Thursday, October 08, 2009
china confidential
Pakistan's ISI Protecting Mullah Omar
Pakistan's pro-Islamist intelligence agency, the ISI, is protecting the fugitive Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, according to China Confidential terrorism experts.
Omar is staying at a safe house in the Pakistani city of Quett, sources say.US Believes in Steadily Weakening Dollar
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Trouble in Paradise: Earthquakes Hit South Pacific
A magnitude 7.3 quake hits the South Pacific minutes after a 7.8, just eight days after an 8.0. Click here for the truly terrifying story.Taiwan's Jailed Ex-Leader Loses Crazy Legal Move
Iran Says Nations Want to Sell it Nuclear Fuel
Iran's president says--here--that some countries have offered to sell Iran uranium, enriched to 20% purity, for use as nuclear reactor fuel. A level of 90% is needed to make nuclear weapons.
In related news, Iran is blaming the United States--and Saudi Arabia--for the disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist, one of several such specialists who have mysteriously vanished. Click here for the story.China Rising as America Sinks
China Backs India's Position on Carbon Cutting
China, the world's biggest polluter, has for the first time sided with India on cutting carbon emissions. The Indian-Chinese concept contrasts sharply with the position of industrialized nations. Click here for the story, and here for a report that China now considers global warming a greater challenge than the global recession.300 Pakistan Intelligence Agents Aided Bin Laden
A veteran foreign correspondent says Pakistan--a nuclear-armed, Muslim country steeped in anti-Americanism and religious extremism--assigned 300 intelligence agents to work directly with Osama Bin Laden after the Pakistan-created Taliban conquered Afghanistan. Click here for the article, which highlights Pakistan's potential threat to the United States and to nuclear-armed India.
In related news, India claims Pakistan is sending captured Taliban members to fight in Kashmir. Clickhere for the story.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
The dollar declines; Americans grow poorer. Read all about it here.
The jailed ex-president wanted the United States to free him on the grounds that self-ruled Taiwan--which he sought to make formally independent--was still controlled by the U.S. more six decades after the end of World War II. Click here for the story.
Cash-rich China is coming out of the global recession stronger; America, weaker. Clickhere for the analysis.
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