A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
Panorama: On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used to justify the invasion were based on fabrication and lies. Related articles MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD (alhittin.com) Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths […]
BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief – By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian Fresh evidence has been revealed about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair told parliament before the war […]
- By Alice K Ross, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Pakistani government estimates at least 400 civilians have been killed in drone strikes – a figure close to the Bureau’s own findings. In evidence to Ben Emmerson QC, UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that CIA drones have killed at […]
CIA begins sizing up Islamic extremists in Syria for drone strikes (LA Times) The strategy is part of the agency’s secret contingency planning to protect the U.S. and its allies as the violence there grows. Some militants in Syria are seen as closely linked to Al Qaeda. - By Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett WASHINGTON — […]
- By The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Of more than 2,500 people so far thought to have been killed in the CIA’s Pakistan drone campaign, we’ve identified the names of perhaps 20%. Identifying the names of those killed can dramatically change our understanding of particular strikes, and bring more transparency to the debate on drones. Here are a […]
- By Bilal Khan, Revolution Observer At the request of the governments of China, Pakistan and Russia, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (UNHCR) will investigate allegations of civilian deaths resulting from U.S (as well as British and Israeli) drone strikes. Drawing on a sample of 25 drone strikes in […]
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Towards a police state in New York (Al Jazeera) Muslims in the New York City area experiencing major violations of their civil and human rights, says author. – By Belen Fernandez Joseph Goldstein’s New York Times article of February 3 outlines a request from US civil rights lawyers to federal judge Charles S Haight Jr for an independent evaluation […]
- By Cii News A US Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) secret airbase for unmanned drones in Saudi Arabia has been identified by US media as the source of a drone strike that killed Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen in 2011. Revelations about the existence of the facility have emerged in the wake of President Obama’s […]
- By Anwar Iqbal, Dawn.com WASHINGTON: Pakistan extended full cooperation to the CIA in tracing suspected terrorists and provided secret detention and interrogation facilities to the US intelligence agency, says a report. A Washington-based rights advocacy group, Open Society Justice Initiative, reported that Pakistan “captured, detained, interrogated, tortured, and abused” hundreds of individuals for the […]
- By Press TV The CIA conducts lethal drone strikes inside Yemen from a remote base in Saudi Arabia, including the strike that killed the U.S.-born militant Anwar al-Awlaki. The location of the base was first disclosed by The New York Times online Tuesday night. The Associated Press first reported the construction of the base […]
