Daily Archives: November 30, 2015

Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State’s Rise: ‘We Were Too Dumb’

Posted on November 30, 2015

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-us-intelligence-chief-discusses-development-of-is-a-1065131.html Thinking of Michael Hastings writing about Flynn in The Operators. Wonder how exactly Hastings died.

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Blair and Bush went to war in Iraq despite South Africa’s WMD assurances

Posted on November 30, 2015

God, Spies and Lies, by South African journalist John Matisonn, describes how then president Thabo Mbeki tried in vain to convince both Blair and President George W Bush that toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 would be a terrible mistake. Mbeki’s … Continue reading →

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