A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
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 — […]
Maggie O’Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. James Steele in supporting torture, death squads and brutal sectarian conflict during the height of the Iraq war. Steel’s reports went directly to Rumsfeld and Cheney. Related articles Video: Pentagon’s torture centres in Iraq (alhittin.com) Revealed: Pentagon’s link […]
A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James […]
Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse See the full-length documentary film of the 15-month investigation – By Mona Mahmood, Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith, The Guardian The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres […]
- By George Washington, Zero Hedge Everyone knew that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country […]
Panetta Downplays Lack of Troops in Benghazi, But Moves for Global Capabilities – By Jason Ditz, AntiWar.com Speaking to Congress today, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta downplayed the military’s lack of troops in Benghazi during the September consulate attack, insisting the military is not a “global 9-1-1 service” that can be anywhere within minutes across the planet. At […]
- By Robert Burns, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta […]
- By By David Walsh On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times published horrific photographs of American troops in Afghanistan posing with dead and dismembered insurgents. The grisly images expose Washington’s claim that the occupation of the country is aimed at liberating the Afghan people. They reflect the savage reality of the US-led operation, intended to crush popular […]
Up to 20 US Special Forces death squad killers were involved in the latest massacre. – By Stephen Lendman In all US war theaters, troops commit unspeakable atrocities. Trained to dehumanize enemies, their mission involves killing, destruction, and much more. Local treasures are looted. Women are raped. Civilians are treated like combatants. Children are indiscriminately […]
