Category Archives: Terrorism

NOMINATOR: REASONABLE SUSPICION, Not Just Guesses or Hunches

Another detail of Barack Obama’s tiny Orwellian World has been published yesterday by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Deveraux on The Intercept. A watchlisting guidance for potential informers (NOMINATORS) who ultimately would put the life of their targets (NOMINEES) at risk, … Continue reading

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How War Against Terror Became War Against Journalists Turning War Against Terror Again

When listening to journalists’ immediate comments after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 11 September 2001, one could only expect that the world would change forever. Of course, all of us feared long-lasting war with the … Continue reading

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Intelligence Yields

Two to five unnamed U.S. government officials have alerted the public today that, according to intelligence colected by the U.S. and other states, shoebombers may have invented new shoe-designs to blow up airplanes in relentless attempts to terrorize innocent and well-surveilled citizens. As CNN … Continue reading

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Why Umm Al Melh?

Wired‘s Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman drew last week world-wide attention to an airbase under construction in the Arabian desert Rub’ Al Khali near the border to Yemen. He speculated that this might have been the  American drone base from which … Continue reading

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Too Bizarre to Construct a Casus Belli

Update below. Much  has been said  already about laughable accusations  made by US Attorney General Eric Holder the other day of Iran’s government being behind the alleged terror plot by previously convicted for some sort of petty fraud and already arrested Mansour … Continue reading

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