By Gabriela Baczynska | Reuters | Sept. 5, 2008
The Polish prosecutor's office is investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser said on Friday.

By by Terrence O'Brien | Switched | Sept. 5, 2008
Now that we've got that out of the way, word is that the U.S. military will finally get weapons grade lasers by the end of 2008. No joke, the holy grail of a laser-based weaponry is right around the corner, according to Northrop Grumman, a military contractor. Grumman recently tested an electronic laser system that combines small silicon-based lasers into one more powerful beam, much like the Death Star. 100 kilowatts (kW) is generally considered the threshold for a useful weapons grade laser, and the most recent test only hit 30 kW. Since the weapon is built simply by chaining smaller lasers together,it will be able to quickly scale up its power by the end of the year, according to Grumman.

AP | Sept. 2, 2008
The team that kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolph Eichmann in 1960 knowingly let another notorious war criminal — Josef Mengele — get away, according to a former Israeli Mossad agent.

By Mark Tran | The Guardian | Aug. 31, 2008
Human Rights Watch says it has letter acknowledging use of cluster bombs near Russian border tunnel. Georgia has admitted dropping cluster bombs during its attempt to regain control of its breakaway province of South Ossetia, a human rights group said today.

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska | Associated Press | Aug. 20, 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.

By RobertT H. Reid | Huffington Post | Aug. 19, 2008
Gov. al-Tamimi is a Shiite, but Sunni politicians believed both the raid on his office and the arrest of the university president were part of a crackdown against Sunni Arabs, the largest community in the province.

Kurt Nimmo | Infowars | August 15, 2008
It should be obvious by now the Russians will no longer tolerate the U.S. deploying missile “defense” systems on their border and if the neocons continue to do so Russia will attack the NATO’s client states.

By Jon Swaine | London Telegraph | Aug. 14, 2008
Future wars could see opponents attacking each other's minds, according to a report for the US military. Landmines releasing brain-altering chemicals, scanners reading soldiers' minds and devices boosting eyesight and hearing could all one figure in arsenals, suggests the study.

By Pamela Hess | Associated Press | Aug. 15, 2008
Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq. senior U.S. military intelligence officer in Baghdad described the information Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

CNN | Aug. 13, 2008
Russia pressed the United States on Wednesday to choose between "a real partnership" with Moscow or an "illusory" relationship with U.S. ally Georgia.

By Michael Rupert |  The Intelligence Daily | Aug. 11, 2008
From the Wilderness Blog - It is not possible to overstate how quickly this is escalating. It is clear that US options are very limited, short of nuclear war.

By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Aug. 12, 2008
CNN is airing misleading footage of the war between Georgia and Russia, skewing public opinion in favor of the Georgians, according to a Russia Today cameraman interviewed this morning.

By Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | Aug. 9, 2008
Dead civilians in South Ossetia. But you will not hear much about it on CNN or Faux News. Because they are too busy reporting ad nauseam about the extramarital shenanigans of CFR darling John Edwards. In order to find out what’s really going on in Georgia, you have to read the international press on the internet. Bush, McCain, and Obama may cast blame on Russia, but reading the international press you get a different perspective.

The Associated Press | Aug. 8, 2008
Georgia's president says the country is calling home its troops from Iraq amid heavy fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Georgia has 2,000 troops serving with the coalition forces in Iraq, making it the third-largest contributor after the United States and Britain.