Mehsud eist verantwoordelijkheid schietpartij op

Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistaans terrorist en al minstens twee keer gestorven , eist de verantwoordelijkheid op voor de schietpartij in Binghamton, New York State....
En ondertussen wordt de strijd in Waziristan, Pakistan, opgevoerd.

Scholen in Weesp bedreigd

WEESP (ANP) - Bij een aantal scholen in Weesp zijn maandagochtend dreigementen binnengekomen. Gezien de ernst hiervan heeft de gemeente meteen maatregelen genomen om de veiligheid van de kinderen en medewerkers te waarborgen.

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Bijzonder vervelend voor de betrokkenen. De vraag die we echter wel een keer moeten stellen: voor wie zijn dit soort angstaanjagende berichten eigenlijk minder vervelend?

Update: er zijn enkele arrestaties verricht. Maar nog weinig duidelijkheid over de motieven en de inhoud van de dreigementen.

The Coming War on Venezuela

While domestic psyops have continued, notably in the 2005 deployment of "Gypsy" (JPOSE, Joint Psychological Operations Support Element) teams to Venezuela with the objective of spreading propaganda among the Venezuelan military and keeping tabs on radical Chavista organizations (117), much of their focus has been the spreading of news stories in the international arena. These stories, as Golinger astutely documents, tend to follow "three major lines of attack":

1.) Chávez is an anti-democratic dictator
2.) Chávez is a destabilizing force in the region
3.) Chávez harbors and supports terrorism (125).

Even the briefest of glances at any mainstream newspaper in the United States, or many other countries for that matter, will show to what degree this mediatically-constructed image has been a success.

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Whoops, I think we lost something -CIA-operative ;)

Flashback: How to Start a Civil War

When the Shia mosque was bombed, it was Sadr who blamed the Americans for it.

It would be very much out of character if it really were Sadr´s militias who were indiscriminately mass-murdering their Sunni neighbours.

According to many Iraqis, while there was a division between Kurds and Arabs in the north of Iraq, there never was a division between Sunnis and Shia before the war.

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Saddam Hussein: Execution Video Meant to Cause Shia-Sunni Conflict

The leaking of the videotape of hanging of Saddam and the dialogue that was exchanged between Saddam’s executioners, handpicked by Americans, and the subsequent planting of stories in mainstream media that Saddam's hanging will be seen by Shia's as a welcome sacrifice on one of the Holiest days of Islam was a deliberate act meant to create a backlash amongst Muslims and a Shia-Sunni conflict in the Muslim world.

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