February 2005

Newsweek reports at some length on the operations of the so-called “torture flights”, the two no-titles jets allegedly used by certain parts of the US government to transfer suspected terrorists to countries where they may face a worse fate. The Ranter of the 15th of November 2004 covered a previous version of the story, however…

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Phil Carter’s Intel Dump reports on a Wall Street Journal story on a rash of apparently unauthorised irregular forces appearing in Iraq. (Note: original story is locked in a subscription ghetto) It is reported that “The unplanned units — commanded by friends and relatives of cabinet officers and tribal sheiks — go by names like…

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I’ve only been watching the Great Gannon Hunt in passing, but this is amazing: it is said he knew about the opening of the Iraq invasion four hours beforehand. Now this is even more important than the link makes out: H-hour in Iraq was brought forward by 24 hours at the last moment, because of…

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Juan Zarate, US Assistant Treasury Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime, gave a long testimony to the Senate Financial Services Committee yesterday. It’s good to see that, in his words: “Treasury is also working with the interagency community to identify and shut down illicit financiers who have penetrated the diamond and precious commodity industries…

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God, the stats log’s been entertaining in the last few days. After the folk who were looking for porno pictures of the president of Yemen, and the crazed FreeRepublic.com trolls, now we have someone at the Elysée Palace. At 0816 hours, Thursday 17th February 2005, IP address 62.160.71.179 searched French Google for “KH-55” and hit…

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