Posts Tagged ‘ CIA ’

Coups d’états in Iraq

February 8, 2010

By Ali

Fatih Abdulsalam’s 4 part series was published in Al-Zaman newspaper’s English edition between the third and sixth of February. (Links and "teaser" extracts are at the end of this posting.) The articles, as one expects from Fatih Abdulsalam, are well writtenn and worth reading in their entirety. I however want to concentrate upon an...
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Tags: 1990-1991 Gulf War, 1991 uprising, al zaman newspaper, Al-Zaman, American invaders, azzaman, Ba'ath, baath party, baathists, CIA, Genocide, george h w bush, invasion, Kirkuk, kurds, Mass Graves, Massacres, Mosul, Mukhabarat, occupation, Refugees, Saddam Hussein, sectarian government, Secular vs. Religious, Team Members, Torture
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Pour Encourager Les Autres

January 12, 2010

By dubhaltach

First an extract from the Sunday Times’ article How this suicide bomber opened a new front in Al-Qaeda’s war: The man they were waiting for was a 32-year-old Jordanian doctor called Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi. He was driving across the border from Pakistan where he had spent a year becoming close to Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin...
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Tags: "War on terror", Afghanistan, al-Balawi - Humam Khalil Abu Mulal, Amaniyat, American War Crimes, Arghawan, CIA, FOB Chapman, Ghulam Khan border crossing, Jordan, KhAD, Khost Province Afghanistan, Mermandi, suicide bombings;Taliban, Taleban
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