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Fort Hood soldier ordered to erase video of
shootings<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html> --In
US civilian courts, destruction of evidence can be a crime. 15 Oct
2010 A US soldier who captured a deadly 2009 rampage at Fort Hood
with his cell phone camera testified Friday that he was ordered to
erase the video by his commanders. The video could have provided
key evidence at the trial of Major Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist
who faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted
murder. Lead defense attorney John Galligan asked witness Private
Lance Aviles if he had taken a video of the shooting with his cell
phone and if he deleted the footage at the instruction of his
superiors.
"Yes, sir," Aviles replied.
FBI was warned about key figure in Mumbai attacks:
report<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLKpGi6UPioSEM5Ddsn
4mL94p4xg?docId=CNG.d4436e9f04d08331279fb14066d6d028.8e1> 15 Oct
2010 The wife of a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks warned US
federal agents three years beforehand that her husband was training
with a Pakistani militant group, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Citing sources close to the case, the Post said the wife of David
Coleman Headley warned FBI agents in August 2005 that her husband
had undergone intensive training with Lashkar-e-Taiba and was in
contact with extremists. ['Warned?' He was probably on their payroll.]
As Terror Alert Continues, NYPD Holds Drill to Prep For Mumbai-Style
Attack<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terror-alert-continues-nypd-holds-drill-
prep-mumbai/story?id=11879452> --New York Terror Exercise Simulates
Commando Assault On Wall Street 14 Oct 2010 As US officials proclaim
an alleged European [but actually CIA-based] terror plot still
active, New York City police conducted a drill Thursday that simulated
a Mumbai-style attack on civilians on a crowded street in Manhattan's
financial district. The drill simulated multiple bombs and shooters,
including a bomb under a vehicle, and police responded with
helicopters, dogs, automatic weapons and an armored car.
US state department defends Europe-wide terror
alert<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/14/us-state-department-defends
-europe-terror-alert> 14 Oct 2010 The US state department today
defended the decision to issue a terror alert covering all of Europe
but admitted that it had no specific information of any plot or
potential target. The alert issued on 3 October stated "current
information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organisations
continue to plan terrorist attacks". It warned American
citizens<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/03/al-qaida-terror-attacks-
fears> to take safety measures when travelling in Europe, particularly
on public transport or at tourist sites. The alarm led to consternation
across Europe... anonymous criticism by European security officials,
and claims by Pakistani
diplomats<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/07/barack-obama-terror-thr
eat-claims> that the US move was politically motivated.
New report confirms torture at
Bagram<http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146745.html> --Human rights
groups say Bagram has remained a US torture center since the toppling
of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan nine years ago. 14 Oct 2010 A
new report reveals that American prison guards have mistreated
Afghan detainees held at the notorious US-run Bagram prison camp
and airbase in Afghanistan. According to the report, issued by the
US-based Open Society Foundation on Thursday, former Bagram detainees
say their US jailors placed prisoners in solitary confinement,
abused them and prevented them from observing religious rituals.
Afghan detainees mistreated in secret U.S. jail:
report<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69D47Q20101014> 14 Oct
2010 Former detainees at a secret U.S. prison in Afghanistan say
jailers mistreated them by depriving them of natural light, failing
to provide proper food and withholding Red Cross visits, a report
said Thursday. In the report by Open Society Foundations, former
Afghan detainees prisoners say they were abused at the classified
detention center on Afghanistan's U.S. Bagram airbase, north of
Kabul. The jail, the existence of which is not openly acknowledged
by Washington, is separate from the main U.S. prison in Afghanistan,
also at Bagram and now housed in a new $60 million complex.
Australian says Guantanamo was 'six years of
hell'<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jkA3qyofza4VmfxWfqe-
1T60mW8w?docId=CNG.593f1e4f6a2d705601bddc80ee51c323.591> 15 Oct
2010 Australia's former long-serving Guantanamo Bay inmate David
Hicks Saturday broke his silence on life inside the US-run prison,
saying he endured deprivation and witnessed brutality in "six years
of hell". Hicks said he was in a "haze of disbelief and fear, pain
and confusion" when he arrived in Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba in early 2002 and was placed in a cage made of cyclone fencing.
"The first two weeks of Camp X-Ray was a blur of hardships:
no sleeping, no talking, no moving, no looking, no information,"
he writes in "Guantanamo: My Journey" released Saturday.
Soldier silenced for testimony in Afghan killings
probe<http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/14/griffin.afghan.murder.soldiers.
investigation/> --The Army is doing everything it can to limit the
publicity its own explosive account created. 14 Oct 2010 First,
Justin Stoner blew the whistle on his platoon. Now, the Army
apparently wants to silence him. In photos obtained by CNN, Stoner
sports bruises and abrasions on his back, chest and near his neck
-- the marks of a beating inflicted by fellow soldiers as payback
for reporting their rampant hashish use, the Army said... That move,
and the subsequent beating he endured for being viewed as a snitch,
triggered a wide-ranging criminal investigation that has left some
soldiers accused of killing innocent Afghan civilians and others
accused of posing in gruesome photos with the dead or keeping body
parts as war trophies.
US soldier reveals he threw fatal
grenade<http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-soldier-reveals-he-threw-fatal-grenade
-20101014-16lrf.html> --The mission was relayed on to six televisions
at the command centre, yet Ms Norgrove's death was first attributed
to an insurgent detonating a suicide vest - an account that was
reported around the world. 15 Oct 2010 A US special forces soldier
who is believed to have 'accidentally' killed the British aid worker
Linda Norgrove is likely to face disciplinary action after failing
to inform his commanding officers that he had used a grenade until
long after the event. Sources in Kabul and London have confirmed
that during the assault on the kidnappers' hideaway, the hostage
broke away from her captors and lay in a foetal position to avoid
harm... It has also emerged that US forces monitored the kidnappers
using a network of informers and drones.
'11 US-led troops killed in
Afghanistan'<http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146908.html> 16 Oct 2010
Taliban claim that they have killed at least 11 US-led soldiers in
a bomb attack in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Taliban
spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed on Saturday that one of Taliban
members blew himself up at a joint military base controlled by
US-led foreign troops and Afghan forces and killed 11 soldiers and
wounded several others, a Press TV correspondent reported.
14 US-led troops killed in Afghan
war<http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146744.html> 14 Oct 2010 At least
14 US-led foreign soldiers, including six Americans have been killed
in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan in the past two days. The
soldiers were killed in separate incidents in different parts of
the war-torn country... The latest fatalities come just a day after
six American soldiers were slain in the violence-wracked country.
Roadside bomb kills 9 in
Afghanistan<http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146907.html> 16 Oct 2010
A roadside bomb has killed at least 9 civilians and wounded four
others in southern province of Zabul in Afghanistan, a senior police
official says. The people lost their lives after their bus hit an
improvised explosive device near the city of Qalat on Friday, Ghulam
Jelani Farahi, the deputy police chief of the province, told Press
TV.
WHO: Outbreak of disfiguring tropical disease surges in Afghanistan,
with thousands
infected<http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5i8xNph1
F1CGsGDn_Op0VkNP78vdw> 15 Oct 2010 An outbreak of a tropical disease
caused by sand fly bites that leaves disfiguring skin sores has hit
Afghanistan, with tens of thousands of people infected, health
officials said Friday. Cutaneous leishmanisis is a parasitic disease
transmitted by the female phlebotomine sand fly -- an insect only
2-3 millimeters long that requires the blood of humans or animals
so its eggs can develop.
Unauthorized US strike kills 4 in
Pakistan<http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146894.html> 16 Oct 2010 Four
people have been killed in a non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack in
Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region only hours after another
US drone attack had killed four people. Pakistani security officials
confirmed the US drone attack in the town of Aziz Khen and the death
toll late on Friday, AFP reported.
US military says 77,000 Iraqis killed over 5
years<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iH7djl-Zmj3BM020o2PaN
zs06_9AD9IRIS5O0> [The actual number is much higher.] 14 Oct 2010
A new U.S.
military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi civilians and security
forces in the bloodiest years of the war thousands below Iraqi
government figures. The body count tallied deaths of almost 77,000
Iraqis between January 2004 and August 2008 -- the darkest chapter
of Iraq's sectarian warfare and the U.S.
troop surge to quell exploit it. But the tally falls short of the
estimated 85,694 deaths of civilians and security officials between
January 2004 to Oct.
31, 2008, as counted last year by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry.
Security officers targeted in
Iraq<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/10/15/Security-officers-targ
eted-in-Iraq/UPI-60311287195803/> 15 Oct 2010 Iraqi security officials
say insurgents have been targeting the police and military in recent
months, with even traffic officers being killed and maimed. The
weapons of choice are bombs attached to cars with magnets, and
handguns equipped with silencers, investigators say.
Six killed in Iraq bomb
attacks<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gHYVzKClb7jU1Te_nn
kiJx53TgwQ?docId=CNG.54816e33debe3117debb062e3859e7f7.901> 14 Oct
2010 Six people were killed on Thursday in separate bomb attacks
in Iraq, one of which targeted an official from the secular Iraqiya
[CIA] bloc of former premier Iyad Allawi, an interior ministry
official said. In Jurf al-Nadaf, some 10 kilometres (6 miles)
southeast of Baghdad, a bomb targeting the convoy of Iraqiya official
Karim Mahud killed his bodyguard and three passers-by, and wounded
four other civilians.
WikiLeaks says funding blocked after government
blacklisting<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/14/wikileaks-says-fundi
ng-is-blocked> --Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by
Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website's donations
14 Oct 2010 The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has
had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial
warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered
internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed
the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it
had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian
government blacklist.
US supports terrorism: Turkish PM<http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146903.html>
16 Oct 2010 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his
visit to Pakistan, has declared that the US administration supports
"terrorism."
Erdogan touched on Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that
killed nine Turkish human rights activists on May 31 and condemned
the US "double standards," noting that Washington openly "supported
the Israeli state terrorism," despite its claims that it supports
peace, Turkey's Milliyet newspaper reported on Saturday.
DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inauguration for 'items
of
interest'<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9191058/DHS_scoured_social_m
edia_sites_during_Obama_inauguration_for_items_of_interest_> --EFF
documents reveal broad range of targets including Facebook, Twitter
and MySpace 14 Oct 2010 An electronic rights advocacy group is
expressing concern over what it contends was an overly broad
surveillance of social networking sites conducted by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security in the days leading up to the 2009
inauguration of President Barack Obama. The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) recently obtained documents pertaining to the DHS's
monitoring of social networking sites through a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The documents show that the DHS established a
unit called the Social Network Monitoring Center (SNMC) last year
to scour social sites for signs of potential security threats during
the presidential inauguration.
Strikers cut fuel pipeline to
Paris<http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1015/breaking20.html>
--Nationwide strike is planned on Tuesday 15 Oct 2010 Refinery
workers cut off a fuel pipeline to Paris today as protesters piled
on pressure to derail French president Nicolas Sarkozy's unpopular
pension reform. Police broke up blockades at fuel depots in southern
France but protesters blocked a terminal at Paris's Orly airport
and truckers were set to join the fray as momentum built for a day
of street rallies tomorrow.
Paris airports pipeline cut amid protests:
company<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20101015/tts-france-strike-politics-pens
ions-avia-509a08e.html> 15 Oct 2010 The fuel pipeline to Paris' two
main airports as well as depots outside the capital was cut on
Friday, operator Trapil told AFP, as pension reform protests around
the country hit supplies.
The main Paris air hub, Charles de Gaulle, could run out of fuel
as early as next week, a company spokesman said, adding that three
fuel depots supplying road filling stations south of the capital
would also be hit.
Anthem Approved For Health Rate Hikes As High As 47
Percent<http://www.courant.com/health/hc-health-premium-rates-1015-20101014,0
,4904724.story> 14 Oct 2010 The state's largest insurer has won
approval to raise health premiums by as much as 47 percent for
policies sold to individual buyers, the largest price hikes seen
in Connecticut since the adoption of national health care reform
the insurance cartel giveaway. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
has received approval to raise rates on those individual market
plans by at least 19 percent -- including a range of 30 to 44 percent
for the brand that was most popular in 2009, Century Preferred.
[See: Arming the Left: Is the time
now?<http://www.legitgov.org/essay_southwell_arming_the_left_is_the_time_now_
102203.html> By Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003.]
U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick
Children<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/health/policy/14health.html> 14
Oct 2010 The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health
insurance companies to offer child-only policies serving the insurance
cartel, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for
coverage of children with serious medical problems, if state law
allowed it. Insurers "can adjust their rates based on health status
until 2014, to the extent state law allows," said Jay Angoff,
director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight
at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Gov't: No Increase for Social Security Next
Year<http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11895945> 15 Oct
2010 Another year without an increase in Social Security retirement
and disability benefits is creating a political backlash that has
President Barack Obama and Democrats pushing to give a $250 bonus
to each of the program's 58 million recipients.
The Social Security Administration said Friday inflation has been
too low since the last increase in 2009 to warrant a raise for 2011.
The announcement marks only the second year without an increase
since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975.
Obama administration blasts Calif. pot
measure<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/15/BAJS1FTFK
C.DTL> 15 Oct 2010 The Obama administration has denounced Proposition
19<http://www.sfgate.com/prop19-marijuana/>, which would legalize
personal use of marijuana in California, and promises to "vigorously
enforce" the federal ban on possessing, growing or selling the drug
if voters approve the ballot measure Nov. 2. The pledge came Thursday
from Attorney General Eric Holder, who oversees the government's
anti-narcotics operations.
Vaccine pimp Bill Gates buying favorable publicity: Bill Gates Buys
More News Coverage for His Seattle Foundation, Gives ABC $1.5
Million<http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/10/bill_gates_buys_mo
re_news_cove.php> 08 Oct 2010 Bill Gates is making another media
investment:
His foundation will help fund a project at ABC
News<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/change-save-life-abc-news/story?id
=11805510> to increase its coverage of health conditions of the
poor. It further expands the billionaire's investments in the news
media, which could help influence the stories they cover. For while
the latest effort is a good cause, he is effectively paying ABC as
he has others media outlets to report on his foundation's efforts
- presumably favorably. In 2008, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
issued a $3.5 million
grant<http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-02-04/news/could-gates-be-the-p-i-s-w
hite-knight/> to establish a TV production unit to report on global
health issues for PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Cancer 'is purely man-made' say scientists after finding almost no
trace of disease in Egyptian
mummies<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1320507/Cancer-purely-
man-say-scientists-finding-trace-disease-Egyptian-mummies.html> 15
Oct 2010 Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of
modern life [vaccines], a study of ancient remains has found. Tumours
were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became
issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature
found.
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Previous lead stories: DHS, Defense Join Forces to Battle Cyber
Threats<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370723,00.asp>
--Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
approved<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365709,00.asp> S.
3480 in June.
The cyber-security bill would allegedly provide Obama with an
'Internet kill switch' in the event of an emergency [false flag].
13 Oct 2010 The Department of Homeland Security and Department of
Defense signed an
agreement<http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1286984200944.shtm> this
week under which they will work together to 'defend' the country's
Internet backbone. "We are building a new framework between our
Departments to enhance operational coordination and joint program
planning," DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and DOD Secretary Robert
Gates said in a joint statement.
Italy appeals trial of CIA kidnapping case
begins<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iM_YyWi9inE9T_InTSAg
1w3qlraAD9IQ9CMO0?docId=D9IQ9CMO0> 12 Oct 2010 The appeals trial
in the CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect from the
streets of Milan opened Tuesday with the prosecution seeking to
incriminate Italian secret service agents acquitted in the initial
trial. Twenty-three Americans and two Italians were convicted in
November in the 2003 kidnapping of the Egyptian cleric -- the first
legal convictions anywhere in the world involving the CIA's
extraordinary renditions program.
Trial of Guantanamo detainee begins in civilian
court<http://sify.com/news/trial-of-guantanamo-detainee-begins-in-civilian-co
urt-news-international-kknhacfegga.html> 13 Oct 2010 The US Tuesday
charged Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani with conspiring
to bomb its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and to kill Americans.
Ghailani was taken before a US district court in Lower Manhattan
to face the first trial in a civilian court of a Guantanamo detainee
prisoner since the US detention centre in Cuba opened in January
2002.
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