[CTRL] Would Hamas strike U.S. targets?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25756 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE UPDATE Would Hamas strike U.S. targets? Iran-backed group might attack to derail negotiated peace -- -- Editor's note: In partnership with Stratfor, the global intelligence company, WorldNetDaily publishes daily updates on international affairs provided by the respected private research and analysis firm. Look for fresh updates each afternoon, Monday through Friday. In addition, WorldNetDaily invites you to consider STRATFOR membership, entitling you to a wealth of international intelligence reports usually available only to top executives, scholars, academic institutions and press agencies. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani has warned that Palestinian suicide bombers might attack American targets. Such an operation is within the reach of extremist groups such as Hamas and would likely end any prospect for a negotiated peace settlement in Israel. Speaking to crowds rallying on Jerusalem Day, a Dec. 14 event marking the importance of Jerusalem to Islam, former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani warned that Palestinian suicide bombers might target U.S. assets. Rafsanjani warned of a day when exhausted Palestinians, embracing martyrdom, decide to hit (American) vital interests all over the world, Agence France-Presse reported. Rafsanjani's statement was unspecific, but it is noteworthy, given Iran's close links with radical Palestinian groups such as Hamas. Palestinian groups rarely have targeted American facilities or personnel despite U.S. ties with Israel. Instead Palestinians have attempted to curry U.S. favor in hopes that Washington would pressure the Israeli government into a peace deal. But the political landscape has changed dramatically since Sept. 11, and radical groups may in fact have much to gain by attacking U.S. assets. Strikes on U.S. targets would obliterate Washington's support for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, who Hamas sees as an obstacle to its ambitions for a Palestinian state based on Islamic law. And a tough U.S.-Israeli response would likely sink any chances for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement. Rafsanjani's warning was ominous, though whether it was based on logical conjecture or solid intelligence remains unclear. In either case, it should be taken seriously. Rafsanjani has been playing Middle Eastern politics for decades and could very well be reading the tea leaves. He also continues to hold an extremely high position in the Iranian government and may be aware of plans for a Hamas operation. Iran has been involved with Hamas since 1993, when the group opened an office in Tehran. According to the U.S. State Department, Tehran usually provides Hamas with about $3 million a year, but has hiked this year's funding to nearly $18 million, The (London) Sunday Telegraph reported recently. In either case, Rafsanjani's speech gives his country an excuse if Hamas actually does launch an attack. Iran would very likely face U.S. wrath after a Hamas strike; at least now Tehran could say that Washington was warned. But would Hamas attack a U.S. target? This might appear suicidal in light of the Taliban's fate in Afghanistan. But an examination of the costs and benefits for Hamas suggests the idea isn't as far-fetched as it may seem. A fresh attack on U.S. assets by a designated terrorist group would most assuredly incite Washington's rage. But how would the United States respond? Israel would not allow Washington to send planes and cruise missiles to attack Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza. But Washington could share intelligence on Hamas with Israel. And it could cut off the group's funding from the United States. But the first is a weak card: Washington has relatively little intelligence that Tel Aviv does not have already. And the second card already has been played: Earlier this month Washington shut down the Holy Land Foundation, which it claims is the largest source of Hamas' U.S. funding. Hamas, however, would gain quite a bit by attacking Americans. Right now, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is focused on destroying Arafat's ability to lead the Palestinians â a goal Hamas also seeks. Arafat's political career is based on compromises and deal-making, which both hard-line Israelis like Sharon and hard-line Palestinian groups like Hamas deplore. Moreover, Hamas' biggest fear is probably that the United States will alter its policy in a few months and rein in Israeli military operations in the West Bank and Gaza. American deaths from a Hamas attack would ensure U.S. support for the Sharon government's aggressive military policies. Where could Hamas strike? The group has limited operations â mostly restricted to fundraising,
[CTRL] Bin Laden could be dead, says US
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_476692.html?menu=news.latestheadlines How did I know they would say something like this! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bin Laden could be dead, says US A top defence official says Osama bin Laden could be dead. The US Deputy Secretary of Defence says the body of bin Laden could be lying in one of the caves at Tora Bora. His comment comes after tribal Afghan fighters withdrew artillery and heavy weapons from the area, signalling the worst of the fighting was over. Paul Wolfowitz said: I think it's possible he (bin Laden) could be dead in the bottom of one of them (caves). Hazrat Ali, one of the tribal eastern alliance commanders, was quoted by the Afghan Islamic Press agency as saying there was no information that more al-Qaida fighters remained in the caves. US special forces are expected to comb the caves looking for stragglers and sifting through piles of abandoned documents, passports and other evidence left behind in the hasty retreat. Marine General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has refused to estimate how long the search will take: It's going to be step by step, cave by cave. Mohammed Aman Khiari, another commander, said he doubted bin Laden was still in the area - if he had been there at all. If Osama is here, they would be fighting us, but in this case I don't think Osama is in Tora Bora because they are not fighting. Now maybe he has gone somewhere else, or maybe he is dead, Mr Khiari told reporters. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Somalia Is Next, German Official Says
-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41163,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Somalia Is Next, German Official Says Wednesday, December 19, 2001 Email this Article BRUSSELS, Belgium â The United States has decided to take its fight against Usama bin Laden's terror network to Somalia, a senior German official said early Wednesday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was no longer a question of whether to go after Al Qaeda terrorists in the east African nation, but only when and how. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: We are not going to speculate on any next operation. When pressed, he added: Countries that harbor terrorists worry us. Somalia is one potential country, but there are others as well. At Tuesday's meeting of NATO defense ministers, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mentioned Yemen and Sudan as countries suspected of supporting terrorism. And in Yemen that day, Yemeni forces trained and equipped with U.S. funds engaged armed tribesmen in a bid to capture suspected Al Qaeda members, government officials and tribal sources said. Tanks, helicopters and artillery pounded mountain villages and hillsides in what appeared to be the most serious military operation yet in an Arab country in search of suspects allegedly connected to Al Qaeda. Earlier this month, nine people identified by aid workers and a regional security official as Americans visited a town in western Somalia, where they met with local faction leaders and Ethiopian military officers. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Americans met with leaders of the Rahanwein Resistance Army, a clan-based faction opposed to Somalia's fledgling transitional government and with Mohamed Saeed Hirsi, the leader of an Ethiopian-backed faction also opposed to the government. U.S. officials have said the United States is concerned Somalia's lack of central authority makes it an attractive base for terrorists. Iraq also has been identified by President Bush and other senior administration officials as a potential U.S. target. At various times, Somalia has been mentioned, along with the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Tajikstan and Uzbekistan, by Bush administration officials as countries with terrorism problems. Several African countries called on the United States to avoid military action in Somalia and cooperate with the transitional government, which has expressed readiness to get rid of any terrorist camps if it was proved they existed on Somali lands. Their joint statement, issued in Cairo by the Sudanese Embassy, was from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, a grouping of east African nations, and the 15-nation Group of Sahel and Sahara States. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Egypt destroys new Coptic church
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25753 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Egypt destroys new Coptic church Police help demolish building hours after 1st prayer meeting -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com The U.S. Copts Association says Egyptian officials outside of Cairo destroyed a newly built Coptic church just hours after it opened its doors and held its first prayer meeting. The church had reportedly obtained all the proper permissions from President Hosni Mubarak's administration to build the facility in Al-Ubor city. Police forces reportedly participated in the destruction. The first building opened Saturday. The first prayer meeting was held Sunday. According to a statement by the association, Galal Sayed Al-Ahl, the mayor of the city, had been threatening the congregation during the building of the church's gate. Hours after the congregation finished its first prayer meeting, Al-Ahl and his local police forces stormed the church, arresting 10 members of the Coptic community and flattened what was built of the church. This is not the first time Mubarak has issued permission to build a church only to allow it to be destroyed by local government officials who report to him, according to the association. It seems that there is an unspoken deal between higher government officials and the local officials when it comes to church construction in Egypt, said association President Michael Meunier. Under international scrutiny, the Egyptian government issues limited number of new permits for church construction, but it gives all incentives to its local officials to stop the construction. The association is calling on the Mubarak regime to conduct an investigation. It says in prior church-destruction incidents, no officials have been punished and the churches have been forced to bear the cost of rebuilding. -- -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Do terrorists have U.S. cruise missiles?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25742 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Do terrorists have U.S. cruise missiles? Rumsfeld raises ugly specter of threat from unexploded warheads -- -- Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today raised the possibility that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida have access to cruise missiles capable of hitting the U.S. or Europe. Cruise missiles are complex weapons designed for low-flying strikes passing through tree branches and capable of sneaking past most American advance warning and detection devices. Their computers can also be pre-programmed for their targets with maps or guided by satellite. Rumsfeld suggested that terrorists possess cruise missiles capable of hitting big cities in the West. An additional danger comes from their warheads, which can be either conventional â no more than 130 kilos â or non-conventional, meaning small but capable of mass destruction like a neutron bomb. Some cruise missiles are also capable of delivering multiple warheads. Military sources point out that the only countries with cruise missiles are the United States, France, Israel and China. Russia possesses a low-grade type, while Britain and Germany have acquired American products. If bin Laden has cruise or ballistic missiles, he either stole them or bought them for exorbitant sums. Military experts say they could be hidden either in Afghanistan or in one of the Central Asian former Soviet republics. It is also possible, they say, that, when the United States attacked bin Laden's Afghanistan bases in August 1998 â in reprisal for the East African embassy atrocities â al-Qaida gathered the unexploded missiles. In that raid, 70 missiles were reportedly fired, some cruise missiles, and only 30 exploded. To fire them at a European city, the terrorists could do without satellite-guidance; the targets are large enough and close enough for them to shoot blind. The U.S. defense secretary did not specify which type of missile he meant, but military sources believe his stark warning in Brussels may have been influenced by the fresh information he received during his Caspian tour and Afghanistan. At the U.S. base in Bagram, he must have been told of the evidence U.S. intelligence officers turned up, possibly in Kandahar, attesting to bin Laden's nuclear, chemical and biological capabilities and the missiles that were in his possession. Last week, a very senior Israeli officer spoke of a terrorist attack on Israel from overseas, a broad hint at missiles. Signs are mounting meanwhile that the United States is moving ahead with preparations for war against Iraq. Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking in Herzliya today, urged the Israeli government to hurry up and prepare to protect the population against a mass attack from Iraq in retaliation for an American offensive, which he believed was coming soon. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld, addressing a private NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels straight from Kabul, spoke graphically of the continuing terror threat. As we look at the devastation they unleashed on the U.S., contemplate the destruction they could wreak in New York or London or Paris or Berlin with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, he told his 19 colleagues. The world remains a dangerous place. ⦠Western democracies must be ready to defend themselves, and each other, if we are to secure our freedom in the tumultuous decades ahead. He noted that Afghanistan is not the only country where terrorists operate and al-Qaida is not the only terrorist network, repeating President Bush's statement that countries which harbor terrorists will be held to account. It should be of particular concern to all of us that the list of countries which today support global terrorism overlaps significantly with the list of countries that have weaponized chemical and biological agents and which are seeking nuclear, chemical and biological weapons â and the means to deliver them. Rumsfeld told fellow ministers that now is the time â while Sept. 11 is still fresh in the minds of people everywhere â to increase defense spending. The text of the Rumsfeld address was circulated to reporters in Brussels, just as U.S. Homeland Security Office spokesman Gordon Johndroe announced in Washington: The alert remains
[CTRL] Violence in Ambon as Indonesia Boosts Security
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011219/wl/indonesia_dc_2.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Wednesday December 19 5:07 AM ET Violence in Ambon as Indonesia Boosts Security By Grace Nirang JAKARTA (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead nine Christians in Indonesia's eastern Ambon city Wednesday and police said they could not rule out the possibility of unrest erupting elsewhere during next week's Christmas celebrations. Indonesia has vowed to impose tight security at all places of worship around December 25 to prevent a repeat of the bomb blasts near churches last Christmas Eve across the world's most populous Muslim country that killed 19 people. Police spokesman Saleh Saaf said security authorities were trying to calm sectarian tensions in places such as Ambon in the Moluccas islands, where gunmen armed with automatic rifles killed the nine Christians traveling in a boat just after dawn. Police snipers would be deployed in some places over Christmas, Saaf added, without giving details. In Jakarta alone, police have deployed 15,000 personnel to safeguard the capital during Christmas and into the New Year. ``Based on our intelligence reports, the possibility is wide open that unrest provoked by certain groups or outsiders could occur during the Christmas period,'' Saaf told Reuters. ``In conflict areas we are trying to prevent such outsiders from entering the area and provoking people.'' Saaf declined to elaborate on what the intelligence reports showed or name the outside groups, but Christians have recently accused Muslim militants of the Laskar Jihad organization of stirring up trouble in Central Sulawesi province. In an encouraging sign for the embattled government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, there was no sectarian violence during Muslim celebrations at the weekend marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. SNIPERS ON PATROL Megawati has pledged to bring peace to volatile Indonesia as it stumbles toward democracy but analysts have accused a series of central governments, transfixed by political battles in Jakarta, of failing to put enough effort into restoring security. The fall of long-time autocrat Suharto (news - web sites) in 1998 has also eroded the power of officials in Jakarta. Asked if snipers would patrol over Christmas, Saaf said: ``Yes, they will be.'' Speaking from Ambon, local police spokesman Marthens Alfons said besides those killed, two were wounded when unidentified gunmen pulled their own speedboat close to the victims' craft on waters near the coastal city, a key hub in the Moluccas. Alfons said marines tried to catch the gunmen, but they escaped. Ambon and other parts of the Moluccas have been plagued by clashes between Muslims and Christians since early 1999 that have left thousands dead and forced many more to flee the region. ``The victims were Christians, who were mostly merchants traveling to buy goods such as meat, fish and vegetables at a morning market in Ambon to be sold again in their areas,'' Alfons said by telephone, 2,300 km (1,440 miles) east of Jakarta. The fresh violence in Ambon followed clashes late last month in another Muslim-Christian trouble spot around the town of Poso in Central Sulawesi, also in the country's east. Both areas had been relatively peaceful for months until recently. HOPE FOR POSO PEACE TALKS Three days of peace talks involving the warring sides in Poso began Wednesday aimed at curbing violence that has killed more than 1,000 people in the past three years. Peace talks to end mayhem around Poso have taken place four times without encouraging results. But the latest talks appear the most comprehensive attempt so far to resolve bloodshed that underscores the tensions hobbling Indonesia's outer reaches. Local media reported the parties had agreed to discuss issues such as the pullout of groups such as Laskar Jihad, whose members have been fighting Christians in the Moluccas since last year. One Laskar Jihad leader told reporters that hundreds of members had been sent to Poso in recent weeks to join others already there, ostensibly to help Muslims that are attacked. Poso police said there were no reports of any fresh arrivals. Analysts have said Laskar Jihad could exploit poor law enforcement in areas such as the Moluccas and Poso but have played down fears they might spark serious religious violence in key parts of Indonesia such as the main Java island. Some of Indonesia's eastern areas have roughly equal numbers of Muslims and Christians. Hoping to calm separatist tension elsewhere in Indonesia's east, Megawati will travel to the remote and largely Christian province of Papua, formerly Irian Jaya, Saturday. Megawati's visit is primarily aimed at publicizing a special autonomy package for Papua that has been passed by parliament but rejected by the main pro-independence group there. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C.
[CTRL] New bone marrow stem-cell discovery
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25741 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! New bone marrow stem-cell discovery Transplant procedure results in no rejection by recipient -- -- By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Canadian researchers have discovered a type of adult stem cell found in bone marrow that they believe could repair damaged organs and tissue when transplanted, with no chance of being rejected by a recipient's immune system. The stem cells, called mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs, don't carry markers on their surfaces that lead to rejection, according to a December report in the magazine New Scientist. Researchers have been trying to perfect cloned stem cells as a way to overcome the rejection problem but have been unsuccessful. Ray Chiu of McGill University in Montreal said he even was able to transplant MSCs from pigs to rats, adding that the cells only seemed to migrate towards damaged tissues once injected. They turned into heart muscle, blood vessels and fibrous tissue, he said. Abortion foes say if research holds up regarding the potential of MSCs, there could be no further need to pursue the controversial technique of harvesting stem cells from embryonic tissues. The new research does go against our common understanding of the immune system, said Annemarie Moseley of Osiris Therapeutics in Baltimore. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] President Saddam Hussein address call to Brother Arabs
-Caveat Lector- http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews1.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! President Saddam Hussein address call to Brother Arabs: regimes, governments and people In the name of Allah, the Merciful, be Compassionate Your majesties, highnesses, and excellencies, Brother Arabs: regimes, governments and people, Peace be upon you! I address you this time in the name of the leadership and people of Iraq directly. It is a brotherly call addressed to you after the flood has reached its climax and after the destruction, terror, murder and sacrilege practised by the aggressive, terrorist and criminal Zionist entity, together with its tyrannical ally, the US, have come to a head against our brothers and our faithful struggling people in plundered Palestine. If evil achieves its objectives there, Allah forbid, its gluttony for more will increase and it will afflict our people and other parts of our wide homeland too, in addition to the suffering that has been and is still being inflicted upon the people of Palestine. Therefore, brothers, I address this message to you as a specific call for the sake of Palestine and, through Palestine and its Holy Quds, for the sake of us all and, through our nation, for the sake of all humanity, which is afflicted with the tyranny of the evil American-Zionist alliance. Brothers, When we address this call to you, we do not set out of imagination but out of a deep faith in, and a full understanding of the heritage of our nation and its glorious history. This history reveals that our nation, even under the most complicated and the hardest circumstances, has always found its way when its potential and resolution have been mobilized. No matter how heavy misfortunes weigh on our nation, or how dark the veils of night hang down on it, it has been able, when following the right path, to light candles on both sides of the road to guide it towards its choice and its objectives. We, brothers, seek for Allahâs reward and seek for honour in this life and the next. We seek for them with you and through our gathering and our joint action, and not apart from you, unless we find ourselves compelled to act, each according to the stand, which suits his viewpoint and belief. Therefore, and although we are aware of the circumstances involving the bearers of official titles in the nation and their capabilities, we have a great hope in you, brothers, to mobilize resolution so that we win jointly and not individually, Allahâs favour and the favour of our nation and humanity at large. If any of us, within the boundaries of his country and on the basis of the peculiarity of his sphere and his capability, sees that the troubles he has are a burden too heavy for him to carry, it is with solidarity, joint force and joint action that these troubles and others become lighter in weight. Group resolution, or the resolution generated by the sense of solidarity or joint action, will make them easier to carry and will make the shoulders stronger and more capable of endurance and steadfastness. That is because Allahâs Hand is with the group that has faith in Him and that trusts in Him, glorified be His name. Whoever supports right against wrong will receive Allahâs support in this life and His honour and best reward in the next. We do not want to burden you, brothers, with the details and remind you of what is happening to our faithful people who are being afflicted with the evil of the US-supported Zionists. What is happening to our people and our brothers there is clear enough even if we only see it on television. Arabs, Many of those who held titles of responsibility amongst us and, perhaps, many in certain circles among the Arab nation used to blame the Palestinians. They claimed that the Palestinians did not resist the Zionist occupation, as they should have from the year 1930 to the defeat of some Arab regimes in the year 1948 and afterwards. But what can any just and indubitable person say now about the stand of the heroic people of Palestine, men and women, children, youths and old men? The stand of the heroic people of Palestine, who are now facing alone the alliance and conspiracy of Zionism and Imperialism, which were originally designed for the whole nation, is set against the stand nearing impotency on the Arab side. In all cases, the reason for this impotency is not the weakness of the potential of the nation or the will of the people. It is, rather, the weakness of the will of the decision makers or their unwillingness to shoulder their responsibility with the honour, the patriotism and the life buoy to carry all to the shore of safety. It is painful to see how they have abandoned the simplest rights and principles of pan-Arabism and the meanings of faith entrusted to our titles and the titles of others by the heritage of our immortal nation. They have abandoned all the meanings which make our nation one nation,
[CTRL] India Government Considering War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41148,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! India Government Considering War AP Indian Prime Minsiter Atal Bihari Vajpayee Wednesday, December 19, 2001 Respond to Editor Email this Article NEW DELHI, India â India is considering declaring war on Pakistan in response to last week's attack on its Parliament, the country's prime minister said Wednesday. Atal Bihari Vajpayee is also considering diplomacy as means of dealing with its rival neighbor, whose militants he blames for the suicide raid. Vajpayee told India's Parliament that Pakistani officials know there are forces within Pakistan that are taking part in terrorism in India. He repeated India's demand that it crack down on them. We are trying to address this diplomatically, but other options are also open, too, Vajpayee said during a debate over Thursday's assault on the legislative compound that left 13 people dead, including the attackers. India says all five attackers were Pakistanis and that the neighboring country's intelligence service sponsored the attack. Pakistan has denied the charge. Home Minister Lal K. Advani said India's government was consulting with the army and political parties to determine how to respond. A well thought-out action does not mean it will not be tough, Advani said. This is not a fight between Hindus and Muslims. It is a fight between a civilized world and noncivilized, barbaric people. If such attacks continue there cannot be peace between India and Pakistan, he added, as Parliament adjourned until next year. Both nuclear-armed nations' armies are reported to be on alert. Meanwhile, the Indian army said it engaged in heavy firing on Pakistani border outposts and bunkers Wednesday and both sides were exchanging gunfire on the Jammu-Kashmir frontier. An Indian army spokesman said soldiers had fired across the border on Tuesday night to retaliate against Pakistani firing, which was allegedly aimed at covering for Islamic militant infiltrators. Pakistan says it supports the cause of the militants â to separate Kashmir from India â but denies it gives them material aid. Border firing is common, with each side accusing the other of starting it. Since their division into separate nations after British independence in 1947, Islamic Pakistan and Hindu-majority India have fought three wars, two of them over their competing claims to the Himalayan region of mostly Muslim Kashmir. In response to a U.S. call for restraint from both sides as Washington seeks their help in the global war on terrorism, Vajpayee said, We have reached the pinnacle of restraint.'' When President Bush telephoned to express condolences after the Parliament attack, Vajpayee said, I told him that the terrorists were linked to Pakistan, were under the control of Pakistan and working at the behest of Pakistan. AP White House press secretary Ari Fleischer On Tuesday, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said India had a legitimate right to self-defense, but that the attack on its legislature is not a reason for India or Pakistan to take action against each other. India has demanded that Pakistan halt all activities by two Islamic militant groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, arrest their leaders and freeze their assets. New Delhi said the two groups, with the support of Pakistan's intelligence service, planned and carried out the assault on Parliament. The question is not whether there should be a war or not, Vajpayee said. The question to be debated is in what circumstances there could be a war. Pakistan has accused India of blaming it for the suicide assault as a way of avoiding talks over the disputed Kashmir region which has bedeviled relations between the South Asian neighbors for five decades. Pakistani officials have said they would participate in an impartial investigation, but would take no action without proof. Vajpayee called the demand for a joint investigation ridiculous. What proof do we need? Vajpayee said. The bullet marks on the Parliament walls, the bodies of the terrorists, who were Pakistani nationals, this is the proof by itself. Vajpayee has said all parties would be consulted about what action to take in response to the attack. When we have to decide about war or peace, we have to be patient, he said. We have to have all options and their pros and cons weighed before coming to any conclusion. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A
[CTRL] Congress Poised to Protect Troops From 'Bogus' International Trials
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/19/161533.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Congress Poised to Protect Troops From 'Bogus' International Trials John Rossomando, CNSNews.com Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001 A U.N.-sponsored treaty, designed to authorize the trial of war criminals, needs the ratification of only 13 more nations before taking effect. But, even before that happens, Congress appears poised to block the treaty's jurisdiction over members of the U.S. military. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., fears the United Nations' International Criminal Court (ICC) would allow Americans to be subject to bogus, politicized prosecutions on foreign soil, stripping them of their rights under the U.S. Constitution. Helms' American Service Members Protection Act would restrict U.S. cooperation with the court, and would cut off foreign aid to any country that ratifies the ... treaty, according to Senate Foreign Relations Committee spokesman Lester Munson. Earlier this month, the Senate voted 78-21 to attach a modified version of Helms' legislation to the Defense Department appropriations bill. Congressional conferees are now trying to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the defense bill. Long Arm of the U.N. And, there is a new sense of urgency because 47 nations have already ratified the treaty. Under terms of the treaty, negotiated in Rome in 1998, once 60 countries have approved the pact, it will automatically take effect and allow the U.N. to claim jurisdiction even over countries that have chosen not to ratify. Although not ratified by the U.S., former President Bill Clinton did sign the treaty last year. The International Criminal Court would claim jurisdiction over U.S. troops even if the United States doesn't ratify the treaty. That is a key fact that a lot of people do not understand, Munson said. According to Munson, if an indicted American service member were arrested in a country that had ratified the treaty, that service member could be tried before the ICC. Attack on U.S. Freedom What it really does is have a chilling effect upon the freedom of Americans, Munson said. This court will have all sorts of unchecked jurisdictions and that is one of the fundamental problems with the treaty and with the court. The ICC would be composed of 18 judges serving nine-year terms and selected by nations that have ratified the treaty. Helms and other conservatives fear those judges might be selected from Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and other nations hostile to the United States. They are also concerned that American troops currently dropping bombs on Afghanistan might be subject to ICC prosecution for the inadvertent deaths of civilians. Coalition for the International Criminal Court contends the ICC would not pose a threat to American freedoms and sovereignty because the court's statute limits its jurisdiction to serious war crimes. If any individual is indicted or pursued by the court and is in the custody of the United States, the United States has the right under the Rome statute, whether or not it's a ratifying party, to try that person themselves, said John Washburn, convenor of Coalition for the International Criminal Court. The request ... must be granted by the court unless the court concludes that the proceeding is a sham, or that the government in question really doesn't have a legal system [or a] judicial system, Washburn said. The court is aimed at people like Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Milosevic, Washburn said. If such an American citizen was at home and the U.S. government had not ratified the Rome statute, the U.S. government would have no obligation to cooperate with the court. Kiss Your Rights Goodbye However, an indicted American could be turned over to the ICC if he or she were arrested on the soil of a country that had ratified the treaty or wanted to cooperate with the ICC, according to Washburn. He said that Americans do not take their constitutional rights with them when they leave American soil, and that American subjection to ICC jurisdiction overseas would not be any different than their current subjection to foreign laws in foreign countries. Washburn said the ICC would act as a permanent war crimes tribunal, replacing other tribunals, such as the Rwanda and Yugoslavia war crimes tribunals. The court will punish the worst offenders for the worst crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, Washburn said. The United States has had a consistent policy into trying to get people like Pol Pot and Idi Amin ... and Milosevic tried in some kind of tribunal that would have international credibility. If the U.S wants to continue this policy of having people tried, they had better get together with the court, Washburn said. Since it was modified, most of the Helms bill is symbolic, Washburn said. The administration said to Helms, [Rep. Henry Hyde] and others that [it could] not support this
[CTRL] North Korea Stockpiles Plutonium
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/150202.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! North Korea Stockpiles Plutonium NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001 SEOUL, South Korea â North Korea has stockpiled enough plutonium to build at least one atomic bomb but is still several years from producing nuclear weapons because of rudimentary technology, South Korea's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. In a report on North Korea's weapons of mass destruction, the ministry estimated the communist country extracted 22 to 26 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from its Soviet-designed graphite-moderated reactors before shutting them down under a 1994 deal with the United States. North Korea conducted more than 70 nuclear-related tests of high explosives between 1983 and 1998, the report said. Those tests were a process needed before fabricating a high-explosive device or detonator, and there were problems in the post-1993 tests acquiring parts of the detonator, the report said. North Korea may have a capability of putting together a crude nuclear explosion device, the ministry report said. But its technology is believed to be still in a rudimentary stage and it will take the North at least several years to turn the system into a weapon. U.S. Blackmailed Under the 1994 agreed framework, North Korea pledged to freeze its Soviet-designed reactors, in return for a U.S. promise to provide 1,000-megawatt light-water models that make it more difficult to extract weapons-grade plutonium. The ministry report is considered as confirmation of widespread suspicions North Korea might have extracted weapons-grade plutonium before freezing its nuclear program. The nuclear accord obliges North Korea to open its atomic facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency before the light-water reactor equipment is installed. The U.N. nuclear watchdog recently said it wanted wider inspections, complaining of little progress in its effort to verify North Korea's past nuclear activities. But Pyongyang has rejected international demand to allow inspections, sparking a new round of tension with the United States. President Bush has urged North Korea to allow inspections of its weapons programs, including nuclear and biological arms, warning consequences if the country refused. North Korean nuclear officials and engineers are traveling to South Korea to observe the country's nuclear facilities under a training protocol signed between North Korea and a U.S.-led international consortium, which is building light-water reactors in the North. In November, North Koreans toured nuclear facilities in Sweden and Spain. Hunger and poverty are widespread in the communist dictatorship, and the country receives U.S. aid even though the regime often rants against America. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Congress Tackles Bush on 'Cover-up'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/19/165202.shtml If Congress don;t win this one! Freedom is gone! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Congress Tackles Bush on 'Cover-up' NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001 WASHINGTON â The House Government Reform Committee plans hearings to force the Bush administration into handing over subpoenaed documents. That panel is bucking a Dec. 12 decision by President Bush to withhold from Congress a raft of law enforcement documents, some of which are decades old, by citing executive privilege. Committee members said the president received bad legal advice and is abusing his authority. The Congress has to exercise its oversight responsibilities in order to protect the American public from malfeasance in government and corruption in government, said Chairman Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind. When an executive order is issued that stops us from our oversight responsibilities, then the very foundations of our government start to be in jeopardy. Those hearings come as the White House and Department of Justice have asked Congress for boosted authority to fight the war on terror and that authority should come with increased oversight, some House Republicans said. When the attorney general indicates that in this time of crisis we need to give expanded powers to police agencies and the Justice Department to help us in our national defense, that is a reasonable request, said Rep. Steven C. LaTourette, R-Ohio. At the same time, it is a reasonable expectation that there will be additional oversight by the other, co-equal, branches of government. The Bush administration and the Justice Department in particular have faced scrutiny from members of both parties in Congress for establishing military tribunals and aggressively detaining suspects using immigration law, for example. Burton said his committee was unlikely to tackle those issues directly. But separately, Burton on Friday also fired off a letter to the General Accounting Office seeking an investigation into whether the department might have artificially inflated the number of terrorist convictions it has claimed. Burton said DOJ's claims might have been overstated. The Bush administration, claiming executive privilege, refused Dec. 12 to honor subpoenas from the committee in its investigation of campaign finance violations in the Clinton administration and the use of FBI informants in organized crime investigations. Justice Department officials said then that the refusal would keep investigations free from political influences. Burton says the decision to reject the subpoenas reflects a policy of the Bush administration to refuse cooperation with Congress on criminal investigations, even when the cases are closed. According to a Bush memo to Attorney General John Ashcroft signed Dec. 12, the requested documents should not be turned over because of the effect making such material would have on internal decision making. Congressional pressure on executive branch prosecutorial decision making is inconsistent with separation of powers and threatens individual liberty, Bush wrote. But lawmakers said the actions by the administration that are covering the FBI's tracks don't look good. I think now their actions have reached the level of a cover-up, said Rep. John J. Duncan, R-Tenn. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research
[CTRL] 'Monstrous' Killer Mom Guilty
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/19/151724.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 'Monstrous' Killer Mom Guilty NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001 CHICAGO â A jury of six men and six women Wednesday convicted a former nurse of murdering her three children. Marilyn Lemak smothered the kids after tucking them into bed in March 1999. The verdict came after nine hours of deliberations, following three weeks of testimony and four hours of closing arguments before Judge George Bakalis. Deliberations began Tuesday afternoon in suburban Wheaton, Ill. Prosecutors described Mrs. Lemak, 44, as vengeful, out to inflict the most pain possible on her estranged husband, Dr. David Lemak, because he had become involved with another woman. In closing arguments Tuesday, even defense attorney Jack Donahue called the killings despicable and monstrous acts and referred to the children as three angels and He said Mrs. Lemak was clinically depressed and thought she was sending her children to a better place. Marilyn Lemak, as she sits there, remains trapped in the wreckage of her own mind, Donahue said in closing arguments. We're not asking you to exonerate her. You must realize Marilyn Lemak will always remain unextricated from the unimaginable nightmare that she created by her own hands. DuPage County State's Attorney Joseph Birkett argued that Mrs. Lemak was sane. He said she was full of self-pity and anger at her estranged husband for starting to date while their divorce was still pending. He said her claim that depression made her kill was an insult to the millions who suffer from clinical depression. Nicholas, 7, Emily, 6, and Thomas, 3, were fed Ativan-laced peanut butter and then smothered with her hands on March 4, 1999. The verdict was greeted quietly. Mrs. Lemak, who has gone from 160 pounds at the time of the killings to barely 100 pounds now, looked down at her feet. Her ex-husband looked down and never looked at her. Her parents cried, and her sister buried her head. Her family had been hoping for a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity or guilty but mentally ill. Her father, Bill Morrissey, after closing arguments Tuesday, said he hoped his daughter would receive psychiatric help, not just punishment. The conviction of first-degree murder means Mrs. Lemak could face a death sentence. After the verdict, an emotional Dr. Lemak said at a news conference that he had not decided whether he would like to see his ex-wife sentenced to death. Justice isn't served in this world, he said. And our attempts to find a way to deal with people who take other people's lives is a problem for all of us as a society to figure out. As of now, I don't have a right or wrong answer. In his first public comments on the case, Dr. Lemak said he never saw the murders coming and in fact thought his ex-wife, in the days before the killings, had finally accepted that their marriage was over. I loved Lyn, he said. She made choices throughout the last years of our marriage ... that took her to where she is now. I think it's helpful to understand ... every one of us has the potential to do terrible things. If we can accept that possibility ... and simply say no, then we can live our lives well. Shortly after the murders, he said he wondered why didn't she take me? Then I began to realize she had a reason for not taking me. Holding up a picture of himself and his children, a tearful Dr. Lemak told reporters, Certainly one of my regrets is that I won't get to see the impact on the world they could have made. Before reaching their verdict, jurors sought transcripts of some of the psychiatric testimony, but decided to forego the documents after learning it would take four hours for them to be produced. The verdict reflects the true facts of this case, Birkett said, calling the defendant's actions an act of revenge and hatred. When innocent children are injured or killed to exact revenge, those responsible must be held accountable under the law. Birkett said no decision has yet been made on whether to seek the death penalty. Post-trial motions are scheduled on Feb. 13. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions
[CTRL] PRAVDA.RU INTERVIEWS PATRICK BUCHANAN Part 1
-Caveat Lector- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/18/23938.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! AN AMERICAN POPULIST: PRAVDA.RU INTERVIEWS PATRICK BUCHANAN NATO expansion, Russiaâs place in Europe, and the coming clash of civilizations: Patrick Buchanan gives an exclusive interview to PRAVDA.Ru Q. You are known as being a critic of the NATO actions against Yugoslavia during 1999. As you know, the majority of the Russian population was against the war. Many Russians feel as if the Serbs are their little brothers. In addition, many people here believe that the stories of large-scale ethnic cleansing were simply designed to convince the American public to support the actions. Why, exactly, were you opposed to this war? A. I am well aware of the historic feelings of the Russian people for the Serbs, who are fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians. Indeed, it was the unwillingness of Russia to permit the Austro-Hungarian empire to crush Serbia, after the assassination of the Archduke in June of 1914, that led to World War I. I opposed the Yugoslav war because I thought it was an unjust war against a small nation that had done nothing to us. Serbia had not threatened us, had not attacked us, and had been our friend and ally in two world wars. Serbs had rescued hundreds of downed American pilots when we were fighting the Nazis. And Serbia had not attacked any NATO nation. Why then did NATO attack Serbia? The U.S. launched a 78-day air war against a nation of ten million, because that nation refused to permit NATO troops to march with impunity across its sovereign territory. As for the allegations of mass atrocities by Serbs, -- that 100,000 Kosovar Albanians had been massacred -- that turned out to have been almost 100% propaganda. Before our air strikes began, in one year of Serbiaâs civil war there had been only 2,000 casualties, and 95,000 Kosovar Albanians had gone into exile. Yet, in just one day in our own Civil War, at Antietam, there were 10,000 dead in one day of fighting. Nobody accused us of genocide. Almost all of the ethnic expulsions in the Yugoslav civil war occurred after the U.S. bombing began. Moreover, at the warâs end, there were atrocities against Serbs, and 250,000 Serbs were pushed out of their province, and many of their beautiful old churches and cathedrals were smashed. Who has been made to answer for those crimes? No one. Milosevic was a thug, but he did not want war with the United States and it was not our responsibility to remove him. As Lord Byron said, Who would be free/Themselves must strike the blow. Q. Do you think that the American press accurately covered the events that took place? A. I was campaigning for President at the time, but my recollection is that the coverage was biased against the Serbs, that Americans had been made to believe the Serbs were some kind of wild beasts. What the U.S. press did not explain was how these wild beasts could vote Milosevic out, then be hailed as the newest members of the Great Western Democratic Club. Q. What do you think the long-term solution to the ethnic problems in Yugoslavia could be? A. Given the memories of atrocities on all sides, it is foolish to try to force these peoples to live together, as in Bosnia. In the end, I think an eventual partition of Bosnia is inevitable. As for Kosovo, we should have stayed out militarily, and tried to broker a deal whereby the Kosovar Albanians could have more autonomy, without breaking up Yugoslavia. Unlike Slovenia and Croatia, which were given to Belgrade in 1919 -- after being taken from the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Serb roots in Kosovo go back centuries to a time even before Columbus discovered America. Kosovo is the cradle of Serbia. If the NATO allies let Kosovo be severed from Serbia, I believe we will be creating the conditions of future war. There is already a movement afoot to create a Greater Albania by tearing off Kosovo and parts of Montenegro and Macedonia and attaching them to Albania. Should this happen, we will face endless Balkan wars. But this is Europeâs problem, not Americaâs. Q. It is well known that NATO and the USSR had an agreement that when Russian troops withdrew from countries such as East Germany and Poland, that NATO said it would not expand eastward. In your opinion, should Russia be concerned about the continued expansion of NATO? A. Clearly, from the record, the U.S. led the Soviet Union to believe that If it abolished the Warsaw Pact and if the Russian Army went home from Central and Eastern Europe, we would not move NATO one inch further east. So, the U.S. did not keep its word, given verbally by our diplomats, including, I believe, Secretary of State James Baker. Even though I used to write Captive Nations resolutions when I worked for Presidents Nixon and Reagan, and welcomed the liberation of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states from Communist rule and Soviet rule, I opposed NATO
[CTRL] PRAVDA.RU INTERVIEWS PATRICK BUCHANAN Part 3
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Q. Speaking of the Middle East, we have seen an increase in violence between Israel and the Palestinians. The United States is perceived in many countries as being unfairly siding with Israel. Russia is supposed to be a cosponsor to the peace process. In your opinion, is there anything that Russia can do to promote peace in the region? A. As the situation is deteriorating and no one seems to have a solution, perhaps there is: Why not step out and lay down what Russia believes the terms of a just peace are, and get the Western Europeans to sign on, and propose it? At least then the warring parties would have something on the table. Other than that, I cannot think of what Russia could do dramatically to affect the situation, and I confess I am pessimistic. Prime Minister Rabin was a great man. I first met him in 1967 in Israel, with Mr. Nixon, right after the Six-Day War. And General Rabin and Ehud Barak were on the right track, and Arafat should have at least hailed the Camp David proposals as enormous progress, even if he could not sign on the dotted line. But then Sharon went stomping around the Temple Mount with a thousand bodyguards and the second intifada exploded. Our difficulty here is that most Americans who are most passionate about the Middle East think Rabin and Barak were foolish to make the offers they did. They want Sharon to unleash the Israeli army. They believe the way to end violence is to thrash the Palestinians, once and for all, so they will sit down at the table and behave like good little boys. As of now, the U.S. seems to have given Sharon a virtual free hand, so long as he does not physically eliminate Arafat. Americaâs second difficulty is that we are trying to be both Israelâs most loyal ally -- not criticizing anything they do in self-defense -- at the same time we are supposed to be an honest broker who brings together both sides in a compromise. To the Arabs, the U.S. umpire, who is supposed to be neutral, is spending most of his time in the other teamâs locker room, plotting strategy, and cheering them on. In the correlation of forces today, the Israelis have the power and the land, but the population numbers are against them. By 2025, the 4.2 million Palestinians now under Israeli rule -- in Israel, East Jerusalem, on the West Bank, and Gaza â will number 9 million. By 2050, they will number 15 million, and there will be 10 million more in Jordan. If demography is destiny, Israel is in an existential crisis. I donât think this is something that Israel can resolve with F-16s and helicopter gunships. If I were President -- an idea the American people enthusiastically rejected -- I would lay out what I think are the terms of a just, honorable peace for both sides. Perhaps that would break the cycle of violence that is swirling ever more rapidly, and which may draw a lot more of us in -- Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Americans -- before it is done. An independent Palestinian State on the West Bank and in Gaza, with its capital in East Jerusalem, with Islamic control of Islamic holy places, is a necessary condition of peace. But, with the recent deposits of bitterness and hatred on all sides, I wonder if it is any longer a sufficient condition for peace. This may be a terminal struggle, like Vietnam, where the side with the greater willingness to sacrifice, suffer and die, eventually wins all and dictates terms to the loser. Because Western peoples believe in compromise and contracts, we tend to think other peoples believe in them, too. But other people usually believe in them only as long as we have the power to enforce them. When they acquire the power, they tear them up and impose their own solutions. The Israelis think this is what the Palestinians and their Arab allies will do, if Israel gives up strategic terrain. And they may be right. This is why I would not impose an American solution. But, in the long run, this is not our problem, it is Israelâs problem. If the Israelis cannot find a way to make peace with their neighbors, their future is going to be very unhappy. As for the United States, if we cannot be a truly honest broker, we ought to disengage militarily and let these nations work out their own destinies. Again, President Washington had it right. If you wish peace, be prepared for war, but if you wish peace, stay out of other nationâs wars. Americans have always be ready to fight for their freedom, but we are not like the British, we are poor imperialists. Most of us have no interest in ruling other nations. We have everything we want or need right here in Godâs country, the U.S.A. Q. Do you have any comments about Russiaâs recent role in Afghanistan? It seems that some people were surprised when Russian troops set up a hospital in Kabul. Why do you think people were surprised by this action? How do you see future events in Afghanistan
[CTRL] PRAVDA.RU INTERVIEWS PATRICK BUCHANAN Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Q. You gave an interview with Salon magazine in which you commented on the population crisis in Russia. It is true that the population of Russia is declining, especially the population of ethnic Russians. The government has taken some steps to try to encourage ethnic Russians living in former Soviet republics to return to their Motherland. You predicted that because of the shrinking Russian population and the growing numbers of Chinese inhabitants of certain areas of eastern Russia, eventually Russia will lose these areas. In your opinion, is there anything that Russia can do to prevent this? A. With the Russian empire having gone the way of all the other Western empires, Russians should come home to preserve and protect Mother Russia. For Russia, my figures are that the present population of about 145 million will fall to 114 million by 2050. I had the UN project the trend out to the end of the century. The UN experts say that Russiaâs population, at present birth rates, will fall to 80 million by 2100, or as many people as America had in 1905. Russia cannot hold on to an area twice the size of the United States with that small a population, especially with a hungry neighbor like China, which will outnumber Russia 15-1 in 2050. In east Asia, there will be perhaps a hundred Chinese to every Russian. Incidentally, Mr. Putin, who is quoted in The Death of the West, is more pessimistic in his population numbers than I. He says it could go as low as 123 million -- a loss of one seventh of the nation -- by 2015. That is more Russians lost in 15 years than perished in Hitlerâs War. I think the Chinese will take the Russian far east, especially the pieces the czar took between 1858-1860, around Manchuria, the way the Americans took Texas. We just moved in until we out-numbered the local Mexican population ten-to-one. Unless Russia can turn its birth rate around, which is only half of what is needed to replace existing population, I donât know how you do it. Bringing Russians home from the old Soviet republics is a necessary step, but let us concede the truth: It is also another demonstration of the historic retreat of the West back into the base camp from which the West broke out in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to rule the world. From my studies, there is a direct co-relation between faith and birth rates. For example, Japan, which had to abandon its old faith and emperor worship at the end of World War II, is now the oldest nation on earth, with a median age of 41. This is why it has lost its dynamism. By 2050, the median age of Italy and Spain will be 54 and 55 years old. A third of Europe will be over 60. The German population will have fallen by 23 million, to 57 million. These dying Europeans will need millions of Arab and African immigrants just to take care of them. Between now and 2050, Asia, Africa and Latin America will add 3 billion more people -- or 30 new Mexicos! -- while Europe loses the equivalent of the entire population of Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Europeâs native-born population will fall by 125 million by mid-century. But it is impossible to find a single Islamic nation where the population is not soaring. Do I know how to turn this around? Yes, but it would require a great religious awakening or mass conversion of European and Russian women to the idea of having big families again. I donât see that happening. This is beyond politics; it is about faith and belief. Solzhenitzyn was right when he told the astonished dons of Harvard that the problem with America and the West was that Men have forgotten God. Vaclav Havel says we are trying to construct the first atheistic civilization in history. Indeed we are; and that civilization is dying, through it is going out in style. Q. Is a war between Russia and China inevitable? A. I believe China intends to consolidate its position in Tibet and its west by moving Han Chinese in by the millions. It will then occupy the disputed islands of the South China Sea, the Paracels and Spratlys. Then, it will take the Senkakus from Japan and move to bring Taiwan back into the embrace of the Motherland. All the while, Chinese traders and workers will move into far eastern Russia, especially into the territories north of Manchuria, along the Ussuri and Amur rivers, where there were pitched battles when I was in the Nixon White House in early 1969. The Chinese are patient, and they believe, not without reason, that they were robbed of territory and humiliated by the Western imperial powers, including Russia, and Japan, when they were weak. I think they expect that the territory Muraviev, Putiatin and Ignatiev acquired for Alexander II, Siberiaâs Maritime Province, will fall into their lap by default. Even the Russian people out there think that this land will eventually go to China. Will there be war? If the Chinese
[CTRL] Gun Ownership Are We Fit to Be Free? Part 1
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/19/15257.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gun Ownership â Are We Fit to Be Free? Phil Brennan Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001 It happened again. Some poor guy caught in a love triangle he couldn't handle went berserk and shot a number of co-workers before killing himself. These things are happening more and more frequently, the list of victims continues to grow, and much of the blame for the deaths and woundings can be laid squarely at the doors of the nation's rabid anti-gun zealots. If that sounds harsh, keep in mind the fact that in every single instance of mass shootings, the victims were all defenseless, largely because anti-gun laws and irrational anti-gun sentiments kept victims and bystanders from having weapons that could have been used to stop the killers in their tracks. That could have been true at Columbine High School where, had just one teacher had a concealed handgun to protect his students, the killing spree could have been ended and the list of victims sharply diminished. In every single case, by the time police arrived on the scene the damage had been done, dramatically underscoring the fact that Americans cannot rely on the police to protect them in such circumstances. As a result, laws banning or prohibitively restricting citizen gun ownership are putting Americans at the mercy of murderous crackpots and felons. Had pilots on the three hijacked planes on Black Tuesday been armed, there is every chance that the twin towers at the World Trade center would still be standing, the Pentagon would be intact, and thousands of innocent victims would still be among us, alive to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones. That they aren't is largely the fault of the fascistic anti-gun fanatics who have used dishonest statistics and outright lies to blame firearms, and not those who criminally use them, in order to create a national distaste for firearms. Gun Control Studies A February 2000 study by acclaimed researchers John R. Lott Jr. and William M. Landes concludes that the only policy factor to influence multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws. The study conclusively shows that such crime deterrents as more police and wider use of the death penalty tend to curb normal instances of murder. They do nothing, however, to prevent such school shooting tragedies as have occurred in a number of the nation's public schools since 1997. To support their insistence that the availability of guns in or near public schools prevented more death and injury, Lott and Landes cited a number of examples, including the following: In the Pearl, Miss., shooting, an assistant principal retrieved his gun from his office and used it to physically immobilize the shooter before he caused additional harm. In an Edinboro, Penn., shooting, which left one teacher dead, a shotgun pointed at the offender while he was reloading his gun prevented additional harm. The police did not arrive for another 10 minutes after the assailant was apprehended by school staff. According to Lott, far and away the best-informed scholar on the subject, in the U.S., the states with the highest gun ownership rates have by far the lowest violent crime rates. And similarly, over time, states with the largest increases in gun ownership have experienced the biggest drops in violent crime. Research by Jeff Miron at Boston University, examining homicide rates across 44 countries, found that countries with the strictest gun control laws also tended to have the highest homicide rates, Lott wrote. News reports in Britain showed how crimes with guns have risen 40 percent since handguns were banned in 1997. Police are extremely important in stopping crime, but almost always arrive on the scene after the crime occurs. Passive behavior is much more likely to result in serious injury or death than using a gun to defend oneself. The only serious research on this issue has been conducted in the United States. The National Crime Victimization Report, done by the U.S. Department of Justice, indicates consistently that women who behave passively are 2.5 times more likely to be seriously injured than women who defend themselves with a gun. It is the physically weakest people (women and the elderly) who benefit the most from having a gun. Criminals, overwhelmingly young males, like to attack the targets that will give them the least trouble. A gun represents a great equalizer. Defensive gun uses are almost completely ignored by the media, but Americans use guns defensively about two million times a year, five times more often than guns are used to commit crimes. Media's Role Lott takes aim at the media, pointing the finger of blame for the disinformation that abounds about gun ownership directly at those who report the news. No one would ever learn this by simply watching the news. In part this
[CTRL] Gun Ownership Are We Fit to Be Free? Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Grand Junction, Colo.: On his way home from work, a contractor picked up three young hitchhikers. He fixed them a steak dinner at his house and was preparing to offer them jobs. Two of the men grabbed his kitchen knives and started stabbing him in the back, head and hands. The attackers stopped only when he told them that he could give them money. Instead of money, the contractor grabbed a pistol and shot one of the attackers. The contractor said, If I'd had a trigger lock, I'd be dead. Columbia Falls, Mont.: An ex-boyfriend is accused of entering a woman's home and sexually assaulting her. She got away long enough to get her handgun and hold her attacker at gunpoint until police arrived. Salt Lake City: Two robbers began firing their guns as soon as they entered a pawn shop. The owner and his son returned fire. One of the robbers was shot in the arm; both were later arrested. The shop owner's statement said it all: If we did not have our guns, we would have had several people dead here. Baton Rouge, La.: At 5:45 a.m., a crack addict kicked in the back door of a house and entered. The attacker was fatally shot as he charged toward the homeowner. What advice would gun control advocates have given these victims? Should they have behaved passively? Unfortunately, by making it difficult for law-abiding people to get the most effective tool to defend themselves, gun control often puts victims' lives in jeopardy. On the other side of the coin, gun control has proved deadly, as is the case in England where under the Firearms Act of 1997 all handguns and most rifles were outlawed and confiscated. Wrote Richard Poe in his best-selling book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control: What happened next is something most Americans know nothing about because the press has not reported it in this country. A terrifying crime wave swept England. Stripped of the ability to defend themselves, Britons were left helpless against criminal attacks. And the criminals knew it. Their attacks grew bolder, as well as more frequent. To prove how true is the old adage If guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns, Poe reports that Between April and September 2000, street crime in London rose 32 percent over the same period in 1999. Lies and Progaganda Aside from keeping such vital information from their fellow Americans, the mainstream U.S. media have shamefully promoted anti-gun propaganda and lies. Take, for example, Professor Michael Bellesiles' book in which the author claims that the idea of a well-armed America in revolutionary times and afterward was a myth. As NewsMax reported at the time: Frenzied anti-self-defense zealots hailed his book as proof that colonial Americans owned few guns and that the idea of a nation of well-armed citizens was a myth, and he won a prestigious award for his rooting out the truth about guns in early America. But new research indicates that in many instances historian Michael A. Bellesiles simply twisted the facts to fit his own agenda. In a blockbuster exposé published in the Boston Globe, much of Bellesiles' book ''Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture'' was called into question. According to Bellesiles, he examined more than 11,000 probate records of more than 1,200 counties, counting the number of guns listed in probate inventories. He wrote that he learned that between 1765 and 1821, no more than 17 percent of the inventories listed guns. He claimed that the rate of gun ownership was even lower in the 1760-1795 period â a mere 14 percent, he said. [O]ver half of these guns were listed as broken. ... According to a Dec. 9 story in the New York Times, Emory University professor Michael Bellesiles, whose book 'Arming America: The Origins of the National Gun Culture' caused a sensation with Second Amendment foes last year with its claims that gun ownership in the U.S. was 'an invented tradition,' may have perpetrated what the Times described as one of the worst academic scandals in years. According to the Times, scholars who examined Bellesiles' data were unable to substantiate his claim that 11,000-plus probate records from 40 counties in colonial America showed that fewer than 7 percent actually owned working guns. Those scholars who tried to corroborate the book's sensational findings were stunned by an astonishing number of serious errors, the Times reported, almost all of them intended to support [Bellesiles'] thesis. In some cases his numbers were off by a factor of two or three or more, Randolph Roth, a history professor at Ohio State University, told the Times. The number and scope of the errors in Bellesiles' work are extraordinary, Roth told the Times, saying they include misinterpretation of militia returns, literary documents and data from many other sources. The academics who studied Bellesiles' contentions found that his book was filled with blatant
[CTRL] FBI surveillance bonanza in BadTrans.B worm
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23438.html FBI surveillance bonanza in BadTrans.B worm By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 18/12/2001 at 05:51 GMT Millions of Outlook and Outlook Express users have been infected by the BadTrans.B worm, which logs keystrokes in every open window and periodically sends the log files to one of several e-mail dumps, presumably for later retrieval by nosey hackers. Or Feds. According to a story from Rotten.com, an ISP which hosts one of the e-mail dumps, MonkeyBrains, has received a request from the FBI to turn over all the relevant log files. MonkeyBrains has instead turned the tables on the FBI by making part of the database available to everyone on their Web site here. https://badtrans.monkeybrains.net/ If the story is true, then the FBI's intention is clear. They plan to assemble the data and grep for various key words and names in hopes of stumbling upon the passphrases of known and suspected evildoers. It's Magic Lantern on steroids, and yet it's just a dumb accident -- but one which could dump an absolute mother lode of otherwise forbidden data in the Feds' laps. While it's inconceivable that the FBI could get a search warrant for such a giant bonanza, there's nothing in the law which prevents the ISPs concerned from turning over the spoils voluntarily. At press time, MonkeyBrains claimed to have logged 5,857,277 BadTrans messages; and they host only one of a score of dumps. We've been unable to confirm the story due to temporal difficulties; but we will be checking with DoJ flacks, MonkeyBrains and several other ISPs believed to be hosting BadTrans mail dumps. We'll post a follow-up to this intriguing story as soon as we get the straight dope. ® Related Story BadTrans virus bites Windows users hard ~~~ http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. Victims of Badtrans are infected when they receive an email containing the worm in an attachment and either run the program by clicking on it, or use an email reader like Microsoft Outlook which may automatically run it without user intervention. Once executed, the worm replicates by sending copies of itself to all other email addresses found on the host's machine, and installs a keystroke-logger capable of stealing passwords including those used for telnet, email, ftp, and the web. Also captured is anything else the user may be typing, including personal documents or private emails. Coincidentally, just four days before the breakout of Badtrans it was revealed that the FBI was developing their own keystroke-logging virus, called Magic Lantern. Made to complement the Carnivore spy system, Magic Lantern would allow them to obtain target's passwords as they type them. This is a significant improvement over Carnivore, which can only see data after it has been transmitted over the Internet, at which point the passwords may have been encrypted. After Badtrans pilfers keystrokes the data is sent back to one of twenty-two email addresses (this is according to the FBI-- leading anti-virus vendors have only reported seventeen email addresses). Among these are free email addresses at Excite, Yahoo, and IJustGotFired.com. IJustGotFired is a free service of MonkeyBrains, a San Francisco based independent Internet Service Provider. In particular, [EMAIL PROTECTED] began receiving emails at 3:23 PM on November 24. Triggering software automatically disabled the account after it exceeded quotas, and began saving messages as they arrived. The following day, MonkeyBrains' mail server was sluggish. Upon examination of the mail server's logs, it quickly became apparent that 100 emails per minute to the suck_my_prick alias were the source of the problem. The mails delivered the logged keystrokes from over 100,000 compromised computers in the first day alone. Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy Rucker, Jr., and requested a cloned copy of the password database and keylogged data. The database includes only information stolen from the victims of the virus, not information about the perpetrator. The FBI wants indiscriminant access to the illegally extracted passwords and keystrokes of over two million people without so much as a warrant. Even with a warrant they would have to specify exactly what information they are after, on whom, and what they expect to find. Instead, they want it all and for no justifiable
[CTRL] 19 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-51/52
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CONTENTS:
The Foundation
ICTUS Imprimis
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Dezinformatsia
Sociocrats
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
__O__
THE FOUNDATION
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to
the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that
arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor
adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and
capacities impressed with it. --James Madison
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ICTUS IMPRIMIS
The Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel,
and will set them in their own land, and aliens will join them and
will cleave to the house of Jacob. (Isaiah 14:1) ++ And the angel
said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with
God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and
you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called
the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne
of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob
forever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.' (Luke 1:30-33)
++ The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be
called holy, the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) ++ And in that region
there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock
by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of
the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the
angel said to them, 'Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news
of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born
this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (Luke
2:8-11) ++ Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared
with the angel, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests. (Luke 2:13-14)
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INSIGHT
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the
reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge {} Nothing can bring
you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph
of principles. --Ralph Waldo Emerson {} It doesn't take a hero to
order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who go
into battle. --H. Norman Schwarzkopf ++ Bravery is the capacity to
perform properly even when scared half to death. --General Omar
Bradley {} Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also
of the overcoming of it. --Helen Keller {} You can preach a
better sermon with your life than with your lips. --Oliver Goldsmith
{} He is the promised Messiah, the Son of God come to earth to offer
salvation for all mankind. --Ronald Reagan
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UPRIGHT
Follow your dreams You never know where life's gonna take ya. I
never sat and thought, 'Gosh, if I work hard I'll be president of the
United States.' It wasn't in my vocabulary. But you never know. You
never know. Trust the Lord. --President George Bush ++ In a
president, character is everything. You can't buy courage and
decency, you can't rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring
those things with him He needs to have a vision of the future he
wishes to create. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't
have the character -- the courage and heart -- to see it through.
--Peggy Noonan {} Christians view history as a cornucopia of
complexity because we understand the doctrine of original sin. We know
that because the human race is fallen, people are capable of great
evil. But because we are made in God's image, we are also capable of
great good. --Charles Colson ++ However, the Bible conceives the
world in very real terms, and recent events have clarified what the
real world is about. It's about the struggle between goodness and
wickedness, about which our Constitution is not the ultimate
authority. --David Klinghoffer ++ For a religion that is said to
respect human rights and equality, Islam does a rather thorough job of
trampling the former and denying the latter, from Africa's west coast
to East Asia. While they're voluble in demanding tolerance for their
faith, when it comes to the suffering of minorities in Islamic
countries, American Moslems are mute. --Don Feder ++ A religion
that is not in fact the government is a potential
[CTRL] DefenseWatch Dec. 19, 2001 Part 1
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! DefenseWatch â Dec. 19, 2001 Soldiers For The Truth (SFTT) Weekly Newsletter When we assumed the Soldier, We did not lay aside the Citizen. General George Washington, to the New York Legislature, 1775 In this weekâs Issue of DefenseWatch: War, Lies and Videotape -- -- EDITORIAL and ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF -- -- Ed Offley Editor, DefenseWatch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] J. David Galland Deputy Editor, DefenseWatch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David H. Hackworth Senior Military Columnist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Humphrey SFTT Webmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- -- Hackâs Target for the Week: Do the Job and Get Out Article 01 â Islam Responds to the Bin Laden Tape, by Robert G. Williscroft Article 02 â Ten Things I Do Not Know Or Understand, by Lt. Col. Matthew Dodd Article 03 â Feedback: Scary Airport Security Article 04 â For the Record: Afghanistan Service Personnel Get Tax Break Article 05 â Feedback: Readers React to Hackworth Article 06 â Feedback: Army Leadership Failures Are Not New Article 07: Future Limits in Human Intelligence Collection, by J. David Galland Medal of Honor: Article 08 â A Janitorâs 10 Lessons in Leadership, by Col. James Moschgat USAF Article 09 â Crawford, William, Pvt. USA EDITOR'S NOTE: Your Support is Important! EDITOR'S NOTE: Article Submission Procedures/Subject Editors Sought GLOSSARY OF MILITARY ACRONYMS HACK BOOK SALES -- -- Hackâs Target For The Week: Do the Job and Get Out -- -- By David H. Hackworth It was a big week for television: Osama bin Laden, currently Numero Uno monster on our Hit Parade list, sharing prime time with our first-rate warriors in and over Afghanistan. First, the video marathon of OBL and his gleeful pals sitting around on pillows, hugging, kissing, high-fiving and hissing. You know, the Top Ten Tape where weird-looking cats are speaking in tongues, sipping tea, sharing nightmares and praising Allah for what a neat job their gang of goons pulled off murdering thousands of innocent noncombatants whose big worry before Sept. 11 was lunch. For those of the Greatest Generation, it must have been like watching a 1940 movie of Adolf Hitler cheerily extolling the efficiency of his latest-model oven. The tube kept flicking from OBL gloating with his groupies to maneuvers in Afghanistan that would have to be the most eclectic military operations in history: mobs of primitive warriors with horses, mules and junkyard pickup trucks at the bomb craters of Tora Bora looking as soldierly as Ringling Bros. circus clowns, being supported by the most sophisticated weaponry warfare has ever known. Good intelligence sources say OBL has vowed never to be taken alive. The word is, He'll self-vaporize as we're about to grab him. If that's the scenario, be prepared for rumors galore and OBL sightings well into the next century, kind of like what happened with Elvis. Of course, there'll also be the T-shirt â Osama at the Eternal Oasis. But no matter what goes down with OBL, all proclamations of victory will only make these twisted terrorists â who've been programmed to hate us since they were training in demolition diapers â even more determined to do their evil thing. Their loathing of us won't disappear in clouds of bomb dust. Watching the tape only reinforced my conviction that we need to wipe out OBL's worldwide al-Qaeda network along with the rest of the terrorists from Algeria to Zambia. It's clear that these zealots from hell are all hustling hard for the big bang. And once they get the lethal chemicals, the bugs and nuke bombs in their hands, bet on them being used. Speed is of the essence here â either we close these monsters down, or we get closed down by them. For centuries, if not forever. There are more than 60 states around the globe that currently provide support and sanctuary to terrorists. In some places, like Afghanistan and Iraq, we'll need to use a lot of military muscle, while in others, like the Philippines, where there are competent, reliable friendlies, we'll only need to provide advisers, intelligence info and resources. The key to this long-term global campaign is to get in, do the job, then get out fast. In Afghanistan, for example, once we've terminated OBL's gang, we need to get our military out ASAP. I worry about our Marines now defending the Kandahar airport. Lebanon in 1983,
[CTRL] DefenseWatch Dec. 19, 2001 Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- ARTICLE 02 â Ten Things I Do Not Know Or Understand -- -- By Matthew Dodd The famous satirist Will Rogers once observed, Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Many people do not like to admit ignorance, but it is tough to argue with Rogers' quote. From my experience as a military officer, the consensus is that folks who come across as know-it-alls are not trusted and not well respected. Today's military leaders would do themselves, and their seniors and subordinates, a great service if they took the time to reflect on the things they do not know or understand. To better facilitate discussion and reflection, let me share with you my current Top 10 list of subjects on which I freely confess my ignorance: 10. How can American John Walker, who was captured with an AK-47 strapped across his shoulders as a trained Taliban fighter against U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, be considered as anything but a traitor to our nation? 9. Why are so many active and reserve component folks who love the military and who have dedicated their lives to serving their country so fearful of retribution for identifying institutional faults, failures, and falsehoods that they choose to remain silent? 8. Who originated the observation that the military services are known as the Four Ds: the Dumb, the Devious, the Defiant, the Dedicated? (I will leave it to you to figure out which service belongs to which D). 7. Why does most everyone complain about poor or no turnovers when starting new jobs, but hardly anybody takes the time or makes the effort to write accurate desktop procedures/turnover binders/continuity files, etc.? 6. How does the Pentagon Joint Staff expect to succeed in developing future warfighting concepts by designating lone O-6s to lead long-term, part-time, and ad hoc working groups to study and write those concepts? 5. How can some Joint Staff general/flag officers unabashedly say that they are willingly seeking only the 75 percent solution now, knowing full well that the issue will need to be worked again in the future (on someone else's watch) to get to the 100 percent solution? 4. Why do so many retired general/flag officers encourage active junior officers to exercise their moral courage by speaking out against legacy problems, programs, and policies that those same retired general/flag officers either endorsed, ignored, or failed to change when they were on active duty? 3. Why did it take the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to prompt a major mainstream newspaper (USA Today, âMisconduct Marks Guard Command: Lack of oversight by Pentagon, states let misbehavior flourishâ) that captures what David Hackworth and his readers have been saying for years about widespread corruption in the National Guard? 2. Why is it that nobody seems to consider the idea of military and governmental seniors seeking and accepting feedback and constructive criticism from subordinates as a leadership development tool (promotion consideration)? 1. Why is it that our military leadership, which is doing a superb job in our global war on terrorism, is powerless to stop, or at least contain, the proliferation of âPower-Point Rangers?â I believe in the words of the enormously popular philosopher, âAnonymous,â who once said, Admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. Now that I have willingly admitted my ignorance, I am feeling more liberated than wise. I guess only time will tell. Lt. Col. Matthew Dodd is the pen name of an active-duty Marine Corps officer stationed at the Pentagon. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Table of Contents -- -- ARTICLE 03 â Scary Airport Security -- -- As a Marine recruiter, I took a few new recruits to the Memphis Airport and saw something that scared me: Army National Guard soldiers on duty. Hereâs the scary part. Army National Guardsmen generally receive less training than most warriors, but the young, under-trained Guardsmen I saw were carrying M-16s loaded with the standard NATO spec ammo which carries the ss109 bullet known as the penetrator (light armor-piercing) which will not only zip through one person but several. Moreover, they were carrying them at sling arms, where anyone with any type of sentry take-down training can get hold of the rifle. This was the wrong weapon, the wrong ammunition, and most likely insufficient training for that environment. I do know of Guardsmen who could handle that weapon in that environment, but they are very far and few between. --A
[CTRL] DefenseWatch Dec. 19, 2001 Part 3
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 06 â Feedback: Army Leadership Failures Are Not New -- -- Having read David Hackworthâs column, âLet's Lock and Load Nowâ (DefenseWatch, Oct. 17), I could not agree more. Let me I cite an incident which occurred during the Persian Gulf War. Our Army commo unit (Bravo Co. 34 Signal Bn. 93rd Signal Bde.) had just deployed out from the docks to a log base to fit out and wait for orders. We were a main communications hub for VII Corps. We had drawn supplies and ammo prior to deploying and had picked up a weapon â the AT-4 anti-tank missiles â that no one in our unit â except myself and two other NCOs who were former 11Bs â were familiar with. When I saw the crates of AT-4 anti-tank missiles, I asked my 1st sergeant if I could get them out and start training the soldiers on how to fire them. He was literally appalled that I would make such a request. His response: âLook, sergeant, we are in the business of doing communications; we will never have to fire those weapons, and I plan on turning those missiles back in unopened once this war is finished.â I couldn't believe what I was hearing! Not only were we forbidden to place a loaded magazine in our M-16s, nor could the M-203 gunners draw grenades, nor were the M-60 teams allowed to break down the ammunition between ball and tracer, nor were we issued hand grenades; now we could not train up on a new weapon that had been issued to us. We received our orders to jump into the neutral zone in preparation of the VII Corps swing north then east ⦠and we convoyed to the neutral zone. As I finished the duty roster for the team, two Hummers came screaming onto the site, one with a TOW launcher on top. The young lieutenant jumped into the back of my commo rig and asked if I were operations. I pointed the frantic lieutenant in the right direction, and he jumped from my rig to ops. Within a minute, my company commander called, telling me we had an Iraqi armor regiment headed in our direction, and that we needed to establish a perimeter immediately. My first thought was to find that 1st sergeant and give him a piece of my mind. Quickly, we started deploying the soldiers around the site, then I went and found the AT-4s. We had 30 missiles for 80 [Iraqi] armored vehicles. The company commander gave the order to prepare for evacuation. A skeleton crew was designated to stay behind to cause a delaying action so that, (1) All communications rigs could be destroyed by thermite grenades, and (2) To give the main body time to get out of the area on a couple of 5-ton trucks. I and the two other NCOs broke down the AT-4s and began issuing the missiles to those designated to stay, and gave each soldier an extremely short block of instruction on how to operate the weapon. I expected we would make five hits out of 30 at best. We knew we were going to be slaughtered. Those who did not have a missile, M203 grenade launcher, or members of an M60 team were instructed to evacuate once the Iraqis were sighted. I remember it started to rain. The site where we were located was a small rise in a relatively flat area. With E-tools in hand, the soldiers began to dig in, but two to three inches down, hit solid rock. Now all we could do was move earth up in front of our positions. I wanted to scream at the futility of the situation, but continued handing out AT-4s. Soldiers lay in cold, wet puddles. Our XO knew we didn't stand a chance and broke the standing order of radio silence to report that in the distance he could see vehicles moving in our direction. Two squadrons of Apache attack helicopters answered the call. The accompanying OH-58s landed next to our site and received a sitrep from the XO, then lifted off in the direction that the lieutenant had reported the Iraqi movement. I remember the 1st sergeant walking around the perimeter giving his approval of our set-up. (I and the other two NCOs had set the whole thing up without guidance from him or the CO. In the end, the Iraqi armored regiment turned around shortly after crossing into Saudi Arabia, the Apaches never did get the opportunity to engage, and our unit went about the business of communicating. The next day, the brigade sergeant-major stopped by the site to see how everyone was doing. I gave the CSM an earful. After hearing my take on the situation, the company commander and 1st sergeant were called into my rig while I was told to wait outside. We received AT-4 training that very next day. I figured that if anyone would understand where I was coming from, it would be my command sergeant-major, for he was a Vietnam veteran. Col. Hackworthâs article struck a chord in me and brought back memories I had laid to rest. In 1996 I decided to ETS from the Army as the political environment was
[CTRL] DefenseWatch Dec. 19, 2001 Part 4
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- ARTICLE 08 â A Janitor's 10 Lessons in Leadership -- -- By Col. James Moschgat USAF William âBillâ Crawford certainly was an unimpressive figure, one you could easily overlook during a hectic day at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Mr. Crawford, as most of us referred to him back in the late 1970s, was our squadron janitor. While we cadets busied ourselves preparing for academic exams, athletic events, Saturday morning parades and room inspections, or never-ending leadership classes, Bill quietly moved about the squadron mopping and buffing floors, emptying trash cans, cleaning toilets, or just tidying up the mess 100 college-age kids can leave in a dormitory. Sadly, and for many years, few of us gave him much notice, rendering little more than a passing nod or throwing a curt, âG'morning!â in his direction as we hurried off to our daily duties. Why? Perhaps it was because of the way he did his job â he always kept the squadron area spotlessly clean, even the toilets and showers gleamed. Frankly, he did his job so well, none of us had to notice or get involved. After all, cleaning toilets was his job, not ours. Maybe it was his physical appearance that made him disappear into the background. Bill didn't move very quickly and, in fact, you could say he even shuffled a bit, as if he suffered from some sort of injury. His gray hair and wrinkled face made him appear ancient to a group of young cadets. And his crooked smile, well, it looked a little funny. Face it, Bill was an old man working in a young person's world. What did he have to offer us on a personal level? Finally, maybe it was Mr. Crawford's personality that rendered him almost invisible to the young people around him. Bill was shy, almost painfully so. He seldom spoke to a cadet unless they addressed him first, and that didn't happen very often. Our janitor always buried himself in his work, moving about with stooped shoulders, a quiet gait, and an averted gaze. If he noticed the hustle and bustle of cadet life around him, it was hard to tell. So, for whatever reason, Bill blended into the woodwork and became just another fixture around the squadron. The Academy, one of our nation's premier leadership laboratories, kept us busy from dawn till dusk. And Mr.Crawford ... well, he was just a janitor. That changed one fall Saturday afternoon in 1976. I was reading a book about World War II and the tough Allied ground campaign in Italy, when I stumbled across an incredible story. On Sept. 13, 1943, a Private William Crawford from Colorado, assigned to the 36th Infantry Division, had been involved in some bloody fighting on Hill 424 near Altavilla, Italy. The words on the page leapt out at me: âIn the face of intense and overwhelming hostile fire ... with no regard for personal safety ... on his own initiative, Private Crawford single-handedly attacked fortified enemy positions.â It continued, âfor conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty, the President of the United States ... â âHoly cow,â I said to my roommate, âyou're not going to believe this, but I think our janitor is a Medal of Honor winner.â We all knew Mr. Crawford was a WW II Army vet, but that didn't keep my friend from looking at me as if I was some sort of alien being. Nonetheless, we couldn't wait to ask Bill about the story on Monday. We met Mr. Crawford bright and early Monday and showed him the page in question from the book, anticipation and doubt on our faces. He starred at it for a few silent moments and then quietly uttered something like, âYep, that's me.â Mouths agape, my roommate and I looked at one another, then at the book, and quickly back at our janitor. Almost at once we both stuttered, âWhy didn't you ever tell us about it?â He slowly replied after some thought, âThat was one day in my life and it happened a long time ago.â I guess we were all at a loss for words after that. We had to hurry off to class and Bill, well, he had chores to attend to. However, after that brief exchange, things were never again the same around our squadron. Word spread like wildfire among the cadets that we had a hero in our midst â Mr. Crawford, our janitor, had won the Medal! Cadets who had once passed by Bill with hardly a glance, now greeted him with a smile and a respectful, âGood morning, Mr. Crawford.â Those who had before left a mess for the âjanitorâ to clean up started taking it upon themselves to put things in order. Most cadets routinely stopped to talk to Bill throughout the day and we even began inviting him to our formal squadron functions. He'd show up dressed in a conservative dark suit and quietly talk to those
[CTRL] AF News 20 Dec 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 1821. Air Force announces OTS selections RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The Air Force is giving 131 enlisted people the chance to trade in their stripes for gold bars after being chosen to attend Officer Training School. Air Force Recruiting Service officials conducted OTS Selection Board 0202, which met here Nov. 27 to 30. The board considered 553 total applications, selecting 357 for a 65-percent selection rate. As part of the selection process, board members review both objective and subjective factors. Objectively, the board considers each applicant's academic discipline, grade point average, and Air Force Officer Qualifying Test scores. Subjectively, board members evaluate work experience, accomplishments, adaptability, character, leadership ability, potential for future growth, and other recommendations. For active-duty enlisted members, performance reports and commander's recommendations are also evaluated. A minimum of three Air Force colonels review every application. The selection process is similar to an Air Force officer promotion board. Key to the entire process is that no single factor leads to an individual's selection or nonselection, OTS selection officials said. The average grade point average for those selected is 3.18. The average Air Force Officer Qualification Test score in the area of pilot is 57.7; for navigator, 56.2; for academic aptitude, 55.4; for verbal, 60.5; and for quantitative, 49.5. Individuals selected for OTS can expect class assignment information about eight weeks after their physical is certified for commissioning. The OTS boards meet about every six weeks here at Air Force Recruiting Service headquarters. For more information concerning OTS and the application process, active-duty members should contact their local education services office; civilians should contact the nearest Air Force recruiter. A full listing of people selected for OTS is available online at www.rs.af.mil/OTS_selections/releases.htm. (Courtesy of AFRS News Service) 1824. Technology heart of information superiority RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Information superiority continues to be a decisive factor in the Air Force's ability to defend the United States and protect its interests through aerospace power, officials said. Ensuring the right person has the right information at the right time is vital to today's warfighter. Nowhere in the Air Force is this need more apparent than in U.S. Air Forces in Europe, said Col. John W. Maluda, USAFE director of communications and information. With 91 countries in its area of responsibility, you need only look as far as Macedonia, Skopje, or Africa to see how critical information is for contingency forces. At the heart of information superiority is information technology, the 'guts,' the 'machinery' that makes information flow, Maluda said. It has forever changed the way the Air Force performs, educates, and operates from a global perspective. Information technology enables the Air Force to better leverage information to support contingency and humanitarian efforts, retrieving near real time information from globally distributed networks and placing it at the fingertips of the warfighter within seconds, he said. The resulting impact on air campaign planning and execution demands the Air Force manage its IT infrastructure as a weapon system and effectively arm communications and information warriors to operate, maintain, and safeguard that weapon system. The new One Air Force...One Network vision lays the foundation for making tremendous advances in network systems, enhancing the delivery of information to everyone who needs it. In USAFE, we are working hard to turn One Air Force...One Network into reality, said Gen. Gregory Martin, USAFE commander. From our 'first look' portal initiative to our efforts at centralizing server and network functions, we're exploiting the value of quantum leaps in storage capacity and network technologies. This visionary approach will provide major progress in inter-office, inter-organization and inter-personal connectivity, which will allow us to leverage the value of our people in new and exciting ways, he said. USAFE endeavors to sustain steady-state in-garrison and deployed missions, while fortifying its readiness posture to respond to real-world European Command and NATO contingency scenarios, Maluda said. It is my responsibility to ensure USAFE's communications and information professionals are at the forefront of all efforts to manage information like a weapons system. We're implementing rigorous training and standardization-evaluation programs in network control centers to ensure communications and information professionals achieve and maintain crew position certification levels commensurate with operating and maintaining IT weapon systems, he said. USAFE communications
[CTRL] A Greeting card for Friends from Bill
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[CTRL] Free trade: Pied piper to global government
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25736 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Free trade: Pied piper to global government -- -- © 2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc. John M. Culbertson, an economist known for mounting an articulate defense of protectionist economic policy long after the tenets of free trade were de rigueur among his colleagues, died on Sunday, in Madison, Wis. He was 80. So read Sunday's obit in The New York Times, which went on to quote a Culbertson essay in 1986: The future of the United States depends on whether we can escape from the childish dream world in which 'free trade' is The Good Fairy and 'protectionism' is The Wicked Witch of the West. The first line of the next paragraph of the obit said it all: Unable to find publishers for his books ... Culbertson, author of a major college textbook, Money and Banking, could not find anyone to publish his patriotic dissent on free trade. Orwell spoke of the smelly little orthodoxies of his age, and this intolerant free-trade cult is one of ours. What has it produced? Republicans promised us free trade would cut government, as taxes and regulations must be cut to keep products competitive. But government has exploded. Europe's Common Market gave birth to a Frankenstein they call the EU â a transnational monstrosity with a legal code of 80,000 pages that is swallowing up the once-free nations of Europe. As every national economy â Bismarck's Germany or Hamilton's America â gives birth to a national government, a global economy must end in global government. That is why international socialism has signed on. Has the Right lost its principles â or its mind? The Financial Times' Amity Shlaes scourges the AFL-CIO for fast moving leftward on trade. But protectionism was always championed by men of the right â Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Clay, Lincoln, McKinley, T.R., Cal Coolidge. It is the left's icons â Wilson and FDR â who gave us free trade. And that ideology was spawned by 19th-century scribblers and utopians like John Stuart Mill and Richard Cobden, none of whom was a Man of the Right. The Republican House has now buckled to Bush's demand for fast track. But what is fast track, but abject surrender by Congress of all rights to amend trade treaties? Is abdication to the executive by Congress what we now mean by conservatism? When did it become so? What has 30 years of free trade produced but 30 trade deficits totaling $2 trillion, a hollowed-out manufacturing base that now employs 13 percent of U.S. workers â where in 1960 it employed 26 percent â and a vast disparity between workers' wages and corporate salaries? Real wages for working Americans have hardly risen in 30 years. Last year, free trade gave America a merchandise trade deficit of $450 billion. Our pre-NAFTA trade deficit of $10 billion with Canada and Mexico now exceeds $90 billion. Our total trade deficit with China in the Clinton decade reached $400 billion, a transfer of wealth, factories and technology that has made China a threat to America. U.S. companies like GM, Ford and Boeing now call themselves global companies, and their loyalty to America is dying as fast as their allegiance to their workers. And there are the hidden costs. Republicans had to prostitute themselves to vote vast sums for the IMF to bail out bankrupt regimes, so those corrupt regimes could keep paying back rich investors who preferred to risk their capital outside the United States. Meanwhile, Congress lets our great industries like steel and textiles die in the name of free trade principles. Are we more secure in this free-trade world? Why, then, the wild panic when Asian nations began to default in 1997? But one country never caught the Asian flu, and one country still grows at 9 percent. Protectionist China remembers what the West has forgot: Every nation to rise to world power â Britain before 1850, the United States before 1914, Japan after 1945 â rejected free trade to put the nation first. There are other hidden costs: the enormous subsidies to keep our farmers alive, now that the price of their produce does not cover their costs. Broken families, dying towns, shattered communities from what our think-tank welfare queens hail as creative destruction â i.e., U.S. factories shutting down here and opening up abroad. America herself is being sacrificed on the altar of this Moloch. For the ultimate cost of this free-trade addiction will be the loss of America's industrial base, the loss of our economic independence and, finally, the loss of our national sovereignty. Then the global parasites will have it all. I didn't know Culbertson. But from his brief obituary, he had common sense, a love of country and intellectual courage â as rare in politics as they are among the academics who scorned him.
[CTRL] Bringing back civil defense
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25725 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bringing back civil defense -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com If there's a silver lining to the dark cloud of terrorist attacks on America, I hope it is the awareness that our country is virtually defenseless against attacks on our homeland. For far too long, America has relied exclusively on the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction as its only defense of U.S. soil. In fact, the very word defense, in the American lexicon, has come to mean offense. The Pentagon is solely focused on fighting foreign wars in foreign lands and has abdicated its authority and responsibility for defense of the civilian population of the USA. If a nuclear war is launched against the United States, our only recourse is to watch millions of Americans die, while raining death and destruction on the attacker. There are several problems with the MAD doctrine in the post-Sept. 11 world. How would we respond to a terrorist nuclear attack on U.S. soil? Who would we kill? And what difference would it make to the untold number of Americans dead? What about the even more likely scenario of a large-scale chemical or biological attack by terrorists on the U.S.? How does mutually assured destruction protect us from suicide bombers â who, by definition, kill themselves in the attack? MAD assumes our potential adversaries are as defenseless as we are â but are they? Some time during the first Bush administration, America completely scrapped any vestige of its fledgling civil defense structure. It had eroded badly during President Carter's administration, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency took over as the lead agency for civil defense. In other words, the real defense work â protecting the American people from attack â was removed from the Defense Department. That is when the Defense Department became the Offense Department. It got worse during eight years of Clinton. FEMA's meager efforts to maintain equipment needed for saving lives in a future nuclear war were cut from the budget. The equipment was destroyed, lost, sold or abandoned. For years, a political movement determined to disarm America had persuaded the public there was no use in trying to save lives during a nuclear war. We were all going to die. We might as well be vaporized. There was no point in trying to prepare, no point in defending ourselves, no point in living if we were attacked. This movement ultimately won out and became official national policy during the Clinton years. But the movement is based totally on lies. People do survive nuclear blasts. Most people survived the initial blasts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many emerged from the rubble unscathed â only to die a miserable and unnecessary death from fallout. There were dire predictions the two islands would never be inhabited again â or at least for 75 years. Nagasaki and Hiroshima today are bustling metropolises â much bigger, more prosperous and more healthy places to live than they were before the blasts. There is no question that properly constructed and stocked shelters can and do save lives during nuclear attacks. The proof? Russia has built them. China has built them. The Swiss have built them. All of them, by the way, built based on technology developed by the U.S. government and paid for by U.S. taxpayers â who remain defenseless. There's more proof. Not all Americans are left defenseless. Your federal government has used your tax dollars to build shelters for itself and its key people â tens of thousands of them. They will survive the inevitable attack on the U.S. You, the taxpaying public, will not. That's the plan. National suicide. It may be the biggest scandal involving government I have ever witnessed in my life. And it's the theme topic of the January issue of Whistleblower magazine â based largely on the revelations of a real-life whistleblower, Art Robinson, who has spent some 20 years trying to alert the public to the need for civil defense and the intrepid reporting of my wife, Elizabeth Farah. There's been a great deal of debate in the last 20 years about strategic missile defense. Yet, as important as that component of defense is to our future, it is no substitute for civil defense â as the terrorist attacks illustrate so well. The first nuclear attack on the U.S. may well be a hand-delivered bomb â not one delivered on an intercontinental ballistic missile. This is a big topic â one, granted, no one else is talking about. And that's why this special issue of Whistleblower is so important, so urgent, so needed. Find out how the government is planning to sacrifice you, your kids and your grandchildren on the altar of political correctness. You will be shocked â and I hope shocked into action, before
[CTRL] Al-Qaida fighters welcomed home
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25734 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Al-Qaida fighters welcomed home Some 'veterans' taking leadership roles in Islamic movement -- -- By Toby Westerman © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com While some captured Taliban fighters have been portrayed as humiliated and sobbing, other Islamic militants are well on their way â or have already arrived â home. Once their wounds are healed, they will reorganize and be ready for a new mission, according to the influential Italian news daily Corriere della Sera. Though defeated in battle by the United States and its allies, the embattled al-Qaida veterans return to their respective villages, from Saudi Arabia to Morocco, commanding respect â and even leadership â of local militant organizations. Many militants have returned enlarging the local Islamic movements and [assuming] leadership of them, according to the paper. Local authorities in the Islamic world are watching warily as those involved in the fighting in Afghanistan return home, but they are not expected to seek assistance from the international community, preferring to wash their own dirty cloths, according to Corriere della Sera. In Algeria, where tens of thousands have already died during a prolonged civil war between the government and Islamic militants, the national authorities are attempting to avoid additional fighting. The Algerian government is prepared to treat returning fighters as prodigal sons â as long as the former Taliban militants return peacefully to their homes. Dozens of al-Qaida fighters have slipped into Somalia, torn for years by a many-sided civil war that has left the country without a functioning national authority. The local Somali warlords fear an Islamic rebellion arising in the far north and south of the country, fomented by the newly arrived militants. Some of the al-Qaida organization are finding their way to the Balkans, a region still suffering civil strife, especially in Macedonia. The Islamic fighters have been seen in Albania and in Bosnia, a primarily Muslim nation that, like Macedonia, was once part of the Federation of Yugoslavia. Not all of the al-Qaida entering into the Balkans using Bosnian passports are Bosnians, according to Corriere della Sera. Some are also of Egyptian, Tunisian or Algerian origin. The article from Corriere della Sera appears to verify earlier reports of links between militant Islamic fighters in Afghanistan and in the Balkans. According to a Sept. 22 report from Radio Yugoslavia, former Muslim leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic, approved the issuance of Bosnian passports to citizens of various Islamic nations who proved themselves to be meritorious combatants during the Bosnia-Herzegovina struggle against Yugoslavia. Citing the Sarajevo weekly newspaper DANI, Radio Yugoslavia stated that Izetbegovic on one occasion ordered 50 passports to Mujahedin [Islamic warriors] from Islamic countries who fought on the Bosniak side during Bosnia's war for independence in the mid 1990s. Not all al-Qaida fighters, however, have enjoyed a homecoming. The Corriere della Sera article warns that there is still an appreciable pool of displaced soldiers on the Afghan/Pakistani border seeking escape. The number is at least 2,500 Islamic militants. The most reliable method of crossing the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan is through bribery, according to Corriere della Sera in another report. In event of capture, between $1,600-$3,300, depending upon one's rank in the Taliban, has proven, so far, to purchase freedom. If the detainee lacks funds, the family contributes, or in several cases, even local tribal chiefs have opened [their] purses. Although defeated, the militants escaping the collapse of the Taliban are not repentant. They remain loyal to Mullah Omar and still, by and large, unquestionably support Osama Bin Laden. Those coming across the Afghan/Pakistani border also universally condemn the United States, as well as its main ally on the ground, the Northern Alliance. -- -- I.J. Toby Westerman, is a contributing reporter for WorldNetDaily who focuses on current events in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Balkans. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A
[CTRL] Chinese ammo found in al-Qaida hideouts
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25732 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Chinese ammo found in al-Qaida hideouts Evidence of links between terrorists, Taliban, Beijing continues to grows -- -- Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Pentagon officials aboard the plane taking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Brussels revealed large quantities of Chinese-manufactured ammunition were discovered in the Tora Bora cave hideouts of Osama bin Laden. This disclosure lends further support to earlier reports by WorldNetDaily, based in part on the intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly, that Beijing has supported the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network in various ways â including men and materiel. The arms cache included mortar shells, anti-tank rockets and ammunition for various types of automatic rifles and machine guns of Chinese manufacture, abandoned by fleeing al-Qaida men. Earlier today, WorldNetDaily reported China was seeking the return of some ethnic Uighurs from northwestern Xinjiang province who were captured while fighting with Taliban. The U.S. is refusing to turn them over, according to a STRATFOR report. WorldNetDaily also reported the findings of author Gordon Thomas, who has written a book claiming that Beijing had an actual role in the Sept. 11 attack on America. In Seeds of Fire, Thomas purports to show how Beijing is positioning itself to become America's new major enemy. Citing DEBKA's intelligence sources, WorldNetDaily has also reported that Chinese troops, fighting with the Taliban, have been killed in Afghanistan. In addition, citing those same sources, WorldNetDaily first reported Chinese troop and materiel support to the Taliban early in the war in Afghanistan. The Washington Post earlier confirmed a pact signed between Beijing and the Taliban announced, ironically, Sept. 11 of this year. Sky Television also later reported the presence of Chinese fighters alongside the Taliban and al-Qaida in the battles of Konduz and Khanabad in northern Afghanistan. -- -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] China simulates attacks on U.S. carriers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25731 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TAIWAN TINDERBOX China simulates attacks on U.S. carriers Beijing forces also practice invasion of island neighbor -- -- By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Along the coast of China's two southernmost provinces, Beijing has conducted large-scale amphibious and naval exercises designed to practice attacking and sinking U.S. aircraft carriers and to rehearse an invasion of the island nation of Taiwan. According to Al Santoli, national security advisor for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and editor of China Reform Monitor, which is published by the American Foreign Policy Council, the exercises â called Liberation 2 â were held in the Guangdong and Zheijiang provinces and simulated amphibious landings on Taiwan as well as attacks against American carriers. Santoli, in a recent issue of CRM, said details of the exercises were published in the Hong Kong Sing Tai Jih Pao newspaper. He quoted Chinese officials as saying that preparations for the exercises, which coincided with parliamentary elections in Taipei, were personally inspected by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. CRM quoted a top Beijing official as saying that as long as [China] can strike and sink U.S. aircraft carriers that come to Taiwan's aid, there is no problem settling the issue of forcing the reunification of both Chinas. Any such attacks would include strikes using DF-31 road mobile ICBMs, the report said, which have a range of 8,000 miles. The missiles could be launched either from land or by submarine. The drills are part of an ongoing effort by Beijing to expand its influence in the region. Besides practicing how to attack and sink U.S. aircraft carriers, Santoli said Chinese officials have implemented a southeasterly expansion of China's airspace over Hainan Island, the site of major U.S.-Chinese tensions last spring. On April 1, one of a pair of Chinese F-8 fighters shadowing a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II made contact with the prop-driven electronic surveillance plane, damaging it and forcing its crew to land on Hainan Island. The crew was released after 11 days, but U.S. officials said China virtually stripped what sensitive onboard equipment that could not be destroyed by the crew prior to landing. The airspace, Santoli said, includes some of the air space over the Zhongsha Islands and the Xisha Islands â an area rich in natural resources and which surrounding countries claim sovereignty. ... The move strengthens Chinese control over the area, he said. Specifically, China's claim over the area is strongly contested by Vietnam, Santoli said â a nation invaded by China in 1979. Washington has recently rebuilt its diplomatic relations with Hanoi, some 25 years after the U.S. pulled out of its 11-year war in South Vietnam. China has set up a number of 'dangerous airspace' areas in the [spaces] over the southern part of Hainan Island, said Santoli, where Chinese forces have conducted numerous training and tests of new weapons and technologies such as aerial tankers. He said some experts believe China's policy of moving south through the air is being pursued as part of their military modernization. In addition, transit fees [being paid] by at least 30 commercial airlines that pass through the space will provide China with millions of dollars in annual revenue, Santoli said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A
[CTRL] Iran to aid US attack on Iraq as al-Qaeda crumbles
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=1694662001 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iran to aid US attack on Iraq as al-Qaeda crumbles Nick Drainey PLANS for US air attacks and ground assaults on Iraq to open a new phase in the war against terrorism were at the centre of a Washington power struggle last night as al-Qaedaâs last major stronghold collapsed in Afghanistan. The New Yorker magazine claims Iraqi opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi has delivered the Bush administration a war plan using Iranian help in an offensive against Iraq which calls not only for bombing but for the deployment of thousands of American Special Forces troops. The news came as US forces failed to find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan despite claiming they had caught him sending radio broadcasts to his troops in the Tora Bora region. Chalabi has won permission to open an office for his party, the Iraqi National Congress, in the Iranian capital Tehran, according to the New Yorker. The magazine, which is published today, also claims the move has put Pentagon officials at odds with the State Department. One senior Bush administration official is quoted as referring to Chalabi and his supporters as a bunch of half-assed people to send foreigners into combat. As the US war commander for Afghanistan, General Tommy Franks, said, it was not actually certain if bin Laden had been heard broadcasting to his troops in the Tora Bora as previously claimed. Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State last night admitted: We donât know where he is. The fruitless search in the east of Afghanistan apparently ended as US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in the country to meet the new interim prime minister, Hamid Karzai, at Bagram airport, outside the capital, Kabul. Mr Rumsfeld is the first senior US official to arrive in the country since the Taleban regime was stopped. His visit though was tarnished with news that the main US target in the war against terrorism was still at large and no-one knows where he is. With the Tora Bora seemingly empty of senior Taleban leaders, the US is now trying to find other small hideouts in the mountainous country where bin Laden and Taleban supremo Mullah Omar could be. They are believed to be in the western Shindand area, the Halmand province north-west of Kandahar and the southern city itself. Three US marines were injured by a landmine yesterday at the newly opened airport in Kandahar. All are stable but one could lose a leg. The reopening by the US of Kandahar airport to military flights further strengthens its grip on Afghanistan. American forces have been scouring training camps near Kandahar for traces of chemical and biological weapons material. Documents reportedly found by a Sunday newspaper in one of the camps detail planned terror attacks in London. The information includes instruction on how to build a remote controlled van bomb, similar to those used by al-Qaeda in Kenya and Tanzania, which would be targeted on the financial Moorgate area of the capital. Despite the fall of Kandahar, some fear civil unrest will break out in the former Taleban heartland. Four out of 13 armed Arabs holed up in a hospital in the city escaped early yesterday, apparently with the blessing of their guards, according to the hospitalâs head nurse, Ghulam Mohammed Afghan. The guards are loyal to tribal leader Mullah Naqibullah, a fierce rival of Gul Agha, the governor. Mr Afghan predicted a battle if Mr Aghaâs men tried to seal off the hospital. On his visit to Bagram yesterday, Mr Rumsfeld met the interim prime minister in an upstairs room in a wrecked Soviet-era aircraft hangar, with burnt skeletons of destroyed Russian-made MiG fighter jets littering the tarmac outside. He told him: The United States coveted no territory. We were here for the sole purpose of expelling terrorists from the country and establishing a government that would not harbour terrorism. Mr Karzai said the Afghans were thankful for US help in battling terrorism and the Taleban. Mr Rumsfeld told US troops at the airport that he expected an international peacekeeping force for Afghanistan of up to 5,000 troops would be put in place sometime after Mr Karzai is due to take over on 22 December. He warned that the US role in the country would not be over until Mullah Omar and bin Laden were found. Weâre not leaving till we get the job done, he added. Britain has said that it is happy to lead a peacekeeping force and troop figures are expected to be announced this week. Discussions in London at the weekend between military officials from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Jordan had been very successful, Prime Minister Tony Blairâs spokesman said. The spokesman also dismissed reports that troops in Afghanistan would overstretch the British military presence in other areas such as Macedonia and Sierra Leone. The last of the Tora Bora caves
[CTRL] Mullah Omar 'holed up with 500 men in cave hide-out'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/18/walq118 .xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/18/ixhome.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Mullah Omar 'holed up with 500 men in cave hide-out' By Barbie Dutter in Kandahar (Filed: 18/12/2001) THE Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is thought to holed up with hundreds of heavily armed men at a mountain hide-out in southern Afghanistan, the interim intelligence chief in Kandahar disclosed last night. In the first detailed report of Mullah Omar's possible whereabouts, Haji Gullalai, a senior anti-Taliban commander, said witnesses' accounts placed the fugitive leader and up to 500 fighters in an area of hills and caves near Baghran village, 100 miles north west of Kandahar. He said they had taken all their weapons, ammunition, vehicles and even office equipment as they fled Kandahar 12 days ago, when the city surrendered. Mr Gullalai claimed that local tribal fighters were preparing to hunt down Mullah Omar with support from the air by American forces, who had been given regular updates on the Taliban leader's suspected escape route. We are completely ready to face the situation if it is confirmed. We have enough forces to fight against them, he said. Even with 400 or 500 guys he is alone because the Afghan nation is with us. But he said the assault would not begin for two or three days as the security of Kandahar and the welfare of its citizens were a top priority for the security forces. There were no fears that Mullah Omar would escape from Baghran as he has no other place to hide. If he tries to go further the Northern Alliance are also trying to find him and kill him. Mr Gullalai also said Hafiz Majid, a former right-hand man to Mullah Omar, is negotiating his surrender. Majid sent family members to Kandahar to hand over weapons and vehicles, but is seeking guarantees that he will not be executed or handed over to US forces before leaving the village of Sperwan, 20 miles from Kandahar, where he has been holding out with an unknown number of men. Meanwhile, the faithful were gathered yesterday at the Taliban cemetery in Kandahar, chanting verses from the Koran at the graves of commanders and warriors who have fallen in the name of Islam over the years. As the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr entered its second day, Taliban diehards went to the 2,000-grave burial ground to pay homage to the dead and offer prayers for their fundamentalist rulers' return. We pray that God gives Mullah Omar 200 more years of life, said Janan, a 31-year-old goat seller whose home in Durai, a village on Kandahar's hilly hinterland, was damaged in a bombing raid last month. We miss him and are very sad he has gone, he said of the regime's supreme leader. We pray five times a day and in every prayer we ask for his long life and his health and for him to come back. The men brimmed with confidence that their fighters would one day regroup and reclaim Kandahar, the regime's spiritual cradle and last sanctuary before its surrender. It was in the city and its surrounding districts that Mullah Omar emerged as a Robin Hood figure in the early 1990s, protecting the poor and the abused from the region's rapacious warlords. He asked for no reward, save for his supporters to follow him in setting up a just Islamic system. In 1996, he was named Leader of the Faithful after taking out the reputed cloak of the Prophet Mohammed and showing it to a large crowd of Taliban supporters in Kandahar, a gesture aimed at legitimising his role as a man chosen by God to lead the Afghan people. The Taliban's political power base has now dissolved and Kandahar is in the tenuous care of the same rival tribal factions from whom Mullah Omar seized the city seven years ago. But support for the regime remains strong in the dilapidated city. The Taliban brought Islamic laws to our country and they solved everyone's problems. There was peace in the city. Now we have no law, no justice, only guns on the streets, said Raz Mohammad, a 21-year-old shopkeeper. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread
[CTRL] Strong Japan Quake Causes Tsunami
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57574-2001Dec17.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Strong Japan Quake Causes Tsunami By Kozo Mizoguchi Associated Press Writer Monday, December 17, 2001; 11:52 PM TOKYO ââ A fairly strong earthquake struck parts of southern Okinawa and Taiwan on Tuesday, generating small tsunami, or ocean waves caused by seismic activity, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake, which had an estimated preliminary magnitude of 7.3, was located off the coast of Taiwan and several small islands in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost state, Meteorological Agency officials in Tokyo said. The quake was centered about six miles under the sea floor about 90 miles west-southwest of Ishigaki island, which has a population of about 41,000. Japan's Meteorological Agency estimated the size of the tsunami at about 20 inches. Live video from Ishigaki showed no obvious damage, and all appeared calm. The video was broadcast on NHK, Japan's national television network. Officials in nearby Taiwan also reported feeling the earthquake, though they estimated that it had a 6.7-magnitude. In Taiwan, the tremor lasted long enough to shake and move objects on shelves and was felt more strongly in the northern half of the island. Mass rapid transit in the capital, Taipei, was temporarily halted following the quake. Every year, hundreds of earthquakes rattle the Okinawa area and Taiwan. Most of the tremors cause little or no damage. But two years ago, a 7.6-magnitude quake in central Taiwan killed about 2,400 people. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Radio silence in bin Laden hunt
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001570010-2001582540,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Radio silence in bin Laden hunt BY DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON AND RICHARD BEESTON DIPLOMATIC EDITOR THE United States admitted last night that the trail had gone cold in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and that it was unclear even if he was dead or alive. After pounding the mountains of Tora Bora for days in the belief that the terrorist mastermind was hiding there, the Pentagon said that intelligence âchatterâ had gone quiet and that he may have escaped the area. A senior Pentagon official said that âanybodyâs guess is the latest thinkingâ on bin Ladenâs location. As the air assault on the area was scaled back and special forces joined Afghan fighters in moving from cave to cave in the White Mountains in search of final pockets of resistance, the fear was that bin Laden had escaped, possibly to Pakistan. âIndicators were there, and now indicators are not there. So maybe he still is here, maybe he was killed, or maybe heâs left,â Rear-Admiral John Stufflebeem, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. âA few days ago we believed that he was in that area. And now weâre not as sure. Iâm not sure how close we ever really have been.â He likened the pursuit of fleeing al-Qaeda forces to âsearching for fleas on a dog. If you see one and you focus on the one, you donât know how many others are getting away.â Admiral Stufflebeem said that the US had received reports of al-Qaeda troops fleeing across the border into Pakistan and that while some had been detained by the Pakistani authorities, it was believed that others were âhiding outâ in the area. There are concerns that elements in Pakistan sympathetic to bin Laden could provide him with shelter. Western intelligence sources are worried that he may try to escape from Pakistan back to Saudi Arabia, posing as one of the tens of thousands of pilgrims who begin the haj to Mecca next month. Although the pilgrimage does not begin until the end of February, the first of hundreds of charter flights carrying some 120,000 people will start leaving six cities in Pakistan in the middle of January. Security is generally lax and identifying bin Laden could be harder as pilgrims look much the same during the huge annual religious migration. Men usually wear identical white gowns and shave their heads. Bin Laden was stripped of his Saudi nationality a decade ago, but his extended family still lives in Jedda. Many of his al-Qaeda fighters come from Saudi Arabia, where some regard him as a national hero. In Afghanistan, coalition forces are preparing for a possible assault on mountains northwest of Kandahar, where Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Talebanâs spiritual leader, is thought to be hiding. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Arafat's call for quiet
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/18/News/News.40139.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Arafat's call for quiet By Lamia Lahoud JERUSALEM (December 18) - Hamas and Islamic Jihad issued a leaflet yesterday rejecting Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's call for an end to all armed activities and terror attacks and called for a continuation of the intifada until the end of the occupation. They also vowed to continue suicide attacks and denounced the US as the enemy of the Palestinian people, threatening to target US targets in the future. The statement was issued before Israel assassinated Yakub Idkadak, a leader of Hamas in Hebron suspected of sending suicide bombers, a PA source said. The source was not sure what action Arafat would order following their rejection of his call for an end to terror. Hamas leaders said their actions would depend on Israeli actions. They said that the assassination of Idkadak proves that Israel does not want a truce and vowed revenge. We are waiting to see whether the Israeli government will stop its aggression against the Palestinian people. The operation in Hebron proves there is no Israeli truce, said Sheikh Abdel-Majid, Hamas representative in Bethlehem. While local Hamas leaders tried to link their rejection of Arafat's call for an end of all attacks to Idkadak's assassination, the leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad abroad rejected Arafat's call outright. Nobody has the right to strip the Palestinian people of its natural right to self-defense, said Abu Imad Rifai, a Beirut spokesman for Islamic Jihad. The justification for the resistance is the existence of the occupation. Until now, there is nothing that signals that this occupation might end, said Osama Hamdan, a Lebanese representative of Hamas. The PFLP also rejected Arafat's call. Arafat's speech was directed at Fatah and the PLO, a PA source said. As long as Arafat can convince his Fatah movement, most of the PLO, and most of the Palestinian population that his call for an end to terror is in their interest, he can go ahead with measures against the militants and those who oppose his cease-fire orders, the PA source explained. Fatah has not reacted to the speech. But many independent Palestinians responded favorably, he said. He did not know what actions Arafat would take against violators of his orders, but said the decision to end the violence was taken by the PA leadership, and Arab and international responses encouraged the PA to go forward with it. He said the matter is now in the hands of the security services. The media in moderate Arab states expressed support for Arafat's statements and called upon the Palestinians to follow the order. Whatever the choice of the Palestinian leadership, the people must embrace it regardless of their political preferences, to avoid falling into the trap of Israel, which wants to reoccupy the free areas and tear up the signed agreements, Al-Ittihad of the United Arab Emirates editorialized. Jordan and Egypt also welcomed Arafat's speech. Both are eager to see an end to the uprising, which has caused tension in their countries. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Russia Announces Big Push to Build Nuclear Reactors at Home and Abroad
-Caveat Lector- http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAVET8NCVC.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Russia Announces Big Push to Build Nuclear Reactors at Home and Abroad By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press Writer Published: Dec 17, 2001 MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will build at least four nuclear reactors at home and others in China, Iran, India and ex-Soviet republics as part of an ambitious plan to revive the atomic industry after the Chernobyl disaster, the nation's top nuclear power official said Monday. Russia's nuclear power industry is now coming through what can be called the post-Chernobyl renaissance, Nuclear Power Minister Alexander Rumyantsev said at a news conference. A reactor at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, at that time a part of the Soviet Union, exploded in 1986, contaminating a huge area and sending a radioactive cloud over much of Europe. The world's worst nuclear accident is believed to have killed some 8,000 people in the explosion and aftermath. The catastrophe long stalled plans to build new nuclear reactors. But nuclear fears have gradually faded, and blackouts and electricity shortages in the post-Soviet turmoil have raised interest in building new power plants. In March, Russia launched its first nuclear reactor since the Chernobyl catastrophe, at the southern Rostov plant. Rostov's 1,000-megawatt reactor is of the VVER-1000 type using pressurized water to cool its fuel rods instead of the less-stable graphite used in RBMK reactors such as the one that exploded at Chernobyl. International industry trade groups and environmental watchdogs acknowledge the VVER-1000 model is the safest of Russia's reactors, but they say it is less reliable than modern Western counterparts. Next year, Russia will launch another nuclear reactor near the western city of Kursk, this one of the modernized RBMK type, Rumyantsev said. In 2003, Russia will put into service another VVER-type reactor at the Kalinin plant, and will launch a second reactor of that type in Rostov in 2005. In 2009 a new fast-neutron reactor will be launched at the northern Beloyarsk plant, Rumyantsev said. The nuclear ministry is considering plans to complete another two nuclear reactors in Ukraine, unfinished since Soviet times, and another one in the ex-Soviet republic of Kazakstan, Rumyantsev said. The ministry has also signed contracts to build nuclear power plants in China, India and Iran. The United States has long pushed Moscow to abandon its $800 million deal with Tehran, voicing concern that Iran could use the technology to develop nuclear weapons. Moscow has dismissed the U.S. warnings, saying that the reactor at Bushehr can be used only for civilian purposes and will be under international control. Rumyantsev said the Bushehr reactor would be finished by 2005 and reaffirmed that the project posed no risks for nuclear weapons proliferation. It fully corresponds to all requirements of the international law and Russia's international obligations, he said. On other issues, Rumyantsev said: - Russia remains unable to reach an agreement with the European Union nations willing to provide aid for dismantling Russia's decommissioned nuclear submarines. Russia can't accept the EU's demand that Russia accept full legal responsibility for all nuclear risks, offer more breaks and give Western officials unlimited access to all dismantling sites; - Despite much-publicized plans to accept spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing and storage, Russia has so far failed to wedge itself into the market dominated by Britain and France. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] Schumer, Kennedy Want to Register Gun Owners
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/17/183216.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Schumer, Kennedy Want to Register Gun Owners Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 WASHINGTON â Sen. Charles Schumer wants the Department of Justice to keep personal data on law-abiding gun buyers from the National Instant Check System (NICS), and to offer the information for unlimited use by state and local agencies. National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called the move gun owner registration, plain and simple. Making good on a promise he made during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Dec. 6, Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced the Use NICS in Terrorist Investigations Act (S. 1788) after Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to allow the FBI access to NICS records of lawful gun purchases. Schumer introduced the bill one day after Ashcroft explained that he was merely obeying the law Congress had passed. The law which provided for the development of the NICS, the National Instant Check System, indicates that the only permissible use for the National Instant Check System is to audit the maintenance of that system, Ashcroft responded. The Department of Justice is committed to following the law. Ashcroft also reminded the senators that NICS records from any illegal attempt to buy a weapon, whether by a convicted felon, a terrorist, an illegal alien or a person with a history of mental illness, are maintained indefinitely, and completely available to police. But Schumer, along with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and five other co-sponsors, dismissed Ashcroft's explanation and offered the Use NICS in Terrorist Investigations Act in response. No Reference to Terrorist Probes Despite the bill's title, the language of the proposal makes no reference to terrorist investigations, and no limits are placed on the use of the information. The proposal would allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to access NICS audit log records for the purpose of responding to an inquiry from any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency in connection with a civil or criminal law enforcement investigation. It would require the Department of Justice to maintain the records of lawful gun purchases in no event fewer than 90 days after the date on which the licensee first contacts the system with respect to the transfer. Present federal law and DOJ policy require the records to be destroyed within 24 hours of a purchaser's approval. The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) had harsh words for Schumer and the co-sponsors of S. 1788. 'Anti-gun Extremists' Exploit 9-11 Anti-gun extremists have been attempting for weeks to invoke the specter of terrorists acquiring firearms as justification for their attempts to end traditional American gun shows, the organization said in a fax alert Friday, and now they are doing the same to promote their attempts to create the mechanism to establish a registry of law-abiding gun purchasers. LaPierre explained further. Clearly, this will be the basis of a national firearms-owner computer registry that would profile decent honest citizens, violate their privacy, and provide a locator to assist Kennedy's and Schumer's vision of ultimately banning private ownership of firearms, he said. Of more immediate danger are the civil data-sharing provisions in this legislation. You have to think about what a Janet Reno or any future anti-gun-rights attorney general would do with this power, he added. While the legislation mandates that the FBI and the Treasury Department destroy any records they maintain for auditing NICS sometime after 90 days, no such restriction applies to information shared with state or local law enforcement agencies. Once the personal information is out of the hands of the feds, it could become part of a permanent record elsewhere, the NRA warned. NRA-ILA Executive Director James Jay Baker says it's vital that Americans understand the need to protect the NICS data. This is not about denying law enforcement any records that bear on criminals or terrorists and guns, he said. This is about preserving the privacy rights of decent, innocent people. Calls to the offices of Kennedy and Schumer were not returned prior to publication of this story. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
[CTRL] Reverse Decision to Cut Navy Missile Defense Program
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/17/234042.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Reverse Decision to Cut Navy Missile Defense Program Center for Security Policy Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 CSP Decision Brief No. 01-D 80 Decision to Cancel Navy Missile Defense Program Should be Reversed and New Management, Willing to Deploy Sea-Based Systems, Hired WASHINGTON: Two amazing things happened in the aftermath of President Bush's visionary and courageous decision to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. First, contrary to the confident predictions of many so-called experts, the sky remained in its place. Russian President Putin called the Bush action a mistake, but did not launch nuclear Armageddon or otherwise respond aggressively. In fact, he observed that it would not threaten Russia's security and that U.S.-Russian relations should continue at the same level. For its part, China mildly groused, but there was no talk of breaking off diplomatic â let alone commercial â relations with the United States. As for our allies, the worst of their reaction was confined to mild tut-tutting. So Much for the Chicken-Littles In other words, the concerted and sustained campaign to intimidate the United States into remaining within a treaty that prohibited the development and deployment of effective anti-missile defenses is now seen for what it always was: a flim-flam operation whose fraudulent character should have been exposed and rejected years ago. The upshot of our having failed to do that before now is that this country has been left vulnerable to the real and growing danger of ballistic missile-backed blackmail and/or attack. The Kremlin's exceedingly muted reaction has left the few congressional Democrats who have publicly assailed Mr. Bush (notably, Sens. Tom Daschle, Joe Biden and Carl Levin) in the unhappy position of being holier than the pope â professing more concern about how badly the Russians would take this than the Russians themselves were actually taking it. The foolishness of this stance may be why so few of the senators' colleagues are publicly following their lead. In fact, after the withdrawal notification was announced, Congress authorized full funding for the president's missile defense budget. In short, President Bush has now succeeded in creating legal, diplomatic and political conditions that give him essentially complete latitude in pursuing and putting into place the missile defenses he has so clearly recognized are needed now. Seize the Day, Cancel Missile Defenses This makes all the more amazing the second thing that happened after Mr. Bush withdrew from the ABM Treaty on Thursday. On Friday, a small coterie of civilian Pentagon officials decided to cancel the Navy's short-range Area Missile Defense program. As a result, the Navy will be sent back to the drawing board, postponing â perhaps by years â the day when forward-deployed U.S. amphibious forces and naval battle groups will have any protection against the danger currently posed to them by widely proliferated ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Predictably, missile defense critics â reeling from the body blow delivered by the president's disposing of their cherished cornerstone of strategic stability â were euphoric. They chided the Defense Department, saying if it could not do something as relatively easy as building short-range anti-missile systems, it certainly couldn't build more complex defenses against longer-range ballistic missiles. And they claimed vindication in asserting that the president had not needed to abandon the ABM Treaty at this juncture since no developing missile defenses were ready to bump up against the treaty's limitations. Needed Now: Navy Area Regrettably, giving comfort to the president's political opponents is the least of the reasons why it was a mistake to terminate the Navy Area Missile Defense at this juncture. While this short-range anti-missile system has experienced both considerable cost growth and schedule slippage, it was described just last August by the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers, as essential to national security. He declared that a robust, sea-based, lower-tier theater ballistic missile defense capability, found in the Navy Area Missile Defense Program, is critical to reducing operational risk to the warfighter. Of particular relevance to the Friday decision, Gen. Myers' letter stated, There are no alternatives to this program that would provide equal or greater military capability at less cost. This assessment was foreshadowed in a letter sent to the Joint Chiefs chairman in January by the chief of naval operations and Marine Corps commandant. They emphasized the critical importance of early deployment of Navy Area Missile Defense capability. Navy Area is the number one priority of the Navy and Marine
[CTRL] His narcissism, our problem
-Caveat Lector- http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/reiland/s_8553.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! His narcissism, our problem By Ralph R. Reiland Monday, December 17, 2001 A car bomb exploded in Saudi Arabia at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 13, 1995, at an American training camp in Riyadh, killing five U.S. servicemen and wounding 34. It was the same day Monica Lewinsky landed a paying job at the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs. In May 1998, some 30 months later, with a federal judge ruling against Bill Clinton's claim of executive privilege and Linda Tripp tucked away in a safe house, Osama bin Laden met with ABC News to applaud those who kill Americans for Allah, pointing specifically to Riyadh: We called and they answered. They have washed away some of the dishonor we had to bear by the Saudi government's collaboration with the American government in the land of Allah. The attack, said bin Laden, had raised the head of the Muslim nation high. In fact, the four heads of the Saudis found guilty of the Riyadh blast had been lopped off in a public beheading two years earlier, on May 30, 1996, two days after a Little Rock jury had convicted Clinton business partners Jim and Susan McDougal of bank robbery. Less than a month after the decapitations, militant Islamic terrorists struck again with a massive truck bomb on June 25, 1996, at the U.S. base in Khobar with what Clinton National Security Adviser Anthony Lake said was probably the biggest terrorist bomb ever set off, killing 19 American servicemen. As it turned out, those servicemen in Khobar were killed during a month when the White House was crawling with Chinese agents. Cooperating with the Justice Department, Johnny Chung told federal investigators that he'd transferred illegal funds to Clinton's 1996 campaign from high-ranking Chinese military officers and Chinese Communist Party officials. More specifically, Chung told investigators how he'd slipped money to the Clinton White House from the daughter of the top commander of China's People's Liberation Army, General Liu Huaqing, a top member of the Chinese Communist Party's ruling Politburo. QUID PRO CLINTON Bernard Schwartz, CEO of rocket manufacturer Loral Space and Communications, was also adding to the stack of campaign loot during this period. Lobbying Clinton to relax export controls so Loral could sell rocket technology to China, Schwartz dropped a record $632,000 in the Democrats' coffers, becoming Bill Clinton's largest single campaign contributor. Clinton, predictably, relaxed export controls and signed an executive order that protected Loral from prosecution for handing over top-secret U.S. targeting know-how to the communist Chinese, missile technology that key officials in Clinton's own administration said would make it easier for the Chinese to hit U.S. cities with nuclear weapons. All told, by the time a re-elected Clinton had stood up to promise to preserve, protect, and defend for a second time, Lewinsky already had spilled the beans to co-worker Linda Tripp at the Pentagon and nearly 100 potential witnesses to the Clinton-Gore illegal foreign campaign contributions had either fled the country or taken the Fifth. On Aug. 7, 1998, Islamic terrorists struck again, bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Ten days later, with unparalleled media interest, Bill Clinton made history by becoming the first U.S. president to testify in front of a grand jury regarding his own criminal conduct. Lost in the media circus, shoved off to an inconsequential side ring and off the White House radar screen, were the thousands who were killed and wounded in the latest episode of anti-American terrorism. On Aug. 11, with rescue crews still digging through the ruins in Kenya and Tanzania, Clinton announced an early release from prison for 16 militant members of a Puerto Rican terrorist group that was involved in 130 bombings in the United States. Nothing showed more clearly how things vital had become marginal, how national security had ended up in the back seat. WAG THE DOG On Dec. 16, 1998, exactly one day before the House was scheduled to vote on the articles of impeachment, Clinton launched an air strike against Iraq. By a margin of 74 percent to 13 percent, reported Gallup, Americans supported the air attack. Still, the House approved two of the four articles of impeachment three days later - perjury and obstruction of justice - making Bill Clinton the first elected president in American history to be impeached. A year later, Hillary Rodham Clinton caused an international stir by kissing Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, after hearing her deliver a speech in which she accused Israel of murdering Arab children - with poison gas! The solidarity and kisses, however, didn't stop a suicide strike on the USS Cole 11 months later, an attack that killed 17 American sailor. It was Feb 26, 1993, only 36 days into
[CTRL] Is This the End of Christmas in America?
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Is This the End of Christmas in America? By Chuck Baldwin December 18, 2001 All across America, Christmas is being expunged. In spite of the events of three months ago, there is little room for Christmas in America's public life. In fact, Christmas seems to be losing ground even faster than in the past. School districts across the country are forbidding students from passing out personal Christmas cards. In Minnesota, two middle school students were disciplined for wearing red and green scarves. In Massachusetts, ninth grade students were warned to refrain from wishing friends Merry Christmas. In Illinois, a teacher was instructed by her principal to not read a story about Christmas to her second graders. In Georgia, a school removed the word Christmas from its calendar after threats from the A.C.L.U. Throughout the United States, nativity scenes and Christmas trees have been removed. In one South Florida veterans hospital, even a Christmas angel was taken down. In most public places today, all references to Christmas have been obliterated. Taking its place is the politically correct, non-offensive, multicultural, full-of-diversity greeting, Happy Holidays. What is with all this lunacy? It's as if Scrooge has been institutionalized. It is not hyperbole to observe that in many (if not most) American homes, Harry Potter is more popular than the Christ-child is. America's Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves! In their wildest dreams, they could never have imagined such a display of religious intolerance happening in the land founded by Christians on the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Patrick Henry). The longest-living Founding Father was John Quincy Adams. As such, he was a much sought after speaker for patriotic events. On July 4, 1837, he made a very astute observation. He said, Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before? Adams' sentiments seem quite out of fashion today, don't they? His penchant for Christian liberty is as popular these days as limited government is. Then again, I remember a time when children prayed and read the Bible in public schools. That day is gone for good, and it appears that the public celebration of Christmas is nearing its end, also. However, people should not fret. In the new socialist Amerika now under construction, Ramadan and Kwanzaa are perfectly acceptable. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Did You Notice The US Is Having A Coup?
-Caveat Lector- http://rense.com/general18/coup.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Did You Notice The US Is Having A Coup? From: Brasscheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12-17-1 1. What great American statesman said this yesterday about the likely authenticity of the bin Laden confession tape? That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man. Answer below. 2. Even the Washington Post must finally report, long after the fact was widely known, that the anthrax spores that hit Capital Hill, and killed several postal workers, were government issue, from Ft. Detrick. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49502-2001Dec15.html They waited until FIVE different labs confirmed it. 3. This today from CNN was pretty interesting: Lead: The CIA uses anthrax in its bio-warfare program... What the *%$#! Since when was the CIA been empowered to conduct bio-warfare? Better read it soon before someone wakes up and takes it down: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/16/cia.anthrax/index.html 4. The Post is also starting to ask question about what really happened to CIA bio-warfare expert Frank Olson who purportedly jumped out a window after a bad acid trip. (A later autopsy revealed he also hit himself on the back of his head with a heavy blunt instrument before taking flight.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34204-2001Dec12.html 5. By the way, did you notice the US is having a coup? Bush is now denying Congress access to routine information (FBI records about an organized crime investigation in Boston.) He also has a major domestic problem called E-N-R-O-N to deal with that involves a lot of his close friends eligible for jail. The difference between Enron and Whitewater is Enron has the very real potential to tank US financial markets thanks to wildly out of control derivatives exposures. What is a derivative? To put it as simply as possible, it's a bet on market movements that, if it goes wrong, can not only wipe out your investment in an eye blink, but leave you owing far more money than you put in the first place. A good derivatives scam can take down one of the world's oldest banks (Barings), one of the world's richest counties (Orange County, California), and many believe even has chance of bringing chaos to the world's largest economy. From F.I.A.S.C.O a book about the derivatives business written by a foot soldier: (Derivative) salesmen often joke about their creations as weapons of mass destruction; and, in fact, the clients are often 'blown up' or have their 'faces ripped off.' Nice business, huh? Derivatives are commonly packaged as bond-like instruments and sold to the knuckleheads that manage things like pension funds and the treasuries of state and local governments. Friends who know the futures business have been long scratching their heads as to how a bunch of energy traders suddenly became the 8th largest business in the US. As we're finding out, they weren't. Billions of dollars have disappeared in the 'learning' process and, thanks to the the derivatives they sold far and wide, we may have only just seen the warm up. = Answer to the quiz question #1. Who said: That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man. George Bush Jr. He was talking about people who question the authenticity of the bin Laden video that was released coincidentally *at the same time* he told Congress he was withholding information from them about the FBI case and the CEO of Arthur Anderson testified before Congress that he believes his client Enron was engaged in fraud. Where's a cop when you need one? *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at:
[CTRL] 17 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-51
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 17 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-51 Monday Brief *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. __O__ FRIENDS, PATRIOTS, COUNTRYMEN Lend us your support! We are often asked, Who are you? Contrary to publishing convention, the reason for the notable absence of promotion for our editors is, in a word, humilitas. Our mission is to promote the central theme of liberty, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. These God-given rights are timeless and originate, as declared by our Founders, with the Author of life. Also contrary to publishing convention, The Federalist depends completely on the goodwill and voluntary support of our readers -- creating some consternation among our accountants and bankers. Your goodwill has enabled The Federalist to become the most highly subscribed e-journal on the Internet. But that is not the whole story. The Federalist is also one of the most widely distributed e-journals on the Internet, in part because we authorize the redistribution of our publications to various student, media and political lists -- readers who would not otherwise pay for conservative views. It is critical that we keep these ideas before those groups without a subscription fee. Please register your support for The Federalist today. We are still $236,945 short of meeting our necessary fund balance to cover operating and technical expenses from July of 2001 through June of 2002. (We remind you that our Editorial Board and Publisher serve without compensation.) We have to raise 80% of our annual budget between Thanksgiving and the New Year. In the spirit of The Federalist, please don't depend on someone else to help us meet our budget! If you have already supported us this year, we are most grateful! SUPPORT BY CREDIT CARD: Link to our Secure Commerce Page at -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp SUPPORT BY CHECK: If you prefer to support us by check, please make your contribution payable to: The Federalist. Suggested support levels: Individual -- $20, Family -- $35, Corporate and Professional -- $50, Advocate -- $100 and Founder -- $250. Larger contributions are, of course, welcome. (To prevent the IRS from dictating our editorial content, we have not elected charitable corporate tax status.) Please note your e-mail address on your check for proper credit. Mail your contribution to our subscription fulfillment center at: Federalist Fulfillment Services, P.O. Box 507, Chattanooga, TN 37402-0507 __O__ PUBLISHER'S NOTE We encourage our readers to take a moment and send an e-mail to service personnel overseas, who will not be home for Christmas. The USN has set up a secure Web site where you can post Christmas greetings to American Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen. Link to -- http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/ and consider having your kids participate! How about a class project! CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word __O__ THE FOUNDATION If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. --Samuel Adams __O__ INSIGHT The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic. Yet we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy and appeal to a tardy justice. If you would serve your brother because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson __O__ GOOD NEWS For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. (2 Peter 1:5-7) ++ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in
[CTRL] It's 1984 in Massachusetts And Big Brother Is Gay
-Caveat Lector- Massachusetts is definitely the pits! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Insight Magazine It's 1984 in Massachusetts â And Big Brother Is Gay Posted Dec. 17, 2001 By John Haskins Mary Clossey's children see no American flags at school to remind them that it is their safety that young men are risking their lives to defend. Rather, her daughter and other pupils are filed into an auditorium to hear a speaker liken the U.S. military to terrorists. For years the Newton, Mass., public schools have blithely violated a Massachusetts law that the flag be on display in every classroom. On the other hand, there are many flags on display if you count rainbow flags that symbolize a gay-friendly environment. When Clossey enrolled her son in Newton North High School's reading program little did she know that the teacher had bragged in the Boston Globe (July 8, 2001) of quietly introducing homosexual and transsexual subjects into his classes. The teacher, Michael Kozuch, handed out The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky with instructions to write an essay on it. What literary treats did Kozuch consider mandatory for other people's children? Sex between a boy and a dog, man-boy sex, anal sex between boys, male masturbation and female masturbation with a hot dog. By chance Clossey opened the book her son brought home. But what came after that shock was worse: She encountered public officials who saw protective parents as obstacles. Clossey called her mayor. He never called back. Calling school officials, she says she encountered arrogant disrespect for parents. So she filed a criminal complaint against the teacher for corrupting a minor. Even Boston's hard-line pro-homosexuality newspapers and TV stations couldn't sit on this. But the complaint went nowhere. It emerged that Kozuch was not acting alone. The book was on a reading list given to every student. Urged by other furious parents, Clossey went to the local prosecutor. But the receptionist had been warned to expect her, according to Clossey. She waited and waited, but was not allowed to speak to her district attorney. After parents discovered the book, Newton North High School educators removed it from class discussion but refused to remove it from the reading list. Alert parents already knew the high-school language department, on one pretext or another, had showed Ma Vie en Rose, an R-rated film about a homosexual child. Pupils learned how Ludo enjoys being a girl. Borrowing mommy's red high heels, her lipstick, her earrings ⦠yummy! Trouble is, 7-year-old Ludo is a boy, even if he is pretty in pink. Freshmen learn about masturbation and sodomy in a required course that uses street language, as if proper vocabulary would ruin the educational experience. A large mural in a corridor depicts two girls holding hands, reading something called Romea and Juliet. Is Newton a rogue town? In nearby Brookline a transsexual told first- graders how his penis was cut off and he became a woman. With no sense of irony, the Globe called it sex-change counseling. Parents, never notified, had to comfort their terrified children. Ashland children were instructed to play homosexuals in a skit. As reported in the Middlesex News on April 1, 1994, one boy's line was: It's natural to be attracted to the same sex. Girls were told to hold hands and pretend they were lesbians. As reported widely in Massachusetts in 1992, at a required assembly in Chelmsford, an instructor used four-letter words describing the joys of anal and oral sex. The children then licked condoms. Framingham pupils found themselves answering this Orwellian questionnaire: 1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? 2. When did you first decide you were heterosexual? 3. Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will grow out of? 4. Is it possible you are heterosexual because you fear the same sex? 5. If you have never slept with anyone of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn't prefer it? Is it possible you merely need a good gay experience? 6. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexuality? How did they react? 7. Why are heterosexuals so blatant, always making a spectacle of their heterosexuality? Why can't they just be who they are and not flaunt their sexuality by kissing in public, wearing wedding rings, etc.? In Lexington, a parent discovered that her 13-year-old could borrow a book telling how gay men at the opera can socialize with the backs of their trousers discreetly parted so they could experience a little extra pleasure while viewing the spectacle on stage. Her school purchased it with health funds. A prominent psychiatrist says the sex-ed curricula at these schools can lower children to the level of animals and inflict lasting harm. Massachusetts schools' systematic promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity fosters sexual confusion and experimentation, says Nathaniel S. Lehrman, former clinical
[CTRL] Highway Hero
-Caveat Lector- Highway Hero By Carol A. Price-Lopata During my third year as a speaker, giving seminars all over the country, I was driving into Wheeling, West Virginia, to teach a class on self-esteem to 150 women. My background includes being raised by a mother and grandmother who took great pains to teach me that families take care of one another no matter what. I knew I could always count on them when I was in trouble, and they knew they could do the same. I was driving faster than I should have been because I desperately wanted to make it to Wheeling before the severe rains that had been predicted began to fall. As I saw the sign telling me Wheeling was eight miles away, I speeded up even a bit more, even though a few raindrops had just begun to fall. With no warning, I heard a boom - not too loud, but loud enough to know it wasn't a good sound. When I turned off the radio to further evaluate the sound, it became clear I had a tire problem: probably a flat. I slowed down, knowing from high school driver's education not to brake hard, but knowing still that I needed to get off the road for my safety. On the side of the road, I looked around, saw nothing but rugged hills, a six-lane highway and very fast traffic. I locked the door, to be safe, and tried to figure out what to do. I did not have a cellular phone, as they were not that common many years ago. Every story I had ever heard about women having bad experiences on the side of the road in strange cities ran through my mind like a movie reel, and I tried to decide if I would be safer staying with the car or walking to the next exit. It was beginning to get dark, and I truly was becoming afraid. My grandmother taught me as a very little girl that things work out if you keep your head about you, and I was trying very hard to do just that. At that very moment, a large semi passed very fast on my left, causing my car to shudder, and I saw that the directional light was on, indicating he was pulling over in front of me. I could hear his brakes squeal, as he was braking fast and hard. I again thought, 'Am I safer or in more danger?' I could see the truck as it slowly backed up on the shoulder of the road and decided that to be very safe, I would take a precaution I had seen in a movie. I took out a pad in my briefcase and wrote down the name of the trucking company and the Ohio license number, as they both were visible from my car. I put the pad with this information under the driver's seat just in case! Even though it was now raining quite hard, the driver came running back from the truck to my car and said through my window that I had opened only three inches, that he had seen the tire blow and would be glad to change it. He asked for the car keys to get into the trunk; and although I knew I was about to lose all my safety precautions, it seemed to be my best choice. I gave him the keys. He changed the tire and gave me back the keys. I asked him through the three-inch opening in the window if I could pay him for his kindness. He said, We drivers in Ohio believe in taking care of women in trouble on the highway. I then asked him for the name of his boss so I could send him or her a letter relaying how wonderful he had been. He laughed a very odd laugh and gave me the name of his boss, a woman, and his card, which had the name of the trucking company, the address and the phone number. I thanked him again, and the now soaking-wet man ran back to the truck. Gratefully, I went on to Wheeling to present my seminar. Upon returning to Florida, I had a T-shirt made for this man that showed an angel in a truck with the words printed across the picture, Highway Hero, and sent it to the address on the card. It came back, addressee unknown. I called the number on the card and got a recording saying no such number existed. I called the city newspaper for that town, asked for the editor, explained the dilemma and asked that a letter to the editor be placed in the paper thanking the driver. The editor, who had lived there all his life, said there was no such company in that city. He further investigated and called me back and said there was no such business registered in Ohio. The editor went one step further. He called the state motor vehicle bureau to ask about the license and was told no such plate had ever been issued. The upshot is that this man, his truck and the company never existed, the rescue never happened and I must have been dreaming. But I know I wasn't. Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy
[CTRL] AF News 18 Dec 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 1806. Air Force alters method for airdrops over Afghanistan RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently said the Air Force would stop the airdrop of humanitarian daily rations via the tri-wall aerial delivery system. Air Force units have been using the TRIADS method to airdrop food since Oct. 7. The greatly expanded flow of humanitarian relief supplies by rail, road and across the river, as well as airlift to some of the airfields in Afghanistan, has rendered this form of delivery as unnecessary at this point, Myers said. The Air Force will continue to drop humanitarian aid via the container deliver system, or CDS. Even though we've stopped using TRIADS, we will continue to fly humanitarian airdrop missions, said Lt. Col. John Zazworsky, commander of the 437th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here. We're using the CDS method to deliver boxes of the humanitarian daily rations, in addition to wheat, blankets and winter clothing. The CDS airdrop method uses parachutes to drop large bundles (up to 2,000 pounds) of food and supplies. To honor the end of Ramadan on Dec. 16, Air Force airdrops included packages of dates in the CDS bundles. Dates are a fruit that Muslims traditionally use to break the fast of Ramadan, an Islamic holiday celebrated by fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month. By including dates in our airdrop bundles, we are showing our respect for this significant Muslim holiday, Zazworsky said. To date, the C-17 Globemaster IIIs assigned to the 437th EAS have flown more than 180 humanitarian airdrop missions and dropped more than 1,200 CDS bundles of food and clothing and more than 2.4 million daily rations. Total delivery of humanitarian assistance via TRIADS and CDS is more than 3,800 tons. (Courtesy of U.S. Air Forces in Europe News Service) 1810. Cook assumes command of AETC by Master Sgt. Michael Briggs Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Gen. Donald G. Cook assumed command of Air Education and Training Command on Dec. 17, in a ceremony held here. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper presided over the ceremony that was attended by about 1,000 people. In his remarks prior to bestowing command, Jumper said there is no one more qualified, able or energetic to take command of AETC than Cook. He's been an instructor in the former Air Training Command; he's commanded at every level; he's flown bombers; he's had three wing commands; he's got extensive experience in space; he's been mentored by the greatest of our Air Force leadership; and he takes the helm at a time when we need him most, Jumper said. That need stems from America's war on terrorism and the challenges the men and women face who will fight and win the war, he said. Where do the people come from who will do this duty? Jumper asked. They come from right here ... those in uniform and the civilians in this command who take youngsters off the streets of our nation and turn them into skilled and trained airmen; who train more than 200,000 a year; and who have more than 1,000 people deployed overseas in support of operations in Afghanistan today. Cook had a message for the nearly 50,000 military people, 15,000 civilians and 10,000 contract employees who make up AETC. AETC's mission is essential and its reputation is renowned, he said. We are a vital part of the world's most respected Air Force. It is up to us to continue to instill, develop and refine ... the skill and dedication that make us the most respected Air Force in the world. In looking to the future, Cook said AETC people must reach beyond what is getting the job done today to what will make the Air Force successful in meeting the challenges of tomorrow. We must continue to recruit the right individuals -- airmen able to meet tomorrow's challenges, he said. We must train with a view to the future to combat unknown threats. We must educate our officers and enlisted members to think critically, preparing them to make the tough decisions ahead. AETC people must always be mindful of the trust placed in them by the people of the United States, Cook said. America's families trust us with the health, safety and welfare of their sons and daughters, Cook said. We must work each and every day to keep that trust. The impact we have on the lives of young airmen and lieutenants that emerge from AETC cannot be understated. Not only are we shaping the lives of individuals, we are shaping the force that will protect the lives of all Americans. Cook received his fourth star at a promotion ceremony in the officers club here immediately before the assumption of command ceremony. (Courtesy of AETC News Service) 1807. Every day challenging for U.S. troops by Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) --
[CTRL] Arafat ally: Sept. 11 a lesson for U.S.
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25714 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Arafat ally: Sept. 11 a lesson for U.S. Political director of PLO says Israel on verge of collapse -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com The Palestine Liberation Organizationâs political director, Farouq Al-Qaddumi, says Israel is on the verge of collapse and that the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S. should be a lesson to America. The statements were made in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat Dec. 12 and were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. Sharon is the last bullet in the Israeli rifle. If Sharon is defeated, the rapid countdown [to the end] of Israel will begin, because that country was established through historical coercion and will find its end as the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia did, Qaddumi said. Qaddumi accused Israel of trying to cause a Palestinian civil war, and added: The Palestinian resistance is continuing, but we must assure, first, the success of the resistance; second, [we must] prevent damage to Palestinian security. Also, we should try to reduce the number of Palestinian casualties. Resistance is not a conventional war,â he continued. âIt is a war based on the element of surprise, in time and place [sic]. In this war, one incites the public for 20 hours, and fights for perhaps two hours. Asked whether he was calling on Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to stop their operations, Qaddumi replied: Four factions have suspended their resistance operations for a while. As I said, guerilla war is like commerce. As Mao Zedong said, we trade when trade is profitable and stop when itâs not. Qaddumi was asked about the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. He said: We condemned this terrorism, but these events will be a lesson to the U.S. This was the first time that Arabic names entered every American household. These incidents made America reexamine its foreign policy in order to seek the causes of terrorism. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Arafat, U.S. head for collision
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25713 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Arafat, U.S. head for collision Division erupts within Palestinian Authority over attacks -- -- Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com In a speech delivered today, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat vowed the his soldiers would continue their struggle against Israel until a Palestinian state is attained, with Jerusalem its capital. At the same time, he instructed his people to obey Palestinian Authority resolutions and halt armed operations completely and immediately. Israel, he declared, must cease its attacks on Palestinians; but suicide operations must stop too, âas they give Sharon the initiative.â In his first public appearance since the Israeli government declared him âirrelevantâ Dec. 13, Arafat solemnly promised his people eventual victory and a state capital in Jerusalem âwith all its churches and mosques.â In Washington, the presidentâs national security adviser, Condaleezza Rice, commented: âWe ask no more of him than any responsible leader in the world. Itâs time for him to stop talking and do something.â Similarly, the mildest reaction in Jerusalem was that the Palestinian leader would be judged on the goods he delivered, not words. Some officials called his speech fraudulent. They all point out that Arafat did not live up to his advance billing and refrained from heralding the end of the intifada he launched against Israel last year. Furthermore, in the last 24 hours, he only went through the motions of sealing the offices of 33 Hamas and Jihad Islami, but made no arrests, leaving their âmilitary armsâ untouched. Palestinian sources report a last-minute incident over the text of Arafatâs speech, as he worked on it last night. Some of his advisers, including the heads of the Palestinian preventive security agencies, urged him to heed American, European and Israeli demands and call a stop to Palestinian terrorist operations -- at least for a time. They said Palestinian security forces were ready to impose this directive if necessary. Some warned him he was leading the Palestinians into a head-on collision with the United States, placing all the intifadaâs achievements at risk. At this, Arafat burst out angrily: âWhat achievements are you talking about! The Oslo accords were nothing but a Trojan horse planted inside the Palestinian camp and packed with Israeli soldiers!â The words Arafat uttered in his end-of-Ramadan speech mean nothing without the secret subtext known only to the Palestinian leaderâs inner circle, which Palestinian sources now disclose for the first time. That hidden reality surfaced only in part in President Bushâs Rose Garden announcement Dec. 5 of a United States freeze on the American assets of the Holy Land Foundation and the Beit El-Mal Holdings Company, as contributors to the terrorist operations of the militant Islamic group Hamas. That disclosure came out of the exhaustive U.S. investigation into the funding of world terrorism and led to Washington demanding the shutdown of the same two financial bodies in Palestinian-ruled territory. Arafat refused. U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni then repeated the demand, emphasizing it was at least as important for the war on terror as the actual halt in violence. Arafat refused again. Arafatâs order this weekend to close 33 institutions and offices of the Hamas and Jihad Islami left their military arms and also their financial bodies intact. That omission reduces to nil the practical content of Arafatâs Eid el-Fitr promises. U.S. undercover investigations into the sources of Palestinian terrorist funding and its destination strongly point to the Holy Land Foundation and the Beit El-Mal Holdings Company as being in fact an integral part of the Palestinian Authorityâs social welfare ministry and the channel through which Arafat obtains moneys for keeping the intifada going. This flow of funds, the American investigators believe, is the bedrock of the partnership in terror between the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas and the Jihad Islami. Immediately after the United States declared war on terror in September, pledging an exhaustive inquiry into its funding, Arafat secretly sacked Dr. Attal El-Awna as chairman of the board of the central Palestinian Bank and appointed himself instead. U.S. investigators began to
[CTRL] Jewish settlement bombed after Arafat's plea for ceasefire
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/17/world/world100.html Jewish settlement bombed after Arafat's plea for ceasefire Palestinians fired a mortar bomb at a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip late today, just after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ordered an end to all attacks on Israelis, according to military sources. The mortar round was fired at the settlement of Rafat Yam, but did not cause any injuries, the sources told Agence France-Presse. The attack came less than three hours after Arafat made a televised address vowing to crack down on extremists who refuse to respect his order to observe a ceasefire with Israel, and accusing them of giving Israel's government an excuse to increase its military operations against his administration. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/BottomBanners.asp?chName=mideast Hamas vows to keep up attacks on Israel AMASCUS: The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas pledged on Friday to keep up its deadly attacks on Israel and said Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority was now in the trenches alongside the radicals. These operations (attacks) are in response to the massacres carried out by (Israeli Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon against our people, Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal told journalists. The Palestinian escalation is in response to Israel's escalation ... the resistance will not stop until the occupier is driven back, Meshaal said at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk on the outskirts of the Syrian capital. Each time Sharon commits a massacre, the response will come in Jerusalem, in Haifa and throughout the territory of Palestine, he said. Six Palestinian policemen were killed today in Israel's latest strikes on the Palestinian Authority, he noted. The Palestinian resistance and response and escalation is a response to the Israeli escalation. Meshal was speaking on the sidelines of a demonstration to mark World Qods (Jerusalem) Day, first instituted by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to take place annually on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Addressing demonstrators, he said the resistance (to Israel) will not stop until the occupier leaves. He called on the Palestinian Authority, with which Israel said on Thursday it was breaking all ties, to take sides with the resistance and not submit to American and Israeli pressure. We are in the trenches alongside the Palestinian Authority; we are all targeted; the interest of the Palestinian Authority is to stand on the side of its people. Around 1,000 people took part in the demonstration, which was attended by the Iranian ambassador to Syria, Hossein Sheikholeslam. Separately, the radical Damascus-based Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called on Palestinian organizations to adopt a resistance plan that is answerable to the people and to the world. It did not elaborate, but a source close to the DFLP said the group plans to limit attacks on Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories, rather than inside Israel. ( AFP ) *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. Rejects Resolution on Mideast
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-121501un.story WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Rejects Resolution on Mideast U.N.: Palestinians, Arab allies had called for international community to intervene in violence. Related Stories Israel Sweeps Palestinian Cities Dec 15, 2001 Israelis Kill 8 in West Bank Raids Dec 14, 2001 Video Bush Presses Arafat Photos Israeli bulldozer at Palestinian radio station (AP/Nasser Nasser) Rubble in Gaza (AP/Laurent Rebours) Palestinian policeman walks near rubble (AP/Laurent Rebours) Graphics Profile, setup of a suicide bomber Related Stories Israel Pounds Palestinian Authority Islamic Groups Hasten to Save Assets Dec 14, 2001 Israel Severs Ties to Arafat After Bus Ambush Kills 10 Dec 13, 2001 Israel Turns Back Clock on Arafat Dec 13, 2001 Prisoners of Their Pasts: Arafat, Sharon Battle On Dec 11, 2001 Amid Death, City Gets Back to Life Dec 3, 2001 L.A. Woman Studying in Israel Hurt in Bombing Dec 3, 2001 Toll Mounts as Bomber Kills 15 on Israeli Bus Dec 3, 2001 U.S. Tells Arafat to Curb Violence or Risk Isolation Dec 3, 2001 U.S. Drops Calls for 'Restraint,' Backs Israel's 'Self-Defense' Dec 4, 2001 Israel Blames Terror Wave on Arafat and Strikes Back Dec 4, 2001 Faithful Say Arafat Will Stand Firm Dec 4, 2001 Sharon Stands Firm Ahead of U.S. Visit Nov 30, 2001 Pressure Grows on Arafat for Tougher Crackdown Dec 5, 2001 No Longer Israel's Best Bet for Peace Dec 5, 2001 Israel Boosts Strikes Against Palestinians Dec 5, 2001 U.S. Islamic Charity's Assets Frozen Dec 5, 2001 Arafat Gets 12 Hours to Arrest Militants Dec 6, 2001 Israel Bombs Gaza; Arafat Cracks Down Dec 7, 2001 Powell Speech Sets Stage for Mideast Talks Nov 20, 2001 Times Headlines U.S. to Help Philippines Battle Terrorist Threat Afghans Staking Hopes on Concrete Results EU to Send Peacekeepers to Join Afghanistan Force In a Region Stuck on Autocracy, Bahrain Has a Different Idea Marines' Mission Winding Down more By WILLIAM ORME , Times Staff Writer UNITED NATIONS -- Palestinians and their Arab allies forced a confrontation with Washington early today, with the United States vetoing an Arab-backed Security Council resolution calling for international intervention to halt a dangerous deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The draft resolution won the support of a large council majority, with France, Russia and Ireland joining the expected Asian and African supporters of the Arab position. In a message aimed as much at the Bush administration as at Israel, it called pointedly for the preservation of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority as the indispensable and legitimate party for future negotiations in the region. After hours of often bitter debate, with invited Israeli and Palestinian speakers joining the 15 council representatives, the document won support from 12 members, with two abstentions, Norway and Britain. But U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte had announced earlier that with regret the United States would veto the resolution, making a vote formally moot. The United States signaled from the start that it would block the resolution, which initially called for protection for Palestinian civilians but made no explicit mention of Israeli civilian victims of the violence. It ignores the central issue, which is the terror attacks, James B. Cunningham, the deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations, told reporters when the council began debating the draft resolution Thursday night. On Friday, the text was broadened to include a condemnation of all acts of violence and terror resulting in deaths and injuries among Palestinian and Israeli civilians. But Negroponte said that it remained too one-sided in its emphasis on Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and that it failed to specifically decry the recent suicide attacks against Israelis. Unfortunately, the resolution before us fails to address the dynamic at work in the region, the U.S. ambassador said. 'Instead, its purpose is to isolate politically one of the parties to the conflict, through an attempt to throw the weight of the council behind the other party. The Palestinian representative to the U.N., Nasser Kidwa, said in a speech here Friday night that although the Palestinian leadership condemns terrorism, attacks on Israeli civilians within occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, can be considered legitimate resistance to foreign occupation. We absolutely do not accept any attempt to label these acts as terrorist acts, he said. The resolution called for an international monitoring mechanism to oversee compliance with steps toward a cease-fire recommended this year by former Sen. George J. Mitchell's fact-finding commission. Israel has consistently opposed the introduction of foreign observers, and the Bush administration--echoing the
[CTRL] U.S. Jets Continue Bombing as Afghan Tribal Leaders Claim Victory in Tora Bora
-Caveat Lector- http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40938,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Jets Continue Bombing as Afghan Tribal Leaders Claim Victory in Tora Bora AP Tribal fighters sit in the back of a truck near the recent fighting in Tora Bora. Sunday, December 16, 2001 Respond to Editor Email this Article TORA BORA, Afghanistan â Although Afghan tribal warriors declared victory over Al Qaeda guerillas in Tora Bora early Sunday, U.S. warplanes continued bombing targets in the region, and senior officials warned that fighting in the region was far from over. After nine weeks of siege, Afghan leaders announced Sunday morning that they'd overtaken the Al Qaeda terror network's last stronghold, the Tora Bora area in the northeastern portion of the country. Commanders Hazrat Ali and Mohammed Zaman came down from the rugged cliffsides to declare they commanded all the caves in the Tora Bora area, a boast impossible to verify. This is the last day of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Zaman said. Mixed messages and confusion were the order of the day. When the dust cleared Usama bin Laden couldn't be found, a mass of Al Qaeda soldiers escaped into the hills and U.S. jets continued airstrikes on targets in the vicinity. Al Qaeda fighters fled deeper into forests on the snowcapped White Mountain range, the site of an intricate cave complex believed to have been a bin Laden hiding place. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on a brief visit to Afghanistan, told reporters of a fierce battle in the Tora Bora area. He met the new interim prime minister, Hamid Karzai, at Bagram airport to discuss the course of the war and plans for Afghanistan's future. Afghan commanders at Tora Bora said that at least 200 Al Qaeda fighters had been killed and 25 had been captured, with 2,000 others on the run. But no one knew for sure if bin Laden was dead, fleeing, holed up deep in one of the eastern region's thousands of caves â or if he'd been there at all. After a five-hour lull in U.S. airstrikes, more chaos and violence erupted. At least two bombs fell on the area and an AC-130 gunship was hammering nighttime targets with its howitzer, although the action sounded farther away, as if the planes were going after fleeing forces. There are people trying to escape, and people trying to run them down, Rumsfeld said. He said Afghan leaders told him that in addition to the dead, they had captured 11 Al Qaeda fighters and others were trying to flee the couple of miles to the border with Pakistan, which has sent helicopter gunships and thousands of troops to seal the frontier. Pakistan said Saturday it arrested 37 Arabs sneaking into the country from Tora Bora. Rumsfeld also said he had received Afghan reports that one senior Al Qaeda leader had been captured, but he would not identify him. He spoke in Bagram, north of Kabul, as U.S. Marines hastily finished a prisoner-of-war camp Sunday at their Kandahar airport base in southern Afghanistan to hold Al Qaeda captives. Gen. Tommy Franks, the war's commander, said the eastern alliance was making progress, but I think it's accurate to say that it's going to be a while before we have the area of Tora Bora fully under control. It's physically a matter of digging out the Al Qaeda from these caves and tunnels, Franks said on ABC's This Week. It's a matter of inching our way forward up the sides of these canyons and physically going into each one of these bunkers and caves. Neither Zaman nor Ali could answer the most pressing question of the long, bloody campaign: Where is bin Laden? A few days before I had information that he was here, Ali said. But now I don't know where he is. What was believed to be his fortified cave was the last to be taken Sunday, Ali said. Inside were six fighters, one of whom was killed. The commander promised to scour the mountains meter by meter to find stragglers. But with so many caves in the area, it could be a long time before anyone knows with certainty that fighters, including bin Laden, are not there. Franks, meanwhile, tempered earlier reports that bin Laden's voice was identified last week in recent short-range radio transmissions. We have certainly been receiving an awful lot of transmission traffic. We're not sure it was bin Laden, he said. Relentless U.S. bombing in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan was first reported on Oct. 15, eight days after the U.S.-led military campaign began. Tribal fighters have been attacking Al Qaeda forces in the area since. On Sunday, smiling eastern alliance forces chanted in English, Al Qaeda is finished! Al Qaeda is finished! as U.S. planes circled overhead. The Tora Bora region was the last major pocket of Al Qaeda resistance in Afghanistan. Late last week, Franks said other holdouts included the Shindand area in western Afghanistan and the Helmand province northwest of Kandahar. Across Afghanistan, civilians and fighters alike
[CTRL] Marines Build Afghan Prison Camp for Al Qaeda
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnewsStoryID=457487 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Marines Build Afghan Prison Camp for Al Qaeda December 15, 2001 01:56 PM ET CAMP RHINO, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marines are preparing a prison camp at Kandahar airport for up to 300 al-Qaeda fighters who might surrender or be captured in the Tora Bora mountains, an officer said Saturday. Our primary focus is on receiving prisoners from Tora Bora and building a site for them, at the airport now occupied by the Marines, the officer said. He expected that between 100 and 300 prisoners could be taken in the eastern mountains. A site has already been marked out at the airport, which hundreds of Marines occupied on Friday to make it safe for military and eventual civilian use. An Afghan militia commander in the Tora Bora region, Said Mohammad Palawan, said some 300 al-Qaeda fighters who promised to surrender on Saturday had failed to give themselves up by four hours after the agreed time. But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said around 50 al-Qaeda fighters surrendered as U.S. and Afghan forces advanced in fierce cave battles in the Tora Bora area, south of the eastern city of Jalalabad. The U.S. officer dismissed speculation that most of Osama bin Laden's followers would fight to the death. But he warned that the prisoners would be dangerous. An uprising by prisoners in Mazar-i-Sharif last month was bloodily suppressed by the Northern Alliance and U.S. warplanes. A CIA man and scores of Northern Alliance fighters were killed. These are hardcore people, he said. If they have a chance to overwhelm and kill a guard, they will try to do that, even if it means their own death. Al Qaeda prisoners will not behave like the thousands of generally docile Iraqi troops taken prisoner after the 1991 Gulf War, he said. The officer said it was important to detain as many of them as possible. These are bad guys who are against all of us. The officer said Camp Rhino, the forward operating base in the desert south of Kandahar, would be phased out early next year when Kandahar airport becomes a fully operational base. He said he expected the army to take over there from the Marines. He added that the Marines had stopped interdiction operations they had carried out for more than a week and turned the job over to the anti-Taliban forces who took Kandahar on December 7. Interdiction means stopping Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters trying to flee the Kandahar area. We've not come here to get involved in the policing business, said the officer. It is widely believed there are still high-level Taliban and al Qaeda fugitives in the Kandahar area, he said. There are a number of small pockets of Taliban and al Qaeda that we don't have control of, and nor does Gul Agha, the new Kandahar province governor and Hamid Karzai, the new leader of Afghanistan, he added. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] $158 fine for distributing religious tracts?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25695 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! $158 fine for distributing religious tracts? Federal judge rules Wisconsin law violates 1st Amendment -- -- By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A Wisconsin law that resulted in a woman being fined $158 for distributing a religious leaflet has been ruled an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment's freedom of speech protections. Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman ruled that the city of Milwaukee's ban against distributing informational leaflets by placing them on the windshields of cars is unconstitutional. The ruling stems from a case in which Rosemary Deida was fined $158 Dec. 20, 2000, for placing religious leaflets on car windshields. Deida paid the fine but filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming her right to free speech had been violated. According to Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel for The Liberty Counsel, an Orlando, Fl.-based civil liberties group, city officials fashioned Milwaukee's law after a Wisconsin state law that prohibits the placement or distribution of literature in or on a vehicle, even if the occupant of the vehicle is willing to accept the literature. Staver and co-counsel Erik Stanley represented Deida. Last year, a federal appeals court ruled four similar ordinances in Arkansas unconstitutional because the ordinances were overbroad, said Staver. The ordinances in the Arkansas case were ruled unconstitutional even though they did not apply to a situation where the occupant was willing to receive the literature. Staver explained that the Milwaukee law is so broad that it prohibits a person standing at a stoplight who wants to distribute newspapers to occupants of vehicles who are willing to receive the paper. The ordinance also prohibits the handing of a business card to an occupant willing to receive the card. Judge Adelman wrote that the law was content-based because it allows the distribution of certain literature approved by the state regarding handicapped parking. The ruling also noted that an officer must inspect the literature to determine if it is permissible. The court said it found that the law was viewpoint-based because it allowed only the state's viewpoint on certain issues, and that even if the law were not content- or viewpoint-based, it was still unconstitutional, because it prohibited more speech than necessary to achieve the government's interests, said Staver. The state law and city ordinance flattens the First Amendment like a steamroller, he said. While an occupant of a vehicle can choose not to accept literature, the government cannot impose a flat ban on the distribution of literature to an occupant who is willing to receive the information. Asked if he believed the city would appeal, as its attorney promised, Staver said no. I don't think they'll have a strong chance on appeal, he told WND. The judge analyzed the law in a lot of different ways and gave a lot of alternative reasons to support his ruling. This is only the second case of its kind in the country, Staver said, adding he was happy with the ruling. -- -- Jon E. Dougherty is a staff reporter and columnist for WorldNetDaily, *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A
[CTRL] Thank God for Jesse!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25671 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Thank God for Jesse! -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Just minutes before the Dec. 31, deadline last year, President Bill Clinton signed the onerous International Criminal Court agreement, fashioned by the United Nations at a Rome conference in 1998. His signature does not ratify the agreement, but it does obligate the United States to take no action contrary to the goals of the agreement. Sen. Jesse Helms is having none of it. He introduced the American Service Members Protection Act shortly after the agreement was reached in Rome. The bill languished. He reintroduced the bill (S. 1610), which was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee â which he no longer chairs. He didn't give up. When the Senate was finally forced to pass the Defense Appropriations Bill, it included much of the language contained in the American Service Members Protection Act. His amendment was adopted Dec. 7, by a vote of 78 to 21. What's shocking is that 21 Senators voted against limiting the power of the ICC. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., tried to short-circuit the Helms amendment with one of his own. The Dodd proposal would have only required the president to suggest what Congress might do to protect U.S. interests from the ICC. The Helms amendment takes the bull by the horns. The ICC is designed to prosecute war criminals and crimes against humanity. Its charter claims jurisdiction in all nations, whether ratified or not by any particular nation. Critics of the Helms amendment claim the ICC is the appropriate venue for prosecution of terrorists such as Osama bin Laden. Mary Robinson, head of the UN Human Rights Commissions, has labeled American soldiers as potential subjects of prosecution for their war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. Helms says humbug! His amendment blocks U.S. cooperation with the ICC, prohibits any U.S. funding of the enterprise and bars the sharing of classified information. His amendment prohibits the use of U.S. forces in any nation that will not exempt U.S. troops from ICC jurisdiction by signing accords preventing the delivery of American soldiers to the ICC. Moreover, his amendment would stop the flow of foreign aid to any country that refuses to sign such accords. Sen. Dodd, in arguing against the Helms amendment, said the United States has to be a player in the ICC. A spokesman for Human Rights Watch called the vote a low point in the U.S. Senate's commitment to international human rights. The vote is a high point in protecting national sovereignty and limiting the rapidly expanding power of the UN's global governance tentacles. The Senate measure must be reconciled in conference with the House bill, which has no language similar to the Helms amendment. The House, however, has expressed approval of limiting the ICC by a vote of 282 to 137, when language similar to Helms' was included in a State Department authorization bill last May. It's far too late to block the creation of the ICC. Forty-seven of the necessary 60 nations have already ratified the charter, and it is expected to be fully in force before the big blowout in Johannesburg next year, the World Summit on Sustainable Development. It should have been blocked during the Clinton administration but, instead, the United States was a major force in its creation, thinking that special provisions would be included to protect U.S. citizens. In the final days of the conference, the rest of the world pulled the rug out and would not allow any special provisions for the United States, and Clinton delegates were forced to vote against the final document â one of only seven nations voting against the measure. But for some strange reason, minutes before the deadline, less than a month from the end of his term, Clinton signed the document. The ICC gives the United Nations a mechanism through which it can prosecute individuals in any country for any infraction it may include in its definition of war crimes or crimes against humanity. I have heard UN officials describe America's pollution coming from our extravagant life style, as a crime against humanity. I have heard UN officials describe America's involvement in Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and now Afghanistan as war crimes. Make no mistake. Many people in this world see the United Nations as the only hope of controlling the United States. The ICC is a new and important tool available to those folks who want to control us. They will not hesitate to use it the moment they have the power to do so. Sadly, there are some in Congress who are willing to let this happen. Jesse Helms is not one of them. Thank God for Jesse! -- -- Henry Lamb is the executive
[CTRL] U.S. Fails to Catch Bin Laden as Stronghold Falls
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011216/ts/attack_dc_1086.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sunday December 16 3:54 PM ET U.S. Fails to Catch Bin Laden as Stronghold Falls By Sebastian Alison and Alan Elsner TORA BORA, Afghanistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces destroyed the last bastion of the al Qaeda organization in Afghanistan on Sunday but did not find Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born militant who stands accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. U.S. forces and their allies were scouring the country for the man President Bush wants dead or alive and top officials vowed to catch him sooner or later. Backed by overwhelming U.S. air power and British and American commandos on the ground, Afghan fighters overran the mountain redoubt of Tora Bora which is riddled with caves and tunnels, where hundreds of bin Laden's toughest al Qaeda loyalists made their last stand. ``We've destroyed al Qaeda in Afghanistan and we have ended the role of Afghanistan as a haven for terrorist activity,'' said Secretary of State Colin Powell on NBC's ``Meet the Press.'' He said bin Laden's effectiveness in Afghanistan had been destroyed but the man himself remained at large. ``We have no reason to believe that he has been either killed or captured. We don't know where he is,'' Powell said. ``We of course want Osama bin Laden, and as President Bush said, we will get him. Whether we get him this week, next week, whether it takes us one year or two years, we will bring him to justice or justice will be brought to him,'' he said. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said bin Laden was on the run. ``The amount of territory in which he can operate is shrinking. We also know that he is on the run,'' she said on CNN's ``Late Edition.'' ``They know the area, but they should know that there is no place to hide,'' she said. The United States last Thursday released a videotape in which bin Laden said the results of the Sept. 11 attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon exceeded his expectations. The death toll from the attacks has been revised down to nearly 3,300. AMERICANS WANT BIN LADEN In a Newsweek poll, 62 percent of respondents said the U.S. military effort would not be a success if bin Laden and Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who is also at large, were not captured or killed. Powell said intelligence information on bin Laden remained confusing and contradictory. There have been unconfirmed reports for several days that he may have slipped across the border into Pakistan. ``There's some information that suggests he might still be there, and he might have gotten across the border. We don't know. But you can be sure he is under hot pursuit,'' Powell said. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan, said he thought there might still be more fighting to come in Tora Bora as the U.S. and its allies hunted down militants trying to escape. He told troops and reporters at the Bagram airbase north of Kabul: ``There are people trying to escape but that gets harder as night falls. The question is does that mean it's almost over in that area and I doubt it.'' Rumsfeld held talks with Hamid Karzai, head of an interim Afghan government due to take power on Dec. 22. ``From the very beginning, we have tried to make it clear that our operation here was not against Afghanistan, against the people, against a religion. It was against terrorism,'' Rumsfeld told Karzai as they met in a wrecked Soviet-era aircraft hangar. The Karzai government will try to rebuild a nation devastated by 20 years of war. The previous Taliban rulers, who imposed a form of unbending, ultra-conservative Islam on the nation and offered bin Laden and his fighters a safe haven, were driven out by the U.S.-led offensive. The former Taliban finance minister Mullah Agha Jan Mutasim said on Sunday the hard-line militia's rule had ended and it would not oppose a ``stable Islamic'' government, an Afghan news agency reported. ``If a stable Islamic government is established in Afghanistan, then we don't intend to launch any action against it,'' he told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) from an unknown location inside Afghanistan. FINAL ASSAULT The fall of Tora Bora meant the foreign Arab, Pakistani and other volunteers who flocked to bin Laden's banner had lost their final haven in Afghanistan. ``This is the last day for al Qaeda in Afghanistan,'' Haji Zaman, top military commander in the eastern Jalalabad region, told reporters. Another senior commander said his men had killed 200 al Qaeda fighters and taken 25 prisoner. ``Tomorrow we will show you the prisoners and their weapons. We think (the fighting) will all be soon over,'' Hazrat Ali told Reuters on the road back from the front line. The anti-Taliban fighters had spent the day making their way up two valleys
[CTRL] U.S. finds suspected chemical, radioactive material in Afghanistan
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. finds suspected chemical, radioactive material in Afghanistan 12/16/2001 Islamabad (dpa) - U.S. troops fighting terrorism in Afghanistan have found suspected radioactive and chemical material near their operation base in southern Kandahar city, the American broadcaster CNN reported Sunday. A CNN correspondent accompanying U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld on his visit to the region reported that the discovery was made about 5.5 kilometres east of Kandahar, the spiritual centre of the vanquished Taliban which gave santuary to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group. Meanwhile, American warplanes continued to bomb the Tora Bora area in eastern Afghanistan where al-Qaeda's foreign fighters have been pinned down. Bin Laden is believed to be among them as his voice had been picked up over radio by U.S. special forces operating on the ground along with their Afghan allies. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Northrop Grumman Pitches 30,000-Pound Guided Bomb To Air Force
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Northrop Grumman Pitches 30,000-Pound Guided Bomb To Air Force Fri Dec 14 2001 10:40:25 ET Northrop Grumman has briefed Air Force officials on a concept to field a 30,000-pound guided weapon, called 'Big BLU,' that could be used as a penetrator to destroy hardened targets that may house enemy leaders or weapons of mass destruction, DEFENSE DAILY reported on Friday. The proposal may gain favor with the Pentagon as the military tries to kill Al-Qaeda leaders holed up in Afghan caves. An Air Force official said, however, that the weapon will have significant cost and schedule hurdles associated with aircraft integration, is only a concept and is not envisioned for use during the Afghan conflict. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Feds Seek 'Dictatorial Powers' on Health Care
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/14/135346.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Feds Seek 'Dictatorial Powers' on Health Care Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Saturday, Dec. 15, 2001 WASHINGTON â The federal government is pushing your state legislature to give your governor and health officials sweeping powers that threaten your freedoms. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) sent out a patient alertâ Thursday to its members warning that the so-called Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) would, in fact, give the governor unprecedented dictatorial powers in the event he decided to declare a âpublic health emergency.ââ The model legislation is being sent out to the 50 states by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Your association and its members need to be informed about the implications of this Act,â warns Dr. Jane Orient, AAPS executive director. It would give the governor, in effect, the right to practice medicine and force physicians to participate in the examination and treatment of patients according to state-dictated protocol â under pain of criminal sanctions.â The measure, as AAPS sees it, is loaded with privacy and civil-liberties booby traps. Among them: 1. Unrestricted power of the governor to declare an emergency at his own discretion, without consulting anyone, and the legislature would have no right to interfere for at least 60 days. And even after that deadline, a two-thirds vote of both chambers would be needed to block the dictatorial powers. 2. The ability of the government to take over private facilities, including hospitals and clinics, and to seize any property claimed necessary in an emergency. 3. The right to impose rationing, quotas and price controls, and to control the use or transportation of any item deemed essential, under the direction of un-elected political appointees acting with virtually complete immunity. 4. The authority to suspend any rule or regulation that hindered the program. Forced Vaccinations 5. The criminalization of refusal by physicians to serve or by patients to accept vaccination prescribed by the governor or his deputies. AAPS is not alone in opposing MEHPA, which is already being considered in several states, including Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, Minnesota, Illinois and California. The irony that this proposal is being sent out by the feds under a conservative Republican administration is not lost on Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation. The former Wisconsinite and longtime conservative icon notes, apparently as much in sorrow as in anger, that HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, former Wisconsin governor, whom I have considered a friend for 30 years,â has, alas, gone native.â Going native in conservative-speak defines a decent conservative who comes to Washington and ends up adopting the inside-the-Beltway mentality as his own. Thompson,â Weyrich says of the man who was a reformer and strong advocate of welfare reform in his own state, has done many questionable things since taking over from another Wisconsinite, Donna Shalala,â but MEHPA is the most troubling yet.â Fortunately, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group of state lawmakers around the country who make it their business to raise red flags on ideas such as this one, has done an analysis of MEPHA. The council says MEPHA is being pushed with the assistance of the federal Centers for Disease Control, the National Conference of State Legislatures (whose left-leaning agenda prompted the founding of ALEC as a counterweight), the National Governors Association (NGA, which relies largely on analysis by Beltway staffers), the National Association of City and County Health Officers, and other liberal bureaucratic groups. Thereâs an old saying in Washington that if you want to find out why certain things happen, just follow the money.â Bribed With Taxpayers' Own Money MEPHA is not likely to be an exception to that rule. Whenever the federal government wants the states to behave in a certain way, word goes out from Washington that those states that comply with the feds' wishes will be eligible for additional dollars. Bingo!â says Weyrich. That is the magic word.â At that point, watch them fall into line, unless you and others head them off at the pass. An outraged public, if persistent enough, can serve as an effective offset to the lure of federal dollars. Every ambitious politician lives in constant fear of rejection at the polls. ALEC says this legislation strips individuals and families of their rights and liberties at the expense of governmentâ and unnecessarily duplicates state natural-disaster statutes. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons cites the Institute for Health Freedom, which recommends that citizens concerned about the proposed legislation contact their state
[CTRL] North Koreans Starve While Huge Militia Grows Fat
-Caveat Lector- http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/142001e.asp WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! North Koreans Starve While Huge Militia Grows Fat By Chad Groening December 14, 2001 (AgapePress) - An expert on East Asia with the Heritage Foundation says North Korea continues to pose a real threat to the stability of that part of the world -- that, despite how desperate things are for the North Korean people. Balbina Hwang is policy analyst for Northeast Asia at the Washington-based think-tank. She says despite a horrendous economy, the communist North continues to maintain a staggering military machine. Literally, they have a one-million-man army, Hwang says, and that is astounding, given that they are a country of 20 million people and their economy has essentially collapsed for the better part of a decade. She notes that more than two million people have starved to death in North Korea in the past ten years -- and yet despite this, they continue to have a one-million-man army that is well-fed, well-trained, well-clothed ... and unfortunately, well-armed, she says. The policy expert believes that disparity is indicative of North Korea's priorities. I think [that] indicates to the extent with which North Korea is absolutely committed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, to supporting their army essentially at the sake of starving their own people, she says. Hwang says on the other side of the 38th Parallel, South Korea only has an army of 400,000 men, supported by almost 40,000 American troops. While she says ultimately North Korea would lose in an all-out war against South Korea -- because it lacks the sophisticated weaponry of the U.S. -- she believes they would inflict heavy casualties and cause tremendous damage to the South's infrastructure. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Week Ending: 15 December 2001/30 Kislev 5762
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE ~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 15 December 2001/30 Kislev 5762 But You, O L-rd, abide forever, and Your Name to all generations. You will arise and have compassion on Zion; For it is time to be gracious to her, for the appointed time has come. Psalm 102.12-13 This Week's Headlines: :: UN RESOLUTION FAILS BY ONE VOTE :: TEN MURDERED IN EMANUEL :: IDF STEPS UP ANTI-TERROR CRACKDOWN :: PA/PLO FIGHTS TERRORISM :: FROM MODI'IN TO JERUSALEM :: MYTHS FACTS :: EU TO ARAFAT: BREAK TERROR NETWORKS :: ZINNI CALLED HOME :: ARAFAT NO LONGER RELEVANT :: BRITAIN QUIETLY SEEKS HIZB'ALLAH COOPERATION :: BOEING SET FOR APACHE UPGRADE FOR EGYPT :: JORDAN CLOSES BORDER TO FLEEING PALESTINIANS :: UN RESOLUTION FAILS BY ONE VOTE: The United States vetoed a Palestinian-backed United Nations resolution on the Middle East conflict Saturday but stressed that it has not abandoned the vision of a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel. The resolution, sponsored by Egypt and Tunisia and amended by France, encouraged all concerned to establish a monitoring mechanism ... to help create a better situation on the ground, including with regard to the safety of Palestinian civilians. The resolution also condemned all terrorist acts, executions without trial, excessive use of force and the destruction of property. However, one European diplomat said it conspicuously lacked any call to stop suicide attacks on Israelis like the three at the start of December that left 26 dead in Jerusalem and Haifa. The draft received 12 votes in favor with two abstentions (Norway and United Kingdom) and one (United States) opposed. (The Security Council is made up of 15 members of which five [United States, United Kingdom, China, France, and Russia] are permanent and have absolute veto power. The other ten members rotate on a two-year basis. The current rotating members are Singapore, Tunisia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Colombia, Ireland, Jamaica, Mali, Mauritius, and Norway. Israel is the only UN member not eligible to sit on the Security Council.) :: TEN MURDERED IN EMANUEL: Arab terrorists murdered ten and wounded 30 others Wednesday night on a bus headed for Emanuel in the Shomron. The attack occurred when a public bus traveling from Bnei Brak to the Shomron community of Emanuel was bombed and fired upon from three different directions. Israeli sources say that the three terrorists who perpetrated the massacre were included in the list of 33 wanted terrorists that Israel submitted to the PA/PLO several weeks ago. The victims of the massacre are: Moshe Mordechai Gutman, 40, Border Guard Sgt. Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, Ya'akov Tzorfati, 64, and his two sons David, 38, and Chanan, 32, Yisrael Sternberg, 46, Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, Esther Avraham, 42, and Avraham Nachman Nitzani, 18, Ya'ir Amar, 14. A suicide bomber died Saturday night near the town of Sha'ar Efraim, approximately 12 kilometers [7.5 miles] east of Netanya on the 1967 Green Line border. No-one else was killed in the explosion. Initial reports suggest that the explosives carried by the bomber detonated before he had reached his intended destination -- a local shopping mall. :: IDF STEPS UP ANTI-TERROR CRACKDOWN: The IDF [Israel Defense Force] intensified its crackdown in Yesha over the weekend, with a series of operations in which at least ten Palestinians were reported killed, dozens wounded, and as many as 50 terrorist suspects arrested. The operations Saturday concentrated on Beit Hanoun, in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip. Beit Hanoun is a Hamas stronghold, from within many terrorist attacks were planned and executed, among which included mortar bomb firing toward settlements in the northern Gaza Strip and toward the industrial region Erez. IDF forces completed their operation and returned to their bases. IDF forces destroyed the house of the head of the Hamas military branch in Gaza, Tsalach Schada, and destroyed an additional structure that served for terrorist activity. Director of the Council for Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha) Benny Kashriel stated that the continued IDF strikes against empty buildings in PLO autonomous areas were absurd and a waste of ammunition. He added the PA/PLO was equally amazed by the Israeli response. :: PA/PLO FIGHTS TERRORISM: Israel has not let up on its demand that the Palestinian Authority arrest the 33 terrorists whose names appear on the list Israel provided a while ago - and in fact, the PA/PLO is making efforts to appear to be fulfilling this demand. It has already arrested 10 or 11 of them, i.e. they were asked if they agree to remain in detention, under better-than-usual conditions, for a period of a few weeks until the American
[CTRL] Reeducation in America: We're Way Beyond 1984
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Reeducation in America: We're Way Beyond 1984 -- America, in the not-so-distant future... http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/topic.cgi?forum=3topic=72 For now, this article is satire...for now. But the way society has been changing this past decade, it won't be for much longer. To be honest, I did not know whether to laugh, cry or cuss after reading it. When that happens, I tend to bring out my K-Bar and my whetstone and do some serious cogitating and stropping. One of my all-time favorite one-liners was by actor Peter Lore in The Road to Morocco. In the scene, Lore portrayed an Arab lovingly caressing his scimitar, murmuring in dulcet tones, Patience, my Angel...patience. Needless to say, I just had to name my K-Bar Angel. --Henrietta http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/590760/posts Reeducation in America: We're Way Beyond 1984 America, in the not-so-distant future... Okay, kids, today we are going to start our new American History module. Many things have changed and I think we all need a little review on the subject. As you can see, the federal gov...I mean, Uncle Sam has sent us a new map of the United State of America so everything should be up-to-date. Before we begin, are there any questions? Yes, Jimmy, you had your hand up? Mr. Thorpe... Now, Jimmy, did I not inform you of how I prefer to be addressed even though the funding for Phase 2 of my gender reassignment surgery hasn't come through yet? Sorry. Ms. Thorpe? Thank you. Go ahead. What happened to all the different shapes and colors that used to be on the map? I can't tell by looking at it where we live anymore. Very observant of you, Jimmy. As you can see, class, there are no longer borders dividing this country into states. Five years ago, Uncle Sam decided that it would be much easier to lead the nation without all those states to worry about. Too often Uncle Sam would decide to do things one way and there would always be one or two states that would want to do things another way. This proved to be very confusing for people so Congress, or the Caretakers as they prefer to be called, decided to just eliminate states altogether. That way, we can all be part of one, big, happy family known as the United State of America. After a few years of extensive research, Uncle Sam came up with a completely new map. Does that answer your question Jimmy? I guess so. Weren't some states unhappy that they were downsized? 'Downsized'? I'm impressed! We haven't even covered the D's in our vocabulary studies yet. Just be careful not to jump too far ahead of the rest of the class. It might make some of the other kids uncomfortable. But to answer your question, yes. There were some states that didn't want to go along with the plan. In fact, several of them even considered pulling away from our sacred Union and joining together to form their own country. Yes, yes I know! Isn't that the most bizarre thing you've ever heard? You kids laugh but it's the goddess's honest truth! Of course it was a ridiculous idea and once Uncle Sam sent in his Peacekeepers things quieted down in a hurry. My next-door neighbor had a cousin who was killed when he tried to fight off the Peacekeepers with a pitchfork. He said his cousin was only trying to defend his home and that he wished he'd been able to help. He said he had something called a 'gun,' I think, that he could've used to help fight off those 'jack-booted thugs.' Mind your language, Jimmy! Hmmm. And what is your neighbor's name? Frank Henderson. Henderson. Henderson. S-E-N or S-O-N? S-O-N. And his phone number? I don't know. Why? What are you writing in that notebook Nothing. Very well. Let's move on. Uncle Sam resides in a city known as Washington. It's located right here... Yes, Jimmy? Don't you mean Washington, D.C.? No, I mean Washington. You see, back when there were states people got confused because there was also a state called Washington. You've heard of the professional football team the Washington Americans, haven't you? Well, many people assumed that... You mean the Washington Redskins, right? If you don't watch your language, young man, I will personally see to it that you don't get any simple carbohydrates during your ration break. All of you should know that the name of the team was changed three years ago because it was too offensive. At any rate, many people thought that the Washington Americans were from the state of Washington and not the city of Washington, D.C. Once all the borders were eliminated, there was no state of Washington so the Caretakers just decided to drop the 'D.C.' and call the national capital Washington. Okay, moving right along... What is it, Jimmy? What did the 'D.C.' stand for? You know, I'm really not quite sure. 'Das Capital' or something like that. But that really isn't important to what we're studying today. Anyway, Uncle Sam decided that things
[CTRL] CONGRESS ACTION: December 16, 2001
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CONGRESS ACTION: December 16, 2001 = EVERYTHING'S CHANGED: Following Nine-Eleven, media punditry was awash with the hopeful observation that everything's changed. Instead of yellow ribbons, symbolizing hand-wringing woe-is-us victimology, out came American flags, symbolizing patriotism, unity, anger, defiance, and a cold determination to defend freedom and exact a terrible vengeance. The new symbols of America became the steel-beam cross miraculously surviving in the World Trade Center rubble and the grim-faced eagle sharpening his talons. Suddenly the divisive bickering of our solons in Congress, arguing over Social Security lockboxes and tax cuts for the rich and gun show loopholes, and of our media chasing Gary Condit and analyzing the latest Florida vote recount, were seen to be the exercises in small-minded foolishness that they truly were. Suddenly serious people had a serious and deadly business to attend to. The Deification of shallow Hollywood types, determined to prove themselves deep thinkers and cunning political strategists, when in reality their pea-brains had trouble developing a single original thought, suddenly gave way to the recognition that the real heroes of our society were those who never got face-time on Arsenio or Leno or Letterman. The realization came that the real heroes were the ordinary Americans who stormed into blazing buildings about to collapse, in order to save other ordinary Americans; that the real heroes were the ordinary Americans who, with a cry of Let's roll!, sacrificed their lives and the lives of their wives and children by diving a hijacked airliner into the ground in Pennsylvania so as to save the lives of other ordinary Americans. The realization came that the real heroes were the men wearing the uniforms of our nation's armed forces, the men who, year in and year out, risked -- and sometimes lost -- their lives in distant lands and skies and on distant oceans while our fat, dumb, and happy nation basked in navel-gazing peace and dot-com millions. Now those armed forces had a job to do, and we were very grateful that they were there. We are at war with a fanatic who vowed our destruction. Patriotism enjoys a rebirth, the nation is united in a just cause in a way that we haven't seen in at least a generation, and the vast majority of the people are relieved that our national policy apparatus is once again in the hands of cool and competent professionals instead of over age America-hating adolescents and aging retread hippies. Doubly relieved when the recently retired former president who headed that band of over age adolescents once again displayed his venality by publicly insulting the memory of the dead thousands, by blaming them for their own massacre. And yet.The federal government continues to grow and absorb expanding facets of national life. The nation's economy continues its two-year slide into recession and deflation. Unemployment and bankruptcies continue to rise, new technologies to fuel economic growth are starved by litigation abuse, punitive tax rates, and a regulatory morass; and the evaporation of trillions of dollars of private wealth in equities continues to turn nest-eggs into goose-eggs. No, September 11 did not cause our economic woes. A decade of Washington officialdom promoting class envy, hatred of wealth creation, hatred of entrepreneurial risk-taking, welfare-state dependency, nanny-state persecution, and the irrationality of wealth redistribution from the productive to the nonproductive, did that. A decade of democrats and leftists promoting socialist ideology, while republicans sucked their thumbs because they were too afraid of their own shadows to object, did that. It has become routine to despise entrepreneurial risk-taking and virtually every corporate endeavor, and to ignore the rights of private property and the rule of law essential for private enterprise to succeed. There is a general hatred of business and profits, even by the people who owe their livelihoods to profitable business. Far too many people would prefer, as most democrats would prefer for them, to receive an unemployment check as a dependent of government, rather than a paycheck from a profitable private enterprise. The willingness of the entrepreneur to venture his capital and his effort is what made this country the world's economic powerhouse. Yet a class envy has taken hold, people have learned to disdain the entrepreneur and the businessman, and anyone who has more than they do. There is a reflexive opposition to tax cuts for business, and the fact that such tax cuts would allow higher employment simply doesn't register with the economic illiterate. Any tax cut is automatically doomed when it is branded as a tax cut for the rich. How much mileage did Bill Clinton get from his promise to make the rich pay their fair share, and how many
[CTRL] Sen. Smith Announces Victory on Gun Demil Provision
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sen. Smith Announces Victory on Gun Demil Provision -- Gun owners gave Smith Co. the upper hand in negotiations Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org (Friday, December 14, 2001) -- Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) today declared victory in his efforts to delete the anti-gun demilitarization provisions from the Defense Department authorization bill. Those provisions, contained in section 1062 of the Senate version (S. 1438), would have allowed the government to seize all military firearms in private hands for the purpose of demilitarizing them. This is a great victory for gun owners, veterans, and those who care about the Constitution, said Smith. Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, concurred: The thousands upon thousands of dedicated grassroots activists provided the ammunition needed to kill the provision. Pratt also thanked Senator Smith for his tireless efforts, as well as other legislators who worked hard to see this provision removed -- Reps. Bob Stump (R-AZ), John Hostettler (R-IN) and others. The demil provision was originally contained in both the House and Senate versions of the DoD bill, but was struck from the House bill early in the legislative process as a result of opposition from pro-gun forces. GOA activists continued to lobby long and hard against the provision, asking the conference committee members to strike the demil language from the bill. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) made several attempts to keep the provision by offering compromise after compromise, but the loud outcry from grassroots activists strengthened the bargaining position of pro-gun legislators. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Trojan Horse of global tyranny
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! December 14, 2001 - WorldNetDaily.Com The Trojan Horse of global tyranny By Patrick J. Buchanan As every schoolchild used to know, the Trojan Horse was the scheme of the wily Ulysses, one of the Greek warriors besieging Troy. For a decade, the Greeks had failed to capture the great city. In defeat and resignation, they adopted Ulysses' plan. They would build a great wooden horse and leave it outside the city walls, ostensibly as a tribute to the goddess Minerva. The Greek army would then board ships, sail over the horizon and wait â for the Trojan Horse was hollow, and filled with Greek warriors. If the Trojans left the horse outside the city, the Greeks would sail home. But if the Trojans wheeled the horse into the city, the warriors within would open the gates and signal their comrades to return and attack. Beware of the Greeks bearing gifts said old Laocoon, who urged the Trojans to burn the horse. But the Trojans thought the horse magnificent and wheeled it in. And then began the revels of victory. The rest is history, or marvelous myth. On receiving his Nobel Prize, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan dulcetly described the Trojan Horse that is to bring about an end of nations. In a speech that The Washington Post's James Hoagland hailed as subtly subversive, Annan declared: In the 21st century, the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life. ... This will require us to look beyond the framework of states. That new, more profound awareness of the sanctity of human life, of course, does not extend to the unborn â millions of whom are butchered yearly through forced abortions under revolting regimes like China's, the principal beneficiary of U.N. population funds. The sovereignty of nations must no longer be used as a shield for gross violations of human rights, said Annan. And if a nation violates human rights, who has the authority to intervene? His answer: We do, the U.N. Yet, there are only two ways this can happen: The U.N. creates its own army or the U.N. conscripts the armies of member states. But what is the only country with military forces capable of global intervention for the U.N. to conscript? Americans, too, hold that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights that no government may violate. But in America, those rights are not protected by foreign armies, but by a Constitution that binds rulers â it does not empower them. The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets. Today, said Annan, no walls can separate humanitarian or human-rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. But this is a formula for endless interventions into the affairs of nations whose practices do not conform to U.N. standards, as agreed upon by a General Assembly made up of regimes that range from the democratic to the dictatorial to the criminal. The new U.N. role is eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy, said Annan. But the U.N. has no money to eradicate poverty, other than what we give. And the U.N. cannot promote democracy without more power or prevent conflict without an army. Hoagland's phrase subtly subversive is dead on. Behind every paragraph of Annan's speech lies this assumption: The U.N. must have more authority, more money, more power to create the new world. Yet, such a transfer of power cannot occur without a commensurate cost in American sovereignty and independence. And what reason is there to believe a world government can better bring peace on earth than a world where America is the lone superpower? The idea that there is one people in the possession of truth has done untold harm through history, said Annan, especially in the last century. But that is because communism, Nazism and all the smelly little orthodoxies of Orwell's ridicule were rooted in lies. That does not make world government the truth. As Christians, we believe the Word of God, Christ Himself, is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Not the U.N. The U.N. is not only a Trojan Horse of global government bent upon a diminution of the liberty for which our founding fathers risked their lives, fortunes and sacred honor. It is an idol, a false god, a totem, a golden calf to which modernists burn their incense â another smelly little orthodoxy, just like all the rest. So, Kofi, my man, congrats on the tin badge in Stockholm, but your big tent of global parasites up there on Turtle Bay is as big a scam as the rest of them, and, down deep, you know it. It's all about power, fella. Like Laocoon said: Burn that horse! *** !!! *** WAKE UP YOUR NEIGHBORS! *** !!! *** Ask your local paper to carry Pat's columns! Tell them to contact: Creators Syndicate 5777 W Century Blvd, Suite 700, Los
[CTRL] 14 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 14 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50 Friday Digest *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp We are still far short of making budget! *To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. CONTENTS: The Foundation Federalist Perspective __O__ THE FOUNDATION The independence and liberty you possess are the work of...joint efforts, of common dangers, suffering and successes. --George Washington __O__ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE Top of the fold... Our war on terror advanced smartly in Afghanistan, with our warriors and Afghan allies narrowing the chokehold around the single remaining battlefront at the caves and tunnels around Tora Bora and the nearby Malawa Valley in northeastern Afghanistan -- where al Qaeda diehards, possibly defending murderer-in-chief Osama bin Laden, were holed up. Intelligence estimates are that bin Laden has not escaped and remains in hiding south of Tora Bora. In Kabul, Marines secured the U.S. Embassy, and Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai, slated to take power December 22, entered the presidential palace, pledging that if the United States will never again walk away from Afghanistan, his liberated country will become our trusted ally and friend. Though The Federalist laid account for the 9-11 attacks at the feet of bin Laden on the morning of 9-12 (#01-37 Chronicle), well in advance of the talkingheads, a few Leftmedia holdouts still suggest that he must be tried and convicted as a criminal before being found guilty. After President George Bush ordered the release of a homemade videotape on Thursday, showing bin Laden revealing his knowledge of such operational details as Mohammed Atta's role as linchpin linking groups unaware of each other, and his pre-operation analysis of the projected death toll from the World Trade Center towers' damage, few Leftmedia legal analysts still question his guilt. Most chilling in the tape is the delight bin Laden and his cohorts express at the massacre of innocents. Bin Laden quotes a verse from the Hadith: I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad. He then says: We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. Due to my experience in this [engineering] field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for. An interesting footnote: Chemistry professor Art Robinson addressed that last point in September's Access to Energy newsletter, claiming that if not for New York City's ban on asbestos in buildings, the towers' collapse would have been delayed -- possibly even averted. Syed Tayyad Agha, spokesman for Mullah Omar, suggested wishfully this week in an interview: No, you should forget the 11 September attacks (Apparently he has not seen bin Laden's hit video.) On the fall of Kandahar, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said: I think we should go home. Indeed, the welcoming party is waiting! But will bin Laden go out with a bang or a whimper? His estranged wife, Sabiha, claimed in a Russian television interview that rather than surrender or be captured, he would order his elder sons to shoot him, in effect a televised suicide to trigger attacks on international landmarks: That will be the signal for a new wave of terror. The targets this time would be the Capitol building in Washington, Big Ben in London and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. National security analysts are already drawing lessons from the extraordinary successes of our Afghanistan operations, noting first the effectiveness of allowing U.S. commandos inside Afghanistan unprecedented autonomy to plan and execute attacks when needed, resulting in hundreds of enemy soldier deaths. One description called the special-operations forces' rules of engagement an unrestricted hunting license for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. Recent years' increasing emphasis on SOF training will undoubtedly remain central in the impending plans for transformation of the U.S. military to meet emerging and asymmetric threats. Another lesson drawn from Afghanistan has been the usefulness of real-time coordination with information from unmanned aerial vehicles. But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld noted: This war is far from over. I have been reading an
[CTRL] Twas a night during Ramadan
-Caveat Lector- Twas a night during Ramadan by: Mullah Mohammed Omar Twas a night during Ramadan, and all through the cave Not a creature was stirring; it felt like a grave. The turbans were hung by the firepit with care, In hopes that the Air Force would not soon be there. The soldiers were restless without any beds, While visions of air strikes flashed in their heads. Osama in his burkha and I in my goatskin cap, Had just settled down for a cold, barren winter's nap, When out on the ledge there arose such a clatter, I grabbed my Kalashnikov to see what was the matter. Away from the racket I ran like a girl, Tripped over a goat; into a ball I did curl. The moon shone down on the new-fallen snow And lit up the valley with an ominous glow, When, what to my one good eye should appear, But a dozen Apaches, and tanks in the rear, And their leader, so fearless, his troops he did push, I knew in an instant it must be George Bush. More rapid than eagles his forces they came, And they whistled, and shouted, and called out our names; Now Omar! Osama! Muhammad! Abdul! We come for you now; we've taken Kabul! To the top of the cliffs! To the back of their caves! When you chose this war, you dug your own graves! As the dry leaves that before the assault choppers fly, When they meet with an obstacle, light up the sky, So up to the ledge his forces they flew With full magazines, and flamethrowers too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard with a thud The explosions of Tomahawks; not one was a dud. As I chambered my rifle, and was turning around, Osama was there, disguised in a gown. He was dressed all in drag, from his head to his toes, And he said he would flee while I held off his foes; A bundle of money he had stuffed in his pack, He said I'm going to Baghdad and I'm not looking back! His eyes were all glassy; he trembled with fear; The American bombs, they rang in his ears. He saddled his goat, then turned tail and fled, But a Marine Corps sniper got him in the head. I watched with cold fear as his body did slump; The goat threw him off; he fell with a thump. And so, there I stood, my plans all destroyed, About to suffer a fate I could not avoid; I dropped to my knees; asked Allah for help, His voice boomed in my ears, You ignorant whelp! I gave you the Bible, the Torah and Koran, But you were too arrogant to understand, I told you to honor your neighbors and wives; Not to enslave them, or degrade their lives! You invoke My name to sanction your deeds, But you are the last thing that this world needs. And so, I'll send you and bin Laden to Hell. The last words I heard, as the bombs fell, Were from George Bush himself as he mounted the wall, One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all! Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] What is Bush Hiding?
-Caveat Lector- These feelings I have myself! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! What is Bush Hiding? By Chuck Baldwin December 14, 2001 During the election season last year, I warned my listeners and readers that should G. W. Bush get elected, he would never allow Congress or the American people learn the truth about Bill Clinton's copious acts of criminality. In other words, Bush would continue where Janet Reno left off: there would be more stonewalling and cover-ups. This prediction brought the ire and angst against me by Bush-backers. We now know I was right, although I do not expect the Bush people to be willing to admit it. News reports yesterday said, President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutor 's decision-making [regarding] the Clinton-era fund-raising probe. Bush said, Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest. Translated: Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to my interest. Bush's decision to cover-up the truth about Clinton's criminality makes him culpable to that criminality. It also means that there is no closure to the blight of eight years of corruption and degradation in the White House. Add Bush's cover-up to the long list of injustices left unaccounted for such as Ruby Ridge, Waco and now Chinagate. The question must be asked: what is Bush trying to hide? Could it be that if Congress uncovers foreign influence within the Clinton administration, it would it also uncover foreign influence within the Bush administration? The Boston Herald recently reported that billion-dollar arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government. The Herald goes on to say, Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the president's father, George H.W. Bush. The report further states, At the same time that the elder Bush counsels his son on the ongoing war on terrorism, the former president remains a senior adviser to the Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group. That influential investment bank has deep connections to the Saudi royal family as well as financial interests in U.S. defense firms hired by the kingdom to equip and train the Saudi army. This more-than-casual connection between Bush and the Saudi monarchy is causing U.S. policy makers to turn a blind eye to things that would otherwise cause our blood to boil, because no one wants to stop the gravy train. (Remember that the vast majority of the September 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.) People mentioned in the Herald report as participating in ongoing covert, international influence peddling include former U.S. officials, former presidents, aides to the current president .people who are the pillars of American society and officialdom. That Bush is hiding much seems obvious. What exactly is he hiding? Maybe we do not want to know - and it looks like we never will. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] News Bulletin
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: It was just reported on News on TV that Osama bin Laden is surounded in a cave complex by Allied and North Alliance Troops. God Bless; Bill Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Disarmament called overstated
-Caveat Lector- http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/347/nation/Disarmament_called_overstated+.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Disarmament called overstated Tribal leaders say Taliban kept much By Patrick Healy, Globe Staff, 12/13/2001 ANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The recent Taliban disarmament in Kandahar was far less sweeping and crippling than initially believed, tribal leaders here revealed yesterday, with only about 40 percent of Taliban's guns, rocket launchers, and heavy artillery surrendered to opposing forces. Mullah Naqibullah, a Kandahar powerbroker who supervised the disarming, said that despite pledges to give up their weapons as part of a surrender agreement with opposition forces, Taliban commanders and soldiers fled the city Friday with thousands of weapons. After a news conference yesterday, where his remarks were frequently misstated by his interpreter from Pashtun to English, Naqibullah confirmed that Taliban firepower in the area is stronger than imagined by opposition commanders. ''Some of the weapons we took and are still with me, but more are still with these soldiers,'' said Naqibullah, a one-time Taliban sympathizer who is a tribal leader in the region. ''Now we must find these men.'' Five days after the fall of Kandahar, security here remains a major concern of both leaders and people on the street. The threat of a resurgent Taliban force was underscored yesterday by frequent sightings of US special forces in the city, and by reports of a continuing stand-off between T aliban and opposition soldiers in Sperwan, a village about 20 miles outside Kandahar. A heavily armed Taliban commander, Hafiz Majid, and an unknown number of troops were hunkered down in Sperwan yesterday and balking at terms of surrender from opposition forces. Majid, a close and trusted aide to Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, has insisted on a guarantee that he will not be killed, according to a military adviser to Afghanistan's prime minister-designate Hamid Karzai. The officer, speaking at Karzai's Kandahar headquarters inside Mullah Omar's former home, said negotiations had bogged down because Majid's safety is impossible to insure, given the enemies he has made over five years of Taliban rule. ''I don't think we can protect this man from being killed,'' said the officer, who requested anonymity but is familiar with the negotiations. ''His safety cannot be promised.'' US Special Forces units here are assisting with the hunt for former Taliban leaders and especially Omar. And despite the hundreds of armed anti-Taliban soldiers patrolling the streets - most of them armed with Kalashnikovs assault rifles - the American soldiers have also emerged as the guarantors of security here. The units are especially active at Kandahar airport, which was secured from Taliban fighters on Monday. At least two of the American units have been staying in unfurnished guest houses at Omar's former home. Those officers moved out yesterday afternoon to an undisclosed location, leaving packets of pork chow mein and western-style beans behind. No fighting was reported or heard in Kandahar yesterday, military officials said. Dozens of Taliban soldiers fled Kandahar - the spriritual birthplace of the strict Islamic regime - late last week as US-backed opposition units moved in. The Taliban forces, under the leadership of Omar, had initially agreed to surrender and give up their weapons. By the time of the surrender, most of the soldiers escaped the city and Omar remains at large. Since last Friday, few Taliban soldiers have been captured or killed and only a handful of weapons have been recovered, Naqibullah and other regional tribal leaders said after meeting with Karzai here yesterday. Naqibullah said that tribal leaders agreed to a request that the United Nations begin a massive disarmament effort in Afghanistan and especially Kandahar, where rival tribes, warlords, and roving highway bandits threaten the fragile calm achieved after last Friday's Taliban retreat. Karzai has supported a UN-mandated peacekeeping operation in Kabul when the new government takes office Dec. 22. But he and other Afghan leaders are wary of foreign troops fanning out across the country on a mission to collect arms. Whether the UN would agree to the disarmament request is also uncertain, but Naqibullah said Afghanistan's future depended on it. ''We need the UN to take all the weapons from all the groups, and only then will we have peace and stability,'' he said. People throughout Kandahar view Naqibullah with suspicion. He allowed Taliban soldiers to voluntarily turn over their weapons, and even when reports began surfacing that some of the men were fleeing with weapons, little was done to find them. In addition, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan initially said Omar would be allowed to stay in the city under Naqibullah's protection, a proposal that US officials rejected.
[CTRL] Bin Laden Said Surrounded in Cave
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=KBFS2KMWLU2QUCRBAELCFFAKE EARKIWD?type=topnewsStoryID=453581 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CNN: Bin Laden Said Surrounded in Cave December 13, 2001 07:14 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intelligence reports say that Osama bin Laden is apparently in a cave complex surrounded by anti-Taliban fighters and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, CNN said Thursday, citing U.S. military officials. The United States has reason to believe that Osama bin Laden is surrounded by opposition forces and U.S. forces in a cave complex in Tora Bora, CNN reported. The United States is hunting bin Laden, whom it blames for masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks on America that killed nearly 3,300 people. The hills and valleys near the eastern village of Tora Bora are home to networks of caves harboring an unknown number of al Qaeda fighters. U.S. aircraft have been blasting the mountain hide-outs of al Qaeda fighters relentlessly in the hunt for bin Laden. We think he's in Afghanistan, we are chasing him, he is hiding, he does not want us to know where he is, we are asking everyone we can to help, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier on Thursday. The Afghan Islamic Press said U.S. special forces landed overnight in Tora Bora and that U.S. helicopters had increased their flights between Tora Bora and an airport in Jalalabad. Rumsfeld said only unconditional surrender was on the table. This is not a drill where we're making deals, he said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Tribesmen Advance on bin Laden Troops
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011213/ts/afghan_fighting_222.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tribesmen Advance on bin Laden Troops By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer TORA BORA, Afghanistan (news - web sites) (AP) - As U.S. planes strafed and bombed al-Qaida positions, Afghan tribal forces advanced against Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s fighters in a snowy mountain canyon Thursday, vowing to wipe them out after surrender negotiations fell through. But commanders in the tribal eastern alliance said top terrorists who they believed were among the al-Qaida forces may have escaped toward the nearby border with Pakistan. The whereabouts of bin Laden was unknown. Heavy snow fell around the Tora Bora area in Afghanistan's eastern White Mountains, making escape more difficult for the Arab and foreign Muslim fighters trapped for days in a heavily forested canyon after fleeing al-Qaida caves. U.S. warplanes provided close air support as alliance fighters - with American special forces moving alongside to call in U.S. airstrikes - advanced up the Milawa valley in an assault launched after a second deadline for the al-Qaida fighters to surrender passed at noon Thursday. After sundown Thursday, B-52 bombers carpet-bombed the higher mountain ridges near the Pakistani border, creating spectacular orange flashes in the night. An AC-130 gunship resumed attacks for the third night in a row. If not for the surrender talks over the past two days, ``this would have been finished,'' Hazrat Ali, security chief for the eastern alliance, said. ``Now we will fight them until we annihilate them.'' In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Pentagon (news - web sites) believes bin Laden is still in Afghanistan, though he acknowledged there were reports he had left the country. He said the United States was getting ``scraps of information'' about bin Laden from Afghans, Pakistanis and others. ``He is in hiding. We are asking everyone to help.'' As for bin Laden's fighters, Rumsfeld said, ``There's no doubt in my mind that any number of al-Qaida have gone across various borders and do intend to fight another day and we intend to find them and keep looking.'' In part to convince any doubters - particularly in the Middle East - that bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, the Pentagon on Thursday released a videotape of the al-Qaida leader explaining the planning of the suicide hijackings. ``We calculated in advance'' the number of casualties from the attacks, the tape shows bin Laden telling a visiting Saudi sheik. The Pentagon said the video was found in a house in Jalalabad and bore a label saying it was taped Nov. 9, about a month into the U.S. airstrikes against Afghanistan. In other developments: - In a hospital in the southern city of Kandahar, 13 injured Arab fighters strapped grenades and explosives to their waists and demanded only a few nurses be allowed into their rooms. They apparently feared the Afghan fighters who took over the city from the Taliban a week ago. - Britain was trying to put together a multinational force and make sure Afghanistan approves it before formally announcing, possibly Friday, that it will lead a peacekeeping effort. - In the eastern city of Jalalabad, 200 Pakistani prisoners who fought alongside the Taliban were released Wednesday and were making their way home. The release was made to mark of Islam's upcoming Eid al-Fitr feast that follows Ramadan. Ali, of the eastern alliance, said he was not sure if bin Laden was trapped with his men in Tora Bora or even in the area at all. The Pentagon has said Tora Bora - a network of caves and tunnels in the White Mountains - is the last effective al-Qaida stronghold in Afghanistan. Ali said surrender offers by the al-Qaida fighters holed up in Tora Bora had been ``a trick'' to give senior leaders a chance to escape. He said he thought about 700 al-Qaida fighters, along with at least some of the leaders, remained in the Tora Bora area. Pakistan has said it has reinforced the border, just a few miles south of the fighting, with helicopters and thousands of soldiers to prevent escape by al-Qaida figures. ``We are monitoring the border round the clock,'' said Aslam Khan, a Pakistani soldier in the area. Fiery explosions echoed down the Milawa valley, mixed with heavy machine gun and tank fire. Before dawn Thursday, U.S. planes dropped at least one 15,000-pound ``daisy cutter'' - and perhaps as many as three. An Associated Press reporter saw a huge, bright magenta fireball that hung in the air and lighted the sky around 3 a.m. Eastern alliance fighters on the front lines said at least 60 U.S. special forces troops were with them, calling in airstrikes and advising alliance commanders. There were also reports of British special forces operating in the area. Within seconds of a U.S. fighter's precision
[CTRL] Terror war entering most difficult phase
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25670 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Terror war entering most difficult phase Success in next theaters of operation likely harder to define -- -- Editor's note: In partnership with Stratfor, the global intelligence company, WorldNetDaily publishes daily updates on international affairs provided by the respected private research and analysis firm. Look for fresh updates each afternoon, Monday through Friday. In addition, WorldNetDaily invites you to consider STRATFOR membership, entitling you to a wealth of international intelligence reports usually available only to top executives, scholars, academic institutions and press agencies. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com As the United States turns its attention away from Afghanistan and toward other potential al-Qaida bases, the war on terrorism will enter its most difficult phase. The fog of war will obscure goals and cause confusion over how each side is progressing. Both the United States and al-Qaida will use that ambiguity for their own ends while attempting to peer through the haze at the other, but the need to deal in a probabilistic universe will undoubtedly strain the anti-terrorism coalition. The current phase of the war in Afghanistan is drawing to a close, and with it the first phase of the war against al-Qaida. In Afghanistan, the Taliban has been driven from the cities and from power, but it has not been annihilated. Al-Qaida's operations have been dramatically contained, in the sense that it is inconceivable that al-Qaida command and control functions can still be carried out from inside Afghanistan. A great deal of personnel and infrastructure have been lost. However, it is not yet clear that the command capabilities of al-Qaida have been destroyed. Indeed, it is not clear whether those capabilities remain in Afghanistan or have migrated to another country. If they have been annihilated in Afghanistan, there is reasonable concern that al-Qaida can generate a new command and control structure from senior and mid-level operatives who were not located in Afghanistan when the war began. The ambiguity of the outcome was built into U.S. strategy. The United States depended on Afghan forces to drive the Taliban from power, but it also understood that did not necessarily mean the end of the Taliban. The complex system of shifting alliances that is Afghanistan means that the Taliban regime, its successor organizations or its individual members will be of value to one warlord or another. Moreover, since the Taliban also has roots in Pakistan, elements could survive there. In any case, the United States was interested in the Taliban only to the extent to which it enabled al-Qaida's international operations. Beyond that, Washington is content to leave the Taliban question to the Afghans and Pakistanis. Ambiguity about the future of al-Qaida's leaders is also built into the strategy. The death or capture of Osama bin Laden is of tremendous psychological importance but relatively little military importance. What is important militarily is that global pressure on al-Qaida becomes so intense that the group begins to fragment and collapse. Preventing the migration of the command cell out of Afghanistan is a highly desirable outcome, but it is not necessarily a war-ender. Moreover, U.S. planners understood fully that the destruction of command functions in Afghanistan was going to prove difficult. Senior al-Qaida officials have had ample time to move across the border into Pakistan and either go underground there or migrate to other locations. The United States has very few troops in Afghanistan and is highly dependent on Afghan factions for ground operations. It was always understood that both the quality and reliability of these forces were questionable. Their interest in al-Qaida was not nearly as intense as that of the United States. Thus, U.S. war planners understood the Afghan operation was a necessary first step in the war against al-Qaida, but that nothing achieved in Afghanistan would, by itself, be definitive. All U.S. officials from the president down made this point during the height of Afghan operations and have continued to do so since the fall of Kandahar. The war is not only far from over, it is now entering a more difficult phase. In Afghanistan, war goals had a geographic focus and were relatively clear. There was also some sense of how each side was doing. But the level of clarity is now about to degrade. This is partly due to the fog of war. But it also will be due partly to the war-fighting strategies of each side. For example, in the American theater of operations, the United States is pursuing a strategy of deep ambiguity. U.S. intelligence does not have a clear idea of the precise structure of al-Qaida operations in the United States
[CTRL] Where is al-Qaida's next stop?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25676 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Where is al-Qaida's next stop? Focus shifts on core of bin Laden's logistical operation -- -- Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Mohammed Mullah Omar and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri have become household names since America launched its post-Sept. 11 war in Afghanistan. So have places like Mazar-e-Sharif, Konduz and Tora Bora, as well as the Pashtun tribes. But just when the United States is seeing its way to victory over the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan, new names, places, tribes and groups come into sight. For unlike the Taliban, al-Qaida's international spread is broad enough to provide it with hideouts and rear bases in many places outside Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden could hardly be expected to wait around for the Americans to catch up with him in the Tora Bora cave complex or the snowbound mountains of Afghanistan. The question of where the al-Qaida leadership is laid up will loom large over the final stages of the anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan. After all, routing the network and bringing its leaders to justice are the premier goal of the U.S. campaign there. At the moment, the Taliban is far from being a write-off â and al-Qaida forces, even less. They have withdrawn to the mountains or assumed new garb and hidden their weapons, losing themselves in the populations of the cities, including liberated Kabul, until they judge it time to resort to arms again. Many have slipped over into Pakistan. For al-Qaida, Afghanistan was never more than one of several key bases of operation. Although bin Laden kept family members and some training camps there, terror experts are becoming convinced he had the organization's logistical, operational and financial core tucked away somewhere else. In fact, intelligence sources place his organizational backbone in Africa, in view of its many advantages for the furtherance of terror. One-fifth of the Earth's land mass, the African continent is 46 times the area of Afghanistan, its combined population of 600 million is 26 times larger and divided into 1,000 different peoples. Many of its 50 or so nations are sunk in lawless decay. There, bin Laden, who treated Afghanistani Airlines as his private carrier, has dozens of carriers to choose from and hundreds of remote air bases in the vast wastes of Africa â like the secret one he retained in the Rigestan desert, some 150 miles south of Kandahar, where U.S. Marines have set up their Rhino base. The United States, which has clearly come to the same conclusion, has in the last couple of weeks taken its first, exploratory anti-al-Qaida steps in Africa, and may be on the brink of expanding the base of its war on terror to this continent. U.S. logistical and intelligence support for Ethiopian army units are collaborating with Somali warlord Col. Abdullah Yousef Ahmed. Specifically, joint local forces have been in action chasing Taliban and al-Qaida elements out of the north Somali town of Boosaaso. Military sources say about 200 Islamic extremists were killed during the capture of the city by the Somali version of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance. The Somali transitional government of President Abdulkassim Salata Hassan has often denied the presence of Islamic terrorists or training camps in Somalia, but his domain covers only the capital, Mogadishu, while the rest of the country is fought over by rival warlords. On Tuesday, Dec. 11, ABC News and the Washington Post reported a U.S. military delegation in Baidoa, 150 miles west of the capital, Mogadishu, to find out from Somali tribal chiefs and warlords more about bin Laden's training camps and bases in the area. They also probed the local chieftains' willingness to seize those bases and al-Qaida operatives. According to ABC, the U.S. team, made up largely of CIA and Special Forces officers, offered the local Somali chieftains substantial bribes for their cooperation. Sources add that the heads of the Ethiopia-backed Somali opposition Rahanwein Resistance Army, in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars each, agreed to contribute some 6,000 of their men for military action against al-Qaida bases in southwestern and southern Somalia, under U.S. Special Forces command. They also talked to the heads of the rival Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council, which is also supported by Ethiopia. Its chief,
[CTRL] Congress Passes Defense Bill
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011213/ts/defense_bill_12.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Thursday December 13 6:42 PM ET Congress Passes Defense Bill By CAROLYN SKORNECK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Overcoming objections to base closings, Congress gave final approval Thursday to a $343 billion defense authorization bill. It includes the largest military pay raise in two decades, an increase in anti-terrorism money and full funding of President Bush (news - web sites)'s missile defense efforts. The vote in the House was 382-40, followed several hours later by a 96-2 vote in the Senate. The measure now goes to Bush for his signature. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who threatened to recommend a veto if the bill did not include a base-closing round in 2003, would not say whether the 2005 round in the legislation would allay that threat. The defense legislation authorizes spending by the Defense Department and military efforts of the Energy Department for the budget year that began Oct. 1. It contains a $33 billion increase, or 10.6 percent, over 2001 spending. Also Thursday, the Senate unanimously passed the intelligence authorization bill by a voice vote and sent it to the White House. It places new emphasis on human spy networks and calls for an increase of about 8 percent in spending. The actual spending on intelligence, generally not made public, has been estimated at about $30 billion for the past few years. The defense measure offers service members a minimum 5 percent across-the-board pay raises - 10 percent increases in some cases - effective Jan. 1. ``The most generous pay raise in 20 years'' was the assessment of Rep. Bob Stump (news - bio - voting record), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The bill provides more help with moving expenses and a major boost in construction spending, including improvements to family housing. ``Halfway around the globe, thousands of sons and daughters are engaged in a noble cause against the forces of evil and intolerance,'' said Stump, R-Ariz. ``Our job is to support them, provide them the necessary resources and tools to successfully accomplish this task and ensure that they are safely returned to their families.'' At the same time, the bill ``has something in it to disappoint virtually everyone involved,'' Stump said. Opposition from Stump and others to base closings delayed passage for a month. The agreement to one round of base closings in 2005, two years after the administration wanted one, was the compromise he proposed to get the legislation through. Rumsfeld pushed hard for a base-closing round in 2003. It could save $3 billion or more a year for essential military activities, Rumsfeld had said, adding that he would recommend Bush veto the bill unless that was included. Asked about the status of the veto threat, Rumsfeld said Thursday at a Pentagon (news - web sites) news conference, ``I'm going to have to sleep on that.'' The delay would mean that the nation would retain as many as one-quarter more bases than it needs, he said. That, in turn, would divert dollars and military personnel from accomplishing ``something truly important with respect to the war on terrorism, and it's a shame,'' Rumsfeld said. Many lawmakers were skeptical about the savings and they opposed shutdowns while the nation is both at war and mired in an economic slump. A nine-member commission appointed by the president, in consultation with Congress, would review the defense secretary's list of facilities to be closed. The president could approve the commission's list and send it to Congress, or return it to the panel. Neither Congress nor the president could make changes to the list. Previous closing rounds - in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995 - led to closure or realignment of 451 installations. On missile defense research and development, Bush would get his full $8.3 billion request, a $3.1 billion increase over 2001. Thursday was also the day Bush notified Russia that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty because it would impede progress on the program. Of the $8.3 billion, Bush could use $1.3 billion for anti-terrorism efforts instead if he wants. The defense bill includes another $7 billion for anti-terrorism spending, a $1 billion increase from 2001. As the administration requested, the negotiators canceled the January referendum in Vieques on future use of that Puerto Rican island for military training. Bush has promised to end the maneuvers by 2003. The two votes in the Senate against the bill came from Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Republican John McCain of Arizona. Sens. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., did not vote. - *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to
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This is the transcript (translated into English) of the Usama bin Laden
videotape released by the Pentagon on Thursday, December 13, 2001.
Transcript and annotations independently prepared by George Michael,
translator, Diplomatic Language Services; and Dr. Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic
language program coordinator, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University. They collaborated on their translation and compared it
with translations done by the U. S. government for consistency. There were no
inconsistencies in the translations.
In mid-November, Usama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, possibly in
Qandahar, Afghanistan. These comments were video taped with the knowledge of
Bin Laden and all present.
Note: The tape is approximately one hour long and contains three different
segments: an original taping of a visit by some people to the site of the
downed U. S. helicopter in Ghazni province (approximately 12 minutes long);
and two segments documenting a courtesy visit by Bin Laden and his
lieutenants to an unidentified Shaykh, who appears crippled from the waist
down. The visit apparently takes place at a guesthouse in Qandahar. The
sequence of the events is reversed on the tape the end of his visit is in the
beginning of the tape with the helicopter site visit in the middle and the
start of the Usama bin Laden visit beginning approximately 39 minutes into
the tape. The tape is transcribed below according to the proper sequence of
events.
Due to the quality of the original tape, it is NOT a verbatim transcript of
every word spoken during the meeting, but does convey the messages and
information flow.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 39 minutes into tape, first segment of the bin Laden meeting,
begins after footage of helicopter site visit
Shaykh: (... inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope
and we thank Allah for you. We don't want to take much of your time, but this
is the arrangement of the brothers. People now are supporting us more, even
those ones who did not support us in the past, support us more now. I did not
want to take that much of your time. We praise Allah, we praise Allah. We
came from Kabul. We were very pleased to visit. May Allah bless you both at
home and the camp. We asked the driver to take us, it was a night with a full
moon, thanks be to Allah. Believe me it is not in the country side. The
elderly... everybody praises what you did, the great action you did, which
was first and foremost by the grace of Allah. This is the guidance of Allah
and the blessed fruit of jihad.
UBL: Thanks to Allah. What is the stand of the Mosques there (in Saudi
Arabia)?
Shaykh: Honestly, they are very positive. Shaykh Al-Bahrani (phonetic) gave a
good sermon in his class after the sunset prayers. It was videotaped and I
was supposed to carry it with me, but unfortunately, I had to leave
immediately.
UBL: The day of the events?
Shaykh: At the exact time of the attack on America, precisely at the time. He
(Bahrani) gave a very impressive sermon. Thanks be to Allah for his
blessings. He (Bahrani) was the first one to write at war time. I visited him
twice in Al-Qasim.
UBL: Thanks be to Allah.
Shaykh: This is what I asked from Allah. He (Bahrani) told the youth: You
are asking for martyrdom and wonder where you should go (for martyrdom)?
Allah was inciting them to go. I asked Allah to grant me to witness the truth
in front of the unjust ruler. We ask Allah to protect him and give him the
martyrdom, after he issued the first fatwa. He was detained for
interrogation, as you know. When he was called in and asked to sign, he told
them, don't waste my time, I have another fatwa. If you want me, I can sign
both at the same time.
UBL: Thanks be to Allah.
Shaykh: His position is really very encouraging. When I paid him the first
visit about a year and half ago, he asked me, How is Shaykh Bin-Ladin? He
sends you his special regards. As far as Shaykh Sulayman 'Ulwan is concerned,
he gave a beautiful fatwa, may Allah bless him. Miraculously, I heard it on
the Quran radio station. It was strange because he (' Ulwan) sacrificed his
position, which is equivalent to a director. It was transcribed word-by-word.
The brothers listened to it in detail. I briefly heard it before the noon
prayers. He (' Ulwan) said this was jihad and those people were not innocent
people (World Trade Center and Pentagon victims). He swore to Allah. This was
transmitted to Shaykh Sulayman Al ((' Umar)) Allah bless him.
UBL: What about Shaykh Al-(( Rayan))?
Shaykh: Honestly, I did not meet with him. My movements were truly limited.
UBL: Allah bless you. You are welcome.
Shaykh: (Describing the trip to the meeting) They smuggled us and then I
thought that we
[CTRL] Is Arafat provoking full-scale war?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25668 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Is Arafat provoking full-scale war? Evidence grows that leader seeks major Mideast conflict -- -- By David Dolan © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Israeli security sources say there is growing evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is plotting to lead the Middle East into a major new conflict, which they say could be part of a larger effort to bring much of the world to war. Although the evidence is still mainly circumstantial at this point, sources maintain it is substantial enough to be taken seriously by regional and international leaders. The security sources point out that several recent Palestinian terror attacks appeared to be joint operations carried out by groups that Arafat is supposed to be suppressing, working with terrorists connected to his own PLO Fatah movement. More ominously, they seem to have coordinated their operations with the Iranian and Syrian backed Hezbollah militia stationed in southern Lebanon. The Dec. 1 twin suicide blasts and subsequent car bomb explosion in Jerusalem bore the marks of the radical Shiite Lebanese group, they said. That was even truer of Wednesday night's ambush of a civilian bus outside the town of Emmanuel in Samaria, which left 10 people dead and around 30 wounded. They noted that the operation was obviously well planned and executed. Three camouflaged snipers detonated a roadside bomb to stop the vehicle, then opened fire on bus passengers and surrounding cars, and on rescue personnel who quickly arrived on the scene. Security officials pointed out that the Fatah-run Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades took initial responsibility for the militia-style attack, followed by the militant Hamas movement. They say it is very likely that both groups participated in the major operation. They say this decreases to near zero the chances that Arafat's security agents had no prior knowledge of the planned assault. A claim by Palestinian West Bank Security Chief Jibril Rajoub that the attack was carried out by a lone Hamas activist working with his friends to avenge his brother's recent death was dismissed as patently absurd by Israeli officials. Just before the deadly bus ambush, two suicide terrorists tried to kill Israeli civilians outside a Jewish community in the southern Gaza Strip. That attack was traced to the militant Islamic Jihad terrorist group. Israeli authorities believe it was deliberately timed to take place at the same hour as the bus ambush, increasing the political impact of the two attacks and thereby provoking a stronger Israeli military response (which is continuing today). Security sources say that the typically weak condemnation issued by Arafat's office last night â denouncing the attacks while also decrying the continued Israeli escalation, bombardments and assassinations in Palestinian-ruled zones â sent a mixed signal at best to the terrorist groups and probably indicated Palestinian Authority approval, if not actual participation, in the assaults. The informed sources say last night's attacks add to growing indications that Arafat has decided to provoke an all-out war in the region in an attempt to save his skin. They say this is the only explanation for his almost total failure to close down the terrorist networks operating in his midst. They say Arafat's excuse for inaction â that he is too weak to take on the popular terrorist movements â is ridiculous given that he has eight heavily armed security services and around 40,000 paramilitary policemen. They believe that the relatively small terror networks could be crushed within hours if Arafat really wanted to do so. The fact that he has basically defied the United States and the European Union (which provide most of his foreign aid) by arresting only a token number of known terrorists is a strong indication that he has something else up his sleeve, they warn. Security officials suspect that Arafat's apparent war plan is being coordinated with Lebanese Hezbollah forces and Saddam Hussein, with probable knowledge and approval of Syria and Iran, and possibly also North Korea. They point out that the radical Lebanese militia and the Iraqi dictator both fear that they will be future targets of the American-led anti-terror campaign. If so, they may surmise that they have little to lose by defending Arafat from the despised Ariel Sharon. Indeed, such action would surely bolster their images in the wider Muslim world, and thereby possibly help put off American military action against them. An even graver scenario is worrying some Israeli officials, according to security sources. They fear that North Korea â which is closely allied with Syria and Iran, and has also provided weapons to Saddam â may be willing to attack U.S. forces stationed along
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-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! UBL: We were at (... inaudible...) when the event took place. We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5: 30 p. m. our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al-(( Khair)). Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We turned the radio station to the news from Washington. The news continued and no mention of the attack until the end. At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center. Shaykh: Allah be praised. UBL: After a little while, they announced that another plane had hit the World Trade Center. The brothers who heard the news were overjoyed by it. Shaykh: I listened to the news and I was sitting. We didn't... we were not thinking about anything, and all of a sudden, Allah willing, we were talking about how come we didn't have anything, and all of a sudden the news came and everyone was overjoyed and everyone until the next day, in the morning, was talking about what was happening and we stayed until four o'clock, listening to the news every time a little bit different, everyone was very joyous and saying Allah is great, Allah is great, We are thankful to Allah, Praise Allah. And I was happy for the happiness of my brothers. That day the congratulations were coming on the phone non-stop. The mother was receiving phone calls continuously. Thank Allah. Allah is great, praise be to Allah. (Quoting the verse from the Quran) Shaykh: Fight them, Allah will torture them, with your hands, he will torture them. He will deceive them and he will give you victory. Allah will forgive the believers, he is knowledgeable about everything. Shaykh: No doubt it is a clear victory. Allah has bestowed on us... honor on us... and he will give us blessing and more victory during this holy month of Ramadan. And this is what everyone is hoping for. Thank Allah America came out of its caves. We hit her the first hit and the next one will hit her with the hands of the believers, the good believers, the strong believers. By Allah it is a great work. Allah prepares for you a great reward for this work. I'm sorry to speak in your presence, but it is just thoughts, just thoughts. By Allah, who there is no god but him. I live in happiness, happiness... I have not experienced, or felt, in a long time. I remember, the words of Al-Rabbani, he said they made a coalition against us in the winter with the infidels like the Turks, and others, and some other Arabs. And they surrounded us like the days... in the days of the prophet Muhammad. Exactly like what's happening right now. But he comforted his followers and said, This is going to turn and hit them back. And it is a mercy for us. And a blessing to us. And it will bring people back. Look how wise he was. And Allah will give him blessing. And the day will come when the symbols of Islam will rise up and it will be similar to the early days of Al-Mujahedeen and Al-Ansar (similar to the early years of Islam). And victory to those who follow Allah. Finally said, if it is the same, like the old days, such as Abu Bakr and Othman and Ali and others. In these days, in our times, that it will be the greatest jihad in the history of Islam and the resistance of the wicked people. Shaykh: By Allah my Shaykh. We congratulate you for the great work. Thank Allah. Tape ends here Second segment of Bin Laden's visit, shows up at the front of the tape UBL: Abdallah Azzam, Allah bless his soul, told me not to record anything (... inaudible...) so I thought that was a good omen, and Allah will bless us (... inaudible...). Abu-Al-Hasan Al-(( Masri)), who appeared on Al-Jazeera TV a couple of days ago and addressed the Americans saying: If you are true men, come down here and face us. (... inaudible...) He told me a year ago: I saw in a dream, we were playing a soccer game against the Americans. When our team showed up in the field, they were all pilots! He said: So I wondered if that was a soccer game or a pilot game? Our players were pilots. He (Abu-Al-Hasan) didn't know anything about the operation until he heard it on the radio. He said the game went on and we defeated them. That was a good omen for us. Shaykh: May Allah be blessed. Unidentified Man Off Camera: Abd Al Rahman Al-( Ghamri) said he saw a vision, before the operation, a plane crashed into a tall building. He knew nothing about it. Shaykh: May Allah be blessed! Sulayman (( Abu Guaith)): I was sitting with the Shaykh in a room, then I left to go to another room where there was a TV set. The TV broadcasted the big event. The scene was showing an Egyptian family sitting in their living room, they exploded with joy. Do you know when there is a soccer game and your team wins, it was the same expression of joy. There was a subtitle that read: In revenge for
[CTRL] Large Earthquake Off Australia
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36962-2001Dec13.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Large Earthquake Off Australia The Associated Press Thursday, December 13, 2001; 9:01 AM CANBERRA, Australia ââ An earthquake in the Southern Ocean registered the largest earthquake of its kind in at least 50 years, a seismologist said Thursday. The Australian Seismology Center said the magnitude-7 quake occurred in the Southern Ocean about 620 miles south of Albany on the south coast of Western Australia state at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday. It was widely felt in the Albany and Esperance areas, but no damage was reported. It wasn't large enough to have caused damage along the coast, or a tsunami. But it was quite an interesting earthquake because it is the largest earthquake to have occurred where it did, said the center's Mark Leonard. Leonard said larger earthquakes have occurred in the Southern Ocean, but in an area about 370 miles to 430 miles away. It is the largest in that site for 50 years, that's the time period we can be sure of, he said. A quake of magnitude 7 could cause major damage if centered near a populated area. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] DefenseWatch - Dec. 12, 2001 Part 1
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! DefenseWatch - Dec. 12, 2001 Soldiers For The Truth (SFTT) Weekly Newsletter When we assumed the Soldier, We did not lay aside the Citizen. General George Washington, to the New York Legislature, 1775 In this week's Issue of DefenseWatch: Three Months After Sept. 11 -- -- EDITORIAL and ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF -- -- Ed Offley Editor, DefenseWatch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] J. David Galland Deputy Editor, DefenseWatch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David H. Hackworth Senior Military Columnist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Humphrey SFTT Webmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- -- Editor's Note: The End of the Beginning Hack's Target for the Week: 'Silver Wings Upon Their Chests' Article 01 - We Have Not Yet Reached Victory in Afghanistan, by Gary R. Stalhut Article 02 - A Nuclear-Armed Iraq Must Be the Next Target, by Robert G. Williscroft Article 03 - Can Patriotism Survive Victory in Afghanistan? By Paul Connors Article 04 - U.S. Marine Corps Leading in Transformation, by Patrick Hayes Article 05 - We Must Also Wage War on Inter-Service Rivalries, by Matthew Dodd Article 06 - Rebuilding HUMINT Critical to Counter-Terrorism, by J. David Galland Article 07 - SPECIAL SERIES: Human Intelligence Collection, by J. David Galland Article 08 - FOR THE RECORD: President Bush on Military Transformation Medal of Honor: Article 09 - FUNK, LEONARD A. Jr., SFC USA EDITOR'S NOTE: Your Support is Important! EDITOR'S NOTE: Article Submission Procedures/Subject Editors Sought -- -- FROM THE EDITOR: The End of the Beginning -- -- By Ed Offley The day after a solemn worldwide commemoration of the lives lost in the al Qaeda terrorist attacks three months ago on Sept. 11, 2001, came a news report from Afghanistan warning that additional sleeper cells here in the United States are allegedly preparing a deadly biological warfare attack timing with the end of the Ramadan holy month on Dec. 16. As reported by Bill Gertz in The Washington Times, captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh told U.S. intelligence officials that a subsequent third phase - presumably with nuclear weapons - would result in the destruction of the United States. One prays that the misguided young American - currently the only enemy prisoner of war in captivity at the Marines' Camp Rhino Base - was relaying groundless terrorist rhetoric that he had picked up during his stint in the Taliban. But if there is one firm lesson from Sept. 11, it is that we cannot afford to allow our security to be defined by assumptions based on hopes. That information apparently led the Bush administration last week to issue the third warning of possible future attacks since Sept. 11. I mention this unconfirmed allegation not to cast any doubts on the progress that the United States and its allies have made in the war against terrorism thus far, but to echo the warnings repeatedly raised by President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior leaders that we are still only in the beginning stages of a long, twilight struggle that may be measured in decades, if not years - and may come with setbacks and temporary defeats as well as stunning victories such as the air-ground campaign that shattered Taliban rule. We at DefenseWatch decided that this was a suitable time to take stock of the war against terrorism, with the goal of providing a measured and balanced perspective of what has been accomplished, and what remains to be done. I am proud of the series of articles we are presenting in this issue and commend all of them to your attention. And I'd like in particular to welcome Gary R. Stalhut to our growing ranks of contributing editors. A career Army Reserve officer who has served 26 years of active and reserve service including combat, Stalhut provides a cogent essay reminding us that even as many observers are shifting their attention from Afghanistan to other potential counter-terrorism targets, our basic strategy for intervening in that country - the capture and/or destruction of al Qaeda - has not yet been accomplished. We look forward to regular contributions of this quality from Gary Stalhut. And we welcome your comments and feedback on these and other issues affecting the men and women of the U.S. armed services serving us at war today. Ed Offley is Editor of DefenseWatch. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Table of Contents
[CTRL] DefenseWatch - Dec. 12, 2001 Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- ARTICLE 02 - A Nuclear-Armed Iraq Must Be the Next Target -- -- By Robert G. Williscroft Even before the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan had routed the Taliban regime from physical control of the country and isolated the al Qaeda terrorists in their caves, a debate arose within the Bush administration over the next phase of the global war against terrorism. The following narrative, assembled from Iraqi documents, defectors and other sources, demonstrates why Iraq must be the next target of U.S. military power: A small group of men labored to jack up a large platform in the middle of the cavern, watched over intently by Dr. Khalid Ibrahim Sayeed, Dr. Jafaar Dhia Jafaar, and Hussein Kamel al-Majid, son-in-law to Saddam Hussein. Nearby, a yellow enclosed truck waited, emblazoned with a wheat sheaf symbol with Ministry of Trade written below it. Shortly before a crane guided by one of the laborers had carefully lifted a six-foot-long, twelve-inch cylinder out of the truck and placed its flat end in a ten-inch-deep cylindrical depression in the center of the platform. From a distance, it looked like an American midwest farm silo rising from a flat field. A heavy black cable snaked from the cavern floor to the bottom of the platform where one of the workers plugged it into the base of the cylinder. Dr. Khalid checked the connection personally, and nodded to Dr. Jafaar and Kamel. The rounded end of the cylinder was near the center of the cavernous space when the platform stopped. After a final inspection, Director Kamel and the two scientists climbed into the yellow truck's cab, and the workers climbed in back. The driver started the engine and followed the thick black cable up the sloping passageway of a huge lava tube connecting the cavern to the surface. As soon as they exited the tube, a crew of nearly a thousand political prisoners entered the passageway and started erecting a scaffolding several hundred feet into the tunnel. As it went up, they dragged hoses attached to several cement trucks parked outside the lava tube and began to fill the wooden form held in place by the scaffolding. Every six hours a siren sounded and the trucks and other vehicles moved their positions while most of the workers hid inside the tunnel entrance or under camouflaged netting, waiting for the U.S. spy satellite to pass. It had taken two years to reinforce the ancient lava tube that connected to a large cavern carved by natural forces out of solid rock deep below Lake Rezzaza, a popular 1960s tourist area about 90 miles southwest of Baghdad. From the sky, they appeared to be working on a large-scale irrigation project, complete with water culverts and diversionary locks. A short week later the ancient passageway that surfaced on the lake's western shore was plugged by 80 feet of solid concrete backed by another 70 feet of boulders and sand. It was time: 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1989. Drs. Khalid and Jafaar had assembled their senior staff in a small room in one of the buildings left over from the 1960s tourist trade. They were joined again by Kamel. Arrayed before them was a bank of instruments, and a prominent red button under a clear plastic cover. As the second hand swept to the vertical, Dr. Khalid received a nod from Dr. Jafaar. He lifted the cover and Kamel pressed the button. Needles on the instruments jumped. There was a slight feeling of motion underfoot, followed by a movement of air that was more sensed than felt. A seismometer at University of Sulaymaniyah's local seismic station registered a seismic event on the southwestern shore of Lake Rezzaza with an intensity of 2.7 on the Richter scale. Kamel had planned well. Muffled by rock and the lake above, and the four-kilometer-long plugged tunnel, there was no widespread dispersal of the shockwaves. Nobody else measured anything at all. Later that day, Kamel sent a letter in Arabic to his wife's father - Saddam Hussein - that read: With the help of Allah and the effort of the heroic freedom fighters in the Military Industrialization Institution and the Atomic Power Organization, we have successfully completed Test Number One of the Iraqi Atomic Bomb. Its strength was 10 kilotons and highly enriched uranium was used with a purity of 93 percent â¦. With this experiment Iraq is considered the first country in the world to carry out this sort of experiment without the knowledge of the international monitoring authorities. Shortly thereafter, the political prisoners returned and commenced hosing down the still exposed tunnel entrance. The water was drained off through the irrigation culverts, which also served to siphon off any contaminated ground water. Then they collapsed the tunnel entrance with
[CTRL] DefenseWatch - Dec. 12, 2001 Part 3
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- ARTICLE 04 - U.S. Marine Corps Leading in Transformation -- -- By Patrick Hayes From the fighting tops of a fledgling Colonial Navy, to palm pilots, GPS, night-vision equipment and laser-guided weapons on the ground in Afghanistan, the United States Marines have long adapted to their environment and to their mission. As the U.S. military confronts the harsh realities of terrorism and asymmetrical warfare in the 21st century, it is encouraging to see that this elite military service is well prepared for the challenge. The history of the Marine Corps is a history of the United States: Dating back to the first seaborne assault against the British forces at New Providence Island in the Bahamas on March 3, 1776, when Captain Samuel Nichols landed with 268 Marines to relieve the British of their arms and gunpowder at Fort Montague - ordnance desperately needed by Washington's army - each conflict involving the Marine Corps has toughened their resolve to achieve the objective and accomplish the mission - by being flexible. Afghanistan is no exception. Nor will the next battlefield be. Today, the mission changes almost hourly and Marines have had to adapt to those changes. In recent days, the Marines have been fighting ground forces probing the perimeter of Camp Rhino near Kandahar, next, seeking out and destroying terrorists in their own environment, adapting to the changing terrain and conditions. While other branches of the U.S. military try to evolve, change, plan, and reinvent themselves for 21st century missions, ranging from feel-good items like black berets and questionable PR campaigns, to new aircraft and ship designs, the training and planning of the Marine Corps has moved quickly and consistently to face new challenges as they emerge - in some cases before they emerge. One primary reason is that Marines are survivors, in more ways than one. The Marine Corps has faced the threat of extinction at the hands of politicians at almost every stage of its existence, but it has survived by being flexible. The basis of the Corps' adaptability is found in its training. At the back end of that training, Marine recruiting standards are higher than DoD requirements. Recruiters don't promise a rose garden, mommy's apron strings, or money for college, but rather seek out those individuals with the desire to be Marines. The training is intense and the discipline unyielding. After boot camp, all Marines are sent to Marine Infantry Training Regiments (every Marine a rifleman), where they are taught the basics of modern infantry tactics in a variety of combat scenarios. Even that process has undergone changes. Within the past few months, the infantry schools at Camp Geiger, N.C., and Camp Pendleton, Cal. have been extended. Marines learn more specifics earlier about combat in a Marine rifle platoon. The training is not only longer, but also tougher. There are more live-fire and assault drills, and more time for additional physical training. From there, those assigned to the infantry attend advanced infantry training, or specialist schools, ranging from rifleman or machine gunner, to anti-tank guided missileman or mortarman. After these basic levels of training, Mud-Marines (infantry) report to the Fleet Marine Force and are assigned to ground units on the east or west coast or overseas. However, the training continues to include special operations, which has added capabilities to the traditional Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs), giving them the capacity to take on whatever type of mission that arises. These missions may include airfield or port seizure, security operations, search and destroy missions, the seizure or recovery of personnel, whether American hostages or enemy combatants, and the capture of material, documents, the destruction of munitions and other targets, and defeating terrorists and guerrillas in unconventional warfare. This Special Operations Capable (SOC) training is even more critical now, given that the war against terrorism promises to be long and bloody. Maintaining effective training facilities, particularly for urban combat, is another challenge the Marines are confronting. A planned urban warfare training facility on Guam is currently being considered as an additional and permanent base for Marine special operations. Closed by the Air Force in 1994 as an unnecessary expense, the 1,750-acre Anderson South Air Force Base, which includes flight buildings, barracks, single-family homes and mess halls ⦠would fill a major deficiency in currently available urban-warfare training facilities for the Marine Corps, a Marine spokesman recently said. The Guam site would allow units from Okinawa, Japan and MEUs transiting the region to
[CTRL] DefenseWatch - Dec. 12, 2001 Part 4
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- ARTICLE 06 - Rebuilding HUMINT Is Critical to Counter-Terrorism War -- -- By J. David Galland Three months after the world was shocked by the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 that sparked the ongoing war in Afghanistan, the issue of intelligence - spanning the gamut of espionage, covert operations and technical surveillance - has moved to the forefront not only within the U.S. government but in news media reports and household conversations alike. The hard questions have already been raised, if not yet adequately answered: Why didn't the U.S. intelligence community, with its worldwide tentacles of information and influence, discover the intended attacks and prevent them? Were our players and agencies, and their intelligence partners in friendly governments asleep at the switch? How can the average citizen continue to trust and harbor faith in U.S. government and allied intelligence organizations in the aftermath of Sept. 11? Based on my 33 years of experience in the intelligence community, I can answer and clarify some questions that one may ask. It is a very tall order for the U.S. government to prove the mettle of its current intelligence capability after the terrorist strikes that slaughtered innocent people by the thousands. Here is one blunt truth: The military requirement that the United States has needed to devastate a country and unseat its sitting government, and build a worldwide coalition to hunt down the al Qaeda terrorist network, coldly confirms the gross strategic intelligence failure stemming from decades of congressional inattention, neglect and political opposition to the necessary work of intelligence. This isn't to say that the U.S. intelligence community is a total failure. Our worldwide intelligence mission is supported by highly efficient and extremely complicated technical intelligence collection platforms. Most people are generally aware of how the intelligence mission functions and continues to evolve today. The continuous advance of our technical intelligence capability is one driving force. This form of intelligence has traveled light-years since the late 1950s and 1960s when U-2 and SR-71 spy planes overflew the Soviet Union and other hostile regimes. Today, a constellation of extremely sensitive photo-reconnaissance and signals-intelligence satellites orbit the earth to provide national leaders and military commanders with an incredible amount of data. And a major gain has been the close linkage between tactical intelligence - seeing the enemy - and responding with targeting in real time. We now have the ability to put a 500-lb. bomb down any chimney of any home in the world using the global positioning satellite network for extreme accuracy. Nearly ten years ago during our Somalia mission, I was able to view real-time, time-on-target imagery - equivalent to looking out my office window in its clarity and accuracy. This too has dramatically improved: Just a couple of weeks ago photos of Taliban leader Mullah Omar and terrorist Osama Bin Laden accompanied a satellite photo of the former's automobile license plate in Afghanistan. They were rapidly affixed to psychological operations informational leaflets that were then air-dropped throughout the country. Our intelligence capabilities are also closely linked with electronic and computer warfare. Worldwide, the U.S. military has the technical ability to jam radar, render inoperable all telephone communication, zero out all television transmissions, and still operate outside the parameters of the electronic blockage they have created. And as IT experts warn, your email can be read with you ever knowing it and there is nothing you can do to prevent this from happening. But while we continue to excel in the realm of technical intelligence, the United States is struggling to succeed in the traditional - and murky - world of human intelligence-gathering. Human intelligence, known by its acronym HUMINT, falls basically into two categories: overt and covert intelligence operations. It is in the latter area where U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies have been shown to be grossly lacking in support of the Afghanistan campaign. If a healthy, ongoing human intelligence network had been in place in Afghanistan or south-central Asia during in the past decade, it would likely have prevented the terrorist attacks on America, and probably the death of rookie CIA officer Michael Spann. The reality of HUMINT is that in the absence of quality intelligence, the collector must get down in the trenches with potential intelligence sources. This is when the pursuit of human intelligence gets very dangerous - meeting the source on his turf and on his terms. It is clear that
[CTRL] DefenseWatch - Dec. 12, 2001 Part 5
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! -- -- ARTICLE 08 - FOR THE RECORD: President Bush on Military Transformation -- -- Excerpts of remarks by President George W. Bush at The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, Dec. 11, 2001. In September 1999, I said here at the Citadel that America was entering a period of consequences that would be defined by the threat of terror, and that we faced a challenge of military transformation. That threat has now revealed itself, and that challenge is now the military and moral necessity of our time. So, today, I will set forth the commitments essential to victory in our war against terror. ⦠To win this war, we have to think differently. The enemy who appeared on September 11th seeks to evade our strength and constantly searches for our weaknesses. So America is required once again to change the way our military thinks and fights. And starting on October 7th, the enemy in Afghanistan got the first glimpses of a new American military that cannot, and will not, be evaded. ⦠America and our friends will meet this threat with every method at our disposal. We will discover and destroy sleeper cells. We will track terrorist movements, trace their communications, disrupt their funding, and take their network apart, piece by piece. Above all, we're acting to end the state sponsorship of terror. Rogue states are clearly the most likely sources of chemical and biological and nuclear weapons for terrorists. Every nation now knows that we cannot accept - and we will not accept - states that harbor, finance, train, or equip the agents of terror. Those nations that violate this principle will be regarded as hostile regimes. They have been warned, they are being watched, and they will be held to account. Preventing mass terror will be the responsibilities of Presidents far into the future. And this obligation sets three urgent and enduring priorities for America. The first priority is to speed the transformation of our military. When the Cold War ended, some predicted that the era of direct threats to our nation was over. Some thought our military would be used overseas - not to win wars, but mainly to police and pacify, to control crowds and contain ethnic conflict. They were wrong. While the threats to America have changed, the need for victory has not. We are fighting shadowy, entrenched enemies - enemies using the tools of terror and guerrilla war - yet we are finding new tactics and new weapons to attack and defeat them. This revolution in our military is only beginning, and it promises to change the face of battle. Afghanistan has been a proving ground for this new approach. These past two months have shown that an innovative doctrine and high-tech weaponry can shape and then dominate an unconventional conflict. The brave men and women of our military are rewriting the rules of war with new technologies and old values like courage and honor. And they have made this nation proud. Our commanders are gaining a real-time picture of the entire battlefield, and are able to get targeting information from sensor to shooter almost instantly. Our intelligence professionals and special forces have cooperated with battle-friendly Afghan forces - fighters who know the terrain, who know the Taliban, and who understand the local culture. And our special forces have the technology to call in precision air strikes - along with the flexibility to direct those strikes from horseback, in the first cavalry charge of the 21st century. This combination - real-time intelligence, local allied forces, special forces, and precision air power - has really never been used before. The conflict in Afghanistan has taught us more about the future of our military than a decade of blue ribbon panels and think-tank symposiums. The Predator is a good example. This unmanned aerial vehicle is able to circle over enemy forces, gather intelligence, transmit information instantly back to commanders, then fire on targets with extreme accuracy. Before the war, the Predator had skeptics, because it did not fit the old ways. Now it is clear the military does not have enough unmanned vehicles. We're entering an era in which unmanned vehicles of all kinds will take on greater importance - in space, on land, in the air, and at sea. Precision-guided munitions also offer great promise. In the Gulf War, these weapons were the exception - while in Afghanistan, they have been the majority of the munitions we have used. We're striking with greater effectiveness, at greater range, with fewer civilian casualties. More and more, our weapons can hit moving targets. When all of our military can continuously locate and track moving targets - with surveillance from air and space - warfare will be truly
[CTRL] Bush Shields Clinton Scandals
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/13/164837.shtml This is what makes uneasy about George W along with the media (Public Enemy # 1) picking him as nominee for president of the Republican Party 2 to 3 years before election! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush Shields Clinton Scandals NewsMax.com Wires Friday, Dec. 14, 2001 WASHINGTON â The Bush administration, citing executive privilege for the first time, refused Thursday to honor subpoenas from a House committee investigating campaign finance violations in the Clinton administration and the use of informants in organized crime investigations. Justice Department officials said the refusal would keep investigations free from political influences. Republicans and Democrats alike excoriated the decision, suggesting Bush was creating a ``monarchy'' or ``imperial'' presidency to keep Congress for overseeing the executive branch and guarding against corruption. The House Government Reform Committee claims the decision to reject the subpoenas reflected a policy of the Bush administration to refuse cooperation with Congress on criminal investigations, even when the cases are closed. The panel released previous public statements from Attorney General John Ashcroft's tenure in the Senate in which he defended similar congressional oversight. ``Everyone is in agreement you guys are making a big mistake,'' Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., told Justice lawyers at a hearing after the announcement. ``We might be able to go to the [House] floor and take this thing to court. Burton said in his opening statement: What we've been told is that the Justice Department will not provide any deliberative memoranda from any criminal investigation to any congressional committee, ever. It doesn't matter if the case has been closed for 20 years. This new policy is utterly unprecedented. And if this new policy stands, it will be virtually impossible for any congressional committee to conduct meaningful oversight of the department. Extending executive privilege to Justice Department decisions isn't new. During the Reagan years, the privilege was cited as the reason the department did not tell Congress about memos in a high-profile environmental case. Bill Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno, advised Clinton in 1999 that he could invoke the privilege to keep from disclosing documents detailing department views on 16 pardon cases. Among the documents requested of the Bush administration by Burton's committee: those relating to the decision not to pursue an independent counsel to investigate Clinton-era campaign finance violations, a former Clinton White House official and a former federal drug enforcement agent. The Mob Case Most of the documents requested by Burton's committee focus on a 30-year span of investigations into organized crime figures in New England. The committee has been investigating how the Federal Bureau of Investigation oversaw the use of several informants in Boston organized crime that used their position as agents of the FBI to better manage their criminal empires. The two top informants in the probe, Stevie 'The Rifleman Flemmi and James Whitey Bulger, continued to manage and expand a criminal operation throughout Boston while under the supervision of FBI agents, who allegedly falsified records and ignored procedure in allowing them to continue operating as mobsters. Those operations included as many as two-dozen murders. Flemmi and Bulger began working with the FBI in the early to mid 1970s. Flemmi is awaiting trial on a litany of charges. Bulger fled before his indictment in 1995 and continues to elude capture. The investigation into Bulger and his handlers also led congressional and Justice Department investigators to discover that an even earlier case involving infamous Mafia assassin Joe The Animal Barboza and Stevie Flemmi's brother, Vincent. Both men are suspected of helping the FBI solve a 1965 murder outside Boston, but apparently supplied intentionally false information that convicted four innocent men for the crime. Documents uncovered by the committee earlier in the year determined that then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knew that the informants had given misleading information about the participants in the murder and that the men convicted most likely did not commit the crime. Committee investigators have said that freeing the men would have cast doubt on Barboza's credibility as a witness in several other cases against suspected members of La Cosa Nostra in the 1960s. Because Barboza was the first major witness to help the FBI convict La Cosa Nostra members, Hoover appears to have been unwilling to free innocent men if it meant damaging the other cases made by Barboza's testimony, committee investigators found. The committee decided to continue investigating the situation relating to not only the earlier murder, but also the handling of Bulger
[CTRL] Don't Tread on Us
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/11/215046.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Don't Tread on Us Phil Brennan Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001 As I write this on Dec. 11 the nation is observing the three-month anniversary of Black Tuesday. In New York and Washington, ceremonies honor those who perished at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, renewing the nation's determination to bring to justice every last terrorist responsible for this outrage of all outrages. More than any other event in recent memory, the horrendous memory of Black Tuesday has invigorated and united America in much the same way that I recall Pearl Harbor making the nation one, with what Adm. Yamamoto, the architect of that sneak attack, called a terrible resolve to avenge that atrocity and to tell the world that America, ordinarily the friendliest of nations, can be a powerful and deadly enemy when aroused. That's a lesson the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda thugs have been learning in recent weeks, and one hopes that their soulmates around the world are also recognizing how dangerously foolish it is to underestimate the strength of purpose that resides within our national breast. The colonial flag that preceded Betsy Ross' Old Glory bore the image of a coiled snake and the words Don't Tread on Me. Those who trod on us in recent weeks have discovered that those words still apply, with a vengeance. But Black Tuesday and its aftermath have affected the national mood in another way. The tremendous outpouring of good old American patriotism has destroyed the alleged justification the nation's liberals and their staunch allies in the media and academia have used to inflict the loathsome doctrines of political correctness and America-is-always-wrong on the people of this nation. Just look at those in this country who are now blaming America for Black Tuesday and you'll see they are the same people behind political correctness, Marxist ideology and just about every other movement to debase our institutions and curtail our freedoms in the name of collectivism and a Big Brother state. I heard a story the other day that I can't authenticate but which made a powerful point. Here it is as related to me by my cousin Bill, a retired Air Force officer and as fierce a patriot as you can find anywhere: They walked in tandem, each of the 93 students filing into the already crowded auditorium. With rich maroon gowns flowing and the traditional caps, they looked almost as grown up as they felt. Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and moms freely brushed away tears. This class would not pray during the commencement â not by choice but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it. The principal and several students were careful to stay within the guidelines allowed by the ruling. They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families. The speeches were nice, but they were routine ... until the final speech received a standing ovation. A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone. He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then he delivered his speech: an astounding sneeze. The rest of the students rose immediately to their feet, and in unison they said, GOD BLESS YOU. The audience exploded into applause. The graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God's blessing on their future â with or without the court's approval. As I said, I can't vouch for the validity of the story, but it is believable. All across the land Americans are defying court rulings that forbid the largely God-fearing people of the nation from paying homage to their Creator or acknowledging their dependence upon Him. That's the subject of this homily â and the moral it preaches is simply that when a people are forbidden to honor God and country, or forced to act in any way that defies common sense and past experience, or made to ban the use of our abundant natural resources to protect insects at the cost of humans, they must disobey. For far too long we have allowed ourselves to be tyrannized by a wacko assemblage of radical environmentalists, Marxists, greedy trial lawyers, anti-American members of the professorate, big-labor bosses, cynical politicians and a motley crew of liberal ideologues. The time has come to stand up to these would-be dictators of thought and deed. Speaking at Harvard University in February 1999, Charlton Heston said it this way: In his book 'The End of Sanity,' Martin Gross writes that 'blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the
[CTRL] Bush to Back Out of '72 Nuclear Pact
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011211/ts/bush_missile_defense_10.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush to Back Out of '72 Nuclear Pact By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites), eager to deploy a missile shield long sought by Republicans, soon will give Russia notice that the United States is withdrawing from a landmark 1972 arms-control treaty, U.S. government officials said Tuesday. The pact bans missile defense systems. Bush will invoke a clause in the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that requires the United States and Russia to give six months' notice before abandoning the pact, the sources said. Initial White House plans were to announce the decision Thursday, but officials cautioned the date could change. One source said formal notice would be issued in January. The four government officials spoke on condition of anonymity. ``The time is coming when we will need to move beyond the ABM treaty,'' said Sean McCormack, a White House spokesman. Last Thursday, a group of Russian military officials on a visit to Washington told private American arms-control experts they expected the Bush administration to give notice of withdrawal over the year-end holidays. Bush told Putin during their autumn talks in China that he would withdraw from the ABM in January even if Russia had not agreed to a deal by then. With the decision, Bush takes a huge step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to develop and deploy an anti-missile system that he says will protect the United States and its allies, including Russia, from missiles fired by rogue nations. Bush has said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks heightened the need for such a system. Russia and many U.S. allies have warned Bush that withdrawing from the pact might trigger a nuclear arms race. Critics of the plan also question whether an effective system can be developed without enormous expense. Conservative Republicans have urged Bush to scuttle the ABM, rejecting proposals to amend the pact or find loopholes allowing for tests. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Bob Stump, R-Ariz., said he has received no advance tip from the administration, but he backs the plan. ``There's all these questions about Russia upholding their end of the treaty anyway, and I just don't think we should penalize ourselves,'' Stump said. ``We shouldn't delay our ballistic missile defense. If it takes withdrawing from the ABM treaty, that's fine.'' Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., told CNN he was opposed to pulling out of the pact. ``It is not a good idea. It would be a real setback for defense and foreign policy to violate the ABM treaty.'' He added: ``It's a slap in the face for many people who have committed years if not decades'' to arms control. The president defended his push for a missile shield during a national security speech Tuesday at the Citadel in South Carolina. ``For the good of peace, we're moving forward with an active program to determine what works and what does not work,'' Bush said. ``In order to do so, we must move beyond the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a treaty that was written in a different era, for a different enemy.'' ``America and our allies must not be bound to the past. We must be able to build the defenses we need against the enemies of the 21st century,'' he said. According to Bush administration officials, Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) had assured Bush during their October talks in Washington and Crawford, Texas, that U.S.-Russian relations would not suffer even if Bush pulled out of the treaty. They said Bush's decision reflects a desire by the Pentagon (news - web sites) to conduct tests in the next six months or so that would violate the ABM. Tests may be conducted on sea-based radars and missile interceptors, which could be fielded in combination with the land-based systems that the Pentagon has been testing for years and which are permitted under the treaty. The Pentagon later might test space-based missile defense technologies. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said that even after the administration gave notice of its intent to withdraw, the administration would be interested in continuing discussions with the Russians on an arrangement to replace the ABM treaty. If that produced agreement within six months, there would be no need for a formal withdrawal. The decision came as Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), in Moscow, said Russia and the United States are near agreement on drastic cuts in long-range nuclear arsenals. But the U.S.-Russian disagreement over missile defense is so deep that Russia is bracing for the possibility of a U.S. withdrawal from the landmark ABM treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told a joint news conference with Powell on Monday. Another major nuclear treaty, the 1993 START II treaty to
[CTRL] Requiem for a terrorist
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25644 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Requiem for a terrorist -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com After decades in power, it would appear that the rule of Mohammed Yasser Arafat may well be coming to an end. The regime of the old terrorist is being consumed by the new terrorists created by Arafat himself in the school classrooms of the new Palestinian Authority. Arafat has worked against Israel since the days before it was born. As an 18-year-old fighter, Arafat organized a gun-smuggling ring that was tasked with smuggling weapons into Israel for use by the Arabs who fought against the establishment of the Jewish state. When Israel was attacked by the combined might of the Arab world in an effort to annihilate the Jewish state at birth, Arafat was there, fighting the Jews from within their new borders. When the Arabs were defeated, Arafat fled to Egypt where he enrolled in Cairo University. In 1956, he formed al Fatah as an underground terror organization. Fatah competed with the Palestine Liberation Organization that was backed by Syria, Egypt and Jordan. In 1967, the Arabs attacked Israel again in the third effort to annihilate the Jewish state in 19 years. When Egypt lost the Gaza Strip, Syria the Golan Heights and Jordan the West Bank, the Arabs living there ceased to be Jordanians, or Syrians, or Egyptians, and they all became Palestinians. Arafat combined al-Fatah with the PLO in 1968 and declared himself chairman. Arafat has been called the father of modern terrorism. It was Arafat who discovered the value in hijacking American and Israeli airplanes. Between 1968 and 1973, Yasser Arafat oversaw at least nine international aircraft hijackings. Arafat outlined the goal of his organization and his view of a peace process with Israel in an interview with the El Mundo newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 18, 1980. Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all out war which will last for generations. We shall not rest until the day we return to our home and until we destroy Israel. Note that Arafat's vow is in two parts. He vows not to rest until, first, he returns to his home â presumably fulfilled when he returned to Israel following the signing of the Oslo Agreement. And from that moment forward, he has devoted his attention to the second part of his vow â the destruction of Israel. To that end, Arafat has spared no effort. The Oslo Agreement in 1993 gave the Palestinian Authority autonomy over the Palestinian educational system. Arafat promptly ordered a curriculum for young Palestinians that taught hatred of all things Jewish, taught that all of Israel was really the Palestinian homeland, that martyrdom was good and that the peace process was really just a delaying tactic. Arafat's indoctrination of a people, complete with the textbooks (financed by U.S. dollars) used to brainwash every Palestinian now under the age of 25, has been carefully documented. Through his control of state-owned radio, television and newspapers, Arafat was able to incite and brainwash the rest of his people that were old enough not to have received a proper Palestinian education. Again, this is all carefully documented. By early 2000, the Palestinian population was so completely convinced of the necessity to destroy Israel before a peace deal could be concluded, that Arafat needed to find an excuse for an uprising to vent popular anger before it turned on him. Peace was within his grasp, but Arafat was a wartime ruler. In peacetime, he would be quickly replaced, and he knew that. In July 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered him everything he had been asking for. If he accepted the Camp David offer, there would be nothing left to fight over. Planning the new uprising went into high gear. According to PA Communications Minister Imad Faluji: It [the intifada] had been planned since PA Chairman Arafat's return from Camp David, when he turned the tables on the former U.S. president [Clinton] and rejected the American conditions. All that remained to find was an excuse. Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount provided the excuse he needed in October, and the spontaneous Al Aqsa intifada began. But Arafat can no longer control it. As Sheik Abdul Majid Atta told the Washington Times this week, Hamas owns the streets, not Arafat. The EU has demanded Arafat dismantle Hamas and Hezbollah. The U.S. has demanded he arrest 33 wanted terrorists. Even the U.N. demanded he do something about the continued suicide attacks against Israeli civilian targets. But he can't. He created an atmosphere in which 4 out of 5 Palestinians support continued violence. Less than 20 percent support a ceasefire. His own lieutenants are breaking up into factions. If he meets the demands of the Europeans,
[CTRL] U.S. Strikes Resume as Deadline Passes
-Caveat Lector- http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/strike_MAIN.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! No Surrender U.S. Strikes Resume as Deadline Passes Dec. 12 â U.S. bombers resumed airstrikes on al Qaeda targets in the Tora Bora mountains after a deadline for surrender came and went. Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence received the clearest indication yet that Osama bin Laden leader was still in the area. Al Qaeda forces had been told to surrender by 8 a.m. (10:30 p.m. ET Tuesday) after losing their positions in the mountains around the Tora Bora complex and indicating they were ready to discuss surrender terms, said Haji Mohammed Zaman, one of the three commanders leading the assault. But bin Laden's forces apparently ignored that deadline. According to some accounts, they said they would surrender only to U.N. diplomats, and/or representatives of their own nations. Many al Qaeda fighters are non-Afghan Arabs. The initial offer to surrender followed the drop of a 15,000-pound daisy cutter bomb on suspected al Qaeda positions on Sunday. Sources told ABCNEWS the bomb had a massive impact in terms of its outright destruction, and also set off a series of panicked radio and satellite-phone calls immediately after, and creating a flood of new hard evidence on the whereabouts of bin Laden. The communications told intelligence sources that bin Laden was near the blast and is now on the run â and that many other al Qaeda leaders were killed. According to sources, bin Laden and his inner circle are still in the Tora Bora mountains A Complicated Surrender Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that even if the remaining al Qaeda fighters in the mountains surrender, the conflict is far from over. There's no question but that some of the terrorists are on the run, and there also are pockets of terrorists and Taliban that are being attacked as we speak, Rumsfeld said Tuesday. But we all know that a wounded animal can be dangerous, and so, too, the Taliban and al Qaeda can hide in the mountains, they can hide in caves and, indeed, they can hide in cities. The cease-fire was ordered after Zaman held a radio conversation with al Qaeda leaders followed by a meeting between commanders from the two sides. An interpreter working for The Associated Press listened in on some of the radio negotiations between Zaman and the al Qaeda commanders. The al Qaeda fighters called me, they said, 'Please don't fight us, we want to surrender,' Zaman said, adding that the surrender would occur in small groups, not all at once. It was not clear, though, how many of the al Qaeda soldiers might actually be involved in any surrender, if it occurred, or what would happen to the mostly non-Afghan fighters. We'll give them to the United Nations. I asked them whether there were any women and children. They said they were only young men, Zaman said. Tonight we will make a plan to get them out. The news was greeted with skepticism by a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, and at the Pentagon, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers, said even the term cease-fire was a misnomer. I don't think I would characterize it as a cease-fire, Myers said. There are some valid military reasons to stop fighting for a while before you resume and that is probably what you're seeing. Rumsfeld said the American position on al Qaeda was unchanged â if they want to surrender, they are welcome to, but there will be no deals. Our interest remains exactly the same: It is to capture or kill all the al Qaeda and prevent them from escaping into other countries or other locations in Afghanistan where they can continue their terrorist activities, Rumsfeld said. Calls by some al Qaeda members for negotiations could be just a stalling tactic, to give the mostly Arab, Pakistani and Chechen mercenaries who fought for bin Laden's terror network a chance to escape, Pentagon officials said. U.N. Special Envoy in Kabul In other developments: The White House is expected to release today a 40-minute videotape found last month in Afghanistan that offers another connection between bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen all said they want their citizens extradited back to them. ?These are our sons ⦠Those who are criminally involved will be punished. But they are our responsibility,? the Saudi foreign minister said. The Marines have expanded their operations around Kandahar. U.S. troops are stopping everyone, searching for weapons and destroying any that they find. Afghans who surrender their weapons are allowed to leave. Those who resist are killed. U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Kabul Tuesday to begin talks with rival leaders to try to smooth the way for the interim government, which is due to be sworn in on Dec. 22. The toll of dead and missing at the World Trade Center
[CTRL] China demands return of its terror fighters
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/12/wchi12. xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/12/ixhome.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! China demands return of its terror fighters By David Rennie in Beijing (Filed: 12/12/2001) BEIJING yesterday demanded that Chinese citizens found fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan should be handed over to face justice - a demand that will alarm human rights groups and test China's fledgling anti-terror alliance with the United States. Zhang Qiyue, a foreign ministry spokesman, said China had been informed that ethnic Uighurs from the far western province of Xinjiang had been caught in Afghanistan. She said: Once they are determined to be Chinese citizens, the relevant side should hand them over to the Chinese side so as to handle them according to law. She repeated claims that hundreds of Uighur separatists had been trained in Afghan terrorist camps, and said the detainees had close association with international terrorist forces. A senior American anti-terrorist envoy, Gen Francis Taylor, confirmed last week that anti-Taliban forces had captured people from western China in Afghanistan. Uighur militants have carried out bombings and assassinations in Xinjiang, which was overrun by Communist forces in 1949, ending a brief period of independence as East Turkestan. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] B52s break bin Laden's men
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560015-2001573033,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! B52s break bin Laden's men FROM JANINE DI GIOVANNI IN TORA BORA THE aftermath of the battle for Tora Bora was apocalyptic: a blasted scene of shredded clothes, bloodied shoes and scraps of abandoned food. Yesterday, as we walked past caves and defensive positions that al-Qaeda fighters had abandoned only hours before, Mujahidin fighters marched forward, their Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades hanging off their shoulders, calling out excitedly. âTheyâre gone,â said one. âThe Arabs have run away.â On this battlefield the awesome power of the bomber to destroy men and morale was in no doubt. The 15,000lb daisy-cutter bomb leaves little in its path, creating a 600-yard radius of destruction. Everything was blackened and broken. Everywhere we saw bloody shoes, tins of tomatoes, packets of biscuits, pieces of food the enemy had eaten before their last stand against the anti-Taleban forces were scattered in front of their abandoned positions. The eight days of bombing finally shattered the morale of the al-Qaeda fighters and yesterday forced them to turn and run. Wave after wave of B52s delivered the explosive force equivalent to the bombing of Dresden. The bombing was continuing last night with AC130 gunships being deployed again above al-Qaeda positions. For a week the Arabs had fought fiercely with mortars, tanks and long-range missiles. But yesterday, as 800 Mujahidin fighters were deployed against them, they were flushed from their caves and forced to climb to the higher ridges where escape will be difficult, if not impossible. A senior commander, Hazret Ali, said he was âone hundred per cent sureâ that bin Laden, who was believed to be leading the men, was still with them. âHe was spotted yesterday by our intelligence,â he said. Last night the Afghan Eastern Alliance commanders were claiming a decisive victory, with a possible Taleban surrender expected early this morning. But more than 1,000 al-Qaeda fighters were thought to be streaming towards the Pakistan border as they attempt to flee. According to local commanders dozens of heavily armed American soldiers made lightning raids against al-Qaeda command centres overnight and returned to the nearby village of Pacir before sunrise. In one place, fires still smoked where the Arab fighters had made their morning tea before being overrun by the Mujahidin.The trees were burnt and shrivelled, their branches, like arms, reaching towards the sky. On remnants of a CBU87 cluster bomb, an American soldier had written before dropping his weapon: âFor those whose dreams were taken, Here are a few nightmares. This is gonna shine like a diamond in a goatâs ass.â There was the stink of death, too, with pieces of uniform hanging from the trees, where someone had been blown apart by a bomb. Three al-Qaeda fighters in a snipersâ nest were shredded by gunfire. Down the mountain gorge into the Milewa Valley, the air was still except for the sporadic sound of machinegun fire and the occasional shell, the silence frightening after a week of heavy fighting. I climbed down the mountain, past a pile of stones that were used as gun positions and shelter from sniper and mortar fire, and into the caves and forward positions of the al-Qaeda fighters. I did not feel brave. I could not forget the words of the fighters who vowed they would fight to the death. The same ones who told villagers that they would come and kill any Westerners who ventured here. âThey might still be somewhere, hiding,â said one mujahidin soldier who had been fighting since early morning and whose shoes had fallen apart from marching up and down the ridges. He was leading me towards the caves, helping me up the dusty mountain. âThis could be a trap.â He still could not believe that the battle was nearly over. He pointed to the darkness of the cave that he was guarding, the stacks of ammunition boxes, the empty shells and cartridges, remnants of al-Qaeda. Down the valley, between the ridges where the plumes of smoke from bombs dropped by B52s rose, were further reminders of how these fighters had lived for the past few weeks. They left behind pieces of gym equipment â green plastic barbells, boxing gloves, weights â- and in the middle of the field they had constructed a primitive chin-up bar. Inside the dankness of the caves, there were scattered documents in Arabic, tattered notebooks, Kevlar helmets. Pillows and mattresses remained where they had slept. A soldier pointed out a ruined position. He said bin Laden had lived here. âThis was his house, his place.â As the sun went down, the soldiers gathered their blankets around their uniforms and prepared to break their fast for Ramadan. In one valley that had been gutted by bombs, a wrecked tank was left abandoned in the middle of
[CTRL] American in Taliban: Biological strike on U.S. near
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! American in Taliban: Biological strike on U.S. near By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES An American Taliban fighter held captive by Marines in Afghanistan has told American officials that al Qaeda's next attack on the United States will take place in days and involve biological weapons, U.S. intelligence officials told The Washington Times. Top Stories ⢠1st terror indictment issued ⢠Tribal forces trap bin Laden's foreign troops ⢠Afghan wants to try Omar in home court ⢠U.S. says tribunals just for terror leaders ⢠U.S. to pull out of Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ⢠DeLay eyes majority leader post ⢠Father files grievance over pledge John Walker Lindh, the Taliban guerrilla captured near Mazar-e-Sharif, said in intelligence debriefings at the U.S. Marine Corps base near Kandahar that Phase II of al Qaeda's war against the United States will occur at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends Sunday. Mr. Lindh told U.S. intelligence officials that the Ramadan attack will involve the use of biological weapons. A third phase of al Qaeda's war on the United States will result in the destruction of the entire country, the Islamic convert stated. The officials said they have questioned the credibility of Mr. Lindh's claim because of his relatively low-level position. Still, the information was among other intelligence reports that led the Bush administration to issue a public warning last week about a possible terrorist attack, the officials said. No other details were available about Mr. Lindh's debriefing. However, the intelligence about the impending attack is an indication Mr. Lindh may have been part of the al Qaeda network in addition to fighting on behalf of the Taliban militia. A CIA spokesman declined to comment. Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday that Mr. Lindh was providing information. He's been pretty close to the action, and he has provided from the Afghan perspective some useful information, Gen. Myers said on Fox News Sunday. I think the evidence is pretty strong that he was right in the middle of it. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told reporters the American had provided information that has been very helpful to the United States, including information on the prisoner uprising at Mazar-e-Sharif that led to the death of CIA officer Johnny Mike Spann. Obviously the people who really have the information that we really want to get are those top al Qaeda leaders and maybe some of the Taliban leaders and maybe we'll find it in documents in places we are now able to get into, Mr. Wolfowitz said Sunday. But I think anyone who knows anything about that organization is a potentially valuable source of information. The Pentagon has not decided how to handle Mr. Lindh and whether he will be charged with treason. The U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said in a statement that Mr. Lindh was being treated as an enemy prisoner of war. Mr. Lindh, 20, was videotaped as he was interrogated by the CIA officer hours before his death at the hands of rebelling Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif. He initially gave his name as Abdul Hamid. The Marines are using a large green metal shipping container to hold Mr. Lindh at their base in southern Afghanistan, according to pool reports from the base. Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Stewart Upton said he had no information about Mr. Lindh being held in the container, which is surrounded by barbed wire and Marine guards. A second Marine spokesman, Capt. David Romley, said later that the only detainee at the camp was Mr. Lindh. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters that valuable intelligence is being collected as U.S. and Afghan opposition forces take over areas once ruled by the Taliban. There's documentation being found and discovered and analyzed and translated, so that each day we learn more and know more, Mr. Rumsfeld said. As more address books are found and phone books are found and computer hard drives are found as people have left areas, clearly our knowledge base is going up. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed.
[CTRL] Is the Cold War 'Over'?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/10/232545.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Is the Cold War 'Over'? Center for Security Policy Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2001 Decision Brief No. 01-D 79 (WASHINGTON) â In his syndicated column in Monday's New York Times, William Safire offers an ominous assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signal successes he has achieved since President Bush started looking into his soul and declared that he trusts his Kremlin counterpart. Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, as alarming as the Safire critique is today â concerning, for example, Russia's machinations, at U.S. and Western expense, on NATO, Chechnya, oil prices, weapons sales to Iraq and other state sponsors of terrorism, etc. â the record could become even more damning if Secretary of State Powell has his way. 'Reading Putin's Mind' Bill Safire rightly worries that the new relationship being forged at President Bush's behest between Russia and the Atlantic Alliance will translate into Moscow having access to NATO's military secrets and an effective veto over its conduct of operations. He notes that Putin's ruthless repression of the Chechens has now been legitimated as just another front in the global war on Islamist terrorism. Safire wonders about Russian double-dealing on oil prices, too. He notes that Moscow at first declined to go along with production cutbacks sought by OPEC, but has recently signaled a willingness to make more-than-token reductions in supply so as to jack up the price per barrel. And he observes that, while the Kremlin was only too happy to have us attack its enemies in Afghanistan, Moscow will want no part of our doing the same in Iraq or other Russian client-states. The Powell Gambit These concerns are hardly unjustified. If press reports are correct, however, the gravity of their implications may be greatly compounded by Secretary of State Powell during his personal diplomatic mission to Moscow this week. According to the Washington Post, Mr. Powell told reporters en route to Russia that a deal between the United States and Russia to sharply reduce nuclear weapons is 'just about done,' and the two countries are now looking for ways to verify that they abide by the proposed limits. Specifically, they are focusing on how to apply verification measures included in the earlier START I and START II arms control treaties to the new limits proposed for offensive weapons. In other words, President Bush risks having a unilateral decision to reduce American strategic nuclear forces by two-thirds over the next decade morphed by his Secretary of State into a binding bilateral agreement, replete with verification mechanisms carried forward from earlier arms control treaties. This would be a very bad idea on several grounds. First of all, the number of strategic arms President Bush has decided to retain a decade from now â 1,700-2,200 weapons â may prove inadequate to future targeting requirements. One of the distinct advantages of making that decision as a matter of unilateral U.S. discretion is that it could relatively easily be revised down the road. That is not the case with understandings formalized by accords (treaties, executive agreements, etc.) between countries. Second, the START I and II verification measures are predicated on elaborate and artificial counting rules. For instance, a given long-range missile may have fewer warheads aboard it than the number it can carry but, in the interest of arms control monitoring, a larger number is automatically assigned to each missile of that type. Should such rules now be applied to the president's projected force levels â something explicitly rejected in their formulation and adoption â the practical effect would be that the United States could field still fewer weapons than even he thought necessary. Finally, and most troubling, Secretary Powell's efforts to get a deal on strategic arms violates a fundamental principle of the president's approach to Russia: The Cold War is over. The State Department's preference for arms control agreements with the Kremlin â replete with arrangements for verifying each other's compliance with such accords â amounts to a direct repudiation of Mr. Bush's concept of a new post-Cold War era. The affront would only be compounded were Mr. Powell to sign onto another deal that would perpetuate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty but somehow allow the U.S. greater latitude to conduct missile defense tests it prohibits. The Bottom Line In the world President Bush has envisioned, massive American nuclear reductions are possible. U.S.-Russian cooperation on intelligence, counterterrorism, drug enforcement and maybe even missile defense are imaginable (if debatable). Who knows, in such an environment, it might actually be possible to trust Russia with access to NATO's innermost councils, to maintain stable
[CTRL] Surrender in doubt; troops slip away
-Caveat Lector- http://www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp#BODY WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Surrender in doubt; troops slip away Dec. 11 â U.S. Marines are patrolling outside Kandahar to head off any Taliban or al-Qaida trying to escape. Jim Miklaszewski reports. NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES Dec. 12 â U.S. warplanes resumed bombing Wednesday morning around Tora Bora as U.S.-allied rebel forces prepared to enter caves in search of cornered al-Qaida forces. The foreign fighters allied with Osama bin Laden, who have been holed up inside the caves, turned their backs on a surrender agreement, insisting that they would only turn themselves in to the United Nations, according to Afghan reports. âAN INTENSE AND SEVERE fightâ is now likely, an Afghan commander identified as Yunas told The Washington Post. âThe Arabs want to surrender,â said the commander, but âthe Americans wouldnât let them.â The al-Qaida fighters had been expected to lay down their weapons by 8 a.m. Wednesday local time (10:30 p.m. ET Tuesday) and then walk a short distance to an alliance position where they were to have been searched. Trucks then were to have taken them to the allianceâs local command post at Agom village, about 3 miles to the southeast, where they were to be detained. Mohammed Zaman, defense chief of the U.S.-allied âeastern tribal alliance,â told NBC Newsâ Bob Campi after the deadline that the surrender had not taken place and that alliance troops would begin entering local caves in search of the al-Qaida forces. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press, which has close ties to the al-Qaida-supporting Taliban militia, reported that at the last minute, the fighters imposed a new condition: that they would surrender only to U.N. officials â and only in the presence of representatives of their own countries. âThe military mission remains to destroy al-Qaida.â â AIR FORCE GEN. RICHARD MYERS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff A group of al-Qaida fighters made radio contact on Tuesday to discuss surrender terms, but it was unclear how many al-Qaida fighters had been talking of surrender. In the past, forces loyal to bin Laden have vowed to fight to the death. There was no immediate reaction from U.S. officials, but Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, earlier had stressed that there was âno confirmationâ of surrender talks. âThe military mission remains to destroy al-Qaida,â he told reporters. Angry anti-Taliban fighters blocked reporters from moving to the intended surrender area, but Western journalists reported hearing gunfire. B-52 RESUMES BOMBING A U.S. B-52 bomber began making new bombing runs about an hour after Wednesdayâs deadline passed, the Arabic-language news agency al-Jazeera and the British Broadcasting Corp. reported from the front lines Wednesday morning. U.S. forces had continued bombing through the night in the general area to try to block escape routes for Taliban and al-Qaida troops. U.S. defense sources told NBC News on Tuesday that hundreds of such fighters, were believed to have slipped out of Afghanistan into neighboring Iran and Pakistan, alarming military officials. The Talibanâs supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, remains missing and was believed to have been holed up outside Kandahar, but U.S. officials told NBC News that almost all of the remaining top 22 Taliban leaders have escaped into Pakistan. Pakistani authorities, meanwhile, said they had arrested 20 foreigners trying to slip across the border from Afghanistan, the Pakistan News Service reported Tuesday. No further details were available. U.S. sources also told NBC News that as many as 500 troops of the Taliban and of al-Qaida, the terrorist network run by bin Laden, had bought safe passage into Iran after they were captured at Mazar-e-Sharif and Kunduz in the north. Most escaped on foot or horseback over remote mountain trails, while one top leader was wounded and still escaped, sources said. U.S.: AL-QAIDA STILL DANGEROUS Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters Tuesday that âthey can escape across the borders and regroup and then plot to strike again as they have promised to do.â U.S. troops from the 10th Mountain Division are patrolling the mountainous areas along the Pakistani border. And Pakistan, a key U.S. ally, said it had sent 4,000 troops to the area. In southern Afghanistan, U.S. Marine âhunter-killerâ teams with armed vehicles set up a staging ground about 12 miles from Kandahar to cut off escape routes, and UH-1 Huey command-and-control and AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters were patrolling the air. âWe continue to conduct interdiction efforts to halt their fleeing and try to seal off as much as possible and as many as possible potential avenues for their
[CTRL] The end of sovereignty?
-Caveat Lector- http://townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/printpcr20011212.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Paul Craig Roberts December 12, 2001 The end of sovereignty? Tyranny is coming to Europe in the form of a new multicultural empire. Ancient sovereign states, such as England and France, and newer ones, such as Germany and Italy, are to cease to exist, and to be folded into a European superstate. National existence is targeted for extinction by about 2006, followed by national consciousness. Preparing the British for their demise as a people, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote in The Independent on Nov. 22 that in a world where states and the interests of their citizens are so obviously interdependent, we need to rethink our attitudes to concepts like 'independence' and 'sovereignty'. Prime Minister Tony Blair agrees. The war against terrorism, he says, has made national sovereignty out-of-date. If you think these are weak arguments for giving up the nation-state, you have a point. The basis for successful political life is a common language, history and culture, which create a people sufficiently cohesive for democracy or self-rule to arrive at compromises that reconcile conflicts. When multicultural diversity replaces a people, cohesion must be provided by coercion. Coercion is the response to the massive Third World immigration into European nation-states. The erosion of a people by diversity has evoked tyrannical laws in an effort to coerce an artificial commonality. Great Britain, for example, no longer consists of its indigenous peoples: English, Scots and Welsh. Britons are having to make room for large numbers of Africans, Indians, Arabs and Pakistanis. Shear numbers and victim-group status impede assimilation, which, in turn, both impedes the immigrants' progress and fosters resentment by diluting British culture. The consequence of non-assimilation is racial inequality. The Labor Party has responded by blaming racism. On Dec. 6, the government implemented draconian race equality laws. Public, private and voluntary organizations are under statutory obligation, policed by the Commission for Racial Equality, to produce racial equality in employment, college admissions, school performance, disciplinary proceedings, pay, benefits, facilities -- in short, a thoroughgoing quota system. Gurbux Singh, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, called the legislation a powerful lever for change. In effect, British culture has been declared unfair, because immigrants who do not assimilate are disadvantaged. Europe is as overrun with Third World immigrants as Britain. Some German Social Democrats favor immigration as a way of diluting the German population, thereby diminishing the worst characteristics of the nation -- in other words, as a way of de-Germanizing Germany. Proposals are afoot to give the same state subsidies to Islamic cultural organizations as German ones receive. Dilution of national cultures by immigration is the basis for the European Union. A weakened sense of nationhood in Britain, France and Germany means no effective opposition to bureaucratic rule by the European Commission in Brussels. In order to criminalize national patriotism and opposition to immigration, the European Union is pushing forward legislation that makes xenophobia and racism crimes. Once this legislation passes, a European who, for example, criticizes immigration as an anti-diversity measure that is wiping European civilization off the face of the earth, can be found guilty of racism and sentenced to two years in prison. Similarly, persons who oppose EU measures as contrary to British values or French culture can be imprisoned for xenophobia. Hand-in-hand with the criminalization of national identity goes the European arrest warrant. Once in effect, an Englishman could be extradited to Greece and put on trial for offenses that are not crimes in England. No finer recipe for oppression could be devised. The oppression will be felt most keenly by the British, for it is the liberties protected by their unique legal system that will be lost. Oppression leads to civil war, not European unity. The United States, of course, is on the same path. In fact, it began here with coerced racial integration by judicial decree, a civil rights act that destroyed freedom of conscience and substituted coercion for persuasion, and unconstitutional racial quotas that destroyed equality in law. In the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia, white governments are responding to the postwar propaganda about racist white hegemonic culture by disadvantaging the white populations and diluting the hegemonic culture. In the United States, the melting pot has been evicted by the slogan, Assimilation is racism. If the melting pot is dismissed as racist, it must also be racist to question immigration. In the United States, only one side of the immigration
[CTRL] Fast-Track Authority Would Boost U.S. Security Agenda
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stratfor.com/home/giu/archive/121101.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Fast-Track Authority Would Boost U.S. Security Agenda December 11, 2001 Summary The U.S. House approved fast-track trade promotion authority Dec. 6 by a single vote. The measure now goes to the Senate, where approval is nearly assured. Fast-track authority will change the calculus for many nations seeking expanded trade with the United States and will empower Washington to reward allies with bilateral trade deals. Analysis An eleventh-hour lobbying blitz by the Bush administration succeeded in convincing the U.S. House of Representatives to pass fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA) in a contentious 215-214 vote Dec. 6. If it becomes law, the measure will require Congress to approve or nix entire trade agreements without amendments -- greatly speeding the trade negotiation process. The legislation now goes to the Senate, which is traditionally friendlier to free trade initiatives than the House. Full adoption of the bill will greatly enhance President George W. Bush's ability to achieve security goals, as well as economic and political goals, through trade negotiations. That could affect the United States' relationships in many parts of the world. Moderate Muslim states such as Egypt and Turkey are the most likely candidates for such bilateral trade deals -- partly because they play an influential role in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition. India, Tanzania and Russia are also possibilities, though to a lesser extent. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Subject: A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero Subj: KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA-HONORING A TRAITOR This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to bear.Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the 100 Women of the Century. Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the Hanoi Hilton. Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American Peace Activist the lenient and humane treatment he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton.From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4Es). He spent 6 -years in the Hilton- the first three of which he was missing in action. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a peace delegation visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: Aren't you sorry you bombed babies? and Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors? Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day. I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a black box in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's war criminals. When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as humane and lenient. Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me. This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of 100 Years of Great Women. Lest we forget...100 years of great women should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget. Jan Howman A HREF=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational
[CTRL] Not All Heroes Are Honored
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Not All Heroes Are Honored By Chuck Baldwin December 11, 2001 The horrific events of September 11 gave rise to many acts of heroism by numerous brave Americans. Many of these stouthearted souls have been duly honored. However, not all heroes are so honored. Some are left to suffer the devastating consequences of their courage alone and are totally forgotten. One such American hero is Linda Tripp. Does anyone remember Linda Tripp? Linda is the Pentagon employee whose honesty and courage led to Bill Clinton's impeachment. During a time when Democrats were 800-pound gorillas, Republicans were 90-pound weaklings, and the media were nothing more than Clinton lap dogs, Linda Tripp stood up to the awesome power of the establishment in a fashion not heard of since little David faced off against Goliath of Gath. Unfortunately for Linda (and for the rest of us, too), she has not been rewarded for her sacrifice. Instead, news reports recently revealed that Tripp is virtually penniless. She has not been able to find work since being fired by Clinton's war machine. As a result, she has lost her home to foreclosure, and any prospects for gainful employment appear minimal. Linda went from a job paying more than $100,000 per year to joblessness and penury almost overnight. For what reason? you ask. She heroically stood up for truth, justice, and constitutional government. President Bush's compassionate conservatism has not helped, either. One would think that one of Bush's first priorities would be to reward those great Americans who suffered so intensely under Clinton. It did not happen. Linda's phone never rang; her job was given to someone else. Linda Tripp has been treated as so much debris. She has received no kind words, no congratulations, no accolades, no rewards, nothing. However, Linda Tripp is an American hero! She represents justice and courage in a way that most people could only dream about. It appears that heroes are not created equal. It is not enough that one is heroic; he or she must be heroic in a matter deemed politically correct. Therefore, Linda Tripp is left to live out her days in obscurity, without appreciation or honor. Instead, Linda has seen herself become the butt end of every late night comedian's act. She has been denigrated by the press, hounded by the Democratic Party, and abandoned by the Republican Party. No, not all heroes are honored. Some, like Linda Tripp, must wait for a higher power to reward them. In the end, I suppose it is always that way. Real heroes do not seek the applause of others; their reward was found in what they did. They make most of us seem small - especially that crowd in Washington, D.C. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 10 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 10 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50 Monday Brief *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. __O__ FROM THIS WEEK'S E-MAIL ACCLAMATION FILES I recently told a friend about The Federalist, and thought you might share my comments: The Federalist is a more than excellent conservative newsletter that tells it like it is. The editors draw on The Federalist Papers to defend the unadulterated meaning of our Constitution. They call a spade a spade without worrying about being called racist for doing so. They call this country what it is, a republic, and not what it ain't, a democracy. They are real flag-wavers and proud of it. The Federalist is an excellent resource, whether you are just browsing for conservative talk or a public advocate of freedom and liberty. To read The Federalist is to be driven to tears by the plight of the oppressed and deceived, to be driven to anger by the hypocrisy of the Left, and to be encouraged by the words AND actions of the real heroes of America's past as well as her true present. Don't just read The Federalist, be a Federalist, and, by all means, support The Federalist! Each year we must raise 70% of our annual support between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Please register your support for The Federalist today. SUPPORT BY CREDIT CARD: Link to our Secure Commerce Page at -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp SUPPORT BY CHECK: If you prefer to support us by check, please make your contribution payable to: The Federalist. Suggested support levels: Individual -- $20, Family -- $35, Corporate and Professional -- $50, Advocate -- $100 and Founder -- $250. Larger contributions are, of course, welcome. (To prevent the IRS from dictating our editorial content, we have not elected charitable corporate tax status.) Please note your e-mail address on your check for proper credit. Mail your contribution to our subscription fulfillment center at: Federalist Fulfillment Services, P. O. Box 507, Chattanooga, TN 37402-0507 CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word __O__ THE FOUNDATION Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed. --Thomas Jefferson __O__ INSIGHT Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself -- and be lenient to everybody else. --Henry Ward Beecher __O__ GOOD NEWS For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5) __O__ ICTUS IMPRIMIS The Bible was as much America's founding document as the Declaration of Independence or Constitution. The Founding Fathers' beliefs in liberty, equality before the law and representative government came from Sinai. The Constitution is a covenant reflecting a much older covenant. --Don Feder __O__ FAMILY The best news is that even the dimmest children now know they live in an actual country. For the first time in 50 years, kids have been exposed to emotional patriotism and have been confronted with the fact that there are other things of importance besides the mall, the latest rap CD and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Will American history actually make a comeback in school? Could happen. The not so good news is the fact that children have learned that their country cannot protect them. Anthrax letters, suicide terrorists and fanatical foreign governments pose a threat that can never be entirely snuffed out. Some adults have learned this lesson too but apparently those adults do not inhabit Congress. --Bill O'Reilly __O__ CULTURE Crass elites who might not be able to earn a thin dime in another society refer to flag waving as jingoism and compete with each other to see who can show more smug contempt for our society and the 'sheep' who support it unfailingly. We are constantly reminded
[CTRL] Week Ending: 8 December 2001/23 Kislev 5762
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE ~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 8 December 2001/23 Kislev 5762 Hear the word of the L-rd, O nations, and declare in the coastlands afar off, and say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.' For the L-rd has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. Jeremiah 31.10-11 This Week's Headlines: :: TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN IN HAIFA! :: MUFTI: SUICIDE BOMBINGS ARE JUSTIFIED :: IT'S OFFICIAL: PA/PLO SUPPORTS TERRORISM :: ISRAEL RETAILIATES FOR ATTACKS :: PA/PLO ARRESTS MINOR PLAYERS :: REVITALIZING NORTH AMERICAN ALIYAH :: IS IT THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN? :: MEANWHILE, IN GENEVA :: ANTI-SEMITISM ALIVE AND WELL ON ARAB TV :: TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN IN HAIFA! A terrorist bomb attack occurred Sunday morning [9 December 2001] at a bus stop used by soldiers returning to their base on Bar-Yehuda Street in Haifa, near the Checkpost Junction. Northern District Police Chief Borovski reports the number of injured in the suicide bombing attack appears relatively low. Borovski added that the preliminary information reveals one of the security personnel assigned to the busy bus stop spotted the suicide terrorists, making eye contact, prompting him to detonate the bomb early, explaining the small number of wounded. Meanwhile, Idan Cohen, 17, has died of injuries sustained in the Jerusalem Ben-Yehuda suicide bombings last Saturday. The death toll is now 11. Twenty-six victims remain in Hadassah Hospitals in Jerusalem. Nine victims of last Sunday's suicide bus bombing in Haifa remain admitted to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. :: MUFTI: SUICIDE BOMBINGS ARE JUSTIFIED: The mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Akrameh Sabri, says that suicide bombings are justified and should be encouraged, according to a report published on Friday in the international Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat. Sabri was appointed by PLO leader Yasir Arafat. During a visit to Abu Dhabi, Sabri criticized the Muslim religious leaders in Egypt and Saudi Arabia who issued an Islamic ruling (fatwa) against suicide attacks. According to Sabri, We must not stand in the way of the intifada and jihad [holy war]. Rather, we must stand at their side and encourage them. :: IT'S OFFICIAL: PA/PLO SUPPORTS TERRORISM: Following a marathon five-hour meeting Monday night, the Israeli government declared the Palestinian Authority a terrorist supporting entity. The security cabinet - Prime Minister Sharon, Foreign Minister Peres, and Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer - will decide on the specific steps to take in light of this decision. The government also declared the Tanzim, Arafat's personal Force 17, and Fatah [which is headed by Arafat] as terrorist entities, and will take action against them and their leaders accordingly. It was further decided to prevent Arafat from leaving the autonomous areas. [Editor's note: How long till the PA/PLO is itself declared a terrorist entity?] Tourism Minister Benny Elon said that calling the PA/PLO a terrorist-supporting entity has practical ramifications: It means, for instance, that the PA television and radio stations can be bombed I think that Peres, by walking out last night and fighting this decision, understood correctly that there is no more Tenet, Mitchell, or Oslo. :: ISRAEL RETAILIATES FOR ATTACKS: Israel effectively grounded Arafat when it launched an evening air-strike destroying his three helicopters at his headquarters in the Gaza Strip Monday. Israel also struck at Palestinian bases inside Jenin whose suicide bombers have murdered more than a score of Israelis in recent weeks. The IDF offensive continued Tuesday with helicopter attacks on PA/PLO police buildings in Ram'Allah, Gaza, and Salfit (south of Ariel). Four missiles were fired in Ram'Allah at a building practically next door to Arafat's office. The IDF entered PA/PLO-controlled areas around Ram'Allah, Shechem, and Tul Karem Monday night. The army also destroyed the Gaza airport runway used by Arafat. Israel Air Force jets strafed a mortar-shell manufacturing factory in central Gaza early Friday morning. The factory is located in a neighborhood called Arafat City, next to many buildings of the PA/PLO para-military force. The Israeli bombing followed the firing of 12 mortar shells by the Arabs Thursday at Jewish communities in Gush Katif. Palestinians fired at an IDF outpost near N'vei Dekalim Friday morning; no one was hurt. :: PA/PLO ARRESTS MINOR PLAYERS: Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Thursday that the PA/PLO has arrested no more than 2-3 significant terrorists -- and even they are being held in hotel-like conditions. Arafat says his forces have
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CONTENTS:
The Foundation
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Dezinformatsia
Sociocrats
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
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THE FOUNDATION
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. --George
Washington
__O__
INSIGHT
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile --William Shakespeare
{} The best things and best people rise out of their separateness.
I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
--Robert Frost {} God will not be absent when His people are on
trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their
behalf. --Charles H. Spurgeon {} The smallest good deed is better
than the grandest good intention. --Duguet {} The man for whom law
exists -- the man of forms, the conservative -- is a tame man.
--Henry David Thoreau {} Common sense is the knack of seeing things
as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. --Harriet
Beecher Stowe {} Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying
of thirst. --Frederick Buechner {} God doesn't call people who are
qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies
them. --Richard Parker {} The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the
well-meaning: it is for the desperate. --James Denney {} We
believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs.
The Democrats believe in more welfare. --Ronald Reagan (1972)
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UPRIGHT
If you harbor a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you feed a
terrorist, you're a terrorist. --George W. Bush ++ ...[I]f ...
[the 9-11 dead] could see how our country is united to preserve
freedom from terror, they'd be proud. Proud of our unity, proud of our
strength, and proud of the determination to find, root out and deal
with the evil of terrorism and those who seek to terrorize. And we
will. We will remember their lives, and retell their stories, again
and again, so that neither the nation nor the world will ever forget.
--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ++ Nobody wants to capture
Osama bin Laden and have him tried by Judge Ito for two years.
--Justice Antonin Scalia {} Real heroes do not seek the applause of
others; their reward was found in what they did. They make most of us
seem small -- especially that crowd in Washington, D.C. --Chuck
Baldwin ++ The average American is always more courageous than the
average lawyer, politician or government official. --Wesley Pruden
{} We are all Americans. And as Americans, we have a duty to protect
the freedoms that make our union the example and the envy of the
world. --Charlton Heston {} Like our families, our nation gives us
an identity and nurtures us. In the case of America, it also offers
unparalleled personal freedom and prosperity. To turn against such a
nation is an act of ingratitude that must make the angels sigh. --Don
Feder {} Compassion comes after victory, not before it, not
alongside it. First victory, then greatness of spirit. --Michael
Ledeen {} Limited-government types worry that wars lead to
permanent expansion of government budgets and programs. Civil
libertarians fear the fight against terrorism will do irreparable
damage to basic freedoms. --Steve Chapman {} A gun-free world
would be much more dangerous for women, and much safer for brutes and
tyrants. --Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant Joanne Eisen {} The truth is
that the UN cannot create peace or end terrorism, but it can vastly
expand its power over the lives of U.S. citizens. We must resist any
attempt by the UN to advance its agenda in the wake of the September
11th tragedy. --Rep. Ron Paul
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
New York City officials have been revising their estimates of how
many thousands died in and around the World Trade Center on September
11; counting has been slow because the murderers left few bodies. The
total death toll, including those killed at the Pentagon and in
Pennsylvania, now looks as though it could reach 3,245. To put that in
perspective: It is more than all the deaths at Pearl Harbor; more than
all the deaths at Saratoga, or the Battle of New Orleans; more than
all who perished in the New York draft riots, or the Chicago Fire, or
the San Francisco earthquake, or on the Titanic. Because of the
courage of the rescue workers, the gallantry of the passengers of
Flight 93, and the strength
