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Blair and Iraq Ties are Spreading

Posted on 25. Mar, 2010 by in Iraq, Middle East, UK

Blair and Iraq Ties are Spreading

Here in the States when someone mentions “UI,” most of us think of Unemployment Insurance, but not former UK prime minister Tony Blair. Late last week came word of a major scandal from the UK Daily Mail. In the three years since he stepped down as prime minister, Blair pocketed more than $30 million in [...]

Tony Blair’s Secret Oil Links to Middle East

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by in Iraq, Middle East, UK

Tony Blair’s Secret Oil Links to Middle East

Tony Blair‘s secret links to Gulf oil giants were revealed today as fresh details emerged of his “carte blanche” support for George Bush‘s Iraq war. The former prime minister has been in the pay of the Kuwaiti government and a South Korean oil firm for up to 18 months, a parliamentary watchdog has revealed. But [...]

Feds Finds Huge Fraud in Bush’s $150 Billion Iraq Reconstruction

Posted on 20. Mar, 2010 by in Iraq, Middle East

Feds Finds Huge Fraud in Bush’s $150 Billion Iraq Reconstruction

Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions – involving banks, land deals, loan payments, casinos and even plastic surgery – made by some of the Americans involved in the nearly $150 billion program.  Some of the cases [...]

Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by in Iraq, Police State

Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George [...]