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Only 100 al-Qaeda Now in Afghanistan

Only 100 al-Qaeda Now in Afghanistan

RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS
ABC News
December 3, 2009

Editor’s note: That turns out to be one thousand U.S. soldiers and $300 million for every supposed al-Qaeda fighter in the country

As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda “cancer” in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters in the entire country.

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War Criminal Obama Deserves An Oscar, But Not A Nobel Peace Prize

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, October 9, 2009
 
In a world where war criminals like Tony Blair are rewarded and those that oppose war criminals, like the Iraqi shoe thrower Muntadhar al-Zeidi, are imprisoned and tortured, it comes as no surprise that another war criminal – Barack H. Obama – has been rewarded for his stoic service to imperial bloodletting with the Nobel Peace Prize.  

 The man who gallantly promised “change” from the Bush regime’s illegal wars and a return to diplomacy over belligerency in dealing with Iran, has perpetuated the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while expanding another in Pakistan and becoming belligerent towards Iran.

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FBI RELEASES ‘EDITED’ OKC TAPES

Long-awaited tapes show mayhem, but key portions of videotapes—just before bombing—are blank

By Pat Shannan

www.americanfreepress.net

When the FBI released long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue was elated. His excitement subsided in one day, however, when he realized that the doctored finished product was not that for which he had been waiting for more than a decade.

This is only the latest chapter of a government coverup that began at 9:03 a.m. on April 19, 1995. Trentadue said he has received about 30 security tapes, including some images that were used as evidence at Timothy McVeigh’s trial. McVeigh was convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges and executed in 2001, even though private investigations showed that the Murrah Building was blown up from the inside and no ammonium nitrate fuel oil, which McVeigh was alleged to have used, was found at the scene.

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