WASHINGTON : Warnings of an imminent terrorist strike "lit up" in the weeks before September 11, CIA director George Tenet said as the official inquiry into the attacks highlighted confusion and missed opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden. [...] "Our collection...
A source within Kosovo has forwarded this situation report by UNMIK on the current situation in Kosovo. The tone is "business as usual." It really does seem if they are going to try and pretend nothing happened. In the meantime, the Albanians are supposed to hold...
How does Cathy Young make a living writing crap like this? What I most dislike about Reason is not so much that they take non-libertarian positions on occasion (what's up with hiring Jonathan Rauch?), but the general uselessness of many of the articles. In this one,...
Much has been written about the bizarre neocon conspiracy theorist Laurie Mylroie, and the seriousness with which her ludicrous notions were taken amongst the Bushie neocons. With the revelations of Richard Clarke currently in the spotlight, Mylroie's influence with...
In the afternoon of March 21, the Belgrade radio B92 reported that one "Halid Berani" was arrested by KFOR troops, as the suspected originator of the "blood libel" about Serbs drowning three Albanian boys. According to B92: “Berani supplied Kosovo Albanian media at...
As with most Western media, BBC's coverage of the pogrom in Kosovo has been spotty at best, and at worst a deliberate lie. Its three "in-depth" photo essays are a virtual study in spinning away inconvenient facts. First there is the five-photo set from March...
From a Vietnam vet who knows first-hand the cost of war. As a disabled combat veteran who frequents a coffee shop near my home, I hear more angry debate over the Iraq War than I will ever need. In such conversations, unless asked, I usually say nothing at all. Caught...
Today, the Pentagon announced that a US Marine was killed on patrol near Ramadi and a US soldier was killed in a "non-combat shooting" in Mosul. This brings the total for the month of March to 34, and the total so far to 585. I am amazed that the mainstream media has...
'Decapitation strike' was aimed at Saddam The decision to launch a "decapitation strike" aimed at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was made by President Bush during an urgently called meeting Wednesday evening in which the CIA director voiced concern that a prime...
Turning a Blind Eye to Ayman. Overshadowed by former US "terror czar" Richard Clarke's terrific interview on 60 Minutes, was the show's short piece on Al Qaeda mastermind Ayman Zawahiri. Egypt's former terror czar is interviewed and says that he warned the US about...
