Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S. – REUTERS

10:46 AM EST – 2/10/10 By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a year and a half after snatching him from his home in the middle of the night and placing him in military detention without charge. The U.S. military has never said exactly [...]

China suspends US talks over Taiwan arms deal – Shanghai Daily

Full Article China announced yesterday it will postpone bilateral military programs and security talks and impose sanctions against companies in response to the US government’s planned US$6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan. A Foreign Ministry announcement said China had decided to partially halt exchange programs between the two countries’ military forces, as well as vice-ministerial [...]

State Council: U.S. planned arms sale to Taiwan runs counter to sound development of cross-Strait relations

English.news.cn BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Saturday that U.S. planned arms sale to Taiwan was in violation of its commitment to supporting the peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations. The move ran counter both to the sound development of the cross-Strait relations and to the fundamental [...]

Osama bin Laden is ‘worth more alive than dead’, declares his son – UK TIMES ONLINE

Osama bin Laden is worth more to the United States alive than dead because his death could unleash “very,very nasty” attacks by militants, his son has claimed. In an at times rambling interview with Rolling Stone magazine, which was conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, the terror leader’s fourth-eldest son, Omar Osama bin Laden, [...]

Supreme Court rules police can initiate suspect’s questioning

From Reuters.com (Edits by FactsNews) Tue May 26, 2009 12:34pm EDT By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that police, under certain circumstances, (which could be ANYTHING) can initiate an interrogation of a suspect without the defendant’s lawyer being present. By a 5-4 (please, its ALWAYS 5-4) vote, the conservative [...]

Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)

Factsnews: This may or may not be the official list. It was translated automatically using Google Translate. From Infowars.com. kurt@infowars.com ******************************************************************** Dutch Queen Beatrix Queen Sofia of Spain Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince) Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission) Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank) Keith [...]

Domestic Extremism Lexicon

Police caught on tape trying to recruit protester as spy

By Paul Lewis~London Guardian Undercover police are running a network of hundreds of informants inside protest organisations who secretly feed them intelligence in return for cash, according to evidence handed to the Guardian. They claim to have infiltrated a number of environmental groups and said they are receiving information about leaders, tactics and plans of future demonstrations. [...]

F*** The RIAA! No Seriously…

This morning, the number one story on Digg is “The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict – Guilty”.  Excerpt from TorrentFreak.com Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid [...]

Pirates stage rocket attack on US freighter

Pirates attacked an American freighter with rocket fire and machine guns but the ship escaped even as other vessels fell into the clutches of marauding Somali bandits.

Pirates have taken four ships since losing two battles with US and French forces at the weekend.

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On Monday, the head of the group that briefly seized the US ship Maersk Alabama vowed to retaliate for the deaths of three pirates in the military operation which rescued the American captain.

“The American liars have killed our friends after they agreed to free the hostage without ransom… this matter will lead to retaliation and we will hunt down particularly American citizens travelling our waters,” Abdi Garad said by phone from the pirate lair of Eyl.

The captain of the US ship was saved when Navy Seals snipers killed three pirates to end the high-seas drama which prompted Obama to call for stepped-up anti-piracy efforts.

According to sources close to the pirates, French ships were also prime targets following the rescue of the Tanit yacht in which hostage Florent Lemacon and two pirates were killed.