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These operations allegedly include the rendition of suspected jihadists seized in East Africa and spirited to an underground CIA interrogation center in Mogadishu and using mercenaries to train Somali assassination teams to hit al-Shabaab, the main insurgent group and which is linked to al-Qaida.

http://bit.ly/raRVMF


From Information Clearing House

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Al Qaeda was never an 'existential threat'

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

09/13/11

In May 2010, after the Times Square bomber s jerry-rigged contraption of gas cans, firecrackers and fertilizer ruined his Pathfinder s upholstery, Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed 'the most dangerous impression we can draw is that this threat no longer exists.' But by convincing ourselves that the threat is 'existential,' we have wasted trillions and built a surveillance state that refuses to recede with the waning al Qaeda threat...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13663



The enemy that barely exists

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

09/12/11

What was the most devastating attack by al-Qa?ida in the past few months? Despite all the pious talk this weekend about combating 'terrorism,' few will have heard of it. It happened on 15 August when bombers killed 63 people in 17 cities up and down Iraq in the space of a few hours. Such carnage is ignored because the US and Britain see al-Qa?ida only in relation to themselves, and because all the victims were Iraqis...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/12/the-enemy-that-barely-exists/



Going to war ?

Liberty For All
by Charles Tilly

09/14/11

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat -- including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=6591


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Somalia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=covert+operation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Shabaab
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=jihad
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gene+Healy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Charles+Tilly
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
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