The Sunday Times (London) reports that UK Foreign Secretary “Jack Straw has drawn up a dossier [right] putting the case against a military attack on Iran amid fears that President George W Bush’s administration may seek Britain’s backing for a new conflict.” The dossier, entitled Iran’s Nuclear Programme, is a compendium of 22 documents, including …
The Cambone Operation: Covert Ops Redux
by | 2005-01-24 | No Comments
Wow, tonight’s Nelson Report is chilling stuff. Chris warns that further investigative reporting will reveal… … covert operations sounding very much like the Phoenix Program of kidnappings (and perhaps also murder) of terrorist suspects in one country, and the transport of them to a third country where the actual torture interrogation is carried out presumably …
Avian Flu
by | 2005-01-24 | 1 Comment
Worse than Saddam. The New England Journal of Medicine will report the findings of a group of Thai epidemiologists who conclude that H5N1 strain of influenza that killed an 11-year-old girl also killed her mother. Documentation of person-to-person spread suggests a greater risk that the H5N1 strain could produce a global influenza pandemic. The twentieth …
Covert Operations
by | 2005-01-23 | 3 Comments
Barton Gellman of the Washington Post reports that: The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA’s historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad, according to interviews with participants and documents obtained by The Washington Post. Our Friends in …
