The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Very cool question. We don’t have the answers, but here are a few thoughts. Who benefits? There is only one beneficiary of Al Qaeda as a virtual actor: the US Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Congressional Complex whose outrageously wasteful funding and excessive (70%) obligations to contractors are bankrupting the US economy, but who cares as long as the corporate …
Afghanistan: Mullah Omar Ready to End Al Qaida Ties (Video) Apocalyptic thinking and the signs of the coming apocalypse by sheikh IMran N. Hosein Book announcement: how enemies become friends Book Reviews, Books by Ronald Crelinsten by Tim Stevens Conflict in N Dimensions Excellent blog by Tim Stevens Cyber-War and Critical Infrastructure I Cyber-War and …
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Director: NCTC has analyst shortage The National Counterterrorism Center does not have enough analysts to comb through the thousands of pieces of terrorism-related information it receives every day, even though a plan to cut millions of dollars from its budget has been reversed, NCTC Director Michael Leiter told House lawmakers on Wednesday. . . . …
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Welcome to Qaedastan: Yemen’s coming explosion will make today’s problems seem tame. Yemen has so many dire problems that it’s easy to be overwhelmed. Al Qaeda is growing in prominence, a Shiite rebellion is expanding in the north, and the threat of secession is renewed in the south. There’s a brewing fight over what comes …
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Blackwater/XE behind terrorist bombings in Asia and Africa? ByWayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer Jan 18, 2010, 00:25 WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out “false flag” terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and …
EDIT of 9 Jan 10: Note seven comments from retired senior officers. Critique of the CT Summary for the White House This is a negligent piece of work that fails to include all that is known merely from open sources of information, but more importantly its judgments are misdirected. This incident remains incompletely investigated until …
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Who Would Benefit Politically from a Terrorist Incident on American Soil? The Strange Case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab by Tom Burghardt January 5, 2010 Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab …
