Posts Tagged war on terror
KBR Tells Court It Was Following Military Orders When Employees Burned Toxic Waste in Open Pits
on 14/02/2010 (4 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
From Alternet:
The military’s largest contractor is trying to avoid liability for health risks associated with burn pits to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the truth is emerging.
In October a class action suit combining 22 lawsuits from 43 states was filed in US District Court in Maryland against KBR, Halliburton, and other military contractors for damages to health from open air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to plaintiffs’ lawyers the military contracting giant had been paid millions of dollars to safely dispose of waste on bases but negligently burned refuse in open pits, spewing toxins, including known carcinogens, into the air. Last week, KBR sought to dismiss the charges. Their tack was not to deny that they burned lithium batteries, petroleum, asbestos, trucks, cars, paint, plastic, Styrofoam, medical…
Iraq To Sue U.S., Britain Over Depleted Uranium Bombs
on 02/02/2010 by NW0.eu in Health, World News, Comments Off
Via the Tehran Times:
Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the U.S. over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says.
Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment.
According to the reports, during the first year of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq, both countries had repeatedly used bombs containing depleted uranium.
According to Iraqi military experts, the U.S. and Britain bombed the country with nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs during the early years of the Iraq war.
Atomic radiation has increased the number of babies born with defects in the southern provinces of Iraq.
Iraqi doctors say they’ have been…
TSA Agent Plants White Powder on Passenger as ‘Joke’
on 23/01/2010 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
Daniel Rubin writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
In the tense new world of air travel, we’re stripped of shoes, told not to take too much shampoo on board, frowned on if we crack a smile. The last thing we expect is a joke from a Transportation Security Administration screener — particularly one this stupid.
Rebecca Solomon is 22 and a student at the University of Michigan, and on Jan. 5 she was flying back to school after holiday break. She made sure she arrived at Philadelphia International Airport 90 minutes before takeoff, given the new regulations.
She would be flying into Detroit on Northwest Airlines, the same city and carrier involved in the attempted bombing on Christmas, just 10 days before. She was tense. What happened to her lasted only 20 seconds, but she says they were the longest 20 seconds of her life.
Murders at Guantanamo: Exposing the Truth About the 2006 Suicides
on 21/01/2010 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
From Truthout:
It’s hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month’s Harper’s Magazine, but let’s try this: The three “suicides” at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations in a secretive block in Guantánamo, conducted by an unknown agency, and the murders were then disguised to look like suicides. Everyone at Guantánamo knew about it. Everyone covered it up. Everyone is still covering it up.
Establishing a Case for Murder – and the Disclosure of a Secret Prison at Guantánamo
The key to the discovery of the murder of the three men – 37-year-old Salah Ahmed al-Salami, a Yemeni; 30-year-old Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, a Saudi; and 22-year-old Yasser Talal al-Zahrani, a Saudi who was…
Predator Drones Use Less Encryption Than Your TV and DVDs
on 18/12/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Nate Anderson writes on ars technica:
What three-letter Internet acronym best fits the bizarre news out of Iraq and Afghanistan that militants there have been intercepting US Predator drone video feeds using laptops and a $30 piece of Russian software: LOL, WTF, or OMG?
Actually, all three are appropriate for something this farcical, horrible, and brain-numbing. The reason that the transmissions could be picked up easily by a cheap satellite recording program? They were broadcast in the clear between the drone and ground control. That’s right — no encryption was used.
Perhaps, you might be thinking to yourself in a mental bid to make the military seem competent here, no one could have suspected this would happen. But they did suspect it, because it had been happening for a decade already. The Wall…
1,600 Names Suggested Daily For Terror Watch List
on 02/11/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
‘Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial […]
Washington Post claims White House ‘appears committed’ to sending up to 15,000 more soldiers
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Raw Story Sunday, Nov 1st, 2009 US President Barack Obama has asked the Pentagon for more options on troop levels in Afghanistan including sending less than the roughly 40,000 new […]
I’ve been betrayed by this Government, says Iraq War hero who won George Cross but now works in a call centre
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Chris Finney, George Cross UK Daily Mail Sunday, Nov 1st, 2009 The youngest soldier to win the George Cross has criticised Gordon Brown for ‘betraying’ the Armed Forces and revealed […]
Obama signs law blocking release of torture photos
on 30/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
President Barack Obama received a great deal of media attention on Wednesday for signing a historic hate-crimes bill into law.
US drone strikes may break international law: UN
on 28/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN’s top investigator of such crimes said.
Six U.N. foreign staff killed in attack in Kabul
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Reuters - Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in an assault on an international guest-house in Kabul on Wednesday, raising questions about security for a presidential election run-off due in 10 days. Read Article
FLASHBACK: Algerian daily confirms Mossad training camps for al-Qaida?
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The paper talks about its well-informed reliable sources who are keeping an eye on al-Qaeda and its activities, who discovered training camps in Israel about a year ago, set up in order to prepare its recruits to commit terrorist acts against Western interests in North African Arab countries. It goes on to further state that Ennahar reasoning, which is commonplace, attributes this development to Israel’s fear for its strategic interests which it intends to protect by terrorism. It points to an Israeli ex-attache to Mauritania renewing ties with rebels in Mali and Niger, and undoubtedly with al-Qaeda in the Sahara Desert.
Bombings push U.S. toll to worst month in Afghan war
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Reuters – Eight U.S. troops were killed in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday ahead of a run-off presidential election, the NATO-led alliance said, in the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the start of the war eight years ago. Read Article
America's Phoney War in Afghanistan
on 22/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
Even during the 2008 Presidential campaign candidate Obama argued that Afghanistan not Iraq was where the US must wage war. His reason? Because he claimed, that was where the Al […]
British Army Providing Taliban With Air Transport
on 18/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
‘The British army has been relocating Taliban insurgents from southern Afghanistan to the north by providing transportation means, diplomats say. The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said insurgents […]
