by David Binder, The Nation, October 2, 1995 Amid the roar and blinding flashes of NATO's airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs, the impetus for the bombing was obscured: the August 28 explosion in a narrow, enclosed market in the center of Sarajevo that killed thirty-seven people. Within a day of that explosion, investigators for the UN Protection Force under Lieut. Gen. Rupert Smith "concluded beyond all reasonable doubt" that the lethal mortar round had been fired from a Bosnian Serb...

by Jeane Kirkpatrick, The National Interest, Fall 1990. It is the first time since 1939 that there has been an opportunity for Americans to consider what we might do in a world less constrained by political and military competition with a dangerous adversary. I am pleased that The National Interest has provided a forum for this discussion. The United States arrives at the end of the Cold War with some obvious assets. We are a powerful, affluent country with real strengths great but limited...

by Yossef Bodansky. Reprinted from Defense & Foreign Affairs, Strategic Policy, June–July 2000, The Great Game that never ceases day or night –Rudyard Kipling, Kim, 1901 Turkestan, Afghanistan, Transcaucasia, Persia ... are the pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for the domination of the world. –Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India (1899-1905), 1898 He who owns the oil will own the world, for he will rule the sea by means of the heavy oils, the air by means of the...

Stanford University, Mapping Militants, March 2022

An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter May 21, 2002 FBI Director Robert Mueller FBI Headquarters Washington, D.C. Dear Director Mueller: I feel at this point that I have to put my concerns in writing concerning the important topic of the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist activity in the United States prior to September 11th. The issues are fundamentally ones of INTEGRITY and go to the heart of the FBI's law enforcement mission and mandate. Moreover, at this critical juncture in...

The following is the text of Iraqi National Congress Chairman Ahmed Chalabi's Speech to the board of directors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, June 2, 1997, 'Creating a Post-Saddam Iraq' Download the pdf file here. https://scotthorton.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/chalabi_jinsa_1997_creating_post_saddam_iraq.pdf

The following is the body of the irangoldenoffer2003.pdf document. Download the source document: Iran Golden Offer 2003 - PDF Download lranian aims: (The US accepts a dialogue "'in mutual respect" and agrees that lran puts the following aims on the agenda) Halt in US hostile behavior and rectification of status of Iran in the US: (interference in internal or external relations, "axis of evil", terrorism list.)Abolishment of all sanctions: commercial sanctions, frozen assets, judgments(FISA),...

Iranian Involvement in Iraq by Philip Giraldi (Originally written back in 2008) Introduction: The United States government has been arguing since 2005 that Iran is “interfering” in neighboring Iraq. At a political level, the interference is alleged to involve supporting Shi’ite surrogates groups, frequently incorporating militias, who are not cooperating in the development of a pluralistic democracy in Baghdad. Iran is also allegedly making more difficult the establishment of security inside...

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com December 4, 2006 President George W. Bush meets today with Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the turbaned leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Shiite fundamentalist party that is strongly tied to Iran. In so doing, the president is meeting with someone who, perhaps more than anyone else in Iraq, is responsible for trying to destroy Iraqi national unity, prevent national reconciliation among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian mix, and push...

The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand. On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man sitting pensively in a padded chair. The officer then stretched a black rubber tube, pleated like an accordion, around the man’s chest...