War on Terrorism
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[05/01/2006] Black Ops For The War On Terror
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has approved plans that designate the elite Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, as the Department of Defense\'s lead element for the \"war on terror.\" Instead of creating wars with half trillion-dollar price tags and endless streams of roadside bombings and mortar attacks, Green Berets and SEALS will slide in, grab the bad guys, and fly off into the night. » More
[03/27/2006] FBI casts \'overly broad net\' in war against terror
The FBI casts an \"overly broad net\" by including antiwar and environmental protesters in its investigations \"while waging a highly publicized war against terror,\" according to a story slated for the front page of Monday\'s edition of the L.A. Times, RAW STORY has learned. » More
[03/27/2006] Another Prominent Military Figure Denounces NeoCons, Iraq, War on Terror
Retired Command Sergeant Major Eric Haney, founding member of the military\'s elite covert counter-terrorist unit, Delta force, has stated publicly for the record that he sees the war in Iraq as an \"Utter debacle\" based on intentions by the Bush administration that were \"not what they stated\" and that \"there is no real threat to the U.S. in the world\". » More
[03/21/2006] Government cracks down on dissent in name of \'anti-terrorism\'
Two releases of local law enforcement files in recent days have shed new light on just how far the Bush administration, federal, and local law enforcement are going to suppress political dissent in the aftermath of 9-11. » More
[03/21/2006] Blair wants battle of ideas with terrorists
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday will call for a global, interventionist approach to confront terrorism head on and win a battle over values and ideas. » More
[03/15/2006] FBI spied on Pittsburgh pacifists, papers show
FBI anti-terrorism agents spied on a U.S. peace group simply because it opposed the Iraq war, part of an “unprecedented campaign” to spy on innocent citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday. » More
[03/10/2006] Al Qaeda on MySpace, Orkut
When they raided what they had been told was \"Al Qaeda\'s command center\" in a remote compound in South Waziristan\'s Shakai valley in June 2004, Pakistani special forces made a surprising discovery. In a secret basement, the officers collected a treasure trove of computer equipment, including several laptops, printers and CD burners, as well as advanced video equipment. » More
[03/06/2006] Pay too much and you could raise the alarm
They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn\'t move until the threat alert is lifted. » More
[02/23/2006] Outside View US No Better Than Soviets
Now that the Defense Department has come up with a name for the current conflict -- \"the Long War\" -- it\'s fair to ask if that war\'s duration amounts to a life sentence for detainees and also to question the circumstances under which captives are being held. » More
[02/15/2006] 325,000 Names on Terrorism List
The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials. » More
[01/26/2006] New York City Plans ‘Ring of Steel\'
New York city is preparing to turn lower Manhattan into a \"ring of steel\" - to protect the nation\'s financial center from another major terrorist attack. » More
[12/06/2005] Security analyst: Terrorism threat \'will never go away\'
This will -- this problem will never go away. It\'s one that we just have to keep working at tirelessly. And they are right that the terrorists are still out there, and they are adaptive and they are learning. And we should assume that they will strike again » More
[12/01/2005] Death toll from road accidents 390 times that from terrorism: study
The body count from road accidents in developed economies is 390 times higher than the death toll in these countries from international terrorism » More
[11/22/2005] Al-Qaida Operative Nabbed Near Mexican Border
An al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI\'s terrorist watch list was recently captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said on Friday. » More
[11/17/2005] 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. » More
[11/17/2005] U.S. Preparing for Smallpox, Bio Attack
The U.S. is preparing for a potential bioterrorism attack using the deadly smallpox virus – federal grants are funding efforts to produce a new, safer vaccine. » More
[11/15/2005] Ex-intel Official: Bush Admin Will Restrict Liberties After Next Terror Attack
The man who leaked thousands of pages of top secret documents to the media in 1971 to expose the U.S. government\'s handling of the Vietnam War warned Saturday that another terrorist attack could permanently damage civil liberties. » More
[11/02/2005] Bush critics say US is losing war on terror
U.S. terrorism experts Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon have reached a stark conclusion about the war on terrorism: the United States is losing. » More
[11/02/2005] Australia Receives Threat of Terror Attack
Australian authorities have received specific intelligence that terrorists are planning an attack on the country, Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to increase the powers of Australia\'s intelligence agencies. » More
[11/02/2005] Rumsfeld says no U.N. access to Guantanamo inmates
Spurning a request by U.N. human rights investigators, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday the United States will not allow them to meet with detainees at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects. » More
[11/02/2005] Amnesty International on terror laws: Dangerous. Ill-conceived. An assault on human rights
Tony Blair\'s plans for tough new anti-terror legislation have been subjected to a damning critique by Amnesty International, as MPs prepare to debate the measures today. » More
[11/01/2005] New York City Subway Bag Searches A Federal Case
NEW YORK New York City officials say random bag searches in the subways help keep New Yorkers safe. But civil liberties lawyers say the searches do nothing to deter terrorism, and they violate civil rights. » More
[10/18/2005] Equating Common Criminals with Terrorists
In other words, according to the FBI, common property criminals in the United States are “terrorists and insurgents” and will be dealt with in standard Bush fashion—abducted and thrown in a stateside Gitmo gulag where the Constitution and Bill of Rights are null and void. » More
[10/17/2005] Bush told Blair of \'going beyond Iraq\'
George Bush told Tony Blair shortly before the invasion of Iraq that he intended to target other countries, including Saudi Arabia, which, he implied, planned to acquire weapons of mass destruction. » More
[10/16/2005] Judges liken terror laws to Nazi Germany
A powerful coalition of judges, senior lawyers and politicians has warned that the Government is undermining freedoms citizens have taken for granted for centuries and that Britain risks drifting towards a police state. » More
[10/13/2005] UK terror plans breach Europe’s HR convention
British plans to deport terror suspects will clash with civil liberties enjoyed by Europeans under the European Convention on Human Rights that prohibit torture » More
[10/10/2005] War without Borders: Continuous Warfare for Decades to Come
Vice President Cheney in a recent speech to US military personnel has acknowledged that the war could go on for several decades. This statement, which reveals the Bush Administration\'s commitment to global warfare, was barely mentioned by the mainstream media. » More
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