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07.10.2010, 11:43
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Today, the war in Afghanistan enters its tenth year with little sign of an end.
21.05.2010, 18:07
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Five years after a Danish paper was fiercely criticized by Muslims for depicting the Prophet Mohammed in derogatory cartoons, Facebook and YouTube are under fire from Pakistan.
13.04.2009, 09:08
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The mainstream U.S. media isn’t helping in the search for truth, says Luke Rudkowski from the social justice movement 'We Are Change'.
28.09.2010, 11:50
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Ten Israeli warships have forced a British aid boat carrying Jewish activists attempting to reach blockaded Gaza to divert to the port of Ashdod in Israel.
01.09.2009, 18:59
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Iraq and Afghanistan are generally painted as countries that are teeming with lawlessness, but American cases of theft, rape and murder reveal that some of the unsavory elements in the Middle East are imported.
09.07.2009, 13:02
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The US government has allegedly set up a special security wing with the sole task of distancing Washington from any involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
27.08.2009, 22:58
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The American President does not want to get embroiled in a fight over Bush administration policies, especially while pushing his own agenda forward, believes RT guest Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at Cato Institute.
11.09.2010, 07:08
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The victims of 9/11 are being remembered in the US on Saturday. American president Barack Obama has visited the Pentagon, where military authorities and relatives of the victims have commemorated those who died.
22.05.2009, 06:16
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Former Boeing pilot sent a message to Russia’s UN Ambassador through a newspaper in order to secure his help in suing ex-US President George W. Bush.
22.06.2009, 09:17
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A promise to shut the Guantanamo Bay torture camp is proving rather more difficult for Barack Obama in office than on the election trail, because so far, nobody can tell what to do with the camp's inmates.
Published: 28 October, 2010, 08:15
Edited: 28 October, 2010, 19:28
A war is being waged in the US against homegrown terrorism, but critics say some of the FBI’s tactics amount to entrapment, with agents helping to organize plots simply for a PR coup when the agency foils them.
As someone who attended the trial for 2 weeks, I can only say the FBI's role in creating this case cannot be overemphasized. The video evidence showed Hussain(the "informant") driving the defendants on the day of the bombing and directing every single move the men made. Cromitie returned to the minivan after placing one "bomb", reporting that he wasn't sure if he actually set the timer correctly. Hussain put his mind at ease by saying it was ok because it could be set off by remote control as well. This is just one example of the involvement of the FBI "informant". Further, not only was the whole plot a fiction created by the FBI, the government prosecutors relied on fiction as the foundation of their summation, wherein the prosecutors terrorized the jurors by tactics such as aiming an actual rocket launcher at the jury (something the defendants never did) and showing a fictionalized scenario of a car being blown up by the kind of bomb with which the defendants believed they were working (there were no explosions in the case at hand). Finally, most of the defendants only acted as look-outs, and as I said earlier, the other was unsure whether he set the bomb properly or not. Does this betray ambivalence on Cromitie's part?