Interview Conducted by Susanne Koelbl in Kabul, Afghanistan Erin Trieb/ DER SPIEGEL Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stands in front of the Presidential Palace in Kabul: “If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is calling for greater support for Afghanistan, […]
Reuters International DEC 3, 2015 – 14:49 By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Britain joined U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, but Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane, demonstrating the limits to international solidarity. […]
Source: Buzz Feed News Nobody would describe James Cromitie as a terrorist mastermind. Certainly not U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon, who in June 2011 sentenced him to 25 years […]
EXCLUSIVE Did the Pentagon Cook the Books on Its Afghanistan Intel? The military has been accused of fudging the numbers in the fight against the Islamic State. Congress wants to know if it did with the Taliban too. BY DAN DE LUCE NOVEMBER 19, 2015 DAN.DELUCE @DANDELUCE Lawmakers are probing […]
Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo August 6, 2015 by Brad Hoff 18 Comments Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark. In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the […]
Abdullah al-Senussi execution: This perversion of justice suits Western security services just fine The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafi’s torturers will now remain safe for good BY ROBERT FISK Shutting them up. That’s what it’s about. The hangman’s drop, the crackle of the firing squad, and their secrets […]
Associated Press By KEN DILANIAN, ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE WASHINGTON (AP) — After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is […]
By BRIAN BENNETT A secret U.S. intelligence assessment predicts that Iran’s government will pump most of an expected $100-billion windfall from the lifting of international sanctions into the country’s flagging economy and won’t significantly boost funding for militant groups it supports in the Middle East. Intelligence analysts concluded that even […]
by Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer Dear friends, according to the US secret service, DIA, the Obama administration has known as early as August 2012 that Al Qaeda /AQI, IS, ISIS) and other extremists were heading the Syrian rebellion. As a result, the “possibility that a Salafist principality in Eastern Syria“ […]
Most Used No apologies for returning today to the strange case of the “moderate” Jabhat al-Nusra rebels, the throat-cutters and executioners who are playing the anti-Isis card to woo the US. Their leader, you may recall, told Qatar’s Al Jazeera channel that his al-Qaeda affiliated warriors will oppose both Isis […]
Most Used No apologies for returning today to the strange case of the “moderate” Jabhat al-Nusra rebels, the throat-cutters and executioners who are playing the anti-Isis card to woo the US. Their leader, you may recall, told Qatar’s Al Jazeera channel that his al-Qaeda affiliated warriors will oppose both Isis […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Spy Cables are one of the most wide-ranging leaks of intelligence papers ever, taking us into the world of espionage Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper, is publishing a selection of “top-secret” documents, and exploring the stories within them The documents come from […]
An Islamic State fighter currently under trial in a Turkish high criminal court has implicated Turkey’s state intelligence service in the willful transfer of weapons and military hardware to the […]
Thank God for Noam Chomsky. Not for his lifetime of eviscerating assaults on our political hypocrisy, but for his linguistics. Long before I knew him, undergraduate Fisk laboured at his university linguistics course, where Chomsky’s work first alerted me to the pernicious use of language. Hence I condemn at once […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret. And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” […]
Religious leaders have been at the forefront of the fight to end torture, and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 500-page summary on the CIA’s treatment of terrorism suspects seems to have […]
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has published its highly anticipated and divisive report into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme employed after the September 11 attacks. Only the executive summary of the 6,700-page classified report has been published, including its 20 findings. The 20 conclusions are presented below, including particularly […]
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal Global Research, October 20, 2014 Review of James Petras’ Book published by Clarity Books The Israeli military went again on a rampage against the ghettoized people in the Gaza strip. The last time, they “visited” the walled-in strip at the turn of the year 2008/09, they […]
In what amounts to a diplomatic earthquake, Berlin has asked the country’s top CIA official to leave Germany. The measures comes in response to the second allegation in a week […]
An Interview By Hasnain Kazim AP A Pakistani who works as an operative for the CIA spoke to SPIEGEL about his motives for helping the Americans, the civilian casualties of drone attacks and his fear of the Taliban. Intelligence operative Mohammed Hassan (*) cancelled prearranged meetings several times. He called […]