-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors.
Mormon leader 'ordered massacre of settlers' By Oliver Poole in Los Angeles 2/27/20 - a Confession etched on a newly discovered lead sheet has shaken the Mormon Church by linking its revered leader, Brigham Young, with one of the worst massacres in American history. The note claims that the founder of Salt Lake City ordered the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, when a wagon train of 120 settlers, mostly women and children, were killed after they had thrown down their weapons on a promise of safe passage http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$JFL2DFIAAAKTDQFIQMFSFF4A VCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/02/27/wmorm27.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/02/27/ixworld.html &secureRefresh=true&_requestid=19563 London Times 3/1/02 - '15,000 died of cancer' after US atom tests From Damian Whitworth in Washington "Radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests caused at least 15,000 fatal cancers in America in the past half century, according to reports of a government study. The federal investigation apparently found that nuclear tests around the world produced more fallout than previously realised and all Americans born after 1951 were exposed. The newspaper USA Today reported that it had seen portions of the study, the government¹s first effort to assess the effects of nuclear detonations on the entire country. The study, conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, estimated radiation dispersal based on computer analyses of weather patterns, population trends and other data. The cancer figures were estimated. Almost All in U.S. Have Been Exposed to Fallout, Study Finds By James Glanz 3/1/02 - In a preliminary study that takes into account not only nuclear tests in Nevada but also nearly all American and Soviet nuclear tests conducted overseas until they were banned in 1963, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that virtually every person who has lived in the United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout....The new study, which was completed in August 2001 and was first revealed yesterday in USA Today, suggests that for all Americans born after 1951 "all organs and tissues of the body have received some radiation exposure." The study says in highly guarded terms that the global fallout could eventually be responsible for more than 11,000 cancer deaths in the United States. But the study said any medical implications were uncertain because the average American had received almost 20 times as much radiation from medical procedures like chest X-rays as from fallout of all kinds over the same period. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/health/01NUKE.html Reilly, DAs pressure archdiocese on priests Warn grand jury may force church to turn over dataBy Kevin Cullen, Globe Staff, 3/1/02 In a letter sent yesterday to the law firm representing the Archdiocese of Boston, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly and five district attorneys warned that they might convene a grand jury to force the church to turn over incriminating information about pedophile priests. Frustrated by the refusal of the archdiocese to turn over the case files of accused priests, Reilly and the district attorneys today plan to announce the formation of a task force aimed at getting Cardinal Bernard F. Law to be more cooperative with prosecutors and to coordinate information in an increasingly complex investigation. Specifically, the prosecutors want Law and the archdiocese to waive the confidentiality agreements with victims that the church has used to conceal past abuse cases. That will give prosecutors access to names of victims and witnesses and the nature of the accusations. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/060/nation/Reilly_DAs_pressure_archdiocese_o n_priests+.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20584-2002Feb28.html Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret (washingtonpost_com).htm Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret After Attacks, Bush Ordered 100 Officials to Bunkers Away From Capital to Ensure Federal Survival By Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, March 1, 2002; Page A01 President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Support or None: Forging Ahead With Plans for War The outlines of the Bush Administration's strategy to oust Saddam are beginning to emerge. According to a New York Times report, between now and May, Mr. Bush's team plans to create what amounts to an inspection crisis- demanding that Iraq admit inspectors into the country. Mr. Bush's aides fully expect that Mr. Hussein will refuse outright or feign cooperation in the hope of dragging out the process. Mr. Bush's plan is to use either action as evidence that Iraq is hiding active weapons program, and use its resistance to justify more forceful action. (The New York Times, February 13, 2002) However, the senior administration officials said the president is not interested in mere 'behavior modification,' suggesting that even if Hussein were to agree to allow UN inspectors into his country, it might not be enough to satisfy the administration (Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2002). Following the State of the Union Address, the US resumed its extensive support for the Iraqi opposition group, the London-based Iraq National Congress. This despite the fact that INC lost credibility among major Iraqi opposition forces (Kurds in the North and Shiites in the South) after orchestrating an ill-fated uprising in northern Iraq in 1995 (which was abandoned by the CIA on US government order), and despite INC's head's financially scandalous past (conviction in a Jordanian court 10 years ago for embezzling money from depositors as well as being faulted by the State Department last December for failing to account for half of a $4 million disbursement in US funding to his group) (The Guardian, February 22, 2002). Iraq's main Kurdish parties, key local allies in any US attempt to unseat President Saddam Hussein, have voiced misgivings about taking part in a military action against the Baghdad government. Saddam bombed Kurdish villages with poison gas in 1988, but Kurdish leaders fear that an American military campaign could fail, and Saddam could take revenge on the Kurds. Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, said: "We will not be ordered by American or any others. We will not be a bargaining chip or tool of pressure to be used against Iraq" (Daily Telegraph, London, February 15, 2002). In an interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr Al-Hakkim, the leader of the Iran-based Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) said, "he does not want Washington's help." Hakkim, the commander of the 10,000-strong Badr Brigade militia which has been fighting with the Iraqi regime for 22 years, told the newspaper that, "The 'Afghan model' of backing proxy forces, as the US did against the Taliban, does not apply to Iraq? such plans are very far-fetched and a bad idea." (Arabicnews.com, February 19, 2002) The Former Iraqi army chief of staff General Nizar Khazraji has been picked by the United States to run Iraq after the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein. The prestigious London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat quoted Iraqi opposition sources in Damascus that Khazraji, who lives in exile in Denmark, "is the favored candidate" among 62 ex-officers earmarked by Washington as potential leaders. (French News Agency, February 11, 2002) Khazraji was in charge of Iraq's bloody campaign against the Kurds in the North of Iraq between 1987 and 1988, which resulted in thousands of deaths. In 1993, the organization Human Rights Watch presented a report to the US congress entitled "Genocide in Iraq, the Anfal Campaign against the Kurds. The report says that General Khazraji was directly responsible for the massacre (The Swiss paper 24 hours, February 13, 2002). Also Iranian sources report that the general was not only involved in gassing the Kurds and pursued a scorched earth policy in Kurdish areas, but also ordered the live burial of many Iranian POWs (Jamejam Newspaper, Tehran, February 16, 2002). 2) World Leaders Express Opposition or Reservations to US Plans to Attack Iraq The Kuwaiti Defense Minister, whose country was the target of the 1990 invasion by Iraq, stated: "We will not allow any military operation against any state from our country without international cover" (Washington Post, February 24, 2002) Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Graham stated: "Nobody is supporting Saddam Hussein, but everyone recognizes in international politics you have a process where before invading a sovereign country, there has to be a reason for it, or we are going to have international chaos." (AP, February 15, 2002) The Italian government and Vatican both oppose an attack on Iraq. (Italian Newspaper Corriere della Sera, February 19, 2002) The Chinese President Jiang Zemin gave a veiled but firm warning to George Bush about Washington's belligerent policy against Iraq: negotiate and stop bullying. Later on, he made a reference to Washington's current belligerent stance against Iraq, stating, "even if China becomes more developed in the future, it will not go for bullying or threatening other countries" (PRAVDA. Russia, 2002-02-23). 3) Isolation and Crisis According to UN sources, UN Secretary-General Annan will meet Iraq's foreign minister in New York for a new 'dialogue' on March 7 that will include returning weapon's inspectors to Iraq. Iraq and Annan have held previous talks, the last ones in February 2001. (Reuters, Monday February 25, 2002) The UN's humanitarian program in Iraq has been hampered by a record $5.3 billion worth of supplies, blocked mainly by the US. 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