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3/30/07 - 3/31/07
3/29/07
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Al Qaeda captive denies sending 9/11 funds
--McClatchy Newspapers (Very interesting information here. Hawsawi was apparently the fall guy for Omar Saeed Sheikh. After Omar wired cash to the hijackers, Hawsawi was instructed to pick up the leftovers using the same account. More to come.)
"Hawsawi admitted to receiving paramilitary training in an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. He said senior al Qaeda members instructed him to leave the United Arab Emirates for Pakistan on Sept. 10, 2001 and that in the days just before, he’d received about $20,000 in Western Union transfers from some of the men who commandeered the 9/11 aircraft.
But he denied ever sending funds to the 9/11 hijackers and denied specifically joining al Qaeda or swearing an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden."
"...Mr Katznelson said: 'Mr Rawi helped MI5 as an interpreter and acted as a go-between with Abu Qatada [a terror suspect later arrested and detained by the British authorities]. All this would have... been very embarrassing for the government and... MI5.'"
3/27/07 - 3/28/07
3/25/07 - 3/26/07
3/22/07 - 3/24/07
3/19/07 - 3/21/07
3/17/07 - 3/18/07
3/15/07 - 3/16/07
3/14/07
"The illicit opium poppy industry is, according to a former minister in President Hamid Karzai's government, "a pyramid structure. If ever there were a management prize for the perfect supply chain," it would go to what generates from one half to two-thirds of Afghan GDP. He said there are "25 mafia dons at the top of the pyramid who control the key power levers. The Interior Ministry is owned by the drug industry." ..."
3/12/07 - 3/13/07
3/10/07 - 3/11/07
3/9/07
3/7/07 - 3/8/07
3/4/07 - 3/5/07
3/3/07
2/28/07 - 3/2/07
2/26/07 - 2/27/07
2/23/07 - 2/25/07
2/20/07 - 2/22/07
2/16/07 - 2/19/07
2/13/07 - 2/15/07
2/11/07 - 2/12/07
2/8/07 - 2/10/07
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US takes over NATO-led forces
--The Associated Press (With Helmand's governor replaced under pressure from the CIA and the peace deals called off, the locals have lost. The stage is now being set for the government to establish complete control over Afghanistan's opium producing south.)
"Drugmaker Roche Holding AG gave the maximum allowed to her 2006 campaign. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch threw a fund- raising event for her in July. Even some of President George W. Bush's biggest backers, including Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack, supported her. ... ``She was there, win or lose,'' says Lockheed spokesman Tom Jurkowsky. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed gave $10,000 to her re- election. ... The employees of Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. represent her two biggest groups of corporate donors. ... Just a week after her November re-election, she met with a group of corporate executives at JPMorgan's headquarters in New York to talk policy. The group includes Pfizer Inc. Vice Chairman David Shedlarz and Stephen Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group."
Food vs. Fuel
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Is Ethanol the Answer?
--US News & World Report (Reports documenting the consequences of ethanol production have gone mainstream, but as long as fuel consumption continues to rise there will be no solution to the food vs. fuel crisis that is already beginning to starve the world's poorest people. It also remains to be seen how long overriding the corporate-political forces behind biofuels will take.)
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2/2/07 - 2/4/07
1/31/07 - 2/1/07
"While Bush administration officials are hardly eager for a public rehash of the 9/11 intelligence failures, the issue is an especially sensitive one at CIA headquarters."
"The raid, which began after nightfall at about 6 p.m. local time, was carried out by nine to 12 militants wearing new U.S. military fatigues and traveling in black GMC Suburban vehicles — the type used by U.S. government convoys. U.S. officials said the imposters had American weapons and spoke English."
"Of particular concern are Africa's role in the "global war on terror," or, in Pentagon parlance, "the long war," the growing importance of the region's natural resources, especially oil and gas, to the world economy, and increased competition with China, among other countries, for those resources."
1/30/07
1/28/07 - 1/29/07
1/25/07 - 1/27/07
"The new order, issued last Thursday, gives the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) enhanced tools to oversee and interfere with federal regulations on everything from warning labels on medicines to safety standards for construction worksites.
...OIRA can now scrutinize all "significant" guidance materials – defined according to criteria such as having the ability to "adversely affect" the economy in a 'material way."
"...public money earmarked to help lift Tanzania's children out of poverty was instead laundered into the coffers of BAE and Barclays, with Tony Blair acting as bagman."
"The White House is also counting on a 'new Africa'. The establishment of 'Africom,' as the Pentagon and state department are already calling it, is being driven by two main strategic concerns: first, the growing demand for African oil and gas (Africa is expected to be supplying 25% of US hydrocarbon imports by 2015) and the vulnerability of those supplies, concentrated as they are in some of Africa’s most unstable states; and second, the perceived danger of Islamic radicals."
"...If only the world’s glaciers were melting as slowly as the evolution of President Bush’s understanding of climate change! ..."
1/24/07
"In addition to Mr. Maxwell, three other auditors in the royalty program have filed their own lawsuits as whistle-blowers against more than a dozen other oil companies. Like Mr. Maxwell, those auditors have said the Interior Department blocked them from pursuing what they viewed as valid cases of underpayments."
1/23/07
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