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Last Updated: Dec 31st, 2009 - 01:49:28 |
Special Reports
Blackwater suspected of being in Pakistan
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The mercenary private security contractor once known as Blackwater and now
called Xe Services LLC is being reported in the Pakistani press as being
seen with �other suspicious foreigners� in Peshawar and other parts of
Pakistan.
Sep 8, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
CIA used Blackwater-linked mercenaries as journalists
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The CIA used credentialed journalists to engage in counter-intelligence
and counter-terrorism operations from 2003 to 2005.
Sep 4, 2009, 00:21
Special Reports
NSA Q Group employs more Soviet-style security measures
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR�s National Security Agency (NSA) sources report that the agency�s Q Group
personnel security department, acting in concert with the dubious NSA medical
unit, has adopted a new approach to dealing with NSA employees who express
opposition to illegal surveillance policies and draconian internal security
procedures.
Aug 31, 2009, 00:12
Special Reports
How Israel wages game theory warfare
By Jeff Gates
In 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was
awarded to Israeli mathematician and game theory specialist Robert J. Aumann,
co-founder of the Center for Rationality at Hebrew University. This Jerusalem
resident explains: �the entire school of thought that we have developed here in
Israel� has turned �Israel into the leading authority in this field.�
Aug 28, 2009, 00:25
Special Reports
Speaking at Jackson Hole
By Andrew McKillop
�Strains persist� in the world banking system
and finance markets across the globe, Ben Bernanke said on August 21 at the
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, annual Federal Reserve meeting of banking and finance
deciders. He of course cautioned, like other leading bankers that the economic
recovery �... is likely to be relatively slow at first, with unemployment
declining only gradually from high levels.�
Aug 28, 2009, 00:23
Special Reports
The secret deal behind Megrahi�s release
By Wayne Madsen
British intelligence sources report to WMR that
a series of high-level financial deals between Libya, British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling,
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, former Speaker of the House of Commons
Michael Martin, and Scottish First Minister Alexander Salmond resulted in the
release from a Scottish prison of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan
Arab Airlines officials convicted of planting the bomb on board Pan Am 103 that
killed 281 people on the plane and in the village of Lockerbie in 1988. Megrahi�s
colleague, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted of charges in the terrorist
attack.
Aug 27, 2009, 00:18
Special Reports
CIA collusion with �Al Qaeda� financiers and attack planners
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR has learned from an intelligence source from a NATO country that elements
of the CIA have coordinated their activities with top Gulf state officials who
have been connected to �Al Qaeda� networks that have planned and financed
various terrorist attacks.
Aug 26, 2009, 00:19
Special Reports
The first congressional junket to Israel
By Grant F. Smith
Large congressional junkets to Israel have
become such fixtures in Washington, DC, that few Americans now question their
curious origins.
Aug 21, 2009, 00:23
Special Reports
Khalid Bin Mahfouz dies of heart attack
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The Saudi newspaper, Asharq Alawsat,
is reporting from Jeddah that Saudi billionaire banker Khalid Bin Mahfouz, the
controversial former director of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia
and someone who was often accused of being linked to financial support to
groups associated with �Al Qaeda� -- with Mahfouz�s legal team carrying
out rapid lawsuit action mainly in London against transgressing journalists
-- died this past Saturday from a sudden heart attack at his home in
Jeddah.
Aug 21, 2009, 00:21
Special Reports
The Latin American policies of Richard Milhous Obama
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The Obama administration is not only maintaining the Bush administration�s
policies, which seek to promote confrontation with the progressive bloc of
Latin American nations, but is actually hearkening back to the past
imperialistic policies of the administration of Richard Nixon.
Aug 19, 2009, 00:23
Special Reports
After six years of U.S. occupation, infrastructure not improved in Iraq
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR has learned from an NBC News source that six years after the United States
invaded and occupied Iraq, there have been no improvements to critical
infrastructures in the country, including electricity and water.
Aug 18, 2009, 00:22
Special Reports
Campaign against medal winners stoked by UN-Israel Lobby liaison
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR has learned from UN sources that the campaign by the Israel Lobby in the
United States to discredit former Irish President and UN Human Rights
Commissioner Mary Robinson was aided and abetted by a long-time
UN liaison �consultant� who has worked for both Secretary Generals Kofi
Annan and Ban Ki-moon.
Aug 17, 2009, 00:19
Special Reports
Ex-ISI chief says purpose of new Afghan intelligence agency RAMA is �to destabilize Pakistan�
By Jeremy R. Hammond
Retired Lieutenant General Hamid Gul was the
Director General of Pakistan�s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1987 to
1989, during which time he worked closely with the CIA to provide support for
the mujahedeen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Though once
deemed a close ally of the United States, in more recent years. his name has
been the subject of considerable controversy. He has been outspoken with the
claim that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were an �inside job.�
He has been called �the most dangerous man in Pakistan,� and the U.S.
government has accused him of supporting the Taliban, even recommending him to
the United Nations Security Council for inclusion on the list of international
terrorists.
Aug 14, 2009, 00:22
Special Reports
Thai court ruling stands to potentially expose U.S. and Israeli connections to arms and other smuggling
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
A Thai judge has rejected an American request to extradite Tajikistan-born arms
dealer Viktor Bout to the United States on charges that he tried to sell
surface-to-air missiles to U.S. agents, including Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) operatives, in Bangkok who posed as
representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Aug 13, 2009, 00:18
Special Reports
Russia Today�s Anastasia Churkina interviews Online Journal Associate Editor Jerry Mazza
NEW YORK, Aug 2 -- Jerry Mazza, Online Journal
associate editor and poet, speaks with Russia Today�s Anastasia Churkina about
9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the effects they have had on the American
psyche.
Aug 12, 2009, 00:25
Special Reports
The congresswoman and the Turkish Lobby sexual blackmail ring
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR previously reported that Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a close ally
of President Barack Obama and his chief of staff, former Representative Rahm
Emanuel, who, like Schakowsky, represented a Chicago district, was sexually
blackmailed by a lesbian prostitute who worked for the American Turkish Council
(ATC).
Aug 12, 2009, 00:23
Special Reports
Blackwater linked to political murders and sex ring
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
Explosive affidavits filed in the US District Court in Eastern Virginia in Alexandria
by two ex-employees of Blackwater have thrown more light on the murky
operations of the private military firm and its chief Erik Prince.
Aug 11, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
Mexico�s fake RCMP report backfires
By Scott Campbell
It�s been a busy and interesting week regarding
developments in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the U.S.
Aug 7, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
Cheney assassination team involved Pentagon chain of command
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
Pentagon officials revealed important details of Vice President Dick Cheney�s
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) assassination at a Special
Operation/Low Intensity Conflict (SOLIC) conference in Arlington, Virginia,
just weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Aug 6, 2009, 00:24
Special Reports
Feud between Emanuel and Netanyahu heats up
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The political bickering between White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel,
himself a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen with strong links, as previously reported
by WMR, to the Mossad, and the Israeli government of
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is heating up, according to
U.S. intelligence sources.
Aug 5, 2009, 00:22
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