Pakistan Update: 18,000 Flee Khyber Area, Haqqani Insist Taliban Must Lead Talks
Last week's visit by a delegation of high-ranking US officials to Pakistan featured the ironic use of the US Secretary of State to deliver a newly militarized message to the Pakistanis regarding the way forward, with the introduction of…
How the Fed Helped Qaddafi Keep His $200B in Loot
I suggested yesterday that the West will be playing dumb about the extent to which Qaddafi looted the Libyan people becomes known.
But what about how Qaddafi looted us--or, at least, the Fed?
As this article laid out, one of the means…
Why Does Duqu Matter?
The short answer is that if your PC got infected by Stuxnet last year, you were just collateral damage, unless you were operating a very specific set of uranium enrichment centrifuges. If you get Duqu this year, your network is under attack…
The West Is Shocked--Shocked!--to Find Qaddafi's Loot in their Casinos!
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Now that they're dancing on Moammar Qaddafi's grave (or would be, if the rebels would end the trophy show of his body so he can be buried), they're no doubt faced with a dilemma.
How to get all the money…
Now That Training in Iraq is a Failure, Petraeus No Longer Mentioned
A remarkable story in this morning's Washington Post addresses a report released today from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The report details that the training of police forces in Iraq has been a failure:
Over…
MoDo's Camels and Ponies
Having MoDo vouch for the "sangfroid" of Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir (who, she notes, once saved her from being punished by Saudi religious police for dressing inappropriately) is about as amusing as having David Ignatius announce the Scary…
Tebow Christ Superstar!: Wash Yer Hands & Seal The Fishes Fate
Welcome to TebowWheel. We are done with that national security and legal shit; we're going ALL TEBOW, ALL THE TIME baybee! Now, I hear Rosalind is fixing to riot this place or something because she can't find a Trash post to trash up. Fine,…
The OTHER Saudi Assassination Plotter Got a Reduced Sentence in July
This post from Cannonfire reminded me how convenient for our country it is that Moammar Qaddafi was executed rather than captured alive and tried: he will not be able to tell anyone, now that he's dead, how Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who under torture…
FBI in Detroit Profiles Muslims and Arabs in Spite of 12 Whites Engaged in Terrorism
As part of a new ACLU project to FOIA and map all the racial profiling the FBI has been doing, it liberated a Detroit FBI document describing its efforts to set up a "Domain Management" assessment (which seems to be a nice euphemism for racial…
DOJ Offers No More Detail on Scary Iran Plot in Indictment
I had this naive hope that DOJ would use the opportunity of an indictment to fill in some of the holes in their case.
Like I said, naive hope.
The indictment appears to be the amended complaint, without the affidavit, with an arrest warrant…
From US-Pakistan Meetings: No Pakistan Action in North Waziristan; Petraeus to Deliver Evidence Against ISI
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The high level meetings in Islamabad between US and Pakistani officials head into their second day today, after a marathon four hour session late yesterday. The line-ups of officials…
John Brennan Boasts that an Obama Decision Killed Anwar al-Awlaki
Okay, I don't know for a fact that the Senior Administration Official Jake Tapper rather irresponsibly gave anonymity to is John Brennan. After all, Ben Rhodes loves to boast anonymously too.
But given the Administration's past caution about…
Scary Iran Plot: FBI Had No Need to Investigate Arbabsiar's Corpus Christi Past
So imagine this scenario.
A DEA informant calls up his handler out of the blue and says,
Omigod! Some crazy Iranian just approached me to arrange some kind of hit on behalf of this Iranian terror organization. He asked about explosives (I…
Did Duqu fix the bug that revealed Stuxnet?
Duqu isn't Christopher Lee in Attack of the Clones, but it is the newest computer malware to hit mainstream consciousness. It's attracting attention mainly because it is based on the same software source code base as the Windows portion…
Three Teenagers and a Journalist Attempt to Prosecute Bush for Torture
Bush is in British Columbia today, giving a $100,000 speech.
Three men first captured when they were teenagers--Hassan bin Attash (Walid's brother, who was captured when was 16 and remains in Gitmo), Muhammed Khan Tumani (who was captured…
Clinton, Petraeus Head to Pakistan for Talks While NATO Attacks Near Border
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus will be in Islamabad today for talks amid somewhat calmer US-Pakistan relations and to set the stage for a possible negotiated end to hostilities in Afghanistan. At the…
Obama's "Get Out of Jail for Helping 1.36% Card" for Banksters
Yesterday, I described how the Obama Administration was going to charge the banks just $8 billion for immunity from a whole new swath of crimes. Shahien Nasiripour has more details which make the deal look even shittier. First, the proposed…
Spy v. Spy, Terrorist v. Terrorist: All the Usual Suspects Now Implicated in Scary Iran Plot
Here in the Midwest, we've got lions and tigers and bears running around today, and even other animals, like monkeys, that aren't members of the NFC North.
In the Middle East, it seems everyone's rolling out the usual suspects to impugn in…
Ben Bernanke Prepares to Rob My Mom
My mom's pretty stubborn (I come by it naturally). So in spite of the fact that I have been warning her to move her primary banking out of Bank of America into a solvent bank for over a year, she has yet to do so.
Which is why I'm so troubled…
Karman Argues Against Amnesty for Saleh as al-Awlaki Family Continues Protests
As I wrote yesterday, the family of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, Abdulrahman, has spoken out against the US killing of these two American citizens, one just 16 years old, in separate drone strikes in southern Yemen. The birth certificate…
