The News Bush does not Want to Hear
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on April 30, 2008 – 5:12 pm -This is short and sweet, and not altogether unsurprising: former intelligence officials confirmed to the Associated Press Monday a Le Monde newspaper report that France’s foreign intelligent service had heard about an al Qaeda plot which was “likely to involve a US airplane.” The French paper also reported that France informed the Central Intelligence Agency prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 were killed. I saw this last year and wrote a diary on DKos at the time. Le Monde based its report on 328 pages of classified documents leaked by DGSE sources, showing that Osama bin Laden’s network had been infiltrated by foreign agents long before the September 2001 attacks.
Tags: AP, CIA, French Intelligence bureau, GWB, Le Monde
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US Rendition & DU: a Damning European Timeline
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on April 4, 2008 – 3:38 pm -First, knowing what we know, let’s put a little perspective on what the UK’s and Irish government have told us so far:
UK, December 2005: Three days ago UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that since US President George Bush took office in January 2001 the UK government had found no evidence of a request from the US “for over-flights or for re-fuelling or other facilitation for what you’ve described as rendition… nor are we aware by other means of any such case.”
Around the same time: The Irish Government has received specific assurances from the US authorities, including US President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, that no prisoners have been transferred through Irish airports, nor would they be without Irish Government permission.
Well, we all take comfort in the knowledge that no less than GWB himself has reassured us! And the Depleted Uranium?
Tags: CIA, Depleted Uranium Ammunition, European Union, Ireland, Rendition, UK
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