the documents yet. Here it is, but, as always, with a grain of salt… or CAST LEAD as the case may be. Via: Guardian: The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East [...]
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News World news al-Qaida How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory In an exclusive extract from his new book, A History of the World since 9/11, Dominic Streatfeild explains how despite expert warnings, the US let al-Qaida buy an arsenal of deadly weapons – then tried to cover it [...]
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By The Associated Press Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 — 2:21 pm Stumble This! Share 1diggdigg Iraqi PM pushes to remove some of the hundreds of checkpoints across Baghdad Iraq’s leaders are investigating the possibility of removing some of Baghdad’s hundreds of much hated checkpoints because of the improving security situation, said the city’s military spokesman [...]
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Iraq, Afghanistan among ‘most corrupt’ nations AFP October 26, 2010 BERLIN — Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday came near the top of a closely watched global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt, despite efforts to stamp out graft in the war-torn nations. Nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in Transparency International’s annual [...]
By Katherine Smith In September 2006, the world experienced a paradigm shift when a strong lobbying effort by grassroots organizations effectively derailed an initiative: A move that was tantamount to a declaration of war on Iran. U.S.: Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for Israel Lobby In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the [...]
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By Katherine Smith The timing of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which on August 2, 2010 formally brought a case against Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of America’s most enduring liberal and fierce Anti War politicians, and the WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of Army documents related to the war in Afghanistan may be [...]
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Mossad Does Interrogations in Iraqi Jails: Human Rights Group Xinhua May 22, 2010 The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) said on Saturday that Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is interrogating Arab prisoners in Iraqi jails. “I received calls from Jordanian prisoners at Iraqi jails and they informed us that Mossad is interrogating them and other [...]
Recent Headlines: Jan 12, 2010 – U.S.S. Carl Vinson Sets Off Towards San Diego Jan 14, 2010 – The USS Carl Vinson is expected to arrive off the coast of Haiti today Are not directly related to The Most Important Issue in the History of the Universe and The 2001 Invasion of Iraq… That Was [...]
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09-20-2009 • Gateway Pundit Now Brzezinski, who advises Obama on foreign policy, is calling for the US to shoot down Israeli jets. Brzezinski is known to be anti-Israel. The Weekly Standard Blog reported: In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don’t read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew Brzezinski [...]
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Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Contractor deaths are rarely reported by Bernd Debusmann Reuters – 2009-09-10 WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – By most counts, the death toll of U.S. soldiers in America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stood at 5,157 in the second week of September. Add at least 1,360 private [...]
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Archbishop Tutu: “Arabs paying the price of Germany’s crimes” Saed Bannoura – IMEMC August 28, 2009 In an Interview with Haaretz newspaper, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated that Israel must learn from the Holocaust that it cannot gain security thought fences, walls and guns. Archbishop Tutu was commenting of statement made by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin [...]
Babylon’s Ancient Wonder, Lying in Ruins History Not Served By U.S. Presence By Nada Bakri Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, July 29, 2009 HILLA, Iraq — Maytham Hamzah cast his eyes toward the remains of King Nebuchadnezzar‘s guest palace in Babylon, one of the world’s first great cities. He smiled, bitterly. “They destroyed the whole [...]
Patrick Cockburn Counterpunch Friday, June 19, 2009 Furious protests are threatening to undermine the Iraqi government’s plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to increase its declining oil production and oil revenues. In less than two weeks time, on June 29 and 30, the Iraqi Oil [...]
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Iraq�s refugees; the region�s largest displacement crisis goes on World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office June 20, 2009 Some 2 million Iraqi refugees across the Middle East will spend a fifth World Refugee Day far from home and even further from any prospect of return or a better life as their needs and [...]
