Real story of SEAL Team 6's mission to kill bin Laden By SUSANNAH CAHALAN
(via VFR)

Something more recent: Commandos clear Gardez bazaars, capture Taliban facilitator

Items of Interest, 13 September 2011

The conversion story of Thomas Storck.

Thomas Fleming, Idling, Week 2

John Zmirak, College: How Not to Waste Your 4 Years

A guide for the perplexed energy policymaker by Kurt Cobb (EB)

This is the house Transition built by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance by Oscar Kjellberg (EB)


States quietly throwing wrenches into health care implementation

NPR: An Interrogator Writes the Inside Story of 9-11

Counterpunch:
FRANKLIN SPINNEY, It’s Budgetary War, Bloody and Terrible
IAN HARRIS, Drone Warfare
HARVEY WASSERMAN, Ten Thousand Fukushimas
SHELDON RICHMAN, 9/11 and the National Security Scam
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Enemy That Barely Exists

Terri, Should Christians Kiss Dating Goodbye?

NPR: The Al-Qaida 'Triple Agent' Who Infiltrated The CIA (mp3)

"This was something that had never happened in the history of the CIA," says Warrick. "There's been hundreds of agents of all kinds — some have been liars and frauds, many disappointments — but no one had ever tried to infiltrate the CIA to blow himself up and kill a bunch of officers. And for that reason, no one really saw this coming. No one thought that he might try to do this."

Either we have had a bunch of morons at the CIA for some time, or institutional decay has accelerated recently, as some like Bob Baer would suggest.

Gareth Porter, Shattering the Myth of Taliban / Al Qaeda Ties

Kelley Vlahos interviews Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer

Kelley B. Vlahos, Lt. Col Shaffer vs. the Pentagon
An interview with the embattled author of Operation Dark Heart