THE ORIGINAL DOWNING STREET "MEMO" (PDF) (Plain Text) (Annotated)
MAJOR PLAYERS–who are the people present at this meeting?
THE OTHER DOWNING STREET MEMOS AND DOCUMENTS
"The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the summer 2002 and--determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies--fixed the intelligence and facts. What has come to be known as the Downing Street Memos.
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by Nicole Perlroth And David E. Sanger, New York Times Feb. 16, 2015
"In a presentation of its findings at a conference in Mexico on
Monday, Kaspersky Lab, the Russian firm, said that the implants had
been placed by what it called the "Equation Group," which appears to
be a veiled reference to the National Security Agency and its
military counterpart, United States Cyber Command."
"satire" October 2014
"Boko Haram have thanked Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai for her role in helping mediate a landmark ceasefire deal between the group and the Nigerian army.
Nigerian media announced on Friday that the militant group, which has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people since 2009, had reached an agreement with the Nigerian army, which would include the release of the estimated 200 schoolgirls abducted earlier this year.
“Malala appeared to our leader [Abubakar Shekau] in a dream and said that kidnapping girls was not the answer,” an unnamed spokesperson said on a video released by the group.
“We will go back to focusing on restricting boys education, because there is less stress in that industry,” he said."
Glenn Greenwald: It seems pretty clear at this point that U.S. military action in the Middle East is the end in itself, and the particular form it takes – even including the side for which the U.S. fights – is an ancillary consideration.
If US intelligence is to be believed, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the ultimate bad guy.- Background article from 2004. (via archive.org) "In the run-up to the Iraq war in February 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations that al-Zarq
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