Tag Archives : 9/11

It’s been 8 years of cat-and-mouse chase between the US government and Osama bin Laden, the seemingly slippery leader of the slithery terrorist group al-Qaeda. With the US doing all the chasing and bin Laden doing all the skirting, one wonders at the vaunted reputation of American spies. In the news not too far back, we learned that the US military [...]

According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape capture in order to justify the [...]

There has been much confusion as to why the US persists to wage its war in Afghanistan when its target is al-Qaeda, a hugely diminished presence in Afghanistan, and not the Taliban, an ethnic group of domestic insurgents merely fighting for their cause in their local turf. US President Barack Obama, however, calls the war in Afghanistan a “war of [...]

In a recent interview, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserts that ‘Pakistan [is] not doing enough to fight terrorism’ and believes that Afghanistan requires the sustained support of the global community if it is to return to the path of peace, freedom, and an environment in which fundamentalist terrorist elements do not have the sway they [...]

The US is currently lamenting that if only it had sent a sufficient enough force to Afghanistan back in 2001, it would have already captured Osama bin Laden in December of hat year. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s report says that a robust American force could have barred bin Laden’s escape in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora; [...]

In an October 1 meeting, Western governments ‘proposed that Iran agree to ship up to 80 percent of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a small medical reactor in Tehran.’ At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) negotiations in Vienna last month, outgoing IAEA Director General ElBaradei [...]

The alleged masterminds and perpetrators of 9/11, headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are finally facing a civilian court in New York City. In a stroke of agit-propaganda genius, the 9/11 suspects will be tried in a court that is ‘just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood.’ The decision by US Attorney General Eric Holder to hold the [...]

According to a recent US government report, ‘people on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them.’ Having your name on the US government’s terrorist watch list is ‘not enough [...]

The US war on the Taliban is founded on something deeper, but actually more obvious, than waging a war against militant insurgency and/or ideology. ‘The short answer is that today, as has been the case since 1979, neither a specific ‘militant’ nor ‘ideology’ is ‘being fought.’ Rather, the target of operations, for which more troops are [...]

The US has been paranoid over Iran since 9/11. Exacerbating this is the fact that the Islamic republic has doggedly pursued a nuclear armament program. The US seriously regards Iran’s nuclear capability as a definite threat to US national interests. Curiously, both the Bush and Obama administrations hesitated to carry out a military strike to destroy [...]