having said the ISI did them all, he goes on…

[…] Ultimately, the benefactors of the Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul and other bombings (by the ISI, he’s saying – RB), such as the recent New Delhi bombing in India, is not Pakistan, but is the Anglo-Americans. Pakistan ultimately will collapse as a result of these actions being taken. The ISI has long been referred to as Pakistan’s “secret government” or “shadow state.” Its long-standing ties and reliance upon American and British intelligence have not let up, therefore actions taken by the ISI should be viewed in the context of being a Central Asian outpost of Anglo-American covert intelligence operations. This connection between American and British intelligence and the ISI is also corroborated by their continued cooperation in the covert opium trade in Afghanistan, whose profits are funneled into the banks of Wall Street and the City of London. The goal in Pakistan is not to maintain stability, just as this is not the goal throughout the region of the Middle East and Central Asia. Recent events in Pakistan, such as the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which has been linked to the ISI, should be viewed in the context as an active Anglo-American strategy of breaking up Pakistan, which will spread chaos through the region.

– Andrew Marshall, Global Research

what a dummy (suitcase nukes need plutonium)

from David Edwards & Muriel Kane, RawStory

Journalist Barton Gellman, discussing his new book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, told the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on Monday how Cheney convinced former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a leading Republican opponent of war with Iraq, to vote in favor of the war resolution. Gellman explained:

Cheney … had … a borrowed hideaway office in the Capitol building. He brings Armey in … and he lays out a big stack of papers and says, ‘Let me explain to you what’s really going on. … Saddam is much more dangerous than we want to tell the public.’ He told Armey two things that he’s never said in public and that are not true. He said that Saddam personally, and his family, had direct ties with al Qaeda. And he said that Iraq was making substantial progress towards a miniature nuclear weapon.

According to Gellman’s book, Cheney told Armey that Iraq would soon have “packages that could be moved even by ground personnel” and “a delivery system in their relationship with organizations such as al Qaeda.” These claims, writes Gellman,

crossed so far beyond the known universe of fact that they were simply without foundation. Armey is a very angry man at this point. He was against the war. … He was actually weeping in the well of the House when he cast his vote.

In his book, Gellman quotes Armey as saying,

Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happening. I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

9-11 debated on russian tv

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alex jones : american dictators (2004, 90m)

us raids on pakistan are all cia-run

(disagreement from gareth porter, who says that SOCOM is not at all “under” CIA – hear the audio in my Sep 18 post – RB)

from Shaukat Qadir, The National (UAE)

[…] Gen Kiyani summoned a corps commander’s conference on September 10, following which he issued a statement categorically stating that the Pakistan military would defend its citizens against any foreign aggressor and there was no clause in the ground rules that permitted incursions by US forces into Pakistan’s territories — a clear and unambiguous warning. Yousaf Raza Gilani, the prime minister of Pakistan, later supported the army chief of staff’s statement unconditionally. On September 12, yet another missile attack was launched in Pakistan’s tribal areas. While the PM backtracked and stated that Pakistan could not afford to go to war with the US, the Pakistan military said nothing more, but a day later, September 13, two Pakistan air force planes were seen patrolling the tribal areas and putting a circling US drone to flight; obviously Gen Kiyani meant business.

The immediate outcome was a unanimous avowal of support for the Pakistan army by the militant tribes, promising to stand by the army and fight against any American incursion. Additionally, both the president and the prime minister reasserted that Pakistan’s territorial integrity would be defended at all costs; Zardari going even further and saying he would re-look at the entire conduct of the war on terror. It has also been revealed that the ground attack on September 8 was carried out by US special forces acting under the CIA, not the US military — as was the missile attack on September 9; and, in all likelihood, the one on the 12th. On the one hand it appears that, while the US military is appreciative of the deteriorating situation and the need for an enhanced and cooperative effort with Pakistan, it has no control over CIA forces in the theatre. However, although it now appears that it is the intelligence agency that is creating the problems, it is impossible to say whether they are doing so on the instructions of the Bush administration, or despite them.