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11 Nov 2009
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***Taliban Militants Seize Weapons and Ammunitions in Military Posts
Evacuated By U.S. Forces in East
Afghanistan<http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD263909>--Al-Jazeera
TV report on the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, which aired
November 9, 2009*. 10 Nov 2009 Large Quantities of American-Made Weapons and
Ammunition Fall into Taliban Hands --Reporter: "*The most important spoils
of war, as far as the Taliban militants are concerned, may be the large
quantities of American-made weapons and ammunition that fell into their
hands, enabling them to continue their operations against the Afghan and
foreign forces*. This arsenal joins the old weapons in their possession. The
Taliban commanders in Nuristan say that they have enough men, and they will
send their weapons surplus to other places." Taliban Leader: "We Have
Defeated The U.S. Forces…"; Government Signs in Kamdesh Have Been Replaced
By Signs of The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan --Muhammad Othman, a Taliban
leader in Kamdesh: *"We have defeated the U.S. forces, with the help of God.
All these regions are completely free of Americans. The most recent defeat
they suffered was at Ormar. East Nuristan has become free of U.S.
forces."*Reporter: "The government signs in Kamdesh have been replaced
by signs of
the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and *the Taliban flag has been hoisted
on top of the government buildings, and the army and police posts*. The U.S.
forces have pinned their withdrawal on the onset of winter, which
necessitated a new deployment in the region."
*TV footage shows Afghan insurgents with US
ammo<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21...>
* 10 Nov 2009 Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed 'insurgents'
handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern
Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly
firefight that killed eight troops. The U.S. military said the forces that
left the area said they removed and accounted for their equipment.
Al-Jazeera broadcast video showing insurgents handling weapons, including
anti-personnel mines with U.S. markings on them. [See: *The Obusha AfPak
Money Pit <http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html>* *WHY
(besides protecting gas and opium pipelines) is the US is *still* in
Afghanistan (and Pakistan)? **--LRP] *
*Bush officials lead Iraq business
push<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9be0f0f8-cd7d-11de-8162-00144feabdc0.html>
*09 Nov 2009 Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad,
former US ambassador to Baghdad, and Jay Garner, the retired general who led
reconstruction efforts immediately after the war, are leading a new business
push into Iraq. The two one-time senior officials are among a raft of former
US soldiers and diplomats either leveraging their war experience helping
foreign companies to enter the Iraqi market or starting businesses there
themselves.
*'Highlighting the neo-colonial nature of this operation, two former top
American officials under the Bush administration are now facilitating
corporate deals in Iraq.' **The plunder of Iraq's
oil<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/pers-n11.shtml>
* (WSWS) 11 Nov 2009 The awarding of development rights over the huge West
Qurna oilfield in southern Iraq to Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell last
Thursday once again underscores the criminal character of the continuing
US-led occupation. As the direct result of the Iraq war, major American and
other transnational energy conglomerates are now gaining control over some
the largest oilfields in the world.
*US firm Blackwater in Iraq bribery scandal:
report<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAzA0kpcY9LUY4dBhU...>
* 10 Nov 2009 Executives at US security firm Blackwater approved secret
payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to "silence their
criticism" after company guards killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007, the
New York Times has
said<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAzA0kpcY9LUY4dBhU...>.
Citing interviews with four unnamed former Blackwater executives, the Times
said the company's president at the time, Gary Jackson, approved the bribes.
*Blackwater Authorized $1M In Bribes to Iraqi Officials After
Shootings<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html>--Blackwater's
buying off government officials is illegal under US law
* 11 Nov 2009 Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret
payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to
silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode
in which Blackwater security guards mercenaries fatally shot 17 Iraqi
civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials. Blackwater
approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests
over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger
inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees.
Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who
was then the company’s president, had approved the bribes, and the money was
sent from *Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations [and
torture] hub*, to a top manager in Iraq. [See: *Blackwater/Xe in
Pakistan<http://www.legitgov.org/blackwater_xe_in_pakistan.html>
*.]
*U.S. to Pick Courts for Guantanamo Inmates by Nov.
16<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCWBoHYxsE0A>
* 08 Nov 2009 The U.S. will decide by Nov. 16 whether to try Guantanamo
detainees prisoners in military or civilian courts, U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder said. While President Barack Obama’s administration remains
committed to closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, doing so by Obama’s
Jan. 22 deadline will be "difficult," Holder told reporters today in Doha,
Qatar.
*Yoo Withdrew: Amidst Growing Call for Criminal Investigation, Torture Memos
Author John Yoo Withdraws from Federalist Society
Panel<http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoo-withdrew-amidst-growi...>
* Posted by Alliance for Justice 09 Nov 2009 Amidst a growing call for a
criminal investigation of the DOJ lawyers who authorized torture, John Yoo,
author of the most infamous of the "torture memos" withdrew as a speaker at
the conservative Federalist Society Convention where Alliance for Justice
and human rights supporters are scheduled to take action.
*3 ND soldiers suing
contractors<http://www.pddnet.com/news-ap-3-nd-soldiers-suing-contractors-111009/>--Similar
lawsuits against the contractors have been filed in 33 other
states*. 10 Nov 2009 Three North Dakota men who were stationed with the
military in Iraq are suing military contractors Halliburton Co. and KBR,
Inc., alleging the companies exposed them to toxic fumes and ash from burn
pits used for waste. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Fargo by
Patrick Cassidy of Fargo, William Dutton of Bismarck and Christopher Kozel
of the Minot Air Force Base. The lawsuit claims the contractors burned
everything from human remains to dangerous chemicals and medical waste in
the open-air pits.
*Lockerbie: Human rights lawyer states Megrahi was
framed<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/lock-n11.shtml>
* By Steve James 11 Nov 2009 Leading British human rights lawyer Gareth
Peirce has stated that, in her opinion Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the only
man accused and convicted of the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, was framed. ...[F]ollowing the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
in 1991, Iran and Syria both assisted the US invasion of Iraq. It was at
this time that the focus of the Lockerbie investigation was shifted. Vincent
Cannistraro, the architect of the Reagan administration’s CIA campaign of
destabilisation against the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gadhaffi,
was brought out of retirement to head the new line of investigation.
*The Framing of
al-Megrahi<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/gareth-peirce/the-framing-of-al-megrahi>
* By Gareth Peirce 24 Sep 2009 It is, of course, now all about oil. Only a
simpleton could believe that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of
responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, was not recently returned to his
home in Libya because it suited Britain... Extraordinarily, however,
distinct from the Dumfries and Galloway police, scores of men, some wearing
no insignia, some the insignia of the FBI and Pan Am (it was noted at the
time that many of these men were clearly not Pan Am staff), invaded the
area. Lockerbie residents reported seeing unmarked helicopters hovering
overhead, carrying men with rifles whose telescopic sights were pointing
directly at them.
*Obama exploits Fort Hood massacre to promote US
wars<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/obam-n11.shtml>
* By Bill Van Auken 11 Nov 2009 President Barack Obama used his speech at
Tuesday’s service for the 13 men and women killed last week at Fort Hood,
Texas to promote the two ongoing US wars and his own plan to escalate the
intervention in Afghanistan. The president delivered his remarks as his
administration is finalizing plans to send tens of thousands more US troops
to Afghanistan.
*Military not told about Ft. Hood suspect's
e-mails<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 11 Nov 2009 Two high-profile anti-terrorism task forces did not inform the
Defense Department about contacts between a radical Islamic cleric and the
Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in last week's rampage at Ft.
Hood, a senior Defense official said Tuesday. The FBI and the Joint
Terrorism Task Forces investigated e-mails that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sent
over the last year to Anwar al Awlaki, an imam in Yemen who espouses a
radical Islamist ideology and who has ties to militants. However, officials
said, task force members concluded that the communications posed no threat
and had been undertaken as part of *Hasan's research* on Muslims, the
military and post-traumatic stress disorders.
*Senior Official: More Hasan Ties to People Under Investigation by
FBI<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--Alleged
Shooter Had 'Unexplained Connections' to Others Besides Jihadist
Cleric Awlaki* 10 Nov 2009 A senior government official tells ABC News that
investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than
just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The official declined to name the
individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of
origin were likely to emerge soon. Questions already surround Major Hasan's
contact with Awlaki, a radical cleric based in Yemen whom authorities
consider a recruiter for al Qaeda [al-CIAduh].
*FBI Agents Search Trash At Mosque Attended by
Hasan<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--Agents
Seen Pulling Material from Dumpster Outside Killeen Mosque
* 10 Nov 2009 FBI agents appeared to be carrying out a search warrant today
at the Killeen, Texas mosque attended by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the
Islamic Community Center of Greater Killeen. Local police were called to
cordon off the area and told ABC News they were acting on instructions from
the FBI. Moments later, four agents, wearing blue gloves, began to search
through a trash bin outside the mosque.
*Fort Hood suspect to be tried in military
court<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 10 Nov 2009 The army psychiatrist suspected in the killing of 13 people in
a shooting at the Fort Hood Army post will be charged in a military court,
U.S. government officials said on Monday. The official said there is no
indication that the accused gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had been
planning an attack.
*FBI, military checked Hasan, saw no terror threat, officials
say<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 10 Nov 2009 The FBI and the military investigated contacts between an Army
psychiatrist accused of last week's deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood and
a Yemen-based militant over the past year but concluded he didn't pose a
terrorist threat, senior law enforcement and military officials said Monday.
*Fort Hood Gunman Gave Signals Before His [Alleged]
Rampage<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 Major Hasan’s behavior in the months and weeks leading up to
the shooting bespeaks a troubled man full of contradictions. He lived
frugally in a run-down apartment, yet made a good salary and spent more than
$1,100 on the pistol the authorities said he used in the shootings.
*US Senate to probe whether base massacre was
terrorism<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 10 Nov 2009 A Senate committee on homeland security will investigate the
mass shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, to determine whether Major Nidal Malik
Hasan's deadly shooting rampage was an act of terrorism. The chairman of the
Senate committee on homeland security, Joseph Lieberman [I-Israel], told *Fox
News Sunday *there had been ''strong warning signs'' that Major Hasan was an
''Islamist extremist''.
*Ft. Hood: Official story full of
holes<http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner%7Ey2009m...>
* By Gregory Patin 10 Nov 2009 The more information there is, the more
inconsistencies that can be found. That does not make any topic a conspiracy
theory, it just makes it what it is...questionable. A good example is what
allegedly happened at Ft. Hood last week... A retired MP, Michael Martinez
also said: "No way! That would be impossible. Even if he had two semi-auto
pistols [according to reports he used a 9mm and a .357 revolver to gun down
over 40 people] he would still have had to stop to reload and someone would
have jumped his ass. Most people on base aren't carrying [weapons], but MPs
are and they would have been there in a heartbeat." (CLG item in article)
*Fort Hood Shooting
Oddities....*<http://my.telegraph.co.uk/vii/blog/2009/11/10/fort_hood_shooting_oddi...>By
vii 10 Nov 2009 Folks, there are problems with the delivered Fort Hood
Massacre scenario. You will not hear about them in the controlled press. You
will hear about them in the alternative, internet media. Which is why the
globalist cabal is seeking to censor it. All under the guise of "fighting
hate", of course.... (CLG item in telegraph.co.uk blog)
*CLG Exclusive: Fort Hood: 'This story stinks to high
heaven.'<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--SFC,
who spent ten years at Fort Hood, comments on Ft. Hood events
* 09 Nov 2009 I spent 10 years at Ft Hood. There is no way this 'official'
story is legitimate. No way would a room full of combat vets allow this one
shooter to get off over 100 rounds! And, it is not normal for the outside
security guards to be there. They are at the MP station, and at the main
gates. This means the room full of soldiers processing must have been pinned
down; multiple shooters is the only plausible scenario. This sounds like MAJ
Hasan has been used, and perhaps is a patsy. --SFC Donald Buswell (Retired)
*Subpoenas We Can Believe In: **Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor
Lists<http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506...>
** *10 Nov 2009 In a case that raises questions about online journalism and
privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an
independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on
a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based
Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless
authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual
quandary for any news organization. The
subpoena<http://www.eff.org/files/subpoena.pdf>from U.S. Attorney Tim
Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to
and from www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008.
*Flu suspect booted off plane: Woman says concerns over flu forced her off
flight <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325652.html> *11
Nov 2009 A woman says she was booted from a flight from Tampa to Hawaii
because the flight crew aboard the aircraft suspected she had the flu. Mitra
Mostoufi, 50, says she was humiliated when she was taken off the United
Airlines flight on Monday morning. She says she doesn't "need to be treated
like a disease." Mostoufi says she doesn't have the flu. She says medication
for restless leg syndrome made her feel nauseous, so she asked for an air
sickness bag. After she made the request, a United Airlines employee told
her to leave the aircraft.
*Mysterious flu in Ukraine continues to
intensify<http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/281919>--Nearly three
quarters of the Ukrainian population have flu-like symptoms
of the mysterious virus* 10 Nov 2009 Digital Journal reported at the end of
October that more than 40,000 Ukrainians contracted a serious virus but now
more than three quarters (478,456) of Ukrainians have contracted the
flu-like symptoms, according to Radio Netherlands... The mysterious flu
strain has caused a variety of theories such as biological warfare. Jose
Mosse, who is a former microbiologist for the Israeli intelligence agency
Mossad, called into a radio talk show warning about a *biological weapon
that would occur in Ukraine by Baxter International*. [See: *Baxter working
on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu
viruses to subcontractor<http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html>
* 26 Apr 2009.]
*Glaxo wins OK to sell H1N1 vaccine in
U.S.<http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-fi-flu-shot11-2009nov11,0,2...>
* 11 Nov 2009 London-based GlaxoSmithKline won U.S. approval to sell its
vaccine to fight H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, after an
eight-week delay. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the vaccine as a
strain change to Glaxo's FluLaval seasonal flu vaccine, the drug maker said
Tuesday in an e-mailed statement. The U.S. Health and Human Services
Department has ordered 7.6 million doses of the swine flu vaccine as part of
about 250 million doses secured from all manufacturers, the company said.
*I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman
Sachs<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article69...>--The
Sunday Times gains unprecedented access to the world's most powerful,
and most secretive, investment bank* 08 Nov 2009 Goldman Sachs, this pillar
of the free market, breeder of super-citizens, object of envy and awe will
go on raking it in, getting richer than God? An impish grin spreads across
Blankfein’s face. Call him a fat cat who mocks the public. Call him wicked.
Call him what you will. He is, he says, just a banker "doing God’s work"
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Previous lead stories: *Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40,000 More
Troops<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/09/world/main5592551.shtml>--CBS:
Sources Say Force Will Grow to 100,000 - Nearly Filling Gen.
McChrystal's Request; **Long-Term [Blackwater/KBR] Stay Planned* 09 Nov 2009
Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has
settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News reports that the
president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there,
long term. ...Informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley
McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
McChrystal wanted 40,000 and the president has tentatively decided to send
four combat brigades plus thousands more support troops.
*Hasan Computer Reveals No Terror
Ties<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 A preliminary review of the computer of Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan, the accused shooter in Thursday's rampage at Fort Hood in which 13
people were killed, has revealed no evidence of any connection to terror
groups or conspirators, according to law enforcement officials. CBS News
reports that an examination of the computer has revealed Hasan visited Web
sites promoting radical Islamic views, but investigators have not found any
e-mail communications with outside facilitators or known terrorists.
*Soldier Found With 100 Pounds of C-4 Released From
Jail<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--The
ATF, FBI and Montgomery County Bomb Squad investigated the case,
trying to determine whether the explosives came from Fort Campbell*. 05 Nov
2009 An Army Special Forces soldier who admitted to police that he was
stockpiling military-grade explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell
was released from jail into the custody of his wife. U.S. Magistrate Judge
Cliff Knowles gave the order releasing 25-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Timothy
Ryan Richards during a detention hearing Thursday in federal court in
Nashville. He was charged with possessing two unregistered automatic weapons
but he has not yet entered a plea.
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