War Glance
A secret Army interrogation squad abused dozens of Iraqi prisoners, a firm of lawyers has claimed. Prisoners were hooded, held in "stress positions", denied sleep and daylight, and told their wives and mothers would be raped, the lawyers allege.
They say the Joint Forward Intelligence Team (JFIT) was not answerable to the Army chain of command.
Secret Army squad 'abused Iraqis', UK lawyers claim
Suicide bomber invited on Afghan base
The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Russia blames U.S. for delay in nuclear arms reduction deal
The United States has slowed down talks on a nuclear arms reduction deal with Russia in the last few days, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
Asked to comment on media reports that a new landmark pact to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired on December 5, is unlikely to be signed this year, Lavrov said: "Work is continuing, but we have noticed a slowdown in U.S. negotiators' efforts."
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.
British involvement in Iraq war blamed on Blair’s ‘sycophancy’
British soldiers were sent to their deaths in Iraq because of Tony Blair’s “sycophancy” towards Washington and the failure of the governing class to speak the truth, a former prosecutions chief says today.
WMD treaty violations and inspection refusal for biological, nuclear, chemical weapons. Iran? No, US
President Obama rejected inspection protocol for US biological weapons, in Orwellian contradiction to his statement to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). This comes after increased US investment in bio-weapons during the Bush Administration with multiple reports of secret and illegal programs.
Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the C.I.A.
Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.
The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly basis during the height of the Iraqi insurgency from 2004 to 2006, with Blackwater personnel playing central roles in what company insiders called “snatch and grab” operations, the former employees and current and former intelligence officers said.
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