[CTRL] How the Pentagon Forgot About Running Iraq (Jacob Weisberg)

2003-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
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  The assumption that events will 
  conform to a preconceived model is a failing to which neoconservatives are 
  notably vulnerable. Part of this may be Marxist residue that never quite 
  washed off. The intellectual descendants of Trotskyists, the neocons find the idea 
  of revolution from above, in which intellectuals and ideas play the crucial 
  role, instinctively appealing. Many neocons also tend to buy into overly 
  deterministic, Hegelian theories of history (see Fukuyama, Frank). In this 
  sense, the assumption that Iraq was destined to become a liberal democracy 
  with just a nudge from the United States is an error akin to Jeanne J. 
  Kirkpatrick's Hannah Arendt-inspired view that Communist totalitarian 
  societies could never reform from within. There was nothing wrong with that 
  theory either, except that it happened to be completely wrong. 


  Another reason the neocons go for grand theories may be that their 
  primary experience tends to come from the classroom, rather than the real 
  world. Colin Powell, who took fire in Vietnam, has a visceral sense of what 
  happens when a military engagement turns sour that those who served out the 
  war at the University of Chicago may lack. What's more, few neoconservatives 
  have cultivated a deep appreciation or understanding of other culturesunless 
  you count the Athens of Pericles or Machiavelli's Florence. 
  
http://slate.msn.com/id/2090852/

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the big ideaOccupational HazardsHow the Pentagon 
forgot about running Iraq.By Jacob 
WeisbergPosted Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003, at 9:44 AM PT
The shooting down on Sunday of a Chinook helicopter, which claimed more 
American lives than any episode since the fall of Saddam Hussein, confirms what 
the Bush administration has spent weeks attempting to deny: The occupation of 
Iraq is going badly. 
It is not at all surprising that we've run into trouble over there. The 
difficulties we have faced, from looting to the lack of viable institutions, 
were largely to be expected from a devastated post-totalitarian society in a 
part of the world overwhelmingly hostile to the United States and its interests. 
What is surprisingamazing, in factis how unprepared we were for these 
problems. Much of the discussion in the postwar period was focused on the 
question of where those weapons of mass destruction went. An even more important 
question is how the Bush administration failed to prepare for what it knew was 
coming. How did the world's greatest military power plan the invasion of a 
country without also planning its occupation? 
David Rieff's Nov. 2 article in the New York Times 
Magazine offers pieces of an answer. The neoconservative Iraq hawks inside 
the PentagonPaul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feiththought our troops 
would be welcomed as liberators and that the Iraqi National Congress could run 
the country for us (a view Gideon Rose demolished in 
Slate back in April). Wolfowitz, in particular, was 
known for his view that fixing Iraq would provoke a reverse-domino effect of 
democratization throughout the Middle East. Those who bought into this wishful 
thinking didn't want to 
hear about the potential problems. 
The hawks' big mistake was not in thinking that optimistic scenario might be 
borne out. Their mistakeespecially stunning because the Pentagon is essentially 
a planning agencywas not preparing for alternate scenarios that were, at the 
very least, equally likely. The neoconservative architects of the invasion seem 
not to have, at any point, seriously engaged the question, "What if things do 
not go the way we hope they will?" What if the Iraqis are glad to be rid of 
Saddam but not glad to have the Marines as neighbors? What if Ahmad Chalabi 
turns out not to be the next Vaclav Havel? The Pentagon spends hundreds of 
millions of dollars staging elaborate war games to help anticipate unexpected 
turns in battle. Somehow, it neglected to game out the postwar peace. 
The assumption that events will conform to a preconceived model is a failing 
to which neoconservatives are notably vulnerable. Part of this may be Marxist 
residue that never quite washed off. The intellectual descendants of Trotskyists, the neocons find the idea of revolution 
from above, in which intellectuals and ideas play the crucial role, 
instinctively appealing. Many neocons also tend to buy into overly 
deterministic, Hegelian theories of history (see Fukuyama, Frank). In this 
sense, the assumption that Iraq was destined to become a liberal democracy with 
just a nudge from the United States is an error akin to Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick's 
Hannah Arendt-inspired view that Communist totalitarian societies could never 
reform from within. There was nothing wrong with that theory either, except that 
it happened to be completely wrong. 
Another reason the neocons go for grand theories may be that their primary 
experience tends to come from the classroom, rather than the real 

[CTRL] Pentagon Debunks Reports on Osama-Saddam Ties

2003-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
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No matter how many lies neocons and neocon 
media outlets are caught telling, they continue to tell lie after lie, even when 
they know they are going to be caught yet again.

Neoconservatism appears to be less an 
ideology than a severe personality disorder which radically disconnects neocons 
from reality. Neocons basically will say anything, tell any lie, and adopt 
any ideology which supports whatever ideathat has taken fanatical root in 
their heads at any given moment. They are unresponsive to stimuli and data 
from the real world. Perhaps neoconservatism is linked to autism in some 
way? Is it a genetic thing?

Connected with the disorder is a total 
absence of shame for whatever outrages one has committed in the past. The 
more the neocons are exposed as liars, the more stridently self-righteous they 
become.

It is incomprehensible to any sane person 
that Douglas Feith would recirculate lies at this stage in the game which he had 
to KNOW would be shot down by his own Defense Department. What makes a guy 
like this tick?

http://www.mediainfo.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2030480

Editor  
Publisher

NOVEMBER 18, 2003Pentagon 
Debunks Reports on Osama-Saddam Ties Some Outlets 
Run With 'Weekly Standard' Story By Seth 
Porges NEW YORK -- 
Several newspapers and other media outlets had 
egg on their face Monday after reporting or endorsing a Weekly Standard 
story revealing new evidence of an "operational relationship" between Saddam 
Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Several outlets, 
including the New York Post, The Washington Times and FOX News, ran with 
the story. There was just one problem: On Saturday, the Pentagon issued a press 
release stating that "news reports that the Defense Department recently 
confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq ... 
are inaccurate."Despite this, the New York 
Post on Monday titled its editorial on the subject: "Bush Was Right."In the current Nov. 24 issue of the conservative 
journal The Weekly Standard, Stephen F. Hayes writes that Osama bin Laden 
and Saddam Hussein "had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 
that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical 
support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, 
and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda." The 
magazine's revelations allegedly came from a "top secret U.S. government 
memorandum obtained by The Weekly Standard." The Pentagon press release, 
however, states that the classified sections of the document contained "raw 
reports" and "was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship 
between Iraq and al Qaida and it drew no conclusions."The Nov. 17 New York Post editorial made no mention of the 
Pentagon refuting the charge as "inaccurate."Also 
on Monday, The Washington Times carried an editorial on the issue, using 
The Weekly Standard article as evidence. At the end of the editorial, the 
Times mentions the Pentagon release, but urges "readers to examine the 
Weekly Standard article and decide for themselves."On Nov. 16, The Washington Post's Walter Pincus reported that 
the CIA has found "no evidence that Hussein sought to arm terrorists."The New York Post editorial opens: "As blood flowed freely again this weekend in the War 
on Terror, this time in Turkey as well as Iraq, a new report in The Weekly 
Standard suggests that events there may not be unrelated. "In fact, the report by Stephen Hayes -- based on a top-secret 
government memo -- documents an even more profound linkage: between none other 
than Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. "According to Hayes, the memo, provides enormous evidence that the 
Bush team was right all along about Saddam's terrorist ties -- despite charges 
to the contrary by the president's foes, particularly Democrats 
..." Source: 
Editor  Publisher Online

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[CTRL] A Web of Spin, Lies and Self-Delusion

2003-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Title: GN Online: Youssef M. Ibrahim: Get the American GIs out of Iraq
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  Not since the Vietnam disaster, 
  which cost well over 50,000 American and more than a million Vietnamese lives, 
  has a debacle of the scale unfolding in Iraq been visited upon the American 
  people. This is a war constructed on ideological premises uncomfortably 
  resembling those that led us to Vietnam: a web of spin, lies and 
  self-delusion. Bush has not, to this day, given the world a credible 
  reason for putting the lives of over 150,000 Americans in harm's way - no 
  weapons of mass destruction found, no democracy is mushrooming, no light looms 
  at the end this dark tunnel. Worse yet, the great Iraqi silent 
  majority, according to the latest CIA confidential report leaked to the 
  "Philadelphia Inquirer" a few days ago, is tilting against the US and the 
  puppet Iraqi government we have put in Baghdad, as people become poorer, less 
  safe and harassed by frightened and confused American troops in their homes 
  and villages. 
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=103200


  
  



  
Youssef 
  M. Ibrahim: Get the American GIs out of Iraq
  
|Special to 
  Gulf News|18/11/2003
  

  

  Looking 
  at the American debacle in Iraq through Arab eyes, the solution is starkly 
  evident: put American forces under the command of General Kofi Anan, 
  otherwise known as Secretary-General of the United Nations, immediately. 
  Get the French, Germans and the European Union - along with China, 
  India and the rest of the world community - to send their soldiers under 
  blue caps as peace-keeping forces, as they all readily agree they would if 
  commanded by the United Nations.And, above all, get the American 
  GIs out. Sooner or later an exceedingly stubborn and lonely George 
  W. Bush Administration will have to reach that conclusion. Problem is, as 
  long as it drags its feet, this administration is doing untold damage to 
  the reputation and values of the US, once the most admired in this part of 
  the world.It is creating a deep hatred in the Arab, and more 
  important, the much bigger 1.2 billion Muslim world around the globe that 
  will haunt us for years to come, feeding the ranks of the very same 
  terrorists we are hoping to eradicate. Instead of winning the war on 
  terror, President Bush is fanning its flames. As long as we remain 
  an occupation force in Iraq, the worst case scenario is an expansion of 
  the ongoing collapse of American prestige, respect, credibility and power 
  . At the end of this tunnel lies a defeat which history will judge to have 
  been entirely an American domestic political design. It is 
  unconscionable of the Bush crowd of hawkish neo-conservatives, Evangelical 
  Christians and pro-Likud supporters of Israel to drive matters to that 
  extent, solely for the questionable purpose of gaining electoral votes. 
  Indeed it is self-defeating. Bush may loose his job along with the US 
  clout in the Iraqi quagmire. Web of spinNot since 
  the Vietnam disaster, which cost well over 50,000 American and more than a 
  million Vietnamese lives, has a debacle of the scale unfolding in Iraq 
  been visited upon the American people. This is a war constructed on 
  ideological premises uncomfortably resembling those that led us to 
  Vietnam: a web of spin, lies and self-delusion. Bush has not, to 
  this day, given the world a credible reason for putting the lives of over 
  150,000 Americans in harm's way - no weapons of mass destruction found, no 
  democracy is mushrooming, no light looms at the end this dark tunnel. 
  Worse yet, the great Iraqi silent majority, according to the 
  latest CIA confidential report leaked to the "Philadelphia Inquirer" a few 
  days ago, is tilting against the US and the puppet Iraqi government we 
  have put in Baghdad, as people become poorer, less safe and harassed by 
  frightened and confused American troops in their homes and villages. 
  Instead of facing up to this, the Bush crowd is now plotting to 
  get out and leave the puppet government in charge with all what that 
  entails of danger including a return to a Saddam Hussain-style autocracy, 
  or a civil war.Is it a surprise then that no one wants to come and 
  help? The Turks, having pocketed $8 billion to send 10,000 troops, now say 
  they aren't coming. The Red Cross has folded its tent in Iraq. The 
  United Nations is refusing to co-operate and the Japanese and Koreans have 
  just said they are re-thinking their promise to send forces. Even 
  our friends, the Brits, have quietly cut their forces from 45,000 during 
  the invasion to less than 15,000 now. Meanwhile in Iraq, American forces 
  which a few 

[CTRL] MSN Newsbot to Challenge Google News

2003-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Title: Microsoft Tests Answer to Google News
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Consider the data mining/surveillance possibilities for a global 
central intelligence with access to all the net clicks on the world (including 
all searches): 

  The most innovative Newsbot feature is personalization. MSN users who 
  sign in to Microsoft Passport received personalized news based on previously 
  demonstrated interests. It can show news from sources that person clicked on 
  in the past, or suggest stories based on previously shown interests, the 
  company said. 
  "We pay attention to the usage of the service for many reasons 
  
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  Answer to Google News By Pamela ParkerNovember 18, 
  2003
  Software giant Microsoft is testing its answer to Google's popular news 
  aggregator and search site. "MSN Newsbot", on MSN UK, France, Spain and 
  Italy, signals at least one of Microsoft's intentions as it seeks to build 
  out its own search technology. 
  Newsbot aggregates headlines from over 4,000 sources on the Internet, 
  apparently provided by partner Moreover Technologies. Headlines are 
  clustered by topic and displayed based on algorithms Microsoft 
  established, the company said in a FAQ about the beta service. Those 
  algorithms consider the number of sources covering the story, when the 
  story was published, and how many people have looked at a particular 
  story. 
  Overture text ads are served on the main Newsbot page, as well as on 
  news search results. It's not clear what criteria are used to target the 
  ads. On Monday, both Overture listings featured merchants selling chimney 
  flue liners. The top story on the page concerned a gangplank collapse that 
  killed 15 people trying to board a British liner in France. Microsoft renewed its 
  deal with Overture earlier this year. Overture paid listings will 
  continue to appear on MSN in the U.S. and the U.K. through June, 2005. 
  The Newsbot service is a glimpse at what Microsoft's been up to in the 
  hot search arena, amidst much speculation about the company's intentions. 
  The Redmond, Wash.-based software company has made significant investments 
  in the search arena, tripling staffing levels as it works to catch up with 
  Google and Yahoo! Microsoft has been very quiet about strategy specifics, 
  especially in regard to paid search. 
  The most innovative Newsbot feature is personalization. MSN users who 
  sign in to Microsoft Passport received personalized news based on 
  previously demonstrated interests. It can show news from sources that 
  person clicked on in the past, or suggest stories based on previously 
  shown interests, the company said. 
  "We pay attention to the usage of the service for many reasons. We want 
  to make MSN Newsbot (beta) more useful for our users," MSN says on its 
  site. "By tracking the most popular stories, we can build a 'most popular' 
  list for each section of news -- speeding discovery of what stories the 
  world is reading. By telling users that 'People who read this story also 
  read...' we can reduce the time it takes to find other interesting 
  stories." 
  Personalization features aside, the Newsbot service is close to a 
  perfect echo of Google's News service, also still in beta after appearing 
  in September, 2002. 
  MSN choice of Moreover Technologies as a news provider is interesting. 
  The latter company worked with Yahoo! on its news search.


  
  




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[CTRL] Muhammad Found Guilty of All Charges

2003-11-18 Thread Jim Rarey
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It is still not clear if they are going to call Muhammad's friend who 
loaned him the murder weapon as a witness. - Jim

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51368-2003Nov17?language=printer




  
  


  

  

  

  

  

  
   
  
  
washingtonpost.com 
Muhammad Found Guilty of All Charges Jurors 
to Weigh Life or Death During Trial's Penalty Phase 
By Tamara JonesWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, 
November 17, 2003; 5:34 PM 

VIRGINIA BEACH, Nov. 17 -- John Allen Muhammad was convicted Monday of 
murder, terrorism and other charges that could send him to death row for his 
role in the Washington area sniper shootings last year.
The 42-year-old Muhammad stood with hands clasped before him, biting his 
lower lip as the foreman repeated the word "guilty" four times. 
The seven-woman, five-man panel returned the verdict after approximately 6 
1/2 hours of deliberation, finding Muhammad guilty of two counts of capital 
murder, conspiracy and illegal use of a firearm. 
The penalty phase of the trial began after jurors returned from lunch. 
Assistant Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Richard A. Conway told 
jurors they had ample evidence to execute Muhammad. 
"Even if you didn't hear another soul testify, you certainly already heard 
enough" to deliver the death penalty, Conway said in the prosecution's opening 
statement. 
Conway promised to present evidence about a 
shooting in Washington state that predated the sniper siege, and told jurors 
they would hear about Muhammad's alleged access to two handguns and a rifle not 
tied to the Washington-area rampage.
Conway referred to Muhammad's "callous attitude toward human life" and notes 
purportedly found in his stolen laptop computer and his car outlining plans for 
future attacks. "We reserve the death penalty for the worst of the worse," 
Conway told the jurors. "Folks, he still sits right in front of you without a 
shred of remorse."
Defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro acknowledged that jurors would "put John 
Muhammad in a box of one kind or another. One is made of concrete; one is made 
of plywood." 
He urged jurors to see another side of Muhammad, a person he described as "a 
friendly guy, a solid, hard-working man who loved his children. John Muhammad 
was a human being." 
Shapiro recounted how Muhammad grew up in New Orleans in a family so poor 
they couldn't afford pain medication for his mother, who died of breast cancer 
when Muhammad, born John Williams, was three years old. In high school, Muhammad 
joined the ROTC and proudly wore his uniform to school "virtually every day. He 
loved that uniform," Shapiro said. Muhammad joined the National Guard and later, 
the Army.
But after failures in his life mounted and Muhammad lost his marriage, his 
children and his business, the convicted sniper eventually found himself living 
in a homeless shelter in Tacoma, Wash.
Shapiro promised jurors they would meet others from that shelter who found 
inspiration in Muhammad and credited him with a "spiritual wakening."
"Is he irretrievable, worthless, not worth our time?" Shapiro asked. "Or is 
there some reason to spare him?"
"It is not necessary," he concluded, "to extinguish one more life."
After both sides concluded their brief opening statements, the prosecution 
began calling witnesses to buttress the argument that Muhammad deserves to 
die.
First on the stand was Isa Nichols, a former 
accountant for Muhammad's car-repair business and friend of his ex-wife, 
Mildred.
Nichols's 21-year-old niece, Keenya Cook, was fatally shot in the face Feb. 
16, 2002, when she opened the door to her aunt's home in Tacoma. 
Prosecutors said they would link that slaying to 
Muhammad, who they allege was seeking revenge because Nichols had sided with his 
ex-wife in their divorce and bitter custody dispute.
Nichols also testified about accompanying Mildred Muhammad to a court hearing 
when her children were returned to her 17 months after Muhammad abducted them 
and fled to Antigua.
Nichols said Mildred Muhammad was so frightened of her ex-husband that she 
sought refuge in a sheriff's lounge after seeing him in the courthouse hall that 
morning. After losing parental rights, Nichols said, an "angry" Muhammad 
appeared in the hallway where Mildred Muhammad was making a phone call.
"Mildred dropped the telephone and ran down the corridor" as Muhammad started 
"coming toward her," Nichols said.
Attorneys bustled Mildred Muhammad and her friend into a cab, she added.
Nichols said Mildred Muhammad feared her former husband.
"Mildred felt he was going to destroy her," she testified.
Prosecutors suggested earlier in the trial that the sniper shootings were a 
smoke-screen by Muhammad and that his intended target ultimately was Mildred, 
who was living in the D.C. area with the children. 
The accountant later recounted the evening months later when she came home to 
find her niece, Keenya Cook, lying on 

[CTRL] Investigators say pilot error to blame for crash that killed Sen. Wellstone

2003-11-18 Thread Jim Rarey
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Yeah, Sure. That doesn't explain why the plane wastwo 
milesoff the landing pattern. - JR

http://www.tribnet.com/24hour/politics/v-printer/story/1058256p-7426288c.html


  
  

  


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Investigators say pilot error to blame for 
  crash that killed Sen. Wellstone 
  By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press 
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Pilot error caused the plane crash that killed Sen. 
  Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., and seven others, investigators said Tuesday. 
  Investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board that the 
  twin-propeller King Air A100 stalled when it slowed down too quickly while 
  approaching Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport in northern Minnesota on 
  Oct. 25, 2002. The plane lost altitude, veered sharply, sheared off 
  treetops and crashed 2 1/2 miles short of the runway. 
  "The flight crew did not monitor and maintain minimum speed," NTSB 
  Aircraft Performance Group Chairman Charlie Pereira told the board, which 
  will vote on whether to accept the finding. 
  Wellstone; his wife, Sheila; their 33-year-old daughter, Marcia 
  Wellstone Markuson; three campaign workers and the pilot and co-pilot 
  died. They were traveling to a funeral. 
  The crash occurred less than two weeks before Election Day. Following 
  Wellstone's death, former Vice President Walter Mondale accepted the 
  Democratic candidacy. After a brief campaign, Republican Norm Coleman won 
  the seat Wellstone had held for nearly 12 years. 
  On the day of the crash it was cloudy and cold. Crash investigators 
  looked at the possibility icing on the wings contributed to the accident, 
  but discounted that and focused instead on pilot Richard Conry, 55, and 
  co-pilot Michael Guess, 30. 
  John Clark, the NTSB's director of aviation safety, said Conry and 
  Guess were flying too high and too fast as they began their approach. They 
  slowed down too much as they tried to make up for the mistake, he said. 
  The plane went from 190 mph to 87 mph in the final 90 seconds of the 
  flight. 
  It's unclear why the pilots didn't realize the plane was moving too 
  slowly. "One of them should have been monitoring the instruments," said 
  Bill Bramble, a human performance investigator for the NTSB. 
  Interviews conducted after the crash revealed shortcomings in the 
  proficiency of both pilots, investigators said. (Published 
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[CTRL] Friend Illegally Bought Rifle for Muhammad

2003-11-18 Thread Jim Rarey
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At last a name, but not from the local papers. This raises all kinds of 
questions. Will Dancy be prosecuted?However, this does not explain the 
Bushmaster. It was a Remington Dancy bought for Mohammad, so he says. What 
happened to the Remington?Should Dancy be considered an accessory to 
murder (Keenya Cook's)? Stay tuned.- Jim

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56352-2003Nov18?language=printer





  
  


  

  

  

  

  

  

  
washingtonpost.com 
Friend Illegally Bought Rifle for Muhammad 
By Tamara JonesWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, 
November 18, 2003; 2:16 PM 

VIRGINIA BEACH, Nov. 18--A sailor who shared his vast gun collection with 
John Allen Muhammad and illegally purchased a rifle for the buddy now convicted 
of capital murder testified Tuesday in the penalty phase of the Washington-area 
sniper's trial.
Earl Lee Dancy Jr., an active-duty Navy gunner's mate, told jurors now 
holding Muhammad's life in their hands about his friend's keen interest in guns, 
his admiration for Adolf Hitler and his pride in the marksmanship of the 
teenager who posed as his son.
"He's a sniper," Dancy recalled Muhammad saying of Lee Boyd Malvo as the two 
adults examined a target Muhammad's accused accomplice riddled with bullet holes 
at a shooting range in Tacoma, Wash., where Muhammad was then living.
Malvo is standing trial for capital murder in nearby Chesapeake, Va., in the 
shooting spree that left 10 people dead and three wounded in the Washington area 
13 months ago. Muhammad was found guilty of capital murder and related charges 
Monday and now faces either life in prison or death by lethal injection.
Dancy said he knew it was against the law when he purchased a Remington 
700-308 rifle for Muhammad at a Tacoma sporting goods store, and acknowledged 
that he lied to police and the FBI when they later questioned him about the 
weapon, which Dancy had meanwhile reported stolen at Muhammad's behest.
Muhammad and Malvo stayed at Dancy's apartment for periods of time, Dancy 
said, and the two houseguests had free access to the gun collection Dancy kept 
in his bedroom closet.
Muhammad also showed interest in a book about silencers that later 
disappeared from Dancy's house. The houseguests also had videos about snipers, 
which they frequently watched, he said.
Dancy's testimony followed that of a Tacoma man who found the Remington on a 
bipod along a trail one night with a scope on it, pointing toward a nearby 
apartment. Muhammad's request that Dancy report his Remington stolen came around 
the same time the stranger found the gun with a single bullet in the chamber and 
turned it over to police.
Dancy admitted under cross-examination that he had told multiple lies to 
authorities investigating the sniper case, but said he "didn't know" if he had 
been offered a plea bargain to avoid charges and possible prison time in 
exchange for his testimony.
Dancy also testified fleetingly about Muhammad's bitter relationship with his 
former wife, Mildred, mother of his three young children.
Muhammad told him "she caused him to lose everything, and he was going to fix 
her," Dancy said.
Prosecutors have suggested that Muhammad orchestrated the sniper spree to 
create a smokescreen, and that Mildred, then living in the Washington area, was 
ultimately his intended target. The motive, they allege, was revenge over his 
loss of parental rights to the children.
But jurors now left to decide whether to impose the death penalty against 
Muhammad have been hearing testimony during this penalty phase not about the 16 
shootings that led to their guilty verdict, but about a killing far away and 
long before the D.C.-area rampage.
A young mother who opened her front door to a shotgun blast on Feb. 16, 2002, 
in Tacoma became the latest bloodied face of death for jurors who have been 
immersed for over a month in images of violence and voices of anguish.
The 21-year-old was found dead in the front foyer of her aunt Isa Nichols's 
home, where she lived with her infant daughter. Nichols had kept the books for 
Muhammad's car-repair business at one point, and had become a friend of Mildred 
Muhammad. She had sided with Mildred during the Muhammad's bitter divorce, after 
Muhammad spirited away the couple's children.
She was in court with Mildred again 18 months later, when authorities found 
and returned the children to their mother. Nichols testified Monday that she 
watched Mildred Muhammad screaming and running down the courtroom hallway to 
flee an angry Muhammad after that hearing. 
Testimony about the slaying of Keenya Cook underscored the horror of random 
violence, of death unexplained, that the greater Washington metropolitan area 
would come to know intimately eight months later, when Muhammad prowled the 
streets in a decrepit Chevrolet Caprice modified into a sniper's lair.
Keenya Cook, in her stocking feet, was poaching chicken on the 

[CTRL] U.S. destroys suspected guerrillas' homes

2003-11-18 Thread Jim Rarey
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If they can remove the non-combatants, couldn't they just capture the 
guerrillas? - JR

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U.S. destroys 
suspected guerrillas' homesBy JEFF 
WILKINSONKnight Ridder 
Newspapers
TIKRIT, Iraq - In a tactic reminiscent of 
Israeli crackdowns in the West Bank and Gaza, the U.S. military has 
begun destroying the homes of suspected guerrilla fighters in Iraq's 
Sunni Triangle, evacuating women and children, then leveling their 
houses with heavy weaponry.
At least 15 homes have been destroyed in Tikrit as part of what 
has been dubbed Operation Ivy Cyclone II, including four leveled on 
Sunday by tanks and Apache helicopters that allegedly belonged to 
suspects in the Nov. 7 downing of a Black Hawk helicopter that 
killed six Americans.
Family members at one of the houses, in the village of al Haweda, 
said they were given five minutes to evacuate before soldiers opened 
fire.
The destruction of the homes is part of a sharp crackdown on 
insurgents in the so-called Sunni Triangle where guerrillas have 
downed at least two U.S. helicopters, one a Chinook in Fallujah on 
Nov. 2, killing 16 U.S. soldiers, and the other the Nov. 7 downing 
of the Black Hawk. On Saturday, two more helicopters crashed, after 
one of them may have been fired upon, killing 17.
U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six 
guerrillas and arresting 21 others, the military said. The operation 
is expected to continue through Wednesday, said Col. James Hickey, 
commander of the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division.
Hickey said the four homes were destroyed on Sunday because enemy 
fighters lived and met there. Leveling the homes will force the 
fighters to find other meeting places, he said.
"Those four people used those houses as sanctuary, and we're not 
allowing them to have sanctuary," Hickey said.
"We're going to turn the heat up and complicate their 
battlefield," driving them into the desert, he said. "There they 
will be exposed and we will have them."
It was unclear whether the decision to destroy the houses was 
part of an overall strategy approved in Washington. White House 
spokesman Scott McClellan declined to comment specifically, 
referring questions about the razings to the Defense Department, but 
he praised the military's efforts to get tough with Iraqi 
insurgents.
``There are terrorists who are seeking to spread fear and chaos 
in Iraq, and we are on the offensive and taking the fight to the 
enemy,'' McClellan said. ``Our coalition forces are doing an 
outstanding job working with Iraqis to bring these terrorists to 
justice.''
Officials at the Department of Defense referred questions to 
Central Command in Tampa, which oversees all military operations in 
Iraq. Spokesmen there declined to comment.
On Monday, angry residents of al Haweda, where three of the 
destroyed homes were, said the tactic will spawn more guerrilla 
fighters and perhaps spark an Iraqi uprising similar to the 
Palestinian intifada in the West Bank and Gaza.
"This is something Sharon would do," said 41-year-old farmer 
Jamel Shahab, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon. 
"What's happening in Iraq is just like Palestine."
Shahab stood amidst the rubble of the former home of 55-year-old 
farmer Omar Khalil, who was arrested shortly before the home was 
destroyed. The military said Khalil's son, who escaped, is one of 
the suspects in the downing of the Black Hawk.
Khalil's wife, Kafey, sat wailing near her wrecked house. "I have 
no son. I have no husband. I have no home. I will be a beggar."
Kafey Khalil said military officials first visited the house two 
days ago, demanding that her husband turn in her son. He 
refused.
Then at about 10 p.m. Sunday, the military returned, she 
said.
"They started shouting at us, `Get 

Re: [CTRL] U.S. destroys suspected guerrillas' homes

2003-11-18 Thread Prudy L
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Posted on Mon, Nov. 17, 2003   
U.S. destroys suspected guerrillas' homesBy JEFF WILKINSONKnight Ridder Newspapers
TIKRIT, Iraq - In a tactic reminiscent of Israeli crackdowns in the West Bank and Gaza, the U.S. military has begun destroying the homes of suspected guerrilla fighters in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, evacuating women and children, then leveling their houses with heavy weaponry.

Anybody care to join me in a chorus of "Proud to be an American"? Prudy
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[CTRL] JFK, 9/11 and Conspiracy Theories (Maureen Farrell)

2003-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Title: JFK, 9/11 and Conspiracy Theories - Maureen Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
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http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/11/far03002.html


  
  

  
  

  

  
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  MAUREEN FARRELL 
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  JFK, 9/11 and Conspiracy Theories
  by Maureen Farrell
  "There have been many things swept under the 
  carpet. And I think it's a shame in a government that you trust - I think 
  it's a shame, the things that they chose to tell you and the things they 
  choose not to tell you." -- Sept. 11 widow Julia Sweeney, whose 
  husband Brian worked in the World Trade Center 
  "One of my greatest shames, as a journalist is 
  that I still don't know who killed Jack Kennedy." -- Hunter S. 
  Thompson 
  Last January, Mike Ward compared the post-9/11 
  conspiracy frenzy to what occurred in the aftermath of JFK’s murder. 
  "Angry speculation -- focused mainly on government dirty dealings, 
  ulterior motives, and potential complicity in the attacks -- has risen to 
  a clamor that easily rivals what followed the Kennedy assassination," he 
  wrote. [Alternet.org]
  Inconsistencies in the official story always take 
  their toll, particularly when there's a whiff of a cover-up. And 
  certainly, news that the White House will edit sensitive documents before 
  handing them over to the independent commission investigating Sept. 11 
  makes matters murkier. "The White House gets to cherry-pick how much 
  access the nation's commission looking into 9/11 gets to crucial 
  documents. I'm ready to vote for subpoenas right now," former Senator Max 
  Cleland told CNN, evoking Warren Commission suspicion deja vu. 
  While it's not surprising, as a New York 
  Times/CBS poll revealed, that 77 percent of Americans reject the 
  Warren Commission's findings, it seems that several government officials 
  did, too. Richard Nixon, for example, said that the Warren Commission was 
  "the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated," [BBC] while Bill Clinton reportedly asked Webster Hubble 
  to find answers to two questions: "One, who killed JFK? And, two, are 
  there UFOs?" 
  Of course, without history's hindsight, nobody knows 
  if 9/11 questions will capture the public's imagination the way those 
  surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination have. And while some, like 
  Tucker Carlson, continue to disparagingly refer to "grassy knoll 
  conspiracy theories," a quick glance at this week's TV listings shows 
  exactly how enduring (and widely believed) such theories are. 
  Though ABC plans to commemorate the 40th anniversary 
  of JFK’s assassination by "irrefutably" confirming that Lee Harvey Oswald 
  acted alone, other offerings include FOX’s JFK: Case Not Closed, 
  The Discovery Channel's Unsolved History: JFK Conspiracy, Court 
  TV’s JFK Assassination: Investigation Reopened and Cinemax’s airing 
  of Oliver Stone’s JFK. Starting Nov. 18, The History Channel is 
  featuring Nigel Turner’s The Men Who Killed Kennedy series, 
  offering nine hours of individual conspiracy segments over the course of 
  three nights. And on Sun. Nov. 23, they’ll air JFK and the Grassy 
  Knoll, with Kennedy assassination authors Gerald Posner, Mark Lane and 
  David Lifton debating new evidence, which, the listing explains, 
  "concludes that there may have been another gunman on the grassy knoll." 
  
  Although there are at least 36 different JFK 
  conspiracy theories, part of the lasting allure of the Kennedy saga lies 
  in the fact that new information keeps bubbling to the surface. It seems 
  that while some fibs (like Condi Rice's assertion that nobody imagined 
  planes being used as weapons) are uncovered early on, others take longer 
  to unravel. It took nearly 40 years and a team of British forensic 
  scientists, for example, to conclude, with 96.3% accuracy, there was most 
  likely a second gunman on the grassy knoll ("Study Backs Theory of 'Grassy 
  Knoll,'" the Washington Post, March 25, 2001).
  Postcards from the Bushy Knoll
  While ex-British minister Michael Meacher has openly 
  wondered if 9/11 wasn’t conveniently allowed to happen to pave the way for 
  US global domination [The Guardian], it’s doubtful that a majority of 
  Americans entertain such claims. During a May, 2003 Hardball 
  appearance, for example, political humorist Bill Maher reflected what 
  seems to be prevailing attitude towards JFK and Sept. 11 theories. 
  Uttering a confounded "wow" after Chris Matthews admitted, "I believe in 
  the single bullet theory," Maher nevertheless balked when an audience 
  member suggested that Bush might have purposely 

[CTRL] Get Ready To Invade Iran!

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Stewart
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 AP Exclusive: Top Iraqi Scientist Flees
 By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer

 The Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s
 long-range missile program has fled to neighboring Iran, a country
 identified as a state sponsor of terrorism with a successful missile
 program and nuclear ambitions, U.S. officers involved in the weapons
 hunt told The Associated Press.

 Dr. Modher Sadeq-Saba al-Tamimi's departure comes as top weapons
 makers from Saddam's deposed regime find themselves eight months out
 of work but with skills that could be lucrative to militaries or
 terrorist organizations in neighboring countries. U.S. officials have
 said some are already in Syria and Jordan.

 Experts long feared the collapse of Saddam's rule could lead to the
 kind of scientific brain-drain the United States tried to prevent as
 the former Soviet Union collapsed. But the Bush administration had no
 plan for Iraqi scientists and instead officials suggested they could
 be tried for war crimes.

 There are a couple hundred Iraqis who are really good scientists,
 particularly in the missile area, said Jonathan Tucker, a former
 U.N. inspector now with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at
 the Monterey Institute in California. In the chemical and biological
 areas, their work wasn't state of the art but it was good enough to
 be of interest to other countries.

 Only now is the State Department exploring the possibility of a
 government-funded program to block a scientific exodus and prevent
 Iraqis from doing future research in weapons of mass destruction.
 Initial cost estimates for the program run about $16 million,
 according to a Nov. 3 draft proposal obtained by AP.

 Two members of the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s Defense Intelligence
 Agency involved in questioning scientists in custody told AP the
 Iraqis continue to deny the existence of illicit weapons programs in
 Iraq (news - web sites). Dozens of Iraqi scientists have been
 questioned and less than 30 remain in custody. All of them, including
 senior members of Saddam's regime, have been subjected to lie-
 detector tests, which have come up clean on weapons questioning, the
 DIA officers said.

 But U.S. scientists and weapons experts, who all spoke on condition
 of anonymity, said they're having trouble finding some Iraqi experts
 in Iraq and have no way of tracking ones they've met.

 They could leave Baghdad tomorrow and we'd never know, said one
 senior official involved in the hunt. Very few are obligated to tell
 us where they're going or what they're up to.

 U.N. inspectors spoke with Dr. Modher in Baghdad a week before the
 U.S.-led war began on March 20. Two U.S. weapons investigators say
 they believe he crossed the Iraq-Iran border on foot at least two
 months after U.S. forces took Baghdad.

 His activities in Iran are unclear and may explain why his
 disappearance hasn't been publicly disclosed. The CIA (news - web
 sites) declined to discuss its efforts with Iraqi scientists or
 identify individuals.

 Thought to be in his mid-50's, the Czech-educated scientist
 specialized in missile engines. He met numerous times with U.N.
 inspectors during the 1990s and earlier this year when he argued that
 the Al-Samoud missile system under his command wasn't in violation of
 a U.N. range limit. The inspectors determined otherwise when tests
 showed it could fly more than 93 miles. They quickly began destroying
 the Iraqi stock, much to his frustration.

 Dr. Modher was declared by Iraq to have been one of the principal
 figures in their missile programs, said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for
 the U.N. inspectors.

 In the late 1980s, Modher headed up the Iraqi military's Project
 1728, part of an effort to produce engines for longer-range missiles.

 He was the protege and favored colleague of Iraqi Lt. Gen. Hussein
 Kamel, Saddam's right-hand man and son-in-law who briefly defected to
 Jordan in 1995. There, Kamel told U.N. inspectors during
 interrogations about his work and Dr. Modher's efforts to build a
 missile powerful enough to strike most major European cities.

 According to the interrogation transcripts, Kamel said Modher and a
 nuclear physicist named Mahdi Obeidi both took work and documents
 from their offices. U.N. inspectors investigated the claim but found
 nothing.

 In July of this year, Obeidi gave the CIA a stack of papers and a
 piece of equipment that had been buried in his backyard for 12 years.
 In return, he has become the only Iraqi scientist allowed to move to
 the United States since the beginning of the U.S. occupation.

 Other than Obeidi, who is living along the East Coast with his
 family, another scientist known to have left the country is Jaffar al-
 Jaffer who founded Iraq's nuclear program in the 1980s. He's in the
 United Arab Emirates, where U.S. troops are stationed, and has been
 questioned by U.S. and British intelligence officials.

 But Jaffar, like a handful of 

[CTRL] Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Stewart
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- Forwarded message from Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:26:01 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could

Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
 Public release date: 17-Nov-2003

Contact: Todd McLeish
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
401-874-7892
University of Rhode Island

Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/uori-bap111703.php

URI marine biologist says CO2 injection in deep sea would alter ocean
chemistry, affect numerous creatures
KINGSTON, R.I. -- November 17, 2003 -- A Bush Administration proposal to
mitigate the effects of global warming by capturing carbon dioxide emissions
from power plants and injecting it into the deep sea could have disastrous
effects on sea life, according to a University of Rhode Island researcher.
Brad Seibel, assistant professor of marine biology at URI, said that while
the Administration's plan is still in the experimental stage, enough is
already known about the biology of marine organisms to say with certainty
that the plan will harm the marine environment in significant ways.
Increased CO2 in the oceans would result in decreases in the pH levels (the
measure of acidity) of seawater, resulting in dramatic physiological effects
on many species, Seibel said. Shallow-living organisms like shelled mollusks
and corals are already being affected by the growing levels of CO2 in the
atmosphere. As atmospheric CO2 diffuses into the upper layers of the water,
it inhibits the ability of shellfish to form shells and causes coral reefs
to dissolve.
Deep-sea creatures are even more sensitive to environmental changes, he
said. In some species, their metabolism would become suppressed and lead to
retarded growth and reproduction, while others would be unable to transport
oxygen in their blood.
CO2 injection would be detrimental to a great many organisms, said the URI
biologist. It would kill everything that can't swim fast enough to get out
of the way, because in concentrated form it's highly toxic, even to humans.
But the Department of Energy seems willing to sacrifice the animals of the
deep sea if it will stop global warming. That's not entirely unreasonable
considering that if we keep stalling on taking serious measures to reduce
global warming, we won't be able to do anything about it. But I'd still like
to see that we're doing everything else possible to reduce emissions before
we begin polluting the deep-sea.
The government's carbon sequestration plan is designed to collect carbon
dioxide emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere and
store them in underground geologic formations or deep in the ocean. Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham announced in September the creation of seven
regional partnerships to establish the framework needed to develop the
necessary technologies and put them into action. In addition, the Bush
Administration convened a Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum last June
where energy ministers from 13 countries discussed the potential for CO2
injections around the globe.
In the new book Climate Change and Biodiversity, published in August, Seibel
and co-author Victoria Fabry wrote: From the perspective of marine
organisms, deep-ocean sequestration means concentrating an otherwise dilute
toxin to well above lethal levels, and placing it in an environment where
the organisms are less tolerant of environmental fluctuation in general and
CO2 in particular.Localized devastation of biological communities at the
injection sites is certain.
As seawater becomes acidified, growth rates of calcareous phytoplankton
(those with calcium carbonate shells) will be reduced as a result of the
effects of CO2 on the process of calcification. Metabolism in some animal
species may also be depressed by increased acidity. Furthermore, some fish,
squids, and shrimps will have a diminished capacity for oxygen uptake at the
gill and transportation through their bloodstream, leading to asphyxiation.
Seibel said that there is typically a natural exchange of CO2 between the
sea and the atmosphere, but increases of atmospheric CO2 are already
affecting the equilibrium. Intentional injections of CO2 will further
disrupt the ecosystem.
The carbon dioxide-carbonate system is arguably the most important chemical
equilibria in the ocean, Seibel and Fabry wrote. It influences nearly
every aspect of marine science, including ecology and, ultimately, the
biodiversity of the oceans.
Brad Seibel, assistant professor of marine biology in the University of
Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences, joined the URI faculty in
the summer of 2003 after having worked as a marine ecologist at the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Monterey, Calif. for several years. He
received undergraduate and 

[CTRL] Voiding the Palestinians

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Stewart
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On October 29, 2003, a leading Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, reported a rape-
murder that occurred more than fifty years ago at Nirim, an Israeli
military outpost in the Negev. The victim was a Palestinian girl, in her
early or mid-teens, or younger; the perpetrators of this crime were members
of the Israeli Defense Force. Six days later, The Guardian also reported
this crime, but US papers did not think this was news that is fit for
print. In the United States, the media prefers to shield Israel from
adverse notice. What is the significance of a single rape-murder in the
long and tortuous history of the dispossession of one people by another?

See:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Alam_Voiding-Palestinians.htm

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[CTRL] Utilities, Oil Companies Stand to Benefit from GOP Energy Bill

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Stewart
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1116-01.htm

Published on Sunday, November 16, 2003 by Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Utilities, Oil Companies Stand to Benefit from GOP Energy Bill
by Seth Borenstein and Sumana Chatterjee

WASHINGTON - Electric utilities, especially southeastern ones, and oil
companies that make a gasoline additive that taints drinking water are some
of the biggest winners in the new energy bill that Republican leadership
released Saturday.

Oil and gas companies are thought to be huge recipients of massive tax
breaks, worth about $22 billion, but that part of the energy deal was not
made public late Saturday afternoon.

The bill is so comprehensive that there are parts of the bill for every
member of Congress to be uncomfortable with and for every member of
Congress to support strongly, said energy industry lobbyist Scott Segal.

Consumers may not notice a direct benefit from the energy deal except an
eventual stabilization of skyrocketing natural gas prices in at least five
years when an Alaska-to-Chicago natural gas pipeline is built, said Severin
Borenstein, a business professor who is director of the University of
California Energy Institute.

For consumers I think this will have a pretty minimal effect on the energy
picture, Borenstein said Saturday.

The bill provides $18 billion in loan guarantees to private companies to
build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska, where there is an abundance of
natural gas but no way currently to get it to the lower 48 states.

The first major energy legislation in about a decade was spurred on by
August's massive Northeast blackout. Utility industry officials and
Republican leaders who crafted this bill said this would help fix some of
the causes for the blackout, which started in northeastern Ohio and spread
quickly north and east.

The bill, a Republican-crafted combination of House and Senate energy
legislation, gives authority to a new Electric Reliability Organization
that will oversee the technical aspects of running and interconnecting
America's electrical grid.

It becomes a traffic cop who can write tickets to enforce technical
standards that have been only voluntary, said Jim Owen, spokesman for the
Edison Electric Institute, a utility lobby.

At the same time, marketing and business aspects will get only voluntary
oversight and less regulation than the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) had planned.

The bill delays until the year 2007 a FERC plan, called standard market
design, that could have shared the power supply and loads more evenly
between regions. The FERC plan would have benefited western and
northeastern utilities and forced southeastern utilities to share more, the
University of California's Borenstein said.

FERC's plan could have fixed many of the causes of the blackout, said Paul
Joskow, director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Research. The legislative language banning FERC's plan until 2007 is most
unfortunate, he said.

Bill-drafters bowed to powerful southern lawmakers who worried that their
constituents and local power companies would bear costs of power sharing
with other regions. Established utilities get to charge newer power plants
costs associated with hooking them up to existing grids, a provision that
southern utilities wanted.

States and FERC will get a long-sought ability to force landowners to sell
property so that new powerlines could be built.

The makers of MTBE, an additive designed to make gasoline burn cleaner but
that has ended up tainting public water supplies around the country, would
benefit from a nearly unprecedented ban on product liability lawsuits. More
than $100 million in lawsuits have been settled on the tainted water issue
with many more pending. Almost all of the additives are made in Texas and
Louisiana, where three powerful House members who crafted the bill live.

The legislation would protect those companies from product liability
lawsuits filed after Sept. 5, which includes a massive one from the state
of New Hampshire and more than 20 other suits filed Sept. 30.

It also eventually would ban MTBE from gasoline, but allow the president to
lift that ban. And the MTBE-makers would get $2 billion to phase out of the
business.

It's a raw deal for the public, said Katie McGinty, Pennsylvania's
environment secretary.

Segal, who represents MTBE makers, said this was a way to hasten the
transition of MTBE manufacturing to other products.

There are handouts of $2 billion to build so-called clean coal power
plants, that scientists and environmentalists say don't work that well.

The nuclear industry gets the renewal of a multi-billion dollar federally
subsidized catastrophic insurance plan. There are also tax credits to build
three to six new plants.

California, Alaska and states along the Gulf of Mexico would get $1 billion
over ten years to fight erosion from oil and gas drilling.

The legislation would make it easier for oil and gas 

[CTRL] Carol Rutz's Lecture at Indiana University in November 2003

2003-11-18 Thread Smart News
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scroll for news article

This may be very heavy for survivors.

Carol Rutz's Lecture at Indiana University in November 2003 "I am a survivor of   mind control experiments performed under the CIA's MKULTRA program.  MKULTRA was established in 1953 to counter soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing and interrogation techniques and consisted of 149 subprojects contracted out to at least 80 institutions including hospitals and Universities.  In 1977 Director of Intelligence Stansfield Turner said    the program was initiated because the Agency was confronted with "learning the state of the art of behavioral modification at a time when the U.S. Government was concerned about inexplicable behavior of persons behind the 'iron curtain' and American prisoners of war who had been subjected to so called brainwashing." Now for some of my background.  I have DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder that used to be known as multiple personality disorder." http://my.dmci.net/~casey/Indiana%20University%20Lecture%202003.html
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[CTRL] U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' code name 1st used by Nazis

2003-11-18 Thread William Shannon
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U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' code name 1st used by Nazis [ Post 1040315 ]   


    Category: News  Opinion  Topic: News  Current Events  
    Synopsis: You knew it in your gut, didn't you?  
    Source: Reuters 
    Published: November 18, 2003  Author: NA
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The U.S. military's code name for a crackdown on resistance in Iraq was also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War Two. 

"Operation Iron Hammer" this week launched the 1st Armored Division's 3rd Brigade into the roughest parts of Baghdad to ferret out the attackers who have killed scores of U.S. troops since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was ousted in April. 

A Pentagon official said the name was chosen because of the "Old Ironsides" nickname of the 1st Armored Division. He was unaware of any connection to any Nazi operation. 

"Eisenhammer," the German for "iron hammer," was a Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943, according to Universal Lexikon on the www.infobitte.de Web site. 

A researcher at Britain's Imperial War Museum confirmed the existence of Eisenhammer. 

The Nazi's long-range bombing operation was repeatedly postponed and was finally scrapped after an allied air assault destroyed many of the German planes on the ground in 1945, shortly before the defeat of Germany. 

After it declared war on terrorism, U.S. officials changed the code name for its impending attack on Afghanistan to Operation Enduring Freedom. 

The original name, Operation Infinite Justice, was jettisoned amid fears that the Muslim world, already leery of U.S. intentions, would object on the basis of Koranic teachings that only God can provide infinite justice.






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[CTRL] Istanbul Bombing - What We're Expected To Believe

2003-11-18 Thread William Shannon
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Istanbul Bombing - What 
We Are Expected To Believe
Commentary 
By Margita Lukkarinen 
Helsinki, Finland 
11-18-3

Dear Jeff,   Since Israel went to 'help' Turkey in solving the Istanbul bombing, the story seem to be turning upside down and all vital data seem to be 'forgotten'. I am enclosing an article from Israel:   

1. We are expected to believe that ONLY 3 people did it.   

2. Haaretz forgot that a brother of a cousin is a cousin too.   

3. We are expected to believe that even thought the two bombers could walk away. they preferred to die in the vans , probably because they were too tired to fight the Zionists :-)   

4. We are expected to forget that ALL initial reports indicated that the vans were parked.   

5. We are expected to forget that all initial reports clearly said that the drivers were observed by local people walking away from the van.   

6. We are not allowed to ask who put the bodies inside the vans before exploding them.   

7. As usual, we are told that there is a link to Afghanistan even though this country has been already evaporated.   

8. As usual 'they' 'found' a 'link' to Syria to justify attacking Syria soon.   
 
9. We are expected to believe that the 'suicide' bombers whom we were told repeatedly produced VERY sophisticated bombs, decided to use their own vans so that the rest of their family could be implicated and arrested.   

10. We are expected to believe that the Turkish government, which until now insisted that there is clearly another government behind this bombing, changed its opinion this morning after getting 'help' from Israel, and decided that only one family is involved.   

11. We are expected to believe that the Turkish police were lying when they told us initially that they have a security video showing clearly the bombers walking away from their vans.   

12. Again, we are expected to believe that bin-Laden is alive, and he is behind all the evil of this world.   

Someone said that the biggest achievement of the Devil was that he made us believe that he does not exist. It was clear that most western media is now controlled by the Devil, but, I am very surprised to read that now most 'Arab' AND Israeli 'news' are also under his control.   

Yours,   
Margita Lukkarinen 
Helsinki Finland


===   http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/362079.htmlhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/362079.html   

Last Update: 18/11/2003 20:24     

Turkey: Man who dispatched Istanbul bombers fled to Syria   
By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Jonathan Lis, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Yossi Melman and Zvi Barel, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and News Agencies   
Turkish investigators are reportedly close to uncovering the full story behind the terror bombings of two Istanbul synagogues on Saturday morning in which 25 people were killed and over 300 wounded.       

Their probe has thus far revealed that the World Islamic Jihad was behind the attack. The bombings were apparently carried out in cooperation with Al-Qaida and other terror organizations.   

It became clear on Tuesday that the terror cell that carried out the attack was primarily made up of members of one family. The two suicide bombers were cousins and the brother of one of the bombers headed the planning and execution of the attack. The brother fled to Syria immediately following the Saturday morning attack.   

Turkish government figures on Tuesday accused Syrians not connected with the ruling regime of assisting the Istanbul terrorists in carrying out their double attack.   

The investigation has also revealed that all four individuals involved in the planning and execution of the suicide bombings came from the city of Bingul in southeast Turkey.   

All four were considered extremist Al-Qaida activists. They trained in Afghanistan and Iran and fought in Chechnya and in the Balkans. They were also previously active in Muslim organizations made illegal by Turkish authorities.   

Turkish intelligence authorities and police said Monday that they had identified at least one of the suicide bombers from the attacks.   

The suspected bomber is Azad Ekinci, from southeast Turkey, whose older brother has been called in by Istanbul police to provide a DNA sample.   

The license plate on the vehicle that blew up outside the Beit Yisrael synagogue in Shishli was registered to the older brother.   

Meanwhile, six Jewish victims of the attacks, including a young girl, were laid to rest Tuesday.   

The six were named as eight-year-old Anita Rubinstein and her grandmother Anna, 85; Avraham Idinvarul, 40; Yoel Cohen Ulcher, the 20-year-old security guard at one of the two synagogues; Berta Usdawan, 34, who was killed along with her Muslim husband, Ahmed; and Yona Romano, 50, who died of a heart attack as a result of the bombing.   

Their coffins were draped with Turkey's red-and-white flag emblazoned with a crescent and star, an honor