NIGHTWATCH: Sanctioning the Pakistani Training Schools for Suicide Terrorists

US-Pakistan: The US Treasury on Tuesday set economic sanctions on a Pakistan Islamic school it branded a ‘terrorist training center’ supporting al-Qaida and the Taliban. The Treasury said the Ganj madrassah in Peshawar was being used as a training and recruiting base by two militant groups, as well as the radical Lashkar-e-Taiba blamed for the …

Berto Jongman: Iraq Vet Commits Suicide Over Being Ordered to Commit — and Cover Up – War Crimes

Iraq Vet Kills Himself After Being Ordered to Commit “War Crimes” “These things go far beyond what most are even aware of” Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 24, 2013 Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers committed suicide following an arduous battle with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that was caused by his role in committing “crimes …

Mini-Me: Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, “Suicided?” Joins “Suicided” Also Hung Mark Lombardi in the Cloud

Huh? Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 John Schwartz New York Times, 12 January 2013 Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader to make that …

Mini-Me: Veteran Suicides in 2012 — 1 Per Day from AF/IQ 18 Per Day All Wars

Huh? The Invisible Wounds of War: Number of Soldiers Committing Suicide Reaches Record High Amy Goodman Democracy Now, 21 August 2012 EXTRACT: MARGUERITE GUZMÁN BOUVARD: That’s right. And before I—after I finished that book, finally the Department of Defense was letting out these statistics. They were not letting them out before. I tried to get …

Berto Jongman: Variations on a Theme – CIA Drones and Suicide Bombs

Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals Total US strikes: 349 Obama strikes: 297 Total reported killed: 2,593-3,365 Read full article and see data sidebars. Whither Suicide Bombings? Exponential growth in suicide attacks since 2001 shows that they have increasingly become a practical tool in a large variety of intra-national …