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US-Pakistani-Chinese Tensions Growing

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US stunt to salvage tenuous regional dominion faces Pakistani-Chinese ire. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 5, 2011 - The immediate reaction by most across the world upon hearing of "Bin Laden's" death was that America now had the excuse it needed, real or not, to gracefully depart from its disastrous "War on Terror." However, the architects behind America's foreign military adventures over the past several decades have already begun clamoring about the need to not only expand their global war, but to implicate Pakistan as being complicit in harboring the mythological "Bin Laden." An Offer Pakistan "Can't Refuse" Brookings Institution, and in particular, the policy wonks that penned the treasonous, extralegal, extraterritorial "Which Path to Persia?" report, are busy handing Pakistan "an offer it can't refuse" on the heels of this obvious hoax. One such wonk, Michael E. O'Hanlon of Brookings recent...

Is another 9/11 set to unfold?

Earlier this year, quite by happenstance, I read a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James B. Stewart. "Heart of a Soldier" tells the story of two men who, well before it happened, foretold not only of the terrorist attack of 9/11 but also the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage that preceded it. One of the men, Rick Rescorla, was chief of security for Morgan Stanley with an office in the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11, but not before he shepherded all but six of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees to safety because of a well-prepared and well-executed evacuation plan. He'd have made it out, too, had he not gone back in the building looking for those six. The other man, Daniel J. Hill, is still alive. With another Sept. 11 approaching I wanted to talk to The Man Who Predicted 9/11. Although the primary focus in Stewart's book is on Rescorla — a bona fide hero for his actions on 9/11 — I found Hill to be an even more fascinating ch...