“They used the death of my son to trick me into getting out of my own house so they could just serve a warrant with nobody there.”-Wife of Daniel Boyd
The charges on this case for Daniel Boyd are ridiculous, when you consider the evidence they provide…”traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan…to fight the Soviets…from 1989 to 1992…” -ed
RALEIGH, North Carolina (CNN) — A woman whose husband and two sons are accused of plotting “violent jihad” overseas said federal authorities tricked her into leaving her home so they could search it.
Seven men already arrested in the case face charges of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit murder abroad. They are scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
Officials identified three of the men as U.S. native Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, — who according to the indictment had fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan — and Boyd’s sons, Dylan Boyd, 22, also known as “Mohammed,” and Zakariya Boyd, 20.
The four others are: Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, also a U.S.-born citizen; Hysen Sherifi, identified as a native of Kosovo who is a legal permanent resident of the United States; and Hiyad Yaghi and Anes Subasic, both naturalized U.S. citizens.
Sabrina Boyd, the wife of Daniel Patrick Boyd and the mother of the two younger Boyds, said the allegations against her family are false.
She said federal authorities sent a person the family knew to her door this week to tell her that her husband and three sons had been sideswiped by a tractor-trailer.
The person was wearing a shirt that appeared to be covered in blood, she said, and told her “it was grave and they were bleeding, and I needed to be rushed immediately to Duke Hospital,” she said.
Faced with impending defeat in a US District Court habeas corpus case, the Obama administration devised a new strategy for continuing the detention of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghani who may have been as young as 12 in 2002 when he allegedly wounded two US soldiers with a grenade.
Justice Department lawyers announced Friday that they would transform Jawad’s indefinite detention as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay into a criminal case, thus negating the habeas corpus hearing in Washington, DC, where Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle had accused the government of “dragging [the case] out for no good reason.”
Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project and one of Jawad’s lawyers, blasted the Obama administration for its “pathetic attempt to prolong an outrageous case and to manipulate the court system.”
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus — the swine flu — this fall, according to Defense Department officials.
The proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The officials would not be identified because the proposal from the U.S. Northern Command’s Gen. Victor Renuart has not been approved by the secretary.
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A series of articles in the Colorado Springs, Colo., Gazette investigating an Army unit whose members have been accused of at least 10 murders in the past several years highlights the risks of prolonged warfare.
Soldiers from the US Army’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, stationed in Fort Carson, Colo., described a breakdown of battlefield discipline as they fought through two grueling tours of duty, one in Iraq’s violent Sunni Triangle, and another in downtown Baghdad. The combat team has had a far higher casualty rate than the rest of Fort Carson. (Since May of this year, it has been deployed to the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan.)
In the first part of its feature report, the Gazette describes a persistently deteriorating disciplinary situation among the members of 4BCT, and a growing culture of violence that led some soldiers to keep killing when they came home:
Almost all those soldiers were kids, too young to buy a beer, when they volunteered for one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Almost none had serious criminal backgrounds. Many were awarded medals for good conduct.
But in the vicious confusion of battle in Iraq and with no clear enemy, many said training went out the window. Slaughter became a part of life. Soldiers in body armor went back for round after round of battle that would have killed warriors a generation ago. Discipline deteriorated. Soldiers say the torture and killing of Iraqi civilians lurked in the ranks. And when these soldiers came home to Colorado Springs suffering the emotional wounds of combat, soldiers say, some were ignored, some were neglected, some were thrown away and some were punished.
Some kept killing — this time in Colorado Springs.
Remember, in 2001 the Taliban offered Bin Laden to us on a platter if we could provide evidence that he was involved in 9/11… we never gathered that evidence. Also since our troops have been occupying Afghanistan, the poppy production for heroin has shot up markably from when the Taliban controlled the territory. -ed
The Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a book laying down a code of conduct for its fighters.
Al Jazeera has obtained a copy of the book, which further indicates that Mullah Omar, the movement’s leader, wants to centralise its operations.
The book, with 13 chapters and 67 articles, lays out what one of the most secretive organisations in the world today, can and cannot do.
It talks of limiting suicide attacks, avoiding civilian casualties and winning the battle for the hearts and minds of the local civilian population.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from the capital, Kabul, said every fighter is being issued the pocket book entitled “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Rules for Mujahideen”.
Many people seem genuinely baffled that western governments are hyping the arrival of a swine flu pandemic as if it’s the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague, despite the relatively low number of deaths from the virus, unaware that the pharmaceutical industry has been intimately joined at the hip with the state for decades.
Another illustration of that fact is the revelation that one of the UK government’s top advisors on swine flu also happens to be a sitting board member of GlaxoSmithKline, the company selling dangerous and untested swine flu vaccines, as well as anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, to the NHS.
“Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), a 20-strong task force drawing up the action plan for the virus. Yet he also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline,” reports the Daily Mail.
We also learn that Anderson was “one of the first UK experts to call the outbreak a pandemic,” and has been busy on radio and TV pushing the effectiveness of anti-virals to fight swine flu, without telling listeners that he was on the GSK payroll.
According to the Center for Disease Control there are only 302 confirmed deaths in the U.S. from the swine flu. The World Health Organization has tallied 429 deaths worldwide, only 200 deaths in the U.S. A week ago when the WHO announced that they would “stop counting” the cases of swine flu, another key to this puzzle was mentioned, perhaps explaining the difference in numbers of cases and also the WHO’s reason’s to stop counting cases:
“Many epidemiologists have pointed out that, in reality, millions of people have had swine flu, usually in mild form, so the numbers of laboratory-confirmed cases were actually meaningless. And performing the tests has overwhelmed many national laboratories”
So with the regular flu the WHO says at least 36,000 people die a year, coming no where near to the death rate of the swine flu, why are the vaccine’s being pushed? Well 1976 offers some clue’s, but there is more to this….As I said in a previous article published elsewhere, I will not take a vaccine. (Especially from Baxter!) -ed
LONDON — In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety and proper doses.
The European Medicines Agency, the EU’s top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries such as Britain, Greece, France and Sweden say they’ll start using the vaccine after it’s greenlighted — possibly within weeks.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s flu chief, warned about the potential dangers of untested vaccines, although he stopped short of criticizing Europe’s approach outright.
I ask those of you with children: What is a greater short-term danger to your child, smoking cigarette’s or being tased by police? You may say that smoking could kill this young fellow in the future, hence preventative measure’s. I would say luckily the policeman didn’t kill this minor on the scene, as has happened far too many times by taser, gun, or extreme force. Either way, recognize the system at work: A multi-billion dollar business (tobacco) which kills tens of thousand’s each year because of it’s addictive properties, is eventually made illegal for minors. Now one other multi-billion dollar business (the prison-industrial-police-state complex) has someone else it can target. So whether it’s the cigarette or the taser, the options out there suck. -ed
Santa Rosa police officers used a Taser on a 17-year-old male Friday afternoon during a foot chase that ended shortly after the suspect ran through the back door of Mac’s Deli in downtown Santa Rosa.
Police said the youth ran after bicycle patrol officers found him and an 18-year-old Sebastopol resident in possession of a small amount of marijuana in an area near the Comstock mall and Santa Rosa Avenue.
At about 3:40 p.m., officers stopped to talk to the two males because they were apparently seen smoking cigarettes. Police initiated an investigation for juvenile in possession of tobacco and soon found the marijuana.
That’s when the younger male ran, crossing Third Street and heading toward Fourth Street, police said.
Large parts of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program — which sent terrorist suspects to countries and prisons where they would be tortured — could soon become public, thanks to a lawsuit in Britain on behalf of a person who claims he was a victim of the agency’s program.
Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, who spent some seven years in US custody, five of them at Guantanamo, say that Jeppesen UK, a subsidiary of Boeing, has agreed to the presentation of evidence about the “ghost flights” it allegedly operated for the CIA — off-the-grid private jets that transferred terrorist suspects to sites where they would be tortured.
What Racheal Maddow touches on here is true: The man in question, Ralph Peters, carries vary little weight, he “was just given airtime” to say outrageous comments. Another truth is that his comment’s are criminal in nature, and he should be court-marshaled, or arrested since he is a former Col. Unfortunately Racheal Maddow falls for the trap and brings us on a wild ride away from what this is all about. What is this all about? From a previous post covering the captured soldier’s remarks:
“To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it’s like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home,” he said. “Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here, wasting our time and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. Please bring us home. It is America and American people who have that power.“
Senator Steve Fielding recently asked the [Australian] Climate Change Minister Penny Wong why human emissions can be blamed for global warming, given that air temperatures peaked in 1998 and began a cooling trend in 2002, while carbon dioxide levels have risen five per cent since 1998. I was one of the four independent scientists Fielding chose to accompany him to visit the Minister.
The Minister’s advisor essentially told us that short term trends in air temperatures are irrelevant, and to instead focus on the rapidly rising ocean heat content:
This is the new trend in climate alarmism. Previously the measure of global warming has always been air temperatures. But all the satellite data says air temperatures have been in a mild down trend starting 2002. The land thermometers preferred by the alarmists showed warming until 2006, but even they show a cooling trend developing since then.
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