October 21, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Clinton increases pressure on Pakistan 21 Oct 2011 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has held “extremely frank” talks with Pakistan aimed at stepping up pressure on Islamabad to dismantle Taliban safe havens on its soil. Accompanied by CIA director David Petraeus and top US military officer Martin Dempsey, [...]
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October 22, 2011
October 20, 2011
Hillary Clinton warns Pakistan to help with antiterror push
The Obama administration delivered a blunt warning Thursday that the United States will do what it must to go after militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan, whether Pakistan helps or not. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading an unusually large US delegation to Pakistan for two days of talks with civilian and military leaders who [...]
October 9, 2011
Special units, CIA to keep waging war
October 9, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Special units, CIA to keep waging war 09 Oct 2011 They were the first Americans into Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks and will probably be the last U.S. forces to leave. As most American troops prepare to withdraw in 2014, the CIA and military special operations forces to [...]
October 6, 2011
NY Judge Won’t Find CIA in Contempt Over Tapes
October 5, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis NY Judge Won’t Find CIA in Contempt Over Tapes 06 Oct 2011 A federal judge [U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein] declined Wednesday to find the CIA in contempt for destroying videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee prisoner interrogations, saying to do so would serve no beneficial purpose and the CIA [...]
October 3, 2011
Justice Department Gave CIA Approval to Kill Al-Awlaki
October 3, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Justice Department Gave CIA Approval to Kill Al-Awlaki –Official: Secret memo between DOJ and CIA placed al-Awlaki on kill or capture list 02 Oct 2011 The U.S. Justice Department gave the approval to the CIA to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, the charismatic U.S.-born cleric who orchestrated Al Qaeda recruitment from [...]
October 2, 2011
CIA contractor arrested after fistfight over Colorado parking spot
Denver (CNN) — Raymond Davis, who was charged with killing two men in Pakistan as a CIA contractor but was later released, was arrested Saturday after a fistfight at a shopping center in Colorado, authorities said. Davis was charged with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct after allegedly getting into a fight over a parking space [...]
October 1, 2011
Awlaqi latest victim of relentless US secret war
October 1, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Awlaqi latest victim of relentless US secret war –The White House refused to confirm reports that US CIA drone aircraft and other military assets had mounted the raid, keeping a veil of secrecy over US anti-terror operations. 01 Oct 2011 US-born Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi is the latest American [...]
September 29, 2011
CIA Provides List of ‘Gruesome’ Osama Bin Laden Death Photos
September 28, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis CIA Provides List of ‘Gruesome’ Osama Bin Laden Death Photos 28 Sep 2011 The CIA has 52 separate photos and videos of Osama bin Laden’s body, the U.S. raid that ‘killed him,’ and his burial at sea, according to a Justice Department document filed earlier this week. A top [...]
September 29, 2011
Pakistan: mission impossible | Editorial
Our story that Save the Children flew eight expatriate aid workers out of Pakistan in July for fear that they could have been arrested by Inter-Services Intelligence is a classic example of a term the CIA itself invented: blowback. As we reported in July, the CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad in an [...]
September 28, 2011
10 myths about Afghanistan
1. Afghans have always beaten foreign armies, from Alexander the Great to modern times Afghan history is certainly littered with occasions when foreign invaders were humiliated. But there have also been many cases when foreign armies penetrated the country and inflicted major defeats. In 330BC, Alexander the Great marched through the area of central Asia [...]
September 27, 2011
Afghan worker kills US citizen in attack on CIA office
An Afghan employed by the US government killed one American and wounded another in an attack on a CIA office in Kabul, officials said on Monday. The shooting on Sunday evening is the latest in a growing number of attacks by Afghans working with the country’s international allies. Some assailants have turned out to be [...]
September 16, 2011
Al-Qaida chief in Pakistan killed by CIA drone
Al-Qaida‘s chief of operations in Pakistan, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, has been killed in a CIA drone strike in the tribal belt, senior US officials have said. If confirmed, the death of Abu Hafs al-Shahri, a 29-year-old Saudi militant, would mark a further blow to al-Qaida four months after the loss of [...]
July 1, 2011
Casey Anthony’s Defense Expected to Rest Case
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The defense for Casey Anthony is expected to rest Thursday after calling its final witnesses, though it’s still not known if the central Florida mother will take the stand to answer questions about whether she killed her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. On Wednesday, the defense may have been dealt a blow when [...]
July 1, 2011
Census: Fewer Black Children in Biggest US Cities
NEW YORK (AP) — A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Census data shows that cities from coast to coast have steadily drained of black children over the past decade. Last year’s census [...]