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The Taliban leadership council again demanded that Western forces withdraw from Afghanistan and insisted it would reestablish the Islamic Emirates Before any peace or reconciliation with the Taliban can occur,the following must happen: 1.) elimination of Mullah Omar and other irreconcilable and ideological i.e. Al- qaeda-compromised Taliban leadership 2.) replacement of the Karzai regime with…
Obama Approved Secret Operations in Yemen to Eliminate al Queda Leaders January 27, 2010 /PRESSWIRE/ The US has engaged in a six-week operation in Yemen against al Queda that has resulted in the deaths of six regional al Qaeda leaders in that country, The Washington Post reports. President Barack Obama approved a December 24 operation…
Robert Grenier was the CIA’s chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan, between 1999–2002. He was also the director of CIA’s counterterrorism centre.
The daily grind of aid work in Afghanistan mirrors the country’s broader inertia. More than eight years after the U.S. invasion, the international community is still struggling to break out of a seemingly endless cycle of government crises and move toward a stable government — and a clear path home. The international conference on Afghanistan…
Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate over torture in December 2007 when he…
President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to unveil a new plan for a better and quicker response to bioterrorism threats and attacks, the White House said Tuesday. Government leaders will be told to rethink their plans for medical countermeasures so that quick, reliable and affordable antidotes will be available during…
Black Swans throughout cyber space. Caveat Emptor The big question: Who’s behind them? Not to long ago, computer hacking was mainly the handiwork of individuals with overactive imaginations and good programming skills, and they often broke into computers for sport. More recently, people with more sinister motives – including organized criminal gangs – have made…
.. cyberespionage to help do that,” says Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department (ODCI) … nonprofit venture capital firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new cyberwarfare has become complex enough … At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have…
Page 2 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 By Nick Turse As a start, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue skies research outfit, is already looking into radically improving on Gorgon Stare with an “Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Infrared (ARGUS-IR) System”. In the obtuse language of military research…
Page 1 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 (Used by permission Tomdispatch) Asia Times contributor Nick Turse One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly…