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Our Murderers in the Sky

By Scott Ritter

War is hell, as the saying goes. Murder, on the other hand, is a crime. In this age of the "long war" pitting the United States against the forces of global terror, it is critical that the American people be able to distinguish between the two.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24167.htm



U.S. Occupation and the Corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai

By Mike Whitney

It's too bad Barack Obama didn't consult with Malalai Joya before giving his Nobel acceptance speech on Thursday. The ex-Afghan Parliamentarian could have helped the president to see that the ongoing US occupation is damaging to both American and Afghan interests. Afghanistan is not the "just war" that Obama defends so passionately in his speech. It's part of a larger US geopolitical strategy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24172.htm



Mercenaries and Assassins

The Real Face of Obama's "Good War"

By Bill Van Auken

Blackwater's role as an extra-legal extension of the Central Intelligence Agency tasked with dirty operations with which the CIA did not want its employees directly associated is more than evident.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24173.htm



'Just War' Is Just Words

By Ralph Nader

President Obama, the Afghan war escalator, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, and proceeded to deliver his acceptance speech outlining the three criteria for a "just war" which he himself is violating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24170.htm



Pakistan concerns conveyed to US over any drone attacks extension

Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told a private channel Tuesday. The United States can better understand the implications of extension of drone attacks and it is hoped that the US will not only avoid it but also stop such attacks in FATA areas, he said while talking to Samaa TV.

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DINA and CIA assassinations

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

12/11/09

Two of my blog posts this week have caused me to ponder the similarities of the mind-sets of the people in Augusto Pinochet’s secret intelligence force (known as DINA) and those in George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s CIA. One blog post was about the CIA’s use of drone attacks to assassinate people in Pakistan and the other was about Pinochet’s assassination of a former Chilean president. In Pakistan, the CIA is using drone missile attacks to kill people who the CIA is convinced are guilty of terrorism...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-12-11.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Quetta Pakistan in danger of drone attack
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Kampfroboter, Drohnen und Terminatoren: Die Zukunft der unbemannten Waffen.
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Blackwater at work in Afpak drone war
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9215/

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Drone attacks may be expanded in Pakistan

U.S. officials seek to push CIA drone strikes into the major city of Quetta to try to pressure Pakistan into pursuing Taliban leaders based there.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-us-pakistan14-2009dec14,0,3724162.story



US mulls Predator strikes in Pakistani cities: report

Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in the city of Quetta, The Los Angeles Times reported.

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International Law: The First Casualty of the Drone War

A comprehensive legal analysis of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan.
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23346



Blackwater operating at CIA Pakistan base, ex-official says

The US contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan at a secret CIA airfield used for launching drone attacks, according to a former US official, despite repeated government denials that the company is in the country.

http://snipurl.com/todbt



US 'militarising' Afghanistan aid

A number of aid organisations have told Al Jazeera they have turned down funding from the US government as the money has strings attached to military operations.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/200912126017915711.html



Afghans violating detainee-transfer agreement

An unknown number of Taliban insurgents captured by Canadians and turned over to Afghanistan's secret police are unaccounted for.

http://snipurl.com/toden


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US on the verge of expanding drone war to Quetta, a large city in Pakistan
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A Note on the Supposed Independence of the Fed
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The Plutocrat’s Address
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Nick Mottern, Truthout: "How is the United States using its 'all volunteer' military, and is this not violating basic civil and human rights of US military personnel and their families? Moreover, it is important to examine how apparent violations of the constitutional rights of US military and their families are a direct result of US violation of rights of the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan."

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Der Frieden setzt den Krieg voraus. Das ist die Botschaft, die US-Präsident Barack Obama der Weltöffentlichkeit bei der Entgegennahme des Friedensnobelpreises am Donnerstag in Oslo mitzuteilen hatte. Zugleich leugnete er jegliche Verantwortung Washingtons für den Krieg in Afghanistan. Diesen hätten die Vereinigten Staaten sich nicht ausgesucht, behauptete er. Kommentar von Uli Schwemin in der Tageszeitung "Junge Welt". http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741687533ms185



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Obama has substituted words for action on issues surrounding torture since his first days in office nearly one year ago. That’s the point the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) made shortly after Obama’s acceptance Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Officials from the civil rights organization issued a withering indictment of the Obama administration’s handling of clear-cut cases of Bush-era war crimes."

http://www.truthout.org/12110911



The America Where They Do Prosecute Torture

Sam Ferguson, Truthout: "Last week, 15 men entered a courthouse facing, amongst other crimes, 181 counts of torture. Their story, tragically, is familiar: in a fight against terrorism, the men allegedly kidnapped and held detainees in unknown black sites. They subjected the prisoners to brutal forms of interrogation, such as waterboarding, sensory deprivation and simulated executions. They denied the detainees all legal recourse, and they defended their secret practices as essential to combating an elusive enemy who refused to play by the rules."

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