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The tag 'Afghanistan' is associated with 13 posts.

Was the Relationship between Brian Glyn Williams and Dzokhar Tsarnaev more than Just Student and “Tutor”?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 10, 2013 ⋅ 4 comments

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bomb­ings, we’ve high­lighted the unrav­el­ing of the “two lone nuts” the­ory of that tragic event.In this con­text, we note that younger brother Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s high school men­tor has a back­ground in the CIA and also teaches Islamic stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, which Dzokhar attended.


Old Home(land Security) Week in Boston: “Fee, Fi . . . Ho Hum” (Part 2)

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 28, 2013 ⋅ 4 comments

The Boston bomb­ing sus­pects’ uncle turns out to have been mar­ried to the daugh­ter of a key CIA offi­cer. That offi­cer, Gra­ham E. Fuller, was a key advo­cate of a U.S. alliance with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Fuller has also run inter­fer­ence for the insid­i­ous Fetul­lah Gulen cult.


Falling to Earth: September 11th Flight School Operator Rudi Dekkers Arrested for Drug Trafficking

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 15, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Long able to escape legal ret­ri­bu­tion for his actions, Huff­man Avi­a­tion oper­a­tor Rudi Dekkers appears to have run out of luck. The Dutch/German pilot who ran the flight school through which 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and his Ger­man and Aus­trian asso­ciates infil­trated the United States has been arrested in Hous­ton for drug traf­fick­ing. It remains to be seen what comes of this inves­ti­ga­tion, but the impli­ca­tions are poten­tially staggering.


Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Jim Thomp­son, CIA offi­cer who openly crit­i­cized the Agency’s pol­icy in Asia dis­ap­peared from the face of the earth.


Islamist Elements Behind Violence, Kyrgystan Government Says

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: As noted pre­vi­ously, the towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad in Kyr­gys­tan, in addi­tion to being flash­points of lethal Uzbek/Kyrgyz eth­nic ten­sions, are epi­cen­ters of activ­ity for Hizb Ut-Tahrir, a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affil­i­ate. The gov­ern­ment of Kyr­gyzs­tan is now claim­ing that Islamist ele­ments, con­spir­ing with the fam­ily of the deposed leader, pre­cip­i­tated the vio­lence. In [...]


Russia Alleges that NATO Aiding Afghan Heroin Production

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 5, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Com­ment: the refusal by the Marines to destroy the crop should not be sur­pris­ing in and of itself. The impov­er­ished Afghan farm­ers depend on it for income and in the “bat­tle for hearts and minds,” that is an impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion. Con­sid­er­ing that other options are avail­able, such as pur­chas­ing the opium to make med­ical morphine, [...]


NATO Refuses Russian Request to Destroy Afghan Opium Fields

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 4, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Com­ment: In light of the mas­sive vol­ume of broad­casts avail­able on this site about intel­li­gence com­mu­nity involve­ment in drug traf­fick­ing, this should come as no sur­prise. “NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Poppy Fields”; New Europe; 3/26/2010. NATO and Rus­sia clashed on 24 March over how to tackle the drug prob­lem in Afghanistan, where [...]


FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 18, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

U.S. Cold War pol­icy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions drive U.S. pol­icy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­ated by U.S. “ally” Pakistan.


FTR #678 Interview (#1) with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

U.S. lured the Sovi­ets into Afghanistan; George H.W. Bush ana­lysts pro­vide ide­o­log­i­cal base for the actions; Zbig­niew Brzezin­ski imple­ments the plan; Rea­gan cold war­riors reject Soviet with­drawal plan.


Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story

Posted by FTR ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Despite dec­la­ra­tions made by some in power, the war in Afghanistan is far from over — in fact, the tur­bu­lence is escalating.


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