By Alex Constantine Lockheed & the Cohen Group – Seemingly Irrelevant (But Not) Connections to the Center of the Corruption: HOWARD DEAN, DANNY SEBRIGHT & THE AFHAN WAR “Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary, I don’t want ...
By Alex Constantine The latest national intelligence estimate hogging the headlines makes frightenting claims about Al Qaeda in Pakistan. I spent the morning searching for evidence. The report appears to be largely subjective and is ...
By Alex Constantine “According to officials … “ The headline: “Rashid Rauf was linked to al-Qaeda’s number two Ayman al-Zawahiri” (Telegraph, 23 Nov 2008) “A British al-Qaeda suspect reportedly killed by a US missile strike ...
March 25, 2013 A new interactive graphic, which uses the Bureau’s drone data, has brought a fresh perspective to the CIA’s nine-year drone campaign in Pakistan. A team of developers has pulled together every known ...
By Alice K Ross The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, October 15, 2012 Funeral prayers for the victims of a suspected US drone in North Waziristan (Photo: Getty) The US government must release its estimates of ...
” … the CIA killed innocent people merely on the suspicion of being militants. … Javed Rana | Press TV, Islamabad The year 2010, US drone attacks killed Pakistani civilians on an average of three ...
Aug 26, 2006: “Veteran Baloch nationalist leader and former Chief Minister of Balochistan, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was killed, along with 37 armed tribals, in a military operation in Chalgri area of Bhamboor hills of Dera ...
Media muzzled Jun 9, 2014 The Pakistani government’s suspension of licence to Geo TV, the country’s largest private broadcaster, is an assault on media freedom. It is aimed not only at punishing the news channel ...
By MEENA MENON Award-winning journalist and celebrity anchor for Geo TV Hamid Mir was shot at by unidentified gunmen as he was on his way to his office in Karachi from the airport after five pm on ...
July 23, 2013 A secret document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals for the first time the Pakistan government’s internal assessment of dozens of drone strikes, and shows scores of civilian casualties. The ...
Also see: “Posts Tagged ‘Drone attacks in Pakistan’“ November 28, 2013 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Wednesday moved the police to nominate US CIA Director John O Brennan and his station chief here Craig Osth ...
ISLAMABAD: Though the Abbottabad Commission has subtly held President Asif Ali Zardari responsible for the creation of the CIA network in Pakistan, in actual fact it was the former dictator General Musharraf who in the ...
Essential Background: “NukeGate: Richard Armitage’s Secret Deal with Musharraf & the Murder of Benazir Bhutto“ ” … Musharraf is accused of conspiracy to murder Bhutto. … Despite a heavy police and paramilitary presence, scuffles broke out ...
Also see: “NukeGate: Richard Armitage’s Secret Deal with Musharraf & the Murder of Benazir Bhutto“ (Reuters) – Former President Pervez Musharraf fled a courtroom on Thursday after judges ordered his arrest to answer allegations he ...
Related: “NukeGate: Richard Armitage’s Secret Deal with Musharraf & the Murder of Benazir Bhutto” “… Musharraf, who stepped down as President in 2008 after he was threatened with impeachment, has earlier brushed aside questions on ...
Fars News Agency, December 9, 2012 TEHRAN (FNA)- The notorious Blackwater security firm plans to widen its activities in Afghanistan after the US-led foreign forces withdraw from the war-torn country in a bid to secure the ...
Family that lost father in Waziristan missile strike launches claim in the High Court By Terri Judd The Independent, October 24, 2012 British intelligence officers could be guilty of encouraging murder, or even war crimes, ...
By Masroor Gilani AFP | March 16, 2011 LAHORE, Pakistan — A Pakistan court on Wednesday freed a CIA contractor accused of double murder after $2 million in blood money was paid to the families ...
FO documents proved Davis did not have ‘immunity’: Qureshi Dawn.com | February 23, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Wednesday that foreign office documents proved that Davis was not immune from criminal ...
Raymond Davis was a CIA contractor at the time of his arrest. But the Obama administration was not forthcoming initially and described him as a “diplomat,” an implausible denial given the munitions found in his possession – what ...
By Chris Woods The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | February 18, 2011 President Obama’s covert drone war inside Pakistan is on hold after the arrest of Raymond Davis, a US government employee believed by many ...
” … the CIA killed innocent people merely on the suspicion of being militants. …” Javed Rana | Press TV, Islamabad The year 2010, US drone attacks killed Pakistani civilians on an average of three ...
By Jeff Stein Washington Post | January 18, 2011 Mullah Omar, the elusive, one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, had a heart attack Jan. 7 and was treated for several days in a Karachi hospital ...
NukeGate: “The Biggest Political Scandal of the Past Decade: Lockheed/Sandia, Bush’s State Dept., Pakistan’s Nuclear Smuggling & the Hidden Parapolitics of the Plame Scandal” By Fred Bronfman AlterNet | January 16, 2011 There are few ...
Rekha Basu Des Moines Register | January 5, 2011 Over five years ago, Pakistani businessman Masood Janjua and his friend, Faisal Faraz, headed on an out-of-town trip from Rawalpindi, never to be heard from again. ...
AllGov.com | October 23, 2010 In a highly unusual foreign policy move, the Obama administration has decided to sever all assistance to certain units of Pakistan’s army. The move comes in response to the airing ...
” … The CIA sees its army killing ‘terrorists,’ Pakistanis face an unending killing of civilians. … “ By Justin Elliott Daily Mail Post | September 30, 2010 The CIA calls [them] its elite Counterterrorism Pursuit ...
The US is in the middle of a $7.5 billion aid program to Pakistan. But America’s image is slipping in the country, where its unfavorable rating is almost as bad as the Taliban’s and even ...
Noel Brinkerhoff AllGov.com | May 28, 2010 Unable to deploy troops in Pakistan, but still in need of ways to transport weapons across it and into Afghanistan, the U.S. government is looking for defense contractors ...
29 April 2010 Legal experts have warned US legislators that the shadowy CIA drone assassination programme in Pakistan is a “clear violation of international law” that exposes drone pilots to the risk of prosecution. At ...
Drone strikes may be counter-productive. Joshua Foust of Registan.com questions the utility of the much vaunted U.S. drone strikes that target militants in northwest Pakistan. There are arguments both for and against drone strikes, but ...
The Nation | February 10, 2010 THE Blackwater issue is fast descending into a shameful farce at the level of the government. Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Interior Minister and his Secretary continue ...
OneIndia | February 1, 2010 Lahore, Feb. 1 (ANI): At least 123 innocent civilians were killed in 12 US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas in January alone The deaths were caused because ten out ...
Mercenaries doing CIA dirty work, plotting killings – Newser.Com
Atlantic Blog’s Andrew Sullivan on “terrorists” captured by the CIA’s cut-outs in Pakistan: ” … Cheney and Rumsfeld simply ‘knew’ these people – mostly shifty types handed over by bounty hunters or seized in Pakistan ...
