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CIA sets up another drone base in Afghanistan

"Officials said the CIA now conducted most of its Predator missile and bomb strikes on targets in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region from the Jalalabad base, with drones landing or taking off almost hourly," The New York Times reported.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=218404


From Information Clearing House

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Looking for 'Cost-Free War', US to Increase Drone Training
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/23-0



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By Bob Drogin

Contractor Raymond Azar is "arrested" in Afghanistan, hooded, stripped and flown to the U.S. His alleged crime? Bribery. A human rights activist calls the case 'bizarre.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23351.htm



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By Eric Margolis

An election held under the guns of a foreign occupation army cannot be called legitimate or democratic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23352.htm

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Fragments of the Afghan state

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

08/23/09

Today, Afghans head to the polls fearing attack from Taliban forces who’ve labeled the process a ‘program of the crusaders.’ Most likely, Taliban efforts to derail the voting will fail, and incumbent President Hamid Karzai will stay in office. A smooth election, if it happens, should provide a morale boost for an Obama administration that’s lately been struggling with grim assessments of Afghanistan’s political situation. But even given a best-case scenario, no election result should distract from the United States’ desperate need to frame realistic objectives in Afghanistan...

http://tinyurl.com/mv8n9m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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- THE TIMES On the front page August 22, 2009 : "Refugees from the dangers of wi-fi"

"Electrosensitive refugees from wireless technology head for Drôme"


- THE TIMES 22 Août 2009 à la Une: "Les réfugiés qui s'échappent des dangers du wi-fi"

"Les réfugiés Électro Hyper Sensibles se dirigent vers le Drôme"

http://www.next-up.org/France/EHS.php#1



Electrosensitive refugees from wireless technology head for Drôme
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Längere Laufzeiten für Atomkraftwerke schaden dem Klimaschutz massiv. Mit dem sogenannten „Atomkonsens II“ macht sich die baden-württembergische Umweltministerin Tanja Gönner für die Interessen der Atomwirtschaft stark. Ein Kommentar von Ursula Sladek | EWS Schönau.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686626ms168



Zwei Jahre Meseberger Beschlüsse: Merkel hat Klimaschutzversprechen nicht gehalten

BUND: Die Bundesregierung habe beispielsweise trotz Beschwerde aus Brüssel kein Energieeffizienzgesetz auf den Weg gebracht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686635ms168



Die manipulierten Wahrheiten der Klimaskeptiker

Anfang Dezember werden die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Welt in Kopenhagen über die Klimaschutzmaßnahmen der Zukunft entscheiden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686637ms168



Aufruf zur bundesweiten Demo gegen Atomenergie

Am Samstag, den 5. Semptember 2009 wird es in Berlin eine große Demonstration gegen Atomenergie geben.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686646ms168



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From Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space



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Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, Newsweek: "A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned. According to two sources - one who has read a draft of the paper and one who was briefed on it - the report describes how one detainee, suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation."

http://www.truthout.org/082209Z?n

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Report to detail alleged abuse inside CIA secret prisons

CNN

08/23/09

CIA interrogators threatened an al Qaeda prisoner with a gun and an electric drill to try to scare him into giving up information, according to a long-concealed inspector-general’s report due to be made public on Monday, sources familiar with the report confirmed to CNN. The gun and drill were used in two separate interrogation sessions against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, one of the sources said. Al-Nashiri is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead...

http://tinyurl.com/msz8sb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The New York Times reported Friday that the company that used to be known as Blackwater has taken over from the Central Intelligence Agency the job of arming the agency's Predator drones that patrol over Afghanistan.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/21/world/worldwatch/entry5257267.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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By James Petras

The US imperial conquest of Iraq is built on the destruction of a modern secular republic. The cultural desert that remains (a Biblical 'howling wilderness' soaked in the blood of Iraq's precious scholars) is controlled by mega-swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as 'Iraqi officers', tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and medieval religious figures. They operate under the guidance and direction of West Point graduates holding 'blue-prints for empire', formulated by graduates of Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Chicago, eager to serve the interests of American and European multi-national corporations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23342.htm



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By Britta Sandberg

As Americans continue to debate the torture era of the Bush administration, a new report has emerged about the alleged existence of a third secret prison used by the CIA in Europe. According to ABC News, the CIA operated a "black site" prison in Lithuania until the end of 2005.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23335.htm



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By Irish Sun

' 'You should know that we hate all Americans',' McHale said Abbasi told her. ''From the bottom of our souls, we hate you',' she recalled Abbasi's statement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23339.htm



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