According to the cable, the Haqqani Network was paid by Pakistan’s ISI to coordinate a suicide bombing and a CIA base in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency provided $200,000 to the Haqqani Network for a 2009 suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, according to a newly declassified State
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Al-Qaeda vows by the strategy of ‘a thousand cuts’ and ‘bleed the enemy to death’
Posted by Canasiantimes on November 28, 2010 The Yemen-based branch of Al-Qaeda has vowed to continue attacks against the West such as last month’s cargo plane parcel bombs, in a “strategy of a thousand cuts” that will “bleed the enemy to death”, a monitoring group said. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
US & Pak play ‘I spy’ with one another
Posted by admin on July 13, 20102,293 Comments US & Pak play ‘I spy’ with one another A Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad last year, offering to give up secrets of his countries closely guarded nuclear program. To prove he was a trustworthy source, he claimed to possess spent nuclear fuel
Silencing Canada’s whistleblowers
Silencing Canada’s whistleblowers LAST week an adjudicator at the Public Service Labour Relations Board handed down rulings related to three Health Canada scientists that confirm what many Canadians – and international observers – had already concluded: that Canada is not a safe place for honest employees, especially if they work for
World’s largest floating island
The world’s largest floating vessel, a 1,601-foot-long and 243-foot-wide liquefied natural gas facility called Prelude, has been launched from a dock in South Korea. The vessel, which can’t technically be called a ship as it is towed between destinations, is longer than the Empire State Building in height and weighs