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Subject: U.S. Seeks Wider Role for Secret CIA Paramilitary Forces 23 Oct 2010
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23 Oct 2010
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U.S. Seeks Wider Role for Secret CIA Paramilitary Forces 23 Oct 2010 The U.S. is pushing to expand a secret CIA effort to help Pakistan target militants in their havens near the Afghan border, according to senior officials, as the White House seeks new ways to prod Islamabad into more aggressive action against groups allied with al Qaeda [al-CIAduh]... The current efforts to expand CIA presence are meant to expand intelligence collection and facilitate more aggressive Pakistani-led actions on the ground. Some U.S. officials, however, remain hopeful that Islamabad will allow a greater covert presence that could include CIA paramilitary forces.
US pushing for dramatic expansion of covert CIA 'ground forces' in Pak: Report 23 Oct 2010 The United States is reportedly pushing for the expansion of a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) effort to help Pakistan target militants in their havens near the Afghan border, as the White House seeks new ways to prod Islamabad into more aggressive action against Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] and its allied groups, according to senior officials... The number of CIA personnel in Pakistan has grown substantially in recent years. The push for more forces reflects, in part, the increased need for intelligence to support the CIA drone program that has killed hundreds of militants thousands of civilians with its drone strikes.
The day ends in 'y,' so it's time for another taxpayer-funded bl*wjob for US contractors, to bribe Pakistan to allow the US to slaughter civilians with CIA killer drones: AP: US to give Pakistan $2B in new military aid 22 Oct 2010 The Obama administration is laying out a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar military aid package for Pakistan as it presses the Islamabad government to step up the fight against foment extremists there and in neighbouring Afghanistan, U.S. officials say. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were to unveil the plan Friday... the officials said. The money will be provided over the next five years under the State Department's Foreign Military Financing program that funds other countries' purchases of U.S.-made arms, ammunition and accessories, the officials said.
US State Dept. will hire another 7,000 security contractors for Iraq 21 Oct 2010 The US government will hire an additional 7,000 mercenaries once Congress approves the 2011 budget. Speaking at the annual Arab-US Policymakers conference in Washington, Michael Corbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for State for Iraq said security contractors will help "the Iraqi government improve its police department and other civil agencies." Corbin stated that State Department will hire another 7,000 security contractors once Congress comes through with a 2011 budget, in which the State Department has requested USD 2.6 billion for operations in Iraq.
Huge dossier of secret files shows the US ignored torture of Iraqis --Killings at checkpoints were 'covered up' --Estimate of civilian deaths rises to 122,000 23 Oct 2010 Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks unveiled its cache of secret Iraq war documents last night in what is the largest leak in US military history. The reports deliver a devastating verdict on the Coalition's involvement in Iraq including revelations that the American military: --Knew Iraqi officials were torturing detainees but ruled against intervening. --Conspired to cover up the deaths of "hundreds" of Iraqi civilians at manned checkpoints. --Kept records of the number of Iraqi civilians that were being killed, despite famously claiming that the military "didn't do body counts".
More Blackwater shootings unveiled --Washington hired firm under $465M contract to provide largely unregulated mercenary services in Iraq 23 Oct 2010 The latest Wikileaks files reveal 14 unreported shooting incidents against Iraqi civilians, involving those by an infamous private security firm working for the US military. Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, rose to notoriety in 2007 when guards opened fire on a busy square in central Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilian. However, the leaked documents suggest 10 more civilians were killed and another seven were wounded by the US security contractor's employees in the suppressed incidents.
Wikileaks: Civilians gunned down at checkpoints by US soldiers --Full details of how US soldiers killed innocent Iraqi civilians at road checkpoints are revealed in the war logs published by Wikileaks. 23 Oct 2010 In one incident, in September 2005, two US soldiers saw a vehicle approaching in the dark on a main road near Musayyib, south of Baghdad. They waved their arms and flashed lights. When the car failed to stop they fired warning shots, then opened fire with M249 automatic light machine guns. Each soldier fired up to 100 rounds, killing a man and a woman in the front of the car and wounding their children, aged six and nine, in the legs. Many other Iraqis, including dozens of women and children, were killed at checkpoints, on roads and in raids on people's homes, according to the logs.
Taliban attack UN office in Afghanistan 23 Oct 2010 The United Nations office in the western Afghanistan has come under attack as the Taliban step up their offensives against the US-led foreign interests in the country. Officials said four militants attacked the compound, located just outside Herat city, blowing up an explosives-packed car at the front gate. Two of them managed to get inside the building but were killed by police.
ISAF helicopter down in Taliban country 23 Oct 2010 Taliban militants say they have shot down a helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed that they successfully targeted the aircraft on Saturday in remote Paktika province near the border with Pakistan's South Waziristan, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. However, ISAF dismissed the Taliban's claim, saying the helicopter crashed due to a mechanical failure, but did not announce the exact location of the incident.
NATO convoy attacked in Afghanistan 22 Oct 2010 Afghan officials say Taliban militants have attacked a NATO convoy in southeastern Afghanistan, setting more than a dozen fuel tankers ablaze and killing at least three drivers. A spokesman for the provincial governor said thirteen trucks carrying supplies for US-led foreign forces were destroyed in the Zabul Province attack, the Associated Press reported. Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the attack that took place in Shahra Safa district on Thursday night.
US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan 23 Oct 2010 A US-led foreign trooper has been killed in the troubled southern Afghanistan as the death toll for the foreign forces continues to climb in the war-ravaged country. Denmark's army said in a statement on Saturday that the soldier, killed in Helmand province, was on patrol near a military base when his unit came under attack. The Danish soldier was seriously injured during an exchange of fire and later died in a nearby hospital.
Four people die in Iraq bombings 23 Oct 2010 Four people have been killed and 18 others wounded in Baghdad and the southern Iraqi province of Maysan in the latest spate of violence to hit the country. Two soldiers lost their lives on Saturday in two successive bomb blasts which targeted a military convoy of the 24th Brigade of the Iraqi Army in Baghdad's western area of Abu Ghraib, a police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The brigade's commander, Bakr Amin, was seriously wounded in the incident, along with 13 others.
US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico --Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage. 20 Oct 2010 It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico's drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel - and left rotting in a pile outside a ranch in Tamaulipas state near the US border in late August. ...The real surprise comes not in their ruthless use of violence, but in the origins of where the Zetas learned the tricks of their bloody trade. Some of the cartel's initial members were elite Mexican troops, trained in the early 1990s by America's 7th Special Forces Group or "snake eaters" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a former US special operations commander has told Al Jazeera.
French police break fuel depot blockade --Nicolas Sarkozy under pressure to end the crisis before half-term holidays begin this weekend 22 Oct 2010 French police have forcibly lifted a blockade on the main refinery supplying fuel to Paris as polls show the majority of French people support the strikes despite petrol shortages on the eve of national holidays. A poll for Canal+ found nearly seven out of every 10 French citizens were behind the nationwide protests over plans to raise the retirement age to 62.
Patients' anger after they are unable to opt out of swine flu vaccine despite fears of side effects 24 Oct 2010 Patients' groups have expressed anger over this year's [deadly] seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine will be the dominant of three flu strains included in the shot, meaning millions of elderly and vulnerable patients will get it automatically. Yet many people refused to have the swine flu vaccine when it was offered last year because of fears it may cause serious side effects. The Mail on Sunday revealed last week that Government experts are examining a possible association between the H1N1 swine flu jab and the paralysing nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The vaccine has also been linked to fevers in young children, temporary paralysis and narcolepsy.
New strain of swine flu emerges - report 21 Oct 2010 The H1N1 swine flu virus may be starting to mutate, and a slightly new form has begun to predominate in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, researchers reported on Thursday. More study is needed to tell whether the new strain is more likely to kill patients and whether the current vaccine can protect against it completely, said Ian Barr of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues. It is possible it is both more deadly and also able to infect people who have been vaccinated, they said.
Five cholera cases detected in Haitian capital 23 Oct 2010 Five cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, U.N. and Haitians officials said on Saturday, raising concern over the spread of an epidemic that has killed over 200 people so far. We have confirmed five cases in Port-au-Prince ... they were very quickly diagnosed and isolated," U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Imogen Wall told Reuters, citing information from Haitian health authorities.
Plane near Santa Clara intercepted 23 Oct 2010 (CA) An aircraft was intercepted near Santa Clara this week for committing a temporary flight restriction violation. The North American Aerospace Defense Command F-15 fighter jet intercepted the craft at 5:45 Thursday evening. It landed without incident at San Jose's Reid-Hillview Airport. A NORAD statement did not say if the incident was related to President Obama's Bay Area visit that same evening.
Violating Obama's no-fly zone, pilot in Las Vegas gets NORAD escort 22 Oct 2010 A pilot violated a no-fly zone related to a presidential visit to Las Vegas this evening and wound up with a NORAD escort - in the form of two fighter jets. The jets - from Tucson, Ariz. - were diverted from air patrol about 6:35 p.m. to intercept a single-engine Beechcraft C23 Sundowner, according to a news release from the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs. The small plane landed without incident at Jean Sport Aviation Center in Jean, Nev.
Northrop Grumman, FEMA Conduct Identity Authentication Demonstration for Emergency Preparedness --System Validates Identities for Personnel Supporting National Emergencies [false flags] 20 Oct 2010 Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently coordinated a nationwide demonstration showing the ability to deploy a common, interoperable credentialing system that enables electronic identity authentication for government and industry personnel. The demonstration, dubbed "Autumn Blend," showed the use of standardized personal identity credentials operating across multiple domains, such as a government's or company's credential authentication infrastructure, for access management decisions, situational awareness, cyber-secure capabilities and post-event reconstruction.
TSA to NYC-area travelers: We'll be seeing you! --Devices use 'low' dose of radiation to create a computerized image of a person's body 22 Oct 2010 The Transportation Security Administration has begun a slow rollout of high-tech body scanners in New York and New Jersey. The machines give screeners the ability to see beneath a passenger's clothing while they search for weapons. At Kennedy Airport on Friday, select passengers at the American Airlines terminal were asked to step inside a big X-ray machine and raise their arms after passing through the metal detectors.
Republican congressional candidate says violent overthrow of government is 'on the table' 22 Oct 2010 (TX) Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership. In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table."
Miller bodyguard has links to Alaska militia group 21 Oct 2010 William Fulton, the chief Joe Miller bodyguard involved in the handcuffing of a journalist Sunday at a campaign event in an Anchorage school, denies he's a member of the Kenai Peninsula-based Alaska Citizens Militia but maintains regular communication with the group on its Web forum and has been called "supply sergeant" by the group's founder. Talking Points Memo reports that Fulton, owner of DropZone Security in Anchorage, sometimes seems to conduct business via the forum but also expresses opinions on the role of citizen militias in society.
FBI: Powder in package sent to Arizona congressman 'nontoxic' 22 Oct 2010 The suspicious powder inside a swastika-adorned package sent to an Arizona congressman is "nontoxic," an FBI spokesman said Friday. Staffers checking mail in the Tucson, Arizona, office of U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva on Thursday found a white, powdery substance and drawings of two swastikas inside an envelope, Grijalva campaign spokesman Adam Sarvana told CNN. Almost a dozen people were in the office when the incident happened around 12:30 p.m. Thursday (3:30 p.m. ET), he said.
Mass. GOP standing by congressional hopeful Perry 21 Oct 2010 Top Massachusetts Republicans are standing by 10th Congressional District candidate [GOPredator] Jeff Perry a day after a woman illegally strip-searched in Wareham when she was 14 years old said Perry, then a police officer, did nothing to help her. U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, who recorded a radio ad for Perry, told The MetroWest Daily News on Thursday that Perry's run "an honest campaign."
Strip-search victim criticizes GOP congressional candidate --Woman says he failed to stop 1991 assault 21 Oct 2010 (MA) Breaking her long silence, a woman who was illegally strip-searched in 1991 by a Wareham police officer under the command of Jeffrey D. Perry, then a police sergeant, said that Perry was nearby during the assault, failed to stop it, and tried to cover it up after the fact. The accusation against Perry, now a congressional candidate, was made Tuesday in a statement from Lisa Allen, who was 14 when she was assaulted near a Wareham cranberry bog. "He had to hear me screaming and crying," said Allen, who released the statement to the Globe through her lawyer. "Instead of helping me, Jeff Perry denied anything happened."
Clarence Thomas's credibility at issue again 22 Oct 2010 The phone call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife placed to Anita Hill earlier this month seeking an apology for Hill's allegation 19 years ago that Thomas sexually harassed her may go down as a textbook lesson in unintended consequences... Lillian McEwen, a former girlfriend of Thomas's, appeared to corroborate Hill's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on Thomas's nomination that he had a keen interest in pornography and sometimes made sexually-suggestive comments to women in the workplace -- allegations that Thomas has always denied. "He was obsessed with pornography," McEwen told ABC7/WJLA-TV. "It was something he talked about quite frequently." McEwen also confirmed reports that Thomas asked a colleague about her bra size and that he was a regular at a Dupont Circle shop that offered pornographic films. "The owner of the store stocked Clarence's preferences behind the counter," McEwen said. [This perjuring, predatory piece of Reichwing sh*t has been sitting on the High Wh*re Court, burning us for *years.* He needs to be REMOVED from the Court NOW.]
Fox News offers Juan Williams $2 million contract 21 Oct 2010 Within 24 hours, Juan Williams lost his job as an 'analyst' at NPR, only to sign a lucrative $2 million contract with Fox News. Williams, who had contributed commentary to both outlets, will now appear more often on the station and write a column on Fox News' website. He was fired by NPR after saying on Bill O'Reilly's show that he gets nervous when he sees people in "Muslim garb" on airplanes.
Top Corporations Aid U.S. Chamber of Commerce Campaign 22 Oct 2010 Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce kicked off a national advertising campaign to weaken the historic rewrite of the nation's financial regulations. Dow Chemical delivered $1.7 million to the chamber last year as the group took a leading role in aggressively fighting proposed rules that would impose tighter security requirements on chemical facilities. And Goldman Sachs, Chevron Texaco, and Aegon, a multinational insurance company based in the Netherlands, donated more than $8 million in recent years to a chamber foundation that has been critical of growing federal regulation and spending. These large donations -- none of which were publicly disclosed by the chamber, a tax-exempt group that keeps its donors secret, as it is allowed by law -- offer a glimpse of the chamber's money-raising efforts...
Chevron Approves $7.5 Billion Gulf of Mexico Project 22 Oct 2010 Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. energy company, approved a $7.5 billion plan to develop oil and natural gas fields in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, the largest investment since the Obama administration ended its drilling ban. The two fields, known as Jack and St. Malo, are located about 280 miles (450 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans and are estimated to hold the equivalent of more than 500 million barrels of oil, Chevron said in a statement today.
7 banks closed in Fla., Ga., Ill., Kan., Ariz. --139 US bank failures this year 23 Oct 2010 Regulators on Friday shut down a total of seven banks in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas and Arizona, lifting to 139 the number of U.S. banks that have fallen this year as soured loans have mounted and the economy has sputtered. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the banks, the largest of which by far was Hillcrest Bank, based in Overland Park, Kan., with $1.6 billion in assets.
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