Pakistani tribal chiefs
threaten to join Taliban --US
warned of uprising if armed incursions continue --New counter-terror
policy backfires on Washington 15 Sep 2008 A controversial new US tactic to
mount counter-terrorist operations inside Pakistan has met with fresh
hostility, it emerged yesterday, as Pakistani tribesmen representing half a
million people vowed to switch sides and join the Taliban if Washington does not
stop cross-border attacks by its forces from Afghanistan.

Tribesmen say they are with
army, warn US --Elders: Eight
million tribesmen vow to fight US 14 Sep 2008 Tribal elders in North
Waziristan on Saturday vowed to defend the country’s frontiers by fighting
alongside security forces against any 'possible American attack'. The elders
welcomed Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani’s statement, adding that it was the
voice of eight million tribesmen. They said that their tribal brethren living on
the Afghan side would also join the fight, as the foreign troops were subjecting
them to gross injustices.

Pakistan order to kill US invaders 13 Sep 2008 Key corps
commanders of Pakistan's 600,000-strong army issued orders last night to
retaliate against "invading" US forces that enter the country to attack militant
targets. The move has plunged relations between Islamabad and Washington into
deep crisis over how to deal with al-Qa'ida [al-CIAduh] and the Taliban What
amounts to a dramatic order to "kill the invaders", as one senior officer put it
last night, was disclosed after the commanders - who control the army's
deployments at divisional level - met at their headquarters in the garrison city
of Rawalpindi under the chairmanship of army chief and former ISI spy agency
boss Ashfaq Kayani.

'UK campaign in Afghanistan aids Al Qaeda' 15 Sep 2008 The presence of
British forces in Afghanistan is providing oxygen for Al
Qaeda, the head of United Nations' Al Qaeda Monitoring Unit
has said. According to the Observer, Richard Barrett, who reports directly to
the UN Security Council, said the deployments of foreign troops in the country
was acting as the 'glue' with which Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] network was bonding
support in the region.

Iraq: Al-Qaida intensifies its stranglehold in the world's most
dangerous city 15 Sep 2008 Mosul - the de facto capital of northern Iraq
- should have been as safe as Basra and Baghdad if a massive military offensive
by Iraqi and US forces, which was launched in May, had succeeded. But most
al-Qaida 'insurgents' slipped away before it began - and they are now slipping
back. In the past month, dozens of people have been killed in violence ranging
from roadside bombs to random shootings, car bombs and attacks targeted at
specific individuals.

Bombs kill at least 35, Iraqis say 15 Sep
2008 A suicide bomber blew herself up Monday among police officers who were
celebrating the release of a comrade from U.S. custody, killing at least 22
people, Iraqi officials said. Separate bombings in Iraq killed 13 other people.

Sunni Proponent of Reconciliation Is Killed 14 Sep 2008 A
Sunni Arab leader of a citizen patrol group in Baghdad who had been a proponent
of reconciliation in his neighborhood was assassinated over the weekend. The
killing of the leader, Fouad Ali Hussein al-Douri, a Sunni mosque imam, is the
latest in a string of attacks on members of the so-called Awakening Councils.

Terrorists
murder a television crew 14 Sep 2008 The Iraqi TV crew brought the gifts
that had come to be the trademark of their reality show: some basic household
appliances and a delicious supper to break the Ramadan fast for a family of
little means. They'd done it many times before. But this episode didn't get
made. Gunmen [Blackwater?] seized four of them from their vehicles, hauled them
down the street and executed them.

Iraqi
government could purchase F-16s 06 Sep 2008 The Iraqi government is
considering a multimillion-dollar purchase of Lockheed Martin F-16s as it moves
toward strengthening its military and rebuilding its anemic air force to prepare
for an eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Pakistan troops fire shots to warn off Americans 15 Sep
2008 Pakistani troops have fired shots to warn US troops not to cross into the
South Waziristan region of Pakistan. Reports from the border say seven US
helicopters landed on the Afghan side of the line before US troops attempted to
cross the border. The incident has come amid growing anger in Pakistan over US
attacks along the border region.

Bombs kill 2 doctors, 6 children in Afghanistan 15 Sep 2008 A suicide
bomber struck a United Nations convoy Sunday in southern Afghanistan, killing
two Afghan doctors and their driver on their way to provide give polio
vaccinations to children. Separately, at least six children were killed
while playing with what Afghan authorities said was a roadside bomb planted by
the Taliban and aimed at foreign troops.

The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project 14 Sep
2008 Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That's why the
U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing "thought
helmets" that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among
troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will "lead to direct mental
control of military systems by thought alone."

Fears over privacy as police expand surveillance project --Database to hold details of millions of journeys for five years 15 Sep
2008 The police are to expand a car surveillance operation that will allow them
to record and store details of millions of daily journeys for up to five years,
the Guardian has learned. A national network of roadside
cameras will be able to "read" 50m licence plates a day, enabling
officers to reconstruct the journeys of motorists. Police have been
encouraged to "fully and strategically exploit" the database, which is
already recording the whereabouts of 10 million drivers a day, during
investigations ranging from counter-terrorism to low-level crime.

Minorities to boycott UK Police 13 Sep 2008 Protesting
the treatment of police officers of ethnic minorities, a major association
representing Asian and black officers in Britain is threatening to launch a
public campaign to boycott the Metropolitan police, the Guardian reported on
Saturday. The National Black Police Association (NBPA) is planning a public
campaign to urge young would-be officers from ethnic minorities not to join the
Met.

Who was
involved in 9/11? 11 Sep 2008 Documentary reveals shocking facts On the
anniversary of 9/11, an Italian-produced documentary called ZERO, investigating
the tragedy, is opening in Russia. The authors believe that the U.S. official
version of events surrounding the attacks can't be true.

Group With Big Pharma Ties Wants to Shut Down Vaccine "Conspiracy
Theories" --Kingpins of Military-Industrial complex say they will
"brand" websites they consider "trustworthy and reliable sources of
information" By Steve Watson 15 Sep 2008 A foundation populated by the
giants of business, banking, government and military wants to "vet" websites and
limit the spread of information that it says creates "conspiracy theories". The
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), fronted by Internet creator Sir Tim
Berners-Lee, says it is worried about the way the web has been "used to spread
disinformation". Speaking to the BBC, Berners-Lee said that there needed to be a new system that would give websites a "label for
trustworthiness" once they had been proved reliable sources. [Trust this, Sir
Douchebag.]

Cheney Shielded Bush From Crisis --Adapted from "Angler:
The Cheney Vice Presidency," to be published Tuesday 15 Sep 2008 Vice President
[sic] Cheney convened a meeting in the Situation Room at 3 p.m. on Wednesday,
March 10, 2004, with just one day left before the warrantless domestic
surveillance program was set to expire. Around him were National Security Agency
Director Michael V. Hayden, White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and the Gang
of Eight... Even now, three months into a legal rebellion at the Justice
Department, President [sic] Bush was nowhere in the picture. He was stumping in the battleground
state of Ohio, talking up the economy.

Wiretap Cases a Go Despite FISA Change 15 Sep 2008 Though
Congress put a damper this summer on legal efforts to prove the Bush
administration unlawfully spied on Americans' phone calls and e-mails, flagship
litigation in the Northern District of California will still proceed. Chief
Judge Vaughn Walker laid out a briefing schedule at a hearing Friday for In
re National Security Agency Telecommunications Records Litigation, MDL
06-1791 -- the consolidated suits against the government and numerous
telecommunications giants like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

Lehman hires
Jeb Bush as private equity advisor 30 Aug 2007 Lehman
Brothers has hired Jeb Bush, brother of the President of the United States, as
an advisor to its private equity business, a source familiar with the situation
said. Lehman hired another relative of U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush last
year--George Walker, a second cousin, who heads up the bank's asset management
business.

Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 protection 15 Sep
2008 Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis
and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 protection in the biggest
bankruptcy filing ever on Monday and said it was trying to sell off key business
units. [Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old banking institution survives the
Industrial Revolution and two world wars... but not Bush.]

Dow falls 500 points
in worst day since 2001 --Investors react to Lehman Brothers
bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch sale 15 Sep 2008 A dramatic makeover of Wall
Street sent stocks falling precipitously Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials
sliding 500 points in their worst point drop since the September 2001 terrorist
attacks. Investors reacted badly to a shakeup of the financial industry that
took out two storied names: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Merrill Lynch
& Co.

WaMu Rating Lowered to Junk by S&P on Mortgage Losses 15 Sep 2008 Washington Mutual Inc., the biggest U.S. savings and loan, had its
credit rating cut to junk by Standard & Poor's because of the deteriorating
housing market. S&P reduced its rating on Seattle-based WaMu to BB- from
BBB-, leaving it three levels below investment grade, the ratings firm said
today in a statement.

Bank of America to Acquire Merrill as Crisis Deepens 15
Sep 2008 Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. consumer bank, agreed to
acquire Merrill Lynch & Co. for about $50 billion as the credit crisis
claimed another of America's oldest financial companies.

A.I.G. Seeks $40 Billion in Fed Aid to Survive 14 Sep
2008 The American International Group is seeking a $40 billion bridge loan
[corporate welfare] from the Federal Reserve, as it faces a potential downgrade
from credit ratings agencies that could spell its doom, a person briefed on the
matter said Sunday night.

Wilbur Ross: Possibly a
Thousand Banks Will Close 15 Sep 2008 In an exclusive interview with
CNBC.com, Wilbur Ross, chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co., says he sees
possibly as many as a thousand bank closures in the coming months. And this will
create opportunities for investors.

US in 'once-in-a-century' financial crisis : Greenspan 14
Sep 2008 The United States is mired in a "once-in-a century" financial crisis
which is now more than likely to spark a recession, former Federal Reserve chief
Alan Greenspan said Sunday. The talismanic ex-central banker said that the
crisis was the worst he had seen in his career, still had a long way to go and
would continue to effect home prices in the United States.

Even
before VP nomination, Palin's e-mail use questioned 14 Sep 2008 Gov.
Sarah Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state
business. Others in the governor's office sometimes use personal e-mail
accounts, too. Even before the McCain campaign plucked Palin from Alaska, a
controversy was brewing over e-mails in the governor's office. Was the
administration trying to get around the public records law through broad
exemptions or private e-mail accounts? Activists, still fighting to obtain
hundreds of e-mails that were withheld from public records requests earlier this
year, say that's what it looks like.

Lindsay Lohan Lashes Out at Sarah Palin 14 Sep 2008
Lindsay Lohan isn't happy with Republican vice presidential candidate John
McCain's choice of running mate, Sarah Palin. "I really cannot bite my tongue
anymore when it comes to Sarah Palin," the actress, 22, wrote on her MySpace
blog Sunday... The star believes that Palin isn't ready to run the country. She
said, "I find it quite interesting that a woman who now is running to be second
in command of the United States, only 4 years ago had aspirations to be a
television anchor, which is probably all she is qualified to be."

Empty Seats Greet McCain at Fla. Rally 15 Sep 2008 Republican
presidential nominee John McCain held his first rally without running mate Sarah
Palin today, and let's just say there were seats available... There were almost
no supporters in any of the cavernous arena's 24 upper-level seating sections,
and only eight of the 21 sections downstairs held fans. Only four of those were
filled, though some supporters crowded around the stage on the arena floor.

Ike victims search
streets for food, water, gas --60 survivors found on isolated
peninsula; death toll at 34 in 9 states 15 Sep 2008 A humanitarian crisis
unfolded Monday along the Texas coast as thousands of Hurricane Ike victims
clamored for food, water, electricity and gasoline -- and found nothing much to
go home to except streets littered with piles of debris, spewing sewage, and
floodwaters crawling with snakes and alligators.

Hurricane Ike: More than 1M without power in Ohio Valley 15 Sep 2008 More than 1 million households and businesses in Indiana, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania and Ohio are without power because of strong winds associated with
the storm formerly known as Ike, according to local power companies.

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sell Israel Air Force 1,000 bunker-buster bombs 14 Sep 2008 Despite
'reservations' in Washington regarding a possible Israeli strike on Iran, the
American administration will supply Israel with sophisticated weapons for
heavily fortified targets, the U.S. administration announced. The U.S.
Department of Defense announced it would sell the Israel Air Force 1,000 new
smart bombs, rumored to significantly enhance the IAF's military
capabilities.