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Blackwater guards offered immunity deals: report
 

US hands over Karbala to Iraqis
 

Wayne Madsen Report -
October 30, 2007 -- NSA infiltrated by hostile intelligence agents: According to U.S. intelligence sources, there is another purge of loyal American intelligence personnel taking place at the hands of neocons who want to politicize U.S. intelligence reports.

This time the targets are the National Security Agency's (NSA) Hebrew linguists. Hebrew linguists at NSA have always been caught in a politically-sensitive vise. Because of the power of the Israel Lobby in the United States, the fact that the NSA eavesdrops on Israeli communications has always been handled gingerly. In fact, Hebrew linguists at NSA were once referred to as "Special Arabic" linguists to hide the fact they were spying on Israel.

However, Israel, like China, Russia, and North Korea, is considered a hostile intelligence threat by American counter-intelligence elements. Israel has a long history of spying against the United States, the most infamous case being the arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a Navy intelligence analyst, for espionage on behalf of Israel in 1986. Pollard's Israeli intelligence controller, code-named "Mega," and reportedly a high-level official in the Reagan administration, has never been identified.

The Pollard affair came at the same time Israeli contractors working for Mossad penetrated NSA security through two programs initiated by the Reagan administration to involve Israel in NSA-related signals intelligence activities: DINDI and PIEREX. [ . . . ]

WMR has learned that NSA's Hebrew linguists are currently being purged if they are considered unlikely to "cook" intercepts of Israeli communications intercepts to paint Israel in a favorable light. One Hebrew linguist was recently threatened because of views opposing U.S, military intervention in Iraq and threats against Iran. The neocons and their Israeli friends are also concerned that Israel's training of terrorist groups like Turkey's Kurdish PKK and Iran's MEK will be documented in intercepts by NSA of Israeli communications.

In the past, WMR has reported on concerns by a number of NSA personnel about the outsourcing by the agency of operational duties to firms with dubious foreign links. Some of the firms that have placed operational contractors inside NSA are tied to Israel.
 

Doctors, Torture, and the War: ... [O]ne hypothetical question:

If a prisoner is refusing to answer questions about a recent battle or skirmish in which over 50 US soldiers died, under the Geneva Conventions it is permissible to:

a) Deprive him of food or water for a period not to exceed 24 hours

b) Expose prisoners to physical stresses such as heat, cold, and uncomfortable positions, as long as such exposure causes only minor tissue damage (i.e., medical intervention not required, and full healing takes place within 48 hours)

c) Threaten prisoners with physical violence, so long as such threats are not carried out

d) All of the above

e) None of the above
 

Ziegler: Israel is the worst colonial regime
 

A CELEBRATION OF JUDEO-FASCISM IN ISRAEL
 

Mukasey Won’t Say Waterboarding Is Torture But in 1947 the U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced Enemy Officer to 15 Years Hard Labor
 

Settlers and Israeli forces attack Palestinian demonstration with live ammunition
 

Secret US move to upgrade Diego Garcia air base for Iran attack plans
 

The First Nation to Legalize Torture; Inside Israel's Military Courts: Long before the first suicide bombing by Palestinians in 1994, Israel had resorted to extrajudicial killings, home demolitions, deportations, curfews and other forms of collective punishment barred by international law.
 

Iraq's biggest dam at risk: U.S. warns of 65-foot wave flooding Mosul
 

The Catastrophic Military Occupation of Iraq is Rarely Described Accurately in the U.S. Media
 

Iraqi dam seen in danger of deadly collapse: Failure could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, killing up to 500,000
 

War Criminals: Israeli Leaders to the Hague!
 

Holocaust's grandchildren turning Gaza into Warsaw ghetto
 

Israeli army conducts largest maneuver since Lebanon War
 

Barak: Large-scale Gaza operation near
 

The Lobby, Unmasked: What is this "unwritten contract"? I'll tell you what it is: it's an agreement to censor anything and everything that offends the Lobby and its glorified, sanitized view of Israel. Here, after all, is a country that practices apartheid, imprisons children, and was founded on ethnic cleansing and bigoted religious obscurantism – and yet they present themselves to the world as a valiant little "democracy," a beleaguered outpost of "the West" in the midst of an Arab sea. It takes a lot of cosmetics to hide the true face of this dog, and that's what CAMERA is all about – prettifying an increasingly ugly reality. The Lobby reserves the right to censor any material that presents Israel in a more realistic light, and anyone who opposes them in their mission on behalf of a foreign power is smeared as an "anti-Semite."
 

US Image Chief Karen Hughes Resigns (The only thing of note here, as far as I'm concerned, is the stupendous notion that somehow an 'Image Chief' can decorate and make saleable a policy of wholesale bloody murder, torture and plunder. After all, there are a few folk scattered around the world - including, interestingly, in those spots invaded by the aforementioned policy - who just do not cotton on to the supposed benefits.)
 

After 20 years of living hell, the LA8 case is over! Victory! CHARGES DROPPED IN 20-YEAR OLD DEPORTATION CASE AGAINST PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS
 

Iraq disputes US report on Mosul Dam
 

Video (4 min), Is Bush crazy? (How about stupid beyond belief?)
 

Basra in the grip of militias
 

Buildings Topple Over
 

Bravo !!!
Washington insider stand up to the dishonest neoconservative push for strikes on Iran (I always suspected that somewhere in this man was an honest bone.)
 

Friday, October 26, 2007
Fedayeen Petraeus are ex-Al Qaeda members at mere age of 20!

BC-

Reminiscing of Fedayeen Saddam, the invaders have been experimenting to mutate the next generation of Fedayeen - Fedayeen Petraeus (Al Jihad Units), and specifically in the Dyala region.

After failing to directly deal with Al Qaeda and the Iraqi resistance in the aforesaid region, the invaders seemed to have managed to lure young armed ex-Al Qaeda boys & teenagers by recruiting them into new units to fight both the Iranians backed militias and whatever numbers left of Al-Qaeda’s un-recruited members! for a paid salary of USD 350/month.

One leader – Abu Abdullah of Fedayeen Petraeus, 20 years, has recently spoken of the major tasks and challenges that are set forth by the invaders for his unit to forge. One major undertaking is to unravel the cover-up of Mr. Al Maliki for the crimes of the Shiite Militias in Dyala! and how the central government of Baghdad is liaising with the head of the Police forces there - Colonel Ghanim Al Qurashi, to assail Fedayeen Petraeus and accusing them of crimes committed against innocent people whereas in reality the remaining un-recruited Al Qaeda members and the Shiite Militias are the perpetrators!

Abu Abdullah, However, praised Colonel Abdul Kareem Al Rubaie – head of the joined US/Iraqi operation, for the great role he’s taken in tackling the ‘enemies’. And he adds “ Mr. Al Rubaie agrees that our unit’s comrades are being decisive elements in fighting ‘terrorists’ in the region, but unfortunately senior political figures in the government are partaking dirty games in reshaping the demography of Dyala by re-introducing Shiite Militias back instead of the legitimate refugees that were forced out of the region few months back, refugees that were forced by Al Qaeda terrorist leaders”- leaders such as Abu Abdulla himself!!

Abu Abdulla has elaborated further on the vague government course of action in Dyala to stop the remaining Al Qaeda members by encouraging a resistance unit - Thawrat Al-Eshreen, to operate in the region just when the US forces showed some success in fighting Qaeda terrorists with our help and, unfortunately, it caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people”!!!

Abu Abdulla (just another reminder that he is a mere 20 years old) also called for serious dialogue between the concerned parties and the government!, and he stipulates that the regional authority must accept various sect-backgrounds units into the police forces other than the sole Shiite majority to combat Al Qaeda and the ‘criminals’ as the government has hitherto completely failed to do so.

On the other hand a government spokesman has totally contradicted Abu Abdulla’s statement, and pinpointed that Al Jihad units (Fedayeen Petraeus) have joined the resistance units like Salahuldeen, Thawart El-Eshreen, Al Murabteen, and Hamas El-Iraq amongst others in an effort to recruit ex-Al Qaeda youths - more than 1400 nos. so far, and are in fact planning a major take over of the municipality of Dyala under the bless of various army ranks who are part of the joined operation to flush off Al Qaeda!! The spokesmen added “that during a major government operation the forces managed to free 7 hostages who were previously held by the Jihad Units.”
Very, very creepy!!!
http://www.baghdad-connect.blogspot.com/
 

Some very good links there. Thanks, Evelyn. :)
 

Thanks, Bruno. Delighted to know you're hanging around!!! I'm off for a while. Back in a week or two.