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BAGHDAD – Saboteurs attacked an oil pipeline in southern Iraq over the weekend, sending up pillars of smoke and bringing a slowdown in supply. It was by no means an isolated incident. Another pipeline 150km (93 mi.) north of the southern port of Basra was attacked. Yet another was set ablaze in the desert region … Continue reading “Iraq’s Oil Is Still Flowing, Somehow”

The conviction of British mercenary Simon Mann by a Zimbabwean court could not have come at a worse time for Tim Spicer, Mann’s fellow former Scots Guards officer and erstwhile colleague in security firm Sandline International. Mann’s alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea drew unprecedented scrutiny to the international mercenary trade, in the same week … Continue reading “Kerry Joins Campaign Against Iraq Contract”

At the close of his address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars a week ago, President Bush announced a redeployment of 70,000 U.S. troops and 100,000 family members and civilian employees from overseas bases. Some of the troops may go to East Europe or Central Asia, but, mainly, they and their families will be coming … Continue reading “Is America Finally Coming Home?”

CHICAGO – Ibrahim Parlak‘s customers and friends know him as the gentle, hard-working Kurdish immigrant from Turkey who runs Café Gulistan in the placid lakeside town of Harbert, Michigan. Before he was incarcerated by U.S. authorities and threatened with deportation, which could lead to political persecution back in Turkey, Parlak spent long hours doing everything … Continue reading “‘War on Terror’ Hits Michigan Town”

First: The “Who.” Initially seven, then 28, were charged or under investigation. Now at least two more may be charged and as many as 53 have been implicated. An additional five have been singled out by name as bearing responsibility. More may eventually be charged or be in some way held responsible. Second: The “What.” … Continue reading “Ripples From the Schlesinger Report”

DAMAK, NEPAL – Suspecting Maoist infiltration in their ranks, security forces have tightened restrictions and surveillance on the 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, making it difficult for them to find work, even as geopolitical intrigues are impeding their return home. The refugees of Nepalese origin who fled Bhutan in 1990 never had a problem finding … Continue reading “Bhutanese Refugees Suffer Over Terror Allegations”

The burgeoning scandal over claims that a Pentagon official passed highly classified secrets to a Zionist lobby group appears to be part of a much broader set of FBI and Pentagon investigations of close collaboration between prominent U.S. neoconservatives and Israel dating back some 30 years. According to knowledgeable sources, who asked to not be … Continue reading “Spy Probe Scans
Neocon-Israel Ties”

“A lobby is like a night flower,” wrote Steven Rosen, a top official of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.” With the light of day shining brightly on AIPAC’s spy mission for Israel in the Pentagon, will one of the most powerful lobbying groups in … Continue reading “Traitorous ‘Conservatives’”

Lawyers of detainees allegedly abused at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison say two recently released U.S. reports strengthen their cases that employees working for private firms that supplied translators and interrogators for the military took part in the shocking abuses. The reports, one by the U.S. Army that probed the actions of the military units directly … Continue reading “Victims’ Lawyers Laud Abu Ghraib Reports”