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...short months later, it was revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had destroyed footage of Al-Qaeda operatives being tortured; again, the language of “homeland security” was indignantly invoked to conceal a program of deception and overreach. The sitting administration will cede nothing on the matter of torture, and should be regarded as complicit—from bottom to very top—in apparent violations of the Geneva Convention and any acceptable standard for the self-professed champion of liberty...
...interview with the Washington Post last week, CIA Director Michael Hayden claimed we're beating al-Qaeda. As Hayden put it: "Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia...
...defer to Hayden on Saudi Arabia, but when it comes to Iraq, Hayden betrayed his belief in the neo-con lie that Iraq was one of al-Qaeda's bases before the 2003 invasion and still is today. Can no one drive a stake into a lie that suckered us into a war we didn't need? Probably...
...friend of mine at the White House complained to me the other day that the Bush administration and the Pentagon until this day believe we are fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq. They "stand up" al-Qaeda as the enemy in Iraq, he said, even behind closed doors. In the teeth of the facts, they ignore that the enemy we're fighting in Iraq is a half a dozen homegrown insurgencies, an incipient civil war, and criminal gangs. They ignore the fact that although a handful of Osama bin Laden's followers showed up in Iraq after the invasion...
...group called the "Daughters of Iraq," an extension of the U.S.-sponsored "Sons of Iraq" program, which has dramatically improved security throughout large swaths of the nation. Started in 2007 as a way of bringing back into the fold marginalized Sunni tribes, many of whom were cooperating with al-Qaeda, the U.S. pays tribal leaders between $240 to $300 per month for each man the tribe employs to run roadway checkpoints and generally vouchsafe the population and U.S. forces against IEDs and gunfire. While different regions report varying degrees of success, here in the Yusufiah - one point in the area...