[…] report detailing how private companies like itself could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones around the world. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave the firm an additional $5 million to update its report….. That same year, the company won a five-year logistics contract from the U.S. Army Corps […]
[…] not al-Qaeda. The hijackers were al-Qaeda but since al-Qaeda is a creation of the Americans, the operation was run by them (or the Israelis). Whatever hit the Pentagon it wasn’t Flight 77 (the hole is too small). Etc. etc.. The authors work through the entire event, presenting these and many other variations; and, oh […]
[PDF file]: Gladio NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis Richard Cottrell Progressive Press, 2012, $17.00, p/b www.ProgressivePress.com The e-mail pitch was intriguing: a former Conservative MEP and journalist has written a big book about the Gladio network with ‘….entirely new accounts on the assassination of the ex Italian PM Aldo Moro, the […]
[…] the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people from within or close to the British and American states asserting this in various forms in […]
[…] in eastern Afghanistan after fighting near the city of Gardez this month…. The claim, carried by a number of newspapers yesterday, was denied emphatically last night by Pentagon and State Department sources.’ Two days later, in The Independent 26 March 2002, Kim Sengupta and Nigel Morris reported: ‘Downing Street was facing an embarrassing rift […]
[…] But only up to a point. Here’s an example. In the official story the bodies of the passengers and crew of Flight 77 (which crashed into the Pentagon) and Flight 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) were identified by DNA – there not being much left after impact and fire. Indeed, as part of the […]
[…] epic quality of that conflict — the holiest of holies is probably the Special Operations Group (SOG). One of the most shadowy organizations ever formed by the Pentagon, SOG conducted a war within a war, sending commando teams into Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam itself. Its activities included seaborne raids that may have triggered […]
[…] cover for the brigade’s B-26 bombers on the morning of April 19. The unmarked jets failed to rendezvous with the bombers, however, because the CIA and the Pentagon were unaware of a time zone difference between Nicaragua and Cuba. Two B-26s were shot down and four Americans lost (emphasis added). OK bomb In early […]
On April 22, 1993 both BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry — the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) … Read more
[…] Union”. After the election Washington showed its displeasure with the result by failing to send the traditional note of congratulation to the new government. State Department ‘gratified’, Pentagon ‘delighted’ Since May 14 the US has been careful not to express too much enthusiasm for the coup, and just as careful not to condemn it. […]
