by Sonali Kolhatkar July 17, 2009 Editor’s Note (from New America Media): Just two weeks into July, the month is already the deadliest for NATO troops in Afghanistan. The high casualty count is at least partially the result of Operation Khanjar, the largest U.S. Marine Corps ground offensive in years. But NAM contributor Sonali Kolhatkar writes that [...]

read English (original) version below Matando la esperanza, sembrando el terror por Manuel García, Jr. 15 de julio, 2009 En junio de 2009, Leon Panetta, director de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) – la Guardia Pretoriana de EE.UU. que guía el curso del Imperio del Área del Dólar – anuló un programa para asesinar a dirigentes de al-Qaeda, [...]

• Congressional calls for formal investigation mount • Agency officials believe they’re caught up in political war

by Benjamin Sarlin July 15, 2009 The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney’s secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to The Daily Beast about the next shoe to drop. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh raised eyebrows back in March when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota [...]

Congress is outraged that Cheney concealed a CIA program to assassinate al Qaeda leaders, but they should also be investigating why Obama is continuing—and expanding—U.S. assassinations.

by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane July 13, 2009 WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.

Entrevista a Abu Mohamed, portavoz del partido Baaz y del Frente Patriótico Nacionalista e Islámico Eduardo Luque 12 de mayo, 2009 Abu Mohamed es el seudónimo de Khodayer W.H. Al-Murshidy. Tiene 53 años, es médico oncólogo y profesor de la Universidad de Bagdad. Desde finales de 2006, es el representante y portavoz del Partido Baaz Árabe Socialista (PBAS) [...]