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[CTRL] Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners...

2003-11-08 Thread William Shannon

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Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 ...

Were they part of a massive spy ring which shadowed the 9/11 hijackers and knew that al-Qaeda planned a devastating terrorist attack on the USA?
Neil Mackay investigates

THERE was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes.

Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA.

Their discovery and arrest that morning is a matter of indisputable fact. To those who have investigated just what the Israelis were up to that day, the case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli intelligence had been shadowing the al-Qaeda hijackers as they moved from the Middle East through Europe and into America where they trained as pilots and prepared to suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the United States. And the motive? To bind America in blood and mutual suffering to the Israeli cause.

After the attacks on New York and Washington, the former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked what the terrorist strikes would mean for US-Israeli relations. He said: Its very good. Then he corrected himself, adding: Well, its not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy [for Israel from Americans].

If Israels closest ally felt the collective pain of mass civilian deaths at the hands of terrorists, then Israel would have an unbreakable bond with the worlds only hyperpower and an effective free hand in dealing with the Palestinian terrorists who had been murdering its innocent civilians as the second intifada dragged on throughout 2001.

Its not surprising that the New Jersey housewife who first spotted the five Israelis and their white van wants to preserve her anonymity. Shes insisted that she only be identified as Maria. A neighbour in her apartment building had called her just after the first strike on the Twin Towers. Maria grabbed a pair of binoculars and, like millions across the world, she watched the horror of the day unfold.

As she gazed at the burning towers, she noticed a group of men kneeling on the roof of a white van in her parking lot. Heres her recollection: They seemed to be taking a movie. They were like happy, you know ... they didnt look shocked to me. I thought it was strange.

Maria jotted down the vans registration and called the police. The FBI was alerted and soon there was a statewide all points bulletin put out for the apprehension of the van and its occupants. The cops traced the number, establishing that it belonged to a company called Urban Moving.

Police Chief John Schmidig said: We got an alert to be on the lookout for a white Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration and writing on the side. Three individuals were seen celebrating in Liberty State Park after the impact. They said three people were jumping up and down.

By 4pm on the afternoon of September 11, the van was spotted near New Jerseys Giants stadium. A squad car pulled it over and inside were five men in their 20s. They were hustled out of the car with guns levelled at their heads and handcuffed.

In the car was $4700 in cash, a couple of foreign passports and a pair of box cutters the concealed Stanley Knife-type blades used by the 19 hijackers whod flown jetliners into the World Trade Centre and Pentagon just hours before. There were also fresh pictures of the men standing with the smouldering wreckage of the Twin Towers in the background. One image showed a hand flicking a lighter in front of the devastated buildings, like a fan at a pop concert. The driver of the van then told the arresting officers: We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.

His name was Sivan Kurzberg. The other four passengers were Kurzbergs brother Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. The men were dragged off to prison and transferred out of the custody of the FBIs Criminal Division and into the hands of their Foreign Counterintelligence Section the bureaus anti-espionage squad.

A warrant was issued for a search of the Urban Moving premises in Weehawken in New Jersey. Boxes of papers and computers were removed. The FBI questioned the firms Israeli owner, Dominik Otto Suter, but when agents returned to re-interview him a few days later, he was gone. An employee of Urban Moving said his co-workers had laughed about the Manhattan attacks the day they happened. I was in tears, the man said. These guys were joking and that bothered me. These guys were like, Now America knows what we go through.

Vince Cannistraro,

[CTRL] Skolnick: International Sex Scandal Roils Up London/Washington

2003-11-08 Thread William Shannon

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Middle Finger News
Intl Sex Scandal In London/DC

Sticking It To The Poobahs

News Hot Enough To Fry Eggs

By Sherman H. Skolnick and Lenny Bloom

SkolnicksReport.com

CloakandDagger.ca
11-8-3

International Sex Scandal Roils Up London/Washington

Surely the word-missiles were enroute. Just like shot at a convention of Black-Mailers.

Jaded from a surplus of war-talk, supposedly high-toned correspondents were discharging the fluid of their pelvic questions.

Print-fakers queried, "What, are we filling a Thursday newshole with this?" Meaning, while running a lot of Thursday food store ads, that required filling up the balance of the newspaper supposedly with "news", too often just an editor's worn-out closet rags.

The unwritten, if unpublished, newsroom Manual of Style, if not Book of Protocol, forbids writing such matters. Plainly, dirt on heavyweights.

On the other hand, long-brain-sterilized newswire types, just following central orders and solely interested in collecting their wages, did not smile or otherwise react.

"Are we informed, from credible sources, where these pictures come from?" asked a she/he liar and whore of the press, sounding just like recently hired from an Establishment journalism school, named, for example, for big-bucks known criminals like the Annenbergs. (See the book "Annenberg" by Gaeton Fonzi.)

An old-timer, veteran of numerous censorship wars, retorted, "Oh, you know, the network bosses' pals, at the French CIA, Israeli Intelligence, Red Chinese Secret Police, the Vatican Bank Chief, the usual well-placed 'official' sources we are supposed to rely on."

The pictures and accompanying spy agency notes (not to be attributed to anyone in particular), are quite explicit. They show a trio of apparent homosexuals getting off.

Ostensibly unhandcuffed, the newsies began poking their mental fingers, if not their actual pens, into once-forbidden portals and orifices.

"Hey, do you see what we have here?" comes a rhetorical throwaway question, from a voice with no name. Plainly, it was a trio of untouchables, top-level male sex-mates, sucking and screwing each other. Prince Charles, Britiish Prime Minister Tony Blair, and White House occupant and resident George W. Bush. [To divert attention from the real situation, the British and others in the European press are running stories that Prince Charles had a minor functionary as a homosexual sex-mate, rather than the ones mentioned in this story.]

Did the press-whores suddenly depart from what the then editor of the New York Times, in 1953 dared utter in addressing a meeting of the National Press Club?

"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.

"We are the tools and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes.

"They pull the strings, and we dance."

The list of questions to obviously pursue, sounded like a catalogue from a picnic of conspiracy theorists---like dopers cash money, of having somehow been too near actual cocaine.

[1] What about the children supposedly fathered by these characters in the pictures and notes? Did someone else put their pistol into the holster? Are we now going to check the DNA of the offspring of someone's actually lesbian wife?

A sarcastic correspondent mentioned that Juanita Broaddrick, apparently raped by Bill Clinton, mentioned that he said, "Honey, not to worry. I've been sterile since I had mumps as a teen-ager." Bill Clinton has his flag up most of the time, and like jailed other known rapists examined by doctors, suffers from priapism.

After all, daughter Chelsea has lips like Webster Hubbell, once law-partner of Hillary. Web was once Chief Judge of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, and then top honcho in the Clinton Justice Department. Web finally became a convicted/jailed embezzler having ripped off his once law partners.

To pave the way for a known homosexual to eventually occupy the British Throne, namely Prince Charles, the British Anglican Church, headed by Queen Elizabeth II, is installing church officials who are openly homosexual. Is this a mere coincidence?
Prince Charles, The Ugly, looks different than his sons he supposedly fathered, Prince William and Prince Harry, good-looking like their mother, Princess Diana of Wales. Charles, being implicated apparently in the homosexual trio, may cause the dethroning of Queen Elizabeth II. According to Diana's secret notes left with a trusted friend, she knew she was targeted to be murdered. Apparently by Prince Phillip, husband of Queen Elizabeth. Phillip reportedly ordered British Counter-Intelligence, MI-6, to murder Diana. After all, she and her brother were/are the legitimate heirs to the British Throne, being from the House of Stuart. Fingering Prince Charles may

[CTRL] Zionist Pedophiles Pack-Rape Palestinian Child

2003-11-08 Thread William Shannon

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Zionist Pedophiles Pack-Rape Palestinian Child
The dark side of Jewish sexual abuse in Palestine

In an opinion poll conducted across Europe during October 2003, fifty-nine percent of all Europeans considered Israel to be the greatest threat to world peace. This finding produced a predictable avalanche of anti-Semite claims from Zionist lobbies world wide, with shrill cries of the Europeans dont understand us. The harsh reality is that a significant majority of Europeans are starting to understand the Zionist invaders of Palestine extremely well, which spells very big trouble for the Jewish State in the medium to long term.

For many years, ordinary television viewers around the world have been continually battered by a wave of images so stark and barbaric, that for a while at least, many went into a state of shocked denial. First there was that terrible video footage of a small Arab child cowering behind his unarmed father, who could not protect him from the Zionist invaders. Within seconds the little boy was thrown back against a wall, his tiny head blown apart by a high-velocity 5.56-mm Remington bullet, donated to the Jewish State by generous American taxpayers.

The flickering television images continued relentlessly week after bloody week, like a horror video rented direct from hell. Laughing Zionists chased an unarmed Palestinian youth down a street in his own country, then when the youth ran out of breath and cowered in front of a shop begging for mercy, they callously shot him through the back of the head. American Caterpillar D9 bulldozers indiscriminately trashed unarmed Palestinians families in their own homes, while American Zionist helicopters casually fired deadly anti-armor Hellfire missiles into paper-thin Palestinian sedans and station wagons.

That the Zionists enjoy this sport of theirs is beyond question, and proved conclusively by tens of thousands of feet of incriminating video film, now stored in various archives around the world. There is enough evidence here to keep several criminal courts busy for many years, hopefully resulting in thousands of guilty Zionists on death row awaiting lawful execution.

Unimaginably perhaps, there have been crimes far worse than this, almost every week since the Zionist invaders first declared victory over Palestine back in 1948.Believe me when I say that if Europeans ever find out about the obscene sexual battery and murder of countless Palestine children by depraved Zionist pedophiles, there will almost certainly be another crusade to the Middle East, this time made up of thousands of outraged Europeans, determined to push the Jewish State back into the Mediterranean from whence it came.

On 12 August, the eve of Shabbat, a patrol led by Second Lieutenant Moshe came upon three unarmed Palestinians two men and one 12-year-old girl, in the vicinity of Nirim on the edge of the Negev Desert. Moshe ordered the soldiers to seize the Palestinians and search them, but they found nothing. Then Second Lieutenant Moshe ordered the soldiers to drag the screaming girl into his truck, while allegedly scaring off the two male Palestinians by shooting in the air. However, because they have not been seen since, it is more likely that the unarmed men were simply shot dead.

The patrol returned to its check point, with the soldiers mostly eyeing the terrified young girl in quiet anticipation, though even at this early stage some, especially Corporal David, started lewdly referring to the 12-year-old as fuckable. Corporal David did not consider his obscene comments out of place, because the young girl was a Palestinian Gentile[non-Jew], and his to use however he wanted to in the eyes of God. After all, that most holy of Jewish books, The Talmud, states quite clearly that all Gentile children are animals [Yebamoth 98a], and all Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth [Abodah Zarah 36b]. So all Corporal David intended to do at that point in time was to fuck a filthy female animal. So what? David was one of Gods chosen people, and the Talmud gave him absolute authority to do whatever he wanted.

Back at the check point, the soldiers removed the girl from the vehicle. Second Lieutenant Moshe ordered that she be taken to an unused hut, and Private Avraham was ordered to guard the door. Moshe then ordered preparations for a party, at which sweets were laid out and drinks poured, though not enough to get drunk. At 2000 hrs [8 p.m.] the soldiers took their seats and Moshe recited the blessing over the wine. At the order of his deputy, Sergeant Michael, Private Yehuda read from the Bible. After that the cheerful soldiers relaxed, and a merry time was had by all.

At 2130 hrs [9.30 p.m.] a rather flushed Moshe called for quiet. Getting to his feet and smiling sardonically, he reminded his soldiers about the 12-year-old Palestinian girl.

[CTRL] Fundamentalism's Bloody Homeland for Jews

2003-11-07 Thread William Shannon

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Fundamentalism's Bloody Homeland for Jews
by Gary North
November 1, 2003
Lewrockwell.com
by Gary North

I have previously written about this highly embarrassing, and therefore actively covered up, aspect of modern fundamentalism, namely, the movement's substitution of Jews for Christians as the victims of a supposedly future (but actually past) "Great Tribulation." Fundamentalists actively support the State of Israel, despite their belief that by doing so, they are helping to lure millions of Jews into a horrible death: "Holocaust II." They do so for a reason: they expect to escape death personally. This is a powerful incentive.

"The Great Tribulation" is the phrase used by fundamentalists to describe a future time of persecution and slaughter of the Jews. By "fundamentalists," I mean defenders of the theological system, first proclaimed around 1830, known as premillennial dispensationalism. This is a late variant of Christian eschatology, i.e., the theological doctrine of the last things or last times. There are three basic views: premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. (On this subject, see my article, "Millennialism and the Progressive Movement," published in The Journal of Libertarian Studies [Spring 1996]).

The prefixes pre-, a-, and post-refer to the timing of the time period that Christians believe will precede God's final judgment. Premillennialists say that Jesus will return to set up a literal 1,000-year period of peace and justice, in which He will rule here on earth through an international bureaucracy of Christians. This view has been held throughout church history. The post-1830 dispensational variant is the view of the famous Scofield Reference Bible (Oxford University Press, 1909, 1917), most Southern Baptists, most Pentecostals, and members of virtually all independent Bible churches. Amillennialists think that the millennium is spiritual and allegorical, and it will have no literal political fulfillment in history. This is the view of Dutch Calvinists, Lutherans, and most Roman Catholics. Postmillennialism proclaims a period of peace and justice during which most of the world's population will be Christian. This was the view of most Puritans in the first half of the seventeenth century, prior to the restoration to the British throne of Charles II in 1660. It was also a predominant view of Scottish Presbyterian in the seventeenth century and in its American branches until after the American Civil War. Jonathan Edwards is the most famous American postmillennialist.

Jesus did teach of a coming tribulation (Matthew 24, Luke 21). He called this period "the days of vengeance" (Luke 21:22). He said specifically of the timing of this period of terror and slaughter, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Matthew 24:32-34).

While there has been much debate as to the timing of the fulfillment of this prophecy, the dominant view in church history has been that this prophecy was fulfilled in 70 A.D., when the Roman army surrounded Jerusalem, crucified thousands of Jews who tried to escape, and took the city. Two Roman soldiers then burned the temple, according to the post-war court historian for the victorious emperor Vespasian, the Jew Josephus. A short introduction to this interpretation is David Chilton's 1987 book, The Great Tribulation.

FUNDAMENTALISM'S RE-WRITE

There are amillennialists who believe that the fall of Jerusalem fulfilled this prophecy. Others think the slaughter is yet to come, and will be imposed on Christians rather than Jews, since they believe that the church has replaced Israel as God's people. Most postmillennialists place it in the past: AD 70.

Dispensationalists without exception believe that the event is still in the future. A small, unorganized group, called post-tribulational dispensationalists, think that Jesus will take the Christians out of history only after the Great Tribulation. They believe that Christians will go through it. But there are very few of these people. They have no seminaries or publishing houses. The vast majority of dispensationalists are pre-tribulationists. They say that Christians will be pulled into Heaven and out of history immediately before a seven-year period of church-free history. In the second half of this seven-year period, the slaughter of the Jews will begin.

Among the academic critics of this view, Gary DeMar is the most prominent. His book, Last Days Madness, challenges the position, point by point. His recent book, End-Times Fiction, now in its eighth printing, is a critique of the best-selling series of novels, Left Behind, co-authored by Rev. Tim LaHaye, the

[CTRL] Ashcroft Vows To Fight Criticism Of Israel

2003-11-07 Thread William Shannon

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Ashcroft: We'll Keep Fighting Anti-Semitism, Terrorism
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
Associated Press Writer
November 7, 2003, 4:39 PM EST

Attorney General John Ashcroft vowed Friday that the Justice Department would continue its fight against anti-Semitism and terrorism.

"This administration believes that acts of anti-Semitism must be confronted, condemned and denounced," Ashcroft said in a keynote address at the Anti-Defamation League's national meeting.

"As history shows, verbal attacks on the Jewish people are portends of more savage criminality to come," he added.

Ashcroft credited the ADL for standing up to hatred and bigotry and urged all Americans to do the same.

"In this battle, every voice and every hand is needed to triumph over terrorism," he said. "It requires us to speak out in America for our highest values and to take our battle to the terrorists abroad."

Ashcroft touted his department's efforts at battling terrorism, saying terrorist cells across America have been dismantled. The Justice Department has charged 286 people with terrorism-related offenses, and has secured convictions or guilty pleas from 154 people.

More than $200 million of funds from organizations suspected of supporting terror has been seized and two-thirds of al-Qaida senior operatives have been captured or killed, Ashcroft told about 450 people gathered at the Plaza Hotel.

Ashcroft added that his department has not overlooked bias crimes committed against people of Middle Eastern descent. Since Sept. 11, Ashcroft said federal officials have investigated more than 525 incidents involving violence or threats of violence against people perceived to be of Middle Eastern origin.

"The Justice Department has assisted in 120 local prosecutions," he said. "And we have brought federal charges in 13 cases against 18 defendants."

Ashcroft also spoke at length about the benefits of the USA Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly by Congress after Sept. 11. It greatly expanded the government's surveillance and detention powers, and the attorney general said without the legislation, some people indicted for terrorism-related offenses might not have been detected by officials.

Ashcroft spoke on the second day of the three-day conference, celebrating the ADL's 90th anniversary. The ADL was founded in 1913 by Chicago lawyer Sigmund Livingston, who saw a need for an organization to protect Jews from anti-Semitic acts.

Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director, praised Ashcroft and President Bush for their efforts in fighting anti-Semitism.

"We the Jewish people feel more vulnerable today than we ever have since World War II, and the world is not a welcome place," Foxman said.

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Re: [CTRL] Third try Replies to Sean

2003-11-06 Thread William Shannon

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2. An employee of Urban Moving said his co-workers had laughed about the Manhattan attacks the day they happened. I was in tears, the man said. These guys were joking and that bothered me. These guys were like, Now America knows what we go through. 

Wasn't that the goal? "We're all Israelis now?"
Sickening. Bibi Netanyahu also gloated that it was "good, very good" that we were attacked.

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Re: [CTRL] Chip Berlet's apologist defence of ADL spying on US citizens

2003-11-06 Thread William Shannon

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Thanks for the laughs!

So do you collect in shekels or Aussie dollars? What is the exchange rate anyhow?
I suspect you have the up-to-the-minute stats in that department.

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Re: [CTRL] Third try Replies to Sean

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Do you the Benjamin Netanyahu who has been a member of the CFR since at least 1988?

That's the guy...

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[CTRL] US Air Strike In Middle East Imminent?

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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U.S. Air Strike in the Middle East imminent?
From Scottish CND, 03.11.2003 23:47

Since Saturday, people in the Highlands of Scotland have been witnessing 
large movements of US warplanes overhead. Experienced observers say the 
large numbers are reminiscent of those that preceded the bombing of Iraq in 
1998 and military strikes on Libyai in the1980s as well as the first Gulf 
War.

At the weekend warplanes were flying over at a rate of roughly one every 15 
minutes. As well as watching them from the ground the plane spotters have 
also been able to overhear pilots talking by listening to their radio 
frequencies. 

It is thought that the planes have flown on a route from the US over the 
north pole to bases in Europe and the Mediterranean. The size and scale of 
the movement suggests that the US may be preparing to strike at a country in 
the Middle East in the next week to ten days. 

Please pass this information on as widely as possible- the US may be 
planning to use the pretext of "foreign" terrorist attacks on US personnel 
in Iraq to attack Iran or Syria. 

Please alert any sympathetic elected representatives, media representatives 
and other sympathetic organisations. Publicising this military movement may 
prevent the air-strikes. 

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[CTRL] Mossad Agents Helped al-Hakim's Assassins To Flee Iraq

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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U.S. Backed Mossad Agents Involved in Hakims Assassination to Flee Iraq

09/09/03: TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- The U.S. Central Command helped 15 Mossad agents involved in the assassination of Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim to flee Iraq, an Egyptian weekly magazine disclosed on Monday.

Ayatollah Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI), was killed in a massive car bomb blast in the holy city of Najaf on August 7. The blast left 82 killed and more than 100 wounded.

The U.S. Central Command was sure that the agents of the Zionist intelligence service Mossad had planned and executed the assassination with the help of some elements from the U.S. and Iraqi spies, Al-Osboa weekly said.

The U.S. Centcom acquired conviction about the plot after examining the explosives used in the operation; the explosives which were highly advanced are used only by Mossad, the weekly added.

For the first time, the Mehr News Agency broke the story about the Mossad involvement in the killing of the prominent Iraqi Shiite leader.

An Iraqi political analyst said that evidence of Mossad involvement has been found at the Najaf blast site. The analyst, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Mehr News Agency that Zionist intelligence agents have made great efforts to infiltrate Iraqi groups in order to thwart efforts to create national unity.

After Saddam Hussein was ousted, the Zionist regime took advantage of divisions among the Iraqi Shia and sent a large number of extremist Jews and Mossad agents to Iraq, with the help of the occupying forces, to infiltrate Islamic groups and obtain information, the analyst said.

He added that a few months ago, a Mossad agent who knew Arabic and was quite familiar with Iraqi Muslim groups made a great effort to infiltrate organizations in southern Iraq and even influenced these groups.

He stated that there are reports that the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is helping Zionist operatives in Iraq and is receiving direct help from U.S. troops, adding that there is a written agreement to this effect.

Saddam supported the MKO for years and ordered MKO members to spy on and wage war against the Iraqi Shia.

The main goal of the Zionists is sowing discord among Muslims, especially the Shia, because they are aware of the peoples great attachment to clerics such as martyr Ayatollah Baqer al-Hakim, who have been making efforts to unite the people in order to prevent the domination of Iraq and the plunder of its resources. While not ruling out the possibility of the involvement of extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda in the blast in Najaf, he noted, Of course, I think the massive propaganda by the pro-Western media and the emphasis on blaming Al-Qaeda or remnants of the Baath Party should be considered a conscious effort to conceal the role of Zionist and occupying forces in this abominable atrocity.

He said that increased insecurity and the outbreak of a civil war among Muslims, especially the Shia, could be used as an excuse for continuing the occupation of Iraq, adding that U.S. troops' refusal to maintain security at religious sites is part of this plot.

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[CTRL] Israeli Troops Shoot ANOTHER Peace Activist

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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Israeli troops shoot peace activist
By Shaista Aziz

Wednesday 05 November 2003, 8:16 Makka Time, 5:16 GMT

Israeli occupation soldiers have invaded the Balata refugee camp near Nablus and fired rubber bullets at international peace activists and also injured six children.

A Swedish peace activist told Aljazeera.net that she was hit by a rubber bullet as she stood by the side of a road recording the activities of the army.

Ulrika Andersson, 25, said that she had been speaking to a soldier a few minutes before being shot.

''I walked up to the military jeep because I wanted to tell the soldier to stop shooting. It was obvious that the soldier wasn't interested in talking to me, so I walked back and stood at the side of the road where I was joined by some children.''

Andersson claims the soldiers observed her for a few minutes before aiming in her direction and firing a bullet.

''There is no way that this happened by accident, I am a tall woman and the soldiers where aiming for my head area. A rubber bullet hit me in the collar bone and it was very painful, I began to bleed.''

Anderson was offered medical treatment from a local ambulance crew.

''I feel very angry that these soldiers think that they can get away with behaving in such an aggressive and illegal manner".

A resident in the camp told Aljazeera that six children also had been hit by rubber bullets.

''The children were throwing stones at the tank, the soldiers started firing rubber bullets, tear gas and sound bombs in their direction'', said a local man.

The witness said some of the children had to receive medical treatment.

Invasion

Local people have told Aljazeera.net that two houses in the camp have been occupied by soldiers, it is not known if the families have been allowed to leave the house before the soldiers entered.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli army blocked an entrance to the camp by using a bulldozer to carry earth and create a road block.

Three military jeeps and a tank have been circling the camp since early morning, local people report.

Aljazeera correspondent Khalid Amayreh, based in the West Bank, told Aljazeera.net that he was not surprised to see the Israeli army back in Balata.

''The Israeli army has been ganging up on the residents of the Balata camp for some time now. Balata has been reduced to a virtual detention camp''.

Response

Aljazeera.net contacted the Swedish foreign ministry,a spokesperson said that the ministry was investigating the shooting.

''It's not good to hear that one of our citizens has been injured, and as far as we know she is ok, she has received medical attention. We will be taking this up with our counterparts in Israel'', said spokesperson Andreas Norman.

A spokesperson for the Israeli army confirmed that they were carrying out an operation in Balata camp saying '' we hope to be successful with this operation''.

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[CTRL] Zionists Try To Block Awarding Of Peace Prize

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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Sharonite Zionists Flex
Their Muscles To Block
Awarding Of An Australian
Peace Prize To Hanan Ashrawi
11-5-3

SYDNEY (Khaleej Times, DPA) -- The row over the awarding of the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize to Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi has brought to Australia a conflict that some migrants left the Middle East to get away from.

Previous recipients of an annual prize awarded by the Sydney Peace Foundation and paid for by the taxpayers of Sydney have been South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson, the former United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

It's the first time the award has been controversial. Australia demands immigrants ditch old ethnic and religious grudges on their arrival. The trading of barbs over Ashrawi and her fitness for the prize is seen as a new and worrying departure.

Dr Ashrawi will receive the prize from New South Wales premier Bob Carr, but Mayor of Sydney Lucy Turnbull is boycotting the ceremony and has ordered City of Sydney employees to do likewise.

Turnbull's beef is that Ashrawi is not a peacemaker but a hardliner who criticised the Oslo peace process in 1993 and who has condemned Washington's "road map to peace" initiative.

Prime Minister John Howard, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and other members of the cabinet have also said Ashrawi's record makes her underserving of a peace prize.

But Carr is standing firm. "I've never been more resolved to attend a function in my life," the leader of Australiaís biggest state said.

Sydney Peace Foundation director Stuart Reed is also adamant that Ashrawi should be honoured, alleging that the city's powerful Jewish community had "campaigned to vilify her, to ridicule the status of the prize, to pressure the companies that are partners of the foundation to cease their public and financial support and to petition the premier not to give the award".

Reed has his supporters. The Sydney-based Jewish Democratic Society describes Ashrawi as a "convincing advocate of a two-state solution to the conflict". Jews Against the Occupation spokeswoman Angela Budai characterised Ashrawi as a "Palestinian moderate who has fought for democracy and human rights".

The row has even generated ripples in Israel. Professor Baruch Kimmerling, a sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chided Sydney's Jewish community for lobbying against Ashrawi.

"There are few international figures in the present who deserve a peace prize more than the outstanding Palestinian leader, intellectual and peace activist Dr Hanan Ashrawi," Kimmerling said.

The forces ranged against Ashrawi are potent.

Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld said Ashrawi, on her last visit to Australia, had "let forth an unreconstructed form of Israel-bashing" and since then had "increased her anti-Israel rhetoric, coloured it with an anti-Jewish flavour and so dealt herself out of serious dialogue".

The most surprising thumbs-down for Ashrawi came from Colonel Mike Kelly, a senior army officer serving in Baghdad, in a letter imploring Carr to think again about Thursday's prizegiving.

Kelly, a military lawyer who has served in Bosnia and Somalia, wrote that awarding Ashrawi was tantamount to betraying soldiers in the field.

"It is precisely these kinds of legitimising actions that have encouraged the terrorism that I and my colleagues in the coalition forces are engaged in fighting," he said.

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[CTRL] Rabbi: Palestinian Massacre Fulfillment Of Jewish Law

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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Last Update: 05/11/2003 18:30   
Judge proposes Rabbi Ginsburg retract inciteful statements  
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent



Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Judge Noam Solberg on
Wednesday proposed that Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
explicitly and publicly retract his offensive
statements about Arabs, in return for an end to
all criminal proceedings against him. 

Ginsburg, a member of the
Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic
movement, and a former head
of a yeshiva in the West Bank
city of Nablus, was indicted
in July on charges of
encouraging racism against
Arabs in his book, "Tsav
Hasha'a - Tipul Shoresh"
("Order of the Day - Radical

Treatment"), which was published in 2001. 

According to the proposal, Ginsburg would
publicly announce a retraction of his inciteful
statements and state his support for social and
political equal rights to all the state's
citizens, regardless of religion, race or
gender. Ginsburg, through his attorney Naftali
Wurzberger, said he would consider the
proposal. 

Among others, the charges cite a conversation in
the book between Ginsburg and a student. The
student asks: "So an Arab has no right to exist
in Israel?" Ginsburg replies: "Here in the Land
of Israel, he has no right." 

In another place in the book the student asks:
"What is the rabbi's opinion about the Arabs as
a nation and a people, as our enemies and our
foes?" 

Ginsburg replies: "There is something called the
Third World or another name for more primitive
nations. Clearly, they are lower on the world's
cultural ladder; but the murderousness and
anti-Semitism are not a function of
primitiveness, since the Germans were the most
enlightened and educated and also the most
bestial in every way." 

In the past, Ginsburg had praised the massacre
carried out in 1994 by Baruch Goldstein, who
killed 29 Muslim worshipers at the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron. 

Ginsburg had declared that Goldstein's deed
constitutes "a fulfillment of a number of
commandments of Jewish law...[including] taking
revenge on non-Jews." 

He was held in administrative detention for a
period of two months in 1996 for his
pronouncements, but the State Prosecution
decided not to charge him and let him go.   


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[CTRL] Time Airbrushes Rothschild Out Of Schwarznegger Pic

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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TIME AIRBRUSHES ROTHSCHILD OUT OF SHWARZENEGGER PHOTO 

Posted By: Rosalinda
Date: Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 2:23 p.m. 


[Source: HST; Marsha Bowen; TIME magazine, 41, August 25, 2003] 

"INVISIBLE HANDS": TIME MAGAZINE 
RUNS AN AIR-BRUSHED VERSION OF `THREE STOOGES' PHOTO 
-- OF WARREN, ARNIE AND LORD JACOB ROTHSCHILD 
-- in its Aug. 25, 2003 issue. 

The complete, unedited photo has appeared 
on the Sept. 5, 2003 edition of EIR, 

Those interested in a good, street-smart pedagogical 
on how the oligarchy likes to obliterate their spoor 
-- Soviet-style -- 
may want to locate the Aug. 25 Time article, 
showing that same, retouched photo 
-- with Lord Jacob Rothschild airbrushed out of the picture! 

Talk about "invisible hands" in the marketplace! 

Ironically, the article is titled, 
"Now He Must Prove He Has Ideas." 


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[CTRL] Perle Wants Russia Out Of G8 Over Khodorkovsky

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/10/31/011-print.html

Friday, October 31, 2003
U.S. Hawk Wants Russia Out of G-8
By Simon Saradzhyan

Staff Writer Richard Perle, a hawkish policy adviser whose voice is heard in the Pentagon, has called for Russia to be expelled from the Group of Eight industrialized countries over the arrest of Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

"Russia should be excluded from the G-8. No [other] G-8 country is allowed to treat its leading businessmen the way Russia treated Khodorkovsky," Perle was quoted as saying in Russian translation in the Thursday issue of Kommersant. "I believe Russia is moving fast in the wrong direction."

Perle, who believes that the White House should contain the Kremlin rather than cooperate with it, has criticized the campaign against Yukos shareholders from the beginning.

"It's possible already to say that real damage is being done to the prospects for future Russian economic growth and development by what appears to be an arbitrary, capricious and vindictive campaign against a private company," he said during a Moscow seminar in July after the arrest of Yukos shareholder Platon Lebedev.

Although he resigned as chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, Perle retains strong influence on U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and is one of the leaders of the neo-conservative camp in Washington.

The influence of this camp on President George W. Bush has waned somewhat, but it is still strong when it comes to shaping U.S. defense policy, according to Alexander Pikayev, a military specialist at the Carnegie Moscow Center. The conservatives, however, can do little to influence Washington's relations with Russia, according to both Pikayev and Ivan Safranchuk, Moscow representative of the Washington-based Center for Defense Information.

Thus, Perle's appeal alone to exclude Russia from the G-8 will probably have little practical impact on the Bush administration's policy toward Russia, the experts said. However, it may set off a new round of criticism of President Vladimir Putin's domestic policies in the U.S. Congress, Safranchuk said.

Perle may be using the Yukos affair to push his vision of foreign policy that would contain Russia rather than elevate it to the status of a strategic partner, Safranchuk said.

"One player cannot have full control of such a game," he said, referring to those carrying out the attack on Yukos. "Other players start spinning this affair to advance their interests."

Perle also criticized the campaign in Chechnya and said he hoped that Russian oil companies would be denied contracts in postwar Iraq. He said the White House should be under no illusions that the Kremlin will help to end alleged development of nuclear weapons by Iran.

Perle was forced to step down as chairman of the Defense Policy Board last spring because of a potential conflict of interest between his duties on the Pentagon board and his defense-related business activities. He remained a board member.

He is not known to have any business ties with Yukos, Safranchuk said.

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[CTRL] Israel destroys US-built wells

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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Israel destroys US-built wells
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
05 November 2003

The US has reportedly complained after the Israeli army destroyed wells built for civilians in Gaza by an American government aid agency.

Huge areas have been demolished by the Israelis in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, including more than 150 homes.

The wells had just been dug by the United States Agency for International Development (USAid). A few months ago the agency announced a $20m (£12m) project to rebuild infrastructure including roads, electricity supply lines and sewers in the occupied territories.

The agency was reporting good progress. But its workers were dismayed when they turned up to finish the wells and found that their work had been destroyed. A source at the American embassy said that when USAid complained, the Israelis told them that they demolished the wells because Palestinian militants had been hiding in them.

That has been a regular claim from the Israeli military to justify demolishing houses in Gaza - but in recent weeks whole streets have been knocked down. Israel has also been accused of trying to move refugee camps away from the border with Egypt.

Spokesmen at the American embassy were careful not to criticise the Israeli army. But according to reports in the Israeli press yesterday, they were less diplomatic behind the scenes. The newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the US had threatened to stop all reconstruction work unless the Israeli army promised not to demolish anything built by the Americans.

Paul Patin, a spokesman for the embassy, denied that. He said: "We don't have any plans to leave." But the Israeli authorities are reportedly dismayed at the incident. Ma'ariv quoted unnamed political sources as calling it a "failure". Someone identified as a "high-ranking political official" said: "The Palestinian population is not Israel's enemy."

Although Gaza is on the coast, the overpopulated strip suffers severe shortages of clean water, and many drink salt water. Wells are of vital importance. The Israeli army's blunder came after the US State Department said that it would ask Congress to approve $2.2bn of military aid for Israel in 2005, $60m more than the allocation for 2004.

The increase is part of an agreement made in the 1990s to reduce economic assistance to Israel by $120m a year and simultaneously increase military aid by $60m a year.

But the US has since agreed an extra $9bn of loan guarantees over three years to bail out the Israeli economy, in serious trouble after three years of the intifada.

The costly military response, led by the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has severely damaged tourism and investment in Israel.

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[CTRL] Israel Acting Suspiciously. What Are They Hiding?

2003-11-05 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNewsstoryID=3759523fromEmail=true

Journalists Under Israeli Security Scrutiny -Report
Wed November 5, 2003 08:50 AM ET

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli government has submitted the names of thousands of journalists for scrutiny by the secret service under new rules for press accreditation, a local newspaper reported Wednesday. Danny Seaman, head of the government press office, declined to comment on the report published in the Haaretz newspaper. Seaman said Monday reporters would not be subject to security clearance until the start of next year.

Israel's Foreign Press Association has protested the security scrutiny as "an utter violation of freedom of the press," and national press groups have also voiced opposition.

Seaman had told Reuters that Israeli and foreign journalists seeking government accreditation would undergo security checks due to mounting security concerns arising from a three-year-old Palestinian uprising. Previously most cards have been issued without review.

About 15,000 journalists currently holding government-issued press cards will have to produce a lawyer's affidavit and pay a fee for a press pass.

Seaman, whose bureau began denying permits to Palestinian journalists last year citing security concerns, said the names of both Israeli and foreign journalists would not be handed over to the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, until January 1.

But Haaretz, citing sources in the press office, said the press office has already turned over the names of thousands of Israeli journalists. The sources said the Shin Bet so far has found none of the reporters to be "problematic."

Seaman had said credentials would be denied only in instances where a journalist is proved to be "a clear and present danger to the public or (have) involvement with a terrorist organization."

The Foreign Press Association issued a statement Monday condemning the plans as "an utter violation of freedom of the press," in that Israeli authorities would be given "unreasonable veto power" to decide who can serve as a foreign correspondent.

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Re: [CTRL] Third try Replies to Sean

2003-11-04 Thread William Shannon

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No we have the written words of the police officers who answered her call. These answers are not very good Zuukie.

No they're not. Seems they were done in a rush or something...

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[CTRL] The Geometry of The Henry Wallace Nomination

2003-11-04 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2003/3043wallace_nomin.html

This article appears in the Nov. 7, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

ON THE NON-NOMINATION OF 1944
The Geometry of The Henry Wallace Nomination
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
October 18, 2003

The reason for the British-led campaign to prevent Henry A. Wallace's Summer 1944 Democratic Party nomination for a second term as President Franklin Roosevelt's Vice-President, was solely that Wallace was determined to continue the policies of a Franklin D. Roosevelt who was not expected to live out a fourth term as President. For that reason, and that reason alone, the Senator Harry S Truman whose views were acceptable to the British monarchy, was nominated to replace Wallace on that ticket.

On all crucial strategic issues, as President, from the beginning of his completion of President Roosevelt's term, through his own term, Harry S Truman lived up to the expectations of his British partners.

This British lobbying for the dumping of Wallace reflected the heart of the fundamental, historically determined differences between the U.S. Republic and British Empire which had continued despite the temporary 1940-1945 war-time alliance of the two states. The apparent complexities of the ironical Roosevelt-Churchill alliance and mutual-antipathy can be competently understood only as a topic in physical geometry, as I have defined the role of physical geometry in politics, in earlier locations.

Briefly, the mind-set of Churchill and his associates had a long history. It was a mind-set defined by what had been that nation's increasing tendency, since near the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, a tendency toward the empiricist world-outlook which we associate with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, et al. This has been an increasing trend in British culture and its radiated influence, from the early Seventeenth Century to today's typical classroom. That empiricist outlook belongs to a different universe than the mind of American patriots in the tradition of the followers of such as Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt. The physical universe in which both the British empiricist and our leading patriots have dwelt is the same; but, the way the mind sees, and reacts to that physical universe is different. It is qualitatively different in certain crucial aspects. The two compared mind-sets represent intersecting, but axiomatically different physical geometries.

The British mind-set's geometry is essentially that of Aristotle and Euclid, as reflected in the cases of Descartes and the followers David Hume, Hume's follower Immanuel Kant, Lord Shelburne's propagandist Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and the radical empiricist Bertrand Russell. The founders of the U.S.A. were influenced by a contrary geometry, that of the followers of the pre-Euclidean constructive geometry of the Pythagoreans and Plato; this was the Classical tradition as imparted to the circles of Benjamin Franklin by, most immediately, the followers of Gottfried Leibniz on the European continent.

For example, the British mind-set is reflected in the Preamble of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, in John Locke's doctrine of "property"; the U.S. Declaration of Independence was based axiomatically on Leibniz's explicitly anti-Locke conception "the pursuit of happiness," as this is echoed as the principles of sovereignty, general welfare, and posterity in the Preamble of the U.S. Federal Constitution.

To put a fine political point on that explanation of the roots of the British hostility toward Henry Wallace's 1944 candidacy, the typical British empiricist joins Thomas Huxley and Frederick Engels, in denying any axiomatic principle defining the difference between man and ape; whereas, the American founders' tradition of Plato, Christianity, and Moses Mendelssohn, for example, emphasized an absolute, axiomatic quality of principled difference between the mind of man and the potential of the ape. We, when we are in our right mind, reject any policy of practice which degrades any class of human beings to the status of virtual human cattle; the reductionists, such as Hobbes, Locke, and the Physiocrat Quesnay, insist on forms of society which reduce the majority of human beings to the status of human cattle, in practice. Colonialism and imperialism are examples of the same class of practices of bestiality expressed by the followers of Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, David Hume, Quesnay, Adam Smith, Bentham, Kant, et al.

The importance of introducing this point of view to a description of the hatred against Henry Wallace by the British establishment of that time, is to lay to rest the nose-picking sorts of attempted explanations of that hostility to Wallace's candidacy. It was not any one or several points of Wallace's policy which prompted the British reaction. These points were of that significance only to the degree

[CTRL] Wall Street Journal vs. America

2003-11-03 Thread William Shannon

http://www.amconmag.com/11_3_03/buchanan.html

November 3, 2003 issue
Copyright 2003 The American Conservative
Wall Street Journal vs. America
by Pat Buchanan

Commentators have lately begun to point up parallels between the presidency of George W. Bush and that of his father. Both enjoyed extraordinary approval in their third years after triumphs over Saddam Hussein. Both began to slide due to a sickly economy. Both won office on Reaganite rhetoric. But both then left themselves open to a populist revolt by embracing the counterfeit conservatism of the Wall Street Journal.

In 1992, Ross Perot tore off a third of the Reagan coalition, leaving George H. W. with the smallest share of the presidential popular vote in 80 years. Were the son to face a third-party challenge from the Right, he too would be going home after one term.

The mega-issues on which the Bushes abandoned conservatism for the Hong Kong values of the Wall Street Journal are free-trade globalism, open-borders immigration, and Wilsonian interventionism.

Unlike the patriarch Sen. Prescott Bush, George H. W. and his son are free traders who simply cannot see the industrial ruin before them from a decade of NAFTA, GATT, MFN for Beijing, and U.S. subordination to the Yankee-baiting Eurocrats of the WTO.

But the returns from 10 years of free trade are in. America is running huge trade deficits with Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, and the EU. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing at the rate of 83,000 a month every month Bush has been in office. Under George W., one in every six manufacturing jobs has vanished.

Is there no amount of bleeding of jobs that will jolt Mr. Bush into grasping that the Journals free-trade fanaticism is denuding his country of its industrial base and could kill his presidency, as it did his fathers?

The second issue is immigration. For years, the Journal has pushed to amend the U.S. Constitution to read, There shall be open borders. The Journal wants to tie the hands of the President and Congress to guarantee that the Third World invasion of America is unstoppable. Yet, mass immigration is bankrupting California, as millions of poor immigrants have poured in and millions of middle-class Californians have fled to Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho.

Ten million illegal aliens now live here. Their crime rates and social-service demands are higher and tax payments far lower than those of our native-born. As California is fast becoming a Third World state, America is becoming a Third World country. Why is President Bush welcoming this radical transformation of America into a giant replica of the UN General Assembly? What was so wrong with the country we grew up in?

Can the Bushites not see the consequences of blindly following Journal ideology? The Clintonites could. They evaded the law to get millions of Latinos naturalized and registered. In 1996, it paid off. First-time Hispanic voters went 91 percent against Dole-Kemp.

The third issue on which Bush II has embraced Journal neoconservatism is foreign policy. For a decade after Desert Storm, containment had worked with Saddam. Iraq had not invaded a neighbor nor launched a single terror attack against Americans.

Yet, no sooner had the World Trade Center towers fallen than the Journal was shrieking for strikes on terrorist camps in Syria, Sudan, Libya, and Algeria, and perhaps even in parts of Egypt. This was warmongering. None of these countries had anything to do with 9/11.

After the overthrow of the Taliban, the Journal began beating the drums for the war it always wanted and the cause it never abandoned: On to Baghdad! Impose a MacArthur Regency! Now we have Baghdad and the Bremer Regency. And if Mr. Bush cannot extricate us from this new war of suicide bombings and sniper shootings we warned him would follow a U.S. invasion, he may not be re-elected.

What President Bush and many conservatives do not realize is that the Wall Street Journal is to true conservatism what Eisner is to Disney, a cow bird that flew in to sit on the nest another bird built.

Journal editor emeritus Robert Bartley once told author Peter Brimelow, I think the nation-state is finished. In June, Bartley flew to Italy for the 10th Santa Colomba Conference hosted by Journal guru Robert Mundell. Topic: Does the Global Economy Need a Global Currency?

World money, with a world central bank, seems a next logical step, chirps Bartley, who dreams of a New World Order currency replacing the U.S. dollar. Yet, as Margaret Thatcher told this writer, a nation that gives up its currency gives up its sovereignty and independence.

Time to say it: Loyalty to the New World Order is treason to the Republic. But why is Bush blindly following the counsel of faux conservatives leading him down a path that ends in the abolition of America? Why, Mr. President?

[CTRL] Neo-conservatism: The real terrorist threat

2003-11-03 Thread William Shannon

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Neo-conservatism: The real terrorist threat
William M Hardiker

In a speech to Congress on July 11 2003, Republican Representative Ron Paul asked the house the following rhetorical questions, "How did we get here?" and "Does anyone care?". Being so long avoided and overdue they doubtless caused much unease, averting of eyes and scrutiny of fingernails. At the conclusion of his speech and with audible sighs of relief, it was clear that such a politically incorrect outburst of passionate dismay would promptly be dismissed and forgotten. .

But why have such crucially important questions relating to the response of the Bush administration post September 11, not been raised, discussed, dissected and debated exhaustedly? Not surprisingly it was the mighty dollar that caused alarm bells to ring after Congressman Paul pointed out that the US national debt is increasing at a rate greater than half a trillion dollars a year and the debt limit was recently raised by the Bush team to a calculator blowing $984 billion. Total US government obligations are $43 trillion, whilst US household's net worth is just over $40.6 trillion. When the talk turns to dollars, Americans take notice.

In perhaps the first fully fledged outburst of high level government dissent against the Neo-Conservative's radical and dangerous agenda, Mr. Paul stated that which has been a long time coming; two years to be precise. The time it has taken for many Americans to recover from the psychological damage inflicted by the September 11 attacks which transformed the collective American psyche from one of national invincibility, to one of national vulnerability. "Ideas" exclaimed Senator Paul, "have consequences", and "bad ideas, have bad consequences". Let us hope that Mr. Wolfowitz and Chenney were taking notes.

There is however, cause for some optimism in what appears to be a 'slow dawn of awakening' within the collective American conscience as to who have been 'pulling the strings' within the Bush administration, and a beginning of questions raised in relation to the inappropriateness of the Administrations response to the events of September 11, 2001. Like a death within a family, a period of mourning is, or was, traditionally, required before hopefully, the reality of life without the deceased will be accepted. Sometimes the period is short lived, but at others the mourning is indefinite. This seems to be the circumstance in the US as a result of the events of what is now referred to as 9/11. As the recovery process proceeds, we can only hope, though certainly not count on, a simultaneous re-emergence of common sense.

Only now, with such questions as those asked by Mr. Paul, is the nation appearing to emerge from the 'twilight reality' of fearful vulnerability, insecurity, and suspicion to the reality of the world beyond the confines of the United States. A world in which not all agree with the America's self appointed status and subjective interpretation of international affairs. A difficult proposition, but necessary nonetheless. That it has taken so long a time can be explained innocently on the one hand because of the surprise, audacity and proportions of the tragedy, and deviously on the other because of the political manipulation of the event which ensured it was exploited in such a way as to enable the implementation of a radical new foreign policy agenda that was guaranteed to meet approval not only by the domestic American public, but by the world in general only if accompanied by a substancial perceived threat to the national security. Under less extraordinary circumstances such policy as "pre-emptive" war against sovereign States and the passing of a "patriot act" would most certainly have been rejected.

Vengeance, revenge and punishment was the priority even despite America's extensive and shameful history of terrorism and interventionism against weak and defenseless States throughout the length and breadth of the twentieth century. That which we have borne witness to during the past two years is "the politics of fear". Rather than instigating a criminal investigation, the Bush team pointed the finger squarely at Osama Bin Laden, even whilst they whisked his family out of the United States and harms way. Whether these events have impacted upon the Bush family's business dealings with the Bin Laden is at present an unknown. The people have been duped into believing they face a threat lets say approximately 10,000 times greater than the reality of the "new changed world of terrorism", and used as gullible pawns in a grand game of international chess, using the world stage as the board and the ruthless elites, the technocrats, big business and politicians as key players.

Between the attacks themselves and Mr. Paul's questions to Congress, not all were stricken senseless by what might be coined "national post traumatic shock syndrome". Work towards

[CTRL] Bush Ignores Soldiers' Burials

2003-11-03 Thread William Shannon

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Bush Ignores Soldiers' Burials
By Christopher Scheer, AlterNet
October 30, 2003

On Monday and Tuesday, amid the suicide bombing carnage that left at least 34 Iraqis dead, three more U.S. servicemen were killed in combat in Iraq. In the coming days their bodies will be boxed up and sent home for burial. While en route, the coffins will be deliberately shielded from view, lest the media capture on film the dark image of this ultimate sacrifice. It is almost certain, as well, that like all of the hundreds of U.S. troops killed in this war to date, these dead soldiers will be interred or memorialized without the solemn presence of the President of the United States.

Increasingly, this proclivity on the part of President Bush to avoid the normal duty of a commander-in-chief to honor dead soldiers is causing rising irritation among some veterans and their families who have noticed what appears to be a historically anomalous slight.

"This country has a lot of history where commanders visit wounded soldiers and commanders talked to families of deceased soldiers and commanders attend funerals. It's just one of these understood traditions," says Seth Pollack, an 8-year veteran who served in the First Armored Division in both the first Gulf War and the Bosnia operation. "At the company level, the division level ... the general tradition is to honor the soldier, and the way you honor these soldiers is to have high-ranking officials attend the funeral. For the President not to have attended any is simply disrespectful."

Repeated questions on the matter posed to the White House over the past week earned only a series of "We'll call you back" and "Let me get back to you on that" comments from press officer Jimmy Orr.

Soldiers in the field, say veterans who have been there, have a lot more on their mind than whether or not the President has been photographed with a flag-draped coffin. But for those vets' rights activists who have not only noticed but begun to demand answers from the Bush Administration, the President lost the benefit of their doubt by his actions over the past six months. "I was really shocked that the president wouldn't attend a funeral for a soldier he sent to die," said Pollack, who is board president of Veterans for Common Sense. "But at the same time I'm not surprised in the least. This Administration has consistently shown a great deal of hypocrisy between their talk about supporting the troops and what they've actually done," he added.

"From the cuts in the VA budget, reductions in various pays for soldiers deployed . . . to the most recent things like those we've seen at Fort Stewart, where soldiers who are wounded are not being treated well, the Administration has shown a blatant disregard for the needs of the soldiers." Pollack was referring to 600 wounded, ill and injured soldiers at a base in Georgia who were recently reported to be suffering from terrible living conditions, poor medical treatment and bureaucratic indifference. During a recent stop at Fort Stewart, President Bush visited returning soldiers but bypassed the wounded next door.

"Bush's inaction is a national disgrace," said one Gulf War I vet, speaking off the record. "I'm distressed at the lack of coverage amounting to government censorship of the funerals of returning U.S. service members.

"Bush loves to go to military bases near fundraisers," he continued. "The taxpayers pay for his trip, then he rakes in the cash. Soldiers are ordered to behave and be quiet at Bush events. What a way to get a friendly crowd! The bottom line is that if Bush attended a funeral now, it would highlight a few things: 1) There's a war going on, stupid; 2) There are bodies flying home in coffins censored by the Pentagon; and 3) Bush is insensitive to families and veterans."

Even as a propaganda strategy hatched by a PR flak, Bush's absence at funerals or memorial services or even being photographed greeting the wounded is starting to look less savvy. On September 8, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy wrote of one D.C. family's outrage that the President had not only been unable to attend the funeral of Spec. Darryl T. Dent, 21, killed in Iraq while serving in the District of Colombia's National Guard, but hadn't sent his condolences either.

"We haven't heard from him or the White House, not a word," Marion Bruce, Dent's aunt and family spokeswoman, told Milloy. "I don't want to speak for the whole family, but I am not pleased." A month later, after it was revealed by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post that the Pentagon was for the first time enforcing a ban on all media photographs of coffins and body bags leaving the war zone or arriving in America, more critics came to believe in their heart what their guts had been telling them for some time: that the White House was doggedly intent on not associating the President with slain American troops, lest

[CTRL] Were dying for oil and corporate greed! Part 5

2003-10-31 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1203

"Were dying for oil and corporate greed!" Part 5
Interviews by Jay Shaft
Coalition For Free Thought In Media

( CFTM Editors Note: I have been getting an extreme amount of hate mail from people calling me a liar and saying I made these articles up out of thin air. I can deal with attacks on me and slander directed at me. What I cannot tolerate is all those who claim to be vets and serving soldiers who attack these brave men, call them cowards, and smear their names with hate and slander. These men were extremely brave and I believe they are true heroes for having the courage to speak out, knowing the military could come after them and make their lives a living hell. If you want to spout any hatred, then direct it towards me, not these brave soldiers who are standing up for what they believe is right.)

I had the unique opportunity to interview five US military servicemen who just got back from Iraq, or in the case of two men, corresponded with their wives so that I could ask questions of these soldiers by mail. When the two I corresponded with came back just last week, I was able to complete the interviews I started several months ago with some new details on how the war is actually going.

I was shocked and angered at how bad it really has become when I found out how many of the service men hate being in Iraq and want nothing to do with rebuilding and policing the devastated nation. From the conversations I had, many soldiers never wanted to go over to Iraq and fight, and the ones who had were now convinced of the awful crime that had been committed against Iraq and our own troops. I was told very few soldiers now believe in staying in Iraq, or want to stay in the country and serve any more days.

The following interview is with an enlisted man who has not been in the military that long. He is not really mad at Bush or the leaders and he does not want to get out of what he sees as his duty to serve in Iraq. I had to get the voice of a normal soldier that was for the most part happy with his duty and obligation to is country. He is mad that his buddies have been killed, and had never seen any combat death before Iraq. He is upset by reports of poor treatment of reservists that have been wounded, and is suffering the low morale that is dominating most of the military in Iraq.

He wanted to get the job done and go back to the school and training the military was sending him through. Now he is stuck in a combat job he never thought he would have. He is afraid his career is going to be spent fighting an enemy he does not know. He has a great hatred for the Iraqis as a people in general, and in particular hates the ones attacking him and his fellow soldiers. It is not just a general dislike of the Iraqis, but a true and burning hatred.

He was very honest and open about his feelings and how he got to this point of frustration and anger at a country that he was told would welcome him with open arms. He is not nice about what he has to say and I will warn you that it is very graphic and disturbing to read at times.

This interview is written in his own words and I have tried to leave it as intact as possible so that his pain and anger can come through to you the reader. I will warn you that the language is very rough and the grammar is not always correct. I have changed nothing that he said, and if any editing had to be done, it was with his knowledge and permission.

I will say that I have taken the liberty of changing some minor personal details and facts so as to better protect his identity and safeguard his family as well. He has gone through enough at the hands of the government to get harassed by anyone who does not like his words or statements.

He has asked to be called MIA in the transcripts and copies of this interview. I find it ironic that he would choose this name after so many Reservists and National Guard have said they will not serve in Iraq, but will go AWOL to escape duty. I do not know if there have been that many who really would go AWOL or not report for duty, but as more formerly retired and inactive reservists are brought back it will be interesting to see if there are any that do go AWOL or refuse to report.

(Note: He said MIA stands for his mind missing in action not the fact that he would go AWOL or not report. I found his mental state to be most unstable although he seemed to be unaware of it.)

I have had several reliable reports that there is an Underground Railroad network being established to safely guide troops who refuse to serve, and their families, to Canada and other countries that would be safe. I find it a remarkable sign of the times that this is not just a rumor, but actually a true fact, and that a railroad would be necessary. During the sixties there were a number of US men who sought refuge in Canada rather than go off to Vietnam to that quagmire of death and unnecessary waste of our

[CTRL] IRAQ AND VIETNAM

2003-10-31 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html

October 31, 2003
IRAQ AND VIETNAM
Different wars but not that different

On the surface, the Vietnam war and the attack on Iraq by U.S. forces don't have much in common.

In the 1960s, when the Vietnam conflict was at its height, the United States was in a global face-off with a rival of comparable size and power, the Soviet Union. Our involvement in Vietnam increased only incrementally, over a period of some years. Furthermore, the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese sponsors were clearly the aggressors, in the sense that they went on the offensive militarily: their goal was to overthrow foreign-backed governments supported, in turn, by the French and the Americans, in a popular insurgency. None of these circumstances are relevant in the Iraq scenario.

In spite of the neoconservatives' insistence that we are presently engaged in "World War IV," a worldwide struggle against Islam analogous to the cold war, religion is not the same as ideology: an Islamic insurgency is unlikely to take root in, say, Colombia or El Salvador. This time around, it is we who are pushing a militant universalism, exporting our system of "democratic capitalism" (i.e. state capitalism, or the mixed economy) as the solution to the world's problems.

The cold war era was marked by what we used to call the "balance of terror": each side was deterred from launching any major military operation for fear it would escalate into Armageddon. What is striking about the present conflict is the radical imbalance of power between the American hegemon and a tatterdemalion collection of "rogue" states and non-state actors.

Secondly, there was nothing incremental about the invasion and conquest of Iraq: it was a three-week war, after all. Unlike the Southeast Asian quagmire we managed to drag ourselves into, without much prior public debate, the Iraqi quagmire was jumped into head-first, of our own volition, after a short but intense and very public discussion.

The biggest difference, however, is that, this time around, we were the aggressors, brazenly and unilaterally attacking a country that had never posed a threat to us. Like the Viet-Cong guerrillas, who were trained and subsidized by Moscow, Iraqi insurgents received funding and military support from a foreign sponsor the U.S. in an effort to spark a popular uprising. In the style of Soviet propagandists and fellow travelers of yesteryear, U.S. government spin-meisters and their amen corner in the Western media tried to portray the invasion as a prelude to a popular revolt against Saddam, with Anglo-American troops playing the role of "liberators." The conservative writer Paul Craig Roberts, and the foreign policy analyst Claes Ryn, have captured both the spirit and the intellectual pedigree of the neoconservative war policy by calling it "neo-Jacobin."

There is, however, an important sense in which the present conflict conjures visions of Vietnam albeit oddly distorted, like the reflection of a nightmare in a funhouse mirror.

The language of this conflict is very much the same except that the positions are oddly reversed, with the rhetoric employed by the U.S. resembling that of the Communists. As the U.S. undertakes the "reconstruction" of Iraq, while finding itself the target of a growing guerrilla insurgency, our official propaganda recalls that of the pro-Soviet "liberators" of Afghanistan and Vietnam who crowed that Red Army tanks were bringing "education" to the illiterate masses and smashing the "oppression" of women.

The same rationale leftists routinely employ in defense of Cuba oh, but look at all the good things Castro has done: the literacy rate! the health care clinics! gender equality! is spouted with a straight face by the neocons when they demand we look at the bright side of the American occupation.

The War Party resembles nothing so much as the Commies of the 1930s, who, when confronted with stories of mass murder and repression in the Soviet Union, responded that these were merely minor glitches on the road to utopia.

What does it matter that a few anti-Soviet "terrorist" elements have been "liquidated," compared to the news that the glorious workers republic has once again! over-fulfilled the Five Year Plan? What are you, some kind of anti-Soviet reactionary?

The war at home, rather than the military conflict taking place in Iraq, is what conjures a sense of deja-vu in all of us old enough to remember. Donald Rumsfeld, in his search for the right "metrics" by which to measure success in Iraq, resembles a hybrid of Robert S. McNamara, whose name has become a byword for the clueless technocrat, and General Curtis "Bombs Away" LeMay, whose belligerent gruffness personified American arrogance at its most extreme.

The vocabulary of the Vietnam war has crept into our present day lexicon. "Iraqi-ization" has become the byword of this administration, which is now shifting toward an "exist

Re: [CTRL] Are Jews Rulers or Ruled?

2003-10-30 Thread William Shannon

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Heh heh...got to give you credit for an entertaining as hell style. Now granted it took you several days to craft them but these comebacks are indeed nifty. You ought to go into showbiz! Many people with your...er...particular deviation enjoy ahem fruitful careers in that industry and likely it would be an aid to success there.
I am not sure what I've done to suddenly draw your ire, I mean you just now decided to "target" me? But regardless, have fun.

Bill.

In a message dated 10/30/2003 1:54:21 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Well big B.S.,

I thought a prominent Libertarian like yourself would be pro a little Snapper once in while; probably a bit too techno or designer for you old cow-dung traditionalist 'organic' whacky-weed types eh!

I appreciate you trying 'to look out for me,' but I'm a big boy, and Billy playing Mummy, except when Lost In Space, is not an image I like you trying to place in my head.

You really should stop fantasying about my private life. Girlfriend Acharya might get jealous, and stop your invites to her tarot readings, alien communiqués and séances man.

Potty, pious, self-anointed mystic priest Herr Heinrick Makow probably won't mind your fantasies; his world is utter fantasy.

Undoubtedly, ZZaint Heinrick, the holy man of god, has a warm place reserved for you upon his alter where a little of your "AMYL NITRATE," will enhance the vasodilation epiphany.

Being joined at the head by a common Judeophobia, is just a rub away from being joined at the hip. It's as natural as a priest and his alter boy.

Hmmm?

Say, you've got some hot competition now.

Seems Herr Shorn McDudd is stealing your thunder.

You'll need to up the ante a bit, maybe a few choice passages from Mein Kampf.

Dave.

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[CTRL] Controlling The News - Part 22

2003-10-30 Thread William Shannon

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Controlling The News
Part 22

(October 24, 2003)the policy now on North Korea is to lull them into a less belligerent mode, persuade them to disarm their nuclear arm in exchange for recognition and guarantees of security from the US and then strike at them if they are stupid enough to go for the Bush razzmatazz

(October 25) The political and military problems in Iraq are rapidly becoming hopeless. Bush cannot and will not let gowe are being urgently requested to play down the growing successes of the resistancewe are asked to call it minor actions by a very small group of rapidly dwindling Saddam supporters.. and that US troops are quickly getting a handle on the sporadic (stress this) violence while winning the hearts of a grateful Iraqi people. actually, the ranks of the partisans are growingsources indicate that Syrians, Egyptians, Iranians, Saudis and Yemeni activists are now pouring into Iraq through borders that are as porous as Swiss cheesemuch, much more trouble aheadhuge quantities of Russian weapons are finding their way into the hands of the rebels along with timely intelligence intercepts of secret US military messagesprobably from Russian sources who do not want Americans threatening them from their southern borders

(October 28) there is complete chaos in Baghdad tonight and the whitewash brushes are out in force. This is a stunning victory for our policy. The more of our troops they kill (and the real death toll is about double than the one officially released so far) the fewer bombs they will have for future attacks.reminds me of the old boxer who told me, after he was thrashed in a fight, did you see the way I smashed his fist with my nose?

Note: The Sunday last massive rocket attack on the US command hotel in Baghdad was aimed at Wolfowitz and news of his impending arrival in Iraq was quickly learned from these intercepts.

From Arab sources, it is learned that the Iraqi resisters are determined to kill Wolfowitz, whom they view as the chief architect of their continuing oppression and occupation. It also very clearly appears that the partisans are now beginning to target senior American military leadership and their headquarters and residence buildings.

There is no effective way to prevent such attacks from achieving success unless all the American commanders take refuge in deep concrete bunkers. Attacking an incoming US military jet with high level officials aboard is a piece of tactical cake for the weaponry now in the hands of resisters and the best hope is that shooting down transport aircraft will stay limited to Iraq and not spread to international airports

It is interesting to note that every time a successful commando raid happens and many are killed, the Bush administration issues idiotic statements claiming that the end is now in sight for the three ex-Saddam cousins that represent the entire resistance movement.

They can readily be expected to make the same identical comment upon the occasion of the next successful explosive outrage.

During the Vietnamese disaster, the frantic Lyndon Johnson once said, after a disastrous Viet Cong attack, that there was light at the end of the tunnel. It turned out to be an oncoming train.

Lyndon had the sense to get out of his high office before he was thrown out.

Others are neither as perceptive or pragmatic.

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[CTRL] Chomsky: Bush may invent another 'threat'

2003-10-30 Thread William Shannon

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Chomsky: Bush may invent another 'threat'
Thursday 30 October 2003, 14:33 Makka Time, 11:33 GMT

Leading linguist and commentator Noam Chomsky has said President George Bush will have to "manufacture" another threat to American security to win re-election in 2004 after US failure in occupying Iraq.

Chomsky, attending a Latin American social sciences conference in the Cuban capital Havana, said that since the September 11 attacks the Bush administration had redefined US national security policy to include the use of force abroad, with or without United Nations approval.

"It is a frightened country and it is easy to conjure up an imminent threat," Chomsky said at the launching of a Cuban edition of a book of interviews published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, when asked how Bush could get re-elected.

"They have a card that they can play... terrify the population with some invented threat, and that is not very hard to do," he said.

After the "disaster" of the US invasion of Iraq, Bush could turn his sights on Communist-run Cuba, which his administration officials have charged with developing a biological weapons research programme, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of linguistics said.
Chomsky said the military occupation of Iraq, to topple a "horrible monster running it but not a threat to anyone," was a failure.

"The country had been devastated by sanctions. The invasion ended sanctions. The tyrant is gone and there is no outside support for domestic dissidence," he said. "It takes real talent to fail in this endeavour."

Chomsky said it was reasonable to assume the Bush administration would try to "manufacture a short-term improvement in the economy" by incurring enormous federal government debt and "imposing burdens on future generations."

The Bush administration was a continuation of the Ronald Reagan presidency that declared a national emergency over the threat posed by Nicaragua's leftist government in the 1980s, he said.

"The same people were able to present Grenada as a threat to survival of the United States the last time they were in office," Chomsky said, in reference to the US invasion of the Caribbean island in 1983 to thwart Cuban influence.

Domination

Chomsky, a leftist icon who is better known today for his critique of US foreign policy than for his revolutionary theory of syntax and grammar in the 1960s, gave a lecture on the US politics of domination on Tuesday night that was attended by Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The author of Language and Mind, Manufacturing Consent, Profit Over People and 9-11, said the Bush administration was out to dominate the world by the use of military force, if need be, and Iraq was the first test.

Chomsky criticised Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, for backing the United States and Britain in invading Iraq under a false pretext that the Arab country possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Chomsky praised Cuba's defiance of US hostility and trade sanctions for four decades. But he also criticised the jailing of 75 Cuban dissidents, earlier this year, by Castro's government.

"Yes, I have criticised them for that," he said in an interview on 28 August with Radio Havana. "I think it was a mistake."

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[CTRL] Chickenhawk Sees Combat - Wolfowitz Escapes W/ His Life...Others Not As Lucky

2003-10-29 Thread William Shannon

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October 29, 2003
CHICKENHAWK SEES COMBAT
Wolfowitz barely escapes with his life others not so lucky

Paul Wolfowitz's second visit to Iraq was supposed to underscore the "good news" about the U.S. occupation how the Americans are building schools, roads, and credibility with the Iraqi people. Instead, it turned into an object lesson in how the country is on the verge of careening out of control.

It happened at a little after 6 a.m., Monday morning, as Wolfie was getting ready for his first meeting of the day: a barrage of rockets hit the Rashid Hotel, home to the media and assorted bigwigs, scoring a direct hit just beneath his room. The building shuddered with an explosion that shook the occupation to its very foundations.

Officials are denying that the Wolf was the target of the assault, but a series of well-coordinated and deadly bombings following the Hotel Rashid attack showed that the burgeoning Iraqi resistance is certainly capable of launching such an operation. The next day, inside of 45 minutes, car bombings ripped through Red Cross HQ and three police stations in Baghdad, 40 people were killed and over 200 wounded. This assault marks the beginning of what promises to be a protracted guerrilla war.

"We hope the firing will be more precise and efficient (next time)," averred Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Druze community, "so we get rid of this microbe and people like him in Washington who are spreading disorder in Arab lands, Iraq and Palestine."

Although Jumblatt's sentiments are no doubt representative of a growing number in the region, I'm afraid I can't agree. We need to keep the Wolf around for the official inquiry into how and why he and his neoconservative confreres bamboozled us into war. Wolfowitz deserves to be disgraced, and his policy defeated a fate far worse than death for a man in his position.

The hubris of Wolfowitz and the War Party will be their undoing: this was almost literally true in Wolfowitz's case.

It was the Wolf, you'll remember, who took a bite out of General Eric Shinseki, when the outgoing Army chief of staff testified before Congress that the occupation would require "several hundred thousand" U.S. troops. Pressed for a specific number, Shinseki estimated 200,000. The Wolf pounced on this as "wildly off the mark," and Rumsfeld agreed. But who's "wildly off the mark" now?

There are currently close to 145,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, not counting tens of thousands more in the general vicinity a number the Congressional Budget Office says can't be maintained. As the events of the past few days have made all too clear, it isn't enough to secure the glorious "victory" declared by our President some months ago. Heck, it's not even enough to ensure the physical safety of top U.S. government officials when they come to survey the "progress" of their newly-conquered province.

Wolfowitz is putting up a brave front, blithely shrugging off his own scrape with mortality and echoing the President's fatuous remark that this just shows how "desperate" the resistance is because of our alleged "success" in Iraq, which the media is supposedly refusing to publicize. But the [UK] Independent's Patrick Cockburn captured the pathetic reality is his report filed from Baghdad:

"A shaken-looking Mr Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the invasion, was forced to scurry from the hotel, followed by other US officials in pyjamas and underpants.

"Iraqis interviewed in Baghdad yesterday had very different ideas from Mr Bush. All, without exception, approved of the attacks on the hotel and US soldiers, but not the suicide bombings because Iraqis were the victims."

Jumblatt's outburst was in somewhat questionable taste, but it is valid to ask: what was Wolfowitz doing in Iraq to begin with? Middle East scholar Juan Cole raises the important point that the deputy defense secretary's two visits to Iraq were exercises in pure triumphalism:

"The problem with Wolfowitz's trips to Iraq is that they are clearly political, requiring visits to touchy places such as Najaf and Tikrit, to make political points about US dominance of the country. But the Deputy Secretary of Defense should only be visiting Iraq for military reasons, and his visits should be conducted secretly so he can see military commanders and troops. If Wolfowitz goes on campaigning to be mayor of Tikrit, he is liable to get himself killed."

Wolfowitz, the ideologue of American global hegemony, in gleefully announcing that he would be "sleeping in Tikrit," was clearly rubbing it in the defeated Iraqis' faces. This kind of arrogance inevitably provokes a violent reaction and it isn't just Wolfowitz in the line of fire. The number and lethality of daily attacks on the occupation forces has been steadily rising. The Ramadan offensive brings the evolving conflict to a whole new level. The battle of Baghdad is not over.

Now that one of the nation's leading

[CTRL] Rummy's 'long, hard slog'

2003-10-29 Thread William Shannon

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35316

Rummy's 'long, hard slog'
Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted: October 29, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

2003Creators Syndicate, Inc.

The now-famous Donald Rumsfeld memo was stamped neither "sensitive" nor "secret." Thus there would be no cause to call in the FBI should it leak. It was sent to Rumsfeld deputies Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith and Gens. Richard Myers and Peter Pace, who had heard it all before. It was brief enough to be reprinted in any newspaper, and tart and succinct enough to be quoted.

When it fell into the hands of Tom Squitieri, who splashed it on Page 1 of USA Today, Rumsfeld made light of the leak, though his aides had insisted he was "livid." Hence it is not a stretch to conclude that Rumsfeld intended this memo for a wider audience than his four deputies i.e., he wanted it out, and he wanted his views known.

Indeed, the memo seems intended to convey to the nation, Congress and the president the growing apprehension of the leading hawk in the War Cabinet on America's progress in the war on terror.

What does the memo tell us about the mindset of its author?

Secretary Certitude harbors the same anxieties and doubts about the war in Iraq as those who opposed the invasion: "It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog," wrote Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld's memo shreds in tatters the triumphalist banner "Mission Accomplished" that flew from the Lincoln on May 1 when President Bush landed. The boast that "Failure is not an option!" in Iraq and Afghanistan gives way to cold contemplation that failure is possible.

The memo cuts the ground from under White House claims that the situation in Iraq is far better than the media "filter" has portrayed it. And it moves a Pentagon that was behind the curve and losing credibility for foolish predictions and failed planning for postwar Iraq back into line with public perceptions. Yes, it is going to be "a long, hard slog."

Rumsfeld emerges from this brief memo as a tough-minded realist asking hard questions about whether we are winning and what new "bold" measures are needed for victory including reconfiguring the entire U.S. government to fight the war. And there is the suggestion that elements of all departments engaged in prosecuting this war CIA, Justice, Defense should be brought under one roof and one command. And there is little doubt whom Secretary Rumsfeld has in mind as Deputy President for War.

The downside is that the secretary comes off less as a wise statesman than as a frustrated corporate CEO, perplexed as to why company products are not selling as well as his marketeers and advertising team led him to believe. The memo is McNamarian as in Robert S. McNamara, paragon of "The Best and the Brightest," who led us into Vietnam and who took as his signposts of victory body counts of Viet Cong dead that junior officers fresh from battle brought in from the rice paddies.

"Today," writes Rumsfeld, "we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists than ... the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?"

"Is our current situation such that the 'harder we work, the behinder we get'?"

These questions should have been asked before, not after, Rumsfeld prodded the president to send an army into Mesopotamia.

And the memo lacks reflection, imagination, vision.

Can the secretary not see that it is the U.S. presence itself in Iraq that recruits "terrorists"? Can he not see that it may not be our tactics that are faulty, but our policy? Did he not know that invading an Islamic country could create more Islamic enemies than we kill? Has the Pentagon never studied Israel's invasion of Lebanon, and her subsequent expulsion by the Hezbollah guerrillas who were tots and sub-teens when Sharon's Merkava tanks first came storming in?

Has the secretary not read history? Post-1945, every single Western imperial power has been expelled from the Arab world. Why did we think we could go back, set up an imperial outpost in an ancient Arab capital that was the seat of the caliphate for 500 years, and be welcomed by flower-tossing Baghdadis and Tikritis as liberators?

In 1945, no people were more admired in the Arab world than we Americans. Yet, no Western nation is now more reviled. A question for the secretary: Might it not be that we have behaved in the Middle East so as to be perceived by the Arabs as the British came to be perceived by our founding fathers, as blustering and arrogant imperialists?

Would one be surprised to discover in British archives a memo from Lord North to King George saying, in the vernacular of the time, "Sire, the harder we work, the behinder we get"?

[CTRL] Secret NSA Tapes Could Support Princess Di's Letter

2003-10-29 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1197

Secret NSA Tapes Could Provide Sensational Testimony to Support Princess Dianas Dramatic Letter

Gordon Thomas - October 29, 2003

One thousand and fifty secret electronic transcripts made by Americas spy in the sky, the National Security Agency, NSA, are believed to contain even more shattering evidence to support Princess Dianas handwritten letter uncannily forecasting she would die in a car crash.

The NSA tapes show she and her lover, Dodi al-Fayed, were under surveillance by NSA and other intelligence agents before their deaths in Paris.

As pressure mounts for an inquest, these tapes could be a crucial exhibit.

The NSA tapes are stored in a climate-controlled vault at NSAs headquarters at Fort Meade outside Washington. They have been heard by only the agencys most senior staff.

NSA controls a worldwide electronic eavesdropping system normally only used against Americas enemies.

Dodis father, Mohammed al-Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrods, has waged an unsuccessful battle in the US courts to obtain copies of the tapes. He believes they also contain evidence that his son and Diana planned to marry and that she may even have been pregnant before her death.

But equally explosive could be the revelations about the intelligence web that electronically enshrouded the Princess in the last weeks of her life.

Israels Mossad has never denied it had recruited Henri Paul, the driver of the car in which Diana, Dodi al-Fayed and Paul died. He was deputy head of security at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. It is owned by Mohammed al-Fayed.

Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson has claimed the British Secret Intelligence Service was actively involved in tracking Diana. He has said that MI6 were helped by NSA satellite surveillance to maintain watch on Diana and Dodi al-Fayed as they sailed around the Mediterranean on his fathers yacht, the Jonikal, in the weeks before Diana died.

Senior Buckingham Palace aides have been told Diana reveals on the NSA intercepts, explicit sexual details about Prince Charles. She claims his behaviour forced her to have an affair with James Hewitt.

Hewitt, who has so far unsuccessfully failed to sell what he calls steamy love letters from Diana, claims the NSA transcripts boost his claims about life in Royal circles.

The Royal Coroner will also have to decide what steps to take to trace secret video tapes Diana is now known to have made months before her death.

Hints of their contents appeared last year at the trial of Dianas former butler, Paul Burrel, who was acquitted of stealing her possessions. Mention of the tapes was made. But the judge stopped the trial before their contents could surface. Since then, the tapes are believed to be in the custody of Scotland Yard. Last week, they refused to discuss the matter.

There are seven tapes. Each is the length of a Hollywood blockbuster. But if made public say London intelligence sources no movie could have their impact.

Just call them explosive. Thats all I need say, said a London intelligence source.

While it is not clear what Diana intended to do with the tapes, any plans were ended with her death a few months later.

A Buckingham Palace courtier suggested Diana may have planned to use them as a bargaining tool to try and get a better financial settlement in her divorce. Or maybe to secure her place in history.

More certain, the tapes revelations, delivered in the same little-girl voice which was Dianas carefully cultivated stock-in-trade to convey something sensational, go to the heart of what she saw as wrong in the House of Windsor.

The story behind those tapes is complex and revealing and casts new light on Dianas mindset in the months before she died in 1997.

The very existence of the tapes had been a closely-guarded secret until the collapse of the Paul Burrel trial. Then rumours began to emerge that the Queens intervention to stop the trial was because she had become aware of the contents of the tapes.

The tapes were shot in March, 1997, five months before her death. Diana sat before a VHS video camera in the main drawing room of her home, Kensington Palace, and spoke in all for 12 hours over a period of ten days.

Only one other person knew she had made the tapes, Dodi al-Fayed. His father, Mohammed al-Fayed, confirmed he wants the Royal Coroner, Dr Michael Burgess, to listen to the tapes and compare them with the 1,050 intercepts NSA made later that year.

In the past, the US Justice Department has said the intercepts contain matters of national security.

Mohammed al-Fayed has fought a lengthy, but unsuccessful, court battle in Washington to obtain copies.

A former Buckingham Palace aide has hinted that the video tapes are Dianas video diaries.
In a sense, they are an oral history of the Royal Family. She deals with each member in detail, he said. He claimed last week that the videos reserve her most

[CTRL] Marrs: ALL HAIL THE JEWISH MASTER RACE!

2003-10-28 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.propagandamatrix.com/271003jewishmasterrace.html

All Hail The Jewish Master Race!
Texe Marrs

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."

If I asked you what group of people embrace a set of doctrines like this, what would your answer be? Most of you would probably answer, "The Nazis." Today, in fact, it is Jews who make all these poisonous claims to racial superiority. No, not all the Jews. But, as I will document, a huge number of leaders among the Jews ascribe to these wicked and dangerous theories of racial and blood superiority.

No Basis for Peace

In his memoirs of his years in the White House, former President Jimmy Carter wrote that there could have been peace between the Arabs and the Israelis had it not been for the bigoted, Nazi-like racial views of Israeli's Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin, Carter recalled, believed the Jews were a Master Race, a holy people superior to Egyptians and Arabs. Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land, so there was absolutely no basis for peace. The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it. Period.

Jews a Totally Different Species?

Rabbi Mendel Schneerson, the late Jewish Lubavitcher and friend of the senior George Bush, also believed the Jews are a superior Master Race. Many Jews today agree with the late Rabbi. Some even believe that Schneerson will himself someday be resurrected and return as the Jewish World Messiah. Schneerson once explained his theory of Jewish racial superiority this way. He said, "We have a case of the Jew...a totally different species."

"The body of a Jewish person," Schneerson bragged, "is of a totally different quality from the body of members of all other nations of the world. Bodies of the Gentiles are in vain. An even greater difference is in regard to the soul...A non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness."

Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel, whose lies about his holocaust experiences seem to be legion, also claims that Jews are a superior race. "Everything about us is different," Wiesel boasts. "Jews are ontologically exceptional."

No Mixed Marriages for the Superior Race

This poisonous theory of the Jews impacts their relations with all other nations and peoples. Because they are convinced they are the Master Race, superior, god souls living amongst inferior beasts, Israel does not sanction or allow mixed marriages (The Jerusalem Report, October 20, 1994, p.26). In the U.S.A., liberal Jews scream out for more mixed marriages, but only among Gentiles! Jewish leaders fund civil rights organizations and are in favor of increased immigration of foreign races. But back home in Israel, the Sharon government is now building a Berlin-style wall creating an apartheid nation, to keep "inferior" Arabs in their segregated ghettos.

Ze'ev Chafeto, the courageous Jewish editor of The Jerusalem Report magazine, notes that Israeli laws harshly prohibit people of non-Jewish races from immigrating to Israel. The Jews are determined to keep their race "pure" and unblemished, just as the Nazis sought for the Aryans. Christians are especially not welcome, and Israelis frequently use words similar to the condescending slang word "nigger" to describe Christians and Gentilesvulgar, Yiddish slur words like "shiksa," "schwartze," and "shegetsz."

Since the Jews are claimed to be the Master Race, whose souls are said by the Talmud to be on a far higher plane than the animalistic, "satanic souls" of Gentiles, it is common for Jewish authorities to brand all Gentiles by the derogatory Yiddish term "goy," a term akin to a curse word. Meanwhile, Arabs are deemed so inferior they are even lower than the goy.

Jewish Blood vs. Inferior Blood

When several of his students were accused of murdering a teenage Arab girl, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg insisted: "Jewish blood is not the same as the blood of a (Gentile) goy." In other words, if a god-like Jew kills an inferior goy, how can that be murder?

Israeli Yeshiva (school) students often demonstrate and chant, "Death to the Arabs." Defending their extreme behavior, Rabbi Ido Elba explains, "According to the Talmud (Jewish book of traditions), one may kill any Gentile." Rabbi Schlomo Aviner adds that normal human codes and laws of justice and righteousness do not apply to the Jews.

The widely studied Gush Emunim holds that, "Jews are not and cannot be a normal people...The Covenant made between God and the Jewish people effectively nullifies moral laws that bind normal nations."

"Jesus a Bastard," says Jewish

[CTRL] USS Liberty: Rockets, Torpedoes Lies

2003-10-28 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1192

Rockets, Napalm, Torpedoes Lies
Jeffery St. Clair www.CounterPunch.org Oct. 24, 2003

In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel's attack on the Arab states. The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship.

Only hours after the Liberty arrived it was spotted by the Israeli military. The IDF sent out reconnaissance planes to identify the ship. They made eight trips over a period of three hours. The Liberty was flying a large US flag and was easily recognizable as an American vessel.

A few hours later more planes came. These were Israeli Mirage III fighters, armed with rockets and machine guns. As off-duty officers sunbathed on the deck, the fighters opened fire on the defenseless ship with rockets and machine guns.

A few minutes later a second wave of planes streaked overhead, French-built Mystere jets, which not only pelted the ship with gunfire but also with napalm bomblets, coating the deck with the flaming jelly. By now, the Liberty was on fire and dozens were wounded and killed, excluding several of the ship's top officers.

The Liberty's radio team tried to issue a distress call, but discovered the frequencies had been jammed by the Israeli planes with what one communications specialist called "a buzzsaw sound." Finally, an open channel was found and the Liberty got out a message it was under attack to the USS America, the Sixth Fleet's large aircraft carrier.

Two F-4s left the carrier to come to the Liberty's aid. Apparently, the jets were armed only with nuclear weapons. When word reached the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara became irate and ordered the jets to return. "Tell the Sixth Fleet to get those aircraft back immediately," he barked. McNamara's injunction was reiterated in saltier terms by Admiral David L. McDonald, the chief of Naval Operations: "You get those fucking airplanes back on deck, and you get them back down." The planes turned around. And the attack on the Liberty continued.

After the Israeli fighter jets had emptied their arsenal of rockets, three Israeli attack boats approached the Liberty. Two torpedoes were launched at the crippled ship, one tore a 40-foot wide hole in the hull, flooding the lower compartments, and killing more than a dozen American sailors.

As the Liberty listed in the choppy seas, its deck aflame, crew members dropped life rafts into the water and prepared to scuttle the ship. Given the number of wounded, this was going to be a dangerous operation. But it soon proved impossible, as the Israeli attack boats strafed the rafts with machine gun fire. No body was going to get out alive that way.
After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack. One of the torpedo boats approached the Liberty. An officer asked in English over a bullhorn: "Do you need any help?"

The wounded commander of the Liberty, Lt. William McGonagle, instructed the quartermaster to respond emphatically: "Fuck you." The Israeli boat turned and left.

A Soviet destroyer responded before the US Navy, even though a US submarine, on a covert mission, was apparently in the area and had monitored the attack. The Soviet ship reached the Liberty six hours before the USS Davis. The captain of the Soviet ship offered his aid, but the Liberty's conning officer refused.

Finally, 16 hours after the attack two US destroyers reached the Liberty. By that time, 34 US sailors were dead and 174 injured, many seriously. As the wounded were being evacuated, an officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence instructed the men not to talk about their ordeal with the press.

The following morning Israel launched a surprise invasion of Syria, breaching the new cease-fire agreement and seizing control of the Golan Heights.

Within three weeks, the Navy put out a 700-page report, exonerating the Israelis, claiming the attack had been accidental and that the Israelis had pulled back as soon as they realized their mistake. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara suggested the whole affair should be forgotten. "These errors do occur," McNamara concluded.

***

In Assault on the Liberty, a harrowing first-hand account by James Ennes Jr., McNamara's version of events is proven to be as big a sham as his concurrent lies about Vietnam. Ennes's book created a media storm when it was first published by Random House in 1980, including (predictably) charges that Ennes was a liar and an anti-Semite. Still, the book sold more than 40,000 copies, but was eventually allowed to go out of print. Now Ennes has published an updated version, which incorporates much new evidence that the Israeli attack was deliberate and that the US government went to extraordinary lengths to disguise the truth.

It's a story of Israel aggression, Pentagon incompetence,

[CTRL] Israelis shoot Australian activist

2003-10-28 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/26/1067103266494.html

Israelis shoot Australian activist
October 26, 2003

An Australian activist campaigning against Israel's occupation of the West Bank was shot through both legs during a protest, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said.

Perth university student Joshua Taaffe, 24, was shot through both legs by Israeli troops who used a searchlight to spot him, ISM spokesman Michael Shaiq said.

Mr Shaiq said Mr Taaffe arrived in the town of Nablus about four weeks ago to join international protesters opposed to what they say is Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.

Mr Taaffe is now receiving medical treatment in a Nablus hospital, although Israeli troops had earlier entered the ward where he was lying and allegedly trained a weapon on him, Mr Shaiq claimed.

The precise timing and circumstances of the alleged shooting remain unclear but it was understood the Australian was shot on Friday night.

A Palestinian man wounded by Israeli fire near Nablus died.

The man was identified as Jamal Kadus, 39, by Agence France-Presse.

He was reported to have been shot in the back while walking to work in Nablus from his home in the nearby village of Bureen.

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[CTRL] Leo-Cons

2003-10-28 Thread William Shannon

http://stories.wbal.com/stories/story.asp?a=13016print=yes

Leo-Cons
Friday, October 24, 2003 Ron Smith's Something to Say

Have you noticed that one is not supposed to say neocon any more? Its suddenly a dirty word because to use it as identification for a particular school of political thought is said to be anti-Semitic, apparently because so many prominent new conservatives are Jewish.

Theyre proud of that privately, but since the Iraq adventure has not gone as smoothly as they told us it would, theyd rather not accept public responsibility for ginning up support for the invasion and occupation.

Besides, as followers of political philosopher Leo Strauss, many neocon intellectuals believe ordinary folks shouldnt be told the truth about matters of importance such as the reasons for expending American blood and treasure on the Iraq War.

Irving Kristol (Bills Pappy), sometimes called the Godfather of neo-conservatism, once wrote:

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesnt work.

Understanding what Strauss taught his students is key to understanding how the use of deception and manipulation in current US policy flows directly from the doctrines [of Strauss]. His disciples include Paul Wolfowitz and other neo-conservatives who have driven much of the political agenda of the Bush administration.

If you are at all interested in learning more about Strauss and his profound influence on the events of this time, read this interview with a Strauss scholar who has been denounced for shedding light on the late teachers cultists.

Ruling elites have always gulled the masses. Its necessary to keep those who are subordinated from realizing the extent of their servitude. Once they learn whats really going on, you see, the masses are transformed from merely being revolting to being in revolt.

Whats most interesting these days is how the fragmentation of the media, above all the access to information on the Internet, makes perpetrating Noble Lies more difficult than it has ever been. Secrets are hard to keep and public deception is easily exposed.

What truths are appropriate for you?

Re: [CTRL] Are Jews Rulers or Ruled?

2003-10-27 Thread William Shannon

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Davey,

You ought to lay off those poppers of Amyl Nitrate...they're making you a little wacked. Just looking out for ya...

Bill.

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I'm sure Billy Shannon and his esoteric alien-in-communiqué girlfriend Acharya S, will enjoy the same freedom of speech when these pious god-isers, in the vein of Makow, achieve more political leverage than they currently have. Under Makow's holy god, in times past, Billy's esoteric girlfriend would have most likely been burnt or strangled as a witch.

But then, when the slightest scent of Judeaophobia is afoot, it seems Billy will jump into bed with anything.

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[CTRL] OUR 'FRIENDS,' THE ISRAELIS

2003-10-27 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html

October 27, 2003
OUR 'FRIENDS,' THE ISRAELIS
In 1967, they sunk the U.S.S. Liberty and LBJ engineered a cover-up

Retired Captain Ward Boston, a former U.S. Navy attorney who was senior legal counsel to the military investigation of the sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty by the Israelis, in 1967, has finally revealed the truth in a signed affidavit:

"For more than 30 years, I have remained silent on the topic of the USS Liberty. I am a military man and when orders come in from the Secretary of Defense and President of the United States, I follow them.

"The evidence was clear. Both [the late] Admiral [Isaac C.] Kidd, [Jr.] and I believed with certainty that this attack, which killed 34 American sailors and injured 172 others, was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew. I am certain that the Israeli pilots that undertook the attack, as well as their superiors who had ordered the attack, were aware that the ship was American.

"I am outraged at the efforts of the apologists for Israel in this country to claim that this attack was a case of 'mistaken identity.' I know from personal conversations I had with Admiral Kidd that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

At a news conference, put on in the Rayburn House Office Building with the help of Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thundered from his wheelchair:

"Why in the world would our government put Israel's interest ahead of our own?"

A good question, one that baffles patriots and is especially relevant today.

When Israeli war planes descended on the Liberty, which was parked in international waters in the Mediterranean, the crew was caught completely unawares: sailors were up on deck sunning themselves. It was a cowardly and vicious attack in which 34 U.S. sailors were killed, and 171 wounded. When the Israelis, after torpedoing the ship, came back in a second assault, they strafed the lifeboats as the crew tried to clamber aboard a war crime. Those rafts are now on display in an Israeli museum, according to one account, and, as the [UK] Guardian points out:

"No one was ever court-martialed, reduced in rank or even reprimanded. Israel chose instead to honor motor torpedo boat 203, which fired the deadly torpedo at the Liberty. The ship's wheel and bell were placed on prominent display at the naval museum, among the maritime artifacts of which the Israeli navy was most proud."

Ah yes, our friends, the Israelis. It takes a special kind of arrogance to memorialize such a wanton, brazen murder especially when U.S. taxpayers paid for that memorial, as they pay for practically everything else in Israel, from helicopter gunships and tanks to special subsidies for religious schools and right-wing politicians.

Apologists for Israel defend the attack, saying it was a "mistake," and, alternately (and often simultaneously) pointing out that the Liberty was spying on Israel in wartime, and so deserved its fate. But now, thirty-five years later, the truth has been uncovered at last. The question raised by Admiral Moorer is surely relevant, but beyond that, another issue arises: what else are they covering up?

The official verdict was hardly challenged at the time except by the survivors and the families
of the dead an attitude that reflected the generally pro-Israel bias of the American media, but there was one prominent exception: National Review. The flagship journal of the American conservative movement ran an article that gave "the inside story" on the incident. Author James Jackson Kilpatrick reported what many of the survivors were saying at the time: that the attack was deliberate.

Now that NR has been vindicated, do you think they'll have a piece triumphantly pointing out that Jackson's reporting was right? Sadly, I rather doubt it. The NR of yesteryear was a patriotic nationalist magazine that put America first: the NR of today is Ariel Sharon's bitch. No, we won't be seeing so much as a note about this in the thoroughly neocon-ized National Review any time soon.

NOTES IN THE MARGIN

Speaking of cover-ups, has anybody noticed that the story about the anti-terrorist sting operation involving the sale of surface-to-air missiles seems to have disappeared into the ether? It was an odd item, involving a reputed arms dealer, Hemant Lakhani, a native of India, and one Yehuda Abraham, of Rego Park, New York, an Orthodox Jewish gem merchant. Mr. Abraham was charged with coordinating the financial transactions involved. He denies knowing what was being sold and to whom. Lakhani and a Malaysian accomplice were detained without bond, while the 75-year-old Abraham was released on a $10 million bond. The story then dropped out of sight, except for

[CTRL] USS Liberty - Mistake, Or Stab In The Back?

2003-10-26 Thread William Shannon

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http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/07/04/31794.html

Pravda.RU:Top Stories:More in detail

18:15 2002-07-04

The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. Mistake, or stab in the back? The truth about America's 'ally.'

On June 8, 1967, 34 American sailors of the USS Liberty lost their lives serving their country. These Americans died when Israel, America-s ?ally,¦ launched a murderous attack on the virtually unarmed American intelligence ship. To this day, many Americans are unaware that this attack even took place. Recently, PRAVDA.Ru had the opportunity to interview Mr. Hrankowski, a survivor and crew member of the USS Liberty.

Greetings Mr. Hrankowski! We at PRAVDA.Ru greatly appreciate this exclusive interview. We feel that, as a USS Liberty survivor, you are in the unique position to shed light on actually what happened and why. It is a great tragedy that 34 young American sailors died while serving their country. It is a even greater tragedy that the general public knows next to nothing about this event.

What position did you serve on the USS Liberty?

My position on the USS Liberty was in the Engineering Department. I was a boilerman. I also worked for the chief engineer in the log room office.

One of the main questions regarding this attack is whether or not the Israeli attackers knew that they were attacking an American ship. The Israelis have claimed that they misidentified the Liberty for the Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir, but it has been reported that the USS liberty flew an American flag and was distinctly marked with US markings. It is also known that slow moving recon planes flew over the USS Liberty numerous times. Is there any doubt in your mind that the Israeli military knew that they were attacking an American ship?

There is no doubt in my mind that the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was deliberate. Israel has claimed that it was a mistake and that they were firing upon an arab horse freighter. The El Quesir was the name of the Arab ship. It was tied up and not sea worthy during the Six Day War, and the Israelis knew this.

As for our Flag. All American ships fly the flag. Ours was flying until the Israelis shot it down and within seconds another was put up. It was our holiday Ensign, sized 9 feet by 13 feet.

As for the slow moving aircraft. Planes started flying over us and checking us out at 5:30am and did so 9 to 13 times until the attack at 2:00PM. There is no doubt in my mind that they knew who they were attacking.

It has been reported that the USS Saratago, responding to a SOS from the Liberty, launched jets to help the Liberty approximately 15 minutes into the Israeli attack. Why were the jets recalled? One could say that this act left American sailors to be murdered by an enemy force?

A message from the USS Liberty got to the USS Saratoga 9 minutes into the attack. The USS Saratoga launched a flight of fighters immediately and they were called back. This happened three different times throughout the attack. Robert MacNamara called them back twice, and President Johnson called them back once, saying his thoughts were not for the USS Liberty. He did not want to embarrass his ally Israel. That act did leave us to get murdered, and what it actually is called is abandonment.

Once your captain, William Loren McGonagle, realized that the Liberty was in danger of sinking, he ordered the crew to abandon ship. At this point, there were only three life rafts left that weren-t damaged. Your crew placed as many wounded into the life rafts and lowered them over the side of the Liberty. Please tell us what happened next.

The order was given by the captain to abandon ship, because he thought we were going to sink. Three life rafts were in the water, but then Israeli Torpedo boats came up to them and shot two of them up and grabbed one on the boats. That is against the Geneva Convention.

What prompted the Israelis to terminate their assault?

I'm not sure what caused them to terminate the attack, but after 2 hours, they could not sink us. I would think that their time had run out.

How long did it take for American help to arrive?

It took 16 hours for the American fleet to get to us. But that night, while we were sailing to the sixth fleet, a Soviet ship offered help to us. They said that they would stay just at the horizon and if our ship was going to go down, they would help us.

In a recent letter to President Bush, survivor Phillip F. Tourney claimed that the crew of the USS Liberty were ?ordered to remain silent under threat of court martial, imprisonment, or worse, and we all know what worst meant.¦ Did you yourself experience such threats?

Admiral Kidd was the one who ordered us silent. That was a direct order to all of the crew. I heard it myself that day.

If what has been reported is true, the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty can only be described as deliberate. In your opinion, why did this attack take place?

As for

[CTRL] BBC Edits Osama Text - Conceals Inconvienent Facts

2003-10-26 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/10/Mueller_201003b.html

Monday, October 20, 2003

BBC edits latest Osama text: omits inconvient facts - conceals that he also attacks Iraq's Baath Party

Eric Mueller comments:

NOW here's something a little more interesting. On Saturday, October 18, 2003, two audio tapes of Osama bin Laden were broadcast by al-Jazeera.

One was an address directed to the Iraqi people, the other an address to the American people. Several hours later, the BBC published translations of what it called "full texts" of the tapes.

On the al-Jazeera website there was a link to the audio recording of the message to America, but not of his message to the Iraqi people.

The moderate Islamic website Islamonline later put up a link to an audio recording of excerpts (only) of that message by Bin Laden in Arabic to Iraqis. Today some Arabic websites have published a complete Arabic transcript of Bin Laden's message to the Iraqi people. [Arabic text].

WHAT is interesting is that the BBC "full text" of Bin Laden's message to the Iraqi people is actually a translation of only the first page of a two-and-a-half-page Arabic message.

The BBC text concludes with "God is the sole source of our strength." But the Arabic text goes on for another page and a half. Perhaps significantly, the first thing Bin Laden says after the BBC's "full text" cuts off is:

"I address this appeal to the Muslims in general and the Iraqi people in particular, and I say to them: Beware of supporting the American Crusader troops and those who band together with them. Whoever cooperates with them and with what comes out of them, regardless of their names or labels, is an apostate and infidel. And the same goes for those who support the infidel political parties, like the Arab Socialist Baath Party, the Kurdish Democratic Parties, and the their likes."

One wonders if the BBC didn't want to inform readers that Bin Laden was launching a verbal assault on Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which is currently the leading force in the resistance to the US occupation of Iraq.

The US and Britain are trying to convince the world that they are confronting a monolithic "global terror network." Yet here is Bin Laden putting the Baath party in the same category as the American-appointed governing council in Baghdad and the Kurdish parties that are working hand-in-glove with the US occupation.

If this passage was too politically ackward for the BBC to include in its translation, they could at least have billed their version as an "excerpt" from Bin Laden's message. A "full text" it most certainly is not.

Arabist Eric Mueller is this website's expert on Middle Eastern affairs. He was a featured speaker at the Real History weekend at Cincinnati, Labor Day, 2003.

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[CTRL] Jury Awards $70M Against Halliburton

2003-10-26 Thread William Shannon

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Jury Awards $70M Against Halliburton

By Associated Press

October 26, 2003, 4:13 AM EST

HOUSTON -- A jury has awarded $70 million to a Houston man who claimed that Halliburton and another oil company cheated him out of the chance to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s.

Halliburton said it plans to request that the jury award, which has not been entered as a final judgment, be reduced or eliminated, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday.

"If the verdict becomes a judgment, we intend to appeal," the Houston-based company said.

Scott Van Dyke and his company, Anglo Dutch Tenge, sued the Halliburton and Ramco Oil in 2000. A jury found in favor of Van Dyke's company on Friday.

Van Dyke's attorney John O'Quinn said his client was promised a concession for an oil field near the Caspian Sea when he met the Turkish president.

When he was unable to fund development of the field, Van Dyke sought out an equity partner. Halliburton contacted him in 1997 and signed a confidentiality agreement not to disclose data that Van Dyke allowed the company to review, O'Quinn said.

After opting not to invest, Halliburton located another company with ties to the Kazakhstan government and bought the field out from under Van Dyke, according to the lawsuit.

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[CTRL] The Real Cause of Anti Semitism

2003-10-26 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1188

The Real Cause of "Anti Semitism"
By Henry Makow, Ph.D.

My Jewish mother was born in Poland in 1919. She remembered visiting her grandfather's vast "estate" as a child and riding in a big carriage drawn by four white horses.

This story contradicted my image of Jewish poverty and persecution in Poland, and I questioned her about it.

She reassured me that her family had means. (Unfortunately her rich grandfather remarried and disowned her father. No more invitations.)

On the other hand, my father's family fit my preconception. His father eked out a living as Secretary for a labor union. They lived in a two-room flat and sublet one room. Sometimes Poles threw stones at them in the park. A quota meant that he could not attend university.

The popular image of Jewish history is closer to my father's story. But we cannot have an accurate impression without my mother's.

Israel Shahak's book "Jewish History, Jewish Religion; The Weight of 3000 Years" (1994) shows how the past provides a key to understanding the present.

According to Shahak, the Jewish elite always had a symbiotic relationship with the governing class. The Jews would "administer the oppression" of the masses. In return, the governing class would force Jews to obey their "leaders." Sometimes a pogrom would do the trick.

The "Jewish" position was always strongest when the governing class was most at odds with the masses, and when there was least national feeling.

Today, specific Jews (in finance, government, education and especially the media) play a prominent role in the world elite's preparation for "globalization," which many see as a modern form of feudalism. Once again, "anti Semitism" is exploited to mobilize Jews (and Christians) to support oppression (e.g. "The War on Terror"), disarm opposition and to deflect blame.

The Truth is Bitter

History is propaganda about the past. Most historians don't tell the truth because they would be fired. Israel Shahak, who died in 2001, was not an historian. He was a professor of organic chemistry at Hebrew University, who had a scientist's respect for objective truth. He was also a concentration camp survivor, an Israeli army veteran and a campaigner for Arab human rights. www.wrmea.com/archives/october01/0110071.html

History repeats itself because we lie about it. Shahak believes that Jews need to re-educate themselves about their history and religion. Jews are "a closed society" that uses "anti Semitism" to quash criticism, which is considered "hatred" or "self hatred."

Shahak says Judaism is largely a primitive, materialistic, authoritarian credo. The Talmud is devoted to Jewish supremacy and contempt for Christ, Christianity and non-Jews in general. The Cabala embraces many gods including Satan. (33) See also www.savethemales.ca/240902.html

The following is a brief summary of Shahak's argument in the chapter, "The Weight of History."

1. In spite of persecution, Jews throughout history formed an integral part of the privileged classes. The poorest Jew was immeasurably better off than the serfs. Until roughly 1880, their most important social function "was to mediate the oppression of the peasants on behalf of the nobility and the Crown."

2. Classical Judaism (1000-1880 AD) developed hatred and contempt for agriculture as an occupation and for peasants as a class. "The supposed superiority of Jewish morality and intellect...is bound up with a lack of sensitivity for the suffering of that major part of humanity who were especially oppressed during the last 1000 years, the peasants." (53)

3. While Gentiles in general were reviled, Jewish laws made an exception for the elite. Jewish physicians, tax collectors and bailiffs could be relied upon by a king, nobleman, pope or bishop, in a way that a Christian might not. The Jewish community enjoyed autonomous status and Jewish rabbis and rich were part of the governing class. Together they oppressed the masses, Jew and non-Jewish. (53)

4. The position of rich Jews is "particularly favourable under strong regimes, which have retained a feudal character" and are disassociated from the people they rule. "But in those countries where...the nobility enters into partnership with the king (and with at least part of the bourgeoisie) to rule the state, which assumes a national character," the position of the Jewish elite deteriorates.

5. However the position of the Jewish masses moved in tandem with the peasants not their leaders. The stronger the Jewish elite, the more tyrannical its grip over the Jewish people. For example, at the rabbis' request, the state would flog or imprison a Jewish vendor for opening his stall on a minor holiday.

Modern Anti Semitism

Israel Shahak and I differ about modern anti Semitism. I believe the above themes, in different form, continue into the 20th and 21st centuries. Shahak is a "humanist" and supporter of the principles of the

[CTRL] H.R. 3261 - Will Corporations Own Our Identities?

2003-10-26 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1316

Will Corporations Own Our Identities?
by Albert V. Burns
October 26, 2003

No one should be able to own facts about other people. Our names and numbers, and also the laws we must obey, should not be property that can be owned by corporations and policed by federal courts.

But special interests, such as the Software and Information Industry Association, are seeking new powers to own facts about us and about information we need. After quietly shopping a bill to Members of Congress for several weeks, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act was finally introduced last week as H.R. 3261.

The Constitution authorizes Congress to create copyrights. But your name, address and telephone number are facts that cannot be copyrighted, as the Supreme Court said when it ruled in 1991 that no one can copyright the telephone book...

The Constitution authorizes copyright protection for "authors." The Court ruled in Feist v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co. that a collection of facts lacks sufficient creativity to constitute authorship.

H.R. 3261 doesn't use the word copyright, but it would create a new federal property right in online and offline databases (collections of information), and give the federal courts power to police the use of information in databases. Granting large U.S. and foreign corporations the power to own personal facts about individuals, and prevent others from using those facts, would be the most lucrative handout in years.

H.R. 3261 would allow federal courts to impose stiff penalties if someone uses information from a database that a corporation claims to own. The exceptions to this rule are vague and subject to contrary interpretations, leaving users liable to a lawsuit in which it's up to a federal judge to decide what is "reasonable."

Over the past decade, without federal legislation or judicial supervision, databases have grown rapidly in size and number, and today there are giant databases containing our travel plans, our medical records, our telephone calls, our credit card usage, and even the websites we visit. This Collections of Information bill would chill productive activity because few users of data can afford taking a chance on how a court might rule.

Prominent groups from all across the political spectrum vigorously oppose this new bill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that the legislation could even prevent people from using data found in books checked out of libraries.

Peter Veeck felt the brunt of the corporate police. When he posted on his website the municipal building safety codes that all are required to obey, he was sued by a company that claimed to own the building codes.

After long and costly litigation, in 2002 Veeck won the case called Veeck v. SBCCI (PDF file). Judge Edith Jones wrote for the Fifth Circuit en banc: "Citizens may reproduce copies of the law for many purposes, not only to guide their actions but to influence future legislation, educate their neighborhood association, or simply to amuse."

On the last day of the U.S. Supreme Court term in June, the Court let Veeck's victory stand. During the litigation to force Veeck to remove building safety codes from his website, a hundred people perished in the Rhode Island nightclub fire attributed to ignorance about building safety codes.

The special interests still want Congress to allow corporations to exercise exclusive ownership over collections of facts. They failed to pass a similar bill called the Collections of Information Anti-Piracy bill in 1998 and are now trying again with H.R. 3261 in order to get from Congress what they could not win in the courts.

The real gold may lie in the medical databases that are still largely secret. The next time you want an itemization of why a brief hospital stay costs you far more than the most luxurious hotel, remember that medical procedure codes and reimbursement rates are not freely published.

The American Medical Association (AMA) claims to own these federally required codes, reaping tens of millions of dollars in royalty fees from them. You can go on the internet and find the price of almost anything from a plane ticket to an automobile, but the AMA will sue anyone who dares to post the billing codes and rates for simple medical procedures.

Giving new powers to the federal courts to police the use and exchange of information collected in databases would have a negative effect on our already shaky economy. Creating federally mandated ownership over data is not the way to go if we still believe in free enterprise.

Nor is H.R. 3261 the way to go if we believe that the federal government should exercise only enumerated powers. The Constitution does not authorize Congress to create any property rights beyond those specified in the Copyright Clause.

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[CTRL] JB Campbell: USS Liberty Attack Was US Operation

2003-10-26 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.rense.com/general43/usop.htm

USS Liberty Attack Was
US Operation
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Of course, the attack on the USS Liberty was deliberate. The point is that the attack was designed by Johnson and his Zionist handlers. The Liberty was sent to Gaza to be sunk. This is even hinted in Ennis' book, Assault on the Liberty. Ennis kicked me off the USS Liberty forum in 1997 for pointing this out.

Who can doubt this after learning of not only the cover-up but the actions of Johnson during the attack? He was quoted by a UPI reporter in the war room as saying, "I'd rather they sink the goddamned thing than go against our friends."

The Liberty was deliberately placed in the hot war zone with no protection so that she could be sunk quietly with no witnesses and the massacre blamed on the Egyptians, who could then be attacked not only by Israel but by the US on behalf of Israel.

Israel would have had the green light to attack in all directions with the full support of an enraged American people. If the Liberty had been sunk we can bet the Zionist propaganda mills would have exploded with the news of Egyptian treachery. But when the combined efforts of the Israeli air force and navy failed to sink this unarmed tub, the mills were silent, the atrocity was classified and the Liberty's personnel threatened with prison for talking about the attack.

A cover-up of this magnitude was meant to protect the treacherous American Zionists who planned this war crime - not so much the Israeli butchers.

How could Johnson's orders to allow the ship to be sunk possibly be justified in an investigation? Ordering jet fighters recalled twice while the attack was ongoing? Johnson and McNamara could have been hanged for treason. It's not too late for McNamara.

People, especially the Liberty survivors, do not understand the catastrophic setback for Israel that this botched massacre represented. If the American people could have been told that Egypt sank the Liberty, Eretz (Greater) Israel would have been a reality by 1970. That was the whole idea behind sending the USS Liberty to her fate off Gaza. Zionist rule would have stretched from the Nile to the Euphrates with the full support of the bamboozled American public.

Is there a statute of limitations for treason?

J. B. Campbell

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Dear friends,

Another thing that will bolster JB Campbell's position on President Johnson, that he knew of this and let it happen, or even wanted the ship sunk (which I doubt, but even that is possible) is:

1. Nasser wanted to attack israel, but Johnson called him and told him that he'd keep Israel from attacking. Nasser had all of his planes lined up on runways ready to go; his tanks, also. Unfortunately, for history, and for the sake of America and the Arab world and world history, Nasser listened to Johnson and trusted him.

2. The Israelis then attacked shortly after the phone call after Nasser had his people stand down; it was a turkey shoot with the Egyptian military almost entirely destroyed on every front.

3. The USS Liberty would have radioed this information and it would have obligated the Amerians to intervene - but with the ship out of the way, there was no intelligence coming in to the military.

4. Also, someone at the hghest order of command, namely the President, countermanded the military men and called the US planes back that were to go help the Liberty while it was under attack.

I had always admired johnson for his social concerns as a senator and as President, but his behavior in this matter and his behavior in the Viet Nam War show that he was completely in the hands of the military industrial complex and the Zionists.

Sadly,

Prof. Sam Hamod

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[CTRL] Arnie's 1st Acts Show Cheney/Shultz Ownership

2003-10-25 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3041shultz_arnie.html



This article appears in the October 24, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. 

Arnie's First Acts
Show Cheney/Shultz Ownership

by EIR Staff 

California's newly-elected Hitler, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has made it immediately clear that his Recall election was a project of Vice President Dick Cheney's, Warren Buffett's, and Bush Administration power broker George Shultz's electricity-merchant conglomerateswho bankrupted the state with deregulation in 2000-2002, then blamed the bankruptcy on Gov. Gray Davis to force Schwarzenegger's seizure of power. Schwarzenegger told an Oct. 11 press conference that he would introduce legislation to complete the deregulation of electricitytransmission as well as generationas one of his most urgent priorities. Lyndon LaRouche's California campaign had exposed that this step was planned at a May 2001 meeting Schwarzenegger had with Enron's disgraced chief thief, Kenneth Lay, and other electricity speculatorsa meeting the "Beast-Man" denied and then "couldn't recall" during the campaign. But on election, Schwarzenegger immediately posted a "Ken Lay's dream" energy plan on his website, promising to stop public financing of needed new power plants, and eliminate any public oversight over future California energy supply contracts. In the same few days, Schwarzenegger ordered both the California trade unions, and the state legislature to accept drastic cuts in spending and living standards; and he has appeared to trigger a strike wave which has spread quickly among both public and private employee unions in southern California since his election.

While Presidential candidate LaRouche, now in Europe, has continued to organize an international alert against the fascist threat of "another imported Austrian head of state," the Cheney-led neo-conservatives in the United States are already pushing the new-Hitler Schwarzenegger for President. Press Lord Conrad Black's right-wing Hudson Institute, and Rupert Murdoch's Weekly Standard have started invoking the 1912 "Bull Moose" candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt, for Schwarzenegger; the Weekly Standard's Oct. 14 issue raised the demand, "Remove the constitutional requirement that an American President must be native-born." Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah at the same time floated a proposed constitutional amendment to do so; the Washington Post backed the outrageous move.

The LaRouche Youth Factor in California

But LaRouche had vowed on Oct. 9 to make the imposition of Schwarzenegger on California a "Pyrrhic victory" for Cheney and Shultz; it is swinging Democratic activists and leaders to LaRouche for his effective mobilization in California, and helping his drive to get Cheney ousted from the Bush Administration. The "on the ground" story of the Recall, is the message to Democrats in California and nationally that an extraordinary mobilization by the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) in the Los Angeles area, turned a foregone-conclusion 60-40% vote to recall Governor Davis in Los Angeles County, into a final 51-49% defeat of the Recall (see story, page 70). A similar LYM mobilization in San Francisco and Oakland made an already anti-Recall public sentiment into an 80-20% landslide there. The dramatic activation of both college students and trade unions in the Los Angeles area by the LYM was key in this victory. The state's press and the national media largely ignored what the LYM was doing with hundreds of thousands of LaRouche's Who Robbed California? pamphlets and "Beast-Man" leaflets, but they did it anyway, making these victories a clear proof of the power of ideas in a crisis, against the media-manipulated rage of a population buffetted by economic collapse.

Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman told an Oct. 13 meeting of the Party organization that his report "might shock you, but the people who did the best work for us were with the LaRouche Youth Movement." He referenced some details of the way the LYM mobilized, and concludedto general applause from the Democrats presentthat given the Party's limitations there, "the LaRouche movement was crucial for the battle in L.A. County."

The waves of that "shock" to the Party at the success of LaRouche's personal mobilization in California against the Recall, are spreading beyond the state. The candidate said on Oct. 15when new Federal Election Commission filings showed him still second among all Democratic candidates in number of contributorsthat President Bush's personal trip out to embrace the new Hitler of California might help make LaRouche the next President.

Figures of the Democratic Party's national leadership including former President Bill Clinton, and LaRouche's rivals for the Presidential nomination, made cameo appearances at Governor Davis' side, but never engaged in the Recall battle. And through Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, Al Gore and

[CTRL] Rummy's Ruminations

2003-10-24 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html



RUMMY'S RUMINATIONS
Leaked memo reveals Rumsfeld as clueless  and reckless

The leak of a memo written by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confessing that the Iraq war is going to be "a long, hard slog" has dealt a body blow to the War Party  and signals a new level of desperation on the part of the radical clique that lured us into the Iraq quagmire.

Rumsfeld, long perceived as a hawk, now appears eager to embrace an exit strategy. He has enraged the neoconservatives by refusing to come out in favor of putting more troops in the field, and, according to Charles Kupchan, an analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations,

"It's clear now that Rumsfeld is not interested in 'remaking Iraq.' He wants to get the hell out of there."

He also wants to survive in Washington, where the hunt for scapegoats is on: the war is going badly, and the general pessimism of the leaked memo reflects this. Although confident of ultimate victory, "one way or another," in the short run the outlook, according to Rumsfeld, seems altogether bleak. The "global war on terrorism" is looking even grimmer: 

"We are having mixed results with Al Qaida, although we have put considerable pressure on them  nonetheless, a great many remain at large."

While Osama is not mentioned by name in the memo, he doesn't need to be: our complete cluelessness as to his whereabouts is underscored every time we receive one of those eerie tape-recorded messages promising more terror to come. But it's a lot worse than that. According to Rummy, we're flying blind:

"Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?"

The man wants "metrics." Maybe he should try these on for size. Or isn't the number of American dead and wounded telling him what he wants to hear? 

In the Byzantine world of Washington intrigue, one is tempted to believe that the Secretary of Defense, far from being broadsided by this leak, engineered it himself, because it makes him seem almost semi-rational next to the everything's-coming-up-roses crowd. But there's some wild-and-crazy stuff here, too, just the sort of Dr. Strangelove-ish ranting one might expect from Rummy in an unguarded moment:

"Are the changes we have and are making too modest and incremental? My impression is that we have not yet made truly bold moves, although we have made many sensible, logical moves in the right direction, but are they enough?"

Let's see: we've turned the "just war" doctrine on its head and established our divine right of "preemption." We've invaded a country that never attacked us, occupied it, and are now bogged down in a war of attrition where victory  measured by any "metric"  is impossible. We have not only alienated our traditional allies  we've gone out of our way to make sure they stay alienated. Far from confronting Al Qaeda, we have been Osama bin Laden's chief recruiter: U.S. policy seems designed to provoke the Muslim world into a frenzy of murderous opposition to American interests worldwide.

That's quite enough, thank you.

To world-conquering Rummy, the conquest of Iraq is "too modest and incremental." Sure, he wants the troops out of Iraq  so they can move on to Syria, Iran, and central Asia. But what really ought to make us prick up our ears is the cryptic query near the end of the memo:

"Does CIA need a new finding?"

As the Washington Post pointed out:

"A finding, signed by the president, provides authority to conduct whatever covert activity is stipulated. Rumsfeld did not indicate the covert activity he had in mind."

Keep your eye on Syria, the lynchpin of Arab "rejectionism" and next on the neocons' wish list for an involuntary "regime change." The strategy being followed was laid out in a 1996 policy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" targeted Syria as the main danger to Israel and held that the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad. 

The authors of that paper  among them Douglas Feith, now deputy defense secretary for policy, Richard Perle, disgraced former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and David Wurmser, recently appointed Middle East policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney  are now ensconced in the highest foreign policy councils of this administration.

But perhaps even war with Syria is a bit too "incremental" for the Napoleonic crew in the Pentagon: Iran, too, is in their sights. And they won't stop there

What this memo shows, above all, is the utter recklessness of this administration, its unabashed radicalism: not since the Bolsheviks seized power in a 1917 coup and went on to subjugate a third of the earth's peoples has such a self-deluded power mad clique posed such a threat to the

[CTRL] Jew accused of German genocide

2003-10-24 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1172982003

Jew accused of German genocide

MARGARET NEIGHBOUR

POLAND is seeking the extradition from Israel of an elderly Polish-born Jew on charges of genocide for the deaths of German prisoners in a communist camp he commanded after the Second World War.

The suspect, Solomon Morel, 83, is accused of causing the deaths of more than 1,500 inmates at the end of the war.

Morel, who was held in Auschwitz and had more than 30 members of his family wiped out by Nazis and collaborators, was made the commander of the Swietochlowice camp in November 1945.

He is accused of keeping German prisoners and Nazi collaborators in barbaric conditions, subjecting them to torture, beatings and starvation.

An attempt to extradite him five years ago on charges of torture failed, after Israel ruled that the statute of limitations on the charges had run out.

Polish special prosecutors have now upgraded the charges to genocide, for which there is no statute of limitation.

Andrzej Arseniuk, a spokesman for prosecutors at the Institute of National Remembrance, which investigates Second World War and communist-era crimes, said that the new charges are based on testimony from former prisoners at the defunct camp, near the southern city of Katowice.

"The testimony from former inmates living now in Germany significantly enriched the evidence. It documented Morels torture of at least 13 inmates known by name," said Leon Kieres, the head of the institute. "Now the charges say his intention was to exterminate for national and political reasons."

They told us: You are here, and you are here to die.CAMP INMATE

Mr Kieres said the extradition request, which will be made by a regional court in Katowice in a few weeks, will be Polands final attempt to bring Morel to justice.

The new charges accuse Morel of seeking to exterminate German prisoners by starving them to death, depriving them of basic medical care and carrying out and sanctioning torture by his subordinates - including imprisoning prisoners in small cells filled with water, trampling them or making them stand for long hours, singing Nazi songs.

Morel was born in 1919 in the Polish village of Garbow. He was 20 when Germany invaded Poland and the Nazis began to round up Polish Jews. About 30 members of his family, including his mother and father, both brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, died in the Holocaust.

In Christmas 1942, Nazi collaborators arrived at the family home while Morel and one of his brothers were out. His mother was forced to watch as her husband and son were shot dead before she was killed.

Morel witnessed the murders with his other brother, Yitzhak, from the top of a haystack in a field, before they fled and took refuge with a local family. Within a few months, the two brothers had joined the Polish Jewish partisans.

Morels brother was later ambushed and shot by Nazi collaborators while driving a sleigh for the partisans. Morel was eventually imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp. He moved to Israel in 1994, to flee Polish authorities.

Mr Kieres said Morel is believed responsible for at least 1,538 deaths at the camp.

Speaking after Israels rejection of the first extradition request five years ago, Dorota Boriczek recalled the almost commonplace brutality in the camp.

"I knew Morel in the camp. He was a very brutal man," she said. "He was young then. He would come in at night. We could hear the cries of the men then. They would beat them and throw the bodies out of the window.

"I was taken there when I was 14, with my mother. I still dont know why we were there, and I still want to know. They told us when we arrived: You are here, and you are here to die, although nobody will shoot you, because ammunition is too expensive."

Mrs Boriczek said conditions at the camp were barbaric. "There was nothing to eat, a hunger that you cannot imagine. We were lucky to have a piece of bread once a day, nothing else, and water," she said.

"Both my mother and I had typhus. We were separated and I didnt know she was alive. I had a high fever and when I opened my eyes, I was sleeping next to a lady from Switzerland. I slept with her under one blanket. I was happy that she was dead, because that meant I could have her blanket."

The investigation against Morel is the only one in Poland against a Jew accused of retaliating against the Germans.

Polish historians generally agree that the communist government imprisoned 100,000 Germans, mostly civilians, who were deemed threats to the state. At least 15,000 died due to ill-treatment and the rest were freed by 1950.

[CTRL] Israel's Attack on the Liberty, Revisited

2003-10-24 Thread William Shannon

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Rockets, Napalm, Torpedoes Lies
Israel's Attack on the Liberty, Revisited

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

[This is an excerpt from CounterPunch's hot new book, The Politics of Anti-Semitism, just released by AK Press.]

After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack. One of the torpedo boats approached the Liberty. An officer asked in English over a bullhorn: "Do you need any help?"

The wounded commander of the Liberty, Lt. William McGonagle, instructed the quartermaster to respond emphatically: "Fuck you."

The Israeli boat turned and left.

The following morning Israel launched a surprise invasion of Syria, breaching the new cease-fire agreement and seizing control of the Golan Heights.

[CTRL] Jewish lobby does rule the US

2003-10-24 Thread William Shannon

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Jewish lobby does rule the US

Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's opening speech at last week's Organisation of Islamic Conference Summit in Putrajaya has been criticised by many in the West as being anti-Jew, disgusting and repulsive. Is this a correct perception?

SHAHANAAZ HABIB takes a close look at the speech.

NO, REALLY. Which bit of Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's speech at the opening of OIC summit is inflammatory, offensive, repugnant and deserving of contempt?

That he called on Muslims to use their brains and not just brawn to fight their enemies? That he told them to stop blowing themselves up? And not act out of anger as irrational acts only beget more violence?

Or that the Malaysian leader told Muslims they could learn a lesson or two from the Jews? And that numbers alone do not make strength?

This means unity - something the 1.3 billion Muslims lack and the few million Jews have.

Or was it his remarks that the Jews have become arrogant and arrogant people make mistakes? Or that the Jews rule the world by proxy and get others to fight and die for them?

Now, really, which of these are untrue?

Just take the Jewish-rule-the-world by proxy comment.

Why the uproar about it? Isn't this a known fact? The difference perhaps is that others have not expressed it in such blatant terms as the plain-speaking Malaysian Prime Minister.

But many have studied and written on the powerful Jewish lobby in the US administration, their control of the media, influence on economy and even Hollywood.

A number of Jews sit in key positions in the US administration and they steer much of the US foreign policy.

Just take the current George W. Bush administration.

There's Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defence secretary and close advisor of foreign policy, and Richard Perle, chairman of the Defence Policy Board, the Pentagon's advisory panel.

Perle comes with a colourful past. In the 1970s, he was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson's office for passing highly-classified documents to the Israeli embassy.

And later, he worked for an Israeli weapons firm, while Wolfowitz is said to have close ties with the Israeli military.

Another intriguing character is Elliot Abrams, who is in the National Security Council (NSC), the principal forum for security and foreign affairs for the US president.

Hawkish, very pro-Israeli, Abrams is best known for his role in the Iran Contra scandal where arms were illegally sold to Iran to fight Iraq.

He pleaded guilty in 1991 about lying to Congress over the affair and a year later received a full pardon from Bush senior.

And today Abrams advises Bush junior on Middle East affairs and gets to present papers on policy to Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor.

There's also Douglas Feith, undersecretary of Defence and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon whose appointment caused quite a stir in the Arab world.

Arab-American Institute president Dr James Zogby called it a dangerous appointment because having Feith, known for his extreme anti-Arab bias, as a chief architect of the US foreign policy was bad news for the Middle East.

There are also others like Dov Zekheim the under-secretary of Defence, Richard Haas director of planning at the state department and a strong advocate of the bombing of Iraq, Marc Grossman under-secretary for political affairs, James Schelesinger, an advisor to the Pentagon, Lincoln Bloomfield assistant secretary of state for political military affairs and Robert Zoellick and Robert Satloff.

With so many pro-Israeli American Jews in the US administration, why is there a problem when someone states the obvious? And questions who is really in charge?

And puts in perspective why US policies are always skewed in favour of Israel no matter how unfair?

One should not also forget the 60,000-strong American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the influential Jewish lobby group with deep pockets which funds election and re-election campaigns of senators, congressmen and presidents.

Although Jews make up only 2% to 3% of the US population, Jewish political scientist and author Benjamin Ginsberg points out that close to half of America's billionaires are Jews.

Just take Bill Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996.

A member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations was quoted in a Jerusalem Post report that Jews alone had contributed 50% of funds for Clinton's campaign.

Therefore it is hardly surprising when Dr Fahed Fanek, a leading Jordanian economics and media consultant, writes that AIPAC has enough clout to make or break politicians.

Bush trembles with fear at AIPAC which can easily set the US media against him, he says.

That fear is understandable since the Jews own a great chunk of the media and, in those they don't, they wield considerable influence.

Ginsberg notes the three major television

[CTRL] Jewish Groups Don't Think You're Mad Enough

2003-10-23 Thread William Shannon

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Jewish Groups Want Stronger Reaction to Malaysian PM's Comments
Julie Stahl
Jerusalem Bureau Chief

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Jewish groups, outraged at comments made by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, want to see the international community take a stronger stand against the blatant anti-Semitism.

Speaking in Malaysia last week, Mahathir told a gathering of Muslim leaders that Jews "rule this world by proxy" and that Muslims should be able to "stop to think, to assess our weaknesses and our strength, to plan, to strategize and then to counter-attack" in order to defeat the Jews.

Mahathir, who is due to retire after 22 years in power at the end of this month, received a standing ovation from the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

The United States, along with Britain, Italy, Spain and Germany, was among a handful of countries that strongly opposed the speech. But Jewish organizations say the world community needs to confront the issue more strongly.

"It's a very clear reflection of the distorted world view of the Islamic world," said Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem.

In a "microcosm," it explains why there is Islamic fundamentalism, terror directed against the West and no peace agreement in the Middle East, Zuroff said in a telephone interview.

"It is not only his (Mahathir's) view. It is shared in all the Arab capitals and by all the Arab leaders [with the exception of Turkey and few others]," Zuroff said.

"The world is mired in anti-Semitism...The problem has to be dealt with in an extensive way. The comments have to be denounced [as] simply unacceptable parlance," he added.

Zuroff said that such statements should cause the world to "lift the red flag" and tell Mahathir he is out of the "game" in the international community. The fact that he was cheered is "simply outrageous," Zuroff said.

"His anti-Semitism is classic and needs to be repudiated from the highest levels," said Laura Kam-Issacharoff, director of the Jerusalem office of the Anti-Defamation League.

"His words amount to a call for global war against the Jews by the Muslims. It's an outrageous affront to society," Kam-Issacharoff said.

Although Mahathir has made outrageous statements in the past, Kam-Issacharoff said, the fact that he could come out in such a forum and spew anti-Semitism was "very out of the ordinary."

According to Kam-Issacharoff, not only did Mahathir receive a standing ovation, but not one country of the 57 represented at the summit walked out or said anything against the speech.

She said the ADL was thankful for the Western countries that came out against the comments but said that other countries need to do so as well.

Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and education center in Jerusalem, wrote to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, urging him to denounce Mahathir's statement and demand that the Malaysian prime minister retract his words and call on leaders of the other countries at the OIC to disown the statements.

Shalev asked Annan to encourage OIC countries and others to educate their populations against hatred and stereotypes and offered Yad Vashem's assistance in doing so.

"Many Western countries have denounced Mohamed Mahathir's anti-Semitic statements, because their leaders remember and understand the close connection between words and action," Shalev wrote, according to a press release.

"Anti-Semitic stereotypes have again become commonplace in much of the world. This time, they are frequently intermixed with anti-Americanism, anti-Westernism, and anti-globalization. In the twentieth century, humanity learned that the leap from words to genocidal actions can be very short," Shalev said in his letter.

"The answer is education, which is mankind's main tool to keep criticism within the bounds of legitimate discourse and to prevent words of incitement from turning into acts of genocide," he added.

One source, who did not want to be named, said that the entire Jewish community was taking Mahathir's comments very seriously and was trying to think of ways to deal with it.

Since making his original comments, Mahathir has refused to apologize and has continued to defend his viewpoint.

On Tuesday, a correspondent from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz asked Mahathir at a press conference in Bangkok if he would consider visiting Israel.

"I would [visit Israel] after the Jewish leadership would go to Muslim countries and explain why they call Muslims terrorists," Mahathir replied. "That would be fair. Then I will go to Tel Aviv and explain why I said what I said," he added.

Asked to explain his earlier speech, Mahathir said, "My speech was very clear. I said that the Jews have all the world behind them -- and that's why they can defy the United Nations.""

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[CTRL] Senator Byrd, Major Media Spread Coverage Of Bush-Nazi Nexus

2003-10-23 Thread William Shannon

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Senator Byrd, Major Media Spread Coverage Of Bush-Nazi Nexus 


by Harvey Wasserman  Bob Fitrakis - freepress.org 
October 21, 2003
US Senator Robert Byrd, on the floor of Congress, on October 17, has explicitly compared the Bush media operation to that run by Herman Goering, mastermind of the Nazi putsch against the German people. 

On the same day, the Associated Press ran a national story linking Prescott Bush to Adolf Hitler. The lead read: "President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show." 

That night, CNN ran a "streamer" on the bottom of its all-news programming confirming that "declassified documents show Prescott Bush connections to Nazi finance." 

Stories reminding the public that the grandfather of George W. Bush and his United Trust Bank were cited by the US government in 1942 for helping Hitler under the Trading With the Enemies Act, have now spread widely through the major meda. 

What's going on here? Are these stories linking Team Bush to the Nazis irrelevant? Mere partisan politics? Or do they indicate a growing public concern with what is actually happening in Washington? 

Coming on the floor of the US Senate, Byrd's searing critique indicates that the equation of Team Bush with the Nazi elite has gained a certain mainstream credibility. A conservative Democrat who has represented West Virginia in the Senate for decades, Byrd is one of America's leading Constitutional scholars. He is known as the master of Senate procedures. A passionate student of the English language, his epic orations for peace and the preservation of historic American freedoms are likely to grace school texts for decades to come. 

That the cautious, thoughtful Byrd has conjured explicit comparisons between the infamous mass murderer Hermann Goering and the administration of George W. Bush is a stunning commentary on how far to the right the Republicans have really gone. Goering was convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Nazi war crimes tribunal after World War II. He killed himself just before he was to be executed. 

That the mainstream media has again found newsworthy the long-established connections between the Bush family and the Nazi Party is also instructive. 

For sixty years it has been a matter of public record that Prescott Bush helped finance Hitler's rise to power and world war. Later a US Senator from Connecticut, Prescott was father to President George H.W. Bush and grandfather to George W. Bush. Because legal action was taken, Bush's deeds have been a matter of public record since 1942. They were widely covered in newspapers and electronic media at the time. The history is readily accessible. 

But right-wing Bush fanatics continue to deny those ties existed. In a nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talk host Michael Medved recently claimed that Prescott Bush's bank's ties to the Nazis had not been established. 

Similar denials have surrounded Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is a matter of public record that his father volunteered for the Austrian Nazi Party and the infamous SA, which engaged in brutal mass murder. Arnold himself has attempted to distance himself from his family's Nazi past. He has made large donations to the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which has tracked Nazi fugitives. His backers now claim he attended an anti-Nazi rally at an early age. 

On the other hand, he has been linked to statements admiring Hitler for his speaking ability and his ability to gain a huge following. A past indicating a strong authoritarian nature has also been cause for alarm. In 1975, Schwarzenegger yearned for his own Nazi-style rally, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being [in] total agreement whatever you say." 

Widespread allegations linking Karl Rove to family ties of explicit Nazi origin have been withdrawn by Al Marten, who originally publicized them through his web site. But Rove is quoted in Bob Woodward's best-selling BUSH AT WAR as comparing the reaction of a New York Yankee crowd to an appearance by Bush as being "like a nazi rally." 

Known as "Bush's Brain," Rove is the GOP's political mastermind. Widely feared for his harsh, vindictive actions, Rove is at the center of allegations that the CIA's Valerie Plame was "outed" in retaliation for a report filed by her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, that contradicted the Bush-Rove line on Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. The disclosure could involve a breach of national security and a ten-year felony. 

The ultimate GOP operative, Rove helped engineer the recent redistricting of Texas for expanded Republican control of the Congressional delegation. He may also have helped choreograph the Schwarzenegger campaign, where control of the

[CTRL] Geomagnetic storm to hit Earth on Friday

2003-10-23 Thread William Shannon

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Geomagnetic storm to hit Earth

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A strong geomagnetic storm was expected to hit Earth on Friday with the potential to affect electrical grids and satellite communications.

One of the largest sunspot clusters in years developed over the past three days and produced a coronal mass ejection, similar to a solar flare, at 3 a.m. EDT Wednesday, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

The disturbance was expected to produce a geomagnetic storm rated G-3. A G-5 storm is the strongest.

The storm could make the aurora visible as far south as Oregon and Illinois.

A coronal mass ejection is an explosion of gas and charged particles into space from the corona, the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.

A second sunspot cluster not yet visible from Earth could produce more geomagnetic storms in the next two weeks, NOAA said.

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[CTRL] 1st Tacit American Admission Of Defeat In Iraq

2003-10-22 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.joevialls.co.uk/subliminalsuggestion/oil2.html



Update 20 October 2003
First Tacit American Admission of Defeat in Iraq

In the months following Americas illegal invasion of Iraq, it has become increasingly obvious that the northern pipeline from Mosul, planned to be reconnected to an export terminal in Haifa, is an impossible Zionist dream. Whenever American troops approach the northern half of this particular pipeline [see map at top of page], they are shot at and often killed by Saddam Husseins Sunni counter-insurgency teams. Whenever American troops approach the southern half of the same pipeline, they are shot at and often killed by Muqtada Al-Sadrs Shiite counter-insurgency teams.
 
While these attacks are actually taking place, additional Sunni and Shiite counter-insurgency teams repeatedly blow up large sections of the main and branch oil pipelines, making the movement of crude oil and refined product impossible. Thousands of kilometers of oil pipeline are exposed above ground level, which, as I accurately forecast before the invasion started, cannot be defended by American troops.
 
All oil pipelines are pressurized, meaning that any Iraqi with a simple RPG [Rocket Propelled Grenade] can shut down any part of any pipeline whenever he wants, with a single shot. The last time I bothered to check, Iraq still had more than 600,000 RPG rounds available, meaning that American troops can go on getting killed and maimed for the next ten years, without any significant oil flow from Iraq to Israel, or from Iraq to America.
 
Two weeks ago, in what may be the first tacit admission of defeat in northern and central Iraq, America ordered its principal puppet in Baghdad, Ahmed Chalabi, to approach Saudi Arabia with a plan to pump Iraqi crude south-west through pipeline IPSA-1, for onward transmission to the Red Sea.
 
In fact, IPSA-1 was Israels original choice for Operation Shekhinah in March 2001, when the plan was for IPSC-2 and IPSC-1 to intersect the Trans Arabian Pipeline [Tapline], for the onward transmission of stolen Iraqi oil to the port of Haifa in Israel. Understandably perhaps, the Red Sea was not mentioned anywhere in the Shekhinah planning documents.
 
Though Chalabis approach came far too late in the day, it was without doubt the only plan that had even a remote chance of success, which is why the Israelis selected it months before their backers in Lower Manhattan were suddenly razed to the ground on 11 September 2001.
 
As a quick glance at the maps on this page show very well, IPSC-2 and IPSC-1 start in the huge southern Rumaila Field, then closely hug the Kuwaiti border before crossing the Neutral Zone into Saudi Arabia. When American forces are finally compelled to leave northern and central Iraq and retreat to the south, it is not difficult to see the logic of Americas latest desperate tactical plan.
 
Though 150,000 American troops have absolutely no chance of defeating and holding greater Iraq, there is no reason to believe they could not hold defensive positions in the relatively small portion of Iraq to the south of an east-west line drawn across the top of the Rumaila Field at Basra. Theoretically, this would then give America absolute control of the massive Rumaila Field, of the oil export terminals near Basra, and finally control of land pipelines running south-west, which are well out of reach of Iraqi Sunni  Shiite counter-insurgency teams.
 
Unfortunately for America, the Saudi Government knows only too well who pulls George Bushs puppet strings, and it also knows about Operation Shekhinah. Al Jazeera reported on 20 October 2003 [link below] that Chalabis approach was smoothly rebuffed by the Saudis, with an anonymous Aramco official saying the Iraqis "don't know what they are talking about. The pipeline is not in a stage to be utilized."
 
The Saudis know as well as I do that there is nothing wrong with either IPSC-1 or IPSC-2, both of which remain full of oil [to exclude oxygen and avoid corrosion], and could be put back into operation in less than three months, as could the Tapline across to Jordan and then on to Israel. Unfortunately for Chalabi and his bunch of cutthroats in Baghdad, the Saudis kicked the Americans out of the Kingdom only last year, and very sensibly refuse to let them back in.
 
Shipping substantial quantities of crude oil out of Iraq via the Persian Gulf remains unthinkable, with significant dangers on the al Faw peninsula, and also from Iran just a few kilometers away. With the northern and western pipelines to Turkey and Israel now in tatters, IPSC-1 is the sole remaining route along which Israel and America can steal Iraqi crude oil, but they have left it too late. 



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[CTRL] Sharon's main plan is to capture more land

2003-10-22 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1177

Sharon's main plan is to capture more land
Patrick Seale Gulf News October 17, 2003

Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his friends in Washington are in a hurry. They are racing to achieve their objectives before anyone stops them. And when they are in a hurry, they are particularly dangerous. Syria and Iran are in their sights, with further down the road Saudi Arabia, and even Egypt. Political and economic pressure, financial penalties, sanctions, intervention, regime change by military force, these are their chosen instruments for bending the Arabs to the will of Israel and its United States patron.

Sharon's main objective is the building of a Greater Israel on the ruins of Palestinian nationalism. His latest instrument is the wall or fence which is imprisoning the Palestinians on a fraction of their territory, cutting them off on all sides from contact with their Arab neighbours. The wall is due to be finished in eight months' time. Sharon is determined that nothing must prevent its completion.

At the UN Security Council this week, he won a major victory when the United States vetoed a resolution, proposed by Syria, condemning the wall. Within hours, a radical Palestinian group attacked the motorcade of an American delegation in Gaza, killing three Americans and wounding a fourth. Sharon will no doubt exploit this latest incident to rally American opinion against the beleaguered Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat.

Israel's main worry

Sharon's main worry, however, and the reason for his haste, is that George W Bush could be thrown out of office at next year's US presidential election - and with him the whole band of pro-Israeli "neo-conservatives" which have set the Administration's agenda since September 11, 2001. These are the men who pressed for war against Iraq as a first step towards reshaping the geopolitics of the entire Middle East. But the sluggish US economy, the mess in Iraq, and the anti-American anger sweeping the Arab and Muslim world are now making Bush look vulnerable. A Democrat in the White House may not be so tolerant of Israel's foolhardy ambitions or so ready to endorse the neo-cons' aggressive policies.

Sharon has other worries closer to home. The political fall-out from the current police investigations of his two sons, Omri and Gilad, for alleged sharp practice and bribe-taking could drive Sharon himself from office in 2004. And to compound his fears, the Israeli Left which for the past two years has seemed terminally ill and politically irrelevant is showing faint signs of revival.

Leading opposition figures such as Yossi Beilin, Amram Mitzna and Avraham Burg have joined with Palestinian moderates, led by Yasser Abed Rabbo, in drafting a detailed peace plan for a two-state solution - the so-called Geneva Accords.

The plan, the result of two years of secret negotiations funded by the Swiss government, is due to be signed formally in Geneva next month, putting flesh on the bones of the tentative agreements reached at Taba in January 2001.

It represents everything that Sharon and his friends detest and which he has spent his life seeking to destroy. It provides for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders (with some marginal modifications) to allow for the emergence of a viable Palestinian state; some major colonies close to the Green Line to be annexed to Israel but those deep inside Palestinian territory to be evacuated; Jerusalem as a shared capital; Palestinian sovereignty over the Haram Al Sharif; Israeli sovereignty over the Wailing Wall and the Jewish quarter of the Old City; and - a major Palestinian concession - the abandonment of the "right of return" to towns and villages lost in 1948. An international force would monitor implementation of the plan while radical Palestinian groups would be tamed and shut down.

These "Geneva Accords" may, in the present climate, seem hopelessly utopian. They have no chance whatsoever of being implemented while the Sharon government, or anything resembling it, is in power. Their potential importance, however, lies in offering the Israeli public what it lacks and longs for most - hope that the current nightmare of killing and counter-killing can be brought to an end. In other words, a change in Washington, and a move back to the center by an Israeli public won over by a credible peace plan, could yet pose a threat to Sharon's ambitions.

He has reacted to the Geneva Accords with barely suppressed rage. "By what right," he snorted, "are left-wing people proposing moves that Israel can never do, nor will ever do!"

Formidable obstacles

Sharon has always wanted one hundred per cent of Palestine, an ambition which would have involved expelling most, if not all, of the Palestinian population of the West Bank to Jordan, which would then have become a Palestinian state.

As the obstacles to such a project are formidable, Sharon has opted for

[CTRL] Support Our Troops - Bring 'Em Home NOW!

2003-10-22 Thread William Shannon

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October 22, 2003
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Bring 'em home from Iraq now!

It was just a brief item published in the New York Times, reporting yet another attack on our soldiers in Iraq: one American paratrooper killed, six wounded. At first glance, "One G.I. Killed in New Attack in Falluja" gave no hint of the horror behind the headline, but in the second of four paragraphs we read this:

"Two civilians were killed in the clash, including one whose family said he was shot by the Americans after they detained him. In the hospital where the bodies were taken, the man, Nazem Baji, had a gunshot wound in the back of his head and his hands were tied in front of him with plastic bands similar to those used by the United States military when they arrest suspects."

All hail the American "liberators" of Iraq the bearers of "democracy" and "modernity"! We're shooting handcuffed prisoners in the back of the head, execution-style, instantly "liberating" their souls from their bodies. Coming on the heels of a similar incident, this one involving the suffocation death of an Iraqi prisoner held in a U.S. detention camp, the Iraqis (and others) may be forgiven for wondering: Are the Americans monsters?

No. They're just plain, ordinary people, neither demons nor saints, plopped down in the middle of an impossible conundrum, ordered to win a war that is essentially unwinnable using methods acceptable to the American public and international law. Many are reservists who never imagined they'd wind up policing a conquered province, weekend warriors who have neither the skills nor the desire to fight on the farthest frontiers of the Empire. And they're deserting, not yet in droves, but in significant numbers given how early it is in what promises to be a protracted conflict.

As the Washington Post so delicately puts it, "Soldiers Miss Flights Back to Iraq." Reading further, however, it is clear these furloughed GIs didn't just oversleep, or get stalled in traffic: they are gone. And those are just the ones we know about.

As part of the "good news" offensive recently launched by the administration, we are treated to the news of the latest Gallup door-to-door poll of Baghdad residents, where a resounding 71 percent supposedly want the U.S. to stay. Which means there's a lot more enthusiasm for the occupation among the occupied than there is among the occupiers.

A recent survey taken by Stars Stripes, the quasi-official newspaper of the American military, shows that US troops are only slightly less disgusted by this rotten war than the civilian population. While the latter are just about evenly split on the war question, 31 percent of U.S. soldiers surveyed said the war wasn't worthwhile. (Interestingly, while 28 percent say it was "very worthwhile," only 8 percent report their own personal morale as being "very high," while a mere 3 percent rate their unit's morale as "very high.") What portends imminent disaster, however, is the startling statistic that 18 percent say their mission is "mostly not clear," while 17 percent say it is "not clear at all."

American soldiers in the front lines are not moral monsters, but the chickenhawks who put them there sure as hell are. They were given ample warning by military professionals, who saw this disaster before it ever unfolded. They are putting youngsters in the field, and implicitly asking them to commit war crimes -and many are deserting rather than be forced to choose between conscience and country. It's an outrage, and one can only wonder how long this can be permitted to go on.

U.S. reservists are in open revolt against the new imperial style of the American military, being imposed from on high by Rumsfeld and his neocon crew: endless deployments, open-ended commitments, "peacekeeping" duty in wartime circumstances all these have taken their toll on the U.S. military. From the answers to the question about reenlistment in the Stars Stripes poll, it looks like half won't reenlist. An empire must be policed but where will we get the troops? Rumsfeld isn't saying he's opposed to sending more troops to Iraq because he's suddenly become a peacenik. There aren't any more troops to send.

Sure, we could "win" this war by engaging in tactics similar to those employed by our Israeli allies, who have been urging us to adopt their methods. I doubt we'd get too far with the idea of implanting American settlements in Iraq, but perhaps the Israeli model of repression might be utilized in other ways. We're already imitating it, at least symbolically, in Dhuluaya, a small town 50 miles north of Baghdad , where thousand-year-old fruit trees were bulldozed in retaliation for local farmers refusing to inform on guerrilla fighters just as the Israelis routinely obliterate similarly ancient olive trees in their occupied territories. How long before we must turn Iraqis into prisoners in their own country, or else concede defeat?

[CTRL] Who Does George W. Bush Really Serve?

2003-10-21 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1173

Who Does George W. Bush Really Serve?
Rixon Stewart - October 20, 2003

In the yet to be published The Faith of George W. Bush (Tarcher/Penguin), an account of the Presidents supposed religious awakening, author Stephen Mansfield writes that in the election year 2000, Bush told Texas preacher James Robison:
"I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. . . . I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."

Mansfield goes on to say that: "Aides found him face down on the floor in prayer in the Oval Office. It became known that he refused to eat sweets while American troops were in Iraq And he framed America's challenges in nearly biblical language. Saddam Hussein is an evildoer. He has to go." The author concludes: " . . . the Bush administration does deeply reflect its leader, and this means that policy, even in military matters, will be processed in terms of the personal and in terms of a sense of divine purpose..."

Renouncing sweets is one thing but being found face down in the Oval Office is another matter. So perhaps should we ask just what George W. Bush was paying homage too? Was it the God of the early Christians, who were urged to renounce more than just sweets? Or is it something else? Could it be the same deity as the one served by the Illuminati; who summon him in their pursuit of worldly power and wealth?

Obviously these are not one and the same but two entirely different deities. The one is recognised by Christians the world over as Our Father, who watches over and guides us as a Shepard leads his flock. While the other is a wrathful entity that seeks to punish evil doers and rewards only his own chosen few. It is these latter who will be rewarded on Judgement Day, while the rest of humanity will be consigned to fire and perdition. But this, Bushs Bible thumping advocates tell us, will only come about after a series of calamitous wars in the Middle East.

As others have noted, it is almost as if there are two Gods in the Bible. One, the God of the Old Testament, is a vengeful deity who destroyed cities and demanded bloody sacrifice from his followers. While the God of the New Testament bears little resemblance to this wrathful idol: sending his only begotten son to earth preaching love and forgiveness.

So which God exactly, has chosen George Bush? Or perhaps, more precisely, we should ask ourselves, which God has George Bush chosen to serve? Is it the benign heavenly father or the vengeful deity who rewards his own with earthly power and wealth?

Its not only George W. Bush who believes this stuff however. The man leading the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Lt Gen William Jerry Boykin, has repeatedly told Christian groups that President George W Bush was chosen by God, not the voters, to lead the global fight against Satan.

"Why is this man in the White House? Boykin asked an audience recently. The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."

On one occasion in June, Gen Boykin told an Oregon church that America could not ignore its Judaeo-Christian roots. "Our religion came from Judaism and therefore [Islamic] radicals will hate us forever."

Boykin is obviously ignorant of Islams origins but his ignorance conveniently serves Bush and the Neocons. In a single stroke, he frames Islam as the enemy and further cements ties between Israel, Bush and the Zionists. Moreover, he overlooks the fact that Christianity and Islam have much in common, and that includes a common heritage and a reverence for Jesus Christ.

One thing George Bush does not serve however, are the American people themselves. Like his counterpart across the Atlantic, Tony Blair, George Bush was appointed to serve the interests of the Illuminati. A shadowy group of media and industrial tycoons, European royalty and banking dynasties: the mega rich who effectively own the planet. They are not united by any high ideal, or any ethnic bond, but simple self-interest, which means that sometimes they are at odds.

Nonetheless one faction stands pre-eminent among them, the Rothschild banking dynasty. Apart from being closely connected to European royalty, the Rothschilds are also rumored to be on intimate terms with Lucifer. Diabolically inspired, power for the Illuminati rests on the ignorance of the many. Reinforced and enhanced with gifts bestowed by Lucifer -- and in words derived from his name -- illusion and delusion are cultivated via the media, to confuse and bedazzle the masses, rendering them incapable of independent thought. Thus the Illuminati owe their power to Lucifer and he in turn uses them to further his hold over humanity.

Instrumental in this are the Illuminatis own men, Bush and Blair.

This is worth

[CTRL] Shock Therapy The Israeli Scenario

2003-10-20 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo10182003.html

October 18 / 19, 2003
Total War in the Middle East?
Shock Therapy and the Israeli Scenario
By KURT NIMMO

"Israel has been urging America to invade Syria, but America seems to be reluctant. So, in order to force the hands of America, Israel is going to invade Syria," Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told the official Bernama news agency recently. "When that happens, the Americans will have to support Israel due to domestic political reasons that make Jewish votes a major factor in its presidential election."

It's hardly a secret that pro-Zionist financial contributions exact disproportionate influence on American politics and foreign policy. Israel "has become a veritable state of the United States," Mitchell Kaidy wrote in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs back in 1997. "Indeed, with media cooperation and assistance, Israel has ascended to the ranks of an affluent, belligerent yet untouchable super-state." It is precisely this inviolable status that allows Ariel Sharon and the Likudites to do almost anything they please.

"No one in authority will admit a calamitous reality that is skillfully shielded from the American people but clearly recognized by most of the world: America suffered 11 September and its aftermath and may soon be at war with Iraq, mainly because US policy in the Middle East is made in Israel, not in Washington," wrote Paul Findley, a former congressional representative. "Israel is a scofflaw nation and should be treated as such. Instead of helping Sharon intensify Palestinian misery, our president should suspend all aid until Israel ends its occupation of Arab land Israel seized in 1967."

Not likely. Bush and his fanatical core of pro-Zionist neocons will continue to work alongside Sharon and the racist Likudites. Greater Israel is their unalterable mission. It's their raison d'etre.

Pat Buchanan was spot on when he said the Bush neocons "harbor a passionate attachment to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America."

Israel wants "total war" in the Middle East, as do the Bush neocons.

So entangled are the connections between the Likudites in Israel, the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the Center for Security Policy, the American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century, so-called defense contractors, Christian Zionists with money to spend, and a handful of Zionists in and out of the Bush administration that it is nearly impossible to find the precise source of the toxin infecting United States foreign policy in the Middle East.

Its most activist and wild-eyed proponents are tucked away in Beltway think tanks, the Bush White House, and burrowed deep within the Pentagon. From there they plot the sort of pandemonium and misery currently underway in Iraq.

The next few items on the neocon "creative destruction" agenda: take out Syria and Iran, even tiny and insignificant Libya.

If Gordon Thomas of the American Free Press is correct, Sharon called Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and gave him the low-down on the Syrian attack. "We, and you, are fighting a war against terrorism," Rumsfeld reportedly told the Butcher of Sabra and Chatila (and Qibya and Qalqilya). No doubt such tidings warmed the cockles of Arik's cold-blooded heart.

In other words, what Sharon was about to do -- brazenly attack a sovereign nation in direct violation of international law -- was akin to what the US did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Karl Rove apparently chimed in, admitting that Bush approved. "He saw it as a clear warning to terrorists that they can be reached anywhere," Rove briskly told reporters. "See it as necessary shock therapy."

"Israel's Ariel Sharon is intent on exploiting the opportunity provided by US plans for war in the Middle East to press forward his aim of creating a Greater Israel," Jean Shaoul wrote last year. "For months he has sought to stoke up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and scupper any possibility for even the type of truncated Palestinian state promised under the Oslo Accords. Now he has significantly upped the ante, accusing Syria of supplying Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon with thousands of surface to air rockets capable of striking northern Israeli towns and cities and demanding Syria rein in the Islamic fundamentalist group."

On the same day Mahathir Mohamad made his prediction about an Israeli invasion of Syria, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported that "Mossad has marked six Iranian nuclear facilities as targets for an Israeli Air Force preemptive strike." Sharon presumably told "Mossad chief Meir Dagani to devote 'utmost efforts' to gather information about Iran's growing nuclear capabilities... The Mossad's plan is now ready and has been delivered to the Israeli Air

[CTRL] The new Great Game

2003-10-20 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1066600,00.html

The new Great Game

The 'war on terror' is being used as an excuse to further US energy interests in the Caspian

Lutz Kleveman
Monday October 20, 2003
The Guardian

Nearly two years ago, I travelled to Kyrgyzstan, the mountainous ex-Soviet republic in Central Asia, to witness a historical event: the deployment of the first American combat troops on former Soviet soil.As part of the Afghan campaign, the US air force set up a base near the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. Brawny pioneers in desert camouflages were erecting hundreds of tents for nearly 3,000 soldiers. I asked their commander, a wiry brigadier general, if and when the troops would leave Kyrgyzstan (and its neighbour Uzbekistan, where Washington set up a second airbase). "There is no time limit," he replied. "We will pull out only when all al-Qaeda cells have been eradicated."

Today, the Americans are still there and many of the tents have been replaced by concrete buildings. Bush has used his massive military build-up in Central Asia to seal the cold war victory against Russia, to contain Chinese influence and to tighten the noose around Iran. Most importantly, however, Washington - supported by the Blair government - is exploiting the "war on terror" to further American oil interests in the Caspian region. But this geopolitical gamble involving thuggish dictators and corrupt Saudi oil sheiks is only likely to produce more terrorists.

For much of the past two years, I have researched the links between conflict in Central Asia and US oil interests. I travelled thousands of kilometres, meeting with generals, oil bosses, warlords and diplomats. They are all players in a geostrategic struggle - the new Great Game.

In this rerun of the first great game - the 19th-century imperial rivalry between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia - players once again position themselves to control the heart of the Eurasian landmass. Today, the US has taken over the leading role from the British. Along with the Russians, new regional powers, such as China, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, have entered the arena, and transnational oil corporations are also pursuing their own interests.

The main spoils in today's Great Game are Caspian oil and gas. On its shores, and at the bottom of the Caspian Sea, lie the world's biggest untapped fossil fuel resources. Estimates range from 110 to 243bn barrels of crude, worth up to $4 trillion. According to the US department of energy, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan alone could sit on more than 130bn barrels, more than three times the US's reserves. Oil giants such as ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and BP have already invested more than $30bn in new production facilities.

"I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian," said Dick Cheney in a speech to oil industrialists in 1998. In May 2001, the US vice-president recommended in the national energy policy report that "the president makes energy security a priority of our trade and foreign policy", singling out the Caspian basin as a "rapidly growing new area of supply".

With a potential oil production of up to 6m barrels per day by 2015, the Caspian region has become crucial to the US policy of "diversifying energy supply". It is designed to wean the US off its dependence on the Arab-dominated Opec cartel, which is using its near-monopoly position as pawn and leverage against industrialised countries. As global oil consumption keeps surging and many oil wells outside the Middle East are nearing depletion, Opec is expanding its share of the world market. At the same time, the US will have to import more than two-thirds of its total energy demand by 2020, mostly from the Middle East.

Many people in Washington are particularly uncomfortable with the growing power of Saudi Arabia. There is a fear that radical Islamist groups could topple the corrupt Saud dynasty and stop the flow of oil to "infidels". To stave off political turmoil, the regime in Riyadh funds the radical Islamic Wahabbi sect that foments terror against Americans around the world. In a desperate effort to decrease its dependence on Saudi oil sheiks, the US seeks to control the Caspian oil resources. However, fierce conflicts have broken out over pipeline routes. Russia, still regarding itself as imperial overlord of its former colonies, promotes pipeline routes across its territory, including Chechnya, in the north Caucasus. China, the increasingly oil-dependent waking giant in the region, wants to build eastbound pipelines from Kazakhstan. Iran is offering its pipeline network via the Persian Gulf.

By contrast, Washington champions two pipelines that would circumvent both Russia and Iran. One would run from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. Construction has already begun for a $3.8bn pipeline from Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, via neighbouring

[CTRL] Is Bush Seeking a Decent Interval?

2003-10-20 Thread William Shannon

http://www.amconmag.com/10_20_03/buchanan.html

October 20, 2003 issue
Copyright 2003 The American Conservative

Is Bush Seeking a Decent Interval?
by Pat Buchanan

It is no small irony that the neocons who denounced this magazine as isolationist when we argued against invading and occupying Iraq have left America more isolated than ever before in its history.

We are virtually friendless in Baghdad. Our NATO allies, Brits and Poles excepted, have left us to stew in our own juice. Russia will not help. Japan will not help. The presidents UN address, sandwiched as it was between speeches by Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac, earned perfunctory applause, while they received ovations.

Were it not for our contributions that subsidize the salaries, expense accounts, and pensions of UN employees, America would be as isolated in the international community as Ariel Sharon.

Congressional Democrats and their national candidates have begun to scourge the president for Iraq and will extract a pound of flesh before granting his request for $20 billion to rebuild it.

Why are they doing this? First, because voters do not want to spend billions rebuilding Iraq when our states are cutting services and raising taxes. Second, because Democrats are full of bitterness toward President Bush for stampeding them into voting for a war in which they never truly believed. Ashamed of their own cowardice, they intend to punish him for having misled them.

Yet, how do they answer this question: if Senators Kennedy and Byrd and Representative Kucinich and Governor Dean could stand up to the heat and say no to war in October 2002, why couldnt you?

The isolation of America, brought on by Bushs succumbing to the whispers of neocon tempters about Churchillian immortality has narrowed his choices now to the same three that were left to LBJ and Nixon, once we had committed ourselves to Vietnam.

He can opt for the Aiken Solution, Declare victory and get out. He can pursue his Bring em on! policy and fight the Iraqi guerrillas into a second term. Or he can escalate, attacking what the neocons call the terror masters in their privileged sanctuaries: Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Each option entails great risks.

If he follows the mood and mindset of his countrymen and pulls U.S. troops out too rapidly, he risks a collapse into chaos and civil war, which could leave Iraq a haven of terrorists that it never was under Saddam and invite intervention by Turkey or Iran.

If he commits to winning the war and building a democracy, no matter the cost in blood and money, he imperils his presidency. For America never signed on for a postwar war. Moreover, Bush risks ultimate defeat. For there is no sign of a slackening of interest among the Islamic young for a jihad to drive the Americans from Iraq.

What of the third option: escalate and expand the war? If the president intends to pacify the Sunni Triangle and seal the roads to Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, he will need far more than the 130,000 U.S. troops currently in country. A U.S. war on Syria would also inflame the Arab world and be supported by no nation save Israel. And what would the overthrow of President Assads regime accomplish, other than to give us 17 million sullen Syrian adoptees to go with our 50 million Iraqis and Afghans, the cost of whose day care is constantly rising?

Faced with the three options, each of which entails risks, the president appears to have decidednot to decide.

While understandable, this does not solve his problem, which is this: his present policy is unsustainable. Public support is declining, congressional support is declining, and his poll ratings are declining. If the president intends to fight this war to victory, he must begin to speak and act like a war leader, demanding sacrifices of us all, telling us how and when we can look forward to a triumphal end to the conflict. This President Bush has conspicuously failed to do.

Indeed, his actionsgoing back, hat in hand, to a UN he called irrelevant to ask for help in reconstituting Iraq, going to allies he and Rumsfeld dismissed as Old Europe to ask for troops, telling the nation we will transfer power to Iraqis as soon as possibleall point to the Nixonian solution of Iraqization and withdrawal. Back out of the bar with both guns blazing.

In Kevin Costners Thirteen Days about the Cuban missile crisis, Gen. Curtis LeMay says to JFK, as word comes the missiles are going operational, Mr. President, youve got a problem.

No, General, Kennedy retorts, We have a problem.

The presidents problem in Iraq is the result of an unnecessary war. But it is our problem now. Solution: admit the mistake, turn around, get out with all deliberate speed. We liberated Iraq from Saddam, but the future of Iraq is for them to decide, not us.

[CTRL] Cheney Behing New Mideast War Drive: Return of CLEAN BREAK

2003-10-20 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3040cleanbreak.html



This article appears in the October 17, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. 

Cheney Behind New
Mideast War Drive:
Return of `Clean Break'

by Jeffrey Steinberg 

With very little fanfare, in September David Wurmser moved over from the State Department office of arms control chief and leading war-party agitator John Bolton, to the Old Executive Office Building, working directly under Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Wurmser's move was highly significant, given that the former American Enterprise Institute and Washington Institute for Near East Policy neo-conservatives was one of the primary authors of the now-infamous 1996 "A Clean Break" document, which spelled out the current joint Mideast war strategy of the Ariel Sharon government in Israel and the Cheney cabal inside the Bush Administration in the United States.

Just days after Wurmser joined the Vice President's "shadow national security council," the Bush Administrationat Cheney's urgingmade an abrupt shift in policy towards Syria, a shift that has now brought the entire Mideast region to the brink of war and chaosworse, even, than the fiasco of the American occupation of Iraq, which military experts are increasingly describing as "our new Vietnam" (see page 60).

At an American Enterprise Institute event on Oct. 7, Leo Strauss acolyte William Kristol, the publisher and editor of the Weekly Standard, candidly admitted that he was miffed that the United States had not already moved beyond the Iraq war to the "next regime change" of "the next horrible" Middle East Arab "dictator"Syrian President Bashar Assad.

`A Clean Break' Revisited

Turn the clock back seven years. On July 8, 1996, Richard Perle, currently a member, and formerly the head of the Defense Policy Board in the Don Rumsfeld Pentagon, delivered a document to the new Israeli Prime Minister, Jabotinskyite Benjamin Netanyahu. Perle, and a team of American neo-cons, had been tasked by Netanyahuthrough the Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS)to draft a strategy for abrogating the Oslo Accords and overturning the entire concept of "comprehensive land for peace," in favor of a jackboot policy of U.S.-Israeli-Turkish raw military conquest and occupation.

The short policy memo, which Netanyahu, and his successor-Likud Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, totally adopted as the core strategy of their administrations, spelled out a four-pronged attack on the peace process and the entire Arab world. It has become a self-evident truth that, since the Bush "43" and Sharon governments came into power simultaneously in early 2001, "A Clean Break" has been the guiding strategic doctrine of bothparticularly following the irregular warfare attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Perle-Wurmser policy document demanded: 1) Destroy Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, blaming them for every act of Palestinian terrorism, including the attacks from Hamas, an organization which Sharon had helped launch during his early 1980s tenure as Minister of Defense. 2) Induce the United States to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. 3) Launch war against Syria after Saddam's regime is disposed of, including striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and targets in Syria proper. 4) Parlay the overthrow of the Ba'athist regimes in Baghdad and Damascus into the "democratization" of the entire Arab world, including through further military actions against Iran, Saudi Arabia, and "the ultimate prize," Egypt (see Documentation following for the "Clean Break" report).

On Oct. 5, for the first time in 30 years, Israel launched bombing raids against Syria, targetting a purported "Palestinian terrorist camp" inside Syrian territory. The bombing immediately raised fears that Sharon is preparing a nuclear strike, most likely against Iran. A senior Israeli intelligence source told EIR that Sharon's action was clearly backed by the "pro-Sharon" crowd in Washington, led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz: "They continue to be committed to their basic plan: Destroy Iran and Syria, and make Israel the dominant power in the region, and drive the Palestinians across the Jordan River." The source added that there "is obviously an agreement in Washington to do nothing." In a press conference a day after the Israel attack on Syria, President George W. Bush said Sharon had the right to "defend his own people," and then added, "We would be doing the same thing."

'Clean Break' Who's Who

In addition to arch-chicken-hawk Richard Perle, the other participants in the "Clean Break" exercise now constitute the hard core of the neo-con apparatus poisoning the Bush Administration.

The principal author of "Clean Break" and a series of follow-on IASPS strategy papers elaborating the new balance of power

[CTRL] The Tragedy Seen From Within Iraq: An Eyewitness Report

2003-10-20 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3040iraq_witness.html

This article appears in the October 17, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

EYEWITNESS REPORT
The Tragedy Seen from Within Iraq
by Our Special Correspondent

A visit to the region by an EIR special correspondent gave useful firsthand experience of the situation inside and around Iraq. In discussions with members of Iraqi political factions and other citizens, one discovers the agonizing process which the Iraqi people went through before, during, and after the invasion of Iraq by the U.S.-British led coalition. However, the worst is not over yet. The plans of the U.S.-British occupation's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and its "Imperial Proconsul" Paul Bremer, will further lead living conditions of the Iraqi population and the political situation into the current little "dark age."

One could simultaneously see the great desire and also despair for a change in U.S. and international policy, in order to rid this tormented nation and region from the scourge of war and destruction.

For a large part of the Iraqi population, especially in southern Iraq and the Kurdish region, who considered themselves as victims of Saddam Hussein's regime, the fall of that regime came as some sort of relief. This, in spite of the fact that there is a unanimous rejection of the occupation of Iraq by the U.S.-British coalition. Iraqis point to the irony that the most fierce resistance to the invasion of Iraq in March-April took place in the Shi'ite part of Iraq in the south, an area which was known for its total opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime. At the same time, Saddam's most loyal forces, such as the Republican Guard and Special Forces, fled the battlefield and totally left the capital Baghdad unguarded, to be taken without fighting by the U.S. troops. All cities and towns in the region north and northwest of Baghdad, which is the tribal support base for Saddam Hussein, surrendered without any fighting. After the fall of Saddam's regime and the end of the major military operations, this region was reactivated to become the center of armed operations against the U.S. occupation forces, while the South is showing much restraint and calm.

The Shi'ite population in most parts of the capital and in all southern Iraq has become organized around the religious institutions represented by different personalities in the religious school of al-Najaf, rather than around political parties. Even the most active political force, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was organized on a religious basis under the leadership of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, who was killed in a car bombing in late August, and now his brother Abdul Aziz. Both belong to the Najafi family of religious scholar al-Hakim. The Islamic Daawa Party is also a Shi'ite political movement. Both of these forces are represented in the U.S./British-chosen Iraqi Governing Council (IGC). The SCIRI and other Iraqi Shi'ite groups, who refused to back the war against Iraq, chose to participate in the political process under the occupation, with the idea that they should take advantage of the political vacuum created after the fall of the Saddam regime. The leaders, including al-Hakim, stated from the beginning that they rejected the idea of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but would give the U.S. and British governments a chance to make good on their promises: bringing democracy, allowing the election of an independent government, and starting the process of genuine reconstruction.

Of course, people in Iraq are realizing that this is not really the intention of the U.S. Administration. Therefore, the situation in southern Iraq is a ticking bomb, ready for a repeat of the 1920 armed revolt against the British, who reneged on their promises of granting independence for Iraq after World WarI. The Shi'ite scholars in al-Najaf played a major role in that uprising, which was coordinated with the Kurdish population in the north. In that revolt, Kurdish villages were bombed with chemical weapons for the first time by the British Royal Air Force, using mustard gas.

Lawlessness Remains

The current armed attacks against the U.S. troops in Baghdad itself, and to the west of the capital (Falluja and Ramadi) and north (al-Khalis, Baquba, Beiji, and Tikritthe home city of Saddam) are reportedly being carried out by members and supporters of the former regime, but also by clans inhabiting these areas. These clans are concerned that they would be subjected to actions of revenge and ethnic cleansing if they laid down their weapons and showed signs of weakness. Indeed, there have been calls for such "cleansing" action, including by Ahmed Chalabi, the puppet of the U.S. neo-conservatives and member of the IGC, who recently represented Iraq in the United Nations General Assembly meetings (see below).

This resistance is increasing in intensity and efficiency. It is well financed and

[CTRL] Israeli Subs Have Nukes Aimed at Iranian Sites

2003-10-19 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.americanfreepress.net/10_18_03/Israeli_Subs/israeli_subs.html

Israeli Subs Have Nukes Aimed at Iranian Sites
Exclusive to American Free Press
By Gordon Thomas

American-made Harpoon missiles, armed with nuclear warheads, are now aimed by Israels fleet of Dolphin-class submarines against Irans nuclear facilities.

Following Septembers exclusive report in American Free Press about Israels submarine nuclear attack capability, over 100 Harpoon cruise missiles have been secretly airlifted to the remote island of Diego Garcia, a joint UK-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean.

The three Israeli submarines that arrived at the base early this month were each loaded with 24 Harpoon missiles.

They then set sail for the Gulf of Omanbringing Irans nuclear facilities all within range of the submarines payloads.

The decision to launch them is entirely in the hands of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Just as Sharon gave Washington only a short warning before he gave the order to attack an alleged terrorist camp deep inside Syria, he has made it clear to Washington that the same rule of engagement will apply if it comes to launching the Harpoons.

Sharon made his position clear in a telephone call to President Bush the day after the attack on Syria.

According to one Israeli source, Bush said he just wanted to be kept in formed.

Credible intelligence sources say the reality is that Sharon believes he would have the support of Bush if he did launch an attack.

But an indication of the deepening concern that some members of the Bush administration now feel is that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice allowed one of her senior aides to confirm AFPs September report to The Los Angeles Times and Londons Guardian newspaper.

Both drew heavily on the original American Free Press story. The senior Pentagon and State Department sources for AFPs first story about Israels Dolphin-class submarines told AFP exclusively that, in the words of one high-level Pentagon source, matters have now advanced considerably, and for the first time Rice is sounding alarm bells in the Oval Office.

Rices decision to leak is also the first clear indication of her concerns over Israelas well as her own direct challenge to the authority of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Rice is engaged in an internal power struggle with Rumsfeldand has chosen to use what she sees as his failure in the Middle East to harness Sharons behavior as her launch pad to have the secretary of state ousted.

Rice has a long-term strategy to become secretary of state. While Rumsfeld is no supporter of Powell, he knows that having Rice in charge of [the State Department] would give her more power than she even has now. And there is also the ultimate ambition for Condi to be Bushs running mate. Her own inner circle says that she would relish a face-off with Hillary Clinton in 2008. If Condi became vice president, then she is but a step away from becoming the first black woman in the White House. That is what is driving her, said a senior Washington analyst.

RICE BOILING

Meantime, Rices concerns have deepened following Sharons stark warning last Sunday that states harboring terrorists are legitimate targets.

Aides in Tel Aviv have confirmed to American Free Press that Iran and Syria are top of that listwith Iran in the top spot.

The revelation comes at a time of rapidly escalating tensions in the region.

Israels senior Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gideon Meir, insisted any country that harbors a threat to Israel is a legitimate target for us out of self-defense.

Today, American Free Press can reveal, again for the first time, that a team of U.S. computer specialists flew to Diego Garcia to fit the latest version of the software known as over the horizon. This would allow a Harpoon to hit Irans nuclear establishments with pinpoint accuracy.

Originally developed by Inslaw, the Washington-based computer software company, the over-the-horizon capability has been enhanced to handle the sophisticated electronics of the Harpoon missiles.

In the meantime, Sharon has ordered Mossad to put together a specialist team to infiltrate Iran. Their mission is to snatch some of the scientists working in the countrys nuclear facilities at Natanz, Arak and Saghand.

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[CTRL] Are Jews Rulers or Ruled?

2003-10-19 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.savethemales.ca/

Are Jews Rulers or Ruled?
By Henry Makow Ph.D.
October 19, 2003

"Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad recently made headlines for this statement to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the world's largest Muslim group.

The speech was actually opposed to terrorism but the world media presented it (in the words of one Jewish leader) as "an absolute invitation for more hate crimes and terrorism against Jews."

This is a classic example of how Jewish leaders create a false spectre of anti Semitism to manipulate Jews, and Americans in general, to oppose Muslims.

At a time when Israel and the US are threatening Syria and Iran with attack, as part of a larger "war of civilizations," it is necessary to highlight such media machinations.

WHAT MAHATHIR ACTUALLY SAID

Mohamad actually exhorted his fellow Muslims to imitate the Jews by thinking, and not acting impetuously. Spontaneous acts of terror are not the most practical course. "It is winning the struggle that is important, not angry retaliation, not revenge," he said.

"[The Jews] survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains also."

Just as angry people [Muslims] make mistakes, so do arrogant people.

"Of late because of their power and their apparent success they have become arrogant. And arrogant people, like angry people will make mistakes, will forget to think. They are already beginning to make mistakes. And they will make more mistakes. There may be windows of opportunity for us now and in the future. We must seize these opportunities."

But generally, the tone of the speech was not belligerent.

"We also know that not all non-Muslims are against us. Some are well-disposed towards us. Some even see our enemies as their enemies. Even among the Jews there are many who do not approve of what the Israelis are doing."

The speech focused on the feckless, despondent and divided state of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims. Mahathir said the Muslim people are rich in faith, numbers and natural resources, but pitiful in terms of power. He counselled a "strategic retreat" and an Islamic spiritual revival, without which:

"The Muslims will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews. They will forever be poor, backward and weak."

He bade them to remember the "considerateness of the prophet to the enemies of Islam" and follow a disciplined reaction:

" We must not antagonize everyone. We must win their hearts and minds. We must win them to our side not by begging for help from them but by the honourable way that we struggle to help ourselves." (Emphasis mine.)

HOW WE ARE ALL MANIPULATED

Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in response, "Prime Minister Mahathir has made what amounts to a call for global war against the Jewish people by 1.3 billion Muslims. This is nothing more than a call to Holy War against Jews. It is grotesque anti-Semitism on an international scale. Mahathir's speech needs to be condemned by responsible leaders of the civilized world as an unacceptable outrage and an affront to civilized society."

U.S. Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "Let's be clear: the remarks were offensive, they are inflammatory, and we view them with the contempt and derision they deserve."

The German Foreign Ministry denounced Mahathir's comments as "totally unacceptable" and said it called in Malaysia's charge d'affaires in Berlin to protest. "It was made clear to [him] that repeating such prejudices and combining them with the tragic chapter of European and German history, the Holocaust, is irresponsible," the ministry said in a statement.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that Mahathir "used expressions that were gravely offensive, very strongly anti-Semitic and ... strongly counter to principles of tolerance, dialogue and understanding between the Western world and the Islamic world."

THE PUPPET MASTERS

Mahathir's speech properly addressed the dilemma of the Muslim world. But because he was careless in characterizing the enemy, he allowed them to use the speech against Muslims.

The enemy is the Illuminati. Jewish leaders like Foxman work for Illuminati financiers. Muslims, Christians and Jews need to be very clear about who the Illuminati is.

Exactly a year ago, I featured an article about an Illuminati defector, a former "mind programmer" named Svali. Everything Svali said should be taken very seriously. Svali said the Illuminati

[CTRL] French Jews Call For Prosecuting Criminal Sharon

2003-10-18 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-10/16/article04.shtml

French Jews Call For Prosecuting Criminal Sharon
By Hadi Yahmed, IOL Paris Correspondent

PARIS, October 16 (IslamOnline.net) - In an unprecedented event, a thousand French Jews Wednesday, October 15, urged to have Israeli Premiere Ariel Sharon prosecuted for his criminal policies against Palestinians, and supported the notion of a Palestinian state with occupied east Jerusalem as its capital.

In a strongly-worded statement entitled Another Jewish Voice, the signatories said they are against the oppressive practices by the Israeli army in Palestinian-ruled areas.

Israelis will never enjoy peace or even a future for their country unless they set on the negotiating table and settle a compromise with the Palestinians, read the statement, signed by politicians, doctors and legalists.

It warned that Israeli actions against the Palestinians could end up with their perpetrators standing before the International Criminal Court.

Belgium's highest court ruled on February 12 that Sharon and a former army commander, could face war crimes charges once he leaves office.

Palestinian survivors of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres also attempted last year to indict Sharon, who was then a minister of defense, for war crimes committed against them almost 20 years ago.

The statement carried the French Jews denial that the Israeli government should act on their behalf and their backing to efforts for realizing peace, justice and equality in the face of the criminal policy of Sharons government.

They also took aims at control of the French political scene by the pro-Israel extreme rightist groups.

These groups point a finger of anti-Semitism at their rivals when it comes to criticizing the Israeli government or demanding it to comply with U.N. resolutions, read the fiery statement.

The Jewish figures called for the holocaust not to be exploited in any way, or be used for justifying any similar persecution.

It also slammed the Palestinian attacks against Israelis and the Palestinian powers opposition to the existence of Israel.

Four Basic Principles

The Jewish figures underpinned in their statement four basic principles for peace to prevail between Israel and the Palestinians.

Palestinians should have the right to restore their land occupied by the most powerful army in the Middle East, read the first principle.

They also have the right to enjoy all of their rights entitled under the U.N. resolutions, including the establishment of their own state.

The third principle calls for Jerusalem - now occupied by Israel - to be a capital shared by both Israel and this coming Palestinian state.

Fourth, the Palestinians have the right to seek the return of their refugees at a time of negotiations on their return to homeland or fair compensations to be offered in return for those who wish so.

The Jewish figures affirmed that they adopt such principles, as they themselves had suffered persecution. Many of them said that they belong to families, whose members were victims of the Nazi holocaust.

The appeal came a few days after nine Palestinians were killed, including two children and two teenagers, and about 80 injured during an Israeli incursion in Rafah that began on Thursday, October 9.

Some 1,500 people were left homeless as a result of this several days aggression.

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[CTRL] Israel's human shields draw fire

2003-10-18 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,867343,00.html

Israel's human shields draw fire

Human rights groups return to court over army's use of Palestinian civilians

Chris McGreal in Hebron
Thursday January 2, 2003
The Guardian

Basem Maswadeh knew he was in trouble when an Israeli soldier pushed him into the barber's chair and reached for the clippers. The humiliation of a shaved head - or, more accurately, having chunks of hair ripped out by the brutal wielding of the shears - was the start of an ordeal that culminated with Mr Maswadeh and two friends standing in a Hebron street as Israeli troops shot over their shoulders at stone-throwing Palestinians.

"The soldiers hid behind our backs as they pushed us forward," said Mr Maswadeh. "Then they put their guns on our shoulders and began shooting. We felt our eardrums burning, but when we tried to put our hands over our ears, they beat our hands away. The noise was terrible because the gun was right next to my ear."

The soldiers fired dozens of plastic bullets, using the three Palestinian men as shields, before the crowd dispersed.

In May, as Israeli human rights groups sought a supreme court order barring soldiers from seeking protection behind human shields after their widespread use during the army's assaults on Jenin and other West Bank cities, the military admitted the policy was illegal and said it would stop.

But human rights groups will return to court on Sunday to argue that the army has only ended such abuses selectively, and is in breach of court orders.

"The method is the same each time," says Israel's most prominent human rights group, B'Tselem. "Soldiers pick a civilian at random and force him to do dangerous tasks that put their lives at risk."

Sergeant Nati Aharoni gave the army magazine, B'Mahaneh, an example of a case showing how they go about it.

"We had previously seized this building, so we were concerned that explosives would be waiting for us when we came back. Acting according to customary practice in such cases, we took a Palestinian who lived nearby and had him comb the site. He opened all the doors and cabinets, and didn't find anything," he said. "We shook his hand and said thanks."

The army says it has issued an order barring the use of human shields, but it contends that another policy, known as the "neighbour procedure", can continue because it is not illegal.

The "neighbour procedure" involves soldiers "requesting" of civilian that they enter buildings and demand that wanted men inside surrender. Human rights groups say that almost no one does such a thing voluntarily.

In August, soldiers pressed 19-year old Nidal Abu Mukhsan to enter the house of a Hamas activist and tell him to come out quietly. The activist, Nasser Jarar, mistook Mr Abu Mukhsan for a soldier and shot him fatally in the head.

The army says it is not at fault. It says Israeli soldiers "did not go into the building with him, so there are no grounds for contending that this was a case of using a human shield".

But human rights groups say the "neighbour procedure" is in direct contravention of a second court order, in August, barring its use, yet it is still widespread.

"The army is really convinced that use of the "neighbour procedure" protects civilians," said Yael Stein, the research director of B'Tselem.

"They say that if a Palestinian is knocking on the door, then anyone inside is less likely to start shooting. They have told the court this. But this is very dangerous for the people they force to do it, and it is completely illegal under international law."

Mr Maswadeh's experience in Hebron followed a different pattern. He owns a barber's shop. Like many firms, it defies the Israeli curfew. That is how Hebron's Palestinians survive.

When an army patrol swept along the road on December 3, shopkeepers quickly brought their shutters down. But the soldiers wanted to know who was in the barber's.

"We were scared," said Mr Maswadeh. "When the soldiers pay attention to you, they always abuse you. We did not want to open the door."

So the four Israeli soldiers grabbed the owner of the neighbouring grocery shop, Bilel Abu Qwaider.

"They told me, 'We are going to break your bones and destroy your shop if you don't get your neighbour to open his door,'" Mr Abu Qwaider said. "They were pointing their guns at me and threatening to shoot everyone inside. I begged Basem to open."

The barber realised he had little choice. "There were five of us, and they took us one by one into the street and beat us," Mr Maswadeh said. "Then they brought us back in and a soldier ordered me to sit in the barber's chair."

"He grabbed the electric clipper and brought it very slowly down on my head. It was very painful. I was bleeding because he was ripping my hair out. I knew I was in trouble when I opened the door, but I never imagined this."

Word of the beatings at the barber's shop quickly spread, and a crowd

[CTRL] GOOGLING THE WAR PARTY

2003-10-17 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html

October 17, 2003
GOOGLING THE WAR PARTY
Battalion commander who spammed media with fake 'good news' from Iraq is no stranger to reporters

As we pull, and tug at the spam propaganda story those fake "good news" letters from Iraq sent out to 500 newspapers, signed by different soldiers the whole fabric of this odd little episode begins to come apart, revealing a whole other layer underneath. The Pentagon, the local commanders, everyone disclaimed any knowledge of this "good news" factory, and it was only a coincidence that the President had just launched a major public relations blitz designed to shore up support for the war.

The official story, up until recently, was that a single individual soldier had taken it upon himself to write and circulate the letter, but, as it turned out, this wasn't just any grunt: it was Lt. Col. Dominic Caraccilo, who is, by any measure, far from ordinary. Caraccilo stepped forward and claimed credit, or blame the latter occurring in a normal world, and the former in the post-9/11 Bizarro World we live in, where up is down and moral inversion rules.

Caraccilo refused to apologize. The letter, he declared, "perfectly reflects what each of these brave soldiers has and continues to accomplish on the ground. With the current and ongoing media focus on casualties and terrorist attacks, we thought it equally important to share with the American public, and especially the folks from our soldier's hometowns, the good news associated with our work in Kirkuk."

Military officials, while distancing themselves from Caraccilo's effort, and assuring the media that he had been instructed not to do it again, "said his intentions were honorable," according to USA Today. There are currently no plans to discipline Caraccilo. But there should be, and not just for sending out fake letters.

The idea of using the troops in the field as pawns in a propaganda war on the home front is utterly antithetical to our republican form of government: when it comes to the political arena, the military must be strictly neutral in the battle between the contending parties. Caraccilo's crime, directly traceable to our foreign policy of global intervention, is one of the chief corruptions of empire. Far from "honorable," Caraccilo's deception was execrable.

What is interesting is that the military high command an organization not known for cutting slack would so readily acknowledge, at least implicitly, that Caraccilo's actions were wrong. As Lt. Col. Bill MacDonald, a military spokesman, put it:

"It sounded like a good idea at their level [but] it's just not the way to do business. They're not going to do that again."

Yet Caraccilo's superiors refuse to punish him in any way, thus inviting a repeat. It's as if the whole dubious operation had been unofficially sanctioned at a higher level, or initiated by some other as yet unnamed agency. This whole incident is highly unusual, but, then again, Caraccilo is himself highly unusual.

He is not only a published author and editor, but is also, perhaps, the single most cited soldier in press accounts of the war, as a Google search reveals. Wherever there is a question to be answered, a rationale to articulate, a "good news" perspective to be given on some unfolding disaster, Lt. Col. Caraccilo is at the media's service.

Early in the war, before the myth of Iraqi WMD had been discredited, Caraccilo was touting one of the first of many false alarms: several barrels of a mysterious substance (that turned out not to be biological or chemical weapons):

"'The weapons inspectors never would have found this stuff,' said Lt. Col. Dominic Caraccilo, the battalion commander who led the team to the sites. 'It would have taken 40 years.'"

Gee, imagine if we hadn't invaded, hadn't so far taken nearly 400 casualties and thousands wounded, and hadn't run up a bill for $87 billion we would never have found all that liquified camel dung, or whatever it was, and that woulda been a cryin' shame.

Caraccilo showed up again at the scene of another attempt to somehow rationalize the invasion, touting the capture of "Al Qaeda suspects" in Kirkuk. A Washington Post story places Caraccilo at the center of its narrative, the purpose of which is to convince the reader of the Iraqi-Al Qaeda connection:

"The word came at 11:15 a.m. Sunday: al-Qaida suspect in the southeast segment of the city.

At the Kirkuk air base, headquarters for the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry, U.S. Army Col. Dominic Caraccilo weighed his options.

As it turns out, the group in question was Ansar-al-Islam, a shadowy outfit that is only vaguely "linked to Al Qaeda." Citing an anonymous Army officer who questions "how seriously to take reports of Al Qaeda activity," the Post reports "Caraccilo decided the new information seemed solid and potentially important."

Yeah, just in time for the reporters and the photographers. This

[CTRL] Baghdad Nuke Marks Bali Anniversary

2003-10-17 Thread William Shannon

http://www.joevialls.co.uk/transpositions/lebed.html



Baghdad Nuke Marks Bali Anniversary
Same flash, same heat, but more radioactive falloutC

Copyright Joe Vialls, 18 October 2003  

At exactly 1300 hours on 12 October 2003, all was quiet around the Baghdad Hotel in Iraq. American troops and a few Iraqi taxis prowled the streets, while inside the hotel itself CIA agents sprawled in air-conditioned luxury, casually discussing who to murder next. Two thousand miles away to the south east, in Bali, Indonesia, it was exactly 1800 hours, and dusk was rapidly falling across the tropical island. Hundreds of mourners started to light thousands of Australian taxpayer-funded candles to commemorate the first anniversary of the Bali Bombing, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard stood ready to address the assembled throng.
 
Little Johnny Howard started telling mourners about the evil Muslim Terrorists who had devastated Kuta Beach exactly one year before with a home-made potassium chloride detergent bomb, killing an [official] total of 202 civilians, though the real figure was far higher, and included those who died days or weeks after the event from ultraviolet flash burns and plutonium poisoning. Forget about Muslim Terrorists, because the only countries on earth with stealth plutonium critical weapons were, and remain, America and Israel.

Less than one minute after Little Johnny opened his mouth to speak, in fact at precisely 1300:56 hours Iraqi time, there was an awesome screech as another fission monster from hell went critical, this time in an underground sewer located less than 250 feet away from the Baghdad Hotel, home to Americas premier spooks, and to several of New Yorks Iraq Provisional Council toadies. Blissfully unaware of this perfectly synchronized event, Little Johnnys voice droned on and on in Bali.
 
Back in Baghdad the fireball from the latest fission monster from hell expanded and then burst out into the street above, burning at a staggering 300,000 degrees centigrade and vaporizing all material within 30 feet of its lethal blast vector. The fireball spontaneously ignited six nearby buildings and sprayed the Baghdad Hotel with more than a ton of lethal radioactive particles. Someone somewhere was telling the CIA right back at you, on the first anniversary of its own bombing of Kuta Beach in Bali on 12 October 2002.
 
Naturally you were not told about this landmark event by members of the corporate media, who suppressed any chance of panic among American troops in Iraq by telling everyone who would listen that a car bomber charged the hotel gates, or some such equally predictable and pathetic rubbish. Spontaneously igniting buildings and vaporized cars were left out of the story completely. In fact, some western reporters may not have actually known what happened, because all have been fed the same ridiculous lie that surface car bombs dig craters. Rest assured that surface car bombs cant and never will be able to dig craters.   

Unwilling to believe that either the Mossad or CIA would be willing to blow up their own assets to celebrate the first anniversary of the Bali bombing, I waited impatiently for the results of a discreet Geiger counter sweep of the immediate area. Unlike Bali, the Geiger counter in Baghdad recorded a reasonably high level of gamma radiation, meaning that the micro nuke used for the attack was of an older type which incorporated a uranium 238 neutron reflector. Several countries including Britain, France, Russia and China have substantial stocks of these weapons, which are normally kept under very tight control by the respective national authorities.
 
Apart from a handful of British weapons stolen from their classified buried locations in East Germany decades ago, the only known suitcase micros on the loose are Russian. Back in September 1997, former Spetsnaz [Russian Special Forces] commander General Alexander Lebed admitted to losing between 84 and 100 of these weapons, and frightened the west by stating casually on television ``Can you imagine what would happen morally, psychologically, if this weapon is detonated in a big city? ... About 50-70,000 people, up to 100,000 people would be killed.''
 
As usual, the colorful Alexander Lebed was playing with his audience, because he knew very well at the time that most of the lost Russian suitcase nuclear weapons were rated at 0.01 kilotons [10 tons equivalent TNT], with only 12 of the total packing the 1.0 kiloton [1,000 tons equivalent TNT] blast he was describing. It would be nice to confirm this personally with General Alexander Lebed, but sadly he is no longer with us.
 
On 28 April 2002 General Lebed was flying to the opening of a new ski line in the Yermakov district of Siberia when his helicopter crashed. Though he survived the crash, the hospital in Abakan pronounced Lebed dead at 1300 hours

Quite apart from deliberately marking the first anniversary of the Bali bombing, it seems entirely possible

[CTRL] Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0342/schanberg.php

Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying
The Widening Crusade
by Sydney H. Schanberg

If some wishful Americans are still hoping President Bush will acknowledge that his imperial foreign policy has stumbled in Iraq and needs fixing or reining in, they should put aside those reveries. He's going all the wayand taking us with him.

The Israeli bombing raid on Syria October 5 was an expansion of the Bush policy, carried out by the Sharon government but with the implicit approval of Washington. The government in Iran, said to be seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, reportedly expects to be the next target.

No one who believes in democracy need feel any empathy toward the governments of Syria and Iran, for they assist the terrorist movement, yet if the Bush White House is going to use its preeminent military force to subdue and neutralize all "evildoers" and adversaries everywhere in the world, the American public should be told now. Such an undertaking would be virtually endless and would require the sacrifice of enormous blood and treasure.

With no guarantee of success. And no precedent in history for such a crusade having lasting effect.

People close to the president say that his conversion to evangelical Methodism, after a life of aimless carousing, markedly informs his policies, both foreign and domestic. In the soon-to-be-published The Faith of George W. Bush (Tarcher/Penguin), a sympathetic account of this religious journey, author Stephen Mansfield writes (in the advance proofs) that in the election year 2000, Bush told Texas preacher James Robison, one of his spiritual mentors: "I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. . . . I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."

Mansfield also reports: "Aides found him face down on the floor in prayer in the Oval Office. It became known that he refused to eat sweets while American troops were in Iraq, a partial fast seldom reported of an American president. And he framed America's challenges in nearly biblical language. Saddam Hussein is an evildoer. He has to go." The author concludes: " . . . the Bush administration does deeply reflect its leader, and this means that policy, even in military matters, will be processed in terms of the personal, in terms of the moral, and in terms of a sense of divine purpose that propels the present to meet the challenges of its time."

Some who read this article may choose to view it as the partisan perspective of a political liberal. But I have experienced warsin India and Indochinaand have measured their results. And most of the men and women who are advocating the Bush Doctrine have not. You will find few generals among them. They are, instead, academics and think-tank people and born-again missionaries. One must not entertain any illusion that they are only opportunists in search of power, for most of them truly believe in their vision of a world crusade under the American flag. They are serious, and they now have power at the top.

I believe that last week's blitz of aggressive speeches and spin by the president and his chief counselors removed all doubt of his intentions.

"As long as George W. Bush is president of the United States," Vice President Cheney told the friendly Heritage Foundation, "this country will not permit gathering threats to become certain tragedies." The president himself must tell us now what this vow entails.

The public relations deluge by Bush, Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed to be aimed at denying any policy fumbles and insisting that the liberal press was ignoring the positive developments in Iraq.

Mr. Cheney, the president's usual attack dog, aimed his sharpest and most sneering words at those who offer dissent about the administration's foreign and economic policies. Perhaps seeking to stifle such criticism, he raised the specter of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction that "could bring devastation to our country on a scale we have never experienced. Instead of losing thousands of lives, we might lose tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of lives in a single day of horror." His implication was that Saddam Hussein in particular had presented this threatwhen virtually all the available intelligence shows that Iraq's weapons programs had been crippled or drastically diminished by UN inspections and economic sanctions imposed after the first Gulf war in 1991.

But beyond all the distortions and exaggerations and falsehoods the Bush people engaged in to rally public support for the Iraq war, what I have never understood, from the 9-11 day of tragedy onward, is why this White House has not called on the American people to be part of the war effort, to make the sacrifices civilians have always

Re: [CTRL] Clintons' Fall Guy May Turn the Tables

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

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Bush and his merry band of Likudnik neocons have pissed on the Constitution and our nation's good name but Rarey is STILL Clinton bashing??
Get over it.

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[CTRL] The One Truth That Dare Not Be Spoken

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/16/oic.mahathir/index.html

Mahathir attack on Jews condemned
Thursday, October 16, 2003 Posted: 10:31 AM EDT (1431 GMT)

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (CNN) -- Malaysia's prime minister has urged Muslims to unite against Jews who, he says, rule the world by "proxy" -- comments criticized by Jewish leaders as an invitation to violence.

Opening a 57-nation Islamic summit in Malaysia Thursday, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad also urged Muslim youths to abandon suicide attacks and took aim at Islam, blaming a shift towards theological interpretations of the Koran that shunned science and development.

But it was his blistering attack on Jews and Israel that drew headlines and a swift condemnation from Israel, with an official there saying the veteran leader's comments fuel "further hatred and misunderstanding."

In his speech at Putrajaya, Malaysia's new administrative capital, the outgoing leader named Israel as "the enemy allied with most powerful nations."

Mahathir, who steps down at the end of the month, has become notorious for his controversial speeches during his 22 years as leader and has been a key proponent of a unified political stance among Muslim nations.

In his attack at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Mahathir said Jews ruled the world and got others to fight and die for them, but added that they would not be able to defeat the world's 1.3 billion Muslims.

"We are actually very strong, 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them," he said.

Jewish leaders said Mahathir's comments could spark fresh attacks on Jews.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled told CNN Israel is still studying the statement, but that "we deeply regret and reject the statement made by Prime Minister Mahathir."

"We find it especially discomfiting that at a time like this instead of calling for peace and reconciliation among peoples and nations there are statement fueling further hatred and misunderstanding.

"It comes as no surprise that in a summit like this there is a search for the lowest common denominator among the members, which is Israeli bashing."

The Associated Press quoted Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, as saying: "Mahathir's speech today is an absolute invitation for more hate crimes and terrorism against Jews. That's serious.''

Mahathir has often hit out at Israel and the United States, which he blames for fueling violence and angst in the Arab and Muslim world.

Malaysia, a moderate mostly Muslim nation, has long been a critic of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.

Under Mahathir's leadership it has also opposed U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the backing of the Jewish state and the recent war in Iraq.

During the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, he railed against what he said was a Western capitalist conspiracy to keep developing nations like Malaysia under control.

In his speech to the OIC -- the biggest gathering of Muslim leaders since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States -- Mahathir described the current situation as one of Islam's lowest points in history and highlighted the growing gap between the West and the Muslim world.

He called on Muslims to emulate the Jewish response to oppression, arguing the Jewish people had "survived 2,000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking."

He said: "They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy, so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others.

"With these they have gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power.

"We cannot fight them through brawn alone, we must use our brains also."

Mahathir said for too long Muslims had mistakenly believed Islam rejected new technology and progress.

Such interpretations, combined with the accusation that Islam promoted terrorism, were the major reasons all Muslim people were suffering "oppression and humiliation," he added.

"Islam is not just for the seventh century AD. Times have changed. Whether we like it or not we have to change," Mahathir said. "Not our teaching. ... Islam is not wrong, but the interpretations by our scholars can be wrong."

Mahathir suggested new tactics for Muslims to vent their anger and frustration.

"Is there no other way than to ask our young people to blow themselves up and kill people and invite the massacre of more of our own people?" he asked.

"It cannot be that there is no other way. ... We must not antagonize everyone. We must win their hearts and minds."

The OIC -- formed in 1969 to support the Palestinians -- must act on a unified front, Mahathir said, and use its political, economic and demographic

[CTRL] Army of God?

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1016-01.htm

General Casts War in Religious Terms
The top soldier assigned to track down Bin Laden and Hussein is an evangelical Christian who speaks publicly of 'the army of God.'
by Richard T. Cooper

WASHINGTON The Pentagon has assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets to an Army general who sees the war on terrorism as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan.

Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the new deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, is a much-decorated and twice-wounded veteran of covert military operations. From the bloody 1993 clash with Muslim warlords in Somalia chronicled in "Black Hawk Down" and the hunt for Colombian drug czar Pablo Escobar to the ill-fated attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Boykin was in the thick of things.

Yet the former commander and 13-year veteran of the Army's top-secret Delta Force is also an outspoken evangelical Christian who appeared in dress uniform and polished jump boots before a religious group in Oregon in June to declare that radical Islamists hated the United States "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian ... and the enemy is a guy named Satan."

Discussing the battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin told another audience, "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."

"We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this," Boykin said last year.

On at least one occasion, in Sandy, Ore., in June, Boykin said of President Bush: "He's in the White House because God put him there."

Boykin's penchant for casting the war on terrorism in religious terms appears to be at odds with Bush and an administration that have labored to insist that the war on terrorism is not a religious conflict.

Although the Army has seldom if ever taken official action against officers for outspoken expressions of religious opinion, outside experts see remarks such as Boykin's as sending exactly the wrong message to the Arab and Islamic world.

In his public remarks, Boykin has also said that radical Muslims who resort to terrorism are not representative of the Islamic faith.

He has compared Islamic extremists to "hooded Christians" who terrorized blacks, Catholics, Jews and others from beneath the robes of the Ku Klux Klan.

Boykin was not available for comment and did not respond to written questions from the Los Angeles Times submitted to him Wednesday.

"The first lesson is to recognize that whatever we say here is heard there, particularly anything perceived to be hostile to their basic religion, and they don't forget it," said Stephen P. Cohen, a member of the special panel named to study policy in the Arab and Muslim world for the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

"The phrase 'Judeo-Christian' is a big mistake. It's basically the language of Bin Laden and his supporters," said Cohen, president of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development in New York.

"They are constantly trying to create the impression that the Jews and Christians are getting together to beat up on Islam We have to be very careful that this doesn't become a clash between religions, a clash of civilizations."

Boykin's religious activities were first documented in detail by William N. Arkin, a former military intelligence analyst who writes on defense issues for The Times Opinion section.

Audio and videotapes of Boykin's appearances before religious groups over the last two years were obtained exclusively by NBC News, which reported on them Wednesday night on the "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw."

Arkin writes in an article on the op-ed page of today's Times that Boykin's appointment "is a frightening blunder at a time that there is widespread acknowledgment that America's position in the Islamic world has never been worse."

Boykin's promotion to lieutenant general and his appointment as deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence were confirmed by the Senate by voice vote in June.

An aide to the Senate Armed Services Committee said the appointment was not examined in detail.

Yet Boykin's explicitly Christian-evangelical language in public forums may become an issue now that he holds a high-level policy position in the Pentagon.

Officials at his level are often called upon to testify before Congress and appear in public forums.

Boykin's new job makes his role especially sensitive: He is charged with speeding up the flow of intelligence on terrorist leaders to combat teams in the field so that they can attack top-ranking terrorist leaders.

Since virtually all these leaders are Muslim, Boykin's words and actions are likely to draw special scrutiny in the Arab and Islamic world.

Bush, a born-again Christian, often uses religious language in his

[CTRL] Halliburton Overcharging For Oil?

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B68109EA-E912-48F3-8C4B-04D2AA782523.htm

Halliburton accused of overcharging for oil

Thursday 16 October 2003, 16:18 Makka Time, 13:18 GMT

A US Democratic lawmaker has accused Halliburton, the Texas oil services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, of overcharging the government for gasoline the firm imports into Iraq.

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown Root (KBR), which defends its pricing as fair, has a contract with the US Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild Iraq's oil sector. This has included importing gasoline products which are in short supply to the oil-rich nation.

"Millions of Americans want to help Iraqis but they don't want to be fleeced (by Halliburton)," Representative Henry Waxman of California, told a news conference in Washington on Wednesday.

Waxman said army documents showed that as of 18 September, the US had paid Halliburton $300 million to import about 190 million gallons (719 million litres) of gasoline into Iraq.

Accurate figure

Halliburton billed the government an average price of $1.59 per gallon (3.7 litres), excluding the company's fee of 2%-7%, said Waxman.

He said the average wholesale cost of gasoline during that period in the Middle East was about 71 cents a gallon, a figure an oil industry source told Reuters was accurate. That meant Halliburton was charging more than 90 cents a gallon to transport fuel into Iraq from Kuwait.

"When we checked with independent experts to see if this fee was reasonable, they were stunned," said Waxman, adding a reasonable transport cost would be 10 to 25 cents per gallon, especially as the US military was providing security.

A Halliburton spokeswoman defended the pricing as fair and said KBR had to transport gasoline through a "hostile environment" into Baghdad.

"We use a sound procurement process which has been approved by the government for procurement activities," said spokeswoman Wendy Hall. "KBR continues to negotiate fair and competitive prices to provide fuel to the Iraqi people," she added.

Waxman sent a letter on Wednesday to the White House Office of Management and Budget complaining KBR was overcharging for petroleum products.

"The overcharging by Halliburton is so extreme that one expert privately called it highway robbery," he wrote.

Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Bob Faletti said military auditors were closely monitoring work done by KBR and making sure the US taxpayer was not being overcharged.

Halliburton has so far received more than $1.4 billion in work in Iraq to repair and restore the country's oil industry under a no-competition contract issued in March.

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[CTRL] Classic Israeli False-Flag Op

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

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Attack 'sabotages hope of peace'
Wanted militant leader denies any involvement
3 Americans killed in bombing of convoy in Gaza

MITCH POTTER
MIDDLE EAST BUREAU

GAZA CITYAs Israeli helicopter gunships hovered overhead last night, pregnant with a deadly payload, the man for whom they were hunting proclaimed his innocence in an exclusive interview with the Star.

Yasser Zanoun, 39, became the man in the crosshairs at midday, with the first media reports saying his until now obscure militant group, the Popular Resistance Committees, was behind a deadly morning attack on an American diplomatic convoy in Gaza.

Three U.S. security men died and a fourth was injured in the roadside bombing just a few kilometres inside the heavily fortified Erez crossing from Israel. The attack prompted universal loathing, and fears the three-year Palestinian intifada has boiled over from more than simply an uprising against Israel, to a war on the Americans as well.

Zanoun, like every other Palestinian faction leader, has been in hiding for weeks, fearing assassination by Israel. Through his emissaries yesterday, he issued denials but declined interviews with everyone, including the Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya networks on which the Arab world is wired.

But by mid-evening, as pressure mounted, Zanoun reconsidered, agreeing to share with the Star and the London Times his "message to the world."

A car was dispatched. A mesmerizing trek through Gaza City's decaying back alleys led to a darkened doorway flanked by twitchy gunmen.

Inside, Zanoun held court with a holstered pistol on the coffee table in front of him. This was not his home, but a "safe house " which he would leave the moment the interview ended.

His first words: "We are not cowards. If we had anything to do with this operation, we would openly say so.

"It does nothing for the Palestinian people, it does nothing for the Palestinian resistance.

"And when you look at the developments of this weekend, the glimpse of hope we received from the Geneva Agreement negotiations in Jordan, I can only conclude the opposite. This was an Israeli operation, like all the others before it, designed to sabotage any hope of peace."

The Mideast being home to any number of metaconspiracy theories, Zanoun was not the first to suggest Israeli culpability.

But in his denial, just as in the denials yesterday of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, Zanoun also acknowledged growing Palestinian frustration at a spate of recent U.S. statements on the conflict: The veto of a U.N. resolution against Israel's separation fence, the U.S.'s defence of recent Israeli strikes on Syria and the southern Gaza Strip community of Rafah all are seen here as evidence of increasing American bias against the Palestinian cause.

But even as Zanoun spoke to the Star, Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority police were busy on the other side of the city arresting several of his deputies on suspicion of involvement in the morning attack.

When pressed, Zanoun said he sent runners to each of his resistance committee cells to inquire whether it was their work. All returned saying no.

"We are not stupid. We recognize the difference between those who would occupy us and those who would help us," he said. "When an American soldier is killed in Iraq, I am happy because I know it is an act of resistance against occupation. But when a diplomatic convoy is attacked in Gaza, I am equally disgusted.

"We know this convoy was here to help us. They were here to talk to Palestinian students about going on to study in America. Just as Rachel Corrie (the American protester killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah last spring) was our guest, they were our guests."

Pressed again, Zanoun eventually admitted another possibility that yesterday's bombing was the work of a handful of Palestinian militants acting on their own.

"If that is what happened, it was a mistake. A huge mistake. But I can't believe it is so."

Zanoun's brother Awni, seated at his side, chimed in with an afterthought. "We have no animosity toward the American people. Our dispute is with the U.S. administration and its bias toward Israel."

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) are relatively unknown in a conflict in which most headlines point to Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Formed at the start of the current uprising, the group's core is comprised of former Palestinian Authority security men who defected to the militant side after the outbreak of violence.

The PRC is different in two ways. Though nearly all are Muslim, these fighters don't necessarily dream of Islamic revolution, but simply of ending the Israeli occupation. And the PRC, said Zanoun, is all about resistance, not aggression. They have no suicide bombers.

At Hamouda Junction yesterday, the aftermath of the convoy attack offered few clues

[CTRL] A Serious Look At The Powerful Jewish Lobby

2003-10-16 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.rense.com/general43/jwsruess.htm

A Serious Look At The
Powerful Jewish Lobby
By Mark Weber
Institute for Historical Review
10-16-3

For decades Israel has violated well established precepts of international law and defied numerous United Nations resolutions in its occupation of conquered lands, in extra-judicial killings, and in its repeated acts of military aggression.

Most of the world regards Israel's policies, and especially its oppression of Palestinians, as outrageous and criminal. This international consensus is reflected, for example, in numerous UN resolutions condemning Israel, which have been approved with overwhelming majorities.

"The whole world," United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recently said, "is demanding that Israel withdraw [from occupied Palestinian territories]. I don't think the whole world ... can be wrong."(1)

Only in the United States do politicians and the media still fervently support Israel and its policies. For decades the US has provided Israel with crucial military, diplomatic and financial backing, including more than $3 billion each year in aid.

Why is the U.S. the only remaining bastion of support for Israel?

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has candidly identified the reason: "The Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic," he said. "People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful -- very powerful." http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/#note02 (2)

Bishop Tutu spoke the truth. Although Jews make up only about three percent of the US population, they wield immense power and influence -- vastly more than any other ethnic or religious group.

As Jewish author and political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg has pointed out: (3)

Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations. Today, though barely two percent of the nation's population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation's largest newspaper chain and the most influential single newspaper, the New York Times ... The role and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked ...

Jews are only three percent of the nation's population and comprise eleven percent of what this study defines as the nation's elite. However, Jews constitute more than 25 percent of the elite journalists and publishers, more than 17 percent of the leaders of important voluntary and public interest organizations, and more than 15 percent of the top ranking civil servants.

Stephen Steinlight, former Director of National Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, similarly notes the "disproportionate political power" of Jews, which is "pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/cultural group in America." He goes on to explain that "Jewish economic influence and power are disproportionately concentrated in Hollywood, television, and in the news industry."(4)

Two well-known Jewish writers, Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed out in their 1995 book, Jews and the New American Scene: (5) During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made up 50 percent of the top two hundred intellectuals ... 20 percent of professors at the leading universities ... 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington ... 59 percent of the directors, writers, and producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58 percent of directors, writers, and producers in two or more primetime television series.

The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community, Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the amount of money they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill] Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign."(6)

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture," acknowledges Michael Medved, a well-known Jewish author and film critic. "Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names." (7)

One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J. Goldberg, now editor of the influential Jewish community weekly Forward. In his 1996 book, Jewish

[CTRL] Domestic Spying The Global Intel Working Group

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1286



Domestic Spying  the Global Intelligence Working Group

Big Brother Gets Bigger 
by Michelle J. Kinnucan
October 14, 2003

With virtually no media coverage or public scrutiny, a major reorganization of the US domestic law enforcement intelligence apparatus is well underway and, in fact, is partially completed. The effort to create a new national intelligence collection, analysis, and sharing system has frightening implications for privacy and other civil liberties. Operating under the umbrella of John Ashcroft's Department of Justice (DOJ), this monster-in- the-making is now the work of the intergovernmental Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG) [it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=56]. 

ORIGINS

In the fall of 2001, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) held its annual conference in Toronto. Considering the events of September 11th, it was decided to organize an International Criminal Intelligence Sharing Summit in Alexandria, VA, March 7-8, 2002; the topic was "Criminal Intelligence Sharing: Overcoming Barriers to Enhance Domestic Security." 

The 100 Summit attendees comprised a select group of "criminal intelligence experts from local, state, Tribal and Federal law enforcement agencies, international law enforcement bodies, national and regional intelligence gathering and analysis organizations and academia." 

Participants included Attorney General John Ashcroft and representatives from the DOJ, INS, DEA, FBI, Office of Homeland Security, National Reconnaissance Office, Secret Service, and the US military. 

The Summit proceedings were compiled by the IACP in a report entitled, Criminal Intelligence Sharing: A National Plan for Intelligence-Led Policing at the Local, State and Federal Levels -- Recommendations from the IACP Intelligence Summit ("IACP Report"). The Summit and IACP Report were both partially funded by the DOJ... 

VISION

The GIWG's intelligence reorganization effort is linked to the Homeland Security Act, but extends far beyond concerns about terrorism. Early on, the IACP Report quotes a White House statement: "The Department of Homeland Security would coordinate, simplify and, where appropriate, consolidate government relations on issues for America's state and local agencies. It would coordinate federal homeland security programs and information with state and local officials."

The IACP Report then observes: "This element of the President's plan is significant: non-federal agencies (local law enforcement, state police and regional law enforcement task forces) have both a great need for intelligence data and a great capacity to contribute to the process of intelligence generation." The envisioned reorganization is one of not only enhanced federal-state/ local integration for two-way intelligence sharing but also a fundamental restructuring. Thus, according to the IACP Report the "Participants called for a strengthening of the local component -- so that information flows along a flattened continuum of all types of law enforcement agencies, versus the traditional hierarchical flow." State and local agencies are to be "founding partners of and driving participants in any organization that helps coordinate the collection, analysis, dissemination and use of criminal intelligence data in the U.S." 

A case might well be made that the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001, were, in part, the result of a failure in intelligence sharing between the FBI and the CIA. Beyond bare assertions, however, no persuasive argument that better sharing between federal and state/local law enforcement agencies could have prevented 9/11 has been offered. Rather, one of the organizers and leaders of the IACP Summit, former New York City police intelligence division commander Daniel J. Oates, has undercut any such argument. 

On September 20, 2001, the Ann Arbor News quoted him as follows: "'Local law enforcement can do little to prevent an attack in the air,' Oates said, adding that would fall under the jurisdiction of federal authorities." (Oates became the Ann Arbor, MI police chief less than a month before 9/11.) Oates is later quoted as having "specific suggestions on how local law enforcement can work with federal government" on intelligence, but he offered no details. He did however note that the "first obvious measure" in response to 9/11 "is to make certain airplanes can't be hijacked." 

In another related non sequitur, the IACP Report explicitly asserts "While September 11 highlighted urgency in improving the capacity of law enforcement agencies ... to share terrorism-relevant intelligence data... [Summit participants] stressed that the real need is to share all - not just terrorism-related - criminal intelligence." 

A main selling point for the greater use of local police in domestic intelligence is the omnivorous spying potential of the widely adopted Community Oriented Policing

[CTRL] Police find bomb lab run by Israeli Jew

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/349817.html



Police find bomb lab run by Israeli Jew 
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent  



Jerusalem police who Tuesday discovered a bomb lab
run by an Israeli Jew believe that the explosives
were to be sold to criminals, although are still
investigating whether he planned to sell to
Palestinian militants as well. 





Hanan Yadgarov, 29, from Pisgat
Ze'ev was arrested two weeks
ago after selling a
three-kilogram bomb to an
undercover police officer for
NIS 25,000, said the city
police spokesman, Shmulik
Ben-Ruby. 

Yadgarov was remanded for 10

days. 

Police found explosives, ready-to-use bombs,
Israeli and Russian army uniforms, police
uniforms and bomb detonators in a Jerusalem
apartment, Ben-Ruby said. 

The undercover police officer asked Yadgarov "if
it [the bomb] could also blow up on buses and
he said yes," Ben-Ruby said. 

He said Yadgarov's motives were still under
investigation, although police sources say he
was in the business of selling explosives to
criminals rather than terrorists. 




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[CTRL] Israel Sequesters Palestinian Farms West Of Wall

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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Israel Sequesters Palestinian Farms West of Wall
Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 9:04 am
Press Release: International Solidarity Movement

Israel Sequesters Palestinian Farmland West Of Wall
Kicks farmers out of their orchards, claiming land is "Israel"

[Occupied West Bank] Contrary to what the Israeli establishment has been saying, the government of Ariel Sharon has made another big land grab. A new order issued by the military commander of the West Bank announced to Palestinians that they are no longer allowed to be on their land west of the separation wall. The order, which was distributed in Hebrew and illegible Arabic last week, states that the land west of the wall is a closed military area and that only Israelis, those eligible to be Israelis under the Law of Return (i.e. practically every Jew in the world) or those issued special permits would be allowed to be on the land. (See below for English translation of order)

The military order announcing the new restrictions, signed by Major General Moshe Kaplinski, the commander of IDF forces in "Judea and Samaria", and dated October 2, 2003, declares that lands west of the barrier are closed military zones and farmers who want access need to apply for a "long-term residency" permit. Palestinians also found at least two accompanying orders, signed by Brigadier General Ilan Paz, the head of the civil administration, and dated October 7, 2003. These orders detail how Palestinians are supposed to go about applying for the appropriate permits to be on their land west of the wall.

Of course, nothing in the order guarantees that permits will be granted to these Palestinian landowners, nor even respecated if granted.

The idea of applying for a permit to be on one's own land is rejected by Palestinians who have been on these lands for generations. In addition to the thousands of dunams of farmland, water wells, and greenhouses that are being isolated from their owners, thousands of Palestinians reside in 15 villages that fall between the wall and the Green Line. According to this new order, these Palestinians are "illegally" residing in their homes now.

In building the Separation Wall, the Israeli government has insisted that it is not confiscating more Palestinian land and has argued against the negative impact of this wall on Palestinians by claiming that farmers with land falling on the other side (west of the wall) will have access points - openings that they can pass through into their farmlands. Since the concrete walls have been built and the fences erected, a small number of gates have been built into the barricade and a prison-like system of access to orchards for farmers implemented.

Due to the random open/close schedule of the gates, however, and the harassment faced by farmers attempting to pass daily, dozens of farmers in Jayyous [Qalqilya region] had taken to camping out on their land to ensure that they could tend to their fields, while other farmers faced up to the abuse and daily attempted, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, to reach their fields. (For video footage of events at the gate in Jayyous on October 8, please see www.palsolidarity.org). For the farmers that have been camping out on their land, ISM volunteers have been helping with the delivery of food to them from the village, passing bread, water and some home-cooked meals through the barbed wire to the farmers on the other side.

On Friday October 3 the gate was not opened at all for the farmers of Jayyous and Palestinians throughout the West Bank. The gates have remained totally closed since.

On Monday, October 13, 2003, in Jayyous, over 30 of the farmers who were camping on their land were rounded up, their IDs confiscated and told that they could no longer be on the land, because the land was "now Israel". A 17-year-old boy, Nael Zaher Nofel, who was riding his bike near Jayyous' west gate was abducted by Israeli soldiers yesterday and has yet to be released.

As opposed to Israeli government claims that the wall is a security messure, this military order is seen by Palestinians as another political move, part of a political initiative - the Seperation Wall, in Israel's overall political plan to remove them from the area, taking their land. According to Israeli State Law, land that is neglected for 3 years or more can be siezed for state use. Making it almost impossible for Palestinians to be on their land ensures long-term neglect and thus "legalized" confiscation of the land by the Israeli State. Soldiers enforcing this new order have already called it for what it is - "this land is now Israel" an Israeli soldier screamed at a Palestinian farmer in Jayyous as he forced him off his land yesterday.
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[CTRL] Bush's Vanished Prisoner

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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Nat Hentoff
Bush's Vanished Prisoner
He Wonders Whether He Will See the Light of Day Again

The Constitution creates no executive prerogative to dispose of the liberty of the individual. Proceedings against him must be authorized by law. United States Supreme Court, Valentine v. U.S. (1936)

Implicit in the term "national defense" is the notion of defending those values and ideals which set this Nation apart. United States Supreme Court, U.S. v. Robel (1967)

The word "security" is a broad, vague generality [that] should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law [of the Constitution]. Justice Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court, New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971)

John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, an organization devoted to the Bill of Rights, in Charlottesville, Virginia, is one of the nation's most knowledgeable and insistent defenders of the Constitution. He is heard on many radio stations, and his printed commentaries are widely circulated. On August 11, he wrote about a startling attack on civil liberties I've been following in the Voice (September 24-30).

Jose Padilla now sits alone in a military cell where he is not even allowed to see his family (a son in Chicago and his mother in Florida) or use the telephone. He has to be wondering whether he will see the light of day again.

On June 9, 2002, commander in chief George W. Bush, acting under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Joint Resolution, sent an order to the Defense Department designating Jose Padilla, an American citizen, an "enemy combatant." The president did this all by himself, even though, as I noted in a previous columnquoting a friend of the court brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by a historic array of former federal judges and establishment lawyers:

"There is no constitutionally approved definition of who is an 'enemy combatant.' " Nor is there any basis in our laws for holding Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges, or access to his lawyer, Donna Newman. In the August 25 New York Law Journal, Thomas Adcock reports, "She writes frequently to her client, but military officials in South Carolina [where he is imprisoned] will not confirm that their prisoner has received her letters."

The Law Journal story adds that Donna Newman, "after . . . combing through sealed court papers the Justice Department was obliged to reveal . . . concluded that the government's case against her client relies on two informers: one with a drug problem, she said, and the other who has recanted."

Before being swept away to a military brig, Padillafirst arrested at O'Hare Airport in Chicago and then held in a high-security prison in Manhattan as a material witnesswas accused by Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a dramatic television appearance from Moscow, to have somehow been involved in somebody's plan to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" somewhere in the United States.

Through Donna Newman, his case against the government, Padilla v. Rumsfeld, is now before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where, as of this writing, oral arguments are proposed to be held the first week of November before a three-judge panel. But Ashcroft's Justice Department is striving mightily to persuade the Second Circuit that the case should be transferred to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia, on jurisdictional grounds. Regarded by many lawyers, as well as civil libertarians, as the most conservative of all the circuit courts (which are just one level beneath the Supreme Court), the Fourth Circuit has already bowed to the president in the case of Yaser Hamdi. He is another American citizen being held indefinitely, without charges, and without access to his lawyer in a military brig. The Fourth Circuit has ruled that commander in chief Bush has the power to haul away an American citizen anywhereat O'Hare, in Afghanistan, or on any American street. All Bush has to do is call him or her an "enemy combatant."

Whichever circuit court eventually gets the case, the Supreme Court will decide whether this presidentor his successorscan, under the Constitution, strip an American citizen of his or her most fundamental due process rights. Chillingly, as the New York Law Journal points out, James B. Comey, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, speaking for Attorney General Ashcroft, has declared in a legal brief:

"A court of the United States has no jurisdiction . . . to enjoin the president in the performance of his official duties." Therefore, according to the Justice Department and the president, the separation of powersat the core of the Constitutionhas been suspended in the war on terrorism. Somebody ought to tell Congress.

Why have none of the Democratic presidential candidates, except for John Edwards, mentioned this hijacking of Padilla's rights by the president they want to replace? Why has the press in its many manifestations not

[CTRL] The March on Damascus: A New Epoch Unfolds

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20031014014557917

The March on Damascus: A New Epoch Unfolds
Tuesday, October 14 2003 @ 01:45 AM EDT

"Bush, who ordered his lonely ranger in the UN, John Negroponte to avert the UN members from condemning the Israeli act, reacted in a manner that left little doubt that Sharons bold move must've passed through the Washington route first. Bush's words held no hesitance, but in fact full-fledged backing of a seemingly earth-shattering provocation of war .."

By RAMZY BAROUD

The epochal Israeli bombing inside Syria on October 05 has practically rendered the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between the two countries, irrelevant. By bombing the purportedly militant training camp, as portrayed by Israel, near Damascus, the latest act of antagonism flustered the already frantic world media, who were struck as much as the Syrians, by the attack on Ain al-Sahib.

Nevertheless, and despite the seemingly unequivocal aggressiveness of the Israeli attack, considering it more or less a declaration of war, the entire episode is swarmed by indecision. Is Israel pushing to widen the frontiers of its war? Is this Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons way of avoiding the accountability of his failed war on the Palestinians? Is the bombing an Israeli message or an American one? What does Israel hope to achieve by unleashing another quagmire at a time that the US is yet to deal with her own?

However, the rationale behind Israels rash decision to end the three-decade long ceasefire at the Syrian-Israeli front, despite the continued hostility ensuing from the Israeli occupation of parts of Lebanon, Syrias Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories, is not the only mystery. The attack on Ain al-Sahib, near Damascus, laid bare another epochal policy, that of the United States.

Bush, who ordered his lonely ranger in the United Nations, John Negroponte to avert the UN members from condemning the Israeli act, reacted in a manner that left little doubt that Sharons bold move mustve passed through the Washington route first. Bushs words held no hesitance, but in fact full-fledged backing of a seemingly earth-shattering provocation of war: Israel must not feel constrained in defending itself, Bush said. On October 06, the US President telephoned Sharon, reported the Associated Press, and made it very clear to the Prime Minister, like I consistently have done, that Israels got a right to defend itself and that Israel must not feel constrained in defending the homeland.

For Bush, like many of the so-called hawks in his administration, Arabs and Muslims are all the same, geographically, culturally, religiously and politically. Bombing Syria, therefore, might not seem a far-off pitch in retaliation to a suicide bombing that was carried out by a young Palestinian female lawyer inside Israel on the preceding day. But in a world where many countries, including Syria and excluding Israel and the United States, do in fact still allude to international law while confronting such blatant violations of sovereignty, the bring it on mind-set of Bush, Sharon and their followers is by all means repugnant.

No other country at the United Nations, aside from the US, considered the attack on Syria a legitimate Israeli right to defend its citizens as Bush later advised, nor did anyone accept the Israeli argument that the bombing of Syria was a deterrent move. Even the Haifa bombing, cannot lead us to overlook or minimize the extreme gravity of the attack perpetrated against Syria, said Spanish Ambassador to the UN, Inocencio Arias, a statement that was followed by that of the British Ambassador Emyr Parry. The Israeli attack, Parry said, represented an escalation of the conflict and undermines the peace process.

But Bushs repeated defense of the Israeli bullying act - akin to his self-defense argument following Israeli armys bloody attacks on Palestinian towns- was only the tip of the iceberg, an introduction of what shall be remembered as the formal inclusion of Israel, in a more practical and critical sense in the war on terror, an alliance that Israel strived to achieve, and despite its empathy, the US continued to defer. Not any more. One day following the Israeli bombing, the US House International Relations Committee voted in favor of diplomatic and economic sanctions on Syria. Although the bill has been ready to be embraced by the brazen congressmen for a while, it passed this time after assurances that the Bush administration no longer maintains its objection to the piece of legislation. Israel received the news happily, as the predetermined transaction is now complete.

This was not all too accidental. By choosing such a time, when Israels violent harassment of Syria is condemned internationally, to encroach on Syria with a similar fashion to the decade ago encroachment on Iraq, using the sanctions as a preliminary weapon, the Bush administration has delivered

[CTRL] Cheney, Halliburton ties facing more questions

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.modbee.com/local/story/7589897p-8498586c.html

Cheney, Halliburton ties facing more questions

By JAMES ROSEN
BEE WASHINGTON BUREAU
Published: October 14, 2003, 05:51:55 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Between 1995 and 2000, while Democrat Bill Clinton ran the country and Republican Dick Cheney ran Halliburton, there was no talk of favoritism or political ties as the Houston-based company billed the government $2.2 billion for its work in Kosovo.

Now, six months after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, there is mounting scrutiny of Halliburton's Iraq contracts, which total $3.1 billion and grow by the day. The contracts look suspect to some critics, given Halliburton's past overcharges to the government, its ties to Cheney and the absence of competitive bidding for a $1.4 billion oil fields contract.

At the same time Cheney, vice president since January 2001, faces renewed criticism for getting nearly $368,000 in deferred salary from a company that is profiting so handsomely from a war he helped launch.

Not surprisingly, many of the critics are Democrats. Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, brandishing a Congressional Research Service report that he said proves the vice president's ongoing financial ties to Halliburton, urged Cheney on Sept. 25 to come clean.

"I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese and acknowledge his continued financial ties with Halliburton to the American people," he said.

Rep. Henry Waxman, a Los Angeles Democrat, wrote White House budget director Joshua Bolten on Tuesday to inquire about "waste and gold-plating" in Iraq.

"Too much money appears to be going to Halliburton and Bechtel while costing the U.S. taxpayer millions and imperiling the goal of Iraqi reconstruction," Waxman wrote.

Bechtel, a San Francisco-based engineering and construction company, has a $1 billion contract from a State Department agency to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure apart from the oil industry. That contract also is likely to grow.

Beyond Bechtel, a number of other companies have landed smaller contracts. But Halliburton is so dominant that it is hardly a stretch to call it the general contractor of the war in Iraq and its aftermath.

Spending not capped

Kellogg Brown Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, has received $1.7 billion so far under a broad-based, competitively bid Pentagon contract signed in December 2001 for an array of military support services in and around Iraq. The contract, which is annually renewable through 2011, has no cap on spending.

Under a separate contract awarded in March -- without seeking bids from other companies -- the Army Corps of Engineers is paying Halliburton $1.4 billion to rebuild Iraq's oil industry. Halliburton is one of four firms competing for a massive oil services contract that the corps expects to announce any day.

Scott Saunders, a spokesman for the Corps of Engineers, said there is no reason to think Halliburton has the inside track.

"We've never really done something like this before -- gone in and tried to fix a country while it's still being terrorized," he said. "We wouldn't have competitively bid the contracts if we didn't think there was more than one firm in the world that could do the job."

Cheney and his aides vigor- ously reject allegations of wrongdoing in the awarding of Halliburton contracts or the receipt of Halliburton money. The vice president has nothing to do with deciding which companies get government contracts, they say, and his payments from Halliburton since taking office are for 1999 salary that he chose to defer long before taking office.

Cheney served as a Wyoming congressman in the 1980s, then as defense secretary under the elder George Bush, helping lead the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Three years after Bush lost to Clinton in 1992, Cheney took over Halliburton, running it until August 2000.

"Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company," Cheney said last month on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The president and vice president are exempt from recent government ethics rules, but Cheney's personal lawyer, Terry O'Donnell, said that before Cheney took office in January 2001, he directed O'Donnell to handle his Halliburton affairs as if he were covered by the laws.

O'Donnell said Cheney told him to do everything possible to sever all ties to the firm and avoid conflicts of interest.

O'Donnell said one step was giving an outside administrator control over 433,333 Halliburton stock options that Cheney owns and designating three charities to receive any profits from exercising those options.

A recent rise in Halliburton's stock price -- which is up 50 percent since Bush began talking about war in Iraq 18 months ago -- has pushed the value of Cheney's options to more than $10 million. It is not known whether his administrator has exercised any options this year.

None was exercised in 2001 or 2002, according to Cheney's tax

[CTRL] Bush Family Babysitter Killed in Fairfax

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46190-2003Oct5.html

Bush Family Babysitter Killed in Fairfax
Sunday, October 5, 2003; Page C03

A babysitter for the family of Marvin Bush was found dead Monday night outside the family's Fairfax County home, and police said that she had been crushed when her car rolled into her, pinning her between the vehicle and an outbuilding on the property.

Fairfax County police said Bertha Champagne, 62, had worked for several years for Marvin Bush, President Bush's brother, and lived at the family home on Fort Hunt Road in the Alexandria section of Fairfax.

Officer Courtney Young, a police spokeswoman, said Champagne had gone outside the house about 9 p.m. Monday, reportedly to retrieve something from her car.

The vehicle had been in gear, police said, and appeared to have rolled in her direction when Champagne was in front of it.

After pinning Champagne, Young said, the car continued rolling toward Fort Hunt Road, near the intersection of Edgehill Drive.

Champagne was taken to an area hospital and declared dead that evening. Young said she did not know the cause of death.

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[CTRL] Hudak Halliburton

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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Arms maker under fire:
As David Hudak sits in a New Mexico jail accused of illegally purchasing and stockpiling warheads, his defense attorney takes aim at Halliburton Corp., which he said induced his client to buy the devices.

By Dan Shingler
Tribune Reporter

Canadian David Hudak sits in a New Mexico jail cell, accused of stockpiling U.S.-made missile warheads.

Federal prosecutors moved in on Hudak quickly after an informant alerted them to his activities last summer.

But his defense attorney wonders why the U.S. company that sold Hudak the devices has not been pursued with the same zeal, especially since prosecutors contend that the sale was illegal.

Hudak's attorney, Bob Gorence, said Hudak was induced to purchase the items by Halliburton Corp. - the major U.S. conglomerate once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Gorence said Halliburton offered the warheads as legal "demolition charges," rather than government-owned military arms that he could not legally possess.

"David thought he was dealing with a reputable company that knew what it was doing, meaning Halliburton," said defense attorney Bob Gorence. "If you can't rely on what the vice president's company tells you - that these are demolition charges - then what's a Canadian to do?"

Cheney formerly served as Halliburton's chief executive officer, but did not take that post until 1995, the year after the warheads were sold to Hudak.

Hudak has been involved in a variety of activities ranging from commercial demolition work to the training of military and police units here and in Canada.

He said he purchased the warheads because Halliburton offered them at a bargain basement price of about $1 each.

Prosecutors and federal law enforcement officials say they are continuing to investigate who sold the warheads to Hudak, but have yet to publicly lay blame for the sale.

Industry and government officials say defense contracts prohibit the sale of such items "on the open market."

Prosecutors have also made it clear they believe the sale was illegal.

"The company that sold these warheads to Mr. Hudak did so illegally, knowing they were doing it illegally, and conspired to conceal that fact," assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Wormuth said at an April 1 hearing. He said the matter would be pursued further at Hudak's trial.

A November 2002 prosecutor's motion also questioned the legality of the sale.

"It is also worth noting that some, if not all, of the warheads seized in Roswell were property of the United States and that the United States appears to have never consented to the sale, release or transfer of those warheads. The United States is continuing its investigation into the transfer of the seized warheads as well as other munitions," the motion reads.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has declined to comment further or to elaborate on Wormuth's statement.

Exactly who sold the devices to Hudak may be a point of contention at Hudak's trial in August.

Gorence and Hudak claim the sale was initiated by Halliburton just before Halliburton sold its Texas-based subsidiary that made the shoulder-fired missiles, Jet Research Center, to Tennessee-based Accurate Arms Co. in 1994. They say the transaction was completed after the Jet Research acquisition, and Hudak ultimately completed the purchase with Accurate Arms.

Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said Halliburton sold other legitimate demolition devices to Hudak, but had no part in the sale of the warheads.

Hall said Halliburton has cooperated with investigators on the case, but did not expect legal action as a result of the matter.

Hall said it would be "inappropriate" for Halliburton to discuss the matter further.

Halliburton, a Houston-based company, is a major player in the oil and construction industry. The company this month was given a multimillion-dollar contract to help rebuild Iraq.

Officials of Accurate Arms did not return three telephone calls seeking the company's account of the alleged sale.

The file for Hudak's case includes numerous pieces of correspondence between Hudak and his companies and both Halliburton and Accurate.

Hall said Halliburton completed the sale of Jet Research on Feb. 9, 1994.

On that same day, a fax cover sheet from a Halliburton official to one of Hudak's companies refers to a pending sale of explosives as a "blue light special" and directs further inquiries to Accurate Arms.

The fax does not specifically state what explosives are being addressed, and Hudak has said he purchased numerous explosives from Halliburton, including legal demolition supplies.

Gorence said he believes Halliburton is hiding behind technicalities in claiming that it had no part in the sale.

"Obviously, I think they're running for cover under the guise that they may have sold (Jet Research) the night before," Gorence said. "It's ironic that Halliburton is not incriminated in any way (by prosecutors) or finds itself in any conspiracy charges."

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[CTRL] Dr. Bushs Botched Surgery

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://tvnewslies.org/html/dr__bush_s_botched_surgery.html

Dr. Bushs Botched Surgery
Treating a Tumor with a Pitchfork
By Jesse - Editor, TvNewsLies.org - 04-October-2003

The Prognosis: We are NOT better off in any way shape or form now that the tumor Saddam has been removed from the patient Iraq...

the cure was exponentially worse than the disease.

Physicians Log:

The Date: September 12, 2001
The Patient: Iraq.
The Problem: Patient afflicted with a chronic condition known as Saddam.
The Diagnosis: Saddam is a long term malignancy. At present, this tumor is in remission. While it continues to present a variety of problems for cells within the patients body, the tumors current state can best be described as contained. This tumor has no immediate ability to grow or increase in severity.

The Current Treatment: An incessant application of sanctions and constant international scrutiny has proven to be effective treatment, although not a cure.

The Doctors Notes: Strangely, while this tumor has caused the death of a great many cells, other cells have thrived since its initial appearance. In many respects, the patients overall health benefited from the very tumor that also caused its ill health. The tumor has had a great impact at increasing the industrialization of the patient; providing free education to the patient; providing free health care to the patient, and keeping the patients cells from attacking one another. The main problem is that the tumors radically violent actions cause the needless suffering and death of many healthy cells. These actions must continue to be scrutinized and controlled.

For several years, the international medical community has been aware that a great deal of harm has come to many of the patients cells and organs. Approximately a decade ago, this tumor completely eradicated thousands of cells that were suspected of posing a threat to the tumor itself. While thought to be a radical pre-emptive approach towards maintaining the patients health, this behavior was brutal and inhumane. It must not be allowed to be repeated.

The Dilemma: The international medical community is not in complete agreement about the viability of the Saddam tumor. There is some concern because American and British practitioners have announced that the tumor may become actively malignant within a very short time. Most of the international community is willing to provide round the clock medical teams to examine the tumor and determine its potential threat to the patient.

The Reckless Plan: American surgeon George W. Bush, and his team of PNAC (Project for a New American Century) doctors, have announced a new treatment to deal with the Saddam tumor. Without consulting others in the medical community, this team decided that the general state of world health was so low that nobody would object to their plan: THEY HAVE DECIDED TO RADICALLY REMOVE THE TUMOR.

The Bush/PNAC team had long been distressed by the Saddam tumor, and now has scrambled to promote its removal. A serious problem in their plans exists because the PNAC team is comprised of charlatans with no medical credentials and with woefully little experience with tumors. Their plan to excise the Saddam tumor allows for no time to explore any of the many other treatment options available. This is to be a quick, aggressive, surgical operation. The Saddam tumor will be removed and the surgical team will be hailed by the patient as its lifesaver and liberator. There are to be no questions, no consultations, - only immediate removal.

The Quandary: The PNAC team is well schooled in areas such as amputations and radical radiation treatment. But they know NOTHING about staffing an operating room. They know NOTHING about pre or post operative care. They refuse to consult with other available medical experts. The Bush/PNAC team claims that they alone know how to treat the patients tumor. And they are willing to operate without help from anyone.

The Alarm: Warnings echoed from around the world. Concerned medical practitioners, patients, and healthy people from everywhere on the planets stood up and screamed STOP! as loudly as they could. Many Americans joined loudly in the protests because they knew enough about basic health care to realize that Bush/PNAC was about to seriously maim the patient on the pretext of removing its tumor.

The American media largely ignored these outcries. Instead,they altered their broadcast schedules by continually reminding the public of their terrorist wounds, and immediately airing the benefits of radical tumor treatments. This was a very contrived, very confusing and misleading campaign. While there were no links between the topics, the media consistently suggested a connection between terror wounds and radical tumor removal. They presented the case for the decision of the Bush/PNAC surgical team, and rallied the nation to patriotic fervor.

The Manipulation: Not surprisingly, the powerful

[CTRL] Israel angered by Swiss sponsorship of Geneva Initiative

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=news_internationalNumber=952703

Oct. 15, 2003

Israel angered by Swiss sponsorship of "Geneva Initiative"

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israel's government is angered by Swiss sponsorship of an unofficial peace plan worked out between former Israeli and Palestinian politicians and veteran peace negotiators, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.

The still-unreleased 50-page document, worked out primarily under the sponsorship of Switzerland, has no official standing, but outlines a solution to generations of conflict and includes a map of a future Palestinian state alongside Israel.

On Wednesday, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled said the government was peeved at the Swiss, who helped fund the effort and hosted participants for talks in Geneva.

"I'm not sure that we are furious with them but we are certainly checking to see what the Swiss involvement is," Peled said. "We will explain to them that agreements and negotiations are conducted between governments and not private individuals."

Funding for what's become known as the "Geneva Initiative" has also come from Britain, Japan, Norway and Sweden. Participants hope to sign the deal in Geneva on Nov. 4, the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by an extremist Jew who opposed his peace moves.

An official at the Swiss Foreign Ministry defended the effort Wednesday.

"Our position is simple; this is a project which originates from the civil societies of both parties," said Paul Fivat, of the ministry's Mideast desk. "This project is in line with the principles of our peace policy and programs ... in which a part is supporting such kinds of private initiatives coming out of civil societies."

The deal, finalized over the weekend at a resort along Jordan's Dead Sea shore, envisions a Palestinian state in 98 percent of the West Bank, all of the Gaza Strip and Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem _ lands Israel captured and occupied in the 1967 Middle East war.

The plan addresses some of the critical issues that have sunk past peace efforts, namely the question of Palestinian war refugees who fled or were forced out of homes inside what is now Israel. The plan gives some 4 million refugees and their descendants three options, but blocks any chance of them resettling in large numbers in Israel.

Refugees could settle in a future Palestinian state or third countries, or be compensated for remaining where they are. Some could go to Israel, but only if Israel agreed to take them.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has given his support to the effort but will not officially endorse it until the Israeli government does, said former Cabinet minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.
On Wednesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said there was no official Palestinian position on the plan yet.

"I am one of those who support any dialogue between the Palestinians and Israeli groups and powers," Qureia added. "We have to encourage the initiative from both sides for dialogue and ties."

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[CTRL] Beast-Men' Cheney, Sharon Plan New, Nuclear Mideast Wars

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://larouchepub.com/pr/2003/031014cheney_mewar.html

Beast-Men' Cheney, Sharon
Plan New, Nuclear Mideast Wars

This release was issued on Oct. 14 by the LaRouche in 2004 political committee.

Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two Democratic Party Presidential candidates certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as qualified for Federal matching funds, issued a strong warning on Oct. 14 that the world is facing a major eruption of war in the Near East in the immediate weeks ahead, unless President Bush can be made to intervene forcefully and publicly, to curb Israel's breakaway-ally regime under Ariel Sharon.

LaRouche said that we have reached a strategic danger-point where, unless "Beast-man" Dick Cheney is dumped from the Bush Administration, and "Beast-man" Sharon is stopped, a new Middle East war is virtually certain between now and some point in November, with the possible new, horrific feature of Israeli use of nuclear weapons against targets inside the territory of Iran. Israel is economically and strategically bankrupt, and hopeless. Sharon is losing ground. Under these circumstances, the mad-dog faction in Israel could use nuclear weapons versus Iran.

LaRouche drew attention to the report, published in the Oct. 12, 2003 Los Angeles Times ("Israel Adds Subs to Its Atomic Ability," by Douglas Frantz), that Israel now has deployed submarines, carrying nuclear-armed Harpoon missiles, able to strike Iran and other regional targets.

LaRouche further warned: The U.S. military has no capability for carrying out any further wars, so long as American forces are tied down in Iraqunless the U.S.A., too, were to resort to the use of nuclear weapons. Thus, if the current, planned Israeli war stunt is not stopped now, we also face the prospectgoing into the pre-U.S.A. election Autumn of 2004of a desperate Cheney-led and chicken-hawk-dominated Bush Administration being tempted to use nuclear weapons against North Korea. At this moment, the neo-conservatives in and around the Bush Administration are pushing for Israel to use nuclear weapons to set the precedent for the later American use of mini-nukes against targets in North Korea. The controllers of this neo-con war-party apparatus need their Sharon asset to do the job, to set off this chain of events.

LaRouche concluded, that an American Presidential crackdown on Sharon is the only near-certain way to stop this Sharon war plan. The danger in the immediate period ahead is that Israel attacks Syria and then Iran, leading to a U.S.A. nuclear attack on North Korea just prior to the 2004 Presidential elections.

Cheney's Steps to War

At the center of this war drive, and the protection of Sharon, is Vice President Dick Cheney, who has recently revived the drive to attack Syria and Iranthrough a Sharon-led Israeli "surrogate war." A timeline of recent events highlights Cheney's role in this mad effort to blow up the Near East:

*In early September 2003, David Wurmser, the primary author of "A Clean Break"the July 1996 scheme to wreck the Oslo Peace Accords, prepared for then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwas transferred from the State Department arms control office, where he was special assistant to John Bolton, to the Office of the Vice President, replacing Eric Edelman, who was named to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. At that point, Cheney revived the targeting of Syria and Lebanon, which had been scotched at the close of the Iraq war in late April, despite feverish efforts at the time by the war party to extend the Iraq war into Syria.

*On Sept. 16, again at Cheney's urging, Bolton was given the green light to testify before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, on Syria's role in terrorism and its illegal WMD program. This testimony had been stopped a month prior, when the CIA produced a 38-page document, disputing many of Bolton's charges against Syria. The day after Bolton's testimony, the same subcommittee heard rabid testimony on Syria and Lebanon from Daniel Pipes and Gen. Michel Aoun, former Lebanese Prime Minister (1988-90) and a prop in the Hudson Institute drive for a war against Syria. The Hudson Institute Mideast project is headed by Meyrav Wurmser, wife of David Wurmser, now of Cheney's staff. She also co-authored "A Clean Break," along with Richard Perle, Charles Fairbanks (Paul Wolfowitz's closest friend and disciple), Douglas Feith and others.

*On Oct. 5, Israel bombed sites inside Syrian territory. While the attacks were ostensibly in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Haifa the day before, the Israeli Cabinet had in fact approved the bombing raids into Syria six weeks earlier. Sharon's announcement of the Syria raids used formulations taken verbatim from President Bush's March 20, 2003 announcement of the launching of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

*Oct. 9, the Bush Administration lifted its opposition to the Syria Accountability and Restoration of Lebanese Sovereignty Acta bill modeled on the Iraq

[CTRL] Of Course Gaza Bombing Was Israeli False-Flag Op

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNewsstoryID=3619241fromEmail=true

Palestinians Dread America's Wrath After Bombing
Wed October 15, 2003 10:41 AM ET
By Nidal al-Mughrabi

JABALYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinians said they feared retribution from the United States after three American security guards were killed in a bomb attack on a U.S. embassy convoy in the Gaza Strip Wednesday. The blast occurred on the edge of the large Jabalya refugee camp near Gaza City, a stronghold for Palestinian militants involved in a three-year-old uprising against Israel for statehood that began after U.S.-brokered peace talks collapsed.

"We wonder what (U.S. President George W.) Bush will do now," lamented Ahmed, a worried resident of Jabalya. "I guess he is mad at us."

The convoy targeted by a roadside bomb was heading to Gaza City where a cultural attache was due to interview Palestinian students hoping to receive scholarships for post-graduate studies in the United States, Palestinian officials said.

"They were coming to do interviews in order to evaluate candidates. I condemn the act completely and I believe all Palestinians are against it and reject it," said Reyad al-Agha, head of Gaza City's al-Azhar University.

"I do not know who was behind this but it certainly aimed ... to undermine and worsen the relationship between Palestinians and Americans," he told Reuters.

Militant groups denied responsibility for the bombing -- a rare attack on foreigners in the uprising -- and it was condemned by Palestinian officials including President Yasser Arafat, who said he had ordered an investigation.

A cord used to detonate the bomb stretched more than 330 feet away from the wreckage of the U.S. Chevrolet jeep toward a factory zone at the edge of the refugee camp.

U.S. 'BIASED' BUT NOT ENEMY FOR MOST PALESTINIANS

"It (the bombing) could have happened by mistake. Maybe the target was Israeli tanks who frequently raid our areas. But we fear the U.S. will react through Israel's army," said Mohammed Mesleh, a municipal worker among onlookers at the bombing scene.

"The attack could have taken place because the United States has gone so far in its bias and support for Israel. America is not silent any more regarding Israeli policies against us, but a supporter of these policies," he said.

Palestinians often accuse the United States of taking Israel's side in the intractable Middle East conflict.

U.S. flags and effigies of Bush are sometimes burned at protests and pictures of Washington's enemies, including former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, have been waved during rallies.

Six U.S. investigators who arrived under Palestinian police escort to examine the scene of the bombing were forced to leave after youths from Jabalya stoned them and their vehicles.

But most Palestinians do not regard Americans as enemies and would not support violence that might alienate them.

In August, Bush said Washington would provide $26 million in urgent assistance to Palestinian refugees in the near future. About 70 percent of the 1.2 million Palestinians packed into the tiny Gaza Strip are war refugees or their descendants.

"It is not ideal to win America's enmity but unfortunately many people all over the world are extremely angry at U.S. policies against the Palestinian people," said tailor Imad Taha.

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[CTRL] The Cost of Empire

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

http://www.amconmag.com/10_06_03/cover.html

The Cost of Empire

President Bushs war policy marks the beginning of the end of Americas era of global dominance.

By Christopher Layne

The administrations U-turn decision to ask for United Nations help in Iraq, and President George W. Bushs request that Congress appropriate $87 billion to fund the occupation and reconstruction of that country send a very clear message: the administrations Iraq policy is a fiasco. And a foreseeable one at that.

U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that American troops occupying Iraq would not be welcomed as liberators but would be resisted. A pre-invasion State Department report warned that the administration had the proverbial snowballs chance of transforming Iraq into a Western-style democracy (a conclusion reinforced by a recent Zogby poll of Iraqis that found only 38 percent of Iraqis favor democracy, while 50 percent believe that democracy is a western way of doing things and it will not work here). Similarly, it was obvious that the administrations go-it-alone hubris, combined with its sledgehammer diplomacy, would chill Washingtons relations with the other major powers and trigger a worldwide backlash of hostility toward the United States.

Thosehere and abroadwho opposed Washingtons reckless march to war can say we told you so. But that is not the point. More than that, it is necessary to step back from day-to-day events and place the Iraq war in the context of its longer-term significance for the United States. A good place to start is by asking why the administration embarked on war while ignoring widespreadand accuratepredictions that even a successful military campaign could lead to postwar disaster. In other words, what were the administrations war aims?

We know what they were not. Iraq was not an imminent threat to the security of the Middle East and Persian Gulf. (Did anyone say weapons of mass destruction?) Andthe administrations manipulation of public opinion notwithstandingSaddam Hussein was not involved in Sept. 11 and was not in bed with al-Qaeda. But, as both U.S. and British intelligence warned, by going to war with Iraq, the administration has created a terrorist threat where none existed previously, making the U.S. less, not more, secure than it would have been had we not invaded Iraq.

The real reason the administration went to war had nothing to do with terrorism. Indeed, many of the administrations architects of illusionPaul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle, among othersput Iraq squarely in their geopolitical crosshairs while they were out of power during the 1990s. The administration went to war in Iraq to consolidate Americas global hegemony and to extend U.S. dominance to the Middle East by establishing a permanent military stronghold in Iraq for the purposes of controlling the Middle Eastern oil spigot (thereby giving Washington enormous leverage in its relations with Western Europe and China); allowing Washington to distance itself from an increasingly unreliable and unstable Saudi Arabia; and using the shadow of U.S. military power to bring about additional regime changes in Iran and Syria.

It is fashionable to say that 9/11and the subsequent war with Iraq changed everything. But this is not true. Before Sept. 11 the biggest debate among students of international politics and analysts of U.S. foreign policy was about American hegemony. Re-christened as a debate about the wisdom of American empire, it still is. The big fault line in this debate is over which of two theoriesyes, academic theories about international relations really do reflect and influence real-world policyabout how states can best attain security for themselves in the competitive arena of world politics is correct.

Offensive realism holds that the best way for a state to gain security is to amass overwhelming powerthat is, by becoming a hegemon. In plain English, being a hegemon means being like Leroy Brownbadder than old King Kong and meaner than a junkyard dog. A hegemon can use its power to eliminate rivalsby conquering them, co-opting them, or intimidating themand seek to create a congenial world order that reflects its own ideology, values, and preferences. Since World War II, offensive realism has undergirded American grand strategy, although the current administrations policy is offensive realism on steroids. If the Duchess of Windsor had been an administration strategist she would have said that the U.S. can never be too rich, too powerfulor too well-armed or too willing to employ force against its adversaries.

Hegemony is a superficially appealing grand strategy. After all, if power counts in international politicsand every realist knows it counts big timethen it seemingly makes sense for the U.S. to grab as much power as possible.

Traditional realists like Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, and Walter Lippman reject the logic of

[CTRL] A Day In The Life Of The Empire...

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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October 15, 2003
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE EMPIRE
And it isn't pretty.

Remember Ali Abbas, the cute little tyke whose arms were blown off by his American "liberators"? He's calling down vengeance on the heads of his tormentors:

"Ali Abbas, the 13-year-old boy who lost both his arms and much of his family in the bombing of Iraq, says he hopes the pilot responsible will be 'burned as I am burned.' Images of Ali crying in pain in a Baghdad hospital drew international attention. British doctors have since fitted him with artificial arms.

"'I keep asking myself why they are bombing Iraqi people. What have we done to them?' said Ali in a television interview due to be broadcast last night. 'I hoped the pilot who hit our house would be burned as I am burned and my family were burned.'"

An eye for an eye is a moral principle not limited to the Judeo-Christian tradition. And he knows who his real enemies are:

"The youngster criticized Britain for its part in the war. 'When I was in the hospital [Britons] sent me letters, but they still helped the Americans,' he said."

How many little Alis are we breeding in Iraq? Will they one day wreak their vengeance in acts of terror yet undreamed of?

Ali's revenge is just a matter of time, and, if we interpret "the pilot" responsible for his mutilation in a metaphorical or symbolic sense, then we don't have long to wait. Because the President of the United States is getting burned in Iraq every day, along with the military forces he commands, by those geniuses over at the American Enterprise Institute, and their neocon amen corner in the administration, who told him that American troops would be greeted as "liberators," that it would be a "cakewalk," and that the entry of our troops into Baghdad was like the march into Paris in the summer of 1944.

Then why are the Iraqis responding as if it's the summer of 1940 and they're the French Resistance?

Let's look at a typical day in the life of this empire we've suddenly acquired, October 14, 2003, and see if that's what we want to be doing for the next fifty or so years.

A car bomb went off outside the Turkish Embassy, killing two and injuring at least a dozen, the day after Turkey's parliament voted to send "peacekeepers" to Iraq. It was the third such attack in a week. The proposed deployment of 10,000 Turkish troops in Iraq couldn't have provoked the Iraqis more if it had been designed to: even the U.S.-appointed "Iraqi Governing Council" opposes this crazed idea. All Iraqi ethnic groups, but for the Turkmen, are united in their opposition to Turkish troops as occupiers, but the Kurds are particularly perturbed, and with good reason: Ankara's war on the Kurds inside Turkey is a longstanding atrocity, one that has been ignored in the West except insofar as it involved Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi dictator and the Turkish military, objectively acting in tandem, kept the Kurds in check as long as the Ba'athist regime lasted. But the U.S. invasion has tipped the balance of power in favor of the Kurds and the Turks, facing an ongoing Kurdish insurgency within their own borders, want to tip it the other way. The Americans, like the Romans, now turn to mercenaries to police their empire.

Modern Turkey has long harbored expansionist designs, and the "transformation" of the Middle East by U.S. policymakers has given Ankara an opening. The "Pan-Turkic" ideology of the 1908 revolution, led by the legendary Ataturk (a.k.a. Mustapha Kemal), was based on a radical irredentism that envisioned the restoration of Turkish rule in the Caucasus, the Crimea, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Siberia, Turkestan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan and, on the European side of the Bosporus: Bulgaria, Western Thrace, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, and the Aegean islands. This expansionist tendency was held in abeyance, prior to the invasion, but could be potentially unleashed by Turkey's willingness to take casualties in place of the Americans.

The invasion of Iraq had to mean its disintegration as a nation: it was only the Ba'athist ideology of Iraqi nationalism that kept the country together. In addition to the Turkish incursion, and its explosive consequences, this was a day that saw a major outbreak of fighting between rival Shi'ite factions in Karbala, where followers of Muqtada al-Sadr took over the shrine of Imam al-Hussein from fighters loyal to Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussein al-Sistani. Casualty figures are rapidly changing, but at least 10 were killed, according to reports, and more than a dozen wounded.

In a separate incident, an American soldier of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was found dead Monday night in the Euphrates River near Hadithah: the cause of death is unclear.

Reports are also just now coming in of 7 attacks over the weekend and into Monday, in which 3 U.S. soldiers were killed and 11 others wounded. And in other news, we learn that Iraq's oil minister,

[CTRL] Who Is MSNBC Anchor Joe Scarborough?

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.larryflynt.com/articles/scarborough.html

Who Is MSNBC Anchor Joe Scarborough?

While the media was obsessed with Chandra Levy, another congressional staffer was found dead in then-representative and current MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough's office. Unlike Gary Condit, Scarborough got a free ride from the press.

Report by Denis Wright

In the morning of July 20, 2001, the body of Lori Klausutis, who had worked as an aide to Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough for approximately two years, was found in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office.

There were no witnesses to Klausutis's death.

According to Anna Dobbins, a producer at WEAR-TV, Joe was on the phone with the local ABC affiliate in Pensacola within three hours of the discovery of the body, and before the family was notified, to say that "a young woman had died in his office and that she had a complicated medical history, specifically surrounding 'stroke and epilepsy.'"

The congressman and his advisor, Mick Serrano, made similar calls to two other local media outlets within hours of the body's discovery.

According to Dobbins and others, about a week later, after the Klausutis family wrote an excoriating letter to a local paper, Serrano called back to ask that they stop reporting the "complicated health history."

Joe, they were now correctly told, had spoken in error.

Klausutis-a marathon runner, 28 years old and happily married-had been in great shape. Her "complicated health" began only on the night that she died, and its "history" surfaced primarily because of Joe's misinformation.

The nebulous circumstances surrounding Klausutis's death were further compounded during her body's postmortem exam. Michael Berkland, the medical examiner assigned to perform the autopsy, quickly released a statement to the press indicating that there were no signs of trauma to the body or any indication of foul play. Later, however, he admitted the body had "a scratch and a bruise."

Berkland, it must be noted, has a less than professional record. He was fired from his position as medical examiner in Missouri for making false statements and eventually lost the right to practice medicine in that state (see sidebar). Still, Berkland concluded in the final autopsy report that Klausutis's heart had failed. Moreover, by failing to officially close the investigation, long after they had ceased to interview witnesses, the police prevented the public from learning any facts about Klausutis's death.

Only when the autopsy report was released (and that occurred only because the editor in chief of the Northwest Florida Daily News Ralph Routon's editorial demanded its issuance) did those willing to exercise their rights under Florida's Sunshine Law learn the extent of Lori's injuries.

The autopsy report revealed that Lori had suffered two skull fractures and an additional wound. A 71/4-inch crack all but spanned the top of her head, from right temple to left.

As a likely consequence of that blow, blood poured in from a steadily pumping heart to form a fist-sized hematoma at the left temple. There were separate 11/2-inch eggshell fractures, essentially pulverizing the bone, deep inside the skull behind the right ear. The back of her head was bashed, and her lungs were filled with bloody foam, suggesting that she took a relatively long time to die.

In the final autopsy report, Berkland wrote off all those devastating injuries to heart failure. According to Berkland, Klausutis had fainted from a weak heart and hit her head on the desk, an unlikely scenario considering the massive damage to the victim's skull.

Showing an incredible lack of professionalism, the local press swallowed this story whole, even the seeming contradiction about a failing heart having been capable of pumping more than a half cup of blood to form the hematoma. Medical science suggests that, if Klausutis's heart was so weak that it failed to pump enough blood to her brain to maintain consciousness, that same heart would not pump enough blood to form the hematoma.

With Berkland's confusing-and medically improbable-scenario securely within the official case file, the case was closed. No more questions. No more answers.

Democratic Congressman Gary Condit wasn't so lucky. Chandra Levy was last seen April 30, 2001, less than three months before Klausutis's death. Thousands of stories appeared all over the world about Condit's missing intern. When facts were in short supply, the media unashamedly engaged in rampant speculation. For instance, constantly searching for a new angle to the story, Fox News even interviewed a psychic to learn what happened to Levy.

Condit became the most sought-after interview subject since Monica Lewinsky. Connie Chung beat out Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Dan Rather and others for the much-coveted "get," and on August 23, 2001, a little more than a month after Klausutis's death, ABC's Prime Time Live aired the

[CTRL] Controlling the News. Part 21

2003-10-15 Thread William Shannon

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Controlling the News. Part 21

In-House Memos on Television And Print Media News PresentationsTo see prior Installments of "Controlling the News" click here

During the middle of March, 2003, tbrnews received an email from a man who claimed to be a mid-level executive with a major American television network. He stated in this, and subsequent, emails that he was in possession of thousands of pages of in-house memos sent from his corporate headquarters in New York City to the head of the networks television news department. He went on to say that these memos set forth directives about what material was, and was not, to be aired on the various outlets of the network.

This individual claimed he was developing serious doubts about the strict control of media events and decided that he would pass this material along to someone who might make use of it.

There was the question of his job security. If someone published his name, it would be certain he was not only fired but blackballed throughout his profession.

If tbrnews.org would agree to protect his identity, he would send us these alleged thousands of pages of notes, going back to 2001.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating so we accepted his caveats and he then sent to us by disk the pages he spoke of. All are on corporate stationary, signed or initialed by the senders and again, signed or initialed by the recipients in the news division.

It was always possible that this material consisted of a very involved hoax or was something designed for the news site to use and then have it revealed that it was not original. It would not be the first time that spurious disinformation had been sent to us in the hopes that it would be used.

There were not thousands of pages of memos but a total of 1,497 separate pages involved. Many of them consisted of short memos while others ran to a larger format.

Naturally, someone could easily have obtained correct in-house network letterheads, made copies of them and prepared false memoranda but the sheer size and depth of the collection was impressive.

If these memos were true, they showed with a terrible clarity that at least one part of the American mass media was strictly controlled and that the news was so doctored and spun that it might as well be official news releases from the White House and Pentagon.

The best way in which to ascertain whether or not these documents contained original information was to check the dates of issuance and compare the information with subsequent news stories.

This was a terrible, time-consuming chore but by selecting random memos and looking through the archives of various national newspapers, checking AP releases and so on, the results indicated that indeed, news was being managed.

However, it was also possible that someone else did this and was preparing these after the fact and making the memos conform to published material.

That having been said, we insisted on absolutely current memos so that we could then check these against future publications. If, for example, a corporate fiat was to show certain pictures or spin a story in a certain way, it would be relatively simple to simply read the press or watch television news to see if these suggestions were implemented.

It was both shocking and gratifying to note that this proved to be the case in a preponderance of cases and so we began to put these up, either in toto or, more often, in excerpt and watch as ordained news was created before our eyes.

When a corporate order states, for instance, that certain pictures should be shown with accompanying commentary and the memo predates a published story by a week or more, then it is more than likely that the memos are not inspired guesswork but genuine.

When tbrnews put up the first two pages, there were two basic forms of public response. One was to thank us for exposing something many people believed; that the American media was controlled and not free. (That much can easily be ascertained by reading the websites of various reputable foreign publications such as the Swiss NZZ, the British Guardian, the Canadian Toronto Globe and Mail, Reuters News Service, AFP and the Jerusalem Post. What any viewer can see on these sites is certainly not reflected in the American media.)

The second response consisted of irate, and literate, statements to the effect that all of these items were just stupid hoaxes and should not be believed. I believe, one writer who claimed to be a Professor of Journalism at an Ivy League college said, these are just disinformation designed to discredit American journalists whose reputation for honesty and integrity is certainly beyond question. You are performing a great disservice in repeating these politically-motivated fictions

This is certainly a true statement because if it became generally accepted that the American media was only a mechanical parrot for various political

[CTRL] Fake Good News From Iraq

2003-10-13 Thread William Shannon

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October 13, 2003
FAKE 'GOOD NEWS' FROM IRAQ
War Party using the troops for propaganda

The lying cretins who gave us the Iraq war aren't content that our soldiers are sitting ducks for terrorists throughout the Middle East now they're using them as props in a propaganda campaign designed to convince the American people that "progress" is being made. As the [Washington] Olympian reports:

"Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours.

"And all the letters are the same.

"A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as 'The Rock,' in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash."

Just a few minutes of googling brings forth at least two identical letters attributed to two different soldiers: Oh, and here's another. Gannett News counts at least 11. Capitol Hill Blue reports "some say they were ordered by their superiors to sign their names."

According to the phony letter, everything is hunky-dory over in "liberated" Iraq:

"Kirkuk is a hot and dusty city of just over a million people. The majority of the city has welcomed our presence with open arms. After nearly five months here, the people still come running from their homes into the 110-degree heat, waving to us as our troops drive by on daily patrols of the city. "

It figures that these fake letters appeared in newspapers just as relatively trouble-free Kirkuk appears to be going off the deep end, along with the entire northern part of the country. Is this the kind of war propaganda we're paying for? I demand a congressional investigation! Why don't they hire Glenn Reynolds if they already haven't, that is. Here is the Pontifcating Professor as he tries to explain that the bogus letter isn't a bogus letter, you see, because it's a "form letter." Only a law professor could argue that so labeling it ameliorates the essential fraud of misrepresenting both the author and his intent.

Clearly, those who did agree to sign (when asked to do so by their military superiors) had no idea that their names would soon be in print. When one proud father congratulated his son on getting a letter published in the local newspaper, the soldier said: "What letter?"

The Official Story is that some anonymous GI wrote the letter, the military public relations team had nothing to do with it, the high command had nothing to do with it, and somebody nobody knows who mailed it out to all the hometown papers of the unit. Whoever did it had access to the soldiers' records, because in at least one case a letter was sent to the Olympian, published in Washington state, when the soldier and his family had long since moved to Idaho.

Aside from that, however, there is the problem of implied coercion. As reported on Capitol Hill Blue:

"One soldier, who asked not to be identified, said he was reluctant to sign the letter because he did not agree with the comments in the letter but said he was ordered by a superior officer to sign. 'When I'm given an order, I obey it,' he said."

The Olympian quotes Sgt. Christopher Shelton, signer of a letter that was published in the Snohomish Herald, saying "his platoon sergeant had distributed the letter and asked soldiers for the names of their hometown newspapers. Soldiers were asked to sign the letter if they agreed with it."

Shelton, it appears, did agree with it, but can anyone honestly imagine a soldier refusing to sign it when asked to do so by a superior officer?

It isn't enough that our soldiers are being put in harm's way in an increasingly ugly and pointless war: now they are being used as political pawns, forced to lie on behalf of the Liar-in-chief and his fellow fibbers in the War Party.

The story that this was a spontaneous campaign initiated by an anonymous soldier just doesn't wash. This has all the earmarks of a more than typically clumsy effort by some government agency or other to fight the "war on terrorism" on the home front. As such, it underscores the character of those who lied about the real reasons we went into Iraq, and are lying as hard as they can, as often as they can, to keep us there.

I suppose there are some good aspects of the U.S. invasion and conquest of Iraq. Someone in Iraq, somehow if only by accident is going to benefit from the infusion of all that money. And we are not just talking about material benefits. the proliferation of newly-minted Iraqi newspapers is proof enough of that.

The great irony, however, is that the Coalition "Provisional" Authority is unsettled by all this ideological diversity, and has responded by banning two television outlets, including Al Jazeera, and a number of newspapers, for "incitement." An even greater irony is that we, the American people, derive no benefits from this

[CTRL] Israel adds nukes to subs

2003-10-11 Thread William Shannon

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7EDA0264-4E09-4A4E-A1F2-7EA5AA084294.htm

Report: Israel adds nukes to subs

Saturday 11 October 2003, 19:11 Makka Time, 16:11 GMT

Israel has modified US-made cruise missiles to carry nuclear warheads on submarines, giving it the ability to launch atomic weapons from land, air or sea.

These are the shock revelations released in a report according to the Los Angeles Times which published details about Israel's new capability on Saturday.

The missile modification was described by two US officials and confirmed by an Israeli official, the Times said. All three spoke on condition of anonymity.

"The Americans said they were disclosing the information to caution Israel's enemies at a time of heightened tensions in the region and concern over Iran's alleged ambitions," the Times said.

Complicate efforts

"We tolerate nuclear weapons in Israel for the same reason we tolerate them in Britain and France," a senior US official was quoted as saying. "We don't regard Israel as a threat."

Israel's newly acquired submarine capability will complicate efforts to persuade Iran to abandon a suspected nuclear weapons programme, the Times said.

Arab countries have criticised the United States and United Nations for pressuring Iran to accept tougher inspections while ignoring Israel's stockpile.

"A big source of contention is Israel," said a senior UN official trying to convince Iran to undergo additional inspections. "This is a magnet for other countries to develop nuclear weapons."

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[CTRL] Middle Finger News - Hellish Holograms

2003-10-11 Thread William Shannon

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Middle Finger News - Hellish Holograms
Sticking It To The Poobahs

News Hot Enough To Fry Eggs
By Sherman H. Skolnick and Lenny Bloom

SkolnicksReport.com

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10-11-3

In the view of some, we are living in a time of vast deception. In America, we have had, they say, a fictitious Presidential Election. And add, we have a fictitious President, occupant and resident of the White House. And in the name of common Americans, there is being perpetrated on the people of Iraq, some explain, a terrible Sin, slaughtering them while claiming we are there to bomb them into Imperialistic "Democracy".

Those who distrust the purveyors of the standard-flavor News, have prepared the ultimate catalogue of their objections.

[1] Ghosts have been played out on our eyes and ears. Favorite fabricators of Facts have led us to believe that our charming leaders have been each done in by lone assassins, Society's sickies. Thus blown away have been real U.S. money advocate President John F. Kennedy; drum major for Justice Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, itching to revenge the murder of his brother; just to name a few.

According to the great deceivers, JFK was snuffed out by a magic bullet, dubbed as whitewash Exhibit 399. Circling history, if not the earth, endlessly (thanks to murder-fixer Senator Arlen Specter, R., Pa., he of the Warren Commission), it is blamed by supposed malcontents for snuffing out various doomed eyewitnesses of political murders.

[2] Happenings and personages are entirely fictitious, so some say. According to sarcastic sorts, we have had the previously mentioned fictitious Presidential Election, leading to the selection of a fictitious U.S. Chief Executive. This, done by a 5-Judge Military-Style Junta on the High Court, and this tied, as well, to top-level federal judges in Chicago.

In short, a corrupt phantom of Justice, bought and paid for by the great forgeries and perjuries of Judicial Law. Does anyone want to know that entangled in all this is the monstrous bubble and soda machine, Coca-Cola Company, seller of a reputedly cocaine-laced drink devoid of human nutrition. Some doctors use the secret Coca-Cola base to treat stomach ailments (and to remedy their ailing wallets as well). The kick in Coke is from the processing of vast amounts of imported coca leaves, a by-product being the infamous white powder.

And, some in law enforcement ask (or already know?) how much cocaine is really "Made in the U.S.A." and "leaked out" to non-legal channels, rather than, as the newsfakers say, smuggled in from overseas?

[3] Rejecting the liars and whores of the Press, some point to 9-11. Outlining all the cover-ups and discrepancies, the critics say we have been the unwitting audience for a tremendous well-planned magic show. How did the twin World Trade Center towers pulverize so quickly? Why was there, that day, a Military stand-down? Why and how did WTC Building 7 get neatly cored out, like an apple, later that day? What really hit the Pentagon, conveniently missing the offices of the war-mongering Secretary of Defense?

[4] To generalize and simplify this, some stretch out their mental vistas. They remind us that the U.S. War Committee, as to high technology, is usually ten to twenty years ahead of where the common folks believe or understand. So, some say the White House is really not there. And to understand, that the members of the Skull Bastards Society, the evil brains and satanic cultists, created at Yale University, have some unlabled, secret method, superior to laser, particle beam, or whatever, that is able from the ground and/or from satellites, to create or project apparitions. Such as the following:

===That George W. Bush is a phantom, part of a team of the homosexual underground including a southern state sizeable city Mayor who travels with Bush and is Bush's male-sex-mate; a former northern state Governor, reputed Florida election corrupter; a long-time prominent journalist, outing the family member of a White House critic; and a reputed Nazi-family White House advisor and demon, that is, a Rasputin, with grab-you eyes like that of the current Moscow resident Putin, an outgrowth of the Soviet Secret Political Police.

Life and History would, indeed, be clear and simple, if all of the foregoing were just Lucifer's Holograms, projected onto buildings, clouds, and whatever, by the crazies of the Aristocracy.

[CTRL] Fwd: Secret History of Israeli WMD

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Oct. 11, 2003 (Supplement)

THE SECRET HISTORY OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD) IN THE MIDDLE 
EAST AND THE ZIONISTS WHO MONOPOLIZE THEM

Editor's Note: As befits God's Holiest People on earth, the Israelis are 
permitted a Middle Eastern monopoly on WMD by the Great White Father in 
Washington, D.C., for the simple reason that, only in the hands of the 
Holy people are nuclear weapons rendered holy, as Bomb-fathers Andrei 
Sakharov, Albert Einstein, Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer could 
attest. 

Here, in a ground-breaking investigative report from the Los Angeles 
Times, is the history and extent of the nuclear weapons which Iraqi and 
Syrian Arabs, and Iranian Muslims are too sinful and backward to be 
allowed to possess. 

Dravidian-Dalet Pakistan's nuclear capability is an anomaly over which 
the Israelis are helping Aryan-Brahmin India gain a decisive advantage, 
most recently by selling India $1 billion worth of state-of-the-art 
aerial surveillance technology, further fueling an apocalyptic east 
Asian arms race by altering the military balance between the two 
belligerent states in favor of India.

It is little wonder that the French have such a guilty conscience 
nowadays over the march of Israeli-directed American imperialism, since, 
as the Times report demonstrates, the French government was instrumental 
in helping the Israelis obtain their nuclear monopoly in the first 
place.

Researcher's note: The L.A. Times article is post-dated Oct. 12 because 
some metropolitan newspapers publish portions of their Sundays editions 
online the day before. Hoffman Wire readers on the west coast may wish 
to alert friends and neighbors who are not online to the contents of 
tomorrow's hard copy edition].

Israel Adds Subs to Its Atomic Ability 

Officials confirm that the nation can now launch nuclear weapons from 
land, sea and air. The issue complicates efforts to rein in Iran. 

By Douglas Frantz 
Los Angeles Times | October 12, 2003
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iznukes12oct12.story
 
TEL AVIV --   Israel has modified American-supplied cruise missiles to 
carry nuclear warheads on submarines, giving the Middle East's only 
nuclear power the ability to launch atomic weapons from land, air and 
beneath the sea, according to senior Bush administration and Israeli 
officials. 

The previously undisclosed submarine capability bolsters Israel's 
deterrence in the event that Iran Ñ an avowed enemy Ñ develops nuclear 
weapons. It also complicates efforts by the United States and the United 
Nations to persuade Iran to abandon its suspected nuclear weapons 
program. 

Two Bush administration officials described the missile modification and 
an Israeli official confirmed it. All three spoke on condition their 
names not be used. 

The Americans said they were disclosing the information to caution 
Israel's enemies at a time of heightened tensions in the region and 
concern over Iran's alleged ambitions. 

Iran denies developing nuclear weapons and says its nuclear program is 
solely for generating electricity. Iranian leaders are resisting more 
intrusive inspections by the United Nations, setting the stage for a 
showdown in coming weeks. The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency 
has given Tehran an Oct. 31 deadline to accept full inspections and 
prove it has no nuclear arms program. 

Arab diplomats and U.N. officials said Israel's steady enhancement of 
its secret nuclear arsenal, and U.S. silence about it, has increased the 
desire of Arab states for similar weapons. 

The presence of a nuclear program in the

[CTRL] Cheney, Rummy Help Cover-Up CIA Scientist's Murder.

2003-10-11 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1148

Cheney, Rumsfeld Help Coverup CIA Scientist's Murder
Gordon Thomas - Globe-Intel 23 August, 2002

The following report may be more than a year old, and and refer to an event fifty years ago, but it throws interesting new light current affairs. Largely ignored by the mainstream media, what follows explores the murky past of two key members of the Bush administration, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Ed.

Secret documents have revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld are "linked to the murder" of a former senior CIA scientist.

In 1953 Frank Olson, who was a key member of the CIAs secret brainwashing programme MK-ULTRA, was sent plunging from a New York hotel window.

He had threatened to reveal the CIA involvement in "terminal experiments" in post-war Germany and in Korea during the Korean War.

For almost half a century his son, Eric, a psychologist, has insisted his father was murdered "on orders from the highest level".

Now a California history professor, Kathryn Olmstead, revealed she had discovered at the Gerald Ford library documents written by Cheney and Rumsfeld at the time of Frank Olsons death.

They show how far the White House went to conceal information about Olsons death - and his role in preparing anthrax and other biological weapons. Part of his work had been at Britains Porton Down Chemical-Bio Research Centre.

Cheney and Rumsfeld were given the task of covering up the details of Frank Olsons death. At the time, Rumsfeld was White House Chief of Staff to President Gerald Ford. Dick Cheney was a senior White House assistant.

The documents uncovered by Professor Olmstead include one that states "Dr Olsons job was so sensitive that it is highly unlikely that we would submit relevant evidence".

In another memo, Cheney acknowledges that "the Olson lawyers will seek to explore all the circumstances of Dr Olsons employment, as well as those concerning his death. In any trial, it may become apparent that we are concealing evidence for national security reasons and any settlement or judgement reached thereafter could be perceived as money paid to cover up the activities of the CIA".

Frank Olsons family received US $750,000 to settle their claims against the US government.

But Professor Olmsteads revelations will almost certainly bring further embarrassment to Rumsfeld and Cheney as the persistent fallout from the FBIs investigation into the anthrax mailings last year, which lead to five deaths in America, continues to escalate.

Both the offices of Rumsfeld and Cheney have declined comment on their role in the murder of Frank Olson.

But from his home outside Washington, Eric Olson said that the documents involving Rumsfeld and Cheney show they "have questions to answer".

He added: "The documents show the lengths to which the government was trying to cover up the truth. For decades there was a cover up. And then, under the guise of revealing everything, there was a new cover up."

But a CIA spokesman, Paul Nowack, insisted that the CIA had "fully cooperated in allowing the full truth to surface. Tens of thousands of documents were released".

Eric Olson has contended that his father was murdered to cover up his ultra-secret research in Korea and later in Europe and Britain.

"My father was among scientists studying the use of LSD and other drugs to enhance interrogations, as Cold War tensions ran high, and Americans feared that captured soldiers had been brainwashed in Korea. My father had gone to Europe, where he observed the interrogation of former Nazis and Soviet citizens at a secret US base", said Eric Olson.

He contends that in the final days of his life, his father became "morally distraught" over his work and decided to quit. Records show that CIA officials were concerned that he was a security risk. Eric Olson believes that the thought of Frank Olson quitting was a motive for the government to want him dead.

"In 1993, Eric Olson arranged for his father's body to be unearthed and examined by a forensic scientist, James Starrs. Starrs concluded that Frank Olson had probably been struck on the head and then thrown out of the hotel window," writes Frederick Tulsky in the Mercury News.

Starrs' conclusion is one of the tantalizing pieces that Eric Olson has gathered to support his belief that his father was murdered.

In late November 1953, Frank Olson, then 43, joined a group of government officials at a conference at Deep Creek Lodge in western Maryland. For days afterward, Olson was withdrawn. His son, Eric, says his father told his wife that he intended to quit his job.

But Frank Olson did not quit. And on November 23 he went to New York with another government official, where he twice visited Harold A Abramson, a doctor who was one of the first researchers to study the effects of LSD.

Olson returned to Washington, then went back to New York on November 28

[CTRL] Rumsfeld's $9 Billion Slush Fund

2003-10-11 Thread William Shannon

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089674/#ContinueArticle



Rumsfeld's $9 Billion Slush Fund
By FredKaplan
Posted Friday, October 10, 2003, at 2:42 PM PT 


For all the debate over President Bush's $87 billion supplemental request for military operations and economic reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, no one seems to have noticed that the sum includes a slush fund of at least $9.3 billion, which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld can spend pretty much as he pleases.

Last week, the congressional armed services committeesand this week the House Appropriations Committeemarked up the supplemental, excising a few hundred million that Bush had requested for new hospitals, housing, and sanitation. But the committees didn't touch a nickel of the slush fundand there's a cravenly wink-and-nudge reason why they didn't.

Most of the supplemental request is fairly straightforward: $32 billion to maintain the tempo of military operations, $18 billion for military personnel, $5.1 billion for security and a new Iraqi army, $5.7 billion for electrical power, and so forth.

But deep within, the document proposes the following allowance:


Not less than $1.4 billion, to remain available until expended, may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for payments to reimburse Pakistan, Jordan, and other key cooperating nations, for logistics, military and other support provided, or to be provided, to United States military operations.



First, look closely at those first three words: Not less than. In other words, Rumsfeld could transfer more than $1.4 billion for this purposehow much more, who can say? The section goes on to say that Rumsfeld must notify the appropriate congressional committees whenever he uses any of this money, and that the payments must be made with the concurrence of the secretary of state. But otherwise, the bill emphasizes that he alone determines how to spend this money "and such determination is final and conclusive."

Another section, subtitled the "Iraq Freedom Fund," states that the secretary of defense can transfer $1,988,600,000 from one part of the overall $87 billion supplemental to any other part, again, as long as he notifies the committees when he does this. (As with the previous allowance, the committees appear to have no power to disapprove these transfers.)

Still another section reads:

Upon his determination that such action is necessary in the national interest, the Secretary of Defense may transfer between appropriations up to $5 billion of the funds made available in this title.

Again, he "shall notify the Congress promptly of each transfer."

Another section gives Rumsfeld authority to "transfer not more than $500 million of the funds appropriated in this title to the contingency construction account  to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law." So much for pulling in the reins on Halliburton and Bechtel.

Then there is this section:

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from funds available to the Department of Defense for Operations and Maintenance in fiscal year 2004, not to exceed $200 million may be used by the Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to provide assistance to military forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other friendly nearby regional nations to enhance their capability to combat terrorism and to support U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Egregious syntax makes this one a little hard to follow, but maybe that's because the leeway it allows is quite a bit broader than in the other sections. It gives Rumsfeld the power not merely to transfer funds within the $87 billion, but to transfer up to $200 million from the Pentagon's entire operations and maintenance budgetin other words, from programs that have nothing to do with Iraq, Afghanistan, or terrorism.

Finally, the president has a little slush fund, too. One section notes that he may transfer "any appropriation made available in this title," as long as it does "not exceed $200 million."

Add them all up: $9.3 billion11 percent of the entire, already-controversial sum (and that doesn't include the expandable loophole provided by the "not less than" clause).
There is no overlap or double-counting in this calculation. Each of these separate sections explicitly notes, "The transfer authority provided in this section is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense" (italics added), or words to that effect.

In the supplemental document, the Pentagon offered explanations for these loopholes. Transfer accounts are "necessary due to the dynamic nature of these operations," or "to provide the flexibility needed to allocate funding to those components that are actually incurring costs," or "to help the Department address the unpredictable scope, duration, and intensity of these military operations."

Certainly postwar Iraq and Afghanistan are a lot more unpredictable than, well, the

[CTRL] Arnold: The Rothschilds' Man in California

2003-10-10 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=2contentid=961

Arnold: The Rothschilds' Man in California
by URI DOWBENKO

The Bush Cabal has lusted after California for a long time. And now with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor, they have finally realized their goal: to capture California, the world's 10th largest economy. Even "presidential advisor" Karl Rove signed off on it.

Most importantly, Arnold has been sanctioned by the Olympians. The European Families have authorized the deal and their American cousins at the Bohemian Grove seconded the motion to install Arnold as Governor. On Sept. 24, 2002, Reuters published a story called 'Buffett's Back, with the Terminator' about Arnold and billionaire Warren Buffett visiting the ancestral home of the Rothschilds in England, where they "stepped onto Waddesdon's freshly cut lawn to be greeted by Lord Jacob Rothschild... Among those invited to Waddesdon Manor were the likes of James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, Jorma Ollila, chief executive of Nokia and De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer."

Next Sen. Orrin Hatch wants to end the prohibition against foreign-born citizens like Arnold Schwarzenegger from becoming president.

The Republican-Nazi circle would then be complete.

Arnold was also named to be the next governor by the Mega-Business-Government power brokers at Bohemian Grove, the Northern California "retreat," where deals are made and candidates are confirmed.

The San Francisco Chronicle (July 23, 2003) wrote, "All eyes will be on the California secretary of state's office today for the big recall count -- but the real plays are going well behind the scenes. The Republican hierarchy -- especially those close to former Gov. Pete Wilson -- would favor Schwarzenegger. At least that's the word that came out of the Bohemian Grove this past weekend, where a number of state and national GOPers, including presidential adviser Karl Rove, happened to have gathered at a club getaway. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/23/BA253080.DTL

Months later, former Secretary of State George Shultz and Warren Buffett came on board as Arnold's "advisors."

Next will be removing constitutional limitations on the foreign born for US "President."

"Sen. Orrin Hatch wants to terminate the constitutional prohibition against foreign-born citizens such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and others from becoming president," an AP story by Robert Gehrke begins. "Article II of the Constitution says that, 'No Person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president.'"

"Hatch is seeking to amend the Constitution to remove the ban, allowing anyone who has been a citizen of the United States for two decades to run for the country's highest office."

"'This restriction has become an anachronism that is decidedly un-American,' Hatch, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one-time presidential candidate, said when he introduced the change last week."

The entire Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights is an anachronism for crypto-fascist Orrin Hatch, the Bush Cabalist who is working hard to deliver a New American Empire.

*** Uri Dowbenko is a media analyst and the author of "Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy" -- not to be confused with that leftover left-winger Molly Ivin's book of the same name. "Bushwhacked" by Dowbenko is available in Borders and Barnes Noble stores nationwide. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[CTRL] US War Propaganda Is Pathetic

2003-10-10 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html

October 10, 2003
US WAR PROPAGANDA IS PATHETIC
Your government at work: Iraq war PR campaign a flop before it begins

The U.S. government is launching a public relations blitz designed to show the American people that they shouldn't believe the evidence right in front of their eyes, because our success (or lack of it) in Iraq is all in how you look at it. The President has complained that the "good news" about Iraq has been blocked by the "filter" of a hostile news media, as MSNBC reports: "Bush said he was concerned that 'perceptions' didn't reflect the reality of 'progress' in Iraq."

Meanwhile, in Iraq, another suicide bombing blasted a Baghdad police station, killing 8 Iraqis; a Spanish military attach was assassinated by three Iraqis, one of whom was dressed as a Shi'ite cleric, and we suffered our 92nd American casualty since "victory" was declared.

Who do you believe, asks Bush: me, or your own lyin' eyes?

According to the President's epistemology, it's all a matter of "perception." There is no objective reality: just spin. That is a politician's mindset, one that the chief executive of the most powerful nation on earth might prove particularly prone to. Us ordinary people, however, are governed by different rules.

To the weekend warriors of the National Guard and other reserve units, there is no way to spin their extended deployments. Are the casualties, and the horrific numbers of wounded, a matter of "perception"? Try telling that to their families, Mr. President.

Bush complains about a "media filter," but what he would like to see is a government filter that would downplay the unfolding disaster through a thick layer of gauze, and highlight photo ops of clean-cut GIs helping little old Iraqi grandmas cross streets.

The schools are opening, we are told: isn't that cause for celebration? Well, bully for the Iraqis, but what can this mean in the context of our own decaying educational system turning out a generation of illiterate juvenile delinquents?

America, said Bush the other day, "did not run from Germany and Japan following World War II. We helped those countries become strong and decent and democratic societies that no longer waged war on America, and that's our mission in Iraq right now."

Excuse me, but World War II took millions of lives and left a continent in ruins: the conquest of Iraq took three weeks, and, however horrific, hardly resulted in the utter destruction of the country. This WWII analogy is disturbing, no doubt, to veterans of that conflict, who might detect just a slight bit of exaggeration. But it is also unsettling to conservatives. They look at the costs, in troops and treasure, and extend that out over a half a century the length of our stay in Japan and Germany, where our troops are still presumably guarding against the return of the Nazis and a possible coup by Japanese militarists.

It isn't only the antiwar left that finds the President's invocation of the post World War II era ominous. Conservative Republicans who have invested a lot in George W. Bush are getting increasingly nervous. As the polls chart declining support for the war, with a majority opposing the President $87 billion funding request for Iraq, so the President's own poll numbers continue to plummet. Whispered doubts pervade GOP ranks. Will the President sacrifice his post-9/11 popularity on the altar of a futile and increasingly unpopular war, pouring money down the Middle East rathole while the country sinks into recession and reverts to the tax-and-spend politics of the Democrats? The seismic power of California's populist earthquake is being felt all the way to Washington, D.C. The great fear is that George W. Bush will throw the election on account of this war and drag the rest of the party down with him

And for what? This is the question ordinary people Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, independents are asking as the lies that roped us into war are exposed, one by one. What must be particularly galling for Republicans, however, is the sheer ineptness of the administration's much-touted "public relations offensive on behalf of the war.

We have the much-touted story of the lone bottle of supposedly deadly botulism that had been sitting in some Iraqi scientists' refrigerator for a decade. When that one fizzled, the administration's PR men came up with a unique interpretation of the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Team Bush announced the detection, by David Kay, the Javert of the arms inspectors, of an "intent" to acquire WMD.

Yes, and I have an intent to acquire a fortune bigger than Bill Gates' that is, right after I institute world peace.

This administration is absolutely tone deaf when it comes to defending the rationale for war. Condoleezza Rice had the nerve to get up in front of the Council on Foreign Relations and declare that, while they have yet to find anything remotely

[CTRL] Now The Roadmap Is Considered A Threat?

2003-10-10 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.jnewswire.com/news_archive/03/10/031009_un.asp



Threat to Israel looming in the UN - Gillerman
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial StaffOctober 9, 2003

Jerusalem (www.jnewswire.com) - Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman warned Wednesday Syria was trying to maneuver the Security Council into fully backing the US-sponsored Road Map to a Palestinian state.

Gillerman issued his alert days after sternly telling a meeting of the Council on the Yom Kippur eve, as it debated condemning Israel for striking a terrorist base near Damascus, "God is watching you."

That earlier warning was broadcast coast-to-coast across the United States.

Dangerous developments

According to Gillerman, plans are underway to introduce to the council in the coming days a Syrian-sponsored, Palestinian-backed resolution demanding Israel halt construction of the security fence designed to keep suicide bombers from attacking Israeli cities and towns.

Following in the wake of that resolution will be another, this one demanding that Israel and the PA implement the Road Map, Gillerman said, according to The Jerusalem Post. 

Unlike General Assembly resolutions, those passed in the Security Council are binding under international law.

The Israeli described these as "dangerous developments" which could "change the rules of the game."

If the latter resolution is adopted, the Road Map could go from being the international Quartet's US-driven initiative to a United Nations plan.

A US spokesman at the UN said he had not yet seen any formal drafts regarding either the Ffence or the Road Map.

Debate followed terror base bombing

Meanwhile, the US has indicated it will veto the resolution currently being debated in the Security Council if Syria, which is also sponsoring this proposal, fails to include a condemnation of terrorism in the text.

Syria brought the draft resolution before the Council Sunday, a few hours after Israeli warplanes bombed a terrorist training base not far from Damascus. 

Israel's action, the first attack on Syrian territory since the Yom Kippur War 30 years ago, was in response to a Palestine Islamic Jihad-perpetrated 'suicide' bombing that killed 19 Israelis in a Haifa restaurant on Saturday. 

According to Israel, the PIJ was one of a number of groups that used the base to train terrorists in 'suicide' and other forms of terrorism before sending them back into Israel. 

The PIJ's murderous campaign

Speaking shortly before the start of Yom Kippur, Gillerman expressed regret at the council's unwillingness to postpone the debate until after the Jewish holy day. 

Recounting the previous day's Haifa terrorist attack, in which "whole families were wiped out," Gillerman noted that the PIJ, "a terrorist organization that operates freely from Palestinian Authority territory and has headquarters in Damascus, Syria [had] proudly claimed responsibility for this massacre." 

The Haifa attack had been just the latest in more than forty terrorist atrocities committed by PIJ in the past few years. 

Gillerman said the group's other attacks included "the massacre of 21 teenagers at a discotheque in Tel-Aviv on 2 June 2001; the bombing of 5 June 2002 at the Meggido Junction which killed 18 Israelis; the bombing of a commuter bus on 21 October 2002 which killed 14 citizens; the attack on a shopping mall in the Israeli town of Afula on 19 May 2003, in which 3 civilians were killed and over 70 wounded; and the attack on March 30, 2003 where a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a cafe in Netanya wounding 58 civilians." 

Accuser becomes the accused

Instead of further defending his government's actions, the Israeli rounded on Syria, a US-listed terror-sponsoring state that sits on the rotating membership of the Security Council. 

Turning the accuser into the accused, Gillerman detailed "the nature of the involvement of the Syrian regime in the deliberate murder of innocent civilians." 

"There are few better exhibits of State-sponsorship for terrorism than the one provided by the Syrian regime," he said. 

As far as Israel was concerned, Damascus "bears direct and criminal responsibility" for "the callous murder of hundreds of its civilians." 

Gillerman described the membership "of this arch-sponsor of terrorism" on the Security Council as "an unbearable contradiction and an embarrassment to the United Nations." 

For Syria to have asked for a debate of the Council, he added, was "comparable to the Taliban calling for such a debate." 

Double standard

Closing Israel's statement, Gillerman turned to the representatives of the other states on the council and asked "what any other country sitting around this table would do in the face of the callous murder of hundreds of its civilians?" 

Many UN states, including those on the Security Council, had "been faced with terrorism of far less intensity" than that confronting Israel, and had "responded with far less restraint and far less

[CTRL] 4 Radical Jewish Sites On Terrorism Blacklist

2003-10-10 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=7354

4 radical Jewish websites on US terrorism blacklist

US State Department hits four radical Jewish websites run by or tied to Kach or Kahane Chai group.

WASHINGTON - The United States has for the first time extended its terrorism blacklist to the internet, designating four websites affiliated with an extremist Jewish group as terrorist organizations, State Department officials said Friday.

The move was all but unnoticed when it was put into place last week in a routine redesignation of 25 "foreign terrorist organizations" whose inclusion on the list was about to expire.

It affects websites run by or tied to the Kach or Kahane Chai group, which have been on the blacklist for years, the officials said.

"This is the first time to our knowledge that a website or any website has been designated an FTO," one official said, using the State Department's acronym for "foreign terrorist organization."

The four websites are: www.newkach.org, www.Kahane.org, www.Kahane.net and www.Kahanetzadak.com, according to a State Department notice published in the Federal Register on October 2.

With the exception of www.newkach.org, which is currently being redesigned and features no content, the websites offer news, commentary and links to other sites of interest to followers of the late radical Israeli-American rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated armed anti-Arab resistance.

Kahane's supporters, who want to see the restoration of the biblical state of Israel, are accused of a number of attacks against Arabs as well as threats against Israeli officials they regard as too soft on Palestinian violence.

Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish right-winger who killed 29 Palestinians in a February 1994 shooting spree in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, was affiliated with Kach which issued statements in support of the attack, according to State Department's most recent "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report.

The website www.Khahane.org presents itself as the "official Kahane wesbite" while www.kahanetzadak.com declares "Kahane was right" and complains bitterly that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has not been tough enough in responding to Palestinian attacks.

Sharon, it says, should "NOT care about civilian casualties (read: Arab vermin in civilian clothing). And this is something Sharon will not do. For him and the goyishe world he worships, Jewish blood is cheaper than Arab's pus."

The website www.kahane.net appears to be a compiliation of links to web-based Judaica.

The impact of the designations, which carry a host of US travel and financial sanctions, was not immediately clear as websites often have no physical presence other than their existence in cyberspace.

Normally groups on the terrorism blacklist have their assets frozen and their members are subject to visa bans. In addition, US citizens and people under US jurisdiction are prohibited from giving contributions to those groups.

As of Friday, all four of the banned sites could be easily accessed on the internet.

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[CTRL] Israel Has FBI Revoke Award

2003-10-10 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/6975840.htm

FBI revokes its service award from Arab leader
BY NIRAJ WARIKOO
Knight Ridder Newspapers

(KRT) - After pressure from a pro-Israeli group and columnist, the FBI rescinded an award it had planned to give to a prominent Arab-American leader this week and raised questions about his connections with men the government wants to deport.

Imad Hamad, who heads the local branch of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, had been scheduled to receive a prestigious service award today in Washington, D.C., for his work with law enforcement after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Local conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel and the Zionist Organization of America - one of the oldest pro-Israeli groups in the nation - led a spirited attack last month against Hamad, charging in letters and articles that he is sympathetic to terrorists and unworthy of such an honor.

Hamad said the allegations that he supports terrorism are baseless and came from fringe groups with no credibility.

Schlussel and the Zionist Organization of America were especially irked that the FBI was honoring Hamad with flight attendant Madeline Sweeney, who calmly told authorities by phone details of her plane's hijacking before it crashed into the World Trade Center.

The FBI had planned to fly Hamad, who lives in Dearborn, to Washington and pay his travel expenses for the ceremony, which was to honor just him and Sweeney.

In the past, the U.S. government had tried to deport Hamad, hinting he might be connected with a terrorist group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In 1982, Hamad had taken part in a rally criticizing Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

But in 1999, an immigration judge ruled the government's evidence linking Hamad was ``vague, lacking in specificity and uncorroborated.''

Schlussel, though, wrote a column last month on her Web site and in the New York Post that reviewed Hamad's past and lashed out at him and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, alleging they support groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

Hamad has said repeatedly he's against killing innocent civilians. He said Schlussel ``lacks credibility'' and pointed out that he was cleared of any links to terrorism.

But late Tuesday, the man in charge of the FBI's Detroit office, Willie Hulon, visited Hamad in person at his office and told him the FBI's Washington office was taking back the award.

The decision illustrates how intensely the war on terrorism is playing out in metro Detroit, an area whose large Arab population has drawn close attention since Sept. 11.

The FBI's move pleased the Zionist Organization, whose president, Morton Klein, said Wednesday by phone from Jerusalem that it's ``an important step in continuing the war against all terror groups.''

Schlussel said awarding Hamad is akin to awarding German Americans who supported Nazis during World War II.

``I'm glad they rethought this,'' she said. ``It's a tremendous victory over terrorism and those who support it.''

But it stunned many Arab Americans in metro Detroit, where Hamad has emerged during the past few years as an international spokesman for the community.

``I'm absolutely furious,'' said Mo Abdrabboh, a Dearborn attorney who sometimes works on Arab-American issues. ``It's a blatant insult without any regard for Hamad or the community.''

Abdrabboh said he and other Arab Americans are seriously thinking of resigning from BRIDGES, a group of local law enforcement officials and Arab Americans that meets monthly in Detroit to discuss various issues, including terrorism. The group is the only one of its kind in the country and is cochaired by Hamad and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins.

``It's not about the award,'' Abdrabboh said. ``It's about the disrespect.''

That sentiment was felt among several local Arab leaders, who called the move another blow to a community already reeling from what its members see as an assault on their civil rights by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Late Tuesday, the FBI released a statement saying that Hamad was somehow connected with people who could be deported.

``It has recently come to our attention that evidence referencing Mr. Hamad has been filed in connection with an upcoming deportation proceeding against associates of his,'' said FBI spokeswoman Cassandra Chandler in the statement. ``Accordingly, this award has been withdrawn.''

FBI officials, in Detroit and Washington, D.C., didn't elaborate on how Hamad may have been tied to the potential deportees. But they released a statement that said FBI Director Robert Mueller ``has decided to present only one Exceptional Public Service award,'' which will go posthumously to Sweeney.

On Wednesday, Hamad received calls from supporters, and he stressed that he wants to continue a positive relationship with the FBI.

``I want to keep building bridges of understanding,'' Hamad said. ``I want to

[CTRL] Zionist Threats On John Kaminski Intensify

2003-10-10 Thread William Shannon

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http://www.rense.com/general42/threats.htm

Zionists Threats On John
Kaminski Intensify
>From John Kaminski
10-10-3

K.D. wrote:

Dear John, Word has arrived about your recent experiences with phone harrassment. I realize that you are very busy, but it occurs to me that your expeience should be documented. If you can recall the content of each call, sex of caller, and any words or phrases used, as well as the time and date of the call, it would make a very useful sidebar on the new physics911 site under a title such as: Public Scepticism Draws Harrassmet.

Have you documented anything yet?

>From John Kaminski
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Hi K, The Zionist phone harassment took a turn for the worse this morning when my girlfriend received two calls before 9 a.m. The first on her cell phone, as she recounted it, was a male caller who said, after she answered, "I need to speak with you now." When she asked for his identity he merely replied, "I am going to speak with you soon," and she promptly hung up. This was on her cellphone, at a number widely known because she is a business professional and it is on her business card. But then her home landline, which is unlisted and known to relatively few, rang immediately following the first call. When she answered, the voice repeated, "I'll be seeing you soon." and she hung up again.

When you look at my phone records - which I just did because the bill came in the other day " the vast majority of my calls are to her, although on her end, she makes many more calls than I do, to an almost infinite amount of numbers, due to her business.

On days we don't see each other because we're both busy, we spend much time on the phone, speaking 4 to 6 times a day, so our numbers show up prominently on each other's phone bills.

The previous day, on which I sent out that first notice about phone harassment by Zionists, I received three calls: the first at 6:45 a.m., I didn't answer, nor did I answer the second call around noon, which my cellphone registered as emanating from "PRIVATE NUMBER." The third call occurred in mid-afternoon, when I was on the phone with my girlfriend. I interrupted her to answer it. The caller said, "Why do you f***ing hate Jews so much?" and when I attempted to say, "That's not true," he kept on repeating his hateful profanity in one variation or another.

When I attempted to engage him in dialogue, he simply said, "You better watch what you're doing because something could happen to you," and hung up.

The previous day I received two calls from "PRIVATE NUMBER": the first caller, a different voice than the call previously mentioned, simply said, "I am soliciting donations for Israel ... " and I replied politely that I was not interested and hung up.

A second call from "PRIVATE NUMBER" I did not answer.

Since I have a cellphone, I never get unsolicited sales calls and my number is unavailable to the general public.

Since my note of yesterday, I have received at least a dozen e-mails from e-friends explaining how in recent years they have been subjected to similar harassment over their public statements desiring justice for the Palestinians and exposure of the Zionist menace.

Cars have been vandalized and threats have been issued in the middle of the night. I am not really aware if anyone has actually been attacked by these cowardly perpetrators of terror (other than one friend who had his steering wheel covered with a caustic substance), these disgusting defenders of racism, persecution and murder of small Palestinian children. Every event of terror that has ever happened in the Middle East has happened because of an Israeli provocation, not the other way around.

I am this afternoon about to inform the local sheriff and my phone company of my plight, and am now very disturbed that my girlfriend has been dragged into this.

The recent death threats by "friends" of Israel against Alison Weir in Berkeley have everyone on edge, and you can understand my edginess about all things Jewish after these unfortunate episodes.

In recent days, I have been attempting to engage several Jewish e-correspondents in realistic dialogue about the manipulative crimes of Israel and the twisting of public consciousness by Jewish/Zionist media in the U.S. As yet I have received no reply from any of them, despite their attempt to convince me they are open-minded. One recent e-mail forwarded from a Canadian friend included a letter from a Jew saying I should try to be balanced in my pronouncements about Israel and Palestine.

My reply is that I will be as balanced as the Israelis are in their treatment of Palestinians, whose land they have stolen and whose lives they have ruined, for no reason other than their own heartless and insane greed. I will be as balanced as the Israeli official Avigdor Lieberman, who said the other day that Damascus and Beirut should be "incinerated." That's how balanced I will

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