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Italy arrests four men accused of funding Mumbai terror attacks - Yahoo! NewsOn Saturday night, Italian police arrested two Pakistani nationals, Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and his son Aamar, on charges they helped pay for the attack. The two own "Madina Trading," a money transfer agency, which made it easy for them to send large amounts of currency abroad without attracting ...
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Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries - Boing BoingWhen it was revealed that the U.S. resorted to torture to extract information from prisoners, many people my age must have had a very somber thought for the thousands of young Americans who had given their lives on the beaches of Normandy in a brave effort to rid the world of governments that ...
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Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisThe United States is in "a defensive crouch" on climate change that threatens its national security and must go on the offense by signing an agreement to combat global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen next month, reporters were told here. "Climate change would act as a ...
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Admiral Warns Cybersecurity Threat Looms For U.S. - Wolfe's Den Blog - InformationWeek"Do you believe our adversaries have the capability of bringing down a power grid?" Kroft asked McConnell. "I do," McConnell replied. To give some ummph to his warning, McConnell leaked the previously undisclosed news that a series of power-grid outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were ...
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Pirates hijack weapons-laden vessel | Eye For Transport | News, Analysis & EventsLloyd's List reports that Somali pirates may have expanded their arsenal of weapons with this morning's capturing of a vessel carrying short- and medium-range missiles in the Gulf of Aden. Sharon Gill reports ... Somali pirates appear to be operating with impunity in these waters, despite the ...
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1Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries - Boing BoingAh, but maybe there ARE "truth drugs" or techniques. In this case however, the administration wanted a particular result (confirmation of their claims) - SO, they did NOT want to use an "infallible" method of obtaining the truth, which MIGHT not give "confirmation" of what they wanted to hear! ...JDP added 6 days ago
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1Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 12 days ago
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1Scary animation of 9/11 jet impact reveals truth | DVICE"You KNOW", when someone terms them self something outrageous or categorical ("freedom fighters", "the moral majority", "truthers", "the defense department"), quite often they aren't (or won't be for long!).JDP added 2 months ago
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1Report: Saudi Royals May Have Financed Militants : NPRSo now we know another possible reason the Saudi royals and friends were given a special flight out of the USA after 9/11 - courtesy of "tough on terrorists and their funders" Bush. But of course (like every other disaster that occurred on his watch), Bush knew nothing about that (and maybe ...JDP added 5 months ago
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1Transcript: Terrorist lied after torture - Guantanamo- msnbc.comOh yeah - torture can get the information you need ... as long as a few (or all!) lies is what you want.JDP added 5 months ago
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