America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.
In a move that reflects Washington’s growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered [...]
June 18, 2009
US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran…
June 18, 2009
Israel urged to end Gaza blockade…
More than 40 humanitarian agencies including the United Nations have urged Israel to lift its crippling blockade of Gaza.
Israel imposed the blockade two years’ ago to restrict the supply of materials that Hamas militants could use to make rockets or other weapons.
Only the barest essentials are allowed in – including some foods, medicines and other [...]
June 18, 2009
Tony Blair knew of secret policy on terror interrogations…
Tony Blair was aware of the existence of a secret interrogation policy which effectively led to British citizens, and others, being tortured during counter-terrorism investigations, the Guardian can reveal.
The policy, devised in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, offered guidance to MI5 and MI6 officers questioning detainees in Afghanistan whom they knew were being [...]
June 18, 2009
Iraqi prisoners protest at torture, rape…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners have launched a protest at dire prison conditions and systematic torture including rape, lawmakers said on Monday.
The prisoners have gone on a partial hunger strike to try to draw the government’s attention to their plight, said Ahmed al-Masoudi, a parliamentary spokesman for supporters of anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada [...]
June 18, 2009
3 Danish soldiers killed in roadside explosion in southern Afghanistan…
COPENHAGEN — The Danish army says three Danish soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan after their vehicle hit an explosive device.
The Army Operational Command says the soldiers were in an armoured car ahead of other Danish military vehicles when it hit a roadside bomb or a mine on Wednesday.
Denmark has now lost 24 soldiers [...]
June 18, 2009
CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID “Death Chips.” Coming Soon to a Product Near You!
First it was cattle. Then it was pets. Then Mexicans. Now the tribal areas of Pakistan where the CIA is equipping Pakistani tribesmen with secret transmitters to call in airstrikes targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants. A drone, guided by the signal from the chip, destroys the building with a salvo of missiles scattering body parts [...]
June 18, 2009
Suspected US missile strikes in Pakistan kill 8…
Suspected U.S. missile strikes pounded the hide-outs of a Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least eight people, government officials said.
Shahab Ali Shah, the top administrative official in the South Waziristan tribal area along the Afghanistan border, said the missiles hit close to the villages of Gharlamai and Nandaran, about six miles [...]
June 18, 2009
Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens…
An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick’s infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn’t know whether dangerous toxins were missing.
After four months of searching about 335 freezers and refrigerators at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of [...]
June 18, 2009
Israeli Army Beats and Tortures Children…
The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits.
The findings by Defense for Children International (DCI) come in the [...]
June 18, 2009
Obama’s Gift to Pakistan…
by Liaquat Ali Khan
Source: counterpunch.org
A civil war is brewing in Pakistan. Thanks to President Barack Obama, who is shifting the American war from Iraq to “the real enemies” operating from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cash-strapped Pakistan could not defy Obama persuasion and decided to wage a war against its own people, the Pashtuns inhabiting the Northern [...]
