Times Online | Since the Mumbai attacks counter-terrorism planning has seen a major shift.

Stephen Lendman | As long as Bolivarianism flourishes, expect new efforts to vilify, isolate, destabilize, and topple Chavez.

Ahmad Kawoosh | Persistent accounts of western forces in Afghanistan using their helicopters to ferry Taleban fighters is feeding mistrust of the forces that are supposed to be bringing order to the country.

Press TV | NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control.

Washington Post | During a 12-month period ended in March this year, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a “reasonable suspicion.”

Christian Science Monitor | The National Defense Authorization Act endorses yet another attempt by the US government to conduct military-commission trials of terror suspects currently held at the Guantánamo detention camp.

Detroit News | Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was being arrested on a raft of federal charges including conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods, and firearms offenses.

Reuters | Wednesday’s bomb was the deadliest since 2007 when around 140 died at a procession to welcome home former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated just weeks later.

Washington Post | Matthew Hoh was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed.

BBC | Troops set up tents and fill sandbags in the hills above the Pacific Ocean and the traffic-clogged Highway 5.

AFP | Clashes erupted as police tried to prevent around 300 students, most of them men, from marching on parliament.

Times Online | In a remote part of Helmand troops are dismayed by the ambivalence of locals and a sense that the Taliban can outlast them.

Kurt Nimmo | The Army National Guardsmen from Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois, Air National Guardsmen from Illinois, and Marines from Maryland will participate in the exercise.

Christian Science Monitor | Administration officials are hinting that Obama may fail to fulfill his pledge to close the Guantánamo prison camp by January.

Editor & Publisher | Pictures of American military deaths are rare, but until now they have not been officially banned during either of the ongoing wars.

Politico | Bass said he wasn’t drunk on the flight, but rather had been taking Benadryl for an allergic reaction.

Gareth Porter | The Taliban leadership still blames Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for their loss of power after 9/11.

AFP | In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March.

Russia Today | Barack Obama receives Nobel Prize as US plans to increase troops in Afghanistan. While in Pakistan, the ever expanding number of American security firms are causing concerns.

ABC News | My uneventful assignment would lead to a brush with FBI bomb squad agents and reveal just how broadly the authorities have cast their counter-terrorism net.

Times Online | American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned.

Press TV | Afghanistan and Pakistan are not the Pentagon’s sole targets in its war on terror, says Obama adding that the US will not hesitate to attack anywhere it deems a threat.

Reuters | The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved $636 billion to fund military operations for the fiscal year that started on October 1, $3.9 billion less than requested by the Obama administration.

| Patsy Najibullah Zazi used as an excuse to institute snoop and rat on your neighbor program.

Daniel Saarinen | Everyone is a potential suicide bomber because the bomb could be inside your body.

Reuters | Arrests have prompted alerts to law enforcement agencies to step up vigilance on transit systems, in luxury hotels and at sports stadiums.

Times Online | The United States is threatening to launch airstrikes on Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

Dallas Morning News | The arrest was part of an FBI sting operation that began after an agent monitoring an online extremist Web site discovered Smadi espousing jihad against the U.S. more than six months ago.

ABC News | AG Holder said “any imminent threat arising from this case has been disrupted…we remind the American public to be vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement.”

Kurt Nimmo | The historical fact that the U.S. and Pakistan created the Taliban is conveniently relegated to the memory hole.

Raw Stgory | Problematic in this and other recent reports is the use of anonymous law enforcement sources, who repeatedly hype alleged ties to al Qaeda, identify “persons of interest,” and detail dramatic but unspecified plots.

New York Times | The FBI said precursors chemicals used to form hydrogen-peroxide based explosives can be obtained at various retail outlets, including hardware stores and pharmacies.

Geoff Vasil | Muhammad Atta, the alleged ringleader of the 9/11 hijackings, told witnesses the crypto-fascist evangelical group known as the Family donated at least $200,000 to the cause of flying jets into the Twin Towers.

Justice Department supports the use of roving wiretaps, the authority to access business records and the ability to track so-called “lone-wolf” terrorists.

BBC | The message, entitled “a statement to the American people”, was about 10 minutes long and was accompanied by a still image of Bin Laden but no video.

Matthew Vadum | ACORN founder Wade Rathke didn’t have a problem with domestic terrorists trying to kill delegates at the Republican Party’s national convention in 2008

Deseret News | Hill said the next terrorist attack will involve suitcase nuclear bombs that will be detonated in small, low-flying two-seater private airplanes.

ABC News | Network news programs broke into regular morning shows to report the incident, and CNN went to blanket coverage.

M K Bhadrakumar | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) handed down to the Taliban a big political victory as a result of the air strikes in the northern province of Kunduz on Friday.

Russia Today | Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen discusses a new recruitment process to bring private military contractors into Pakistan.

Richmond Times-Dispatch | About a dozen protesters held posters and chanted, “No more hate! No more hate!”

Mother Jones | There are not the antics of some depraved frat brothers. They are the private security contractors guarding Camp Sullivan, otherwise known as the US Embassy in Kabul.

Infowars | Hal Turner was recruited by the FBI Join Terrorism Task Force in around 2002.

Little Alex in Wonderland | False-flag operations are being plotted and/or used to “manufacture consent” for the so-called “War on Terror” in the U.S. and abroad.

Raw Story | Suspicions that politics played a role in the Bush Administration’s terror alert warning isn’t new.

Synthesis | I believe there is a concerted propaganda campaign aimed at political dissidents, a.k.a. “right-wing extremists”, which is currently rolling out a new phase of articles.

Russia Today | Madsen discusses new allegations by officials that the CIA hired and trained Blackwater employees to capture and kill Al Qaeda operatives during the Bush administration.

New York Times | The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta became alarmed and called an emergency meeting in June to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.

Kurt Nimmo | Let’s hand it to Boston Mayor Tom Menino — he didn’t buy into the FBI’s malarkey about a terrorist event that will probably never happen.

ABC News | The Federal Government has unveiled plans to toughen its counter-terrorism laws, including a change to allow police to break into a suspect’s home without getting approval from a judge.