US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that “if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October…

EXCLUSIVE: Turkey nuked the Kurds inside Syrian territory

CNN photo taken on Kurdish territory near the Turkish-Syria border, 23rd October, 2014. Photo analysis by Jeff Smith, nuclear physicist; inspector for the UN/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Smith’s analysis of this photograph confirms 100% that this was a tactical nuclear weapon; several times in the past we have discussed the diagnosis of nuclear explosions by…

Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy: Harun ibn Yahya’s ninth-century Arabic description of Britain

Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy: Harun ibn Yahya’s ninth-century Arabic description of Britain

Al-Idrisi’s mid-twelfth-century Arabic map of southern Britain and northern Frances, from the copy preserved in the sixteenth-century Oxford MS Pococke 375, fol. 281b–282a. Note, north is at the bottom of this map (image: Bodleian Library). The aim of the following post is to offer a draft look at an interesting Arabic account of early medieval Britain…

They abused, cut up corpses: Escaped ISIS fighter shares his horrors from Syria

© Stringer / Reuters He spent a year in Syria, protecting one of Islamic State’s most wanted leaders, but later managed to escape. Hiding his identity and in fear for his life, the former fighter sat down with RT and recounted the terror he witnessed. RT had to change the man’s voice and keep him…