As reported yesterday, in yet another humiliating blow to US foreign policy and the State Department, Al Qaeda-linked ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) militants took over the key northern town of Mosul, where an unknown number of US-made … Read the rest
Posts Tagged ‘terrorism’
The true aims of the Terror War
By Chris Floyd.
The moral insanity of the Terror War continues to spawn more violence, more extremism, more repression, more injustice, and the total subversion of the “Western values,” all of which it is ostensibly designed to defend.
A new … Read the rest
Venetian nationalists accused of ‘terror’
Luca Zaia
Italian police on Wednesday arrested 24 people involved in a campaign to demand independence for Venice and its surrounding region and seized a tractor that they said the activists had tried to convert into a sort of tank.… Read the rest
Mandela’s legacy: the Shell House massacre
by Dan Roodt
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Twenty years ago, on 28 March 1994, the ANC’s militia massacred a crowd of protesting Zulus in downtown Johannesburg, using automatic weapons against men armed only with symbolic “cultural weapons”, such as … Read the rest
FBI: Cyber-attacks worse threat than terrorism
James Comey
Cyber-attacks are increasingly becoming the primary threat against the United States, according to the head of the FBI.
During his first testimony as the new FBI director, James Comey told Congress on Thursday that while the threat of … Read the rest
Sexwale’s detention signals US terror watch list still active
Church Street bombing
A former black South African government Minister has been detained in New York apparently because his name is on a terrorism watch list.
Tokyo Sexwale became a member of the Black Consciousness Movement in the late 1960s … Read the rest
Stasi Meets Steve Jobs
By Eric Margolis
“Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen’s mail” sniffed US Secretary of State Henry Stimson in 1929 when told that American cryptographers had broken Japan’s naval and diplomatic codes.
Stimson, who later headed the War Department, ordered code-breaking … Read the rest
South Africa to address ‘outdated ANC terror lists’
Scene of the Amanzimtoti bomb planted by the ANC and SACP
The department of international relations would continue in its attempts to rectify the travel restrictions of former ANC urban terrorists in some international countries, it said on Monday.
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‘White widow’ rented property in South Africa
Samantha Lewthwaite and Germaine Lindsay pose with their son.
A British woman thought to be linked to the Nairobi mall attacks used an assumed South African identity to take out bank loans and rent property in Johannesburg, local media reported … Read the rest
Tony Blair’s daughter held at gunpoint
Kathryn and Tony Blair
Tony Blair’s daughter Kathryn has been threatened at gunpoint in a botched robbery.
The young barrister was walking her dog with her boyfriend and a group of friends when the attackers struck.
The pair were in … Read the rest
At least 12 die in US Navy Yard shooting
At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning.
Police were looking for two other potential gunmen wearing military-style uniforms, including one who had on a beret, chief Cathy Lanier said.
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Mandela responding to treatment says Zuma
Former president Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment but is still in a critical but stable condition, says President Jacob Zuma.
“We are encouraged that Madiba is responding to treatment and urge the public to continue providing support and showering
Morsi’s support for intervention in Syria was the straw that broke the camel’s back
The protests in Egypt against president Mohammed Morsi were – according to the BBC – the largest in history.
The Irish Times reports:
Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head … Read the rest
Liberalism is the real cause of witchcraft murders in South Africa
by Dan Roodt
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Apparently Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorising $10 million to be spent on stopping the poaching of wildlife in Africa, including rhinoceri that are being decimated at an … Read the rest