statism watch

Flashback: Ottawa appeals court order to repatriate Omar Khadr | Obama administration: Guantanamo detainees have ‘no constitutional rights’ | Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners | U.K. resident held at Gitmo alleges Canadian involvement in torture | Obama shuts network of CIA ‘ghost prisons’ | Chinese Torture Techniques Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo

RawStory.com
July 2, 2009

Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked on Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.

The Associated Press reports, “A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantanamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges.”

“The prosecutor, David Raskin, told U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that the United States would preserve the locations for now even though it does not plan to use at trial any statements Ahmed Ghailani made while he was in the custody of any other government agencies,” the AP article continues.

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That particular factoid shouldn’t be too surprising to anyone – it’s already come out from journalist icon Sy Hersh that the US has been paying off Sunni militants to stir things up in Iran, and then there’s this oft-quoted Airlift of Evil article, in which favoured factions of our Erstwhile Muslim Horde the Taliban is airlifted out of Afghanistan into Pakstan at the start of the US Military’s operations in Afghanistan – safe to menace you another day. Must be a bit like herding cats, but kicking the ex-muhajideen, the US’s old allies against ‘Soviet Expansionism’ in the 1980s into Pakistan’s border areas is still the next logical step in a rather corrupt game of chess being played out in the homeland of chess.

Flashback: Taliban flee new U.S. drive in Afghanistan | Delta Force Officer: We Weren’t Allowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden | Low Level Driver Convicted Of Terror Charges While Bin Laden’s Senior Body Guard Was Let Go | New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
July 2, 2009

Recent revelations concerning the U.S. importing Taliban members into Iraq to foster false flag terrorism is merely the tip of the iceberg when compared to the U.S. intelligence complex’s multi-decade history in sponsoring Sunni Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups around the world.

Wayne Madsen recently revealed how Taliban fighters were being imported from Afghanistan into Iraq to attack civilians and U.S. soldiers, as well as how Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army was being allowed to import materials to make IEDs.

However, this is just one aspect of how the U.S. has used terrorist groups as pawns on the global chessboard, moving them around the globe in line with their geopolitical objectives.

As is voluminously documented, the U.S. first worked covertly with Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan from 1979-1989.

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Flashback: Almost 80,000 jobs lost in February | Another 663,000 jobs lost in March in U.S. | EI, individual bankruptcies spiked in January | Jobs data grim, Flaherty says | Time to emulate Roosevelt’s New Deal and create green jobs | Canada lost 129,000 jobs in January: StatsCan | UK PM unveils ‘New Deal’ plan to create 100,000 jobs | Unions take EI surplus fight to Supreme Court

CBC News
July 2, 2009

The United States lost 467,000 jobs in June, the Labour Department reported Thursday.

The increase drove the non-farm unemployment rate up 0.1 point from May to 9.5 per cent, the department said.

“Job losses were widespread across the major industry sectors, with large declines occurring in manufacturing, professional and business services, and construction.”

The job loss figure is expected to continue rising through 10 per cent because unemployment lags the economy. But the losses also mean the recovery could be slower than hoped, some economists said.

With the June loss, the total number of unemployed rose to 14.7 million from 14.5 million in May.

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This journal would suggest, given the RCMP’s history around this issue, that their ‘National Security Enforcement Team’ be yanked from this investigation due to potential conflict of interest issues. The RCMP has provocateured at least one pipeline bombing in the past, on record, so it’s not beyond the pale to think that there’s a very real concern it could be going on again in order to justify the existence and expansion of the RCMP’s ‘anti-terror’ team: it’s been demonstrated that staging bombings is in the RCMP’s playbook. As a matter of fact, a quick online search confirms that Encana, the largest energy company in the country, is the result of a merger between Alberta Energy Company and Pan Canadian Energy – and AEC was in the thick of it with the RCMP, bombing their own pipeline! So, at the very least, this forensics work must be peer reviewed.

Flashback: RCMP investigate fourth pipeline bombing in British Columbia | Pipeline explosion investigation focuses on rural community | Ex-CSIS Agent, ‘Security Expert’, Paints Pipeline Explosion as “Terror” | Canadians who trust our secret police should think again | RCMP bombed oil site in ‘dirty tricks’ campaign

CBC News
July 2, 2009

Someone deliberately set the explosion that damaged another EnCana gas pipeline in northeastern B.C. early Wednesday morning, RCMP investigators say.

According to the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, the blast was the fifth in a series of criminally motivated acts at EnCana sites in northeastern B.C. since October.

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… and head straight into Pakistan. The mission commanders will know this. It’s anyone’s guess, of course, as to whether the US Military will actually end up in Pakistan, but it is looking increasingly likely.

Flashback: Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Report: CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan | US Incursion Turned Back by Pakistan Army | Bush secret order to send special forces into Pakistan | Pakistan fury over ‘US assault’ | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation

CBC News
July 2, 2009

Most Taliban militants encountered by U.S. troops on the first day of a massive new offensive retreated rather than engage in battle, military officials said Thursday.

Nearly 4,000 U.S. marines and 650 Afghan forces moved into southern Afghanistan early Thursday under the cover of darkness as part of an operation called Khanjar, which translates as “Strike of the Sword.”

Transport helicopters carried marines into the village of Nawa, about 30 kilometres south of the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, in a region where no U.S. or other NATO troops have operated in large numbers.

There were reports of gunfire being exchanged, helicopters firing rockets and rocket-propelled grenades being launched from houses as the sun came up in the region.

But in the first day of the offensive U.S. troops did not suffer any serious injuries and resistance from militants was only sporadic, said unit spokesman Lt. Abe Sipe.

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