The two-part miniseries stars Harvey Keitel and Donnie Wahlberg, and recounts the sequence of events that led to the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11th, 2001. Whilst most dramatisations focus on the 2001 bombings alone, this film is different, in that it begins with the lesser-publicised 1993 World Trade Centre bombings. The 9/11 Commission Report […]
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States, the Associated Press said. Iran’s Foreign Ministry taunted the US Saturday, saying any espionage activity against his country would lead to humiliation. In a statement broadcast on state TV, the ministry said […]
A key U.S. lawmaker denied on Tuesday Iran’s claims that its military brought down a U.S. drone last week, and said technical problems pulled the UAV from the sky and into Tehran’s hands. “I will say without hesitation that this is not something that anyone had anything to do with coming down with, other than […]
(Los Angles Times) The Sentinel drone has cutting-edge stealth and surveillance technology that other nations could exploit. One of the aircraft crashed in Iran, and a U.S. official says it was on a CIA mission. Photographs of the Sentinel first surfaced online in 2009 at a remote airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The drone received the […]
OSAMA BIN LADEN was killed within 90 seconds of the US Navy Seals landing in his compound and not after a protracted gun battle, according to the first account by the men who carried out the raid. The operation was so clinical that only 12 bullets were fired. The Seals have spoken out because they […]
Robert Gates said goodbye to the Pentagon yesterday after serving two presidents and spending nearly five years as defense secretary. On his final day, President Obama surprised Gates with a Medal of Freedom. Leon Panetta takes over today after serving as CIA director since February 2009. He’ll be replaced at the CIA by Gen. David […]
When one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world’s most wanted terrorist. That phone call, recounted Monday by a U.S. official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden’s personal courier, the key break in a worldwide […]
Germany Islamic ‘bomb plotters under al-Qaeda orders’ One of the three Muslim men held in Germany on Friday on suspicion of planning a bomb attack had received orders from al-Qaeda, prosecutors have said. A senior al-Qaeda figure on the Afghan-Pakistan border reportedly gave the order but the target had still not been chosen. The three […]
By Aaron Klein– High school part of learning community funded jointly by Obama and domestic terrorist Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday’s Arizona shooting, attended a high school that is part of a network in which teachers are trained and provided resources by a liberal group founded by Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and […]
British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding”, according to former US President George W Bush. In his memoir, he said the simulated drowning technique had helped to break plots to attack Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf in London. Mr Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, is being serialised in […]
