[CTRL] (Fwd) Liberation tastes like crow to anti-war crowd

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Liberation tastes like crow to anti-war crowd

Kathleen Parker

April 12, 2003

What was that whimpering sound?  Oh that.  It's just the Yes, but
crowd formerly known as the anti-war pundits. Ignore them.

Saddam's statue had barely hit the ground in central Baghdad before
America's armchair doomsayers began harrumphing a new caveat in which to
couch this unseemly turn of events.  One might almost think they didn't
want Saddam to fall.

You couldn't help noticing the careful balance the antis tried to strike
between reluctant admission and preachy admonition.  The formula goes
something like this: Yes, we defeated Iraq, BUT .  let's not get too
carried away, it ain't over yet.

No one exercised this template better - or more oddly - than New York
Times columnist Maureen Dowd.  Here are a couple of snippets from her
column the day Baghdad collapsed:

Victory in Iraq will be a truly historic event, BUT (my emphasis) it
will be exceedingly weird and dangerous if this administration turns
America into Sparta.

And this: There remains the unfinished business of Osama bin Laden.
BUT (my emphasis) the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom should not mark the
beginning of Operation Eternal War.

Hardly anything to argue with there.  But, Sparta?

Reading the myriad yes-butters, I keep free-associating to the final
scene of Sleeping With the Enemy, after actress Julia Roberts has shot
her loathsome, raping, tyrannical husband.  The audience titters in
dread, hoping he's truly dead but suspecting a final terrifying lurch
from near-death to unleash a fatal blow.

Here's the connection: While those who supported the coalition assault
on Iraq really do hope Saddam is dead and cautiously celebrate the
demise of his regime, the anti-war gang, we suspect, is tittering
hopefully that he will yet spring again from near-death and make us
wrong after all.

Nah, no one really wants Saddam to return to power.  He was, to mimic
Dowd's vernacular, such a meanie-weanie.  Still, the Bush-bashers have
plenty of reason to wish for something less spectacular than a free and
happy Iraq festooned with flowers and sloppy with kisses for
trench-scented soldiers.  It's hard to admit you were flat wrong.

It's also hard to be humble when you're right, but guess who is both?
Guess who first cautioned against glibness, hubris, immodesty and
arrogance?  Those mean men Dowd can never bring herself to address as
adults: her Bushy, Rummy and Wolfie.  The lead players in this epochal
drama have spoken with the restraint and authority of grown-ups
undistracted by childish antics, either from the pacifist nursery or
from exuberant Iraqis tasting freedom, in some cases for the first
time.  Let them rant or Let them loot, as the case may be, is an
attitude of tolerance born of higher sights.

The media are having a little more fun.  The conservative Media Research
Center, which monitors liberal slant in the media, quickly posted a
special Gloat and Quote edition, showcasing the predictions and news
analyses proved ridiculous by recent events.  Various bloggers and Web
sites, including National Review Online and Andrew Sullivan, did the
same, providing amusing anecdotes for dull parties.

Meanwhile, it's a good idea to stay focused, as Bush has urged without
the prompting of pundits.  There's hard work ahead, though Operation
Eternal War isn't likely part of the plan.  As in all wars, there are no
guarantees, no certainties, even though Dowd now asserts: We were
always going to win the war with Iraq.

Who says girls can't keep secrets?  Here's what we really do know:
Coalition forces have gotten this far in the game, as Iraq's U.N.
ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, churlishly put it, through gritty
determination and the unflinching conviction that we were doing the
right thing.

Those who supported the war policy had no special sixth sense, no claim
to revelation or prescience.  Rather they possessed an unambiguous moral
clarity.  As journalist Christopher Hitchens put it during a television
interview - and I paraphrase wildly from memory - There's just no way
that allowing Saddam to continue butchering innocents and potentially
threatening the rest of the world can be viewed as a morally superior
position.

No doubt the antis and naysayers, who seem to favor any old status quo
to the frightening prospect of upheaval, will lurch again from
whimpering near-death to unleash new protestations.  Little matter.
They have proven themselves irrelevant to today's reality, which
includes a freed Iraqi people for whom the operative conjunctive phrase
isn't Yes, but but Yes, and.

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[CTRL] Ethiopian in Georgia Charged With Circumcising 2-Year-Old Daughter

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 Ethiopian in Georgia Charged With Circumcising 2-Year-Old
Daughter
Friday, April 04, 2003

DULUTH, Ga.  — An Ethiopian has been arrested for allegedly
circumcising his 2-year-old daughter, a practice child advocates fear
may be increasing as more Africans arrive in the Atlanta area.

Khalid Adem, 27, is accused of circumcising the child with scissors
two years ago in the family's home. Adem, a service station worker,
has been charged with cruelty to children and aggravated battery.
Police say the girl's mother was not aware of the incident until a
recent doctor visit. The girl is now 4.

The traditional African procedure, which may involve the removal of
the clitoris or all the external genitalia, is illegal in United States and
condemned by the United Nations.

Women's rights activists and health officials worry that incidents of
genital mutilation may increase as the number of African immigrants
living in metropolitan Atlanta tops 200,000.

Three African mothers recently arrived at a Decatur women's shelter
concerned about the safety of their daughters, said Anna Blau,
director of the International Women's House.

Two of them were being pressured to have the procedure done; the
other woman was too late, Blau said.

Zenobia Arnold, the attorney representing the mother of the 4-year-
old, said there is a network of men who conduct female
circumcisions in Atlanta.

I've spoken to two or three women who have told me this, Arnold
said. I want to collect enough information to give to the police, but
these women are frightened to talk. They are scared of their
husbands.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] While we liberate Iraq, Europe is busy planning to

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The Daily Telegraph
3rd April 2003

While we liberate Iraq, Europe is busy planning to enslave us
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

By the time the Iraqi crisis is over, it may already be too late for the
Government to stop a political disaster in Europe. The European Union's
first constitution will be a done deal, and, from what we have seen of the
text so far, it will usher in a new order that overturns the governing basis
of British parliamentary democracy for ever.

The EU will no longer be a treaty organisation in which member states agree
to lend power to Brussels for certain purposes, on the understanding that
they can take it back again. The EU itself will become the fountain of
power, with its own legal personality, delegating functions back to Britain.
Draft Article 9 puts Brussels at the top of the pyramid. The Constitution
will have primacy over the law of Member States, it says.

The new order may also be irreversible. Article 46 stipulates that the terms
of secession from the EU must be agreed by two thirds of the member states.
In other words, one third can impose intolerable conditions [report, 3
April].

A number of fresh articles trickled out two weeks ago, just as the Iraq
conflict was erupting, to create what amounts to an EU interior and justice
ministry, known as Eurojust, in charge of a proto-FBI - Europol - with the
power to launch raids across the EU [report, 19 March]. An EU
attorney-general will be able to prosecute cross-border crime in British
courts, a catch-all term that gives Brussels wider jurisdiction than the US
Justice Department currently enjoys after
200 years of encroachment on state power.

Under a new notion called shared competence, Brussels takes charge of
virtually all areas of national life. Unless the EU chooses to waive its
primacy, Westminster will be prohibited from legislating in public health,
social policy, transport, justice, agriculture, energy,
economic and social cohesion, the environment, internal and external trade,
and consumer protection.

The EU will have the power to co-ordinate the economic policies of the
member states and - showing some chutzpah given what happened over Iraq -
define and implement a common foreign and security policy, including the
progressive framing of a common defence policy.

This is not exactly what protesters had in mind when they voted no to the
euro in Denmark, and no to Nice in Ireland, or when they tore up Gothenburg
in the anti-EU riots in 2001. But it was precisely these outbursts of
popular dissent that prompted EU leaders, in December 2001, to launch a
convention on the future of Europe.

Vowing to end secrecy in EU treaty talks and throw the process open to the
people, they summoned 105 Founding Fathers for a year-long
brain-storming session in Brussels to redesign Europe's governing machinery.
Instead of diplomats, the members were MEPs, as well as MPs and ministers
from the EU's 28 current and future states.

The man chosen to shepherd the people and enthuse Europe's disenchanted
youth was the lordly Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who incarnates the elitism of
the 1970s French establishment. It went downhill from there.

The two European Commissioners on his 13-member praesidium, France's Michel
Barnier and Portugal's Antonio Vitorino, have used their inside position to
hijack the drafting process and push through articles that go far beyond the
proposals of the working groups that toiled through the autumn. Much of the
constitution is being written by lawyers on loan from the commission. The
people have become a sick joke.

Tony Blair was slow to see the threat. Downing Street at first dismissed the
convention as a talking shop, but woke up when the French, Spanish, German
and Italian governments gave it irresistible authority by appointing to it
their foreign or deputy prime ministers.

The Government then fell back to a second self-deception, imagining that
France and Spain would
join Britain in blocking any major assault on national prerogatives. Peter
Hain, Downing Street's man on the forum, confidently told reporters that the
East Europeans would not give away freedoms so recently wrested from the
Soviet Union.

None of this has happened. France has abandoned Britain, and her own
historical attachment to a Europe where national capitals always have the
whip hand over Brussels. They seem to be accepting federalism as the price
of relaunching the broken Franco-German axis. As for the Spanish, they are
silent.

So are the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and others, who still have a gun pointed
to their head. They know that Jacques Chirac could still try to sabotage
their admission next year by calling a referendum in France. Those on the
convention will soon become MEPs or Eurocrats themselves, and their salaries
will jump by as much as 12 times, which concentrates the mind.

It is almost pitiful to read 

[CTRL] Held under house arrest by Saddam for a decade, could this cleric be a secret weapon for the Allies?

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=39
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Held under house arrest by Saddam for a decade, could this cleric
be a secret weapon for the Allies?
By Paul Vallely
04 April 2003

Iraq's most senior religious leader issued a fatwa yesterday urging
the country's majority Shia community not to hinder the US and
British armies. It could prove as significant a development for the
invading forces as any of the military victories of the past few days.

The ruling, from Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani – the foremost
Shia authority in Iraq – called on Muslims to keep calm, stay at
home, not put themselves in danger and not to fight. It could add the
decisive weight to the scales of war.

Certainly the fatwa provoked great optimism among the coalition's
political and military leaders. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, of
Allied Central Command in Qatar, said: We believe this is a very
significant turning point and another indicator that the Iraqi regime is
approaching its end.

The Ayatollah, who is 73, has been under house imprisonment at
his home in the holy city of Najaf by Saddam Hussein's secret police
for almost a decade. He was freed two days ago when his guards
fled as US forces advanced on the city.

His decree coincided with conciliatory noises from the reformist
Prime Minister of Iran – a predominantly Shia state – who voiced
sorrow yesterday for the deaths of American and British soldiers.

Muslim commentators said the fatwa could be decisive in the
outcome of the war.

US troops received a relatively warm reception from the 560,000
largely Shia locals after entering the holy city, which is the site of the
tomb of Imam Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, whom Shias
believe was the Prophet's true successor. (Islam split not long after
the Prophet's death, in a manner not unlike the Catholic- Protestant
schism in Christianity; Sunnis are in the majority worldwide, but
Shias dominate in Iraq and Iran.)

The tomb, in the central mosque, is revered and has immense
political importance. The Americans have failed to realise this in the
past. In 1998 a US air strike killed 17 civilians in Najaf, handing
President Saddam's Baath regime a valuable propaganda tool.

President Saddam tried to repeat the trick this time. He stationed
troops inside the Imam Ali mosque, from where they fired on the
Americans, hoping that US commanders would shell the shrine, in a
bid to turn the Iraqi Shias and others around the world against the
US.

This time, the Americans were wise to the ploy. A precision bomb
took out the Baath party headquarters, which had been built near by.
But US soldiers were told not to return fire at the men in the
mosque.

We've hit them very hard the last two days, wherever they're firing
at us, from homes, from schools, said the American commander,
Colonel Ben Hodges. But the one place I've absolutely told them
they cannot fire is into the mosque.

When the crowds of irate civilians and clerics pressed down upon
US troops heading towards the grand mosque yesterday, their
commanders told the soldiers to back off. The situation was defused
when the soldiers – their weapons pointing down – pulled back and
reassured the clerics that they would stay away from holy sites.

The ruse also backfired in the Muslim world. A Shia expatriate group
in Tehran, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq,
condemned the Baath regime for putting soldiers into the mosque
complex.

One of the first things the US military did on entering Najaf was to
seek a meeting with Ayatollah Sistani. At first, the cleric refused to
talk to the commanders. But then he promised he would respond to
their request in two days. Yesterday he issued the fatwa.

Between 60 and 65 per cent of Iraqis are Shias. Under President
Saddam they have been an oppressed majority. President Saddam
is a Sunni, as are most of the dominant individuals and groups
(such as the Republican Guard) in his regime.

There were tensions between the two groups during the Iran-Iraq
war, though the loyalties of Iraqi Shias were complicated by feelings
of nationalism. (The Iraqis are Arab, the Iranians Farsi). But during
the 1991 Gulf War the Shias rose up against President Saddam,
with the encouragement of the US government, who then
abandoned the rebels. President Saddam harshly repressed the
uprisings, killing thousands of ordinary Shias.

In the years since, the Baathist regime has murdered at least four
important ayatollahs in Najaf and imprisoned six others. Besides
keeping Ayatollah Sistani under house arrest, President Saddam
has forced other religious leaders to issue fatwas supportive of his
actions. On several occasions the Baath party issued false fatwas in
the names of ayatollahs.

In September, Ayatollah Sistani issued a ruling calling on Iraqi Shias
to fight against the Americans. It read: It is the Muslims' duty, under
this critical situation, to be united and do their best to defend Iraq
and protect it 

[CTRL] (Fwd) MSNBC: Positive test for terror toxins in Iraq

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Positive test for terror toxins in Iraq

EXCLUSIVE By Preston Mendenhall, MSNBC

MSNBC.com tests reveal evidence of the deadly toxins ricin and botulinum at a
laboratory in a remote mountain region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist
training camp by Islamic militants with ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network.  The 
U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency is conducting its own tests at the same area, but has not
yet released the results, according to officials in northern Iraq.

MSNBC.COM'S TESTS were conducted over a two-day period at Sargat, an alleged
terrorist training camp a mile from the Iraq-Iran border.  The camp, set back in an
isolated valley and surrounded by snowcapped peaks, was home to the radical
Islamic militant group Ansar al-Islam, which counts among its some 700 followers
scores of al-Qaida fighters.  In a Feb.  5 speech to the U.N.  Security Council, U.S.
Secretary ofState Colin Powell showed a satellite photo of the Sargat camp and
described Ansar al-Islam as teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other
poisons. U.S. officials have repeated the allegations in recent weeks.

In an operation timed to coincide with the war on Iraq,U.S.  special operations
forceshave targeted Ansar al-Islam's militants in northern Iraq.  Hundreds of
Islamists, including al-Qaida fighters who took refuge in northern Iraq after the fall 
of
the Taliban in Afghanistan, have been killed.

Although U.S.  officials for months have leveled charges that the Ansar al-Islam and
al-Qaida militants were producing poisons in northern Iraq, it wasn't until this week
that specialist American teams were able to gain access to the Sargat camp to test
for traces ofbiological and chemical weapons.

Experts believe the Islamic group was producing the substances in the camp as both
toxins can be created from everyday products and simple procedures.

TERRORISTS TEMPTED BY TOXINS
MSNBC.com's samples of ricin and botulinum, two deadly biological agents, were
taken from the soles of a boot and a shoe recovered from the Sargat camp.  The
facility has been flattened by several Tomahawk cruise missiles, fired as part of the
U.S.  campaign against Ansar al-Islam.

The thick rubber boot twice tested positive for ricin, a toxin derived from castor
beans.  Ingesting a pinch of ricin, which causes shock and respiratory failure, can 
kill
a human being within 72 hours.  There is no cure.

A black running shoe, shredded by the U.S.  bombing, tested positive for botulinum.
U.S.  officials say terrorists have a particular interest in botulinum and ricin 
toxins,
which may be delivered through release in food and water.

Botulism, the illness resulting from botulinum ingestion, is a muscle-
paralyzing disease that can cause a person to stop breathing and die, according to
the U.S.  Centers for Disease Control.  Since Sept.  11, 2001, law enforcement
officials have seen an increase in attempts to produce deadly toxins like ricin and
botulinum.

In Britain, anti-terrorism authorities in January charged four men with producing
deadly agents after they found traces of ricin in a north London apartment.  More
than a dozen arrests have been made in the investigation.

On Thursday, the FBI issued a warning to Americans that deadly agents like ricin
and botulinum could be used to contaminate the nation's water or food supply.

And in France, police are on alert after recently finding traces of ricin in flasks in 
a
train station locker in Paris.

The territory of northern Iraq where the traces of ricin were detected is not under the
control of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Baghdad admitted to U.N.  weapons inspectors in the 1990s that it had successfully
weaponized ricin, botulinum and anthrax.  There is no immediate evidence that
suggests Saddam's regime provided the easily produced toxins to Ansar al-Islam or
al-Qaida.

A test for anthrax at the Sargat camp gave a negative result.

WIDELY USED TEST
The tests, developed by Osborn Scientific Group in Lakeside, Ariz., are widely
admired by experts.  Called BioWarfare Agent Detection Devices, they were used by
U.N.  weapons inspectors in Iraq before their departure ahead of the U.S.-led war
against Saddam.

Dr.  Robert Bohannon, the inventor of the test, said in a phone interview that
numerous U.S.  federal agencies employ the tests in the field.  He said the tests
were developed to give a rapid yes-no result.

In recent days, specialist chemical-biological survey teams, some from the CIA, have
collected samples from camps used by Islamic militants in northern Iraq.  At least
two teams visited the Sargat camp, taking similar rapid fields tests and collecting
samples to be sent to the United States for further analysis, according to U.S.
special operations forces officers speaking on condition of anonymity in northern
Iraq.

To swab a boot is perfectly 

[CTRL] EUPHRATES 'POISONED'

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-1086347,00.html

EUPHRATES 'POISONED'


US Marines found cyanide and mustard agents in high
concentrations in the Euphrates River near Nassiriya in Iraq,
television network MSNBC has reported.

The network said a briefing from Marine officials was its source for
the information.

The agents were found during routine tests conducted to ensure the
water being used is safe, MSNBC said.

Neither Centcom officials in Qatar nor US military officials in Iraq
have confirmed the MSNBC report.

Mustard gas produces painful, long-lasting blisters and often leads
to blindness, while cyanide kills by preventing blood from
transporting oxygen.


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[CTRL] (Fwd) [piml] All the News that's fit to Slant

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Wednesday April 2, 2003; 10:46 p.m. EST
Eagleburger: NY Times Asked Me to Trash Bush

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger revealed late Wednesday
that the New York Times recently asked him to write an essay on the
Iraq war - but only on the condition that he would be critical of the
Bush administration.

About ten days ago I was approached by the New York Times to write an
op-ed piece, Eagleburger told Fox News Channel's Hannity  Colmes.
When I talked to them about it I was told, 'What we want is criticism
of the administration.'

They told you that? asked an incredulous Sean Hannity.

Yes, right out, flat out, Eagleburger replied. He told me, 'We want
criticism of the administration.'

Needless to say, the former Secretary of State added, I did not
write the op-ed piece.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) CAS: The 9/11 Connection

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National Review

Deroy Murdoch

April 3, 2003

The 9/11 Connection

What Salman Pak could reveal.

Not far from Baghdad, Coalition forces may uncover evidence linking
Saddam Hussein's regime with airline hijackings in general and the
September 11 attacks in particular.

Salman Pak, a training camp on the Tigris River some 15 miles
southeast of Iraq's capital, could clarify this question.  According
to Iraqi defectors and U.S.  intelligence analysts, this is where
Hussein's agents polished the air-piracy skills of foreign Islamist
terrorists.

Details on this facility and its al Qaeda ties recently emerged in a
Manhattan federal courtroom.  Former CIA Director James Woolsey and
Iraq scholar Laurie Mylroie offered sworn expert testimony in a
largely overlooked lawsuit filed by the families of two people killed
on 9/11. They are suing Iraq's government, among other rogue entities
and individuals, for allegedly helping to murder their loved ones.

I believe it is definitely more likely than not that some degree of
common effort in the sense of aiding or abetting or conspiracy was
involved here between Iraq and the al Qaeda, Woolsey said on March 3.
President Clinton's CIA chief from 1993 to 1995 added: Even if one
cannot show that...any of the individual 19 hijackers were trained at
Salman Pak, the nature of the training and the circumstances suggest,
to my mind, at least, some kind of common aiding, abetting,
assistance, cooperation — whatever word you might want to take.

Mylroie, a Pentagon terrorism consultant and Iraq-policy adviser to
Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign (and author of The War
Against America), also testified March 3.  She believes It took a
state like Iraq to carry out an attack as really sophisticated,
massive and deadly as what happened on September 11.

Top Iraqi defectors amplify these American suspicions.

There have been several confirmed sightings of Islamic
fundamentalists from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Gulf states being
trained in terror tactics at the Iraqi intelligence camp at Salman
Pak, Khidir Hamza, Iraq's former nuclear-weapons chief, told the U.S.
 Senate Foreign Relations Committee last July 31.  The training
involved assassination, explosions and hijacking.

This camp is specialized in exporting terrorism to the whole world,
former Iraqi army captain Sabah Khodada told PBS's Frontline in an
October 14, 2001 interview.  Khodada worked at Salman Pak.  He said
that instruction there was all for the general concept of hitting and
attacking American targets and American interests. He added: We saw
people getting trained to hijack airplanes...They are even trained how
to use utensils for food, like forks and knives provided in the
plane...They are trained how to plant horror within the passengers by
doing such actions. A map of the camp Khodada drew for Frontline
closely matches satellite photos of the base, thus bolstering his
story.

I was the security officer in charge of the unit, at Salman Pak, an
ex-Iraqi lieutenant general told Frontline anonymously in a November
6, 2001 interview.  This unit was under the direct supervision and
control of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, he added.  And the fact
that the training was concentrated on a plane made it even stranger as
far as I was concerned.

Iraq's U.N.  ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, denied this to Frontline
that October 29.  I am lucky that I know the area, this Salman Pak.
This is a very beautiful area with gardens, with trees, Aldouri said.
 It is not possible to do such a program there, because there's no
place for planes.

Oddly enough, that satellite photo shows no rose bushes.  But clearly
evident is the Russian-built Tupolev 154 airliner on which these Iraqi
emigres report hijackings were rehearsed.

We were told it was for counterterrorist training, former U.N.
weapons inspector Charles Duelfer said in the Scotsman newspaper on
February 18.  We automatically knocked off the word 'counter.'
Duelfer and his team saw the jet on a January 1995 visit.

Meanwhile, in a February 24 letter to James Beasley, Jr., the attorney
in the aforementioned lawsuit, Czech U.N.  Ambassador Hynek Kmonicek
affirms an October 26, 2001 statement by Czech Interior Minister
Stanislav Gross: In this moment we can confirm, that during the next
stay of Mr.  Muhammad Atta in the Czech Republic there was the contact
with the official of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr.  Al Ani, Ahmed Khalin
Ibrahim Samir, who was on 22nd April 2001 expelled from the Czech
Republic on the basis of activities which were not compatible with the
diplomatic status. Atta flew from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Prague
on April 7, 2001.  Car-rental records place him in the Czech capitol
the next day.  He flew home to Florida that April 9.

If he [Atta] goes there and meets with an Iraqi intelligence officer,
and then turns right around and comes right back, it looks an 

[CTRL] (Fwd) 'TORTURE CHAMBER' FOUND

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'TORTURE CHAMBER' FOUND
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A torture chamber used by Saddam Hussein's henchmen has been
discovered by British troops in Iraq, according to reports.


Cells in a police station contained a meat hook attached to a ceiling
and a live cable said to be used to give electric shocks.

Royal Marines found it in a suburb of Basra, reported the Daily
Mirror's Tom Newton Dunn, who is with the troops.

Dozens of Iraqi national ID cards were spread across the Chief of
Police's abandoned large oak desk, he wrote.

Troops captured the Abu Al Khasib suburb after 13 hours of fighting.

The police station was empty when the marines arrived.

One local said: The Ba'ath Party were bad people, they used to hurt
people inside the police station. You say bad words about Saddam, they
take you in there and you never come out.

Everybody also knew not to ask what happen to them there, then they
disappear too.

Newton Dunn wrote everything we saw inside that building yesterday
suggested that it was wasn't really a house of law and order at all,
but used instead to torture possibly hundreds of local civilians.

The police sation was also said to be used by the Mukhabarat - by far
the most infamous of Saddam Hussein's internal security services.




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[This is the print version of story
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s823033.htm]

AEST

US newspaper fires photographer over faked Iraq shot

US newspaper The Los Angeles Times has fired a staff
photographer for editing together two photos of a British soldier and
a crowd of people outside the Iraqi city of Basra to make the scene
more dramatic, the newspaper said.

In a front-page editor's note, the paper said a photo that appeared
on Monday's front page by photographer Brian Walski was actually
a digital composition of two photos taken moments apart.

The editor's note said Mr Walski, reached on Tuesday by phone in
southern Iraq, acknowledged combining the shots.

Times policy forbids altering the content of news photographs, the
editor's note said.

Because of the violation, Walski, a Times photographer since 1998,
has been dismissed from the staff.

The paper said that Mr Walski edited the two pictures together to
improve the composition.

The pictures showed a British soldier pointing a rifle at an attentive
crowd in Basra, including a man clutching a child.

Mr Walski, a newspaper photographer since 1980, was previously a
staff photographer at the Albuquerque Journal and The Boston
Herald.

While in Boston, he covered international stories including the Gulf
War, the famine in Somalia, the funeral of Princess Diana and the
conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Indian state of Kashmir.
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Grisly truth of police station's real purpose

http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=386162003


EVERYTHING the marines of 40 Commando saw inside the police station in
Abu al-Qassib suggested that it wasn't really a house of law and order
but had been used instead to torture possibly hundreds of civilians.

Towards the end of the long building's left corridor, we found the first
cell. A damp, 8ft by 4ft hole with no natural or artificial light, and
only a soiled pillow and filthy blanket on the floor.

It was the first of six. Some were bigger, some even smaller, but all
were sealed by bolts from the outside attached to heavy metal or steel
cage doors, and all were disgustingly filthy.

They all stank terribly of old faeces, urine and sweat. Spatters of dark
liquid had left stains down several walls, but they were too dirty and
too old to tell whether the liquid was blood.

In one cell, a meat hook hung from the ceiling. In another, a discarded
thick line of hosepipe sat idle on the floor, with no water taps
anywhere in sight.

Only one cell, the biggest, had in it the roughest approximation of a
toilet - a squat hole in the ground that, judging by the dark, putrid
gunge over-flowing from it, hadn't been flushed in months.

In a side annexe that had been missed, hidden away behind the main
building and with all its old window spaces long ago filled in with
breeze-blocks, was a far larger cell with a single iron bed frame in it.


We moved upstairs to find more offices, most cluttered up with old green
uniforms, half-eaten plates of freshly cooked food, and boxes of
grenades and other heavy ammunition.

One office contained a locked armoury that the marines shot open to
reveal a huge stash of AK47s, rocket-propelled grenades and missile
rounds - far too much weaponry just to police a civilian population.

But the last room was upstairs, again at the end of a corridor, and
initially it left those who saw it totally bewildered.

Unlike every other room on the second floor, it was empty, apart from
two old rubber car tyres and a long electric cable lead attached to the
mains supply, and still live.

The room's likely purpose was explained later by a Royal Marine officer
who had spent some time in the Balkans on UN service. He said: Two
tyres and an electric cable is something we came across a lot in Bosnia.
The interrogator would stand on the tyres while prodding the captive
with the live cable so his own feet were insulated from the high voltage
by the rubber. Primitive, maybe, but a pretty effective and recognised
form of torture in a lot of third-world countries.

Electrocution is not only incredibly painful, but also very
frightening, and the interrogators usually get more out of the shock
effect of it than the actual pain the burns cause.

The officer is usually more than happy to talk on the record. But this
time he didn't want his name used, so that he didn't have to explain
what he had seen to his wife back home.

The one positive outcome of the search was that it produced a pile of
detailed maps showing possible secret paramilitary strongholds - that
could be good for intelligence purposes.

The normally jovial and chatty troop of commandos filed out of the
building and blocked the police station's doors behind them in total
silence.

Very little was said between us on the 30-minute patrol back to base
either. For once, each man seemed to prefer to be alone with his
thoughts.

Corporal Dominic Conway, 28, from Newcastle, who supervised the search,
said later: It was a horrible, gruesome place. They weren't policemen
in there - not like we understand the term.

From a pooled report by Tom Newton Dunn, of the Daily Mirror, with 40
Commando in Abu al-Qassib, southern Iraq.





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Raid Finds al-Qaida Tie to Iraq Militants

Raid on Iraqi Militant Group Indicates Ties to al-Qaida but
Leadership on
the Run to Iran

The Associated Press

BIYARE, Iraq
March 31‹

A U.S.-led assault on a compound controlled by an extremist Islamic
group
turned up a list of names of suspected militants living in the United
States
and what may be the strongest evidence yet linking the group to al-
Qaida,
coalition commanders said Monday.

The cache of documents at the Ansar al-Islam compound, including
computer
discs and foreign passports belonging to Arab fighters from around
the
Middle East, could bolster the Bush administration's claims that the
two
groups are connected, although there was no indication any of the
evidence
tied Ansar to Saddam Hussein as Washington has maintained.

There were indications, however, that the group has been getting
help from
inside neighboring Iran.

Kurdish and Turkish intelligence officials, some speaking on
condition of
anonymity, said many of Ansar's 700 members have slipped out of
Iraq and
into Iran putting them out of reach of coalition forces.

The officials also said a U.S. missile strike on Ansar's territory on
the
second day of the war missed most of its leadership which crossed
into Iran
days earlier.

U.S. officials said the government had reports some Ansar fighters
could
have made it into Iran and have been shuttling back and forth with
fresh
supplies.

According to a high-level Kurdish intelligence official, three Ansar
leaders
identified as Ayoub Afghani, Abdullah Shafeye and Abu Wahel were
among those
who had fled into Iran. The official said the three were seen being
detained
by Iranian authorities Sunday.

We asked the Iranian authorities to hand over to us any of the
Afghan Arabs
or Islamic militants hiding themselves inside the villages of Iran,
said
Boorhan Saeed, a member of the pro-U.S. Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan. We
asked them about it Sunday, and still don't have a response.

Last week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned the
Iranians to stop
meddling in the war. Tehran denied any involvement.

Using airstrikes and ground forces, Kurdish soldiers and U.S. troops
have
cooperated in the past week to dislodge and crush Ansar militants in
18
villages surrounding the Iraqi city of Halabja about 160 miles
northeast of
Baghdad.

We actually believe we destroyed a significant portion of the Ansar
al-Islam force there, Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of
operations on the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said Monday. He said
forces were
investigating the finds.

Among a trove of evidence found inside Ansar compounds were
passports and
identity papers of Ansar activists indicating that up to 150 of them
were
foreigners, including Yemenis, Turks, Palestinians, Pakistanis,
Algerians
and Iranians.

Coalition forces also found a phone book containing numbers of
alleged
Islamic activists based in the United States and Europe as well as
the
number of a Kuwaiti cleric and a letter from Yemen's minister of
religion.
The names and numbers were not released.

What we've discovered in Biyare is a very sophisticated operation,
said
Barham Salih, prime minister of the Kurdish regional government.

Seized computer disks contained evidence showing meetings
between Ansar and
al-Qaida activists, according to Mahdi Saeed Ali, a military
commander.

It was unclear how strong Ansar remains.

Officials from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two parties
that
share control of an autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq,
say they
killed 250 Ansar members during two days of intense fighting and
aerial
bombardments.

There was ferocious fighting, Saeed said. He said he chased 25
Ansar
militants across the Iranian border and captured nine Ansar
sympathizers
belonging to a group called the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.

The remaining Ansar fighters are thought to be in the mountains
along the
Iraq-Iran border, U.S. and Kurdish military officials have said.

Kurdish soldiers on Monday continued sporadic fighting in several
villages
around Halabja and along the Iran-Iraq border near the village of
Sargat,
site of a destroyed building once allegedly used by Ansar militants to
produce poison.

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said
Sunday the
Sargat compound was probably the site where militants made a
biological
toxin, traces of which were later found by police in London.

We think that's probably where the ricin that was found in London
came
(from) he told CNN's Late Edition. At least the operatives and
maybe
some of the formulas came from this site.

British police raided a London apartment in January and found
traces of
ricin, a powerful poison made from castor plant beans. U.S. officials
believe the poison and those arrested were linked to Ansar.

The group's leader, Mullah Krekar, is being held in Norway on
charges of

Re: [CTRL] Why Liberals Hate America

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March 20, 2003 at 19:28:48



Why Liberals Hate America
Ron Marr / Troutwrapper -- In Bruce Springsteen's tune Glory
Days, The Boss weaves the tale of a guy whom we all know. He
sings of a middle-aged fellow whose life peaked as a high school
sports hero. The former jock's evenings are now spent at the local
bar, regaling all with stories of his brief success and synthetic
heroics.Such describes perfectly the liberal philosophy generally,
and Tom Daschle particularly.

Liberals suffer from a number of maladies and delusions, but
several are painfully obvious. First, not only are they incapable of
taking care of themselves, they cannot comprehend why they
should be FORCED to take care of themselves. They are terrified of
everything that is not pre-processed, homogenized and approved by
an official governmental entity. Governmental Entity, by the way, is
defined as Martin Sheen, a guy who's not the President but plays
one on TV.

That the recycling truck might be an hour late propels liberals into a
state of near hysteria. That someone might actually own a gun
sends them running to the therapist for Prozac, grief-counseling and
Deepak Chopra seminars. They seek order, safety and security at
any cost, rather than individuality, liberty and freedom.

The goals of a totalitarian, Fascist state are reflected in the
ramblings of liberal politicians and Hollywood idiots. They say they
want peace, but the sort of peace they seek is more akin to slavery
then it is the ideals upon which America was founded.

Following the Glory Days scenario, liberals are bitter, angry and
dogmatic. They cannot believe they lost the 2000 and 2002
elections. They feel the conservative ascendancy is an anomaly,
and wax nostalgic over the administration of a lecherous sociopath
who offered soothing words but never a vestige of reality, substance
or results. They yearn for a choreographed fantasy world which
disputes human nature. They swoon at the idea of standing on the
side of the hill while reciting poetry with talking raccoons and
drinking decaffeinated Coke.

Liberals want to play happily in a field of daisies, unable to accept
that we live in a time of daisy cutters. True, if their desires were the
rule of the land they would get their wish. Our enemies would gladly
provide that field of daisies, and make certain every single American
- liberal or conservative - was pushing them up.

The garden variety leftist attacks our country with every breath,
oblivious to the fact that their ability to speak out, to acquire their
toys, to travel and protest and whine, are provided by the very
system they despise. They know only hate for those who disagree
with their Utopian vision of unchecked liberalism. They immediately
label as racists any who counter their nonsensical ramblings with
the logic of protecting our sovereignty and future. They want but one
thing...for their fellow travelers to control Congress and the White
House.

The personification of this ideology is Tom Daschle. Shortly after the
President gave Saddam Hussein his ultimatum, the diminutive
Daschle donned his elevator shoes, climbed a tall stepladder and
stood on his soapbox. I am saddened that this president failed so
miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war, said Senator
Shortcake. I'm saddened that we have to give up one life because
this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was
so critical for our country.

South Dakota should be embarrassed. Daschle, still in shock over
his loss of the undeserved power and prestige he once held, never
misses an opportunity to engage in character assassination. He
doesn't ask questions. He blubbers. He is an angry little man who
cares far more about his party than he does his country.

Diplomacy? The President worked for months to try and bring a
speck of rationality to those who openly despise the US. Diplomacy
failed due to the irrelevant UN weasels who refused to enforce 12
years worth of their own mandates. They were led by France, a
country that sold Iraq nuclear materials and stands to risk billions of
dollars in oil contracts if their friendly neighborhood butcher is
deposed.

But the second half of Daschle's quote is far worse than the first. As
a government leader, Daschle should know that Saddam will
portray his moronic words as a sign that the American government
is in disarray at the highest level. He should know the Butcher will
use those words for propaganda purposes, hoping to fire up troops
that, perhaps, were losing their morale.

Tom is saddened? Well boo hoo. I'll be saddened if we lose one
American life because Daschle's self-serving attempt to stain
George Bush might convince a single Iraqi soldier that we are not
united, might lead him to think there's a chance of winning. I'm
saddened that giving such comfort to the enemy might convince one
of Saddam's minions to shoot a brave American soldier in the back,
rather than laying down his rifle in fear. I'm saddened 

[CTRL] Another missile Hans Blix missed

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Another missile Hans Blix missed
Baghdad was mass-producing, possibly exporting, 'al-Fatah'
http://g2.wnd.com/article/articleview/72/1/4/

© 2003 G2 Bulletin

Publishing date: 27.03.2003 18:45


Military experts examining the debris of an Iraqi artillery missile fired
on Kuwait were surprised to find the missile carried the name al-
Fatah – in English characters.

The missile system, also known as a-Babil-100, was manufactured
at the al-Maamun site southwest of Baghdad, and in other locations
such as the al-Haytham Missile Center. Hundreds of Iraqis, as well
as foreign technicians were, until recently employed in a mass
production project for the new missile.

In those facilities and others the Iraqis copied, developed and
manufactured weapons systems of the Frog (Free Rocket
Overground) Russian type, known also as Tochka-9-K-79 or in
NATO code SS-21-Scrab.

The markings on the downed missile were clearly in English,
suggesting two possibilities -- that Iraqis intended to export the
weapon system or that the a-Babil missile was partly produced
outside of Iraq.

Hans Blix

U.N. weapons inspectors, lately nicknamed by military officers as
the Hans Blix Gang, knew about but never issued a confirmation
on the existence of the missile. According to Global Security
Publication: In February 2003, U.N. weapons inspectors evaluated
the al-Fatah and, using computer models, assessed that the missile
is capable of flying 150 kilometers. One configuration was declared
by Iraq to have flown 161 kilometers in tests. However, the U.N.
inspectors declined to announce a formal conclusion on the missile
pending verification of Iraqi declarations. The inspectors also noted
that 32 al-Fatah had already been deployed with army units.

The fact that Iraq managed to develop the missile, a project which
started before the adoption of U.N.1991 resolution 687, is not only
proof of the inability of UNSCOM to enforce its mandate, but also to
the flexibility, ingenuity and adaptability of the Iraqi military industry
to new conditions and restrictions.

It is now clear the al-Maamun facility managed to deliver the al-
Fatah to the army and that the 400 mm missile is fully operational.
 Some sources estimate the number of operational al-Fatah missiles
at anywhere between 50 and 100 units. It is mainly based on the
Frog-7 system, but computer simulations suggest the missile
incorporates technologies from a number of countries, including
western. The Iraqis, like the Egyptians with whom they cooperated
before the first Gulf War and the Argentineans, managed to use
many components of the Russian Volga-SA2 surface-to-air missiles
and modify them into a surface to surface weapon.

The al-Fatah missile fired at the U.S. forces in Kuwait is described
as very mobile, a rocket launched from a special Zil-131 truck
chassis. This special vehicle can carry and launch a multiple
number of missiles, apparently up to six units, and is capable of
traveling fast on paved and dirt roads, as well as on hard surface
desert terrain. The system can easily be camouflaged, misleading
electronic satellite eyes to appear as a large trailer. It can be
successfully sheltered in garage bunkers, underground hangars and
other temporary fortifications.

Some information coming from Baghdad suggests the Zil trucks
were hidden in industrial and commercial buildings. Central
Intelligence Agency analysts are aware of live tests conducted in
Russia during October 1999, where at least 2 Frog-K-79 (NATO
code SS-21) were launched under real battlefield conditions. The
launchers were deployed in the Mosdak region, some 100
kilometers northwest of Grozny in Chechnya, and the missiles were
launched at Grozny, killing at least 143 people. Information and
complete data of the results of the tests were delivered to the Iraqis,
who translated them into the al-Fatah system.

The Iraqis used this technique of conducting tests abroad, or buying
test results from foreign countries and private enterprises, so as to
bypass U.N. restrictions. By doing so they prevented thorough U.S.
monitoring of their progress. Some of those tests were conducted in
Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan and maybe also in
some laboratories in the west, predominantly France, Italy, Germany
and Argentina. Until recent days Iraq has been maintaining excellent
technological-scientific relationships with other countries. Iraqi
experts were reported in dozens of countries involved in the
production of missiles and electronics.

The importance of the information on al-Fatah, as deriving from the
missiles fired on Kuwait, is the conclusion that other weapon
systems were not only being developed but also reached the
production level. There is no doubt that many of those weapons are
deployed in and around Baghdad.

Basic analysis of the al-Fatah suggests that it crossed the 150
kilometer range barrier, and through changes in its warhead, the
Iraqis may have developed the capability to launch 

[CTRL] Militants Gone, Caves in North Lie Abandoned

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30NO
RT.html?pagewanted=2th

March 30, 2003
Militants Gone, Caves in North Lie Abandoned
By C. J. CHIVERS



ILIP, Iraq, March 29 — Some of the cave entrances were slung low
and obscured by shadows, waist-high openings in cool, moss-
cloaked rock. Others were door-sized slots, tall enough for the
passage of upright men.

The caves, penetrating the darkness under the ridge at Dari
Baramaran, were among warrens of defenses in this remote valley
along northern Iraq's border with Iran, which until this weekend had
been controlled for nearly two years by Ansar al-Islam, a militant
Islamic group.

An American-coordinated ground offensive against the group
continued today with intensive fighting in small pockets in the
mountains, but officials said the military battle against Ansar al-
Islam was nearly over.

It began with cruise missile strikes a week ago and escalated on
Friday when about 100 United States Special Forces soldiers and
10,000 local Kurdish fighters seized a network of villages from
Ansar and drove the militants from their bases to nearby caves and
mountains.

The United States contends that Ansar is a terrorist group that links
Al Qaeda and Baghdad, and cited the group's operations in the
largely autonomous Kurdish zone of northern Iraq as one of the
justifications for the war against Saddam Hussein.

The Kurds said at least 176 Ansar fighters had died. About 150
more were said to have surrendered to the Iranian authorities at the
border. Pockets of resistance in the mountains could be heard
returning fire, but Kurdish military officers said the outcome seemed
certain.

They will all be finished because there is no choice, said Gen.
Mustafa Said Qadir, commander of military forces in the eastern
Kurdish zone. There is just death.

Kurdish and American soldiers also captured two Islamic fighters
alive, including a Palestinian man who appeared to provide further
proof of the group's connections to the international jihad. The
Palestinian, Ahmed Muhammad Tawil, from Rafah in the Gaza
Strip, was taken into custody near here.

He was a large and dirt-caked man with a filthy beard, a cracked-
toothed smile and a bullet wound in his left calf. He limped into the
company of three American journalists tonight, handcuffed and
escorted by guards.

He gagged repeatedly, as if to vomit, and then was cheerfully
defiant, saying the United States was an Israeli toy.

I struggle against you, fight against you, he said. If I die, or kill, or
am arrested, it is because of you. You are the criminals, the
American people.

His Kurdish guards presented him as evidence of what seemed a
nearly total victory. Signs of a rout could be seen here, in this
network of hastily departed caves, where Ansar fighters abandoned
food, clothing and ammunition, and fled for higher ground.

It was a setting reminiscent of Afghanistan, a mix of natural caves
and those improved by man. Some were large, others small.

The most sophisticated was about 50 feet wide by 20 feet high.
Inside, Ansar had built two rooms resembling subterranean houses,
complete with plastered walls, thatched roofs and paned windows
— accessible only through a simple slot of unfinished stone.

The cave entrances offered paradoxical sights throughout the day.

A few hundred yards away, American Special Forces fighters called
in heavy machine guns mounted on Humvees, and the column of
guns began firing in the valley, at the remnants of Ansar. The
canyon boomed intermittently all afternoon.

But here, Kurdish fighters lounged and chatted, napping and eating
after a night of mountain fighting. Some slept deeply, afloat on the
spring's surge of fresh clover and bright red wildflowers.

Other Kurds fired rockets, taking aim at positions where remaining
Ansar fighters had taken refuge in the local peaks and gorges.

Having been pushed from their positions with great speed on Friday,
the Ansar fighters had also abandoned their heavy weapons.

Ansar and its 650 or so fighters had been feared in northern Iraq
since 2001, when they ambushed a column of Kurdish fighters near
here. It has since deployed assassins and suicide bombers, and
succeeded in infantry raids against the secular Kurdish authorities,
whom it rejects as infidel rulers.

But today Ansar seemed on the verge of military insignificance. We
are very excited, said Dr. Barham Salih, the Kurdish region's prime
minister. It will be over before too long.

Even as skirmishes raged, Kurdish official said they were sifting
through intelligence collected at Ansar's offices and command
posts. Lots of documentation and computers have been captured,
Dr. Salih said.

But not all the news was cheerful. No Americans were wounded in
the fighting, but 22 Kurdish fighters were killed and 73 were
wounded, local officials said.

As Kurds grieved for their dead, and Special Forces fighters
crisscrossed the newly claimed territory in pickup trucks and 

[CTRL] Fwd: A stop-the-war stance I could accept

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On 30 Mar 2003 at 6:31, Tim Parker wrote:

How about:

''Stop Hanging teenage girls who disagree with you''

-Original Message-

A stop-the-war stance I could accept

Even the stubbornest antiwar types must've come to the conclusion by now
that marching and shouting isn't going to dissuade the coalition from doing
whatever it wants.

Time for a change of tactics, then.

Seems to me the war will end when Saddam surrenders, right?  Hence, some
signs worth waving:

SAVE THE CHILDREN: SADDAM SURRENDER!

NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL: SADDAM GET OUT NOW!

STOP THE WAR NOW!  SADDAM LEAVE!

STOP THE BOMBING!  SADDAM SURRENDER!


...feel free to share these thoughts with your antiwar friends.

--S.


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[CTRL] Fwd: A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour

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On 29 Mar 2003 at 23:43, toni howard wrote:

GULF WAR II: Brit support grows for conflict + Officer reveals brutality

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/news4.html

A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour

By Ian Kirby, Political Editor

A SMILING teenage girl who waved at patrolling British soldiers and
accepted a big-hearted squaddie's gift of chocolate was HANGED by agents
of Saddam.

The butchers of the dictator's corrupt Ba'ath party had spied on the
Muslim youngster from an alleyway in Az Zubayr near Basra.

Battle-hardened troops of the 1st Batallion, The Royal Irish Regiment
choked back tears when they later saw her limp beaten body swaying from
a lamp-post in the ramshackle south Iraq town held by Allies.

And yesterday their grim-faced commander, Lt Colonel Tim Collins chewed
on a cigar and confirmed:

A teenage girl who waved at my troops was hanged within the hour.

These daily outrages have made us more determined than ever to crush
Saddam's evil regime. There's still much fear among the people we're
meeting.

Our mission is to assuage it, to fill the power vacuum left by the
decapitation of the Ba'ath Party.

You have to understand that nobody under the age of 45 has ever known
life without it. They have no concept or inkling of freedom-and that's a
heavy weight on our shoulders.

 We came into this area hard and at no little risk. We've had great
success in cutting off the Ba'ath Party here.

 Its chief who was Lord God On High in these parts is currently
considering his options in a Prisoner of War cage.

 I'd reserved judgment on him-and then I found the knuckleduster in his
drawer.

 One of the few good things I can say about the party is that they keep
meticulous records.

 We established all the names of local members. We knew they were
threatening people co-operating with us, so we paid some of them a visit
overnight.

 It's not straightforward but it works. One man found a shot through
his kitchen floor helped him remember where his weapon was hidden.


Belfast-born Lt Col Collins (pictured above) wears trendy Ray-Ban
sunglasses and a kukri-the blade he is entitled to carry as a Gurkha
commander. His troops are distributing food and medical supplies and
restoring water and power while Ba'ath thugs terrorise the population.

The soldiers have seen the mass graves Saddam's henchmen dug for their
countrymen murdered for co-operating with US troops during the last Gulf
War in 1991.

This time round, in an unspeakable act of barbarism, children had their
throats slit.

And yesterday families fleeing Basra were fired on by Iraqi troops.
Compassionate US marines picked up children and took them to safety.

Royal Irish Regiment soldiers foiled a plot by the Ba'ath monsters to
assassinate one of their comrades as 'reprisal' for their liberation of
the town.

Lt Col Collins, who gave a rousing speech to his men at the start of the
war, stormed: There will be no murders on my watch. We came into this
area with excellent intelligence and have since made first-class local
contacts. At the risk of their lives local people offered information to
my patrols and it was spot-on. It saved the life of one of my men.

Lt Col Collins based himself in the Ba'ath party HQ as a psychological
move.

On the front door, one of his men has defiantly scrawled: Welcome to
Free Iraq.

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[CTRL] Fwd: [I-S] Exclusive: 'Terrified of Saddam Hussein'

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On 30 Mar 2003 at 0:03, daisy meme wrote:



[When we finally made it to Safwan, Iraq, what we saw was utter chaos.
Iraqi men, women and children were playing it up for the TV cameras,
chanting: With our blood, with our souls, we will die for you Saddam.

I took a young Iraqi man, 19, away from the cameras and asked him why
they were all chanting that particular slogan, especially when
humanitarian aid trucks marked with the insignia of the Kuwaiti Red
Crescent Society, were distributing some much-needed food.

His answer shouldn't have surprised me, but it did.

He said: There are people from Baath here reporting everything that
goes on. There are cameras here recording our faces. If the Americans
were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before,
we want to make sure that we survive the massacre that would follow as
Baath go house to house killing anyone who voiced opposition to Saddam.
In public, we always pledge our allegiance to Saddam, but in our hearts
we feel something else.]



Exclusive: 'Terrified of Saddam Hussein'
Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24481

UMM QASR/BASRA, 30 March 2003 - Four days ago my friend, Mohammed
Al-Deleami and I were invited by Abdul Rahman Almotawa, a journalist at
our sister publication Asharq Al-Awsat, to accompany him on a trip
organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information to report on the
humanitarian relief effort at Safwan, an Iraqi town at the Kuwaiti
border.

I jumped at the opportunity to get past the Kuwaiti Army checkpoint at
Mutla', which was the biggest obstacle keeping me from entering Iraq. As
we raced to catch up to the convoy heading out of Kuwait, I told
Almotawa that if the opportunity presented itself for us to break away
from the ministry's convoy once we got into Iraq, that we should, as
such an opportunity may not present itself again.

When Mohammed and I left our hotel, we had no idea that that would be
exactly what happened. We were ill-prepared for we had nothing but our
gas masks, which we carried everywhere, the clothes on our backs, my
cameras, a satellite phone, a Kuwaiti mobile and laptop.

After 75 minutes of driving in a manner likely to get me arrested in
most countries, we were able to catch up to the convoy as it passed
through the dreaded checkpoint at Mutla', where we had been turned back
several times in the days before.

When we finally made it to Safwan, Iraq, what we saw was utter chaos.
Iraqi men, women and children were playing it up for the TV cameras,
chanting: With our blood, with our souls, we will die for you Saddam.

I took a young Iraqi man, 19, away from the cameras and asked him why
they were all chanting that particular slogan, especially when
humanitarian aid trucks marked with the insignia of the Kuwaiti Red
Crescent Society, were distributing some much-needed food.

His answer shouldn't have surprised me, but it did.

He said: There are people from Baath here reporting everything that
goes on. There are cameras here recording our faces. If the Americans
were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before,
we want to make sure that we survive the massacre that would follow as
Baath go house to house killing anyone who voiced opposition to Saddam.
In public, we always pledge our allegiance to Saddam, but in our hearts
we feel something else.

Different versions of that very quote, but with a common theme, I would
come to hear several times over the next three days I spent in Iraq.

The people of Iraq are terrified of Saddam Hussein.

I broke away from the hundreds of people literally climbing over one
another and fighting to get a box of the rations being distributed. What
ended up happening is that the weak and the elderly who needed the food
most were getting nothing, whereas the young and fit were getting up to
six boxes each.

I broke away from this disgusting scene and wandered into the desert to
take some pictures of the elderly and young children picking through the
heaps of trash, having given up on getting any of the rations, searching
for food. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a British Army convoy
driving through Safwan heading north being followed by one, then two,
then three SUV's marked TV.

I ran back to Arab News' SUV and yelled at Abdul Rahman and Mohammed to
get in. Of course, they asked why I was screaming at them like a mad
man. I explained that the opportunity to get into Iraq was driving away
from us.

I turned to Abdul Rahman and said: Decide right now. Are you in or
not?

He thought of his wife and children and how volatile and unpredictable
the situation in Iraq and working with me could be, and opted to stay.

My friend, Mohammed Al-Deleami, jumped right in without hesitation.

We caught up to the convoy of TV crews and army vehicles and just drove
behind them. Within minutes we were on an Iraqi freeway, with signs
directing us to Umm Qasr, Basra and Baghdad.

I was ecstatic. 

[CTRL] An Open Letter to Robin Cook

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 http://israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2128

An Open Letter to Robin Cook
by Yoram Halberstam
March 27, 2003

Mr Cook,

On March 17 you made the decision to resign from Tony Blair's
government. Your statement on this occasion in the House of
Commons was used as a platform to misinform the House and the
British public. You stated that you have heard that Iraq has not
had months but 12 years in which to complete [compliance with UN
resolutions]... Yet it is over 30 years since resolution 242 called on
Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. This analogy
between Iraq and Israel is not only wrong, it is a premeditated
attempt to mislead on your part.

Mr Cook, your statement does not attempt to redress the strong
sense of injustice throughout the Muslim world, it only helps them in
their attempt to continue to mislead world opinion at large. UN
Resolution 242 is not under Chapter VII of the United Nations
Charter, unlike most of the 17 UN Resolutions against Iraq. You
should know that only the resolutions under this Chapter allow the
use of force to impose the will of the international community.

Mr Cook, UN Resolution 242 only applies to countries that were
taking part in the war with Israel, which started on June 5th 1967.
Those countries were Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Palestine was not
at war with Israel, as it did not exist on paper, in history or in the
hearts and minds of the Jordanian and Egyptian population that,
today, call themselves Palestinians. Judea and Samaria were
annexed by Jordan in 1950. They were renamed the West Bank
by the Jordanians - that is west of Jordan, not east of a country that
supposedly was taken over by the Jewish state. This annexation
was never recognized by the United Nations, only by Britain and
Pakistan. The reason why the annexation of this land was not
recognized is because it was not a definite border. The so called
1967 borders were no borders. On the contrary, they were an
armistice line drawn up by the UN and which ended the 1948-49 war
launched by the Arabs to destroy the State of Israel. Again no
reference to Palestine's borders. Should you care to look in a
dictionary you shall see that armistice means a temporary
cessation of fighting by mutual consent or a truce. Again, no
reference to defined borders. Nevertheless, Britain decided in 1950
to go along with Pakistan and recognize the legitimacy of the new
border of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Under UN Security Council Resolution 242, Israel is only expected
to withdraw from territories to secure and recognized boundaries
and not ‘from all of the territories’ captured in the Six-Day War. This
language was the result of months of negotiations within the United
Nations. Therefore, the Security Council recognized that Israel was
entitled to part of these territories for new defensible borders. The
later UN Resolution 338 made it clear that such peace must be
achieved through negotiations not though military imposition. Iraq
resolution 660, on the other hand, demands that Iraq withdraw
immediately and unconditionally all its forces to the positions in
which they were located on 1 August 1990. This demand was
passed under Chapter VII with UN Resolution 678.

Mr Cook, under the UN Resolution you are referring to and under
UN Resolution 338, the negotiations would determine from which
territory Israel must withdraw. You seem to have forgotten that the
result of peace agreements between the parties must result in
termination of all claims and respect for and acknowledgment of
the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence . A
peace agreement has been signed with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in
1994; therefore, there cannot be any claim of territories, because
the only ones that can claim it where the countries that formerly held
these territories before the Six-Day War and until such time as they
signed peace pacts with Israel.

UN Resolution 242 did indeed refer to these territories as
occupied; however, you have once again mislead the House of
Commons into calling them as such in 2003. The term occupied
was and is only used to refer to the responsibility for the well-being
of a civilian population where the 1949 Geneva Convention applies.

This convention states that the Occupying Power shall be bound
by the Convention rules to the extent that such Power exercises the
functions of government in such territory. Since the Declaration of
Principle signed at Oslo, Israel has given up these functions of
government and transferred power to the Palestinian Authority in
areas where most of the Arab civilians live. In March 1994, U.S.
Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright, stated: We simply do
not support the description of the territories occupied by Israel in the
1967 War as occupied Palestinian territory. On May 4 1998, James
Baker was interviewed by Hoda Tawfik from the newspaper al-
Ahram. He was asked, What do you think is right? That these are
occupied Arab 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [American_Liberty] A visit to relatives in Baghdad radically changed my mind

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Mike Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:47:01 -
0600

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-040242-4131r

By Ken Joseph Jr.
 From the Life  Mind Desk

Published 3/27/2003

AMMAN, Jordan, March 27 (UPI) -- I was wrong. I had opposed the war on
Iraq in my radio program, on television and in my regular columns --
and I participated in demonstrations against it in Japan. But a visit
to relatives in Baghdad radically changed my mind.

I am an Assyrian Christian, born and raised in Japan, where my father
had moved after World War II to help rebuild the country. He was a
Protestant minister, and so am I.

As an Assyrian I was told the story of our people from a young age --
how my grandparents had escaped the great Assyrian Holocaust in 1917,
settling finally in Chicago.

There are some 6 million Assyrians now, about 2.5 million in Iraq and
the rest scattered across the world. Without a country and rights even
in our native land, it has been the prayer of generations that the
Assyrian Nation will one day be restored.

A few weeks ago, I traveled to Iraq with supplies for our Church and
family. This was my first visit ever to the land of my forefathers.
The first order of business was to attend Church. During a simple meal
for peace activists after the service, an older man sounded me out
carefully.

Finally he felt free to talk: There is something you should know --
we didn't want to be here tonight. When the priest asked us to gather
for a Peace Service, we said we didn't want to come because we don't
want peace. We want the war to come.

What in the world are you talking about? I blurted.

Thus began a strange odyssey that shattered my convictions. At the
same time, it gave me hope for my people and, in fact, hope for the
world.

Because of my invitation as a religious person and family
connections, I was spared the government snoops who ordinarily tail
foreigners 24 hours a day.

This allowed me to see and hear amazing things as I stayed in the
homes of several relatives. The head of our tribe urged me not to
remain with my people during its time of trial but instead go out and
tell the world about the nightmare ordinary Iraqis are going through.

I was to tell the world about the terror on the faces of my family
when a stranger knocked at the door. Look at our lives! they said.
We live like animals -- no food, no car, no telephone, no job -- and,
most of all, no hope.

That's why they wanted this war.

You can not imagine what it is to live like this for 20, 30 years. We
have to keep up our routine lest we would lose our minds.

But I realized in every household that someone had already lost his or
her mind; in other societies such a person would be in a mental
hospital. I also realized that there wasn't a household that did not
mourn at least one family member who had become a victim of this
police state.

I wept with relatives whose son just screamed all day long. I cried
with a relative who had lost his wife. Yet another left home every day
for a job where he had nothing to do. Still another had lost a son
to war and a husband to alcoholism.

As I observed the slow death of a people without hope, Saddam Hussein
seemed omnipresent. There were his statues; posters showed him with
his hand outstretched or firing his rifle, or wearing an Arab
headdress. These images seemed to be on every wall, in the middle of
the road, in homes.

Everything will be all right when the war is over, people told me.
No matter how bad it is, we will not all die. Twelve years ago, it
went almost all the way but failed. We cannot wait anymore. We want
the war, and we want it now.

When I told members of my family that some sort of compromise with
Iraq was being worked out at the United Nations, they reacted not with
joy but anger: Only war will get out of our present condition.

This reminded me of the stories I heard from older Japanese who had
welcomed the sight of American B-29 bombers in the skies over their
country as a sign that the war was coming to an end. True, these
planes brought destruction -- but also hope.

I felt terrible about having demonstrated against the war without
bothering to ask what the Iraqis wanted. Tears streamed down my face
as I lay in my bed in a tiny Baghdad house crowded in with 10 other
people of my own flesh and blood, all exhausted, all without hope. I
thought, How dare I claim to speak for people I had not even asked
what they wanted?

Then I began a strange journey to let the world know of the true
situation in Iraq, just as my tribe had begged me to. With great risk
to myself and those who had told their stories and allowed my camera
into their homes, I videotaped their plight.

But would I get that tape out of the country?

To make sure I was not simply getting the feelings of the oppressed
Assyrian minority, I spoke to dozens of other people, all terrified.
Over and over, they told me: We would be killed for speaking like
this.

Yet they did 

[CTRL] Fwd: Saddam Hussein's Ongoing War Against the Iraqis

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On 28 Mar 2003 at 8:05, someone from another list wrote:

[Iraq has violated sixteen UN Security Council resolutions, most of
which were passed under the rarely used Chapter VII, which makes them
legally biding on all UN members to enforce by military means if
necessary. What is the point of these resolutions if the member nations
of the UN do not show the will to enforce them?]

Saddam Hussein's Ongoing War Against the Iraqis
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/templ/display.cfm?id=336dis=2
By Safia Taleb Al Souhail

Safia Taleb Al Souhail is Advocacy Director for the Middle East and
Islamic World at the International Alliance for Justice (www.i-a-j.org),
and the publisher of the independent newspaper Al Manar Al Arabi. Al
Souhail participated in a delegation of nine Iraqi women who met with
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on December 2nd 2002, to brief him on
the persecution of their communities in Iraq. This perspective is based
on the delegation's remarks.

As we watch UN inspectors search Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, I
ask, why are there no UN inspectors investigating Saddam Hussein's
crimes against the Iraqi people? Along with hidden caches of biological
and chemical weapons, Iraq also has hidden torture chambers, prisons and
mass graves.

In Saddam's Iraq, women are especially vulnerable pressure points -
victims who can be used to influence other victims. They are harassed,
abused, raped, tortured and gassed both for their resistance to the
regime and as a means to control their families. For reasons like this,
other Iraqi women and I have been organizing to get our voices heard in
the international arena. Last December we met with Prime Minister Tony
Blair of Britain to brief him on the Ba'th regime's systematic abuse of
women in Iraq, and how our families and communities have been persecuted
by Saddam's regime.

Zahraa Mohammed is a Shi'a, Feyli Kurd from Baghdad.  She described to
Mr. Blair how she was imprisoned with her family for three months in
1980, during a mass deportation campaign of Feyli Kurds from Iraq to
Iran. Saddam's regime has conducted three such campaigns, in 1969, 1971
and 1980, in which hundreds of thousands of Feyli Kurds were expelled
and lost all their property.

Saddam's agents took away Mohammed's four brothers and eight cousins,
and dumped the rest of her family on the heavily mined Iranian border.
To this day, she does not know what happened to her brothers and
hundreds of other relatives who have also disappeared.   In total, seven
thousand young men of the Feyli Kurdish community were taken hostage in
April 1980, and twenty-three years later their fate remains unknown.

Berivan Dosky, a Kurd from northern Iraq, described how her mother was
forced to flee her village in Duhok province in the 1961 Iraqi war
against the Kurds, merely two hours after giving birth to Berivan.
Berivan herself was later forced to repeat the scenario with her
three-month-old son.  In 1988, during a chemical attack against the
Kurds, Berivan had to make a Faustian choice:  She had only one gas
mask, and had to decide whether to use it for herself, or give it to her
then two-year-old son. She decided neither would wear it; they would
either live or die together. Berivan is worried that Saddam will once
again use chemical weapons against the Iraqi Kurds who live in the
British and American-protected Kurdish safe haven. She asked Mr. Blair
to make sure that there are enough gas masks for everyone.

Fatima Bahr-al-Ulum is a Shi'a from a respected religious family in
Najaf, in Southern Iraq.  She listed over twenty clergy members in her
immediate family who are in prison; none of them were released in the
recent amnesty. Scores of others have been killed.  The Iraqi Shi'as
have suffered greatly from the discriminatory policies of Saddam's
regime, which has massacred over two hundred thousand Shi'as, murdered
five of their religious leaders (Al Maraji'), and destroyed their Marsh
lands, known as the Venice of the Middle East.   All the great Sh'ia
religious families in Iraq, like Fatima Ulum's, have been targeted by
Saddam's regime for their opposition to its brutal policies.

Layla Kelenchy, a Turkoman from Kirkuk, in Northern Iraq, described how
she was expelled from her home during the 1990's as part of Saddam's
Arabization campaign in which Sunni Arab Iraqis are resettled around
the country to disrupt other Iraqi ethnic communities.  There are an
estimated one million non-Arab refugees within Iraq who have been
displaced by Saddam's ethnic cleansing campaign and live in refugee
camps or scattered in various cities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Melina Bakhos, an Assyrian poet, told the Prime Minister how Saddam's
regime has destroyed more than two hundred villages, and dozens of
ancient churches and monasteries, in her small Christian Assyrian
community. Only this summer, his agents beheaded a 72-year-old nun in a
Mosul Church. Hundreds of Iraqi women have been beheaded in the last 

[CTRL] Al-Jazeera Web hijack

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030328/152/dwhdq.html

Friday March 28, 09:35 AM

FBI to investigate Al-Jazeera Web hijack
By Robert Lemos, CNET News.com


Visitors to both the Arabic and English versions of the Al-Jazeera
Web site on Thursday were greeted with an American flag and a
pro-US message, the work of an apparent online vandal.

The FBI has opened an investigation into the attack on Al-Jazeera's
Web site, a representative with the bureau has said. The Middle
Eastern news service was the victim of a domain hijacking. The
actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by
NetWorld Connections. Technically known as a redirect, the hack
caused Web browsers that attempted to go to www.aljazeera.net --
as well as the English-language site -- to be surreptitiously
redirected to the content hosted on NetWorld's servers.

The NetWorld service detected a spike in traffic early on Thursday
morning, and an email from a security specialist confirmed that
visitors to Al-Jazeera were being redirected to NetWorld's service,
said Ken Bowman, chief executive of the Salt Lake City company.
We pulled down the content immediately, Bowman said. He added
that VeriSign, which administers the domain registry, eliminated the
redirect later in the morning. They never even touched (Al-
Jazeera's) site, he said.

The problem has been corrected by eliminating the redirect and
reinstating the correct addresses for Al-Jazeera's sites. However,
the changes take time, up to three days, to filter throughout the
Internet. Moreover, even without the redirect issue, Al-Jazeera's
sites may remain unreachable as they continue to come under
attack by online vandals flooding the news outlet's network with
data.

A representative of VeriSign couldn't immediately answer questions
regarding how the domain had been hijacked.

VeriSign maintains the Internet registry for the .com, .net, .cc and .tv
top-level domains and administers the authoritative database for all
domain names registered in those top-level domains.

The records from the whois database -- the distributed directory that
holds information about each domain -- indicated early on Thursday
that online vandals had managed to forge new domain records.
Such records typically describe the services that are offered by a
particular domain, such as Web, mail and file hosting.

Instead, VeriSign's records pertaining to Al-Jazeera had apparently
been replaced by data that pointed to name servers hosted by
MyDomain.com. Those name servers in turn referred Web requests
to the defacement site located at NetWorld.

MyDomain has learned from NavLink, the company that hosts the
aljazeera.net Web site from its data centres in France, that Al-
Jazeera's domain name account at Network Solutions (a subsidiary
of VeriSign) was compromised, MyDomain.com said in a statement
on Thursday. NavLink has confirmed...that it has regained access
to the account at Network Solutions and changed the name servers
back to the correct settings.

Email messages to NavLink requesting comment weren't
immediately answered. MyDomain believed that changes would take
as long as 72 hours to filter out to all parts of the Internet.

The defacement is the latest in a flurry of activity surrounding the
Middle Eastern news service.

Al-Jazeera has had to contend with both technical problems and
attacks this entire week.

The Arab satellite TV network launched its English-language Web
site on Monday, attracting significant media coverage. The site
hosts the station's controversial video coverage, which has included
images of US soldiers killed and taken prisoner.

The controversy and resulting media coverage has also made the
site a target of a number of online miscreants.

Let Freedom Ring! stated Thursday's defacement, featuring a
large American flag and signed by a vandal with the handle Patriot
and claiming to be part of a group called the Freedom Cyber Force
Militia. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!

NetWorld's Bowman said the site had been created using a free
hosting service that the company offers. He also explained that,
because the service is free, the company doesn't keep very rigorous
watch on the activities.

All the supplied information was fictitious, he said, quashing any
possibility of aiding in a law enforcement investigation. It's is a free
site, so we don't track any data. We don't track the Internet
addresses or anything else. It would take a staff of about 500 to do
so.

Bowman said they are analysing what happened and may change
the way the free portion of the site is administered to prevent future
incidents.

One security expert familiar with the defacement scene said that he
had never heard of a group called Freedom Cyber Force Militia.
We didn't hear about many other defacers who hacked right
(before) the war, the administrator of Zone-H.org, a popular
security and defacement news site, said in an email interview. I
guess a lot of IT (security) professionals took the chance of this war

[CTRL] fWD: Tony Blair's unlikely partnership

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On 28 Mar 2003 at 11:38, toni howard wrote:

Tony Blair's unlikely partnership
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2895793.stm

By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
Last Updated:  Friday, 28 March, 2003, 15:25 GMT

The question is often asked, and is being asked even more frequently now
that things are getting rough in Iraq: Why has Tony Blair hitched his
wagon to that of George Bush and the Republican Party?

On the face of it, a moderate left of centre British Labour Party prime
minister who was a pal of the Democrat leader Bill Clinton has little in
common with the born again conservative Republican president.

Even less so when you consider the kind of figures who surround Mr Bush.


The option was open to him to do what the then British Prime Minister
Harold Wilson did with President Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam war.

He did not publicly criticise the Americans but did not send troops.
Tony Blair is not however Harold Wilson.

And yet, going back to an earlier Camp David meeting shortly after Mr
Bush was elected president, the signs were there that Tony and George
would be an item as much as Tony and Bill were.

They made a joke at the news conference they held - in shirt sleeves on
that day, not in the suits they wore after their latest talks - that
they used the same brand of toothpaste.

It became a symbol of their closeness.

The British ambassador in Washington at the time, Sir Christopher Meyer,
who had been to Texas to see George Bush when he was still governor,
became a fan of Mr Bush as well.

He and Tony Blair saw in the new American president a more thoughtful
man than the media caricature had suggested.

They believed their assessment to be confirmed after the attacks on New
York and Washington of 11 September.

Christopher Meyer recounted later how on the evening of 20 September,
before President Bush went to Congress to deliver his war on terror
speech, the two men spoke in the White House.

The British side was impressed at how calm the president was, and how he
readily agreed that there should be no attack on Afghanistan until there
had been an ultimatum to the Taleban.

Here, they felt, was a man of reason as well as determination.

The following weekend, again at Camp David, Mr Bush ruled out an
immediate attack on Iraq.

Those events, and the subsequent decision by George Bush to go to the
Security Council over Iraq, have fed Tony Blair's belief that the
American president is not a Texas cowboy.

'Visionary and opportunist'

But that in itself is not enough to explain Tony Blair's position.

A large part of the answer to the question lies in his own character.

There is a visionary side to Tony Blair which cannot be underestimated

Those who are surprised at his role over Iraq should remember what
happened four years ago over Kosovo.

It was Tony Blair who was pressing for ground troops - 50,000 British
soldiers if necessary - to be sent into Kosovo if the bombing campaign
against Serbia failed to move the then Yugoslav leader Slobodan
Milosevic.

He was way out in front of the cautious Mr Clinton.

There is a visionary side to Tony Blair which cannot be underestimated.
After all, he revolutionised his own party.

He talks about right and wrong. And he has staying power.

A columnist for the London Times, Michael Gove, compared him to William
Pitt, who fought against Napoleon.

He is the pilot who weathered the storm. Tony Blair may not appreciate
the comparison with William Pitt but the prime minister is a leader who
has seen through a war and emerged with his international reputation
enhanced, wrote Gove two years ago.

Michael Gove now says that events since 11 September have enhanced Tony
Blair's role with the Americans and have shown that he is neither a
geopolitical gnat nor a poodle.

Others however see a more opportunistic side to Tony Blair, a leader who
has cosied up too close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and who has
all but ignored what is going on in Chechnya.

There is also the suspicion that Mr Blair likes to be a figure on the
world stage which he could not be if he settled quietly into the
conformity of a common European foreign and security policy.

He is also seen as an American salesman.

Nelson Mandela dismissed him with the comment: He is the foreign
minister of the United States.

The war is going to test the relationship.

There are tensions about the exact role of the United Nations in a
future Iraq, over contracts for reconstruction, over American reluctance
to press Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.

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[CTRL] Fwd: CAS: British Link Iraq to al-Qaeda

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On 28 Mar 2003 at 9:13, DOC wrote:

 Unfortunately, this will not change anyone's mind.

As we all know, radlibs conveniently ignore facts
that are contrary to their agenda.


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/28/90101.shtml

British Link Iraq to al-Qaeda

NewsMax.com Wires Friday, March 28, 2003

British intelligence officials said they now had evidence of a direct
link between the Iraqis and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.

British intelligence officers have learned that up to a dozen al-Qaeda
volunteers were fighting alongside the pro-Baghdad guerrilla forces in As
Zubaya, a town outside Basra.

After a British raid on the Baath Party headquarters in As Zubaya
Wednesday to capture paramilitary leaders, Arabic-speaking intelligence
officers interrogated the captured defenders. They were told that
volunteers from al-Qaeda were taking part in the town's defense and
helping to organize the pro-Baghdad resistance.

Transcripts of the interrogations have been shared with U.S. military
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who are simply trying to escape the war zone? What fear kept
them from executing some of our POWs and displaying their
corps on Arab TV network, Al-Jazeera? More likely, Saddam has
yet to use chemical weapons because most of his chem-warfare
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[CTRL] Taliban extremists execute foreign aid worker in central Afghanistan

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Excerpt:  The attackers pulled out the only foreigner in the convoy
and in front of Afghan ICRC staff, executed him in cold blood with
Kalashnikovs, calling him an infidel and unbeliever, Mr Mohammad
said.



This story was printed from channelnewsasia.com

Taliban extremists execute foreign aid worker in central Afghanistan
28 March 2003 1606 hrs (SST)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/35995/1/.ht
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Taliban extremists have executed in cold blood a foreign aid
worker in central Afghanistan, government officials said Friday.
The 39-year-old Salvadoran national was attacked in central
Oruzgan province on Thursday while working for the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The victim was working on a project to improve water supplies in the
town of Tehrin Kot, according to a statement released Thursday by
the ICRC in Geneva.

The ICRC representative, a Swiss citizen of Salvadoran origin, was
the only foreigner in a convoy of two vehicles travelling from the
southern city of Kandahar to Oruzgan province, said Oruzgan
governor Jan Mohammad.

The attackers pulled out the only foreigner in the convoy and in
front of Afghan ICRC staff, executed him in cold blood with
Kalashnikovs, calling him an infidel and unbeliever, Mr Mohammad
said.

No one else was killed, all the Afghans were spared. These were
Talibans and supporters of al-Qaeda who committed this murder.
They set fire to one of the two vehicles and stole the other to make
their escape, he said.

Their convoy was travelling shortly after a three-vehicle government
motorcade of Oruzgan officials heading in the other direction was
attacked on the same spot, apparently by the same group of
assailants, Mr Mohammad said.

The three vehicles were torched, but the passengers escaped.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) (fwd) The Dems' Michael Moore Problem

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Jewish World Review March 25, 2003 / 21 Adar II, 5763

Laura Ingraham

The Dems' Michael Moore Problem

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | …[W]e live in fictitious times-a time
when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious
president-a time when a man is sending us to war for fictitious
reasons. --Michael Moore, accepting his Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature.

Don't get suckered into believing that Moore's anti-Bush, anti-war rant
is an isolated viewpoint on the far-left of the Democrat party.  The
dirty little secret is that most Dem-elite intellectuals agree with
stupid white man Moore but are afraid to say so publicly.

The truth is that leading Democrat thinkers have at one time or
another explicitly or implicitly conveyed the same sentiments.  Take the
fictitious election comment.  Bill Clinton, still the titular head of
the Democrat Party, has made similar cracks.  Ditto for recovering
politician Al Gore.  At a speech in the Dominican Republic in December,
Gore asked the crowd, In your presidential election here, does the
candidate who gets the most votes win the election?

As for Moore's fictitious reasons for war comment, Senators Ted
Kennedy and Robert Byrd have made comparable charges in recent weeks.
When Moore refers to Bush as a fictitious president, what he really
means is that he is a stupid president.  When Tom Daschle last week
blamed the President's miserable failure in diplomacy for forcing war,
he too was really saying that Bush is dunce.  Tom the Towering Intellect
believes President Bush is woefully incapable of maneuvering in our
complex, interconnected world.  He's no Jacques Chirac.

The Dem-elites in Hollywood and Washington, utterly convinced of their
intellectual and moral superiority, are hopelessly out of touch with the
public whose welfare they claim to care so much about.  Take the
Oscars.  On a day when we learned that American POWs were being
humiliated before Iraqi television cameras, ABC decided the Academy ad
revenues were too big to pass up.  For the Academy, toning down the red
carpet was an adequate sacrifice.  Chef mogul Wolfgang Puck, who was
catering the big after-party bash for the Academy, wailed that if the
awards were cancelled, hundreds of pounds of imported sea bass would go
to waste.

Well, Americans spoke last night.  Ratings for the broadcast were down
23 percent from last year.  Some proudly boycotted the Oscars, others
opted to focus on what was happening in the real world.  Turns out that
the 70+ percent of those stupid Americans who support the President and
the war in Iraq were smart enough to tune out Hollywood's ill-timed
narcissistic exercise.  Actor Tom Hanks was classy enough to bow out,
undoubtedly uncomfortable with the spectacle.  On this channel, see our
brave military men and women in harms way, donning chemical suits.  Flip
to ABC and see Oscar nominees and presenters air-kissing one another for
their artistic sacrifices, clutching their $25,000 goodie bags, decked
out in couture.  Their idea of an MRE is a take-out order of capellini
with white truffles from the Ivy.

Democrats' confused, muddled foreign policy message isn't playing any
better with the American public than the Oscar ceremony played with
American television viewers.  The reason is that, except maybe for Joe
Lieberman and Dick Gephardt, Democrats have made it clear that they
believe that France should have veto authority over US national security
decisions.  Listen to Rep.  Nancy Pelosi before for war, and it's clear
that if France had agreed to the war, then she would be for it, too.

To heck with the fact that the American president, the intelligence
community, the entire Cabinet, believe the war is necessary for our
security!  To heck with the American people who support President Bush's
decision!  Guinea and Cameroon aren't on board!

That so many liberals see this as an illegitimate or even illegal
war is why liberalism is on life-support.  The Michael Moore
sympathizers in the Democrat party actually believe that the French (who
helped Iraq build a nuclear plant) and the Russians (who sell
unauthorized radar jamming equipment to Iraq) are acting in good
faith, but the President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are not.

The Dem-elites trust the judgment of the international community on
foreign policy.  Americans trust the judgment of their president.  The
Dem-elites are enamored with the UN.  Americans see the UN as a forum
for America-bashing.  The Dem-elites believe America has become too
arrogant. Americans think France is too arrogant.  The Dem-elites
don't like the idea of America as a super-power. Americans are proud
to be the strongest, freest country in the world.  The Dem-elites think
this war is our fault.  Americans think that it's Saddam's fault.

It would be refreshing if more in the entertainment industry confronted
the idiocy of Michael Moore. 

[CTRL] FW: Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago

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Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago

Oakland Township man says he later lived in fear
http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0303/25/a05-118470.htm
By Jennifer Brooks / The Detroit News

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP -- Gazi George is certain that Iraq is hiding weapons
of mass destruction, because he used to be one of the people hiding
them.

Two decades ago, while he was employed by the Iraqi Atomic Energy
Commission, George says he hid 39 rods of enriched uranium -- enough
to build two nuclear bombs -- in a hastily converted swimming pool
near the grounds of the Osirak nuclear power plants at Tuweitha.

Israeli fighter jets destroyed the plants in 1981. But to his
knowledge, no one ever discovered or destroyed the uranium.

Instead, when an international inspector came to visit the ruined
site, George said he was ordered to contaminate the grounds with alpha
emitters, materials that mimic a uranium spill. The inspector, he
said, went away satisfied that the plant's nuclear material had been
destroyed.

We faked the whole thing, said George, who fled the country soon
afterward.

Today, he runs a chemical and environmental consulting company and
lives comfortably in Oakland Township. But he has not forgotten the
five years he spent in the Iraqi nuclear program and has never stopped
looking over his shoulder, for fear Iraqi agents might appear to carry
out his sentence.

The former nuclear scientist, who was in charge of health and safety
programs at the Osirak plants, recalls harrowing years with his
country's fledgling nuclear plant. Perhaps the worst experience was a
secret bunker he visited -- hidden beneath a government agriculture
building -- where he was asked to test for radiation levels. He found
radioactive residue in syringes surrounded by bloody swabs and in
cages too small for a person to stand up.

He says political prisoners were locked up in those cages, injected
with radiation and exposed to an external bombardment of cobalt 60
radiation until their mouths bled, their skin blistered and they died.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) NM- Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese

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Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese Connection
Charles R. Smith
Tuesday March 25, 2003

There is one Iraqi weapon system with U.S.A. stamped on it; the NATO
code-named Tiger Song air defense system. Much of Tiger Song is U.S.
made fiber-optic network systems sold to China by the Clinton
administration.

The fiber-optic Tiger Song air defense network was installed in Iraq
during the 1990s by China in violation of the U.N. ban on weapons
sales to Baghdad. Tiger Song is a distributed network and it is
similar to the Internet, allowing Iraqi mobile radars and missile
units to link into the network from pre-positioned fiber optic sites.

Ironically, the Bush administration has so far denied an even greater
sale of sensitive U.S. fiber-optic systems to China. The Defense
Department opposes the sale of Global Crossing to Chinese billionaire
Li Ka-Shing and his Hutcheson Whampoa company for obvious national
security reasons.

Although, the U.S. Defense Department opposes the sale of the
fiber-optic giant Global Crossing to Hutcheson Whampoa, Li Ka-Shing is
fighting back.

Bush defense advisor Richard Perle, who was hired to advise Global
Crossing on security to satisfy the U.S. government's concerns,
conceded that the Chinese Army is in business with Hutcheson Whampoa
providing military communications for the PRC and that China has
provided fiber-optic systems to Iraq.

I am not surprised, he stated. I do not trust the Chinese
government on these matters. They have sold dangerous things to Iraq
and other nations.

It was very clear that the previous Global Crossing proposal was not
going to meet U.S. government requirements. The U.S. government is
concerned that the Hutcheson ownership will give them the ability to
do injury to U.S. national security. Hutcheson Whampoa will now end up
with 20% ownership. I have been retained to help Global Crossing find
a structure to protect U.S. national security, said Mr. Perle.

LI KA-SHING

As this reporter has previously written, Li Ka-Shing has a history of
helping the Chinese military erect communications networks using U.S.
made equipment. For example, in 1989 Li Ka-Shing raised $120 million
to buy a HUGHES built communications satellite for AsiaSat.

AsiaSat is also a front company for the People's Liberation Army
(PLA). According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, AsiaSat is
part owned by the Chinese Army unit COSTIND or the Commission on
Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The AsiaSat
Hughes satellite regularly carries military communications traffic
for PLA units and Chinese military owned companies.

A 1996 report written by then U.S. Ambassador to China James Sasser
alleges that the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(MPT) and Chinese billionaire Li Ka Shing were both directly involved
with the PLA in financing the communications networks for the Chinese
army.

The report also states that the PLA was directly involved in the
so-called civilian Chinese fiber optic communication systems.
Sasser's report noted that the PLA actively worked on a Ministry of
Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) fiber optic network that the
Clinton administration stated was civil for the House National
Security Committee.

For example, wrote Sasser, in laying long distance fiber optic
lines for the MPT's telephones and digital data network, the PLA has
provided soldiers to do much of the work. The PLA cadres are
considered disciplined and hard working. Once the cable has been laid,
the MPT typically allocates some of the bandwidth to the PLA.

In 1997, the Rand Corporation wrote a secret report on the Chinese
Defense Industry and it also included a section on billionaire Li Ka
Shing and his business with the Chinese Army. The Rand report was
obtained in a successful federal lawsuit against the Commerce
Department.

The Rand Corporation report highlights Li Ka-Shing's direct
connections to the Chinese military. According the Rand report,
Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire
Li Ka Shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts,
which would build upon his equity interest in [Chinese army]
Poly-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building
infrastructure on China's Hainan Island.

U.S. and allied forces are now fighting a Clinton-era mistake made in
1994 allowing the fiber-optic systems to be sold to China. The same
Tiger Song fiber optic system is now sending the commands of the Iraqi
military to fight our soldiers.

The Chinese Army would love to get its hands on Global Crossing. It is
clear from previous sales of such U.S. made systems to Li Ka-Shing
that the Chinese Army will benefit from that technology. It is just as
clear that - if given the opportunity - the Chinese Army will use
Global Crossing technology and assets against the national 

[CTRL] Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit

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Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit
Source: DJI - Dow Jones International News

Mar 25 07:25
JERUSALEM (AP)--International donors have frozen funding for a
leading Palestinian human rights group after an independent audit
raised suspicion that millions of dollars in grants has been
mismanaged, the European Union said Tuesday.

The group under scrutiny is called Law Society. Which has been
monitoring Israeli and Palestinian human rights abuses in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip since 1990.

An audit by the accounting firm Ernst  Young indicated that Law
Society funneled at least $1.5 million in donor money into a savings
account without the donors´ knowledge. The group did this by
overstating wages and other expenses and by falsifying annual
budget statements and audits, according to an initial report.

Israel´s Haaretz newspaper, citing the audit report, said Tuesday
that $4 million is unaccounted for. A partial copy of the report
obtained by The Associated Press makes note of about $2 million
that was apparently mismanaged.

The audit spans the period from September 1997 through August
2002, a time when LAW received nearly $10 million in grants.

The report names LAW´s former director, Khader Shkirat, as being
involved in the mismanagement of funds.

In a telephone interview Tuesday, Shkirat acknowledged setting up
savings accounts without the donors´ knowledge, but denied any
money disappeared.

The accounts were set up to make sure the group would have
money in the future, should donors decide one day to stop the
funding, Shkirat said.

'We wanted to secure the future,' Shkirat said. 'The donors would
not have agreed to allow us to save money for the future which is
why we didn´t tell them.'

The European Union said in a statement that the audit´s initial
findings 'indicate considerable mismanagement within LAW.' It said
it was continuing to examine the legal and financial implications of
the audit and 'in the meantime, the donors have decided to freeze all
contributions' to the group.

The audit said LAW´s 'accounting records and the accounting
system were not reliable.'

In addition to setting up the savings account, the audit says LAW
misused donor money to give no-interest loans to one of Shkirat´s
relatives and to buy cars that members of the group weren´t eligible
for.

The audit said it has been unable to account for all the grant money.
'It cannot be ruled out that assets have been disposed of,' the report
said.

In September 2002, LAW informed the donors that some $1.5
million had been set aside in savings accounts without the donors´
knowledge. Shkirat said all the money was found intact in the bank.

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  Group shows Iraqis welcoming U.S.
By Arnaud de Borchgrave

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030323-9543832.htm


THE WASHINGTON TIMES


 AMMAN, Jordan — A group of American anti-war demonstrators, part
 of a Japanese human-shield delegation, returned from Iraq
 yesterday with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without
 Iraqi government minders present, with Iraqis eager to tell of
 their welcome for American troops. Top Stories

 The Rev. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor of the Assyrian
 Church of the East, said the trip to Iraq had shocked me back to
 reality.

  Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera, he said, told me they
  would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were
  willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from
  Saddam [Hussein]'s bloody tyranny.

 Mr. Joseph said the Iraqis convinced him that Saddam is a monster
 the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He
 and his sons are sick sadists.
 Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as
 people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so
 the [torture masters] could hear their screams as bodies got
 chewed up from foot to head. The pastor and others making it
 across the border into Jordan tell harrowing stories about their
 journey. The only gasoline station between Baghdad and the
 border, a distance of 400 miles, was blown up by U.S.
 fighter-bombers. The station, in the one-camel village of Ramadi,
 had the only telephone booth on the road across the desert and a
 Jordanian, who had stopped to call his parents in Amman to let
 them know he was on his way home, was killed in the explosion.
 The few taxi drivers in Baghdad willing to drive to the Jordanian
 border are charging $1,500 per passenger. Very few Iraqis can
 afford the fare, and only about 300 third-country nationals,
 mostly Sudanese and Egyptians, have reached the border post since
 the shock and awe campaign began. Travelers have to struggle
 with their luggage across the last two miles on foot to Al
 Karama, the first Jordanian outpost. From there, they are taken
 by bus to a tent city at the Ruwaished refugee camp, 36 miles
 inside Jordan. The Baghdad-Jordan highway was busy with
 commercial traffic before the beginning of the war, with some 700
 tanker-trucks shuttling daily with part of the 12,000 tons of oil
 consumed by Jordan every day. All of it comes from Iraq at
 discounted prices under the U.N. oil-for-food program. Some 2,600
 Jordanian and 1,500 Iraqi tankers have been involved in the
 overland oil traffic. Movement was down to 140 tankers the day
 before the bombing started. It stopped abruptly two days ago.
 Jordan had made plans for a quick switch to tankers anchored off
 Aqaba. Qatar had pledged to replace whatever shortfall Jordan
 experienced. Jordanians see one favorable omen. Every day, almost
 a thousand white storks arrive at a supermarket parking lot on
 one of Amman's seven hills, a pit stop on their way from Africa
 to their East European breeding grounds. About 100,000 storks are
 expected to stop here over the next month, numbers not seen in 10
 years. Jordanians take this as a sign of ample rain and a good
 harvest ahead. The difference between official and private views
 of some ranking Jordanian officials may be an omen, too.
 Officially, they condemn the war and say they are deeply
 troubled by the prospect of repercussions of the war on the
 region, and describe the situation as critical. Privately, they
 say, the war is developing a new opportunity for peace in the
 Middle East. Says one former prime minister: If the U.S. can get
 a new Iraq to recognize Israel as a quid pro quo for a final
 Palestinian settlement, others will fall into place — Syria,
 Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf states. Iran would then have to
 pull back its military support for Hezbollah. •Arnaud de
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Troops find hidden Iraqi cruise missiles (Brit and Russian munitions)

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London Guardian 3/24/03
Troops find hidden Iraqi cruise missiles

British soldiers stumble upon bunkers full of arms and ammunition
including sophisticated Russian-made rockets

Gethin Chamberlain of the Scotsman, with the Black Watch outside Basra
Monday March 24, 2003 The Guardian

British troops mopping up Iraqi opposition outside Basra have
discovered cruise missiles hidden in bunkers abandoned by Saddam
Hussein's disintegrating southern army. The massive arsenal includes
cases of rockets, giant anti-shipping mines and other ammunition piled
from floor to ceiling in dozens of bunkers at what is marked on maps
as the Zubayr heliport.

Some of the boxes are clearly marked with the names of British
manufacturers. One pile of boxes in a store housing rocket-propelled
grenades bears the name of Wallop Industries Limited, based in Middle
Wallop, Hampshire.

But the most disturbing find was two Russian-made Harith cruise
missiles, each six metres (20ft) long, and nine warheads hidden in two
enormous, reinforced-concrete bunkers.

Another missile, as yet unidentified, was found still in its crate.

The scale and possible implications of the weapons find took British
forces by surprise and raised fresh questions about the extent of the
Iraqi war machine and the ability of weapons inspectors to cope with
the task of scouring such a vast country for prohibited ordnance.

The discovery of the missiles - which were stamped with the year 2002
- came as British troops from the Black Watch regiment fought to
secure the area around Iraqi's second city, Basra, in preparation for
the capture of the city.

Several units were involved in skirmishes with pockets of Iraqi troops
and with civilians who have seized abandoned weaponry.

One unit from the Black Watch came under attack from rocket-propelled
grenades four times yesterday morning, but there were no casualties.

It was while trying to secure the area around the heliport that units
from the Black Watch stumbled upon the missiles and other weapons.

The vast complex, surrounded by barbed wire, stands to the south-west
of the town, defended by tanks. The defenders fled after coming under
attack from coalition forces.

Outside the perimeter fence about 40 bunkers were packed with
rocket-propelled grenades and other ammunition. Inside, 22 larger,
fortified bunkers contained larger weaponry including the Harith
missiles.

The missiles, with al-Harith 2002 stencilled in red paint on the side
and covered with Cyrillic writing, were housed in 60ft-long bunkers
protected by steel double doors 1ft thick.

Painted grey, the missiles have two wings, each with a span of about
2ft, and three tail fins. There was no indication of the nature of the
warheads fitted and experts have been called in to examine them.

Also housed inside the reinforced bunkers were what appeared to be
large anti-shipping mines, and a host of other munitions. On one box,
written in English, were the words: Contract AS Navy. 5/1980 Iran.

Corporal Iain Robertson said troops had discovered the missiles when
they spotted children breaking into the heliport. We came to see what
they were looking at and found the bunkers with their doors wide open.
When we went inside we came across those things.

Corporal Steven Airzee added: The initial sight was a shock. We were
trying to figure out what they were. You have to wonder whether the
weapons inspectors have been there because they looked pretty big.

The entrance to the heliport was decorated with a picture of Saddam
Hussein in military uniform. The area was surrounded by wrecked
vehicles and abandoned, sandbagged fox holes, some flying white flags,
and was overlooked by a network of watchtowers.

Many of the buildings had already been looted by local people who took
anything that could be carried by truck.

There were also fears that weapons may have been taken from some of
the bunkers that lay open outside the perimeter fence.

Inside one, troops discovered open boxes containing rocket-propelled
grenades. In the same building were a large pile of wooden weapons
crates, unopened, marked Wallop Industries Limited. The boxes had red
stickers warning: Danger - do not load in passenger aircraft.

Lieutenant Angus Watson said soldiers had found the haul when they
arrived on Saturday night. The complex is massive and we were
surprised to find a lot of the kit intact, easily enough for a whole
brigade, he said.

They also discovered hundreds of leaflets lying on the floor, dropped
by coalition planes, urging the defenders to surrender. The leaflets,
and evidence of a bombardment from the air or by artillery, appeared
to have persuaded the defenders to abandon their posts without a
fight.


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Ahhh, Michael Moore. I grew up basically around the corner from him in the
Flint area and can tell you we are all amazed at the coverage he has
gotten. Essentially, he was and is a very rude, ego-centric power monger.
He tries to win arguements through verbal intimidation, basically of the
school ground variety, the same thing he has always done. If you don't
think the way he wants you to, you must be a moron and are open to any form
of public humiliation he can dream up. Let's look at this bit of drivel and
see whether this is a fact driven argument, or opportunity to name call and
get himself a little play..



1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News
aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one.

74% according to last nights news do support this, and in Atlanta, the
support demonstration outnumbered the anti bush protesters.

Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi
has even threatened to do that.

Hmm, do we ONLY think that a fight is necessary if a knife is held to each
of our throats on our own soil? How many of us did Hitler kill on our soil
before we declared war? none. And the Iraqis have not threatened to bring
this fight to us on our soil, they have promised to do so on multiple
occasions.

2. The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected you..

Get over it Michael, they counted those votes every way the oppostion
thought they might have an advantage and still couldn't make 4 become 1.

the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their
retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars 

A little change of subjects, normal for Michael, revealing his true agenda.
This is an attack on bush, not a cry for peace. Of course, the stock market
is rebounding strongly now, and gas here dropped between 16 and 22 cents
per gallon this week.

3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a
popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr.
Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.

A quote from a comedic monologue from the only man in media to lose his
show over attacking the President offered here as if it were an impartial
nugget of truth from a valid source.

4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope!

Duhhh, Michael, what does he expect the pope to say about war?


5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South
Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! 

Traditionally, the military is not overflowing with the children of the
rich and powerful, Michael. None of the children of congress and Senate
went to Kosovo for Clinton, but Michael didn't care about that. I don't
think he realizes that this whole portion of his arguement is valid if we
are drafting, but right now, we have a volunteer army, comprised of men and
women far better educated than at any time in our history. 96% possessing
either a high school or college degree. They made informed decisions and
chose the risk when they joined.


6. Finally, we love France ... have you forgotten we wouldn't even have
this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That it was
their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? 

Possibly, but the French did not join sides with us technically and never
saw this as the fight for American independence. They made small loans of
weapons and cash so we would be able to make trouble for the Brits and draw
attention away from other areas the French were interested in to the south,
and buy time until they could attack to regain the lost territory of the
French and Indian wars. They voted to not get involved, but Lafayette chose
independantly to come to America and funded personally the initial
involvement here. Then the French declared war on England and pitched in
with us with the understanding they would get choice of land.

That our greatest thinkers and founding fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, Ben
Franklin, etc. -- spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts
that lead to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution? 

 Franklin and Jefferson got their ideas from many sources, with Voltaire
being the lone Frenchman with a great deal of influence in their later
work. The French, built their own revolution and subsequent documents on
the back of ours, not the other way around.

Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has
painted you into a corner you can't get out of.

Another bit of name calling from the childish Mr. Moore. He wrapped it up
with a sarcastic paragraph of namecalling, which I need not repeat, and
another intimation that we are just after oil, etc. etc. his usual
pandering to the extreme left.

Why he is not a bit critical of the French an their 60 billion dollar oil
agreement with Saddam that 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam

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Subject:[I-S] (fwd) [American_Liberty] I was a naive fool to be
a human shield for Saddam

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:57:40 -0800, Tim Starr
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mlsSheet=/opinion/2003/03/23/ixop.html

I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam
By Daniel Pepper
(Filed: 23/03/2003)

I wanted to join the human shields in Baghdad because it was direct
action which had a chance of bringing the anti-war movement to the
forefront of world attention. It was inspiring: the human shield
volunteers were making a sacrifice for their political views - much more
of a personal investment than going to a demonstration in Washington or
London. It was simple - you get on the bus and you represent yourself.

So that is exactly what I did on the morning of Saturday, January 25. I
am a 23-year-old Jewish- American photographer living in Islington,
north London. I had travelled in the Middle East before: as a student, I
went to the Palestinian West Bank during the intifada. I also went to
Afghanistan as a photographer for Newsweek.

The human shields appealed to my anti-war stance, but by the time I had
left Baghdad five weeks later my views had changed drastically. I
wouldn't say that I was exactly pro-war - no, I am ambivalent - but I
have a strong desire to see Saddam removed.

We on the bus felt that we were sympathetic to the views of the Iraqi
civilians, even though we didn't actually know any. The group was less
interested in standing up for their rights than protesting against the
US and UK governments.

I was shocked when I first met a pro-war Iraqi in Baghdad - a taxi
driver taking me back to my hotel late at night. I explained that I was
American and said, as we shields always did, Bush bad, war bad, Iraq
good. He looked at me with an expression of incredulity.

As he realised I was serious, he slowed down and started to speak in
broken English about the evils of Saddam's regime. Until then I had only
heard the President spoken of with respect, but now this guy was telling
me how all of Iraq's oil money went into Saddam's pocket and that if you
opposed him politically he would kill your whole family.

It scared the hell out of me. First I was thinking that maybe it was the
secret police trying to trick me but later I got the impression that he
wanted me to help him escape. I felt so bad. I told him: Listen, I am
just a schmuck from the United States, I am not with the UN, I'm not
with the CIA - I just can't help you.

Of course I had read reports that Iraqis hated Saddam Hussein, but this
was the real thing. Someone had explained it to me face to face. I told
a few journalists who I knew. They said that this sort of thing often
happened - spontaneous, emotional, and secretive outbursts imploring
visitors to free them from Saddam's tyrannical Iraq.

I became increasingly concerned about the way the Iraqi regime was
restricting the movement of the shields, so a few days later I left
Baghdad for Jordan by taxi with five others. Once over the border we
felt comfortable enough to ask our driver what he felt about the regime
and the threat of an aerial bombardment.

Don't you listen to Powell on Voice of America radio? he said. Of
course the Americans don't want to bomb civilians. They want to bomb
government and Saddam's palaces. We want America to bomb Saddam.

We just sat, listening, our mouths open wide. Jake, one of the others,
just kept saying, Oh my God as the driver described the horrors of the
regime. Jake was so shocked at how naive he had been. We all were. It
hadn't occurred to anyone that the Iraqis might actually be pro-war.

The driver's most emphatic statement was: All Iraqi people want this
war. He seemed convinced that civilian casualties would be small; he
had such enormous faith in the American war machine to follow through on
its promises. Certainly more faith than any of us had.

Perhaps the most crushing thing we learned was that most ordinary Iraqis
thought Saddam Hussein had paid us to come to protest in Iraq. Although
we explained that this was categorically not the case, I don't think he
believed us. Later he asked me: Really, how much did Saddam pay you to
come?

It hit me on visceral and emotional levels: this was a real portrayal of
Iraq life. After the first conversation, I completely rethought my view
of the Iraqi situation. My understanding changed on intellectual,
emotional, psychological levels. I remembered the experience of seeing
Saddam's egomaniacal portraits everywhere for the past two weeks and
tried to place myself in the shoes of someone who had been subjected to
seeing them every day for the last 20 or so years.

Last Thursday night I went to photograph the anti-war rally in
Parliament Square. Thousands of people 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT

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Mar. 23, 2003
US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT
By CAROLINE GLICK
An Najaf, Iraq

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%2
6cid=1048
389497622

About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US
forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation
apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250
kilometers south of Baghdad.

One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off
as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the
eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration
camps.

The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is
perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in
their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an
abandoned slum.

It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced
here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it
could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to
make it look like the surrounding desert.

Within minutes of our entry into the camp on Sunday afternoon, at least
30 Iraqi soldiers and their commanding officer of the rank of General,
obeyed the instructions of US soldiers who called out from our jeep in
loudspeakers for them to lie down on the ground, and put their hands
above their heads to surrender.

Today's operation is the third engagement with Iraqi forces by the First
Brigade of the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, since Saturday
afternoon.

So far in the campaign, the brigade has suffered no losses. But two were
wounded Saturday night in an ambush on the outskirts of As-Samwah in
southern Iraq.

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Can you believe it? - the UN weapons inspectors say they were totally unaware of
this 100 acre chemical weapons facility 90 miles outside of Baghdad.
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From National Review --
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Ex-Friends
Casualties of this war.
by Rod Dreher

We're already moving toward Baghdad in our war against Iraq, one I
believe with all my heart is just and necessary. We dont know how long
it will last, or what the fallout will be. When the smoke clears, I am
afraid that one home-front casualty will be some friendships.

Weve seen this coming. Stephen Pollard, writing in the Times of London,
says a number of his friendships have broken up because he supports war
to disarm Saddam Hussein and his friends dont.

In all my 38 years, I have never before felt such a sense of personal
shock. I am shocked that so many of my friends would rather a brutal
dictator remained in power  for that would be the direct consequence if
their views won out  than support military action by the United States.

I am ashamed that they would rather believe the words of President Saddam
Hussein than those of their own Prime Minister. I am nauseated that they
would rather give succor to evil than think through the implications of
their gut feelings.  I have many friends with whom I disagree
politically; it would be a small-minded person who could not say that.
But this goes beyond mere politics. This is about fundamentals. And what
makes it truly shocking is how many normal, apolitical, otherwise decent
people are so deeply wrong, so stridently misguided.

Ive not had that same sense of outrage, but thats probably because long
ago I quit talking about the war to most friends who disagree with me.
It wasnt my choice, but it was necessary if we were still to be friends.
It shouldnt be this way. Ive tried to think through my pro-war position
carefully, and if Im wrong in my facts or analysis, I want to know. But
in my (deeply unpleasant) experience, theres simply no point in talking
to most antiwar people, left and right, because theyre lost in a fever
swamp of emotionalism.

If its not leftists obsessing about blood for oil, corporate plots and
Iraqi children, its rightists going off about imperialism, Israel and
Jewish conspiracies. Now, I dont think its unfair to discuss the role,
if any, corporate interests, Israeli government policy, the potential
suffering of Iraqi civilians, or a number of other issues have in the
development of U.S. policy towards Iraq. Its just that so many people
concerned with these things have given themselves over to the kind of
hysteria that makes rational debate impossible. On MSNBC earlier this
week, Republican pollster Frank Luntz said hes found that about one in
four Americans hes focus-grouped are hard-core anti-war types, are much
more committed to their position than Bush supporters, and are
incandescently angry.

You expect this from the ideological left, for whom, as The Manhattan
Institutes Myron Magnet points out, every war is Vietnam. My
conservative anti-war friends have been much more troubling to me
personally, because we agree on so many fundamental principles. Some
educated, sophisticated professionals  have given their good hearts and
fine minds over to anti-Semitic conspiracy mongering. And Ive also heard
conservatives trash-talking this country in terms previously associated
with America-hating campus radicals. Its as if the world has been turned
upside down by this war  and this was long before the fighting started.

When I blogged something about this in The Corner earlier this week,
many readers from across the country wrote to say they too had been
nonplussed by the inability to have a civil discussion with antiwar
friends and family.

I have lost, probably forever, at least four, and maybe more friends,
including my college roommate from almost 45 years ago, one wrote.
Another reported: I have lost a friend I have had for 30 years over the
war argument. I cant believe she can say the things she does  no war for
oil, etc.  without even thinking about making a logical argument for or
against.

Friends for over four decades. Friends for three decades. Gone, just
like that. Many marriages dont last that long.

Its ripping up families too. I actually hung up on my own mother
yesterday after getting into a discussion about the war, a young woman
wrote. I got angry after she asserted that our government was just as
bad as Saddams. What do you say to a statement like that? The woman said
she and her mother agreed not to discuss the war again, for the sake of
their relationship, but she fears that things may rupture between them
if theyre not careful.

A Canadian reader writes to say everybody she knows except her
significant other is angry at her for supporting the war. Here we are in
the wonderful world of Bush Is Retarded/Michael Moore Is My Hero e-mail
coffee klatches. Im wearing a US/Canadian flag pin. In public. In
downtown Toronto. The countdown to my ass-beating starts now.

One New Yorker who supports the president says hes had it with 

[CTRL] Fwd: [American_Liberty] The Rage and the Pride

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On 22 Mar 2003 at 4:43, Mike Schneider wrote:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/21/1047749914360.html

Battle cry from a biased heart

March 22 2003

Death threats don't faze best-selling author Oriana Fallaci, which is
just as well now she's taken on the world's Muslims, writes George Gurley.

On a recent afternoon, the telephone rang in Oriana Fallaci's
Manhattan townhouse. The tiny, blue-eyed 72-year-old writer put down
her cigarette and picked up the receiver. Oh, it is you! she said.
She assured the caller she was all right, then thanked him and hung up.

He calls to see if I'm alive. To see if I need something. The caller
was a police officer, who has been checking in on Fallaci since the
publication of her most recent book, The Rage and the Pride, which she
wrote in New York during the weeks following September 11. The book, a
passionate cry in which she accuses the West of being blind to the
true threat of Islam, caused a scandal when it was published in Europe
last year, but has raised barely a murmur in the US.

In her native country of Italy, the book has sold more than 1million
copies and at least 500,000 in the rest of Europe. In America, it had
sold just 40,000 copies by the beginning of this year. The relative
silence with which Americans have greeted the book is puzzling: it is
they who have the most evidence, in downtown New York, of the danger
that Fallaci lays out.

In The Rage and the Pride, she compares Islam to a mountain which in
1400 years has not moved, has not risen from the abyss of its
blindness, has not opened its doors to the conquests of civilisation,
has never wanted to know about freedom and democracy and progress. In
short, has not changed. In France, a group called the Movement
Against Racism and for Friendship Between People tried to have the
book banned. A French court rejected the request. In Italy, a booklet
titled Islam Punishes Oriana Fallaci, written by the president of the
Italian Islamic Party, called for Muslims to go and die with
Fallaci. Fallaci sued the author for slander and instigation to
murder.

My life, Fallaci wrote in her book's preface, is seriously in
danger. And not only from terrorists. In 1992, she underwent surgery
for breast cancer; she says she could die any day. But she still moves
about like a spunky teenage girl, leaping up and down, making faces.
She drinks fine wine and smokes two packets of cigarettes a day - her
oncologist allows it, she says.

Before her new book, La Fallaci had achieved international fame as a
journalist and author. She covered the Vietnam War and conducted
spirited interviews with celebrities as well as world leaders - Indira
Gandhi, Golda Meir, the Shah of Iran, Ariel Sharon, the Ayatollah
Khomeini, Yasser Arafat and Deng Xiaoping (or, as she called some of
them, those bastards who decide our lives). Henry Kissinger said his
interview with Fallaci was the most disastrous conversation I ever
had with any member of the press.

Her writing has made her life comfortable. In addition to her
Manhattan townhouse, she owns a home in Florence and a 23-room house
in the Tuscan countryside, though comfort has not dulled her edges.

I have been months and months and months of bestseller No.1, Fallaci
says in her strong Florentine accent. I do not say this to make
self-congratulations. I say this to underline my thesis - that the
moment was mature. That I have put the finger on the nerve of
something: the Muslims' immigration, which grows and grows without
inserting itself in our way of life, without accepting our way of life
and, on the contrary, trying to impose on us its way of life ...

People in Europe are so exasperated by the arrogance of most of these
'invaders', and being blackmailed with the unfair term 'racist' when
they protest, that there was a kind of thirst for a book like this ...
There is no other explanation for the book's success. I have written
better books. This is a scream rather than an essay - a book written
in two weeks, come on. Why? It was not the book itself. It was the
thirst, the hunger.

The West, she says, is under assault and doesn't realise it. If we
stay inert, if we let ourselves be scared, then we become
collaborationists. If we are passive ... then we lose the war that has
been declared against us.

We can talk for centuries about the word 'racist', Fallaci says.
'Racist' has to do with race and not with religion. Yes, I am against
that religion, a religion that controls the life of people in every
minute of their day, that puts the burqa on women, that treats women
as camels, that preaches polygamy, that cuts the hands of the poor
thieves ... I am not religious - all religions are difficult to accept
for me - but the Islamic one is not even a religion, in my opinion. It
is a tyranny, a dictatorship - the only religion on earth that has
never committed a work of self-criticism ... It is immoveable.

I ask about the death threats she receives. You put the finger on the

[CTRL] Backpack full of Molotov cocktails found in S.F.

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Backpack full of Molotov cocktails found in S.F.
Discovery near planter box at 11th and Howard streets
Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, March 22, 2003

San Francisco -- A backpack full of Molotov cocktails was found
Friday where anti-war demonstrators had earlier been dodging San
Francisco police, and authorities said they suspected a protester of
stashing the explosive devices.

About a dozen bottles filled with gasoline and equipped with
makeshift fuses were discovered at 10 a.m. by a developmentally
disabled man who was tending a planter box on the corner of 11th
and Howard streets, near an outreach center.

The weapons, which are designed to explode when the gasoline
fumes hit the lit fuse after the bottle is broken, were probably hidden
in the bushes by a demonstrator Thursday night, police said. No
one, however, was immediately arrested in connection with the find.

The man who found the explosives brought them to a friend who
works around the corner at a printing plant. The man, Carl Hester,
43, immediately realized the danger and called police.

Peace protesting with Molotov cocktails? Hester said angrily after
police had cordoned off the area and sent in hazardous materials
specialists. What . . . is that?

Lt. Larry Minasian said most of the weapons were fashioned out of
beer bottles, but one quart-size bottle may have been an olive oil
container. They were wrapped in newspaper and rags and stuffed
with a wrench in a black backpack.

Minasian said they were probably stashed when riot police swept
through to break up roving groups of protesters in the area.

Molotov cocktails are extremely dangerous, Minasian said.
Flammable gasoline is almost like napalm. These are created to
hurt people or cause significant damage.

Hester, who works in shipping and receiving at Biss Printing Inc. on
Natoma Street, said stashing explosives where developmentally
disabled people are likely to find them is worse than shameful.

My friend has Down's syndrome and he doesn't talk very well, so he
brought it to me because I understand him, Hester said. He's so
innocent. He has a smile every day. To jeopardize his life like that is
crazy.

Investigators interviewed the witnesses, photographed the evidence
and processed the bottles for fingerprints before handing them over
to the Fire Department for disposal.

This is a big find, Minasian said. It raises the level of caution for
the demonstrations.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] (fwd) Conscripts shoot their own officers rather than fight

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The Times of London

March 22, 2003

Conscripts shoot their own officers rather than fight

From Tom Newton Dunn with 40 Commando near al-Faw, southern Iraq

IRAQI conscripts shot their own officers in the chest yesterday to avoid
a fruitless fight over the oil terminals at al-Faw.  British soldiers
from 40 Commando’s Charlie Company found a bunker full of the dead
officers, with spent shells from an AK47 rifle around them.

Stuck between the US Seals and the Royal Marines, whom they did not want
to fight, and a regime that would kill them if they refused, it was the
conscripts’ only way out.

In total, 40 Commando had collected more than 100 prisoners of war
yesterday from the few square miles of the al-Faw peninsula that they
controlled.  Two of them were a general in the regular Iraqi Army and a
brigadier.  They came out from the command bunker where they had been
hiding after 40 Commando’s Bravo Company fired two anti-tank missiles
into it.  With them was a large sports holdall stuffed with money.  They
insisted that they had been about to pay their troops, to the disbelief
of their captors.

These were the men who had left their soldiers hungry, poorly armed and
almost destitute for weeks, judging by the state we had seen them in,
while appearing to keep the money for themselves.

It was only as dawn broke that the 900 Royal Marine commandos, who had
moved forward during the night, realised the pitiful shape of the
enemy.  The first white flag was hoisted by three soldiers in a trench
just outside the complex’s north gate, which had been surrounded by
heavy machinegunners from Command Company.

They were taken prisoner by Corporal Fergus Gask, 26, who may have
accepted the first surrender of the war.  “We started engaging their
positions with GPMGs (general purpose machineguns) when I noticed this
white flag go up,” he said.  “I didn’t know whether it was a trick or
not, but I approached the trench anyway, probably a pretty silly thing
to do if I think about it.

“But as soon as I saw their faces I knew they were genuine.  They
actually looked very relieved they didn’t have to fight any more.  And
they became very pleased to see us when they realised we weren’t going
to do them any harm.”

The dawn light appeared to have provoked an exodus.

Small groups of dishevelled Iraqis were standing up all around us with
their hands in the air, or with a dirty white T-shirt tied to a stick
waving above them.  Every time you turned around, a new trickle of
silhouettes emerged from the horizon walking slowly towards us.  One
Marine joked: “Oh no.  They’re surrendering at us from all sides.”

Each prisoner was thoroughly searched before he was accepted into
captivity in a procedure that the commandos had clearly practised many
times.  The injured were quickly treated and a handful received almost
immediate helicopter evacuation from the oil terminal to HMS Ocean,
where a temporary hospital for PoWs has been set up.

As a new day began, so did the Marines’ gradual expansion outwards into
the large expanse of waste ground that is still pockmarked with shell
craters from the Iran-Iraq War.To save them having to translate from
Arabic maps, 40 Commando named the clear paths they had established or
wanted to seize with London street names: Downing Street, Abbey Road or
Fulham Road.

Engineers, meanwhile, began the work of shutting down the many oil
pipeline valves.

This is a pooled dispatch for the British press


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[CTRL] Sarandon's Mom, Getting Battle Support

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2003Mar20.html

Sarandon's Mom, Getting Battle Support

• Self-described rabid Republican Lenora Tomalin, the 79-year-old
mother of left-wing actress Susan Sarandon, has been getting her
15 minutes since Tuesday's item about her stout support for
President Bush and the war against Saddam Hussein -- and her
lament that her famous daughter doesn't respect her enough.

Radio and television stations have been calling to interview her, and
friends and neighbors have been offering congratulations. A lot of
good has come out of it, she told us yesterday.

Yesterday morning, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush phoned Tomalin at home
in Lakeland, Fla., to offer his help in arranging a tour of the White
House on her next trip to Washington sometime in May. Jeb said,
'We're going to make sure you get a very good visit,'  Tomalin said.

She added that her eldest daughter's companion, actor Tim
Robbins, also called -- but apparently that conversation wasn't as
happy.

I didn't talk to Susan, but I did hear from Tim, let's just leave it at
that, Tomalin said. I know there's a war on, but let's just say I'm in
the middle of my own private war.

Robbins, the father of three of Tomalin's 19 grandchildren, declined
to comment yesterday. But Bush told us through a spokeswoman: I
called to thank her for supporting the president and for supporting
me on my last campaign. She's a great American.
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[CTRL] U.S. strike killed terror-group member

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Friday, March 21, 2003


OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM
U.S. strike killed terror-group member
Palestinian Liberation Front says officer 'fell as a martyr' in air raid

Posted: March 21, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A Palestinian terrorist group announced that one of its officers was
killed in the initial U.S. missile attacks on Iraq.

The Palestinian Liberation Front, headquartered in Baghdad, said in
a statement from Lebanon that 1st Lt. Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz
fell as a martyr facing the American air raids on Iraq.

His martyrdom illustrates the links between Palestinians and
Iraqis, the group said, according to Agence France-Presse.

Known for its seizing of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and
murder of a Jewish American passenger, the PLF is one of several
terrorist organizations that maintain offices in Baghdad, according to
the U.S. State Department.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said in his speech to the United
Nations on Feb. 5 that Baghdad trains Palestine Liberation Front
members in small arms and explosives.

The group's leader, known as Abu Abbas, has been on the run from
authorities since the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking. He returned to the
Gaza Strip after the Oslo agreement and is believed to have fled to
Iraq due to Israeli crackdowns on militants in the disputed territories.

The PLF is a primary channel for Saddam Hussein's payouts to
Palestinian families that lose a member in the Intifada, or uprising,
against Israel.

Saddam gives $25,000 to the family of a suicide bomber and
$10,000 to other families, the PLF says. The group claims Saddam
has contributed an estimated $35 million since September 2000.

The slain PLF officer al-Baz was employed as a taxi driver with a
Jordan-based company. He had stopped at a roadside rest area
about 190 miles west of Baghdad when he was struck by a missile
from a helicopter while using a satellite phone, Agence France-
Presse said.

The attack reportedly occurred just after midnight this morning, said
a colleague, Akram Abu Samaha.

Al-Baz, 34, had a house in Baghdad but moved with his family to
Amman, Jordan, in recent weeks ahead of the anticipated war. Born
in Jenin, in the West Bank, al-Baz was married with an infant son.
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Trying To Help - By Dennis Miller

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Donna  Larry Steed  wrote

Trying To Help - By Dennis Miller (Noted Radio/TV personality)

All The Rhetoric On Whether Or Not We Should Go To War Against Iraq Has
Got My Insane Little Brain Spinning Like A Roulette Wheel. I Enjoy
Reading Opinions From Both Sides But I Have Detected A Hint Of confusion
From Some Of You.

As I Was Reading The Paper Recently, I Was Reminded Of The Best Advice
Someone Ever Gave Me. He Told Me About The Kiss Method (Keep It Simple,
Stupid!) So, With This As A Theme, I'd Like To Apply This Theory For
Those Who Don't Quite Get It. My Hope Is That We Can Simplify Things A
Bit And Recognize A Few Important Facts.

Here Are 10 Things To Consider When Voicing An Opinion On This
Important Issue:

1) Between President Bush And Saddam Hussein ... Hussein Is The Bad Guy.


2) If You Have Faith In The United Nations To Do The Right Thing Keep
This In Mind, They Have Libya Heading The Committee On Human Rights And
Iraq Heading The Global Disarmament Committee. Do Your Own Math Here

3) If You Use Google Search And Type In French Military Victories,
Your Reply Will Be Did You Mean French Military Defeats?

4) If Your Only Anti-War Slogan Is No War For Oil, Hire a pit bull
lawyer and sue Your School District For Allowing You To Slip Through The
Cracks And Robbing You Of The Education You Deserve.

5) Saddam And Bin Laden Will Not Seek United Nations Approval Before
They Try To Kill Us.

6) Despite Common Belief, Martin Sheen Is Not The President. He Plays
One On T.V.

7) Even If You Are Anti-War, You Are Still An Infidel! And Bin Laden
Wants You Dead, Too.

8) If You Believe In A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy But Not In The
Danger That Hussein Poses, Quit Hanging Out With The Dell Computer Dude.


9) Even multi-culturalists who try to browbeat us into believing that
all cultures are equally deserving of respect have trouble explaining
the past 500 years of Islam.

10) Whether You Are For Military Action Or Against It, Our Young Men And
Women Overseas Are Fighting For Us To Defend Our Right To Speak Out. We
All Need To Support Them Without Reservation




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[CTRL] ‘Chemical Ali’ Dead

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tml


March 21, 2003

Ali Hassan al Majid earned the nickname Chemical Ali for using
chemical weapons to suppress the Kurds in northern Iraq. (Jockel
Finck/AP Photo)

‘Chemical Ali’ Dead
Three Key Iraqi Leaders Believed Killed; Explosions Shake Baghdad

B A G H D A D, Iraq, March 21 — Three top Iraqi leaders —
including Saddam Hussein's cousin, the infamous Chemical Ali —
are believed to have been killed in what would be a major blow to
the regime's defense against the U.S.-led onslaught, CIA officials
told ABCNEWS.

ABCNEWS' Brian Ross reported that the three critical Iraqi officials
— Taha Yasin Ramadan, Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, and Ali Hassan
Majid, known as Chemical Ali — are believed to have died in
Wednesday night's decapitation attack, the opening salvo of the
war.

A spokesman said the CIA had no information to confirm the report
that the three men had been killed but government officials,
speaking on condition of anonymity, told ABCNEWS they had
reason to believe the three men were dead.

The officials said they reached this conclusion from analysis of radio
traffic and after watching who went where, and who didn't arrive
where they were expected.

Chemical Ali, Saddam's cousin and governor of southern Iraq,
earned his chilling nickname by using chemical weapons to
suppress a Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq in the late 1980s,
killing thousands.

Both Ramadan and Ibrahim were longtime advisers to Saddam.
Along with Saddam himself, the two men were the only surviving
plotters who carried out the coup that brought the Baath Party to
power in 1968.

The three men did not appear in a videotape of Saddam meeting
with advisers released today. Also absent was Saddam's eldest son
Odai. There are suspicions he also may have been killed, but this
could not be confirmed.

In Baghdad, sirens sounded another warning following hours of
U.S.-led bombings that pummeled the city, and bombs and missiles
continued to rain over targets across the country.

This is much, much, more than anything we've had earlier,
ABCNEWS' Richard Engel reported from Baghdad as attack aircraft
were heard over the Iraqi capital for the first time in this war. It's
hard to even see the western side of the city through all the smoke.

Elsewhere, as many as 1,500 Turkish troops crossed over into
northern Iraq. The United States has told Turkey that it would not
welcome incursions into the Kurdish-dominated territory, but Ankara
fears a weakened Baghdad would encourage the Kurds to create
their own state.

Turkey also says the troops are also needed to control refugees.

Air War Under Way
While the string of devastating bombings appeared to have paused
over Baghdad, sirens soon blared again, and there were reports of
new explosions near the northern Iraqi cities of Mosul and Kirkuk
and in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.

Defense officials said the air campaign would continue for 24 hours,
until approximately 1 a.m. ET Saturday, as a continually rolling
operation involving 1,500 total sorties by missiles and strike aircraft.

Meanwhile, in another major development, U.S. military sources
said the commander of Iraq's 51st Division and his top deputy
surrendered to U.S. Marines today. The 51st was the division
charged with defending Basra, a strategic city south of Baghdad. It
was the first time that the commander of an Iraqi division has
surrendered to allied forces.

Blasts Slam Western Baghdad
Engel said he was sure nearly all of the large government
buildings on the western side of Baghdad had been destroyed by
repeated hits and the ensuing fires. The Iraqi information minister,
appearing on al Jazeera television, said the Zahir Government
Palace had been bombed and destroyed.

At one point the bombs were so powerful that Engel said he could
feel a strong blast of hot wind against his face, even though he was
about a mile away from the site of impact.

He also expressed concern for his fellow journalists, many of whom
are staying at the Al Rashid hotel, which is located on the western
side of the city.

I really hope my colleagues are OK, he said.

In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sought to
reassure those who feared today's bombings may have caused
massive collateral damage.

The weapons being used today have a greater precision than any
used in prior conflict, he said.

The CIA believes that three top Iraqi leaders — including Saddam
Hussein's cousin, the infamous Chemical Ali — were killed. The
commander of an Iraqi division surrenders to allied forces for the
very first time.

The air war for Iraq begins as 1,500 bombs and missiles fall on
Baghdad and the key cities of Kirkuk, Mosul and Tikrit.

Two U.S. Marines die in combat and another dozen U.S. and British
Marines die in a helicopter crash.

A Turkish commando force of around 1,500 troops crosses into
northern Iraq but U.S. officials oppose a large incursion.

Iraq's U.N. envoy angrily 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [piml] Time to Renounce the United Nations?

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Time to Renounce the United Nations?

by Rep. Ron Paul, MD



Our anticipated war in Iraq has been condemned by many
around the world for the worst of all reasons: namely,
that America is acting without United Nations
approval. The obvious implication is that an invasion
of Iraq is illegitimate without such approval, but
magically becomes legitimate when UN bureaucrats grant
their blessing. Most Americans rightfully resent this
arrogant attitude toward our national sovereignty and
don’t care what the UN thinks about our war plans.
Perhaps our heritage as a nation of people who do not
take kindly to being told what to do is intact. Still,
only the most ardent war hawks connected with the
administration have begun to discuss complete
withdrawal from the UN. I have advocated this for
twenty years, and have introduced legislation to that
effect.

The administration deserves some credit for asserting
that we will go to war unilaterally if necessary,
without UN authorization. But it sends a mixed message
by doing everything it can to obtain such
authorization. Efforts to build a “coalition” through
the promise of billions in foreign aid dollars only
reinforce the perception that we’re trying to buy
support for the war. The message seems to be that the
UN is credible when we control it and it does what we
want, but lacks all credibility when it refuses to do
our bidding. The bizarre irony is while we may act
unilaterally in Iraq, the very justification for our
invasion is that we are enforcing UN resolutions!

Our current situation in Iraq shows that we cannot
allow U.S. national security to become a matter of
international consensus. We don’t need UN permission
to go to war; only Congress can declare war under the
Constitution. The Constitution does not permit the
delegation of congressional duties to international
bodies. It’s bad enough when Congress relinquishes its
warmaking authority to the President, but disastrous
if we relinquish it to international bureaucrats who
don’t care about America.

Those bureaucrats are not satisfied by meddling only
in international disputes, however. The UN
increasingly wants to influence our domestic
environmental, trade, labor, tax, and gun laws. Its
global planners fully intend to expand the UN into a
true world government, complete with taxes, courts,
and a standing army. This is not an alarmist
statement; these facts are readily promoted on the
UN’s own website. UN planners do not care about
national sovereignty; in fact they are actively
hostile to it. They correctly view it as an obstacle
to their plans. They simply aren’t interested in our
Constitution and republican form of government.

The choice is very clear: we either follow the
Constitution or submit to UN global governance.
American national sovereignty cannot survive if we
allow our domestic laws to be crafted by an
international body. This needs to be stated publicly
more often. If we continue down the UN path, America
as we know it will cease to exist.

Noted constitutional scholar Herb Titus has thoroughly
researched the United Nations and its purported
“authority.” Titus explains that the UN Charter is not
a treaty at all, but rather a blueprint for
supranational government that directly violates the
Constitution. As such, the Charter is neither
politically nor legally binding upon the American
people or government. The UN has no authority to make
“laws” that bind American citizens, because it does
not derive its powers from the consent of the American
people. We need to stop speaking of UN resolutions and
edicts as if they represented legitimate laws or
treaties. They do not.

The UN is neither wise nor neutral. All of the member
nations have national interests that don’t simply
disappear when their representatives enter the UN
general assembly hall. Like any government or
quasi-government body, the UN is rife with corruption
and backroom deals. Worst of all, it serves as a forum
for rampant anti-Americanism. Perhaps the time has
finally come when more Americans will choose to
rethink our participation.

March 20, 2003

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from
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[CTRL] Uday suffers brain hemorrhage

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USWAR/Uday suffers brain hemorrhage

 Tehran, March 20, IRNA -- Uday, the elder son of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein, struck by brain hemorrhage following conflict with a
member of Saddam's Fedayeen on Thursday.

Mosuah al-Nahrain in its website on Thursday quoted sources north
of Iraq as saying that very tough and indecent orders, issued by Uday,
who heads Saddam's Fedayeen, had provoked the conflict as the young
man attacked Uday.

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[CTRL] Baghdad welcomes 'moment of liberation'

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Thursday, March 20, 2003
OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM
Baghdad welcomes 'moment of liberation'

Reporter in capital says newly emboldened people eager for war

Posted: March 20, 2003 1:00 a.m.  Eastern

WorldNetDaily.com  - Newly emboldened Iraqis are revealing to
the few reporters left in Baghdad that they see America's military
action as their moment of liberation.

Many, many Iraqis are telling us now -  not always in the whispers
we only heard in the past, but now in quite candid conversations -
that they are waiting for America to come and bring them liberty,
said New York Times reporter John Burns in an interview from
Baghdad on the PBS News Hour last night.

Along with all of this apprehension, said Burns, Americans
should know that there also is a good deal of anticipation.  Iraqis
have suffered beyond, I think, the common understanding in the
United States from the repression of the past 30 years.

PBS's Gwen Ifill asked Burns to clarify: They are actually eagerly
anticipating war?

It's very hard for anybody to understand this, he said.  It can
only be understood in terms of the depth of repression here. Burns
said that, of course, there are people who don't want war out of
loyalty to the regime, or out of fear or out of suspicion of
America's motives. Because of the closed nature of Iraqi society,
we cannot know how numerous either side is, he said.  All I can
tell you - and every reporter who is here will attest this -  is that the
most extraordinary experience of the last few days has been a
sudden breaking of the ice here, said Burns, with people from
every corner of life coming forward to tell us that they understand
what America is about in this.

Burns said the people naturally are fearful of errant bombing,
damage to Iraq's infrastructure and what kind of government might
come after Saddam is gone.

Can I just say, Burns stated, after Ifill tried to interrupt, there is absolutely
no doubt, no doubt, that there are many, many Iraqis who see what is about to
happen here as their moment of liberation.

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[CTRL] No 'Panic' Gasoline Buying Seen in U.S. -AAA

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No 'Panic' Gasoline Buying Seen in U.S. -AAA

Reuters
Thursday, March 20, 2003; 4:23 PM


NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. motorists and gasoline retailers were
keeping a level head on Thursday as war began in the oil-rich Gulf,
with no reports of panic fuel-buying or price gouging, the American
Automobile Association said.

So far, so good, said Mantill Williams, a spokesman for the
automobile and travel group. We've gotten no reports of any price
gouging and no reports of abnormal buying patterns that could lead
to regional shortages.

Fears had been widespread that pump prices would shoot higher in
some parts of the country because of expectations from drivers and
fuel suppliers that the U.S.-led war in Iraq would disrupt shipments
from the Middle East, which accounts for roughly 40 percent of
world oil exports.

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, some service stations
in the United States pushed their pump prices as high as $5 a gallon
as motorists flocked to fuel up, before swiftly bringing them back
down and providing rebates.

The national average retail gasoline price on Thursday was holding
around $1.71 a gallon, down slightly from the all-time high of $1.72
hit earlier this week, though some areas, including in California,
were still above the psychological $2 mark, AAA said.

The high prices in recent weeks have triggered calls for vigilance
against price gouging by several U.S. lawmakers.

Oil prices, which make up the lion's share in the cost of gasoline
production, slid sharply as U.S.-led forces began hitting targets in
Iraq, with dealers anticipating a short war.

The price of U.S. light crude oil futures dropped $1.27 to $28.61 a
barrel, topping off a roughly 25 percent slide since last week, a sign
that retail gasoline prices could subside in the coming weeks.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Palestinian Politicians Snub Arafat in Heated Debate

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Palestinian Politicians Snub Arafat in Heated Debate
By JAMES BENNET


RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 17 - The Palestinian parliament collided
today with the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, narrowly rejecting a
measure sought by Mr. Arafat that would have limited the authority of
a new prime minister.

The measure, which legislators said would have compelled the prime
minister to seek Mr. Arafat's approval for every ministerial
appointment, had majority backing but failed to gain the necessary
two-thirds support.

A small band of reformers and critics of the Palestinian leader
stubbornly held out through hours of debate and two votes as loyalists
of Mr. Arafat alternately shouted and cajoled, warning darkly of a
coup or collaboration with American and Israeli plans to undermine the
Palestinian leader.

The debate reflected the new political dynamism among Palestinians, as
well as the strangeness of the convergence of interests - of tough
young Palestinian leaders, of the Bush administration and of the
Israeli government - that has forced the creation of the post of
Palestinian prime minister.

This is not our position here, to come and take the responsibilities
of Yasir Arafat, said Jamil Tarifi, a close ally of Mr. Arafat, the
president of the governing Palestinian Authority. We don't want to
create a political problem between us and the president.

But younger members of Mr. Arafat's Fatah movement, and others who
have chafed at his political control, insisted on preserving the prime
minister's authority as first outlined by the parliament a week ago.
It's an attempt to retreat, said Hassan Khraisheh, an independent
parliamentarian, contending that a strong prime minister is essential
to a Palestinian state. We are looking for guarantees for a homeland,
not for individuals.

Conducted in an atmosphere dense with cigarette smoke and charged with
caffeine, the debate was freewheeling, with politicians accusing one
another of posturing for the cameras and journalists, and, in the end,
votes with actual significance.

Angered over what he saw as a threat to due process, the head of the
legal committee offered his resignation, only to have it rejected by
the speaker. The secretary of the parliament, noticing that an
opponent of the measure was silently checking his vote count, stopped
in mid-tally and refused to continue.

You should respect my counting! he shouted, then stormed from the
chamber. He was eventually talked into returning and resuming his
count of raised hands.

The speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ahmed Qureia, used
his powers to push the measure to restrict the prime minister,
reopening the debate after it was voted down. Defeated a second time,
he finally postponed until Tuesday a final vote on the underlying
legislation to create the post.

Both sides left calling the debate a credit to Palestinian democracy,
while girding for a renewed fight on Tuesday. Under the laws of the
Palestinian Authority, if the bill to create the position of prime
minister passes on a third reading, it will eventually become law even
if Mr. Arafat chooses not to sign it.

Mr. Arafat has selected as prime minister a longtime deputy, Mahmoud
Abbas. But Mr. Abbas has remained out of sight and refused to accept
the job until he determines that it has sufficient power. The debate
today signaled that he can count on a limited but hard core of support
in the boisterous parliament.

Regardless of the measure debated today, the prime minister is clearly
accountable under the new legislation to Mr. Arafat, who has authority
to appoint and fire him. Palestinian politicians and political
scientists say Mr. Abbas' powers will be determined less by
legislation than by his own success at maneuvering among Mr. Arafat,
the Palestinian factions, Israel and the United States.

The debate took place on a day of violence in the Gaza Strip, where
Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, including a 3-year-old girl.

It also followed the arrest by Israel early this morning of Mr.
Arafat's most persistent critic in parliament, Husam Khader. Soldiers
blew off the doors of Mr. Khader's home in the Balata refugee camp, in
Nablus, and took him away in his pajamas, his family said.

Mr. Khader, a member of the rising generation of Fatah leaders, has
been a thorn in Mr. Arafat's side, accusing him of appointing corrupt,
antidemocratic ministers, and hogging power. He once sarcastically
introduced a bill to declare the Palestinian leader the God of
Palestine.

It was a sign of the Palestinian leadership's annoyance with Mr.
Khader that his arrest was barely mentioned here today. Every day we
were hearing from Arafat, `You have to shut him up,'  a senior
legislative aide said.

Israel accused Mr. Khader of financing and directing attacks on
Israelis. In several interviews over the last year, 

Re: [CTRL] New evidence links Saddam, bin Laden

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[CTRL] Saddam arrests brother for lack of support

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Saddam arrests brother for lack of support

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has put his half-brother
Barzan al-Tikriti, an ex-envoy to the United Nations in
Geneva, under house arrest after he refused to pledge support
for Saddam's powerful son, Qusay, in the event he succeeds
the Iraqi leader, a newspaper claimed on Sunday.

Quoting unspecified Iraqi sources, Al-Rai Al-Aam said the row
between Saddam and Barzan erupted during a March 5
meeting at which the Iraqi leader quizzed his half-brother, who
had good relations with the United Arab Emirates in the past,
about a UAE proposal that Saddam step down to avert a US-
led war aimed at toppling his regime.

The report, which could not be independently confirmed, said
the latter did not comment but when asked what he thought of
the possibility of Qusay succeeding Saddam, he replied: I put
up with this situation for more than 20 years because you are
here.

But once you're no longer around, I will act differently.

Saddam scolded Barzan, who was intelligence chief until 1983
and Iraq's envoy to the UN in Geneva from 1988 to 1998, the
report said.

Both he and another half-brother of Saddam, former interior
minister Watban al-Tikriti, were later placed under house
arrest in one of the palaces of the Radwaniya district of
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Setting the Record Straight

By Christopher Westland


It’s not an exaggeration to say that anti-Americanism has been the main
marching tune of the post-modern left for decades. Almost uniformly, they
insist that America and her semi-competitive private corporations are evil.
On the other hand, and all the monopoly corporations of the socialist states
and petty third world dictators with obscene, secret bank accounts, are
unquestionably good, no matter how many hundreds of millions they’ve
murdered in the name of the ‘progressive’ cause. If some mass-murderer
pretends to care about the plight of the impoverished ‘workers of the world’
trapped under the lion’s paw of private corporations, he’s automatically
elevated to the status of socialist deity. You know, “the only good monopoly
is a state monopoly”. The left insists it has the A.N.S.W.E.R. for all of us.
But the veneer of their thought process has worn extremely thin, along with
the patience of most rational minds.

And in the wake of a waning 911 memory, the anti-American mania has
reached a new high. The egalitarian fantasies of the communo-cultists on
the far left have soared beyond the realm of mild neurosis, to sheer,
irrational psychosis. Their attachment to their Stalinist utopian pipedream
has become the political equivalent of the garage physicist’s obsession with
a perpetual motion machine. How else can anyone explain the non-logic of
the pop rhetoric? And at the forefront, for the entire world to view, are the
Hollywood media stars. These people have convinced themselves that if
they can play a Ph.D., they can think like a Ph.D. And these movie mavens
of intellectual acuity have finally even outdone themselves.

Notables like Harry Belafonte – whose main claim to fame was being one of
the first black persons to sing on white radio – thinks that makes him
superior to not only the rest of us, but the highly educated Dr. Condoleza
Rice and Colin Powel, two individuals who have achieved some of the
highest and most demanding positions in black history. Then there’s the
spelling-challenged, Jewish Barbara Striesand, would have us believe that,
like Neville Chamberlain before us, we can appease the neo-Nazi Islamo-
Fascists who swear they’ll kill every Jew on the planet, and somehow she
and Israel will go unscathed. And George Clooney claims “we can’t beat
anybody anymore”. Should we suggest he just speak for himself on that
one? Especially the next time he visits a public bar without bodyguards. Fat
chance, of course. Which brings us to our point.

Martin Sheen himself, the icon of liberal activism, the ‘real’ American
President of the American West Wing Left -- since George W. Bush is
considered an illegitimate child -- has become the self-appointed
spokesperson for the anti-American peace movement of the 21st Century.
From the Mid East to Europe, from South America to Singapore, the world
is choosing up sides against American Liberty in a way not seen since the
late 1930’s, and Sheen wants us to become pacifists. May we be forgiven if
this seems as astonishingly irrational as a woman offering to “turn the other
cheek” to a violent rapist [SIC].

Now Sheen’s activism is clearly genuine, if not perhaps misguided, so we
can charitably assume he sincerely means well. And he did have the
chutzpah to publicly call George W. Bush “a moron”. But by his own
admission Sheen allowed that he doesn’t “have the kind of intelligence or
the makeup to be a president”. And incredibly, in a 2001 BBC interview, he
insisted that the only original things of importance that the U.S. has ever
exported to the rest of the world were “Alcoholics Anonymous and Jazz
Music”.

Oh, really.

Well, just to set the record straight, let’s examine that last anti-American
statement in at least a little depth before we follow this guy and his fellow
glitterati all the way to the “Virtual White House”, and possibly into a
complete new global dark age of neo-feudal totalitarianism. Let’s just take a
look at just a few of the things officially recognized as America invention
exported to the rest of mankind. Other than the twelve-step program and
reefer madness music, of course.

Besides the modern constitutional representative form of government given
to the world by the Founding Fathers, the one we now call ‘democracy’,
here’s a selected few of the ‘Oscar’ quality achievements bequeathed to the
world by “stupid white American men”.


In the category of Health and Medicine:
1842 Crawford Long: ether anesthetized surgery
1880 Dr. C. D. Fleet: “chapstick”
1905 Albert Einhorn: Novocain
1913 William D. Coolidge (for General Electric): the X-ray tube
1933 John Lundy: intravenous anesthesia, using sodium pentathol
1935 Robert R. Williams: isolated and synthesized vitamins
1940 Vladimir Zworykin  James Hillier: the electron microscope
1943 Selmen A. Waksman: streptomycin (curing tuberculosis)
1945 (circa) Alfred Free: 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [American_Liberty] Iraqis launch campaign of sabotage an

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Iraqis launch campaign of sabotage and defiance to undermine Saddam
By Con Coughlin
16/03/2003

Open acts of defiance by opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime have
intensified in the past week, with saboteurs carrying out attacks
against Iraq's railway system and protesters openly calling for the
overthrow of the Iraqi dictator.

The most blatant act of sabotage took place 20 miles south of the north
Iraqi city of Mosul when members of the Iraqi opposition blew up a
stretch of track on the Mosul-Baghdad railway, causing the derailment of
a train.

Before fleeing back to their base in Kurdistan, they left piles of
leaflets by the side of the track urging the Iraqi soldiers who were
sent to investigate the explosion to join the international alliance to
liberate Iraq from Saddam the criminal.  In a separate incident, a
rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a train illegally transporting
fuel from Baghdad to Syria.

Demonstrations were also reported to have taken place in Kirkuk, where
an estimated crowd of 20,000 marched on the Ba'ath party's main
administrative headquarters demanding Saddam's overthrow.  Three posters
of the Iraqi leader were torn down and a grenade was thrown at the
government building.  One senior Ba'ath official was reported killed in
the attack.

There were also unconfirmed reports that another demonstration by Iraqi
Shi'ites in the holy city of Kerbala last weekend was violently
suppressed after the intervention of militiamen loyal to Saddam.

The escalation in attacks by Iraqi opposition groups has also been
accompanied by widespread acts of anti-Saddam vandalism.  Posters of the
Iraqi president, which adorn every public building, are being openly
defaced and vandalised throughout the country.

Until recently anyone caught carrying out such acts would have received
the death sentence.  But the mounting acts of open defiance against
Saddam's regime is indicative of the growing confidence being displayed
by the main Iraqi opposition groups.

Until recently such acts of open defiance were very rare, and were
dealt with harshly, a Foreign Office official commented yesterday.
But as Saddam concentrates his energies on trying to protect his regime
from attack, Iraqi opposition groups are becoming more audacious in
their attacks.

The only area where Saddam can rely with confidence on the loyalty of
his security forces is in the Ba'ath party's heartland around Baghdad.
In an attempt to reassert his authority Saddam last week issued a
directive ordering Iraqi officials not to give up their positions and
flee the country.

To set an example, members of Saddam's security forces arrested a civil
servant in the al-Hurriyya suburb of Baghdad on suspicion of preparing
to leave the country.  The unfortunate official was then tied to a pole
in the street and passers-by were ordered to watch as his tongue was cut
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[CTRL] Spain links Iraq to 9-11 attacks

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Sunday, March 16, 2003


WAR ON TERROR
Spain links Iraq
to 9-11 attacks
Madrid turns over documents
to U.S., holds terrorist for trial

Posted: March 16, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
An alleged terrorist accused of helping the Sept. 11 conspirators
was invited to a party by the Iraqi ambassador to Spain under his al-
Qaida pseudonym, according to documents seized by Spanish
investigators and turned over to U.S. authorities, the London
Observer reports.

Yusuf Galan, who was photographed being trained at a camp run by
Osama bin Laden, is now in jail, awaiting trial in Madrid. The
indictment against him, drawn up by investigating judge Baltasar
Garzon, claims he was directly involved with the preparation and
carrying out of the attacks ... by the suicide pilots on 11 September.

Evidence of Galan's links with Iraqi government officials came to
light only recently, as investigators pored through more than 40,000
pages of documents seized in raids at the homes of Galan and
seven alleged co-conspirators. The Spanish authorities have
supplied copies to lawyers in America, and this week the documents
will form part of a dossier to be filed in a federal court in
Washington, claiming damages of approximately $100 billion on
behalf of more than 2,500 Sept. 11 victims, according to the
Observer report.

The lawsuit lists Saddam's government in Iraq as one of its principal
defendants, claiming it provided 'material support' to the al-Qaida
terrorists.

While many opposing the invasion of Iraq have been skeptical of the
al-Qaida-Iraq link, in recent months George Tenet, director of the
CIA, has made increasingly strong statements alleging such a
connection. In congressional testimony, he said that Iraq had co-
operated with al-Qaida for 10 years, and that it had trained al-Qaida
members in bomb-making and the use of chemical and biological
weapons.

WorldNetDaily has reported Iraq's sponsorship of al-Qaida dating
back more than a decade since Dec. 2002.

The evidence in support of the Sept. 11 damages claim cites
several examples of this alleged co-operation. They include the
terrorist training camp at Salman Pak near Baghdad, where former
Iraqi intelligence brigadier Jamal al-Qurairy has said that non-Iraqi
Islamic radicals were trained to hijack aircraft using knives.

It also includes a new affirmation by the Czech government that
Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 plotters, met an Iraqi
intelligence officer, Ibrahim al-Ani, in Prague in April 2001. Some US
officials have suggested this meeting did not happen. But in a
signed statement dated 24 February, 2003, Hynek Kmonicek, the
Czech ambassador to the UN, says his government 'can confirm
that during the stay of Mohamed Atta ... there was contact with Mr
al-Ani, who was on 22 April, 2001 expelled from the Czech Republic
on the basis of activities not compatible with his diplomatic status
[the usual euphemism for spying]'. Garzon's indictment says Galan
was part of a cell which organized bank robberies on behalf of al-
Qaida, and which had supported the group around Atta financially
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[CTRL] New evidence links Saddam, bin Laden

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Monday, December 9, 2002


WAR ON TERROR
New evidence links
Saddam, bin Laden
Iraqi intelligence agent liaison between Baghdad, al-Qaida?

Posted: December 9, 2002
12:54 p.m. Eastern


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Shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks, a group of al-Qaida fighters left
Afghanistan and set up shop in Iraq as a backup base, according to
a report in today's Los Angeles Times.
Osama bin Laden's jihadists established such a base in town of Al
Biyara and nearby mountain villages where Kurdish militants had
begun imposing the strict Islamic rule much like Afghanistan's
ousted Taliban regime, according to the Times report.
While this base is further evidence of Saddam Hussein's recent
support of al-Qaida, documented by many intelligence sources over
the last 10 years, Iraq is attempting to maintain plausible deniability
with regard to the bases – suggesting they are outside the control of
the government in Baghdad.
While some intelligence sources believe Baghdad maintains liaison
with al-Qaida through a senior intelligence officer by the name of
Abu Wael, others insist Wael heads Ansar, an al-Qaida affiliate, and
actually opposes Hussein.
Within two weeks of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United
States, Ansar terrorists attacked security forces of the pro-U.S.
Kurdish government. More than 20 Kurds were killed, their throats
slit and bodies mutilated, according to the Times report. Sporadic
and deadly clashes have ensued.
In April, Ansar tried to assassinate Barham Salih, the prime minister
of the eastern sector of Iraqi Kurdistan, reports the Times. Five
bodyguards were slain. Ansar, the report says, also tested primitive
chemical weapons, including a cyanide gas, on farm animals this
year.
For the Kurds, the 600 to 700 Ansar fighters and the 35 to 100 al-
Qaida members are now the most serious threat in Kurdistan, the
only Iraqi region not under Hussein's control – and the only region
that would welcome U.S. troops to oust him, reported the Times.
Fighting broke out again Wednesday when Ansar guerrillas
launched a surprise attack on Kurdish security forces, reportedly
killing dozens.
According to Qassem Hussein Mohammed, 36, an Iraqi intelligence
agent captured by the Kurds in January, Wael was a major in the
Iraqi army who joined Hussein's top intelligence unit after finishing
law school. He eventually became the clandestine link between
Hussein's regime and al-Qaida, he said.
In 1995, Abu Wael was instructed by Baghdad to go to Afghanistan
to be the connection between al-Qaida and Baghdad, Mohammed
told the Times. He did this five years, until he came back to
Kurdistan in 2000.
Mohammed says he knows the details because he was the courier
between Abu Wael and Baghdad – traveling to both Afghanistan
and Kurdistan.
Assertions that Iraq is cooperating and supporting al-Qaida are
supported by the findings of a new book by a top terrorism expert.
Yossef Bodansky, author of The High Cost of Peace, says joint
preparations by Hussein, Yasser Arafat and al-Qaida for a new
wave of anti-U.S. terror began last spring. The model for the
terrorism campaign is Arafat's Black September Organization of the
1970s.
The initiative for the alliance came from Palestinian Islamists based
in Lebanon and Syria, according to Bodansky, the U.S. Congress'
top terrorism adviser. The response from al-Qaida came April 2,
says Bodansky.
A group calling itself the bin Laden Brigades-Palestine issued a
statement formally integrating the Islamist and Fatah wave of anti-
Israel terrorism into bin Laden's global jihad, he writes in his new
book. The bin Laden Brigades announced that their forces were
now at the disposal of 'Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and fighter
commander Marwan al-Barghouti' to fight 'alongside the Brigades'
fighters and the Islamic factions.' The statement emphasized that
numerous Palestinian factions, specifically including al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, '[had] become part of the International Front for Fighting
Jews and Christians, led by Osama bin Laden.' They now '[had]
found the path of Islam and adopted the line of genuine resistance
of the jihad movement and Islamic resistance, that is the path of
jihad and martyrdom for the sake of God, and discarded forever the
lies of the alleged peace and the myths of negotiations.'
The anti-U.S. coalition also includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
A communique issued on April 2 from the Unified Leadership of the
Intifadah – an umbrella organization representing Arafat's Fatah
groups, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other members of the Palestine
Liberation Organization – called for attacks on U.S. interests.
The United States is backing the Israeli assault on the
Palestinians, it said. Therefore, U.S. facilities, targets and interests
throughout the world should be harmed.
Unit 999 of Iraqi intelligence has helped train both Arafat's shock
troops and bin Laden's Islamists for suicide operations 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] (fwd) [Black_Libertarians] Islam's Other Victims: Africa

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Islam's Other Victims: Africa
By Serge Trifkovic

FrontPageMagazine.com

February 14, 2003


 One in a series of excerpts adapted by Robert Locke from
Dr. Serge Trifkovic's new book The Sword of the Prophet:
A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam.

 The Koran commands Moslems to wage jihad for the forcible
conversion of the whole world. Africa, with its generally low level
of civilizational development and corresponding lack of the power
to defend itself, has been singularly vulnerable to these aggressions,
particularly after the hiatus imposed by colonialism (whatever its
drawbacks).

 Take Nigeria, a nation burdened by ethnic and religious diversity
which has been plagued by all the standard African post-colonial
experiences, from civil war and a procession of corrupt and brutal
military dictatorships to bouts of strife rooted in the clashing tribal
and religious loyalties of its 100 million-plus people. Its oil riches
have been squandered, stolen, or mismanaged. Its countless
economic and social problems would test the abilities of its rulers
even without the specter of a religious conflict. How could things
be worse?


Enter militant Islam.

 Only about a half of all Nigerians are Moslem, but they are a
majority in several northern states. The fault line between Arabized
and Moslem North Africa and the real black Africa closer to the
equator splits Nigeria in two, as it does Mauritania and Sudan.

 For years, Nigeria's corrupt military rulers came from the Moslem
north. They treated the rest of the country as occupied territories
to plunder at will. They sought to give a Moslem stamp to the country
as a whole, to the point of joining the Islamic Conference Organization,
creating the impression that Nigeria is Moslem in its entirety.

 Their long-term strategy is apparent from the opening communique
of  the Islam in Africa Organization, (IAO) founded at a conference
in Abuja in northern Nigeria in November 1989. It insists on
re-instating a strong and united umma (Islamic community) in Africa and on
restoring the use of Arabic script in the vernacular. 1 In addition:

 The Conference notes the yearning of Moslems everywhere on the
continent who have been deprived of their rights to be governed by
the sharia and urges them to intensify efforts in the struggle to
reinstate the application of the sharia. (Islamic law)

 The implication is that once there had been an umma in Africa,
within which the local languages were written in Arabic lettering,
and that Africans were under sharia. This is not true; it is fantasy
history. The Conference also demanded the appointment of only
Moslems into strategic national and international posts of member
nations. It pledged:

 To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Moslem
religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity,
Ahmadiyya and other tribal modes of worship unacceptable to Moslems)

 The members pledged to pursue those objectives not only in Islamic
states, but also in those with Moslem minorities. The IAO had huge
funds at its disposal from the very first day, including $21 billion
which was generously donated by the government and people of Nigeria
for the Islamic Development Fund.

 Fast-forward to the end of Nigeria's military government in 1999.
Unhappy with the loss of power following the collapse of the military
regime, traditional rulers of predominantly Moslem states in northern
Nigeria are now seeking to apply the IAO communique at the level of
their own communities, most visibly by introducing sharia. In late
1999 the state of Zamfara, whose two million people are predominantly
Moslem, was the first to adopt a bill to introduce sharia. Its devoutly
Moslem state governor, Alhaji Ahmed Sani, approved it in spite
of the objections of the Christian minority in Zamfara and protests
from the rest of the country. Within weeks all bars were closed,
cinemas and video parlors were shut down, and boys and girls were
divided into separate schools. The rest of the novelties are familiar
o any visitor to the Middle East: women now must cover themselves;
amputations of limbs, stonings to death and beheadings are on the
statute book for a variety of offences; consumers of alcohol in any
form are severely flogged if caught drinking. Governor Sani has
asserted that he would replicate the sharia code used in Saudi
Arabia.

 The consequences have been predictable. Moslem fanatics have
been emboldened to demand sharia in all northern Nigerian states
where they have a majority. Resulting clashes in mixed areas included
two bouts of bloody riots, in February and May 2000, in which over two
thousand people were killed when another northern Nigerian state,
Kaduna, tried to introduce sharia there. Dozens of Christian churches
have been burned and desecrated all over northern Nigeria.

 Christians have been 

[CTRL] (Fwd) Useful Idiots: Marxists Exploit the Appeasement Movement

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Useful Idiots: Marxists Exploit the Appeasement Movement

Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com

Wednesday, Feb.  26, 2003

WASHINGTON Longtime communist supporters in the United States are rallying
behind post-9/11 jihadists who want to kill Americans.  Security experts have told
NewsMax.com that longtime leftist America-haters are deeply involved in organizing
the appeasement demonstrations against war with Iraq.

The mainstream media, which fawned over these demonstrations, painted a picture
of Main Street America trying to send a grassroots message to President Bush.  But
they did not connect any of the dots tracing their control and organization to tiny but
influential Marxist organizations.

Why would old communist supporters back Islamist extremists?

David Horowitz, author of the new book The Hate America Left, says hard-line leftists
doing the bidding of fanatical Islamic fundamentalists dont have a plan beyond
destruction.

Longtime security official Herbert Romerstein agrees.

The pro-Marxist group that really started the demonstrations and controlled the
demonstrations that took place in Washington in the last year or so is a group called
the Workers World Party, which is ideologically in support of the North Korean
government, he told NewsMax.

He says the groups plan of destruction, to which Horowitz alluded, fits hand in glove
with North Koreas creating provocations to get our attention off Iraq and are very
happy that these people are in the United States organizing demonstrations in
support of Iraq.

Romertstein has been watching Workers World Party for years going back to his
days as a top staffer for the House Internal Security Committee (the renamed House
Committee on Un American Activities).  In 1974, the year before congressional left-
wingers put it out of business, that committee issued a report, based largely on
Romersteins investigations, exposing in detail WWP, citing names and dates of its
pro-North-Korea drive.

In his NewsMax interview, he said it was a little bit bizarre that anybody should pay
attention to the lunatics ...  constantly making pilgrimages to Pyongyang to lay
flowers at the grave of [the late dictator] Kim Il Sung, and to pledge their support to
[son and successor] Kim Jung Il.

Horowitz and Romerstein say North Koreas interest in supporting Iraqs interests lies
in the old adage that the enemy of my enemy is my freind.

Horowitz, a red diaper baby who grew up in a communist household and later
became a conservative, knows the hard left all too well.

He told NewsMax that the demonstrations here in Washington and in other cities
included operatives from the old communist left, the new communist left, and the
next communist left.  These are people who have supported Americas enemies for
20, 30, 40 years.

Not all of them are genetic leftists, he said, but they subscribe to the fundamental
views of the left which is that America is the great Satan and that private property
and corporations...  are the source of evil in the world.

Ronald Radosh, another red diaper baby and author of the book 2001 book
Commies, has said there is certainly room for a true grassroots anti-war movement
in this country.

But for the likes of Workers World Party to manage and direct the appeasement
movement is to distort and corrupt the debate.

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Re: [CTRL] Useful Idiots: Marxists Exploit the Appeasement Movement

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If you don't have an argument, attack the messenger.

On 12 Mar 2003 at 14:05, flw wrote:

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  David Horowitz, author of the new book The Hate America Left,
 says hard-line leftist  doing the bidding of fanatical Islamic
 fundamentalists dont have a plan beyond destruction.

 Claiming 'leftists' are allied with Islamic fundamentalists
 is ridiculous. The Islamics hate socialism / communism
 with a passion. Ironically their Islamic Fascism is more in
 tune with Right Wing American Fundamentalists then with
 leftists.

 Ha Ha Horowitz went from a left wing Stalinist to a right wing
 Stalinist because there is much more money in being a right
 wing nut then a left wing nut. So many of these 'NeoCon'
 Chickenhawks are former Marxists it tells you much about their
 strange mindset.

 Like most of these NeoCons they are following the Right Wing
 Think Tank money...Gimme Gimme Gimme.

 What a joke.
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[CTRL] IRAQ OBTAINS FAST RUBBER BOATS FOR SUICIDE OPERATIONS

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http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/march/03_11_1.html

 IRAQ OBTAINS FAST RUBBER BOATS FOR SUICIDE
OPERATIONS

 LONDON [MENL] -- Iraq has procured inflatable motorized boats
from the former Yugoslavia for suicide missions against U.S.  and
allied forces in the Persian Gulf.  Western intelligence sources
identified the vessels as Zodiac-class boats procured from companies
in the Balkans.  The sources said the boats were purchased by Syria
and smuggled into Iraq for use by a new suicide unit formed by the
regime of President Saddam Hussein.  'The procurement of the boat
marks a strategy by Saddam to use suicide operations as a major tool
against U.S.  troops, a senior intelligence source said.  The
Republican Guard has been ordered to stress the formation of a
range of suicide units, including those of ground forces. Iraq, the
sources said, seek to obtain at least 100 such boats for suicide and
sabotage operations against U.S.  warships.  It is unclear how many
boats have already arrived in Iraq.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [piml] WND POLL: Threat assessment

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [unorganizedmilitia] A border story from the lighter side

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Fwd: Be Prepared!

There was a very intresting event that happened 2 weeks ago.  The 8th Texas
Cavalry, our reenactment group, was practicing for it's upcoming filming for the
history documentary on a ranch on the Texas-Mexico border.  On the first day we
were joined for morning chow by many Mexican Immigrants, whom we welcomed,
and we explained what the old uniforms, tents, horses, and cannon were all about,
they all got a kick out of it as did the border patrol boys that came along the long 
road
that follows the Rio Grande.

Early the next morning we began firing the cannon battery, which could be heard for
miles, we saw no more immigrants crossing the border near our camps that day, we
massed the troops at sunset after 5 pm chow, we decided to practice our cavalry
charge, preceded by artillary support, and followed by the infantry.

We followed our imaginary yankees to the muddy Rio Grande, which is actually
about a foot deep at this location, when to our surprize we found about 20 armed
men around an 18 wheeler that had become stuck in the muddy river, they saw us
coming, charging with sabres drawn and bayonets fixed on our real carbine rifles, in
our Confederate uniforms, they dropped their weapons in the river and ran,
abandoning the truck, we called the Bordor patrol and the 8th Cavalry had it's first
victory in the new century.

God Bless !!
Maj.  John Parnell

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Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

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On 9 Mar 2003 at 12:43, Euphorian wrote:

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  The post was actually something I'd been indirectly waiting for (wainting
 for something but didn't know what) given I've had a protracted case of
 writer's block; it provided the key to something I've been working on for
 a few months.

Happy to have been of service.

IMO, your stated objections to this program are based on unimportant externalities:
where the course is being held; what that the particular city smells like; the fact 
that
it's called an internship.

You didn't actually say Some interns have been abused.  These kids will be
interns, therefore they will be abused, but you were flirting with it, and it could be
inferred that's what your train of thought was.  They're no more likely to be abused
because they're in DC than they would be in their home towns - anyone who reads
the news knows there are abusers of authority in every setting.

Learning can take place in any location.  The curriculum materials and faculty are
far more important than what city.  Anyway, who knows what the program might
evolve into.  Maybe they will at some point incorporate your perambulatory vision
into the program.





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Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

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On 8 Mar 2003 at 18:15, Euphorian wrote:


 Gee, didn't you ever learn something from looking at a rock or a rainbow
 or a sunset?  Nevah loined nuttin' by bein' in close proximity to a rose bush
 (no relation to any leaders presumed here) or laying on the grass looking
 at the sky?

Of course - the nature of the human mind predisposes us
to independent learning.  Not being an animist, I do
not accept that either the rainbow or the rose bush
were teaching.

However, this is attempting to lead us away from your
rather disingenuous proposal that the internship
program could not teach anything about the American
ideal simply because it will be located in Washington
DC.

If you truly believe that, then you must also believe
Harvard's program of Middle Eastern Studies is doomed
to failure because Harvard is located in an American
setting, or that any European university's program of
American Studies will be unable to teach anything of
value because of it's location.

Of course, I know you really don't believe that.  You
just couldn't resist jumping at the bait I held out -
an organization who has the audacity to mention the
hate-America crowd simply couldn't be allowed to
remain un-dissed.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [patriot] (fwd) Are the days of the UN numbered?

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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 44, Part I, 7 March 2003

RUSSIA

MOSCOW THINKS IRAQ WAR IS IMMINENT.

The Emergency Situations Ministry announced on 6 March that it has brought an
additional 150 Russian citizens to Moscow from Iraq and that another five flights are
scheduled before 10 March that will evacuate virtually all the
Russians remaining in that country, RIA-Novosti and other Russian
news agencies reported. Russian oil majors Yukos, LUKoil, and
Zarubezhneft have all reportedly summoned their employees home.

Lenta.ru commented on 6 March that the Emergency Situations
Ministry's move is a sign that Moscow has few hopes that a peaceful
solution to the Iraq crisis will be found, and that war appears
imminent. The website commented that the only issue for Russia now is
what role it will play in postwar Iraq. A high-ranking U.S. diplomat
who spoke on condition of anonymity told Interfax on 6 March that
Russia's opposition to U.S. policy has not gone unnoticed and could
have an impact on many aspects of bilateral relations, including U.S.
support for Russia's rapid accession to the World Trade Organization
(WTO).

In his evening commentary on ORT, Mikhail Leontev -- who is
known for his hostile attitude toward the United States -- said the
most important issue is not Iraq itself, but the role of the United
Nations. The UN will be dead in any case. It will be suicide if it
approves [a U.S.-led military action], and it will be its death if it
does not approve [such an action] and its decision is ignored,
Leontev said. VY

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[CTRL] (Fwd) gov't says indoctrination centers not working

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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200303\NAT200303
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Internship Program Seeks to Counter 'Blame America Crowd'
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
March 07, 2003

(CNSNews.com) - A newly formed group aims to counter what it claims is an
educational system dominated by the blame America crowd, by offering internships
to minority male students and a different perspective on the nation's economic and
constitutional principles.

We are looking for the very brightest minority male students in America, the kind of
students who professors or deans will say are destined for greatness, said William
Keyes, president of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship. Keyes served as a
former advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

The selected African American and Hispanic students will travel to Washington D.C.,
and be given a thorough understanding of what the American ideal is, Keyes told
CNSNews.com.

The institute was formed to counteract what it sees as the indoctrination of students
into anti-Americanism at many university campuses.

The American ideal is under constant attack and precious few citizens are willing to
stand up and defend it, Keyes said.

The blame America crowd has taken over academia. I think that it's rare that you
have a professor that stands before a college class and extols the virtues of our
constitutional system, Keyes explained.

The institute's goal is to help turn the young men into defenders of liberty.

We are trying to fill this critical void ... it is our goal to identify young men
who have the potential to become superstars in their chosen fields and prepare them
to stand up and be counted, Keyes said.

Among the institute's academic advisors are, former National Football League star
and actor Rosie Grier and George Mason University economist Walter Williams.

Twelve students will be selected for summer internships stretching over two years.
They will work as full-time interns for organizations including Congress, news
outlets and businesses.

An official with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) was supportive of the intern program planned by the Institute for
Responsible Citizenship, but disagreed with Keyes' premise that today's students are
lacking instruction about defending liberty in America.

The young African Americans that I have talked to realize the greatness of America
that actually allows them to be able to challenge authority and the status quo, said
Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington, D.C. bureau.

Those same young Americans also are the first to sign up for the military. They
would fight for the nation when it's a just war. They would give their lives,
Shelton added.

Shelton hopes the institute's internships allow the students to hear from
conservatives, as well as liberals and all those in between.

Hopefully they will expose these young people to all the other values that are
legitimate parts of the American landscape ... we should not be a nation that is run
on ignorance, he added.

Keyes said that the Institute for Responsible Citizenship would not use ideological
litmus tests in selecting students, but would instead seek open minded kids.

We are not looking for commitment to conservatism, he added.

Our goal is to give students a clear understating of what sets America apart from
other nations ... because students today don't have a good understating of our
economic and constitutional system, Keyes said.

See Earlier Stories:

Smithsonian Museum Blasted for Stressing America's Failures (Feb. 19, 2003)

Video Implies Lincoln Would Have Supported Liberal Causes (Feb. 4, 2003)
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[CTRL] (Fwd) [piml] Death delivered to the door

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Death delivered to the door
Sapa-AFP
07 Mar 2003  15:42  - (SA)

Beijing -- China has developed a mobile execution vehicle to make capital
punishment easier to deliver, state press said on Friday.

China is also increasingly adopting lethal injections as a more humane
method of carrying out death sentences, the Beijing Today reported.

The judicial department in southwestern Yunnan province has developed 18
special execution vans that distribute lethal injections to criminals on
death row, the paper said.

The 500 000 yuan ($60 000) vehicles have been sent to Yunnan's 17
intermediate courts, so the Chinese practice of immediately carrying out
executions after sentencing can be done without the usual trip to the
execution ground.

Two farmers from Yunnan province, Liu Huafu, 21, and his accomplice Zhou
Chaojie, 25, benefited from the latest advance in China's judicial system
last Thursday afternoon, the paper said.

The two had been sentenced to death for trafficking heroin, the paper said.
Yunnan is the centre of China's heroin industry.

The use of lethal injection shows that China's death penalty system is
becoming more civilised and humane, Zhao Shijie, chairman of the Yunnan
Supreme Court told the paper.

Lethal injections only require four people to assist in the execution while
the usual practice of death by firing squad needs many guards not only at
the execution site, but along the road to the site, it said.

State secret

China executes more criminals every year than the rest of the world
combined, human rights groups have said.

The number of executions remains a highly confidential state secret.

Groups such as Amnesty International have also accused China of harvesting
the organs of executed prisoners in an effort to supply its growing market
for organ transplants.

Although the article did not raise such accusations, court officials said
the contents of the drug cocktails being used in the lethal injections was a
state secret.

The fact that so many people are executed is a far more important
consideration, it would be hypocritical to herald (lethal injections) as a
wonderful advance, Chen Xingliang, a legal professor at Peking University,
told the paper.

We kill thousands of people every year, this figure cannot be admitted (by
the government), he added.

Yunnan province was China's first province to use lethal injections and
since March 1997, 112 criminal have been executed using the method at the
provincial capital's Kunming intermediate court, the paper said.

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[CTRL] College to apologize to Bush for professor

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http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20030307-093444-9730r

College to apologize to Bush for professor
By Lou Marano
From the Life  Mind Desk
Published 3/7/2003 10:11 PM

WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- The president of a California
college is sending a letter to President Bush apologizing for an
instructor who gave students extra credit for writing anti-war
missives to the White House.

Citrus College President Louis E. Zellers wrote that Professor
Rosalyn Kahn did abuse her authority in assigning students in her
Speech 106 class to write letters to Bush protesting the possible war
with Iraq.

Students were clear in their understanding that they would only
receive credit if they wrote 'protest' letters, Zellers said in a letter of
thanks to FIRE -- the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education --
a Philadelphia-based campus watchdog group.

FIRE's Chief Executive Officer, Thor L. Halvorssen, praised the
school. When fully informed of a frightening violation of freedom of
conscience, the college administration responded swiftly and boldly
to restore liberty and to undo the harm already done, he said.

Citrus is a two-year community college in Glendora, Calif., in the
foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles
County. Kahn's Speech 106 class is a required course.

Kahn made a similar assignment with state Sen. Jack Scott, D-
Pasadena, as the intended recipient. Again, all students understood
that they would only receive extra credit if they wrote letters
expressing a specific political agenda, Zellers wrote.

Halvorssen said that Kahn collected the letters from the class and
personally delivered them to Scott. The senator's office told FIRE
that the letters were not solicited, he said.

Zellers called Kahn's assignment an injustice that ought not to
have happened. I am sending a letter of apology to Senator Jack
Scott, explaining the illegitimate nature of the assignment and
requesting that all letters associated with the assignment be
retracted, the college president wrote to FIRE.

Efforts to reach Kahn Friday afternoon were unsuccessful.

Samuel Lee, associate dean for Language Arts and Foreign
Languages, told United Press International that he already had
taken action before being contacted by FIRE but that the details and
perspectives FIRE provided helped him to form his thoughts more
clearly. I'm thankful to them, actually, for that, he said.

Lee said on Feb. 27 he spent an hour with two students -- including
Chris Stevens, who contacted FIRE and requested its assistance --
listening to their complaints about this instructor. The next day Lee
asked Kahn if there was any truth to the allegation that she gave
students extra credit assignments to serve her personal agenda. I
was able to confirm with her that that did take place, Lee said.

The dean said on Tuesday he sent Kahn a detailed e-mail, with
copies to the students, saying the practice had to stop and must be
set right. All students in the class were given the chance to resubmit
letters expressing any political opinion they might have and receive
credit for them. Lee said Kahn was instructed to apologize to
students and a number of other actions we wanted her to take.

Lee said FIRE's fax on Tuesday provided him with details, and other
complaints, of which he had been unaware. They also sort of lit a
fire under my butt, saying: 'Hey! This is very serious. We're not
satisfied with what we've seen of your response yet.

On Thursday Lee gave Kahn the day off and met with the class for
more than an hour. He asked the students a list of very specific
questions about the allegations. I was able to verify that these two
assignments were given, and it was essentially the way the student
(Stevens) and FIRE were portraying it.

Lee said after hearing what the class had to say, he publicly
apologized to the students on behalf of the college for what he views
as an abuse of power.

Lee told UPI that he promised students a written account of their
grades to date so they can make any disputes known before marks
are assigned.

Stevens was heartened by the outcome. In three days, FIRE undid
four awful weeks of abusive power, he told the foundation. I'm so
grateful to FIRE for coming to our rescue.

The nonprofit describes itself as devoted to free speech, individual
liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality,
due process, and academic freedom on our nation's campuses. It
was founded in 1999 by University of Pennsylvania historian Alan
Charles Kors and Boston civil rights attorney Harvey A. Silverglate.

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Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) gov't says indoctrination centers not working

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On 8 Mar 2003 at 16:42, Euphorian wrote:


 Let's see ... Washington DC with the highest per capital crime rat in the
 United States is going to teach young people (of any background) about
 the American ideal?

Appparently you didn't pay attention in your high school
English classes.  Washington DC, not being a living entity, cannot
possibly do any teaching.  I presume the human beings who will be
teaching the classes are located IN Washington DC.
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[CTRL] French Company Smuggles Spare Parts to Iraq

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Iraq strengthens air force with French parts
Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published March 7, 2003

 A French company has been selling spare parts to Iraq for its
fighter jets and military helicopters during the past several months,
according to U.S. intelligence officials.

 The unidentified company sold the parts to a trading company in
the United Arab Emirates, which then shipped the parts through a
third country into Iraq by truck.

 The spare parts included goods for Iraq's French-made Mirage
F-1 jets and Gazelle attack helicopters.

 An intelligence official said the illegal spare-parts pipeline was
discovered in the past two weeks and that sensitive intelligence
about the transfers indicates that the parts were smuggled to Iraq as
recently as January.

 Other intelligence reports indicate that Iraq had succeeded in
acquiring French weaponry illegally for years, the official said.
 The parts appear to be included in an effort by the Iraqi military to
build up materiel for its air forces before any U.S. military action,
which could occur before the end of the month.

 The officials identified the purchaser of the parts as the Al
Tamoor Trading Co., based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A
spokesman for the company could not be reached for comment.
 The French military parts were then sent by truck into Iraq from a
neighboring country the officials declined to identify.

 Iraq has more than 50 Mirage F-1 jets and an unknown number
of Gazelle attack helicopters, according to the London-based
International Institute for Strategic Studies.

 An administration official said the French parts transfers to Iraq
may be one reason France has so vehemently opposed U.S. plans
for military action against Iraq. No wonder the French are opposing
us, this official said.

 The official, however, said intelligence reports of the parts sale
did not indicate that the activity was sanctioned by the French
government or that Paris knows about the transfers.

 The intelligence reports did not identify the French company
involved in selling the aircraft parts or whether the parts were new or
used.

 The Mirage F-1 was made by France's Dassault Aviation.
Gazelle helicopters were made by Aerospatiale, which later became
part of a consortium of European defense companies.

 The importation of military goods by Iraq is banned under U.N.
Security Council resolutions passed since the 1991 Persian Gulf
war.

 Nathalie Loiseau, press counselor at the French Embassy, said
her government has no information about the spare-parts smuggling
and has not been approached by the U.S. government about the
matter.

 We fully comply with the U.N. sanctions, and there is no sale of
any kind of military material or weapons to Iraq, she said.
 A CIA spokesman had no comment.

 A senior administration official declined to discuss Iraq's
purchase of French warplane and helicopter parts. It is well known
that the Iraqis use front companies to try to obtain a number of
prohibited items, the official said.

 The disclosure comes amid heightened anti-French sentiment in
the United States over Paris' opposition to U.S. plans for using force
to disarm Iraq.

 A senior defense official said France undermined U.S. efforts to
disarm Iraq last year by watering down language of U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1441 that last fall required Iraq to disarm all its
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.

 France, along with Russia, Germany and China, said yesterday
that they would block a joint U.S.-British U.N. resolution on the use
of force against Iraq.

 French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told reporters in
Paris on Wednesday that France will not allow a resolution to pass
that authorizes resorting to force.

 Russia and France, as permanent members of the Security
Council, will assume their full responsibilities on this point, he
stated.

 France has been Iraq's best friend in the West. French arms
sales to Baghdad were boosted in the 1970s under Premier
Jacques Chirac, the current president. Mr. Chirac once called
Saddam Hussein a personal friend.

 During the 1980s, when Paris backed Iraq in its war against Iran,
France sold Mirage fighter bombers and Super Entendard aircraft to
Baghdad, along with Exocet anti-ship missiles.

 French-Iraqi ties soured after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait that led
to the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

 France now has an estimated $4 billion in debts owed to it by
Iraq as a result of arms sales and infrastructure construction
projects. The debt is another reason U.S. officials believe France is
opposing military force to oust Saddam.

 Henry Sokolski, director of the private Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center, said French transfers of military equipment to
Iraq would have an immediate and relevant military 

Re: [CTRL] [I-S] (fwd) Ralph Nader would like to thank you for your support

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Tech Central Station

Public Shakedown Artist

By Radley Balko

03/03/2003


Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader,
who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in
taxes.

- Dave Barry

Crystal Lewis hadn't the slightest idea what MOPIRG was.  Each
semester, she says, the mysterious phrase was listed on her tuition bill
at Meramac Community College in St.  Louis, Missouri, and each semester
the school billed her six dollars.  Then she read the fine print.  If
you opt not to support MOPIRG, please deduct this amount from your
payment, it said.

But her tuition bill gave no explanation of what exactly MOPIRG was.

In researching this piece, I got similar reactions from students at
colleges across the country.  PennPIRG, MASSPIRG, and CALPIRG - students
in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Colorado and California had been paying
small fees to all of these groups, and almost none of the students knew
at first what it was they were paying for.

If you're putting a kid or two through college, or putting yourself
through, there's a good chance you're donating to a PIRG, too.

And Ralph Nader would like to thank you for your support.

Yes, the same man who rails against corporate welfare - because it
coercively takes money from taxpayers and funnels it to corporations -
has set up a rather ingenious, if underhanded and manipulative, way of
coercively taking money from college kids - and funneling it to Ralph
Nader.

The PIRG scam is short for Public Interest Research Group, and there
are well over a hundred chapters of the organization spread out across
the country.  The scams vary from campus to campus, but it basically
works like this:

Each time your kid registers for classes, the local PIRG chapter has
arranged with the school to tack a fee on to his/her tuition.  On most
every campus, the PIRG chapter has made attempts to make this
contribution as secretive and misleading as possible.  Just how
secretive and manipulative the method depends on how much resistance
each chapter has met in trying to get the scheme implemented.  At most
schools, they first attempt to make the fee both mandatory and
nonrefundable.  If that doesn't work, they lobby for as underhanded and
sneaky a scheme as the school will allow.

This has been going on for twenty-five years.

Eight years ago, I was sitting in my fraternity cafeteria at Indiana
University when representatives of the then-startup INPIRG group entered
with a petition.  They were starting a new student group on campus, they
told us, and they'd like our support.  We were assured that the group
was one hundred percent apolitical.  It was merely a group that would
advocate for Indiana University students.  They needed our signatures,
they said, to get the organization up and running.

What they didn't tell us was that our signatures were in effect an
endorsement of a reverse check system, whereby every single Indiana
University student (and there are about 40,000 of them) would
automatically donate three dollars to INPIRG each semester, unless he or
she specifically knew to uncheck a box on the computer screen giving
authorization for the contribution.

The INPIRG method has since changed.  Today, the group solicits
signatures from incoming freshmen - again under the apolitical rubric
- who, once they've signed, will then contribute each semester for the
remainder of their college careers at Indiana.  Students say it's almost
impossible to remove your name from the list once you've signed.

But at least students at Indiana have the option of not contributing.

On about 1/3 of the state college campuses in New York State, a
student's PIRG contribution is mandatory and nonrefundable.  The
University of Wisconsin and Oregon University also require mandatory,
nonrefundable contributions to PIRG.

You want to go to one of these schools?  You pony up to Ralph Nader.

At other schools, such as Trinity College in Connecticut, students not
interested in supporting the local PIRG are required to go a Bursar's
office or a student activities office, fill out a form, then take the
paperwork to a campus PIRG officer to get a refund.  That's quite a bit
a work for three or five or eight dollars - and that's assuming the
student ever notices the charge on his tuition statement to begin with.
Not surprisingly, most PIRG chapters don't go to great effort to
publicize the refund option.  They rely on college student indolence,
and they're making a killing.

What's worse is that most of the time, the money these chapters shake
out of college students doesn't even stay on the campus where it's
generated.  This is particularly true in the Northeast.  At many New
England schools, most or even all of the money coerced from college
students goes directly to the state PIRG chapters, where it's used to
pay political lawyers and statehouse lobbyists, or is used as seed
money for further fundraising efforts.  And about 10% of

[CTRL] Report: 12-year-old Palestinian boy's martyrdom 'staged'

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Wednesday, March 5, 2003
WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
Report: 12-year-old Palestinian boy's martyrdom 'staged'
French media complicit in perpetuating 'myth' of Mohammed al-Dura
Posted: March 5, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The martyrdom death of 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammed al-Dura at the hands of 
Israeli
soldiers “ which received widespread international news coverage and spurred on the 
current
intifada, inspiring countless suicide bombers to attack Israel “ was actually a 
staged piece of
street theater, according to an in-depth report in the current issue of WND's monthly 
magazine,
Whistleblower.
The entire world was transfixed as news broadcasts played the sensational video 
footage of the
12-year-old Palestinian boy and his father, pinned down in crossfire between Arab 
snipers and
Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza's remote Netzarim junction on Sept. 30, 2000. The image 
of the
boy crouching in terror behind his father, both of them struggling in vain to protect 
themselves
from Israeli gunfire, only to be shot “ the boy apparently dying in his father's arms 
“ became
immortalized in posters that were later plastered up and down the streets of the West 
Bank and
Gaza.
Although the Israeli military initially assumed responsibility for the incident, it 
soon became
apparent that the IDF could not have shot the boy, due to a large barrier between the 
Israeli
military outpost across the remote junction and the location of the boy and his father.
Now, a just-completed, long-term journalistic investigation conducted in France 
concludes that
the Mohammed al-Dura affair was actually a piece of Palestinian theater “ similar to 
the dramatic
Palestinian funeral processions last April after the Israeli incursion into the Jenin 
refugee camp.
During that public spectacle, a martyred corpse twice fell off the stretcher, only 
to hop back up
and retake his place in the procession. The Palestinians had claimed 3,000 deaths in 
Jenin “ the
actual toll was 52.
The groundbreaking investigation and its conclusions are spelled out in 
Contre-expertise d™une
mise en scène published by Éditions Raphaël, and translated into English for 
Whistleblower by
Nidra Poller. In the book, Gérard Huber, a psychoanalyst and permanent Paris 
correspondent of
the Israel-based Metula News Agency, reports on the investigation conducted by a team 
of
journalists, including Huber and Stéphane Juffa, Metula's editor in chief.
What really happened at Netzarim junction? asks Huber. One thing is certain: Given 
the
position of the protagonists during the firefight it is impossible that the child was 
hit by Israeli
bullets. Mohammed al-Dura was not killed by Israelis. And the bigger question remains: 
Was
Mohammed really killed?
Street theater
Whistleblower cites stunning reports of Palestinians playing to the camera, including 
Israeli
commentator Amnon Lord's account of the larger scene at Netzarim Junction when al-Dura 
was
supposedly shot to death. He describes incongruous battle scenes complete with wounded
combatants and screeching ambulances played out in front of an audience of laughing 
onlookers,
while makeshift movie directors do retakes of botched scenes.
Palestinian journalist Sami El Soudi echoes Lord's observation, who discloses that 
Almost all
Palestinian directors take part more or less voluntarily in these war commissions, 
under the official
pretext that we should use all possible means, including trickery and fabulation, to 
fight against
the tanks and airplanes the enemy has and we don™t. ¦ Our official press reported 300 
wounded
and dead at Netzarim junction the day when Mohammed was supposedly killed. Most of the
cameramen there were Palestinians. ¦ They willingly took part in the masquerade, 
filming
fictional scenes, believing they were doing it out of patriotism. When a scene was 
well done the
onlookers laughed and applauded.
It is incredible, says Huber, how many people were calmly filming the battle of 
Netzarim on
September 30th, 2000. Not only professionals “ some of them standing no more than ten 
meters
away from the al-Dura incident “ but amateurs as well.
The rushes [video clips] are full of surprising incongruities: Children smile as 
ambulances go by.
A 'wounded' Palestinian collapses and two seconds later an ambulance pulls up to take 
him to the
hospital. It looks as if the driver had been cued in, knew in advance where the 
Palestinian was
going to fall, or was waiting in the upper right hand corner just out of the 
photographic field
ready to zoom in on signal (there is a scene like this in the France 2 report.)
In another rush we are startled to hear a Palestinian shouting: 'It's a flop! We have 
to do the
whole thing over again!'
The French close ranks
Even more disconcerting, says 

[CTRL] American diplomats murdered by Arafat?

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Sunday, March 2, 2003
TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
American diplomats murdered by Arafat?
30 years later, 'smoking gun' still hidden by U.S, says ex-NSA op
Posted: March 2, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Art Moore
©2003WorldNetDaily.com

On this day 30 years ago, two American diplomats were machine-
gunned to death at the Saudi embassy in Sudan by Yasser Arafat's
Black September organization.


Details of the brutal executions filled the front pages of newspapers
around the world for several days in early March 1973.



Yasser Arafat
But an element of the story that could have reshaped the history of
the Middle East is missing from the official record, according to a
National Security Agency Palestinian analyst at the time, who was in
Cyprus monitoring radio communications between Palestinian
leaders in Beirut and the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.


Two years ago, James J. Welsh told WorldNetDaily of virtually
irrefutable evidence that Arafat himself planned, directed and
ordered the murders of U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel, U.S. Charges
d'affaires George Curtis and Belgian Guy Eid on March 2, 1973.


Audio tapes made in Cyprus and U.S. embassies in Beirut and
Khartoum left no doubt that it was Arafat's voice directing the
operation from Feb. 28 –  the day before the men were kidnapped –
to their execution two days later, Welsh said in an interview with
WND on Friday.


When plans for an imminent attack became apparent on Feb. 28,
Welsh immediately helped draft a warning to be sent at FLASH,
the highest level of urgency. He learned later that on the evening of
its transmission to the State Department in Washington, a watch
officer downgraded the message to a routine cable, which arrived in
Khartoum two days after the murders.


Welsh has been passionately trying to tell his story to U.S. officials
for three years, but he now speaks with a hint of resignation after
encountering only dead ends: They will say this is an issue off the
table, we are not going to talk about it.


I've just come to the conclusion that there is too much that has
been built upon Arafat to just go and cut him loose, said Welsh,
who was an Arabic linguist seconded to the NSA by the Navy from
1969 to 1974.


The whole story will eventually come out, he believes, but probably
only when it's no longer important for the government to keep this
hidden from the American public.


It will become a piece of history, more than anything, he said.


'Arafat's voice'
More evidence has surfaced in recent years to back Welsh's claims,
but some details actually trickled into the mainstream press just one
month after the event.


Western intelligence sources leaked to a Washington Post
reporter the contents of a cable from Khartoum to the State
Department with explicit details of communications between the
hostage-takers and Beirut command during the crisis.


David Ottaway wrote on April 5, 1973, that Arafat, leader of Fatah,
was in the Black September radio command center in Beirut when
the message to execute three Western diplomats being held in
Khartoum was sent out.


The Post reporter said Arafat's voice was reportedly monitored and
recorded.


Welsh said he never saw such panic and anger at NSA as when
Ottaway broke the story.


It was only after it was realized how potentially explosive the tapes
were that the history began to be rewritten, said Welsh.


'Cavorting' at Camp David
At the time of the event, Welsh said his strong objections to an
obvious cover-up of the Arafat evidence got him into some serious
trouble in the section of NSA where I was working, resulting in a
negative military evaluation.


He finished his Navy service in 1974, and just left it all, but in the
summer of 2000, the events of early 1973 came rushing back.


Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak were guests of
President Bill Clinton, who was engaged in a furious, last-ditch effort
to forge a peace agreement before his term ended.


They were cavorting over at Camp David – that famous shot of
them playing around [and gesturing], Who's going to open the door,
Welsh said. I'm just looking at the TV and saying, this is ridiculous.


Since then, he has tried to take his case to Congress and nearly
everyone associated with the event he could find.


On March 27, 2001, Welsh sent a letter to all members of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, detailing his charges. He sent
another to Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a few days later after reading of
the congressman's call to re-examine U.S. policy toward the
Palestinian Authority headed by Arafat.


In his letters, Welsh alleged that an earlier congressional
investigation, led by former Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., in 1986,
was subverted with false and misleading information. He offered to
assist further investigations, but received no 

[CTRL] Car Bomb Kills Accused Qaeda Man in Lebanon Camp

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNewsstoryID=
2309808

Car Bomb Kills Accused Qaeda Man in Lebanon Camp
Sat March 1, 2003 09:16 AM ET

By Ali Hashisho
AIN EL-HILWEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded  inside
Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday,  killing an
Egyptian Islamist Israel has accused of leading al  Qaeda's
operations in Lebanon, camp security sources said.

The sources said the man identified as Abu Mohammad  al-Masri,
an Afghan war veteran who came to Ain el-Hilweh six  years ago
and never left, was killed as he left his bean shop  to walk to the
mosque to pray.

The mosque was frequented by members of Osbat al-Ansar, a
militant group on Washington's list of terrorist  organizations
suspected of links to Saudi-born militant Osama  bin Laden's al
Qaeda network.

The dead man was targeted personally, said Sheikh Jamal
Khattab, an Islamist leader in the southern Ain el-Hilweh camp,  but
he could not say if the man was a member of Osbat al-Ansar.

Two other people were also wounded in the blast.

In July, Israel's then-ambassador to the United Nations  Yehuda
Lancry accused Masri of leading al Qaeda operations in  Lebanon in
a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

In recent years al Qaeda has established a broad  infrastructure in
Lebanon, centerd mainly in the Ain Hilweh  refugee camp near
Sidon, said the letter, posted on a United  Nations Web site.

Al Qaeda's Lebanon operations are headed by...Masri, a  terrorist
leader who was deeply involved in the plot to attack  American and
Israeli targets in Jordan in 1999, it added.

Lebanese officials have repeatedly denied reports that al  Qaeda
members are holed up in Palestinian refugee camps like  Ain el-
Hilweh, which Lebanese authorities do not enter and are  controlled
by Palestinian factions.

Around 500 camp residents, including Islamist leaders and  armed
men who fired into the air in mourning, attended Masri's  funeral,
held shortly after his death.

TIMED TO EXPLODE

Palestinian security sources said Masri's attacker had  driven a
Beirut-registered, explosives-laden car into the camp  in the middle
of the night. They said they believed the device  was timed to
explode as Masri arrived to pray.

A previously unknown group calling itself Youth of the  Armed
Struggle claimed responsibility for the attack in a faxed  statement
sent to Reuters, saying Masri was a member of Jamaat  an-Nour,
thought to be an offshoot of Osbat al-Ansar.

We decided to cut off the head of the snake in a first  step that the
Youth of the Armed Struggle will take to cleanse  the camp of all
suspect elements that were planted in the camp,  and which started
to sabotage camp security, the statement  said.

The fax blamed Jamaat an-Nour for a string of bomb attacks  in Ain
el-Hilweh and for threats against prominent Palestinians  there.
Palestinians in the camp dismissed the claim as a farce.

Islamists in Ain el-Hilweh, near the port city of Sidon,  quickly
blamed Israel for the attack, saying an Israeli reconnaissance plane
had hovered overhead prior to the bombing.

A senior Lebanese army official confirmed an Israeli plane  flew over
Sidon on Friday, but said there was no reason to  believe the two
events were related.

A string of bombings has ripped through Ain el-Hilweh in  recent
months, where tensions have been high since Islamic  militants
clashed with fighters loyal to Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat's
Fatah faction in August, killing three people.

Lebanese politicians hostile to some 350,000 Palestinian  refugees
registered in about a dozen camps across Lebanon point  to Ain el-
Hilweh as a haven for militants and organized crime.  (Additional
reporting by Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem)
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[CTRL] Human shield Britons quit Baghdad - too dangerous

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ews/2003/03/02/wshiel02.xmlsSheet=/news/2003/03/0
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Sunday 2 March 2003


Human shield Britons quit Baghdad
By Charlotte Edwardes in Baghdad

(Filed: 02/03/2003)
Almost all of the first British human shields to
go to Iraq were on their way home last night after
deciding that their much-heralded task was now too
dangerous.

Two red double-decker buses, which symbolised the
hopes of anti-war activists when they arrived to a
fanfare of publicity a fortnight ago, slipped
quietly out of Baghdad on the long journey back to
Britain.

Nine of the original 11 activists decided to pull
out after being given an ultimatum by Iraqi
officials to station themselves at targets likely
to be bombed in a war or leave the country. Among
those departing last night was 68-year-old Godfrey
Meynell, a former High Sheriff of Derbyshire, who
admitted that he was leaving out of cold fear.

He had been summoned, along with 200 other shields
from all over the world, to a meeting at a Baghdad
hotel yesterday morning.

Abdul Hashimi, the head of the Friendship, Peace
and Solidarity organisation that is hosting the
protesters, told the shields to choose between
nine so-called strategic sites by today or quit
the country.

The Iraqi warning follows frustration among Saddam
Hussein's officials that only about 65 of the
shields had so far agreed to take up positions at
the oil refineries, power plants and water-
purification sites selected by their hosts.

It heightened fears among some peace activists
that they could be stationed at non-civilian
sites. Mr Meynell and fellow protesters who moved
into the power station in south Baghdad last
weekend were dismayed to find it stood immediately
next to an army base and the strategically crucial
main road south to Basra. Iraqi officials said
there was little point in guarding what they
considered to be low-risk targets.

Iraq's decision to force the pace was welcomed by
some of the 20 Britons remaining in Baghdad. It's
only fair, said Uzma Bashir, 32, a college
lecturer who is one of the team leaders.
We've come here as shields to defend sites and
now the Iraqis are asking us to make our choice.


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[CTRL] BRITISH PAPER SUNDAY SMEAR?

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BRITISH PAPER SUNDAY SMEAR?   AMERICA 'SPYING ON U.N.
MEMBERS'...
ALLEGED 'TOP SECRET' TEXT OF NSA MEMO...
BUT  WOULD AMERICAN NSA EMPLOYEE SPELL FAVORABLE
'FAVOURABLE', RECOGNIZE 'RECOGNISE' AND EMPHASIZE
'EMPHASISE' IN  BRITISH TONGUE?...
WOULD NSA REALLY TIMESTAMP MEMO '31/01/2003 0:16' IN
EUROPEAN FORMAT?...
NAME IN ALLEGED MEMO IS 'KOZU'* OBSERVER STORY
CLAIMS TO HAVE CONTACTED 'KOZA'? [*PAPER LATER
CHANGED THIS GOOF]...
GOVERNMENT SOURCES TELL DRUDGE CLASSIFICATION
LEVEL WRONG ON MEMO -- 'TOP SECRET/COMINT/XL'  -- IS
BOGUS, DOES NOT EXIST.
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BUT WAIT:   WOULD AMERICAN NSA EMPLOYEE SPELL
FAVORABLE 'FAVOURABLE', RECOGNIZE 'RECOGNISE' AND
EMPHASIZE 'EMPHASISE' IN  BRITISH TONGUE?...
WOULD NSA REALLY TIME STAMP EMAILS '31/01/2003 0:16' IN
EUROPEAN FORMAT?...
NAME IN ALLEGED EMAIL IS 'KOZU' AND OBSERVER STORY
CLAIMS TO HAVE CONTACTED A 'KOZA'?...

http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html

SundayMarch 2, 2003


To: [Recipients withheld]
From: FRANK [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Staff (Regional Target) CIV/NSA
on 31/01/2003 0:16
Subject: Reflections of Iraq debate/votes at UN - RT actions and
potential for related contributions
Importance: High
TOP SECRET/COMINT/XL

All,

As you've likely heard by now, the Agency is mounting a surge
particularly directed at the UN Security Council (UNSC) members
(minus US and GBR of course) for insights as to how to
membership is reacting to the on-going debate RE: Iraq, plans to
vote on any related resolutions, what related policies/ negotiating
positions they may be considering, alliances/ dependencies, etc -
the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an
edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off
surprises. In RT, that means a QRC surge effort to revive/ create
efforts against UNSC members Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria
and Guinea, as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters.

We've also asked ALL RT topi's to emphasise and make sure they
pay attention to existing non-UNSC member UN-related and
domestic comms for anything useful related to the UNSC
deliberations/ debates/ votes. We have a lot of special UN-related
diplomatic coverage (various UN delegations) from countries not
sitting on the UNSC right now that could contribute related
perspectives/ insights/ whatever. We recognise that we can't afford
to ignore this possible source.

We'd appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts
who might have similar, more in-direct access to valuable
information from accesses in your product lines. I suspect that you'll
be hearing more along these lines in formal channels - especially as
this effort will probably peak (at least for this specific focus) in the
middle of next week, following the SecState's presentation to the
UNSC.

Thanks for your help


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[CTRL] Children of Maine Guard unit taunted by teachers

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Another example of liberal tolerance at work.  I think the names of
the schools, teachers and principals involved should be made
public.  kl

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030227-8550156.htm

The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
Children of Maine Guard unit taunted by teachers
Robert Stacy McCain
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published February 27, 2003

 Members of the Maine National Guard, called up to prepare for
an attack on Iraq, have asserted that their children are being
harassed at school by teachers who oppose the war.

 Guard members say their children are coming home upset,
depressed, crying, said Maj. Peter Rogers, a spokesman for the
Maine National Guard. This was based on some incidents that
were happening in school, both in the classroom and on the
playground.

 In an e-mail sent to the parents of one child who had complained
of harassment at school, National Guard officials said they had
over 30 complaints that name schools and individual principals,
teachers and guidance counselors.

 It was still not clear yesterday whether the state will discipline any
of the named teachers or schools over the incidents.
 In Maine, local superintendents make local policy for local
schools, said Tammy Morrill, assistant to J. Duke Albanese, state
commissioner of education.

 A fact-gathering process about the incidents is under way, Maj.
Rogers said. The incidents involved students in elementary and
middle schools, some as young as 7 years old, he said.

 What we're hearing is that some of the educators are talking
about the possible war in Iraq being unethical and that those who
would fight it are unethical, Maj. Rogers said.

 The state commissioner of education has urged school officials
to be more sensitive to military children.

 Recently it has been brought to our attention that some school
personnel ... may have been less than sensitive to children of
military families regarding our continued strained relations with Iraq,
Mr. Albanese wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to all superintendents
and principals in Maine.

 In some cases, parents — who are about to be deployed —
have observed added stress and anxiety among their children who
perceive a staff member or their peers as being insensitive to their
beliefs and the potential danger to loved ones, Mr. Albanese wrote.

 The commissioner said that, while supporting the right to
discuss controversial issues, he wanted to remind school
personnel ... that the families of military personnel need our
sensitivity.

 Complaints about harassment in schools first surfaced, Maj.
Rogers said, after two of Maine's Army National Guard units were
mobilized recently for deployment to the Middle East.

 About a week ago, we started doing our family-assistance-
center briefings, Maj. Rogers said, explaining that the centers
provide support for the families of Guard troops on active duty. In
these briefings, a number of families came forward and talked about
their children coming home upset, depressed, crying.

 Maj. Rogers said the state commissioner's office has been very
supportive of the military families in responding to the complaints.
We're hoping [Mr. Albanese's letter to school officials] will end the
issue, Maj. Rogers said. We're not looking at pointing fingers or
anything.

 Mr. Albanese told the Bangor Daily News that only one complaint
involved classroom remarks, after the child of a Guard member
became upset during a discussion of Iraq when a teaching assistant
took up the anti-war argument.

 Other incidents, according to Mr. Albanese, involved a child who
had requested to leave school early for a military-related activity and
a student who was teased on a school bus because he has a parent
in the military.

 Teachers across the country have tried to find proper ways to
teach children about the war on terrorism. Last year, the National
Education Association was criticized for posting a link to an online
lesson plan for the September 11 anniversary recommending that
teachers discuss historical instances of American intolerance so
that America could avoid repeating terrible mistakes.

 The incidents involving the children of National Guard members
in Maine were a surprise to us, Maj. Rogers said. We are certainly
hoping that none of it was done maliciously. ... We certainly value
the freedom of speech and fight for it, but we hope that people
would be sensitive to the kids.

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[CTRL] Aerial photographs show number of protesters below estimates

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Aerial photographs show number of protesters below estimates

Friday, February 21, 2003
(02-21) 00:39 PST   SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --
An aerial survey of Sunday's anti-war protest in San Francisco showed the number of
attendees was around 65,000 people -- not the 150,000 to 200,000 estimated by
organizers and police.

The survey, commissioned by the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com, used a
series of high-resolution aerial photos. They showed that during the protest's peak, at
about 1:45 p.m. Sunday, there were approximately 65,000 people in attendance.
Although the number cannot account for protesters who left before that time or those
who showed up later, experts say such a survey is more accurate than visual scan
methods used by police and organizers.

After hearing concerns from our readers about our accuracy in reporting crowd size
in demonstrations, we were determined to come up with a better method to calculate
the number of people who turn out for such events, said Chronicle Executive Editor
Phil Bronstein.

When told of The Chronicle's numbers, police and organizers stood by their
estimates.

Come on, that's ridiculous, said Bill Hackwell, spokesman for International
ANSWER, one of the groups that organized Sunday's protest.

Greg Suhr, the San Francisco deputy police chief who calculated the police figure,
agreed.

I can tell you for a fact that's an enormously low number, he said, adding that the
stands alone in San Francisco's Pacific Bell Park hold 40,000 people.

The crowd at Pac Bell would pale in comparison to the crowd on Sunday, Suhr
said.

Police estimates were based on the 43,000 people that Civic Center Plaza is
estimated to hold and previous estimates of crowd sizes on Market Street. The
roadway and sidewalk had about 100,000 people on them, Suhr said.

A media scholar said such doubts are to be expected.

The number of people (in a crowd) is a mythical number, and now you're going to
turn it into a fact, and that won't be welcomed, said Alex S. Jones, director of
Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy. There's an old saying in journalism: People only see what they believe. This
is an emotional issue, not a factual issue, as far as most people are concerned.

To get the 65,000 estimate, the photographs taken from 2,000 feet were overlaid
with a grid. Each grid was evaluated and assigned a density of people from 10 to 100
percent full. Most were judged at 25 percent to 50 percent full.

This was the first time Air Flight Service, which has 20 years experience in taking
photographs for topographical maps for government agencies and private
companies, has used its equipment for crowd estimation.

Peace rally organizers based their number on comparisons to a Jan. 18 rally that
they said drew 150,000 to 200,000. Sunday's protest was similar is size, Hackwell
said.

Police originally estimated there were 50,000 people at that Jan. 18 march, but
revised that figure later based on how many people could fit into Civic Center Plaza,
the crowd that spilled out onto the side streets and the movement of the crowd up
Market Street, police spokesman Neville Gittens said.

In other cities around the world on Saturday crowd estimates were based on the
average number of people in one area expanded to cover the whole route.

In London, police used helicopters to estimate crowds -- 750,000 marchers in the
streets and more than 1 million at Hyde Park. Italy's national police force -- the
Carabinieri -- estimated 700,000 people protested, based on the capacity of the
piazzas where the demonstrations happened and counting four people per square
meter during the march, according to an e-mail from a police spokesman.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) {attack} Clinton problems linger at Secret Service

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Clinton problems linger at Secret Service Bush
appointment of new director meant to send message
Posted: February 21, 2003
1:00 a.m.  Eastern

By John Berlau As the nation is on the brink of war and the danger of
an attack on the homeland mounts, the Bush administration has made
an important personnel change that many say was long overdue: It
finally has replaced the Clinton appointee who headed the U.S.  Secret
Service for almost four years with a distinguished law-enforcement
veteran of its own choosing.  Brian Stafford, who was appointed in
1999, quietly announced his resignation in December in the face of
scrutiny from U.S.  News  World Report about Secret Service morale
and from Insight about problems with a new White House access-control
system pushed through in the final months of the Clinton administration.

Many sources familiar with the agency tell Insight that the administration's
choice for the Secret Service's new director, W.  Ralph Basham, is meant to
send a message.  Unlike previous directors, Basham was not promoted from
within.  He had retired from the Secret Service in 1998 after 28 years in jobs
ranging from protecting the vice president to strategic planning, and became
director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga.  In
January 2002, he was named chief of staff for the new Transportation
Security Administration that was created after the Sept.  11 attacks; then he
was sworn to head the Secret Service on Jan.  27, 2003.

Basham earned wide respect in the law-enforcement community for his work
at the training center, where his goal as he described it to Georgia's Athens
Banner-Herald was to create [a climate] as close to realism as you possibly
can as to what you're going to see on the streets so that when the officers
go out there, they're not surprised. The job he did bringing the TSA online
under emergency conditions is seen by industry leaders as little short of
miraculous.  Secret Service observers with whom Insight spoke are hopeful
that Basham's diverse range of law-enforcement experience will help him
tackle what they say is the wide range of security lapses at the Secret
Service, but they warn he has a big job ahead of him.

In early February, the Secret Service suffered embarrassment when the
Rev.  Rich Weaver, known as the Handshake Man, again evaded agents
and officers to deliver a personal, handwritten message to President George
W.  Bush.  Weaver, who shook the hands of Bush and Bill Clinton at their
inaugurations without Secret Service clearance or approval, slipped by the
Secret Service at the National Prayer Breakfast in the ballroom of the
Washington Hilton, lifted the rope around Bush's table and gave the
president a personal letter he says Jesus commanded him to write.

A Secret Service spokesman maintained to the Washington Post that
Weaver did go through the metal detectors and that the procedure would
have protected the president had someone armed and dangerous attempted
a similar stunt, but few were reassured.  Much more problematic than
Weaver is the example of an illegal alien working for a catering firm who was
a supervisor of tent installation at White House events even though his
fingerprints were on file in a federal law-enforcement database, according to
an article by syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin.  And, as this reporter
revealed last fall, the Secret Service's new computerized access-control
system for the White House, built in the final months of the Clinton
administration and put in place just after Bush arrived, apparently has left
the White House complex even more vulnerable.

Retired Secret Service officer Bill Castle and other sources familiar with the
system told Insight that the system frequently crashes and gives inaccurate
data about White House guests and employees.  Insight also discovered
that the chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of the company
that was the lead contractor for the project was a mysterious Swiss resident
named Niklaus Zenger, who had ties to the current Russian military and its
Soviet predecessor and had been accused by former business associates of
stealing proprietary technology.

Zenger since has been forced out, largely as a result of news articles about
such matters.  But critics say the whole outrageous affair illustrates why the
Secret Service must exercise more due diligence over the companies and
contractors that deal with the White House.

Meanwhile, this magazine has learned that design problems with the new
system have produced woefully inaccurate data about the length of time
visitors have stayed at the White House, opening the door to potential
threats against the president, his family and staff.

Gary Aldrich, who served as senior agent in the FBI liaison office at the
White House during the administrations of George H.W.  Bush and Bill

[CTRL] (Fwd) [American_Liberty] Peace Marchers Out of Step

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Peace Marchers Out of Step
By Christopher Hitchens
Mirror.co.uk | February 20, 2003

I HAD hoped that it would pour with rain during last
Saturday's march for peace.

Why? Exactly a week earlier in northern Iraq, a brave minister of the
autonomous Kurdish government was foully done to death by a bunch of bin
Laden clones calling themselves Ansar al-Islam.

Shawkat Mushir was lured under a flag of truce into a dirty ambush, in which
he and several innocent bystanders - including an eight-year-old girl - were
murdered.

There is already war in this part of Iraq, and on one side stands an elected
Kurdish government with a multi-party system, 21 newspapers, four female
judges, and a secular constitution.

In this area of an otherwise wretched and terrified country, oil revenues
are spent on schools and roads and hospitals instead of for the upkeep of a
parasitic and cruel military oligarchy.

The survivors of ethnic cleansing and torture and poison gas and chemical
weapons - genocidal tactics which have cost the lives of at least 200,000
civilians - are rebuilding.

And they are fighting both the al-Qaeda forces and the tyranny of Saddam
Hussein, which operate in an unspoken but increasingly obvious alliance.
It's a sort of Hitler-Stalin pact.

In my opinion, these brave Kurds and their friends in the Iraqi opposition
are fighting and dying on our behalf - and tackling our enemies for us.

It should be a cause for great pride that pilots of the Royal Air Force take
a leading share in patrolling the skies over northern Iraq, protecting a
decade-long experiment in successful regime change.

DURING the many years I spent on the Left, the cause of self-determination
for Kurdistan was high on the list of principles and priorities - there are
many more Kurds than there are Palestinians and they have been staunch
fighters for democracy in the region.

It would have been a wonderful thing if hundreds of thousands of people had
flooded into London's Hyde Park and stood in solidarity with this, one of
the most important struggles for liberty in the world today.

Instead, the assortment of forces who assembled demanded, in effect, that
Saddam be allowed to keep the other five-sixths of Iraq as his own personal
torture chamber.

There are not enough words in any idiom to describe the shame and the
disgrace of this.

I went to the last such peace demonstration in Hyde Park last autumn and
found it was pretty easy to distinguish between the two main tendencies.

These were:

(1) Those who knew what they were doing and

(2) Those who did not.

Among the first tendency - the animating and organising force - were an
easily-recognisable bunch of clapped-out pseudo-Marxists who, deep in their
hearts, have a nostalgia for the days of the one-party State and who
secretly regard Saddam as an anti-imperialist.

They were assisted by an impressive number of fundamentalist Muslims, who
mouth the gibberish slogans of holy war but who don't give a damn for the
suffering inflicted by Saddam on their co-religionists.

A more gruesome political alliance I have never seen.

Then came the sincere, fuddled stage-army of the good - people who think
that a remark such as peace is better than war is an argument in itself.
Their latest cry is that inspections should be given more time. I am
always impressed by sweet people who are evidence-proof.

The surveillance tapes recently played to the United Nations show
conclusively, among other things, that the ranks of the inspectors have
been heavily penetrated by Iraqi secret police agents, who now know where
and when inspections will be.

So let's have more time for a lot more of that, shall we? And don't let's
ask what Saddam wants the extra time for.

Just in the past few weeks, every stop-gap straw-man argument of the
peaceniks has been shot down in flames.

Yes, dear, I am afraid that there are bin Laden agents taking shelter in
Baghdad.

Yes, Mr bin Laden seems to think that Saddam's cause is, with reservations,
one that a Muslim fascist ought to support. Yes, there are weapons and
systems, found even by the bumbling inspectors, that Saddam had sworn he did
not have.

Yes, sorry to break it to you but the Iraqi regime does have a special
police department that inspects the inspectors.

And - are you sitting down? - the French are owed several billion dollars by
Saddam for their past help in supplying the sinews of aggression against
Iran, Kuwait and Kurdistan.

The Russian government, too, is seeking lucrative contracts in the Iraqi
market and is being rewarded with such contracts for its slithery behaviour
at the UN.

Excuse me, comrades, but that is blood for oil.

Meanwhile, 14 or so European governments, including most of those recently
emancipated from Stalinism and also the only Muslim state in Europe
(Albania), have signed a statement supporting the case for the removal 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [osint] Our European allies

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AND THEY TALK OF PEACE by Andrew Coyne (Canadian Post)

Having liberated France from the Germans, and having sheltered the Germans for
40-odd years from the Russians, and having poured billions of dollars into rescuing
the Russians from themselves, the United States now finds, as it races to protect its
own citizens from madmen with doomsday weapons, its most implacable foes are
France, Germany and Russia.  You know, the peace lobby.

I will leave it to others to speculate on the motives of these three nations, or to
discuss their qualifications to lecture others on the evils of interventionism.  (A 
poll
shows 57% of Germans agree with the statement that Americans are a nation of
warmongers. Two, three, four ...) What is unarguable is that their hostility to any
effort to rein in Saddam Hussein was in evidence long before this crisis; it has
nothing to do with questions of peace or war.

When the issue was sanctions, they were against sanctions.  When the issue was
inspections, they were against inspections.  And while they now profess to favour
disarmament, they have not only consistently opposed any practical measure to
effect it over the years, they have themselves been Saddam's chief suppliers of
weapons of mass destruction -- and may be even to this day.  It is difficult to escape
the conclusion that they are not so much interested in opposing war as in supporting
Saddam.

The French, needless to say, are the most deeply implicated.  France has been
romancing Iraq since at least 1972, when Saddam, already the number two man in
the Ba'athist regime, nationalized the Iraqi oil industry, more or less at the point 
of a
gun.  Had the West held firm in its opposition, the putsch might not have succeeded,
and Saddam would never have acquired the revenues to pursue his ambitions.  But
France broke ranks -- in exchange for a cut of the action.

The pattern was to be repeated three years later, when Saddam began shopping for
a fast-breeder nuclear reactor, with a view to acquiring nuclear weapons within 10
years.

No one was willing to provide him with the advanced technology he was seeking
-- not even the Russians, who had sold him with a small research reactor some
years earlier.  It was not until he met with the French prime minister, one Jacques
Chirac, that Saddam found what he was looking for.  The French agreed, knowing
full well what Saddam was up to, in exchange for $3-billion in cash, some oil
concessions and a huge contract to purchase France's Mirage F-1 fighter planes.
Oh, and one other thing: The Franco-Iraqi Nuclear Cooperation Treaty stipulated that
all persons of Jewish race be excluded from participating.

More deals followed: armoured vehicles, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles.
By 1982, Iraq accounted for 40% of all French arms exports.  Other countries -- the
Russians, the Italians, the British, less so the Americans -- also sold arms to Iraq,
especially during the Iran-Iraq war, when revolutionary Iran seemed the greater
threat to the region.  The Germans, egregiously, provided Saddam with much of his
chemical weapons capacity, from mustard gas to nerve gases like Tabun and Sarin,
as well as the ballistic missile technology with which to deliver them to places like 
Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem.  But none did so with anything like the audacity of the French.

Even after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, French support for Iraq did not waver.
François Mitterrand went so far as to make a speech to the UN in September of that
year in which he lent legitimacy to Iraq's territorial claims.  The French were early 
and
ardent enthusiasts for lifting the sanctions imposed after the war, and did everything
in their power to undermine the disarmament regime.  In 1997, following a series of
confrontations with UN inspectors, the Security Council passed Resolution
1134, which threatened to impose travel restrictions on Iraqi officials (quelle 
horreur!)
if the harassment continued.  France abstained (along with Russia and China).
Emboldened, Saddam stepped up his defiance.  The inspections regime soon
collapsed.

In 1999, Resolution 1284 greatly expanded the existing oil-for-food exemption to
the sanctions (around the Clinton administration, according to Kenneth Pollack, a
senior advisor on Iraq, it became known as oil-for-stuff), and promised to lift all
remaining economic sanctions.  The only condition: Saddam had to let the inspectors
back in, and show progress towards disarmament.  Again the French abstained, this
time after promising to vote in favour.  The reason: The Russians had abstained, and
the French were worried they would lose their share of the booming oil-for-food
trade, by then worth about US $17-billion a year, if they did not do the same.

And so it continues to this day, even at the cost of wrecking the United Nations (and
NATO in the bargain).  And yet, in the face of this sordid Franco-Russian record of
trading 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [American_Liberty] The Curtain Will Come Down on the Peaceniks

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The Curtain Will Come Down on the Peaceniks
By Mark Steyn
The National Post | February 19, 2003

The peace marches? Oh, I've nothing to say. Can't improve on Tony Blair,
looking out of his window and observing:

If there are 500,000 on that march, that is still less than the number of
people whose deaths Saddam has been responsible for.

If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who
died in the wars he started.

In other words, if it's a numbers game, those are the ones that matter. I'm
tempted to leave it there and go skiing, but let me come back to it in a
roundabout sort of way. The other day I got a copy of Andrew Roberts' new
book, Hitler And Churchill: Secrets Of Leadership, which sounds like some
lame-o management techniques cash-in, but is, in fact, a very useful take on
very familiar material. Most of us have read a gazillion books about the
Second World War (when I say most of us, I exclude the fellow in Hyde Park
on Saturday holding a placard with the words PEACE IN OUR TIME, and even
then I kind of hope he was some waggish saboteur, since the notion that the
peaceniks, though deluded, are that ignorant is a little mind-boggling).
But, comparing Britain's and Germany's wartime leaders directly, you can't
help feeling that victory and defeat were predetermined: As Philip Hensher
neatly put it in his review of Roberts' essay, Churchill knew very well
what Hitler was like, but Hitler had no idea what sort of man Churchill
was.

Just so. When you read Hitler's private assessments of the man who stood
between him and world domination, they're just silly: Churchill was that
puppet of Jewry. OK, that's fine as a bit of red meat tossed to the crowd
when you're foaming at Nuremberg, but as a serious evaluation of your
opponent made in the quiet of your study it's simply ... inadequate. This
failure to engage with reality is particularly telling when you look at how
each leader dealt with setbacks: During the Blitz, Churchill would stand on
the roof and watch the Luftwaffe bombing London; in the morning, he would
walk through the ruins. Hitler, by contrast, never visited bombed-out areas
and, just in case the driver should take a wrong turn, he drove the streets
with his car windows curtained. His final days were spent in a bunker -- the
perfect ending for a man whose worldview depended on keeping reality at bay
no matter how relentlessly it closed in on him.

Hitler's problem was that he was over-invested in ideology. He'd invented a
universal theory -- the wickedness of the international Jewish conspiracy --
and he persisted in fitting every square peg of cold hard reality into that
theory's round hole. Thus, Churchill must be a puppet of Jewry. As a
general rule, when it's reality versus delusion, bet on reality. That held
true in the Cold War. Moral equivalists like Harold Pinter insisted that
America and the Soviet Union were both equally bad. But the traffic across
the Berlin Wall was all one way. East German guards were not unduly
overworked trying to keep people from getting in. The Eastern bloc collapsed
because it was a lie, and the alternative wasn't.

Well, the Soviet Union's gone now so Pinter no longer has to observe the
pox-on-both-their-houses niceties. Addressing the demonstrators on Saturday,
he declared that the U.S. is a country run by a bunch of criminals ... with
Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug.

Got that? It's not Saddam who's the thug, it's Tony. It's not the Baathist
killers from Tikrit who are the bunch of criminals, it's the Republican
Party. It's not the million-man murderer of Baghdad who's the new Hitler,
it's George W. Bush. It's not the Iraqi one-party state with its government-
controlled media that crushes dissent, it's the White House. It's not the
Wahhabis who are the fundamentalists, it's Bush, Blair and the other
Christians. It's not Osama bin Laden who's the terrorist, it's American
foreign policy. Supporting the continued enslavement of the Iraqi people is
pacifist, but it's racist for America to disagree with the UN, even
though it's Colin Powell and Condi Rice doing the disagreeing and the
fellows they're disagreeing with are a bunch of white guys from Europe.

The new Universal Theory, to which 99% of Saturday's speakers and placards
enthusiastically subscribed, is that, whatever the problem, American
imperialist cowboy aggression is to blame. In fact, it's not so different
from the old Universal Theory, in that the international Zionist conspiracy
is assumed to be behind the scenes controlling the cowboys: Bush is a
puppet of Jewry, just like Churchill was -- notwithstanding the fact that
America's Jews voted overwhelmingly for Gore. But, if you believe that the
first non-imperialist great power in modern history is the source of all the
world's woes, then logic is irrelevant. It's all about oil? Yes, for the
French, whose stake in Iraqi oil is far more of a 

Re: [CTRL] Victim sues terrorist government

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On 20 Feb 2003 at 5:13, iNFoWaRZ wrote:

 Q: Why was Bush and the White House staff on Cipro, the medication for Anthrax, TWO
 weeks BEFORE the first Anthrax attack?

 A: Duh


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Re: [CTRL] Can Interventionism Be 'A Good Thing'?

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On 18 Feb 2003 at 8:59, someone wrote:

 1. Principled neutrality is usually a better
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I bet that's exactly what the guy at the DC gas station was saying to
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Mugabe's Hatred Camps

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Mugabe bends minds in hatred camps

Sunday Times (UK)
Date posted:Sun 9-Feb-2003
Date published:Sun 9-Feb-2003

They showed us how to kill by striking someone on the back of the
neck just behind the ear with a heavy object and to strangle them
with shoelaces so you wouldn't be detected
Christina Lamb, Manicaland

The title of the first lesson was Patriotism. It began with raised-fist
salutes and chanted slogans in praise of Great Leader Robert Mugabe and
ended with denunciations of Britain's prime minister.

Tony Blair is a pig and we don't want to associate with the pig and his
gay playmates, the class was told. Later they learnt how to strangle
enemies of the state with their shoelaces.

Such classes, taught by uneducated war veterans from the ruling Zanu
PF and attended by teachers against their will, are Mugabe's latest and
most insidious weapon against his own people in the country where the
England cricket team is scheduled to play in the World Cup this week.
The players were meeting today to decide whether to boycott the match
on moral and security grounds.

In the past few weeks hundreds of teachers in the central highveld and
eastern highlands of Zimbabwe have been rounded up and sent to
reorientation camps.

Having used his youth militia to beat opponents, rig elections, deny
food aid to supporters of the rival Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC) and rape their wives and daughters, Mugabe is now trying to
brainwash the population through a sinister re-education of teachers.

Myheart Muusha, 31, was so disgusted that he escaped from his camp.
A gentle, soft-spoken man, his decision means a life on the run, leaving
the woman he loved and the end of a teaching career which made his
family so proud that his father cried at his graduation from teacher
training college.

Trembling with fear, he met me secretly last week and gave the first
account of life inside what he termed the terror camps.

It seemed a world apart from the scene at the Harare Sports Club
yesterday where gardeners were putting the final touches to the
manicured emerald cricket pitch awaiting the England team.

Just two blocks away in court A of the old colonial High Court building,
Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader, is on trial for his life on what he
says are trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Mugabe.

Less than a mile up the road, behind Harare station, Aids orphans are
trying to catch sparrows to cook.

According to the World Food Programme, 7m of Zimbabwe's 11m
population are threatened with starvation and 2,500 are dying each week
of Aids and hunger.

Travelling undercover, I met torture victims and teachers who emphasised
that Muusha's account of repression is the reality of life for millions
of rural Zimbabweans.

The ruling party wants a situation where everything is militarised and
Zanu-ised, said Takavafiria Zhou, president of the Progressive Teachers
Union for Manicaland province, from where many of the teachers have
been taken.

They want us to sleep Zanu, breathe Zanu, live on Zanu food and tell
our children that there is nothing on earth apart from Zanu. It's pure
propaganda. For Muusha, the nightmare began when he returned from
his holidays on January 14 to his job as science teacher at Vumbunu
secondary school in Mutasa to be told that he had been selected, along
with 10 others, for an in-service programme to teach some new syllabus
material.

I knew it was something bad, he said.

Mugabe is suspicious of teachers because many of us support the MDC
and we carry a lot of weight in the community. For the past three years his
thugs have come into our school and beaten us, making us chant slogans
in front of the pupils. We were scared to punish any students in case
they reported us to the local Zanu PF.

Muusha and his colleagues were piled on to an army truck and driven to
Nyadzi with about 30 teachers from other schools. It was made clear that
this was not an optional course. We knew what these people are capable
of, he said.

There was an American called Richard Gillman who had started helping
our school, bringing in textbooks and raising money so we could have
electricity, but the Zanu people kept telling us to keep away from the
white man.

Gillman was shot dead by police at a roadblock last November, supposedly
because he did not have his papers.

When the teachers arrived at the camp they were ordered to remove their
clothes and were given camouflage gear and army boots. They were told
that these had belonged to the fallen heroes of Zimbabwe's liberation.
They lined us up and told us, 'You are misinforming the pupils,' said
Muusha.

They said, 'You are not teaching but cheating and now you must learn
to be responsible citizens who place the flag and our fallen heroes at the
forefront of our history.'

Then they asked the teachers how many meals they wanted to eat a day.
We said three, recounted Muusha. They asked why people are eating
only 

[CTRL] (Fwd) Killing Whites backfires in Zimbabwe...

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Poor Zimbabweans.  They thought that killing those White farmers
and stealing their land would end all that racism by the people who were
feeding them.  It didn't work.  Imagine that!

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=377578

Mugabe signs land deal with Chinese to tackle food crisis
By Basildon Peta Southern Africa Correspondent
12 February 2003

Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, has awarded a contract to grow food
crops on more than 100,000 hectares to a Chinese company in a desperate attempt
to avert an unprecedented farming crisis.

The land was mostly seized from white farmers and is now lying derelict after its new
black owners failed to take it up because no agricultural equipment was available.
Mr Mugabe's decision to approve the land allocations to the China International
Water and Electric Corporation, a state-owned company, contradicts his claims that
he wants to empower black Zimbabweans by giving them land seized from white
farmers.

State media said the deal would restore Zimbabwe's agricultural strength to its
former position of glory in Africa's agriculture sector. It proved that Mr Mugabe's
policy of co-operating with Asia and former Communist countries in Eastern Europe
at the expense of the West was paying dividends.

Mr Mugabe has said that his government will no longer work with the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank but will concentrate on finding new friends in
Asia.

But a senior government official said the deal was a direct indictment of Mr Mugabe's
chaotic land reforms. I think what it proves is that our system of chasing farm
owners and confiscating their land has not worked,'' said the official, who was
interviewed on condition of anonymity.

We are now stuck with a huge amount of derelict land, which could have been under
good use if the politicians had taken our advice to implement a phased and
systematic land reform exercise.''

Joseph Made, the Agriculture Minister, publicly admitted for the first time last month
that most of the seized land had not been taken by its new owners.

In some of the most important agricultural provinces, less than half of the land
allocated to blacks has been occupied. New black occupants often become
frustrated by the government's failure to give them resources to farm and return to
communal areas, where there is infrastructure such as boreholes.

The government is trying to lure back commercial farmers displaced from their
properties by violent occupations and seizures, which began three years ago and
accelerated after the President was re-elected last year in polls that independent
observers said were rigged.

Mr Mugabe's government claims that it has drafted a memorandum of
understanding, which awaits signing. But farmers say nothing has materialised from
talks that began a few weeks ago.

As part of the deal, the government wants to give back to white farmers some seized
properties in exchange for farming equipment needed to help to resettle black
farmers.

The white farmers have rejected the offer, saying the government is not sincere.
According to state media, the deal with the Chinese will yield at least 2.1 million 
tons
of maize a year, enough to feed Zimbabwe's 12 million people. The project, which is
expected to start soon, would play an important role in reducing inflation, which
reached 200 per cent last month. The Chinese are expected to bring in massive
irrigation equipment for use on the project.

Meanwhile, in a sign of the country's deepening economic troubles, a parliamentary
inquiry said the national airline was heading for collapse. Silas Mangono, head of the
inquiry, said two of Air Zimbabwe's six planes had been grounded because there was
no hard currency for spare parts.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [RKBA!] More No-Gun Home Signs and Bumper-Stickers

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Here is some more information about the No Gun Home Internet Registry that you
might be interested in.  Also, please feel free to print out the attached Color No-Gun
Home signs on a color-printer and display them proudly and prominently, and also
give them to your righteous neighbors who live in no-gun houses.

You can send your home address to be listed on the National No-Gun Home
Internet Registry by emailing it as a message here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please wait at least one weak for the posting to be available online to all criminals
with computers and freequent flier miles.  Also, they will post a list of your most
cherished valuables, and also your pretty picture, if you like, to help you compete for
the attention of criminals online.  Just add that information to your email.  The old
methods that criminals used to case victim's property and to locate no-gun homes
are just so outdated, don't you think?  Just read more below: Christmas Eve Robbers
asked a young victim on the Street: Do Your Parents Have a Gun? [Read about the
proposed No-Gun Home Registry Survival Strategy below this article] Man killed
defending family from robber

 http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1227christmas-shoot27-ON.html

Associated Press Dec.  27, 2002 08:30 AM

MILWAUKEE - A man was killed while trying to defend his family from a Christmas
Eve robber, police said.


Ernest Whaley, 63, was shot in his north side Milwaukee duplex shortly before 3 p.m.
Tuesday by one of two men who had abducted his son Ernest Whaley Jr., 16.

The incident started earlier in the day when Whaley's son was robbed by two men in
the parking lot of a clothing store.

The younger Whaley said two men approached him in the parking lot and demanded
money.
One of the men had a gun, and Whaley Jr.  handed over his wallet, which contained
$200, he said.

The men said the money wasn't enough and asked if his parents had a gun.  Whaley
Jr. said no.

The men then forced the teen into his car and a third man jumped inside, Whaley Jr.
said.  They dropped off one of the men at an intersection, then drove to Whaley's
home.

The gunman ordered the teen to tell his parents that the gunman was a friend from
school, which he did.  The gunman then demanded that the teen ask for money or he
would kill everyone in the house, Whaley Jr.  said.

The elder Whaley, who served in the Vietnam War and was in the Navy for 20 years,
figured out what was happening and tried to take the gun from the man, his son said.
He was concerned that his 11-month-old granddaughter would be injured.

During the scuffle, one of the men fired his gun until he ran out of bullets, striking
Whaley Sr.  twice in the upper body.  He died six hours later.

Whaley Jr.  was able to hold the 18-year-old gunman until police arrived.

I really couldn't believe it was happening, he said.  One bullet went right over my
head.

Police arrested the man and later captured his 19-year-old accomplice.  They were
searching for another 19-year-old suspect.

Whaley Sr.'s daughter, Jacquita Washington, 30, said her father was looking forward
to this Christmas, but instead the family spent the holiday grieving.

He wanted to see the faces of all his kids and all his grandkids, Washington said.
It was empty.  Just empty.

Whaley Sr.  is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, nine children and more than 20
grandchildren.

 [END OF ARTICLE] 

As terrible as it is what happened to a Veteran in this case, there may be valuable
lessons to be learned from it.  Note the advanced Hunting techniques of the
Predators in the story...  following their wounded/captive prey back to his den.

Also consider: If that No-Gun Family had previously registered their Home on an
Internet Registry as being a No Gun Home, then that young man never would have
been robbed ON THE STREET.  The Robbers would simply have gone straight to
his No-Gun Home and taken care of their business there, in the privacy of that
home, OR TO ANOTHER NO-GUN HOME listed on the Registry.  In that way, the
father of this particular No-Gun Home family might still be alive.  There are many
species of animals who have no defenses against their predators other than evasion
and NUMBERS.  Schools of fish and herds of sheep are examples.  An individual
fish would not out-swim a barracuda, but in a school of fish he has a greater chance
of being lost in the crowd among other defenseless fish.  Applying the same survival
principles to those Humans who have chosen to be helpless, I propose the creation,
for each community in the United States, of a No-Gun Home Registry.  Every such
local No-Gun Ho!  me Registry will be publicly accessible from any local Public
Library internet terminal.

The No Gun Home Registry?

I have an acquaintance who says she does not believe in guns but in the same
conversation she hypocritically said she wanted a baseball bat, to prevent intruders
from breaking into her house and 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [osint] Mowbray: SAUDI SLAVERY IN AMERICA

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From the New York Post --
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/68748.htm

SAUDI SLAVERY IN AMERICA
by Joel Mowbray

 AS part of its massive PR offensive, the House of Saud is trying to
convince the world that its treatment of women is improving. But a
first-hand witness would see a far different reality: Women locked inside
homes, paid little or nothing as domestic servants, worked up to 20 hours
per day, and verbally and physically abused.

And that's right here in America - in the homes of Saudis living in the
United States. Worse, the State Department knows all about it, and in
effect protects this de facto slavery. Saudi abuse of domestics
occasionally makes news in the Western press - but only when it happens
outside of the kingdom. The Saudi princess who pushed her Indonesian maid
down a flight of stairs in Orlando, Fla. won some notoriety last summer,
but the case fizzled: State refused to give a visa to the victim (who had
traveled home to Indonesia for her mother's funeral) to testify in the
criminal trial. The prosecution's case crumbled without the star witness -
so in a plea bargain, government lawyers had drop the charge of indentured
servitude.

Tens of thousands of women are abused in Saudi Arabia each year. The Saudi
government admits that some 19,000 domestic servants - almost exclusively
foreign women working in the kingdom as maids - escaped from Saudi homes
in the 12 months prior to March 2001. (The real figure is likely far
higher, because the Saudis only count women who go to government-run
shelters for runaway domestics, which human-rights experts view as no
more than a PR ploy.) Women who show up at Saudi police stations seeking
help are jailed until their employers reclaim them.

It doesn't get any better when Saudis bring their domestics along to
America. Here are just two of the two dozen such women I've interviewed:

* Jamila discovered a cyst in her right breast - but her Saudi employers
wouldn't let her see a doctor. It wasn't until the young Filipina escaped
the Northern Virginia house more than two years later - when the cyst had
grown to four inches - that she could seek medical attention.

* Maryam, whose Saudi masters took her to a college town in Illinois,
was passed around like mere property to friends and relatives of the
employers. Denied a bed, she was forced to sleep on the hard floor in a
cramped basement room.

Saudi domestics in the United States don't have access to an underground
railroad like the type that exists in Saudi Arabia - women there often
hide in the trunks of cars on the way to a safe house or a port city - but
thankfully many come into contact with Good Samaritans like Cielo, a
Filipina woman who helped five different women escape from a single Saudi
diplomat's home in a four-year period.

Each time, Cielo - who worked as a maid down the street - persuaded the
women that it was both acceptable and possible to flee. After prepping
them, she would pull around the cul de sac in her van, stopping in front
of the Saudis' house. The women then darted out to the van - and freedom.

Women abused in Saudi homes on U.S. soil need heroes like Cielo, because
they receive no help from the State Department - even though officials
there know what happens behind closed Saudi doors.

Diplomatic Security (DS), State's law-enforcement arm, has received many
calls from police stations over the years about Saudi diplomats abusing
domestic workers, says a DS officer who insisted on anonymity. But State
refuses to provide oversight or inform domestic workers of their rights.

Notes Keith Roderick, president of the Coalition for the Defense of Human
Rights, who personally helped a woman escape a Saudi home: When you meet
these women and hear their horror stories, it breaks your heart. But after
you think about it, it gets you angry, really angry - because State should
be doing something about this, but then they turn a cold shoulder to women
who want nothing more than to live free.

Joel Mowbray is a reporter for National Review. Adapted from the Feb. 24
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[CTRL] (Fwd) [RMNEWS] UN PROMOTES GANG RAPING OF 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS

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UN PROMOTES GANG RAPING OF 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS



In recent years there has been a massive increase in
the trafficking of women in Bosnia, including girls as
young as 12.


REPEATED RAPING OF YOUNG GIRLS UNDER UN SUPERVISION

IF YOU KEEP PLAYING THE UN'S HEGELIAN ELITE GAME, YOU
WILL END UP LIKE THIS AMERICA, GUARANTEED! THIS IS
WHAT CONQUERING OCCUPATIONAL ARMIES DO.

ONE CAN ONLY THINK THAT THE GAGGLE OF UN BUREAUCRATS
IN BOSNIA REQUIRE IT TO GO ON FOR THEIR OWN
ENTERTAINMENT AS WELL.


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Bosnia sex trade shames UN
A SENIOR United Nations official is demanding that her
colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should
be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=160672003


Bosnia sex trade shames UN

DOMINIC HIPKINS IN ZAGREB


A SENIOR United Nations official is demanding that her
colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should
be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted.

Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN
officials, international peacekeepers and police who
are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in
their home countries.

Speaking exclusively to Scotland on Sunday, the
British lawyer has also launched an outspoken attack
on her former boss. She accuses Jacques Paul Klein,
the former head of the UN Mission in Bosnia, of not
taking UN complicity in the country’s burgeoning sex
trade seriously enough.

In recent years there has been a massive increase in
the trafficking of women in Bosnia, including girls as
young as 12. The women are taken from their homes in
eastern Europe by organised criminal gangs and brought
to Bosnia, where they are forced into prostitution.

The trade in these so-called ‘sex slaves’ hardly
existed until the mid-1990s. It was fuelled by the
arrival of tens of thousands of predominantly male UN
personnel in the wake of the signing of the Dayton
Peace Accord by Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia in
1995.

Rees said: Visiting brothels where women have been
gang-raped into submission, into slavery, is not part
of the UN’s mandate.

Without an enforceable code of conduct, immunity
often means impunity. We should look at ways of
waiving that immunity.

I would be very happy to see the possibility of
prosecutions for rape or assault in the UK. There is
no question this should happen.

Rees, who has served in Bosnia since 1998, said she
had encountered stiff opposition from western
officials in her attempts to tackle the trafficking of
women.

 They don’t want to know about it, she said.

There is this whole ‘boys will be boys’ attitude
about men visiting brothels. There’s a culture inside
the UN where you can’t criticise it. That goes all the
way to the top.

Referring to Klein, she added: He doesn’t take this
issue at all seriously.

Last year, Rees testified in support of Kathryn
Bolkovac, a UN police officer who was sacked for
exposing the sexual abuse of women and children in
Bosnia by her colleagues.

Bolkovac’s former employer DynCorp, an American
security firm which supplied staff to the UN, was
forced to pay £110,000 in compensation.

The chairman of the British employment tribunal which
heard the case described DynCorp as callous, spiteful
and vindictive.

Bolkovac had revealed UN peacekeepers went to
nightclubs where young girls were forced to dance
naked and have sex with customers, and that UN
personnel and international aid workers were linked to
prostitution rings in the Balkans. At the time, Rees
described it as the biggest cover-up I have ever
seen, adding that she believed 30% of those visiting
Bosnia’s brothels were UN personnel, peacekeepers or
aid workers.

DynCorp insists it has the highest ethical standards
of business and encourages employees to speak
openly.

However, Rees said the private defence contractors,
whose British office is based in Salisbury, should be
banned from the country.

DynCorp... should not be allowed anywhere near
Bosnia, she said.

In January, a 500 strong European Union police force
replaced the UN’s 1,800 member multinational
International Police Task Force (IPTF).

Dedicated anti-trafficking teams were formed and
assigned to raid nightclubs across Bosnia suspected of
operating forced prostitution rackets.

Rees said the counter-trafficking efforts had mostly
been a failure. They were basically for show and
completely amateurish, she said.

Referring to the EU police force, Rees added: They
are still very much on probation. These men must
understand that going into brothels is illegal in
Bosnia. The sex is not consensual if the woman is a
13-year-old girl trafficked from Moldova.

Although there have been many cases of police officers
being sent home in disgrace for their involvement in
the sex trade, the UN can only remove them from
service and is powerless to prosecute 

[CTRL] (Fwd) Special Bill Stone Column, 01-02-2003

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Freedom, Immortality, and the Stars!
by William Stone, III http://www.wrstone.com

On January 28, 1986, I was walking through the student union of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln when I first saw the footage of the space
shuttle  Challenger exploding.  It was footage that I would watch  with great
sadness for the remainder of my life.  Indeed, I doubt anyone of my
generation could avoid the footage, considering that it was aired every few
minutes for months.

Understand that I never saw this footage the way that pundits or even the
average individual saw it.  My point of view was radically different.
Everyone always seemed to assume that by that time, government space travel
was roughly as safe as commercial airline travel, therefore it was a disaster
of epic proportions when the Challenger was destroyed.

This couldn't be further from the truth.  Government space travel involves
government agencies, government contractors, and government flunkies, which
add to the inherent danger of space flight.  Engineering and safety decisions
that should be guided by pure science are instead determined by politics.
Indeed, the entire space shuttle program is itself an exercise in politics,
something apty pointed-out by Victor Koman in his novel, _Kings Of the High
Frontier_.

The bottom line is that when you take off for space in a government
spacecraft, you're sitting atop a controlled explosion that's been engineered
by one of the most rickety organizations in human history.  Anyone who sits
on a shuttle's flight deck understands that they're involved in something
inherently dangerous.

There are a thousand new ways to die in space travel on the best of days.
When you add in a government bureaucracy controlling the endeavor, it's a
miracle that anyone ever gets off the ground alive.

This morning, of course, seven individuals riding a glider at Mach 25
perished 38 miles from home.

Understand that the family and friends of the Columbia's crew have my deepest
sympathies.  Certainly they understood better than anyone the risks involved.
While Joe Average on the street somehow can't conceive that this is a
dangerous business, the families of those who choose to accept such danger
must understand:  when their loved ones choose to ride a controlled explosion
engineered by government into space, there is a measurable probability that
they simply won't return.

So again, my heart goes out to the survivors of those who didn't make it home
today.

However, as I peruse the news, I am deeply troubled by the reaction to the
Columbia's destruction.  While these individuals didn't make it home and their
families have my sympathy, the horrible occasion of their deaths isn't cause
for national mourning.

I'm sorry, but it's not.

National mourning needs to be reserved for individuals who go to work in an
office building that they believe is perfectly safe, only to discover that
their own government's victim disarmament policies have transformed it into
a deathtrap.

National mourning needs to be reserved for a country that sends its sons to
die fighting to maintain the low price of an about-to-be-obsolete fuel.

National mourning needs to be reserved for a country's dictatorial ambitions
depriving us of our true birthright:

Freedom, immortality, and the stars!

In 1986, I watched with shock as the American space program nearly died.  As
I write this, we have no idea what happened to the Columbia -- and to be
honest, given that it broke apart at 200,000 feet while traveling at Mach
25, I have a suspicion that we may NEVER know what happened.  Add to this
fact that the debris field covers an expanding radius encompassing four
states so far, and that NASA is frantically asking everyone to stay away from
the possibly toxic debris.

Frankly, the paranoid in me wonders if we aren't looking at some strange sort
of cover-up.  I certainly hope not, but post-Bloody Tuesday, I don't put
ANYTHING past government.

In 1986, I was deeply saddened to watch America's space program disintegrate,
put on hold for three long years while the government pointed fingers of
blame when the technical answer to the problem needn't have delayed any
future spaceflights.

Today, I am crossing all of my fingers that the destruction of the Columbia
will end government spaceflight once and for all.

There's certainly no technical reason for this to happen.  Were this the
destruction of an experimental spacecraft owned and operated by Boeing,
McDonnell-Douglas, or even American Airlines, it wouldn't impact the launch
schedule at all.

However, in this case, the best possible outcome of this event would be the
total and complete elimination of anything remotely resembling government
space travel.

I'm an enormous supporter of the concept of space travel.  When  I was very
young, I fell in love with the words, ... to explore strange, new worlds; to
seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go 

[CTRL] (Fwd) Justice Run Amok

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Justice Run Amok
by Joe Pierre
If anyone ever doubted that our justice system is in a shambles, the
spectacle of the Los Angeles courts over the last decade should
dispel their doubt.

First, we had the spectacle of the trial of the L.A. cops for
thumping on a drugged-up black miscreant who had just led them on a
100 mph chase through city streets, and then resisted arrest. The
entire nation was subjected by network TV news to endless replays of
a few seconds of an edited version of a home video made by a
bystander. Everyone knew the cops were guilty of brutality.

A problem: the trial jury, in a trial in a neutral venue, viewed the
entire tape and heard all the available evidence, and acquitted. Now
what?

Los Angeles blacks, whipped into rage by their leaders with cries
of Racism! and inflammatory news reports screaming Fire! in a
crowded theater, predictably rioted; burning, looting, pillaging and
raping everything in sight, and were justified by media liberals and
at least one Congresswoman for acting out of frustration. The
police were impotent. The national guard was absent. The militia had
been disbanded generations before, replaced by the national guard.
The law-abiding were reduced to whatever self-defense measures they
could mount on their own behalf. News helicopters filmed scenes of
merchants protecting their stores from the roof-tops with rifles.

It made one long for the good old days of the impetuous, but
effective, activities of the California vigilantes in the gold-rush
period, and sympathize with the the forceful, restraining hand of the Ku
Klux Klan, on a lawless, post-civil war reconstruction South trying to deal
with carpetbagger justice.

Politics intervened. Justice was replaced by expediency. The cops had to be
punished, despite their acquittals. The Attorney General of the United
States, proclaiming that justice would be done, charged the cops with
violations of Rodney King's civil rights. A black jury was chosen from the
heart of Los Angeles, and the desired verdict was rendered. The cops were
sentenced to imprisonment.

Next act: In the riots, an unprovoked attack on a truck driver was
video taped by a news crew, in which the driver was nearly beaten to
death. The black perpetrators were identified. The Attorney General
was not so outraged this time, and the local court, desirous of
avoiding charges of racism, was lenient. After all, they were
motivated in the assault by their frustration.

Next act: The case of Orenthal James Simpson. His estranged wife and
her acquaintance were murdered with a knife. She was practically
decapitated. Blood samples, DNA evidence, bloody gloves and socks
found in his house, blood splatters on Simpson's vehicle, evidence
that she was terrified of him and had predicted that he would kill
her, police records indicating that he had battered her in the past,
his inability to satisfactorily account for his time, his shoe tracks in
the victim's blood at the scene, what more do you want? A black jury
acquitted. Reason? A police detective witness had lied about using the word
nigger in the past ten years

. Los Angeles is just the tip of the iceberg. Jury nullification:
black jurors acquitting black defendants in the face of
insurmountable evidence of guilt simply because they are black, is a
national epidemic. Article after article has been published, in the
newspapers, Reader's Digest, and numerous magazines over and over
again. Four eyewitnesses, fingerprints, the accused attempts to plea-
bargain and admits guilt, and the jury acquits.

The courts take too long to render justice. I was subpoenaed as an
expert witness in graphic arts at a federal counterfeiting case in
Portland, Oregon, several years ago. The accused had been tried for
the murder of his girl-friend's husband 10 years earlier. The body
had been found in a well, slaked with lime. The accused was a
bricklayer. He was found guilty, but appealed. The appellate court
also found him guilty. He appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme
Court, which ordered a new trial on a technicality of law, and
finally he was acquitted. The witnesses had died or moved away, and
ten years had passed.

But, in the meantime he was involved in counterfeting, found guilty
and sentenced to 12 years. Did he serve it? I don't know, I was never
subpoenaed again to testify.

The people of California recently passed a proposition (Prop 209)
that prohibits public colleges from discriminating for or against an
applicant on account of race or gender. The same rule would apply to
state and local authorities who award government jobs and contracts.

United States District Judge Thelton Henderson, in a convoluted
ruling, issued a temporary restraining order forbidding the Governor, Pete
Wilson, from implementing the law on the grounds that it is
unconstitutional. A law that says all are equal before the law, is
unconstitutional?

The entire voting population of 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] (fwd) Children Rescued from Muslim Torture in Kenya

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Children Rescued from Muslim Torture in Kenya

By Gray Phombeah

BBC News | January 31, 2003

Kenyan police have rescued 11 boys from an Islamic correctional centre
in the capital, Nairobi, where they were kept in chains and tortured.

Most of the teenagers came from Kenya, but others were from the United
Kingdom, Sweden and Ethiopia.

In a dramatic raid at the Khadija Islamic Institute of Discipline and
Education, the police were forced to fire in the air to fight off
residents pelting them with them stones - before rescuing 10 teenagers
who were being held at the centre.

They were kept in chains and secured by padlocks in small rooms with
little ventilation or light in Eastleigh, a Nairobi suburb inhabited
mainly by ethnic Somalis and refugees from the Horn of Africa.

The raid followed a tip-off from one of the teenagers who was himself
later rescued from a hospital where he had gone to seek medical help.

'Lashes'

Nairobi police boss Stephen Kimenchu led the late evening raid.

We found the children running around in chains.  It was some kind of
extreme confinement you cannot imagine to be happening in this country.
We were not aware of this until yesterday when we got there.

At the Kasarani police station, five kilometres from where they had been
rescued, the children narrated their ordeal at the hands of Islamic
teachers bent on turning them into good Muslims.

Guleed Ahmed, 16, from Leicester in the UK, says he spent eight months
at the centre:

It was a terrible place, they chain both legs and both arms, sometimes
hands and feet together, he said.

They beat you at lunch time, dinner time and grab both legs and hands
and give you lashes on the buttocks.

'Plain rice'

Fellow student Abdikalik Jama from Eldoret in western Kenya talked of
four months of torture and beatings:

We sleep in chains, eat in chains, go to the toilets in chains.
Sometimes we are hooked on the roof in chains and left hanging.  We have
to memorise the Koran and get punished if we cannot recite the Koran in
the classroom.

Our food was tea and bread in the morning, plain rice for lunch and
rice and sugar for dinner, he said.

Nairobi police boss Mr Kimenchu says the children were sent to the
centre by their parent who pay $1,500 per child for a two-year stay.

I think the parents believed their children were learning the Koran.  I
don't think they were aware of the actual conditions their children were
living in, he said.

In Eastleaigh, local councillor Kullow Ibraim Haji also condemned the
cruel treatment of students:

I support the school and the parents who bring their children here to
be taught discipline.  But I don't support torture and chaining of
students, he said.

Islam does not allow children to be tortured.  Teaching and
disciplining them is one thing - but not torture.

By Monday night, police were making frantic efforts to contact the
parents of the children and also verify the nationalities of some of the
rescued teenagers.

They will probably charge the owners of Kadhija Islamic Institute for
cruelty against children.


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Who was the wise man who said Going to war without France is
like going hunting without an accordion.?

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[CTRL] (Fwd) Blacks Allegedly Victimized By Racist' Gun Control Laws

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Blacks Allegedly Victimized By 'Racist' Gun Control Laws
By Michael L. Betsch
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
January 30, 2003
Second Amendment experts say current gun control laws are
preventing law abiding African Americans from acting in self-
defense against the illegally armed criminals that infest their inner-
city neighborhoods. Racism still is a big part of gun control, said
Kenn Blanchard, a former federal law enforcement officer and
author of Black Man With A Gun, A Responsible Gun Ownership
Manual For African Americans. Anywhere that there are no
concealed-carry's, there's also a predominant black population, he
said.

Blanchard defined two obstacles currently preventing law abiding
urban blacks from legally possessing and carrying a firearm: culture
and education. You have plenty of guns in the inner-city, but they're
all illegally owned, Blanchard said. Most of the time, they're illegally
owned because folks don't have the knowledge to know what
constitutes making it legal ... They think that it's better to get one at
the barber shop than go to the [gun] store and fill out the application.

We've been conditioned since 1640 that owning a gun will get you
either locked up or killed by the authorities more than the bad guy,
he said. So, we kind of fear our government.

Blanchard said urban blacks are constantly bombarded with anti-
gun messages from inner-city ministers and the local media. He
said the message is always, Guns are bad! Guns are bad! That's
the reason that we're killing our young kids. If they would allow the
right kind of education to pop up in the church and in the schools, it
would change everything, Blanchard said. But the powers-that-be
also know that if that happens, they'll lose a lot of their fear factor.

Gun Owners of America spokesman John Velleco said America's
first gun laws were intentionally racist to prevent freed blacks from
owning guns. He said lawmakers still enact gun laws that prevent
law-abiding blacks from enjoying their Second Amendment rights.
Law abiding African Americans should be encouraged to own guns
and to learn how to use them safely and responsibly so that they
can take responsibility for their own protection because they can't
rely on the police to be there to protect them, Velleco said.

Velleco condemned anti-gun, Democratic lawmakers in cities such
as Washington, D.C., for making the concealed carry weapons
(CCW) permit a partisan issue that adversely affects blacks.
Studies have shown, most notably the John Lott study, that in the
areas that have the highest crime rates, they've shown the greatest
reductions in crimes when gun laws have been relaxed, Velleco
said. So, if you relax the laws and allow the citizens to carry guns,
the people in the inner-cities won't be in the situation where they're
breaking the law.

John Lott, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and
author of the book, More Guns, Less Crime, said urban areas tend
to have some of the strictest and most discriminatory gun control
laws in the country. Lott said 33 states have so-called right to carry
laws which stipulate that applicants must meet a series of
requirements including criminal background checks, fees and a
firearms training session in some instances. Typically, law-abiding
blacks don't have a problem meeting those requirements, he said.

However, there are 11 states, commonly referred to as may issue
states, where concealed carry weapon permit applicants must
demonstrate their need for a firearm to a local official. That's
where inner-city blacks and other minorities run into roadblocks, Lott
said. When you have these discretionary states, blacks get permits
at much lower rates than they get them in the states which are the
'right to carry' states which don't allow discretion on the part of public
officials, Lott said.

You try to get a permit and you live in Harlem, it's like no chance,
Lott said. You'd think these people are going to have the biggest
benefit from having it, but when you have this type of [political]
discretion in terms of whether or not they'll let somebody get it, they
just will refuse.

For example, Lott said there are an estimated 8,000 CCW permit
holders in New York City, but he noted that almost all of those
permits were approved for predominantly upper-income residents
living on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Lott said permit fees also
have a discriminatory effect on poor blacks and minorities because
the permit fees can fluctuate in the U.S. from $6 for a four-year
permit up to nearly $150.

When you have the higher permit fees, you tend to see a relatively
smaller percentage of the permits going to blacks, Lott said. You
also see that in those states that have those higher permit fees a
smaller reduction in violent crime [because] the type of person who
is getting the permit is less 

[CTRL] The Difference Between The Liberal and Conservative Debate Over The War On Terrorism

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The Difference Between The Liberal and Conservative Debate
Over The War On Terrorism:

Scenario:

You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small
children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a huge knife
comes around the corner and is running at you while screaming
obscenities. In your hand is a Glock.40 and you are an expert shot.
You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.

What do you do?

Liberal Answer:

Well, that's not enough information to answer the question! Does
the man look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him
that is inspiring him to attack? Could we run away? What does my
wife think? What about the kids? Could I possibly swing the gun like
a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say
about this situation? Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me?
Does he definitely want to kill me or would he just be content to
wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family
get away while he was stabbing me? This is all so confusing! I need
to debate this with some friends for a few days to try to come to a
conclusion.

Conservative Answer:

BANG!
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[CTRL] (Fwd) {attack} Morris: Clintons Are Sociopaths

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Morris: Clintons Are Sociopaths

Former top White House political strategist Dick Morris said Wednesday
that recent criticism by Bill and Hillary Clinton of President Bush's
national security policy is so over the top that the former first couple
have revealed themselves to be a couple of sociopaths.
It's a good thing those two are sociopaths, he writes in the D.C.
newspaper, The Hill. Otherwise their consciences might bother them when
they say things like that.

Morris zeroes in on Sen. Clinton's comments last Friday to WLIE radio
host Mike Siegel, which the mainstream press has helpfully covered up,
that Bush had mishandled the North Korean nuclear crisis, as well as
ex-President Clinton's bizarre claim last week that his own policies
actually stopped the rogue nation from obtaining 50 nuclear weapons.

Wait a minute, blasts Morris. It was (Bill) Clinton who negotiated
the 1994 Framework Agreement with Pyongyang in which North Korea agreed
to stop diverting plutonium from its nuclear plant in Yongbyon in return
for the delivery of 500,000 metric tons of fuel annually and the
construction of two light water nuclear power plants costing $4
billion.

The former Clinton insider recalled that by mid-August of 1998,
newspaper reports indicated that U.S. intelligence agencies had detected
a huge secret underground complex in North Korea that they suspected
was the centerpiece of an effort to revive the country's … nuclear
weapons program.

When the U.S. demanded that inspectors examine the sites in question,
Pyongyang countered with a demand for $300 million in cash for the
privilege. With that the Clintons quietly dropped the issue.

Fast forward to 2003, with American intelligence sources now estimating
that North Korea has had one or two nuclear weapons since the mid-1990s.
So why didn't Clinton demand that North Korea disarm? asks Morris.

Why did he keep funding, fuel and food flowing while Pyongyang broke
its word?

Rather than protect U.S. national security interests, the Clinton
administration told Congress that the intelligence reports were wrong;
that instead, Pyongyang was actually living up to its end of the bargain
because the new North Korean nuke plant had yet to be reactivated.

When the Senate voted, 80-11, in late 1998 'to condition funding [of
the '94 deal] on a presidential certification that North Korea has
halted all nuclear activities,' Clinton continued to wink at North
Korean noncompliance, Morris said.


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[CTRL] (Fwd) [patriot] (fwd) I.N.S. Shredder Ended Work Backlog, U.S Says

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 — Tens of thousands of pieces of mail come into
the huge Immigration and Naturalization Service data processing center in
Laguna Niguel, Calif., every day, and as at so many government agencies, it
tends to pile up. One manager there had a system to get rid of the vexing
backlog, federal officials say. This week the manager was charged with
illegally shredding as many as 90,000 documents.

  Among the destroyed papers, federal officials charged, were American
and foreign passports, applications for asylum, birth certificates and other
documents supporting applications for citizenship, visas and work permits.

  The manager, Dawn Randall, 24, was indicted late Wednesday by a
federal grand jury, along with a supervisor working under her, Leonel
Salazar, 34. They are accused of ordering low-level workers to destroy
thousands of documents from last February to April to reduce a growing
backlog of unprocessed paperwork.

  Ms. Randall was the file room manager at the I.N.S. center. Mr.
Salazar was her file room supervisor. The Laguna Niguel center handles
paperwork for residents of California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam and
is one of four immigration service centers around the country operated by
private contractors under I.N.S. supervision.

  According to the federal indictment, Ms. Randall ordered her
subordinates last January to count the number of unprocessed papers in the
filing center. They reported that about 90,000 documents were waiting to be
handled. In February, the government says, she ordered at least five
night-shift workers to begin shredding many boxes of papers.

  By the end of March, the backlog had been cut to zero, and Ms. Randall
ordered her subordinates to continue destroying incoming paper to keep
current, the government says.

  There was no I.N.S. policy that required this, nor was she ordered to
do it by any superior, as far as we know, said Greg Staples, the assistant
United States attorney handling the case. The only motive we can think of
is just the obvious one of a manager trying to get rid of a nettlesome
problem.

  Mr. Staples said one frustrating thing about the case was that most of
the evidence had been carted out with the trash and that it was impossible
to identify all of the victims.

  It's like a murder case without a body, he said. We will never
really know what was destroyed.

  The shredding was discovered in April by an agency supervisor who
witnessed what appeared to be unauthorized destruction of documents. The
I.N.S. office of internal audit, the Justice Department's inspector general
and the United States attorney's office for Southern California conducted
the investigation that led to this week's indictments.

  Ms. Randall and Mr. Salazar were each charged with conspiracy and five
counts of willfully destroying documents filed with the I.N.S. The
conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
Each of the other counts can bring three years in prison.

  Their subordinates were not charged because they were low-level
workers acting on instructions, the government said.

  After the shredding was discovered, the immigration service opened a
hotline for people who suspected their paperwork had been destroyed. Agency
officials helped petitioners reconstruct their files and gave applicants the
benefit of the doubt if they could not replace the documents they had
submitted, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for the I.N.S.'s western regional
office.

  She said the agency made an effort last year to publicize the problem
and was confident that it had rebuilt most of the lost files. She also said
that additional staff members had been hired at the center and that
oversight had been tightened.

  Monitoring of the activities of the support services contractor has
been enhanced at the service center, Ms. Haley said. All materials to be
shredded or destroyed are reviewed first by I.N.S. personnel to make sure
that no unauthorized materials are destroyed.

  Ms. Randall's lawyer, Joseph G. Cavallo, said today that he had not
read the charges and would not comment. He said, however, that Ms. Randall
would plead not guilty at her arraignment on Monday. Mr. Salazar's lawyer,
Tom Brown, did not return calls seeking comment.

  The four document processing centers are operated under a $325 million
contract with JHM Research and Development of Maryland, which in turn
subcontracts the operations to two other companies. John Macklin, president
of JHM, was unavailable for comment.

  Mr. Staples, the 

[CTRL] (Fwd) Zimbabwe to close down last remaining non-government newspaper

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Official Seeks Closure of Zimbabwe Paper

By ANGUS SHAW
Associated Press Writer

January 30, 2003, 11:00 PM EST


HARARE, Zimbabwe -- The information minister told Zimbabwe's
Supreme Court that the country's only independent daily newspaper
is illegal and should be punished for flouting stringent media laws,
court officials said Thursday.

The Daily News has refused to register with the government as
required by the laws, the minister, Jonathan Moyo, said in a sworn
statement to the court, the officials said.

Moyo is the architect of the media laws, which critics say are aimed
at stifling criticism of the government.

The Daily News admits refusing to register and has asked the court
to strike down the law, saying it violates rights to free expression and
association. The court has not scheduled a hearing.

Moyo said until courts or Parliament repealed the media act it should
be obeyed. He asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the newspaper's
application and force it to comply or shut down, the officials said.

Authorities have cracked down on independent journalists in recent
months.

Police have arrested 14 local independent journalists, including several
from The Daily News, mainly on charges of publishing falsehoods
that carry a penalty of up to two years in jail. The only journalist to be
tried so far was acquitted.

The new laws also require foreign journalists to apply for government
approval before coming to Zimbabwe. The government routinely denies
the requests.

No action has been taken against journalists working for state-controlled
media.

On Monday, Japanese Ambassador Tsuneshige Iiyama said he had not
made remarks attributed to him in the state Herald newspaper criticizing
the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The paper
is closely controlled by Moyo.

Parts of the article were totally fabricated, the ambassador said in a
letter to Herald editor Pikirayi Deketeke. Iiyama also said Moyo had
raised Zimbabwe's bad image.

And last week James Morris, the U.N. special envoy to the southern
African hunger crisis, complained the Herald fabricated a remark
attributed to him praising Zimbabwe's often-violent seizures of
white-owned commercial farms.

Morris protested a second time after claiming his first protest letter
was published in the paper with key words edited out to change the
meaning.

Three journalists, two of them Americans with government press
accreditation, were detained by police for seven hours Tuesday and
denied telephone calls and access to a lawyer.

On Wednesday, five foreign Lutheran church workers were deported
after being accused of being undercover journalists trying to gather
information on aid projects to help the Lutheran World Federation raise funds.
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TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Iran has tested North Korea's Taepo Dong
missile engine
and plans to soon launch the missile in its first test
flight. U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies are said to have
concluded that
the missile engine test took place last year. They
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Ephraim Kam, deputy director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic
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Congo rebels cannibalize their victims

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BENI, Congo -- Hiding in bushes, Amuzati Nzoli watched as rebel
soldiers turned from killers into cannibals: his 6-year-old nephew was their victim.

Accounts like the one told by the middle-aged Pygmy are sweeping
through northeastern Congo.

Human rights activists and investigators from the United Nations say rebels cooked
and ate at least a dozen Pygmies and an undetermined number of people from
other tribes during recent fighting with rival insurgents.

Pygmies have no calendar, so Nzoli can't say exactly when the rebels from the
Congolese Liberation Movement invaded his forest camp. But he remembers what
he saw.

The rebels slaughtered the dozen people they found at the camp.
Nzoli, who had been hunting, arrived during the attack and hid.

Rebel fighters butchered the man's nephew, Kebe Musika, and roasted his body
parts over an open fire, grabbing pieces from the smoldering embers.

They even sprinkled salt on the flesh as they ate, as if cannibalism
was all very natural to them, Nzoli said. He fled as the rebels were
eating his nephew and can't say what happened to the bodies of the
others.

It is not the first time cannibalism has been reported in Congo; it
generally occurs during great upheaval, like the Simba rebellion in
1964.

The latest upheaval is the country's 4-year civil war, which has left
an estimated 2.5 million people dead, the vast majority from
starvation. It set the stage for this latest round of cannibalism.

As in the past, the attacks are fueled by a mix of tribal animosities
and a desire to spread fear in the region. There is also a belief
among some that eating one's foes is a source of power.

The rebels used cannibalism to provoke terrible fear in their foes
and pave the way to dramatic success in the battlefield, said
Apollinaire Kighoma, a Roman Catholic priest in Mangina, 19 miles
northwest of Beni.

The priest has heard accounts about the practice from hundreds of
people displaced by fighting who have taken refuge at his church.

Once you develop a reputation as a cannibal, no one wants to stay in your path,
Kighoma said.

Most of the reported acts of cannibalism took place between November and
December when the Congolese Liberation Movement launched a successful
offensive to retake Mambasa, a town about 70 miles northwest of Beni.

The Congolese Liberation Movement had previously lost the town to a rival rebel
group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation Movement, which was allied
with Mayi-Mayi tribal fighters.

The Mayi-Mayi believe witchcraft endows them with supernatural power to transform
bullets into water.

Witch doctors reportedly told troops from the Congolese Liberation
Movement that the Mayi-Mayi were vulnerable to bullets fired by people who had
eaten the hearts of young men, said Jackson Basikania, coordinator of the Program
for the Assistance to Pygmies in Congo.

Tribal rivalries, fueled by the fight to control the region's mineral
and timber resources, determined the victims.

Aside from the Pygmies, many other victims were Nande, the tribe from which most
of the leadership of the rival rebel group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy-
Liberation Movement, is drawn. Some of the Nande victims were eaten.

Many in northeastern Congo -- one of the most fertile and
resource-rich regions in the vast central African country -- regard
Pygmies as less than human. Original inhabitants of Congo, they
continue to live deep in the forests, eking out an existence by
hunting and gathering food from small, nomadic base camps.

Congolese Liberation Movement rebels may have eaten Pygmies as punishment for
their guiding rival troops through the dense forests,
said Angali Salehe, the chief of the camp were Nzoli lived.

Jean-Pierre Bemba, the leader of the Congolese Liberation Movement,
says he is shocked by reports that his troops ate people.

I don't even know how to explain it, Bemba said by telephone from
his headquarters in Gbadolite, about 630 miles northwest of Beni.

Bemba is slated to become one of Congo's four vice presidents under a
peace deal reached last year. But it's unclear whether that
power-sharing deal will end the war, which has been marked by shifting
alliances among a handful of fractured rebel groups all jockeying for
Congo's natural resources.

The rebels, backed by Rwanda and Uganda, control nearly half of the
country, the third largest in Africa.

Even if Bemba had an explanation, it would offer little comfort to
Nzoli. He is struggling to overcome the trauma of seeing his nephew
devoured.

I don't remember any of their faces, but the one thing that I won't
ever forget is the sight of their eyes as they ate, Nzoli said. They
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[CTRL] Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution

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Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution

Nobel laureate under fire for new book on the role of Jews in
Soviet-era repression

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Saturday January 25, 2003
The Guardian

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the
Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most
sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the
Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges.

In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos
of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators
of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a
reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia
which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains
three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary
genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia.

But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted furiously to
the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it,
accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of
anti-semitism in Russia.

Solzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary
period consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians as
being behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic
groups must share the blame, and that people shy away from
speaking the truth about the Jewish experience.

In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote: If I would
care to generalise, and to say that the life of the Jews in the camps
was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an
unjust national generalisation. But in the camps where I was kept, it
was different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was
softer than that of others.

Yet he added: But it is impossible to find the answer to the eternal
question: who is to be blamed, who led us to our death? To explain
the actions of the Kiev cheka [secret police] only by the fact that
two thirds were Jews, is certainly incorrect.

Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, spent
much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring persecution when
he wrote about his experiences. He is currently in frail health, but in
an interview given last month he said that Russia must come to
terms with the Stalinist and revolutionary genocides - and that its
Jewish population should be as offended at their own role in the
purges as they are at the Soviet power that also persecuted them.

My book was directed to empathise with the thoughts, feelings and
the psychology of the Jews - their spiritual component, he said. I
have never made general conclusions about a people. I will always
differentiate between layers of Jews. One layer rushed headfirst to
the revolution. Another, to the contrary, was trying to stand back.
The Jewish subject for a long time was considered prohibited.
Zhabotinsky [a Jewish writer] once said that the best service our
Russian friends give to us is never to speak aloud about us.

But Solzhenitsyn's book has caused controversy in Russia, where
one Jewish leader said it was not of any merit.

This is a mistake, but even geniuses make mistakes, said
Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress.
Richard Wagner did not like the Jews, but was a great composer.
Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer, but had a very sceptical
attitude towards the Jews.

This is not a book about how the Jews and Russians lived together
for 200 years, but one about how they lived apart after finding
themselves on the same territory. This book is a weak one
professionally. Factually, it is so bad as to be beyond criticism. As
literature, it is not of any merit.

But DM Thomas, one of Solzhenitsyn's biographers, said that he
did not think the book was fuelled by anti- semitism. I would not
doubt his sincerity. He says that he firmly supports the state of
Israel. In his fiction and factual writing there are Jewish characters
that he writes about who are bright, decent, anti-Stalinist people.

Professor Robert Service of Oxford University, an expert on 20th
century Russian history, said that from what he had read about the
book, Solzhenitsyn was absolutely right.

Researching a book on Lenin, Prof Service came across details of
how Trotsky, who was of Jewish origin, asked the politburo in 1919
to ensure that Jews were enrolled in the Red army. Trotsky said
that Jews were disproportionately represented in the Soviet civil
bureaucracy, including the cheka.

Trotsky's idea was that the spread of anti-semitism was [partly
down to] objections about their entrance into the civil service. There
is something in this; that they were not just passive spectators of
the revolution. They were part- victims and part-perpetrators.

It is not a question that anyone can write about without a huge
amount of bravery, and [it] needs doing in Russia because the Jews
are quite