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- FBI says man shot dead while being questioned about Boston bombings (Reuters, May 22, 2013):

ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An FBI agent shot and killed a man of Chechen origin who turned violent while being questioned on Wednesday about his connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings.

A friend of the dead man identified him to local media as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, who had previously lived in Boston and knew Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers suspected of planting two bombs at the marathon on April 15. Three people were killed and 264 injured in the attacks.

The shooting occurred in an apartment complex near the Universal Studios theme park, where the FBI and members of other law enforcement agencies including the Massachusetts State Police were interviewing the man about the marathon bombing.

“A violent confrontation was initiated by the individual,” the FBI said. A special agent, it said, “acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force. The individual was killed and the special agent was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”

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Tags: Assassination, Boston, Crime, FBI, Global News, Government, Politics, Terrorism, Terrorists, U.S.

- Former US drone pilot quits, regretting bombing innocents, including children (PressTV, May 20, 2013):

A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in Afghanistan and realizing he has unconsciously developed a desire to kill.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Assassination, Children, Civilians, Drones, Global News, Government, Military, Politics, Soldiers

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- Horror in Israel: 30,000 Mossad spies exposed (Press TV, by Gordon Duff, March 30, 2013):

Last week, the hacker organization “Anonymous,” symbolized by the famous “Guy Fawkes” mask, hacked Israel’s Mossad.

The hack, initially exposing a hidden network of 30,000 covert operatives, some openly labeled “hitman,” came only days after Israel admitted to their 2010 act of piracy and terrorism against the Freedom Flotilla.

Now the Israeli regime has filled the internet with threats against “Anonymous,” if detailed information on their terror cells is leaked.

After all, who is better to carry out acts of terrorism than an organization with 30,000 covert operatives around the world, almost all trained in use of explosives and demolition, building IEDs, car bombs, kidnapping and assassination and with a long and very public history of, not just murdering people but getting away with it as well.

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Tags: Anonymous, Assassination, Government, Hacker, Mossad, Politics

- Boris Berezovsky’s last interview: ‘There is no point in life’ (Telegraph, March 24, 2013):

Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, said less than 48 hours before he was found dead at his home in Berkshire that he no longer saw the point in life.

Boris Berezovsky was discovered dead yesterday afternoon at his home in Ascot, Berkshire. Reports from Russia said he was found in the bath.

lya Zhegulev, a commentator with the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, met the 67-year-old oligarch in the restaurant of the Four Seasons hotel on Park Lane on Friday evening.

Mr Berezovsky said had had lived through “many disappointments” in London. He said: “I’ve lost the point… there is no point [or meaning] in my life. I don’t want to be involved in politics. I don’t know what to do. I’m 67 years old. And I don’t know what I should do from now on.”

He said he wanted to return to Moscow: “I want nothing more than to return to Russia. Even when they opened a criminal case against me, I wanted to return to Russia… that was my main miscalculation: that Russia is so dear to me that I cannot be an émigré.”

Friends of Mr Berezovsky today claimed he may have been victim of a Russian hit. However, there are conflicting reports that he may have committed suicide after suffering from severe depression.

Friends raised the possibility of suicide and said Berezovsky had been “destroyed” by losing a £3billion legal action with his former business partner, Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club. Berezovsky had been living in exile in Britain since 2000.

- Boris Berezovsky death: friend suggests he may have been victim of Russian hit (Telegraph, March 24, 2013):

Yuri Felshtinsky, a historian and author who knew Mr Berezovsky since 1998, told The Daily Telegraph that he doubted suggestions the tycoon had committed suicide, and had no knowledge that his friend had been seriously ill.

His comments came as British police investigating his death said a search of his house by chemical, biological and nuclear experts had found “nothing of concern”.

“We do not have facts yet but we must bear in mind that there have been several questionable deaths of Russian émigrés in the UK,” said Mr Felshtinsky. “Badri Patarkatsishvili, Boris Berezovsky’s business partner, died in February 2008 [in Surrey] and until yesterday everybody including me thought that was a death by natural causes, but now I’m not so sure.”

Mr Berezovsky, a fiery critic of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin who fled to the UK in 2000, was found dead at the age of 67, reportedly in a bath at his home, on Saturday. Police say the death is “unexplained”.

Mr Felshtinsky has lived in the United States since 1978, but in the late 1990s he travelled to Moscow to prepare a biography of Mr Berezovsky. Instead, he became close to the tycoon and his associate Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer.

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- Berezovsky ‘was strangled to death’ friends claim as it is revealed his security guard left him alone for five hours to run errands (Daily Mail, March 25, 2013):

• Berezovsky left no note and friends say ‘suicide was not in his DNA’
• Police announced he was hanged following a post-mortem
• Home Office pathologist found no evidence of a violent struggle
  
• Kremlin insider Sergei Markov says tycoon was ‘begging’ to come home
• ‘British secret services can be suspected in death of Berezovsky,’ he said
• Secret letter from Berezovsky to Putin asking to return to Russia ‘exists’
  
• Experts fear he may have been murdered by the Kremlin in ‘revenge’ attack
  
• Others say he was ‘destroyed’ after losing £3bn court case with Abramovich

Friends of Boris Berezovsky have claimed that the Russian oligarch was strangled to death despite a post-mortem examination suggesting there was no evidence of a struggle.

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Tags: Assassination, Boris Berezovsky, Crime

US Navy Seals on a night mission in the Middle East. Seal Team 6, which killed Osama bin Laden, is a secret elite unit that works closely with the CIA. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

- JSoc: Obama’s secret assassins (Guardian, Naomi Wolf, Feb 3, 2013):

The film Dirty Wars, which premiered at Sundance, can be viewed, as Amy Goodman sees it, as an important narrative of excesses in the global “war on terror”. It is also a record of something scary for those of us at home – and uncovers the biggest story, I would say, in our nation’s contemporary history.

Though they wisely refrain from drawing inferences, Scahill and Rowley have uncovered the facts of a new unaccountable power in America and the world that has the potential to shape domestic and international events in an unprecedented way. The film tracks the Joint Special Operations Command (JSoc), a network of highly-trained, completely unaccountable US assassins, armed with ever-expanding “kill lists”. It was JSoc that ran the operation behind the Navy Seal team six that killed bin Laden.

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Tags: Assassination, Barack Obama, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, Military, Naomi Wolf, New World Order, Obama administration, Society, Special Forces, Terrorism, U.S., War

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- Bolivian President Evo Morales ‘Almost Certain’ Hugo Chavez Was Poisoned

- The Death of Hugo Chavez. Executive Orders to “Assassinate Foreign Leaders” Emanate Directly from the US President (Global Research, Updated March 10, 2013):

The Revocation of Executive Order 12333 which banned the CIA from conducting “targeted assassinations”

Was the president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez Frias the object of a targeted assassination by the Obama administration?

When addressing this question, it is worth recalling that in the immediate wake of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush restored the sordid practices of the CIA by revoking a ban initially enacted in 1976 by President Ford under Executive Order 11905.  The latter stated:  “Prohibition on Assassination. No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.”

President Gerald Ford had issued EO 11905 in response to the findings of the 1975 Interim Report of  the  US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, entitled Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders.

This Select Committee was led by Senator Frank Church.

The “Church Committee” Interim Report, focused on alleged plots to kill:

• Patrice Lumumba (Congo)
• Fidel Castro (Cuba)
• Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic)
• Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam)
• Rene Schneider (Chile)

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Tags: Assassination, Barack Obama, CIA, Global News, Government, Hugo Chavez, Obama administration, Politics, U.S., Venezuela

- Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning (Washington Post, March 8, 2013)

Tags: Assassination, Barack Obama, CIA, Drones, Global News, Government, John Brennan, Obama administration, Rand Paul, U.S.

FYI.

- Bolivian President Says “Almost Certain” Chavez was Poisoned (RIA Novosti, March 10, 2013):

CARACAS – Bolivian President Evo Morales said Saturday he was “almost certain” that “the empire” (the United States) had poisoned his political ally, late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, regional media reported.

President Chavez, who led Venezuela for 14 years, died Tuesday at the age of 58 after a two-year-long fight against cancer.

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Tags: Assassination, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Global News, Government, Hugo Chavez, Israel, Mossad, Politics, U.S.

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Rand Paul’s filibuster today, during which he demanded the Obama administration promise not to kill Americans with drone strikes on U.S. soil, was interrupted by a test of the government’s emergency alert system.

Footage from C-SPAN shows the Kentucky Senator speaking before an EAS alert for the New York region cuts in. The system has stoked concerns that the government is preparing to take over all civilian communication outlets under the guise of a national emergency.

Some will see the timing of the emergency alert test as more than coincidental, given what Senator was discussing during his filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director. “No American should ever be killed in their house without warrant and some kind of aggressive behavior by them,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “To be bombed in your sleep? There’s nothing American about that . . . [Obama] says trust him because he hasn’t done it yet. He says he doesn’t intend to do so, but he might. Mr. President, that’s not good enough . . . so I’ve come here to speak for as long as I can to draw attention to something that I find to really be very disturbing.” “I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution,” Paul added.”No person will be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process,” he said, quoting the Fifth Amendment.

Tags: Assassination, Barack Obama, Constitution, Dictatorship, Drones, Fascism, Global News, Government, Law, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Rand Paul, U.S.

- Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal (Examiner, March 5, 2013):

Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,” Holder replied in a letter yesterday to Paul’s question about whether Obama “has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial.”

Paul condemned the idea. “The U.S. Attorney General’s refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil is more than frightening – it is an affront the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans,” he said in a statement. Continue reading »

Tags: Assassination, Barack Obama, CIA, Constitution, Drones, Eric Holder, Global News, Government, Law, Military, Obama administration, Politics, Rand Paul, Society, U.S.