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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing War on Terrorism NEWS articles 1 through 30 of 30.


October 1, 2005

Bali Bombed Again, Intel Op Jemaah Islamiah Suspected - Indonesia’s ruthless Army Special Forces, Kopassus, was trained by the CIA (and U.S. Special Operations Forces in psychological operations) and is known for its covert ops (for instance, “Ninja” assassinations...Kopassus was also responsible for the murder of over 200,000 people on the island of East Timor.
(2086 views)


October 2, 2005

Bali II: Another Elusive Terror Mastermind on the Loose - Azahari bin Husin, said to be the explosives "mastermind" behind the Bali bombings this past weekend, has a very interesting background. He is not your average rural madrassa religious fanatic or "al-Qaeda" goat herder of the sort captured in Afghanistan.
(2223 views)


October 3, 2005

Monitors Find Significant Fraud in Afghan Elections - Election officials and observers said Sunday that with 80 percent of the ballots counted in Afghanistan's national and provincial elections, they had found significant incidents of fraud.
(1723 views)


October 4, 2005

"They blinded me " - Hypocrisy and a disregard for basic human rights and international laws continue to mark the American President’s so-called "war on terror".
(1858 views)

Behind barbed wire in Guantanamo - The group Physicians for Human Rights is urging an independent medical assessment of the fast, noting that the American Medical Association ethical code bans force-feeding prisoners who are on hunger strike.
(1877 views)


October 6, 2005

Cheney warns of "decades of war" - US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades.
(1858 views)


October 7, 2005

Serious turn to Guantanamo protest - A hunger strike by prisoners at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp has entered a serious stage, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
(1555 views)

CIA, French intelligence kill 4, capture 5 Israelis in NY subway attack - Earlier this evening intelligence members of the American-French Alliance stopped an attempt by Israeli Mossad operatives to blow up the New York City subway, according to national security and U.S. intelligence expert Thomas Heneghen.
(1709 views)

Cheney: Prepare for Decades of Mass Murder - Cheney...means the American people must prepare themselves for endless and ever increasingly brutal violence, both abroad where "vassals" resist Cheney’s version of neocon-neoliberalism and at home where law enforcement officers are transformed into paramilitary goons, trained and commanded to confiscate guns and either "evacuate" citizens to concentration camps or quarantine their neighborhoods as ill-defined (or government concocted) diseases spread (or do not spread, except by way of corporate media hype)
(2462 views)


October 9, 2005

Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy - In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military.
(1639 views)


October 12, 2005

The War on Terror - in Translation
(1537 views)


October 13, 2005

Al-Qaeda and the Dubious Confederacy of Evil - It is simply astounding how many videos and audio tapes and letters slip through al-Qaeda’s fingers and into the hands of the Pentagon, the State Department, and various Bushites and intelligence factotums.
(1657 views)

An American in chains - James Yee entered Guantanamo as a patriotic US officer and Muslim chaplain. He ended up in shackles, branded a spy. This is his disturbing story
(1976 views)


October 15, 2005

Fake al-Qaeda Letters and the Kayfabe of Islamic Terrorism - The "letter" between al-Zawahri and al-Zarqawi is another neocon kayfabian scam, yet another situation where the division between reality and fantasy is blurred. If not for its horror and death toll, the war aimed at Islam would be a comic absurdity.
(1650 views)

After Iraq, Bush wanted to go after Pak, S Arabia - Two months before the Iraq invasion, US President George W Bush had told British Premier Tony Blair that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq" in dealing with the spread of weapons of mass destruction and mentioned Pakistan as one of the countries posing problems...
(1910 views)

U.S.: No Outside Contact for Detainees - Terror suspects on a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility should not be allowed to speak in person or by telephone with relatives and friends because of security risks, the government argued in federal court on Friday.
(1800 views)

Trade in torture - Five hours after the arrest of Zery and another Egyptian, Ahmed Agiza, both were deported from Stockholm's Bromma airport. It was not revealed for another two years that there had been a US plane at the airport, plus a team of US agents who, it has been claimed, picked up the suspects, manacled their wrists and ankles, dressed them in orange overalls, drugged them, and bundled them into the plane.
(1768 views)


October 19, 2005

Former CIA Analyst: Government May Be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism - A Government openly promoting torture, A President acting like a King cannot be trusted, must be impeached
(1768 views)

Film rolls as troops burn dead - US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions.
(1660 views)

BAHRAIN: GUANTANAMO HUNGER STRIKER SERIOUSLY ILL - One of the six Bahraini prisoners being held at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is seriously ill and has been hospitalised after going on hunger strike.
(1765 views)


October 20, 2005

Guantanamo hunger strikers say feeding tubes employed as torture - Prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reported troops force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment, said declassified notes released Wednesday by defence lawyers.
(1701 views)

More On that Fake al-Zawahri Letter - If the CIA or military intelligence wants us to believe their fakery, they will need to do a bit more research.
(1580 views)

Psych War in Afghanistan - Since September 11, we've all become uncomfortably familiar with names like Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah and maybe even Bagram in Afghanistan. They're all places we now associate with human rights violations or worse - military atrocities and possibly potential war crimes. But after our first story tonight, you can add another placename to that list - Gonbaz in southern Afghanistan, about a 100km from the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
(1768 views)


October 21, 2005

MI5 "acts on facts gained under torture" - The head of MI5 has submitted evidence to the House of Lords indicating that her agents are prepared to act on intelligence obtained under torture in the fight against terrorism.
(1888 views)


October 24, 2005

"U.S. soldiers cleaned their boots with Qur’an pages" - A Bahraini detainee held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba revealed more sexual abuses by the American soldiers there and confirmed Qur’an desecration.
(1739 views)


October 25, 2005

Guantanamo detainee pleads to die - A hunger striking detainee at Guantanamo Bay wants a judge to order the removal of his feeding tube so he can be allowed to die, one of his lawyers has said.
(1635 views)

US detainees 'murdered' during interrogations - At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data.
(1619 views)


October 26, 2005

War Crimes in Afghanistan: We Burn Corpses, Don't We? - Shocking images from Afghanistan have again exposed the racist barbarism of the U.S. "war on terror."
(2059 views)


October 27, 2005

Dozens of Abu Ghraibs - U.S. human rights groups have denounced before the U.N. Human Rights Committee that there are perhaps dozens of secret detention centres around the world where Washington is holding an unknown number of prisoners as part of its "war on terror".
(1589 views)


October 29, 2005

Endless sunset - While you were, ah, distracted, Congress was quietly renewing every major provision of the Patriot Act.
(1805 views)


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