Cover ups and Deceptions

Murder, rape and the final proof that Britain should never have fought this shaming war

DAILYMAIL — 25th October 2010

The Iraq war was fought in the name of civilised values and common decency. The British and Americans presented themselves as the good guys, bringing democracy and the rule of law and

WikiLeaks exposé: Robert Fisk: The shaming of America

INDEPENDENT — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Our writer delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq - and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US

Iraq war logs: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads

Nick Clegg calls for answers to 'extremely serious' abuse reports, but says it is up to US to answer for its own forces

GUARDIAN — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fresh evidence that US soldiers handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad has emerged in army logs published by WikiLeaks.

The 400,000 field reports published by the

The disinherited

HAARETZ — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

What happened to the 130,000 Syrian citizens living in the Golan Heights in June 1967? According to the Israeli narrative, they all fled to Syria, but official documents and testimonies tell

Cross-border blame game over Lockerbie bomber row

TELEGRAPH — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A cross-border blame game over the release of the Lockerbie bomber has erupted after Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary, refused to appear before a Senate inquiry into the decision.

Bloody Sunday inquiry: Victims' relatives march to Derry Guildhall

GUARDIAN — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:55:42 GMT

Families of those killed in 1972 to gain preview of Saville report on Northern Ireland shootings

US discovers $1 trillion Afghan mineral deposits: NYT

DAWN — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:33:23 PKT

Afghanistan could be holding $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits including critical industrial metals such as lithium, the New York Times reported, quoting US government officials. The

Military chiefs accused of blundering into Afghanistan with ‘eyes shut’ - "Goal to enhance a tiny, American provincial reconstruction team" - "We got huge push back from Whitehall, who wanted us to write something different for the ministers"

TIMESONLINE — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Military chiefs are also accused of giving the advice that politicians and civil servants wanted to hear, rather than the cold facts that might make the political imperative — on this

US military 'cannot find Iraq tape'

ALJAZEERA — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:21:30 GMT

Officials reviewing whether helicopter crew followed rules of engagement in attack.

Nato admits killing Afghan women - "Some reports suggested Nato soldiers tried to cover up the deaths of the women by removing bullets from the bodies"

BBC — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:41:19 GMT

Nato has admitted that its forces were responsible for the deaths of three women during a botched night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in February.

It had already admitted

Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians

GUARDIAN — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:52:14 GMT

Footage of July 2007 attack made public as Pentagon identifies website as threat to national security A secret video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in

Report: U.K. to formally link Israel to Dubai hit

HAARETZ — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:57:57 GMT+02:00

Britain is expected to formally link Israel to the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was found dead in a Dubai hotel room in January, according to a report Tuesday in the

CIA tainted French bread with LSD for test

PRESSTV — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:05:53 GMT

After 50 years of suspicions over the cursed bread of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit and its people's hallucinations, a journalist found CIA in the background of the tragedy.

Murder in Dubai debacle - Radio Show special by George Galloway tonight 20th Feb 2010 covering the assassination by Mossad of Palesintian official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh -- @georgegalloway

WORLDPRESSNETWORK — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

George Galloway Talksport Show at 10pm tonight Saturday 20th February will feature an in-depth discussion of the "Murder in Dubai" debacle

Please spread the word the web, on walls, via

Seumas Milne : This is no ripping yarn, but a murder to fan more conflict - The media may revel in a Mossad hit, yet Britain's response to a plot that could threaten its own citizens has been craven

GUARDIAN — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Imagine for a moment what the reaction would be if Iranian intelligence was almost unversally believed to have assassinated a leader of one of the organisations fighting the Tehran

UK calls in Israeli ambassador as Dubai killing row escalates - "Relations were in the freezer before this. They are in the deep freeze now"

GUARDIAN — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Relations in Tel Aviv now in 'deep freeze', say British officials

The Israeli ambassador has been summoned to the foreign office to "share information" about the assassins' use of

Israeli assassinations: passports to kill - Our government seems to be fine with letting the Israeli secret service wage its war with Hamas under a British flag

GUARDIAN — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

British passports are the property of the British government. When that government says and does nothing for six days after it was given evidence that Mossad agents stole the identity of six

Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret

INDEPENDENT — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It's a propaganda war. Whoever killed the Hamas official in Dubai – let's speak frankly – it's part of an old, dirty war between the Israelis and the Palestinians in which they have been

Hamas assassination: Israeli ambassador must answer questions over fake passports

TELEGRAPH — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Israel's ambassador should be summoned to the Foreign Office to answer allegations of his country's involvement in the assassination of a Hamas commander by a hit squad using fake British and

GALLOWAY DEMANDS ANSWERS OVER DUBAI ASSASSINATION INVOLVING BRITISH PASSPORT HOLDERS

SOCIALISTUNITY — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

George Galloway has written to the Foreign Secretary, the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister and tabled Parliamentary Questions concerning the news this morning that six of the suspects in

Police investigate Prince Andrew claims

GUARDIAN — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:14:26 GMT

Policeman suffered arm injury protecting Japanese tourists at palace from Duke of York's car, the Sun reports Prince Andrew is being investigated over claims that he drove into a policeman

Binyam Mohamed: How MI5 misled parliament's intelligence and security committee

GUARDIAN — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:44:44 GMT

Evidence over "paragraph 168" shows that security services did know of deliberate US strategy of sleep deprivation, rendition threats and shackling. One of the gravest revelations so far

Clare Short: Blair misled us and took UK into an illegal war

GUARDIAN — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:52:39 GMT

Former minister says government was a 'lunatic asylum' in runup to attack with Gordon Brown also 'unhappy and marginalised' Richard Norton-Taylor Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, his attorney

Clare Short savages Tony Blair's 'lies'

MIRROR — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The ex-International Development Secretary told how a "deceitful" Mr Blair silenced Cabinet colleagues who questioned his plans for the 2003 invasion. She said she was jeered by Mr Blair and

Bush and Blair did strike Iraq deal at ranch, says Welsh MP

WALESONLINE — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:18:46 GMT

A SENIOR Welsh MP said last night he knew “for certain” Tony Blair and George Bush struck a deal to invade Iraq at their notorious Crawford Ranch meeting in 2002 – a year before war was

70-year gag on Kelly death evidence

GOOGLE — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.

A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who

Cover-up claims as David Kelly post mortem set to stay under wraps for 70 years

DAILYMAIL — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Medical records which could shed light on the death of government scientist David Kelly are to be kept secret for 70 years, it emerged yesterday.

In an unprecedented move, Lord

Calls for fresh Dr Kelly inquiry - "Earlier finding of suicide was flawed" - "Due process has been subverted" - "It's highly likely he was assassinated" - "There needs to be a proper inquiry into the Iraq War"

BBC — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Campaigning doctors have called for a formal inquest into the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly.

They have produced a report arguing an earlier finding of suicide was

Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter

WSWS — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Davids Commission, which investigated the role of the Netherlands in the 2003 Iraq war, has declared that the war was illegal. The panel of commissioners included experienced European

"If it did not originate from the Lockerbie Semtex exploding timer, then where did it come from?" : Statement from Dr Jim Swire following "Newsnight" explosives revelations

FIRMMAGAZINE — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

"Some of the British public may remember signing a petition to the European Parliament in 1995, requesting the involvement of the EU in examining matters relating to the Lockerbie

BBC investigation : 'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence

BBC — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:50:24 GMT

A BBC investigation casts doubt on a key piece of evidence against convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.

French media caught red-handed: Honduras coup protest photo presented as Iranian

INDYMEDIA — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The German daily Junge Welt reported that the French public national television channel "France 2" has diffused an image of a protest in Honduras against the June 2009 military coup and

US spies: Israel or UK forged nukes report on Iran

PRESSTV — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:01:15 GMT

US intelligence sources have confirmed Iran's assertions that a document published by a British daily about Tehran's nuclear program is a fabrication.

John Pilger : Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010 - Inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth"

GLOBALRESEARCH — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the

22 million 'lost' Bush era emails recovered

PRESSTV — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:55:29 GMT

Two private US organizations have published information on previous administration's deliberate misplacement of around 22 million White House e-mails to clean up acts.

UK spy chief denies Iraq war deceit

ALJAZEERA — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:39:54 GMT

John Scarlett says he was not pressured to spice up intelligence report before war.

BBC's Mike Thomson investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in oil-rich Oman: History records that it was a family affair, but documents reveal London's hidden hand

BBC — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Offically, the architect of the coup was the Sultan's son, but in papers seen by the programme, Britain is seen to be calling the shots. Worried that the country's faltering regime could

Craig Murray : New Evidence Jack Straw Guilty On Torture - A Smoking Gun

CRAIGMURRAY — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Finally I have indisputable documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the policy was

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? The gagged whistleblower goes on the record.

AMCONMAG — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of

Declassified FBI file: AIPAC staffer spied for Israel

PRESSTV — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:46:29 GMT
A newly declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file indicates that an Israeli intelligence agent was among the staff members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

SIBEL EDMONDS' DEPOSITION: VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT RELEASED

WORLDPRESSNETWORK — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Long-gagged FBI whistleblower's full under-oath testimony from Ohio election case, details Congressional blackmail, bribery, espionage, infiltration, more...

Lockerbie Thread on WPN forums : Exclusive: Crown challenged to prove semtex link to Pan Am103 - "What it does demonstrate is the extent to which anyone promulgating that theory believes us out here in the real world to be completely stupid"

WORLDPRESSNETWORK — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Professor Robert Black QC and UN appointed international observer Hans Kochler have backed a campaign initiated by the Lockerbie Justice Group which challenges the Lord Advocate to openly

Lockerbie Thread on WPN forums : The Lockerbie bomber today released the papers that he believes would have secured his release on appeal

WORLDPRESSNETWORK
In an act of revenge on the Scottish legal system Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi published the 300-page dossier which challenges key planks of the prosecution case against him.

The papers

Ex-UN sleuths accused of trying to frame Syria

GOOGLE — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The first UN team that probed the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri sought to falsely implicate Damascus, Syria said in a letter seen here Thursday.

The letter from

WPN Scoop : Libya told to drop al-Megrahi's appeal to guarantee release - "Pressurising a dying man into dropping his legitimate appeal was beneath contempt - To suggest there was no such pressure is preposterous" - "Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed"

WORLDPRESSNETWORK
WPN Scoop : WPN has been reliably told that Libya was explicitly told that unless al-Megrahi's appeal was dropped, then al-Megrahi's release could not be guaranteed. Whether the person

MI6 faces tortuture investigation after reporting its own officer - CIA interrogators choked one prisoner repeatedly and threatening to kill another detainee’s children - Also waterboarding

TIMESONLINE — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
MI6 is to be investigated over alleged ill-treatment of a suspect after the security service raised concerns over one of its own officers.

The unexpected development means that

PM's record on Libya under fire

BBC — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:41:28 GMT
Some UK papers accuse Gordon Brown of taking a U-turn in backing families of IRA victims seeking compensation from Libya.

Brown under fire over Lockerbie view

PRESSTV — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:39:22 GMT
The British prime minister is faced with mounting pressure after new details were revealed on the discussions about the release of the sole man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Lockerbie thread on WPN forums - George Galloway : Labour hypocrites in limbo over Lockerbie

WORLDPRESSNETWORK
The Scottish Labour party, standing on each other's shoulders, could limbo under a snake and still leave headroom.

I say that as someone brought up to believe Labour was the dynamic

Megrahi was in Libya prisoner transfer deal 'in UK interests'

GUARDIAN — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:26:26 GMT
Leaked letters from Jack Straw to Scottish counterpart Kenny MacAskill increase controversy over release of Libyan convicted of Lockerbie bombing.

The justice secretary, Jack

Cover ups and Deceptions

Murder, rape and the final proof that Britain should never have fought this shaming war

WikiLeaks exposé: Robert Fisk: The shaming of America

Iraq war logs: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads Nick Clegg calls for answers to 'extremely serious' abuse reports, but says it is up to US to answer for its own forces

The disinherited

Cross-border blame game over Lockerbie bomber row

Bloody Sunday inquiry: Victims' relatives march to Derry Guildhall

US discovers $1 trillion Afghan mineral deposits: NYT

Military chiefs accused of blundering into Afghanistan with ‘eyes shut’ - "Goal to enhance a tiny, American provincial reconstruction team" - "We got huge push back from Whitehall, who wanted us to write something different for the ministers"

US military 'cannot find Iraq tape'

Nato admits killing Afghan women - "Some reports suggested Nato soldiers tried to cover up the deaths of the women by removing bullets from the bodies"

Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians

Report: U.K. to formally link Israel to Dubai hit

CIA tainted French bread with LSD for test

Murder in Dubai debacle - Radio Show special by George Galloway tonight 20th Feb 2010 covering the assassination by Mossad of Palesintian official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh -- @georgegalloway

Seumas Milne : This is no ripping yarn, but a murder to fan more conflict - The media may revel in a Mossad hit, yet Britain's response to a plot that could threaten its own citizens has been craven

UK calls in Israeli ambassador as Dubai killing row escalates - "Relations were in the freezer before this. They are in the deep freeze now"

Israeli assassinations: passports to kill - Our government seems to be fine with letting the Israeli secret service wage its war with Hamas under a British flag

Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret

Hamas assassination: Israeli ambassador must answer questions over fake passports

GALLOWAY DEMANDS ANSWERS OVER DUBAI ASSASSINATION INVOLVING BRITISH PASSPORT HOLDERS

Police investigate Prince Andrew claims

Binyam Mohamed: How MI5 misled parliament's intelligence and security committee

Clare Short: Blair misled us and took UK into an illegal war

Clare Short savages Tony Blair's 'lies'

Bush and Blair did strike Iraq deal at ranch, says Welsh MP

70-year gag on Kelly death evidence

Cover-up claims as David Kelly post mortem set to stay under wraps for 70 years

Calls for fresh Dr Kelly inquiry - "Earlier finding of suicide was flawed" - "Due process has been subverted" - "It's highly likely he was assassinated" - "There needs to be a proper inquiry into the Iraq War"

Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter

"If it did not originate from the Lockerbie Semtex exploding timer, then where did it come from?" : Statement from Dr Jim Swire following "Newsnight" explosives revelations

BBC investigation : 'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence

French media caught red-handed: Honduras coup protest photo presented as Iranian

US spies: Israel or UK forged nukes report on Iran

John Pilger : Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010 - Inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth"

22 million 'lost' Bush era emails recovered

UK spy chief denies Iraq war deceit

BBC's Mike Thomson investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in oil-rich Oman: History records that it was a family affair, but documents reveal London's hidden hand

Craig Murray : New Evidence Jack Straw Guilty On Torture - A Smoking Gun

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? The gagged whistleblower goes on the record.

Declassified FBI file: AIPAC staffer spied for Israel

SIBEL EDMONDS' DEPOSITION: VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT RELEASED

Lockerbie Thread on WPN forums : Exclusive: Crown challenged to prove semtex link to Pan Am103 - "What it does demonstrate is the extent to which anyone promulgating that theory believes us out here in the real world to be completely stupid"

Lockerbie Thread on WPN forums : The Lockerbie bomber today released the papers that he believes would have secured his release on appeal

Ex-UN sleuths accused of trying to frame Syria

WPN Scoop : Libya told to drop al-Megrahi's appeal to guarantee release - "Pressurising a dying man into dropping his legitimate appeal was beneath contempt - To suggest there was no such pressure is preposterous" - "Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed"

MI6 faces tortuture investigation after reporting its own officer - CIA interrogators choked one prisoner repeatedly and threatening to kill another detainee’s children - Also waterboarding

PM's record on Libya under fire

Brown under fire over Lockerbie view

Lockerbie thread on WPN forums - George Galloway : Labour hypocrites in limbo over Lockerbie

Megrahi was in Libya prisoner transfer deal 'in UK interests'

Iraq war logs: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads

Nick Clegg calls for answers to 'extremely serious' abuse reports, but says it is up to US to answer for its own forces