http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/qaeda 2008-09-06T02:27:02Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/52063-mir-rnc-usa-usa 2008-09-06T02:27:02Z linktv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wiBgMxjAzKI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wiBgMxjAzKI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/52063-mir-rnc-usa-usa"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/63159" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain touted the success of the surge in Iraq at the Republican National Convention. Has the war in Iraq been won? And what's the meaning of the "USA, USA" chants by the delegates on the convention floor? <br /> <br />Answers to these questions and more, on Link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report</p> <p>Produced by Jamal Dajani</p> </div> <a href="/blog/52063-mir-rnc-usa-usa">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/50463-former-top-isi-official-calls-for-the-death-penalty-for-musharraf 2008-09-06T00:47:38Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HjgqvWyPQQA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HjgqvWyPQQA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/50463-former-top-isi-official-calls-for-the-death-penalty-for-musharraf"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/61285" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afshin Rattansi interviews a senior former ISI official about Washington and the Musharraf resignation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/50463-former-top-isi-official-calls-for-the-death-penalty-for-musharraf">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/50460-afshin-rattansi-talks-to-ppp-senator-about-the-next-pakistani-president 2008-09-06T00:47:38Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gWEaSu4m1C0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gWEaSu4m1C0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/50460-afshin-rattansi-talks-to-ppp-senator-about-the-next-pakistani-president"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/61282" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Senator Anwar Baig from the PPP talks about what is next for Pakistan</p> </div> <a href="/blog/50460-afshin-rattansi-talks-to-ppp-senator-about-the-next-pakistani-president">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49399-riz-khan-al-qaeda-at-20-18-aug-08-part-2 2008-08-22T14:56:18Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sc7JNBnMxr4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sc7JNBnMxr4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/49399-riz-khan-al-qaeda-at-20-18-aug-08-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/59896" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Riz Khan takes a look at the state of al-Qaeda 20 years after it was founded and explores what the future holds for Osama bin Laden's operation. </p> <p>Does al-Qaeda remain the primary terrorist threat to the US and the rest of the world?</p> </div> <a href="/blog/49399-riz-khan-al-qaeda-at-20-18-aug-08-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49398-riz-khan-al-qaeda-at-20-18-aug-08-part-1 2008-08-22T20:47:02Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vbIQ7Fw8qTM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vbIQ7Fw8qTM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/49398-riz-khan-al-qaeda-at-20-18-aug-08-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/59895" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Riz Khan takes a look at the state of al-Qaeda 20 years after it was founded and explores what the future holds for Osama bin Laden's operation. </p> <p>Does al-Qaeda remain the primary terrorist threat to the US and the rest of the world?</p> </div> <a href="/blog/49398-riz-khan-al-qaeda-at-20-18-aug-08-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/48974-former-senior-cia-official-says-georgian-cannot-join-nato 2008-09-06T00:47:39Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h0WWYyLwPkA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h0WWYyLwPkA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/48974-former-senior-cia-official-says-georgian-cannot-join-nato"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/59133" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afshin Rattansi in Tehran interviews ex-CIA Director of Regional and Political Analysis, Bill Christison about how Washington is headed for war, catalysed by the Georgia crisis.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/48974-former-senior-cia-official-says-georgian-cannot-join-nato">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/48259-afshin-rattansi-interviews-guantanamo-lawyer-gareth-peirce-august-2008 2008-09-05T12:48:32Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/chPGATMhbX0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/chPGATMhbX0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/48259-afshin-rattansi-interviews-guantanamo-lawyer-gareth-peirce-august-2008"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/58094" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>After the "verdict" in Occupied Cuba of Osama bin Laden's driver. <br />Gareth Peirce is the attorney for Moazzam Begg as well as Richard Belmar. Peirce is one of the leading human rights lawyers in Britian. She represented the Birmingham Six and Guilford Four as well as the three other British citizens released from Guantanamo last year known as the "Tipton Three". Actress Emma Thompson played her character in the movie "In the Name of the Father."</p> </div> <a href="/blog/48259-afshin-rattansi-interviews-guantanamo-lawyer-gareth-peirce-august-2008">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47627-estonians-fortify-position-in-southern-afghanistan-1-aug-2008 2008-08-06T02:47:29Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G4J9w7t7wqw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G4J9w7t7wqw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47627-estonians-fortify-position-in-southern-afghanistan-1-aug-2008"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/57021" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Since 2003, Estonia has been participating in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, a mission which has become both Nato's as well as Estonia's, priority international mission.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Pia Heikkila in Nowzad, a southern Afghanistan town, takes a look into the daily lives of those soldiers where silence has been rocked by recent and intensifying violence.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47627-estonians-fortify-position-in-southern-afghanistan-1-aug-2008">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47580-bae 2008-08-29T16:49:24Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8vcT5EiA__k&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8vcT5EiA__k&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47580-bae"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/56483" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afshin Rattansi interviews Symon Hill from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade on : <br />LONDON: A senior British prosecutor's decision to drop a bribery investigation into BAE Systems Plc weapons contracts with Saudi Arabia doesn't need to be reconsidered, the highest court in Britain ruled.</p> <p>The House of Lords overturned a lower court and said former U.K. Serious Fraud Office Director Robert Wardle had the authority to call off his corruption probe. Wardle had cited threats to national security as justification.</p> <p>Wardle "received advice from a number of sources about the threat to national security if the investigation continued," Alan Rodger, one of five judges deciding the case said in the ruling from London. The SFO director had concluded "British lives would be put at risk."</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47580-bae">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47078-john-negroponte-and-richard-boucher-monitor-pakistan 2008-07-25T19:31:16Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/riwY83RmS64&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/riwY83RmS64&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47078-john-negroponte-and-richard-boucher-monitor-pakistan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55655" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afshin Rattansi interviews Executive Intelligence Review in Washington about the swearing in of Nuclear Pakistan's new Prime Minister under the watchful eye of Negroponte..via Iran.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47078-john-negroponte-and-richard-boucher-monitor-pakistan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47058-pakistan-secret-service-general-on-osama-bin-laden 2008-07-25T19:10:56Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jBBrQR9Z3os&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jBBrQR9Z3os&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47058-pakistan-secret-service-general-on-osama-bin-laden"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55635" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>...at least on David Milliband's visit to Pakistan amidst more unrest in the North West Frontier province. Interview conducted between Hamid Gul and Afshin Rattansi in Tehran.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47058-pakistan-secret-service-general-on-osama-bin-laden">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47046-blackwater-unlikely-to-face-charges-in-iraq-shooting 2008-07-25T19:05:18Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2__a4I0HxvI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2__a4I0HxvI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47046-blackwater-unlikely-to-face-charges-in-iraq-shooting"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55621" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Blackwater unlikely to face charges in Iraq shooting <br />The Associated PressPublished: May 9, 2008 <br />WASHINGTON: Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges — all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats.</p> <p>Instead, the seven-month-old Justice Department investigation is focused on as few as three or four Blackwater guards who could be indicted in the Sept. 16 shootings, according to interviews with a half-dozen people close to the investigation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47046-blackwater-unlikely-to-face-charges-in-iraq-shooting">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47034-100-uk-troops-dead-in-afghanistan-tehran-and-karzai 2008-07-25T19:04:31Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/twziVRnsEtQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/twziVRnsEtQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47034-100-uk-troops-dead-in-afghanistan-tehran-and-karzai"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55609" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>When the government dispatched 3,000 British troops to southern Afghanistan in the spring of 2006 to join the limited number who had been there as part of an international security force (Isaf) since 2001, John Reid, then defence secretary, expressed the hope that they would accomplish their mission without a shot being fired.</p> <p>Just as in Iraq, it was a hope based on bad intelligence and little or no idea of the nature of the enemy.</p> <p>The troops set up a base in Helmand province without a clear mission and with Britain and its Nato allies at sixes and sevens about their rules of engagement. From the beginning, the relations of British military commanders with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and the country's local governors were fraught. British commanders sent soldiers to forward bases where they were vulnerable to Taliban fighters. Local peace deals fell apart.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47034-100-uk-troops-dead-in-afghanistan-tehran-and-karzai">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47001-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-2 2008-08-07T14:57:37Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cnhLHBEHKns&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cnhLHBEHKns&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47001-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55570" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Iran: IR655 testifies to US brutality <br />Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:17:29 <br />Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US indifference toward the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 testifies to its inhuman actions.</p> <p>"The appalling act of shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, which resulted in the tragic death of nearly 300 innocent civilians in 1988, is one of the greatest human tragedies in history," said Ahmadinejad in a Wednesday commemoration ceremony for victims of the Airbus incident.</p> <p>"The tragic incident lays bare that the United States will stop at nothing to secure its longstanding doctrine of cupidity and hegemony," he continued.</p> <p>President Ahmadinejad said the IR655 catastrophe indicates that US belligerence will not be tolerated in Today's world.</p> <p>"This is while the main culprits behind this heinous crime were awarded with medals of Honor for causing the death of innocent Iranians," he concluded.</p> <p>The Iranian passenger jet was destroyed by the US Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai on Sunday July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>The White House claims the incident was an honest mistake on behalf of the US Navy. Iran, however, says there is no way that an Airbus A300 can be mistaken for an F-14 Tomcat fighter.</p> <p>Iran has called on the international community to never forget Washington's atrocities in the Persian Gulf, the US government's refusal to claim responsibility for the incident, and its refusal to apologize to the Iranian nation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47001-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47000-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-1 2008-08-07T16:59:49Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bAyxW8diRTA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bAyxW8diRTA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47000-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55569" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Iran: IR655 testifies to US brutality <br />Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:17:29 <br />Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US indifference toward the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 testifies to its inhuman actions.</p> <p>"The appalling act of shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, which resulted in the tragic death of nearly 300 innocent civilians in 1988, is one of the greatest human tragedies in history," said Ahmadinejad in a Wednesday commemoration ceremony for victims of the Airbus incident.</p> <p>"The tragic incident lays bare that the United States will stop at nothing to secure its longstanding doctrine of cupidity and hegemony," he continued.</p> <p>President Ahmadinejad said the IR655 catastrophe indicates that US belligerence will not be tolerated in Today's world.</p> <p>"This is while the main culprits behind this heinous crime were awarded with medals of Honor for causing the death of innocent Iranians," he concluded.</p> <p>The Iranian passenger jet was destroyed by the US Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai on Sunday July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>The White House claims the incident was an honest mistake on behalf of the US Navy. Iran, however, says there is no way that an Airbus A300 can be mistaken for an F-14 Tomcat fighter.</p> <p>Iran has called on the international community to never forget Washington's atrocities in the Persian Gulf, the US government's refusal to claim responsibility for the incident, and its refusal to apologize to the Iranian nation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47000-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/46999-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner 2008-08-07T18:48:38Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VVbdfdSmQ5o&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VVbdfdSmQ5o&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/46999-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55568" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Iran: IR655 testifies to US brutality <br />Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:17:29 <br />Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US indifference toward the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 testifies to its inhuman actions.</p> <p>"The appalling act of shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, which resulted in the tragic death of nearly 300 innocent civilians in 1988, is one of the greatest human tragedies in history," said Ahmadinejad in a Wednesday commemoration ceremony for victims of the Airbus incident.</p> <p>"The tragic incident lays bare that the United States will stop at nothing to secure its longstanding doctrine of cupidity and hegemony," he continued.</p> <p>President Ahmadinejad said the IR655 catastrophe indicates that US belligerence will not be tolerated in Today's world.</p> <p>"This is while the main culprits behind this heinous crime were awarded with medals of Honor for causing the death of innocent Iranians," he concluded.</p> <p>The Iranian passenger jet was destroyed by the US Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai on Sunday July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>The White House claims the incident was an honest mistake on behalf of the US Navy. Iran, however, says there is no way that an Airbus A300 can be mistaken for an F-14 Tomcat fighter.</p> <p>Iran has called on the international community to never forget Washington's atrocities in the Persian Gulf, the US government's refusal to claim responsibility for the incident, and its refusal to apologize to the Iranian nation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/46999-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/46998-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-b3 2008-08-07T18:48:38Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IDSKWY1m9Kc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IDSKWY1m9Kc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/46998-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-b3"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55567" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Iran: IR655 testifies to US brutality <br />Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:17:29 <br />Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US indifference toward the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 testifies to its inhuman actions.</p> <p>"The appalling act of shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, which resulted in the tragic death of nearly 300 innocent civilians in 1988, is one of the greatest human tragedies in history," said Ahmadinejad in a Wednesday commemoration ceremony for victims of the Airbus incident.</p> <p>"The tragic incident lays bare that the United States will stop at nothing to secure its longstanding doctrine of cupidity and hegemony," he continued.</p> <p>President Ahmadinejad said the IR655 catastrophe indicates that US belligerence will not be tolerated in Today's world.</p> <p>"This is while the main culprits behind this heinous crime were awarded with medals of Honor for causing the death of innocent Iranians," he concluded.</p> <p>The Iranian passenger jet was destroyed by the US Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai on Sunday July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>The White House claims the incident was an honest mistake on behalf of the US Navy. Iran, however, says there is no way that an Airbus A300 can be mistaken for an F-14 Tomcat fighter.</p> <p>Iran has called on the international community to never forget Washington's atrocities in the Persian Gulf, the US government's refusal to claim responsibility for the incident, and its refusal to apologize to the Iranian nation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/46998-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-b3">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/46997-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-b2 2008-08-08T20:44:55Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7c_yEdWxb_s&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7c_yEdWxb_s&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/46997-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-b2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55566" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Iran: IR655 testifies to US brutality <br />Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:17:29 <br />Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US indifference toward the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 testifies to its inhuman actions.</p> <p>"The appalling act of shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, which resulted in the tragic death of nearly 300 innocent civilians in 1988, is one of the greatest human tragedies in history," said Ahmadinejad in a Wednesday commemoration ceremony for victims of the Airbus incident.</p> <p>"The tragic incident lays bare that the United States will stop at nothing to secure its longstanding doctrine of cupidity and hegemony," he continued.</p> <p>President Ahmadinejad said the IR655 catastrophe indicates that US belligerence will not be tolerated in Today's world.</p> <p>"This is while the main culprits behind this heinous crime were awarded with medals of Honor for causing the death of innocent Iranians," he concluded.</p> <p>The Iranian passenger jet was destroyed by the US Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai on Sunday July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>The White House claims the incident was an honest mistake on behalf of the US Navy. Iran, however, says there is no way that an Airbus A300 can be mistaken for an F-14 Tomcat fighter.</p> <p>Iran has called on the international community to never forget Washington's atrocities in the Persian Gulf, the US government's refusal to claim responsibility for the incident, and its refusal to apologize to the Iranian nation.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/46997-us-shoots-down-iranian-civilian-airliner-b2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39453-the-bushes-and-the-bin-ladens 2008-06-13T14:42:42Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nh6wQisf2Nw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nh6wQisf2Nw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39453-the-bushes-and-the-bin-ladens"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44535" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/04/15/Steve_Coll_on_the_Bin_Laden_Family">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Steve Coll examines the history of financial ties between the Bin Laden and Bush families, as well as other Bin Laden family investments in the United States prior to September 11, 2001.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Author Steve Coll discusses his most recent book The Bin Ladens.</p> <p>Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege. Cole shows how the family navigated around and through the economic and cultural hurdles, and he presents an authentic humanizing story of Saudi Arabia, America and those caught in the crossfire.</p> <p>Revealing new information, Coll shows how American influence changed a family's fortune and how one family member's rebellion changed the world - The Commonwealth Club of California</p> <p>Steve Coll is President and CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper's managing editor from 1998 to 2004. </p> <p>He is author six books, including The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986); The Taking of Getty Oil (1987); Eagle on the Street, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the SEC's battle with Wall Street (with David A. Vise, 1991); On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1994), Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004); and forthcoming in 2008, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.</p> <p>Andrew Ross is executive foreign and national editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and reporting from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central America. Previously, he was an assignment editor for KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, and news director for public television station KQED. </p> <p>He has also reported for National Public Radio and written for the London Times, Manchester Guardian, Redbook and Good Housekeeping.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39453-the-bushes-and-the-bin-ladens">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/37581-mir-whitewashing-gitmo 2008-06-11T12:38:35Z linktv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwuBiPe7nYU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwuBiPe7nYU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/37581-mir-whitewashing-gitmo"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/42360" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami Al Hajj, was released from the US Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Many experts believe that there are striking similarities between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. <br />Why was Al Hajj released? And is there a cover up?</p> <p>Answers to these questions and more on Link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report.</p> <p>For more info, go to <a href="http://www.linktv.org/mosaic">www.linktv.org</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/37581-mir-whitewashing-gitmo">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/37552-i-say-al-jazeera-you-say-al-qaeda 2008-06-12T09:32:40Z MobLogicTV <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dDSjcX4x14k&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dDSjcX4x14k&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/37552-i-say-al-jazeera-you-say-al-qaeda"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/42331" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Meet Prisoner #345, an Al Jazeera journalist imprisoned at Guantanamo.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/37552-i-say-al-jazeera-you-say-al-qaeda">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/36919-somali-town-subject-to-us-war-on-terror-25-apr-08 2008-06-16T21:30:26Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xBud4bLQUK4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xBud4bLQUK4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/36919-somali-town-subject-to-us-war-on-terror-25-apr-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/41585" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The United States considers Somalia to be a base for fighters linked to al-Qaeda.</p> <p>The US is targeting what it calls "terrorists" in the country.</p> <p>But as Mohammed Adow discovered, civilians are often caught in the firing line.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/36919-somali-town-subject-to-us-war-on-terror-25-apr-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/36847-david-ignatius-looking-beyond-the-iraqi-surge 2008-06-15T03:29:42Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xvx_JuibGdE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xvx_JuibGdE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/36847-david-ignatius-looking-beyond-the-iraqi-surge"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/41503" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/02/28/Bush_Years_and_Beyond">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Washington Post columnist David Ignatius discusses the effects of the U.S. "troop surge" in Iraq, and examines America's options for moving forward.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>"The Bush Years and Beyond"</p> <p>Philip Gordon, Ambassador Richard Burt, David Ignatius, Ashley Tellis, and David Calleo gather to debate at an event marking the 50th Anniversary and Re-Launch of Survival, the IISS journal. Dana Allin moderates the event.</p> <p>David Ignatius is a columnist for The Washington Post. His twice-weekly column on global politics, economics, and international affairs began appearing on the op-ed page of the Post in January 1999. He continued to write weekly after becoming executive editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune in September 2000. When the Post sold its interest in the IHT in January 2003, Mr. Ignatius resumed writing twice a week for the op-ed page and was syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group. </p> <p>Prior to becoming a columnist, Mr. Ignatius was the Post's assistant managing editor in charge of business news, a position he assumed in 1993. He served as the Post's foreign editor from 1990 to 1992, supervising the paper's Pulitzer Prize - winning coverage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From 1986 to 1990, he was editor of Sunday "Outlook" section.</p> <p>Before joining the Post in 1986, Mr. Ignatius spent 10 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He covered the steel industry in Pittsburgh, the Justice Department, the CIA, and the U.S. Senate in Washington, and was the Middle East correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent. He has published five novels and is finishing a sixth.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/36847-david-ignatius-looking-beyond-the-iraqi-surge">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/32992-riz-khan-efraim-halevy-17-mar-08 2008-06-09T03:31:35Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VKci1goa0yE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VKci1goa0yE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/32992-riz-khan-efraim-halevy-17-mar-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/35949" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The former Mossad director joins the show to talk about Hamas, Iran and al-Qaeda.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/32992-riz-khan-efraim-halevy-17-mar-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/29611-us-concerns-over-pakistan-vote-18-jan-08 2008-06-08T09:34:02Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z2nu8b_p69k&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z2nu8b_p69k&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/29611-us-concerns-over-pakistan-vote-18-jan-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/31861" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The United States has invested heavily in Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf since he became an ally in their fight against al Qaeda.</p> <p>But his standing in Washington may be diminished, with opinion polls suggesting a strong opposition vote in Monday's election.</p> <p>Tom Ackerman reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/29611-us-concerns-over-pakistan-vote-18-jan-08">Watch the video</a>