Story #2:According to Vanity Fair, in 2004 the CIA sent a team from Blackwater to Germany to kill Mamoun Darkazanli, who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda. The hit team reportedly tracked Darkazanli for weeks, but Washington authorities ended up calling off the assassination. Vanity Fair also reported that the CIA considered having Blackwater assassinate A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist.
The Los Angeles Times reports President Obama’s plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other parts of the national security establishment. In April, Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in a speech in Prague. But nine months later, the administration is locked in internal debate over a top-secret policy blueprint for shrinking the US nuclear arsenal and reducing the role of such weapons in America’s military strategy and foreign policy. The US currently maintains an estimated 9,400 nuclear weapons.I guess the point here is that the prison guards of the National Security State, who always get their way, believe that Barack Obama -- who ran as an anti-war progressive and has governed as someone after Hermann Goering's heart -- is not enough of a stooge. Obama campaigned for two years denouncing Blackwater and promising to end all US involvement with the gangster organization. (Blackwater being no more than the classical assassination wing of the old CIA, outsourced.) Obama has more than enough testimony and evidence to put the executive officers of Blackwater (now known as Xe Services) under the guillotine. Instead, they are Reichsführer Stanley von McChrystal's right arm in Obama's new Af/Pak/Yemen wars.
And that nuke thing? They've started pushing, so expect Obama to announce a whole new generation of advanced weaponry by early Spring. Besides, since he's the front man for the forces who hope to recreate the emerging American corporate/military prison across the planet -- well, who wants to live on that sort of planet, nuke-free or otherwise?
