[CTRL] Fw: [anti-imperialiste] Global War Looms?
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:27 PM Subject: [anti-imperialiste] Global War Looms? Global War Looms? 02.07.2003 [01:33] Two weeks ago, a prince of the Kuwaiti Royal family received a phone call from an aide to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asking if the complex was available. The prince already suspected it was needed for one of those secret meetings, which Washington has taken to holding in the Gulf. The next day a Hercules transport landed at Kuwait's international airport. From it emerged a group of pale-faced, middle-aged men in drill shirts and chinos. They carried laptops and bulky briefcases. To a casual observer they were just another delegation from Washington involved in post-war Iraq. But these men were the forward planners for the next war-the one against Iran. Within an hour of installing themselves in their palatial surroundings-securely guarded by U.S. forces-they had unloaded their maps of Iran, downloaded their computer images of its terrain and set about planning Target Iran. Secure communications lines had been established and tested with Washington. One was to the CIA, another to the Pentagon. Down those lines and on to their secure computers, the Kuwaiti task force would receive the latest intelligence from inside Iran. Some of that intel would come from Israel-from Mossad deep cover agents in Tehran. They will ensure that Target Iran being planned in that royal complex would lack nothing in information. The men based there are a Pentagon think tank for the next war. They are some of the neo-cons-a new breed of conservative intellectuals who are determined to steer the Bush administration toward an even more aggressive, go-it-alone posture. They are headed in Washington by the hard-liner, John Bolton, the under-secretary of state for arms control. The day the neo-cons landed in Kuwait, Bolton, a political mirror image of Rumsfeld, had issued a new warning about a supposed nuclear threat posed by Iran. Bolton did so in a speech to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington. His theme was the nuclear dangers this administration intends to confront once the war with Iraq is over. He concluded: In the aftermath of Saddam, dealing with the Iranian nuclear weapons program will be of equal importance to dealing with the threat that North Korea continues to pose. His powerful audience-many of them key lobbyists for Israel on Capitol Hill-gave him a standing ovation. This was what they had come to hear. After Iraq-Iran. They knew that Bolton, a grey-suited saturnine man with a colorless speaking style, was there as the front man for other powerful men in the Bush administration. They include Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. They are the most senior Pentagon officials after Rumsfeld. Other members of this group include Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and Elliot Abrams, in charge of Middle East policy at the National Security Council. All are key supporters of Israel. They also form the very core of advocacy for Bush's muscular democracy. This is dedicated to attacking America's enemies head on. Former CIA Director James Woolsey, in a recent speech in Los Angeles, said: The Iraq campaign is really just the start of the Third World War and one that may well last for decades. The neo-cons in their Kuwait redoubt had brought with them to the hot desert sands a list of targets. They included Pakistan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Cuba, North Korea and eventually China. In their briefcases was a copy of what has become their leitmotif: the briefing paper CIA Director George Tenet prepared for Bush on overall global strategy. By 2015 China will have deployed many missiles with nuclear warheads targeted against the United States, mostly more-survivable land and sea mobile missiles, states the paper. To prepare for the attack on Iran-expected in early 2004, less than a year from now-the team of analysts, logisticians and support specialists gathered in the Kuwait holiday complex. They have been ordered to get their plans for an assault on Iran up and running. Target Iran will follow the same ruthless, all-consuming path as the destruction of the Saddam regime. IRAQI BASES Already, in the plans to rebuild Iraq, the Pentagon has earmarked Saddam's military airfields for its use against Iran. U.S. bases in Afghanistan will provide the most powerful air force in the world with the ability to launch a pincer air attack. This will be supported by U.S. carriers and missile-launching battleships in the Gulf. Turkey will be dragooned into allowing its air space to be used for northern air attacks. The neo-cons estimate that Iran can, in the words of Bolton, be rolled-over in double quick time, probably quicker than it took
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Bush Chooses U.S. Executive for AIDS Job
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] / advertisement ---\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \--/ Bush Chooses U.S. Executive for AIDS Job July 3, 2003 By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON, July 2 - On the eve of a presidential visit to Africa, President Bush today nominated Randall Tobias, a former chairman and chief executive of Eli Lilly Company, to run a $15 billion program to fight AIDS worldwide. Mr. Tobias, a major donor to Mr. Bush and the Republican Party, and a resident of Indianapolis, has little experience with AIDS issues or with Africa, where most of the program's money will be directed. But the president hailed Mr. Tobias in the Roosevelt Room of the White House this morning as one of America's most talented and respected executives, and a man who has shown the ability to manage complex organizations and to navigate government bureaucracies. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Tobias, 61, will have the rank of ambassador and will report directly to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who has said he regards AIDS as the pre-eminent crisis facing the world today. Mr. Tobias will direct a new State Department office and will have broad influence, Mr. Bush said, over all the government's anti-AIDS programs and resources. Randy Tobias has a mandate directly from me to get our AIDS initiative up and running as soon as possible, Mr. Bush said. Mr. Tobias, in prepared remarks in the Roosevelt Room, said that the statistics that describe the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic are really nearly incomprehensible but that he would approach his new job with enthusiasm and with optimism. AIDS groups said they were surprised by the nomination of Mr. Tobias, which was first reported on Tuesday in The Washington Post. Some AIDS experts said they were apprehensive about Mr. Tobias' lack of experience in Africa and with AIDS, and his close ties to the pharmaceutical industry, which has fought the use of generic drugs. The issue is of great importance, because brand-name anti-AIDS drugs can cost $10,000 to $12,000 a year per patient in the United States. But generic anti-AIDS drugs can cost as little as $300 per patient per year in poor nations. Mr. Bush promised today to move quickly to get low-cost anti-retroviral medications into the hands of poor patients, but some AIDS groups said they were still skeptical about Mr. Tobias. We're concerned about whether or not he can be an honest broker, said Paul Zeitz, the executive director of the Global AIDS Alliance. He'll be protecting the interests of the pharmaceutical industry versus cost-effective generically manufactured drugs. Other AIDS groups said they would reserve judgment on Mr. Tobias. There does seem to be some management acumen and the ability to pull a lot of levers, said Mark Isaac, vice president of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Mr. Bush signed the administration's initiative to fight AIDS worldwide into law on May 27. The program is to provide $15 billion over five years, a tripling of the existing amount. It will go to prevention and treatment programs in 12 African nations as well as Haiti and Guyana. Mr. Tobias, who was also chairman and chief executive of ATT International, was named C.E.O. of the Year by Working Mother magazine in 1996 for what the publication said were his family-friendly policies at Eli Lilly. He stepped down from Lilly in 1999, and more recently has thrown his political support behind Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., a former Lilly executive and the recently departed White House budget director who is now running for governor of Indiana. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/international/africa/03AIDS.html?ex=1058221838ei=1en=fff4d2c31a23a6b2 - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the
[CTRL] (1 of 3) Israel: In the Beginning, There Was Terror
http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=249aid=358pg=1 In the Beginning, There Was Terror by: Ronald Bleier July - August 2003 The Link-Volume 36, Issue 3 Page 1 Much of the history of terrorism in todays Middle East has been thrust down the Orwellian memory hole due to the highly effective campaign over the past 50 years to suppress information prejudicial to Israel. Blowing up a bus, a train, a ship, a caf, or a hotel; assassinating a diplomat or a peace negotiator; killing hostages, sending letter bombs; massacring defenseless villagers this is terrorism, as we know it. In the modern Middle East it began with the Zionists who founded the Jewish state. 1 The Original Sin Israels original sin is Zionism, the ideology that a Jewish state should replace the former Palestine. At the root of the problem is Zionisms exclusivist structure whereby only Jews are treated as first-class citizens. In order to create and consolidate a Jewish state in 1948, Zionists expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland and never allowed them or their descendants to return. In addition, Israeli forces destroyed over 400 Palestinian villages and perpetrated about three dozen massacres. In 1967, the Israelis forced another 350,000 Palestinians to flee the West Bank and Gaza as well as 147,000 Syrians from the Golan Heights. Since 1967 Israel has placed the entire Palestinian population of the Territories under military occupation. The effects of the dispossession of the Palestinians and other Arabs are with us to this day, in the shattered lives of the millions of people directly affected and also as a sign of the Wests war against the entire Arab nation and Muslims everywhere. Arguably, the original sin of Zionism and its effects on the peoples of the Middle East were central to the motivation behind the events of 9/11, and the most important consequence of which is the ongoing war on terrorism that is smothering our political landscape. Assassinating the Peace Negotiator One of the most notorious acts of Israeli terrorism occurred during the 1948 war when Jewish forces, members of the LEHI underground (also known as the Stern Gang) assassinated Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, a U.N. appointed mediator. Bernadotte was killed on September 17, 1948, a day after he offered his second mediation plan which, among other things, called for repatriation and compensation for the Palestinian refugees. The assassination of Bernadotte highlighted one of the biggest policy differences at the time between the United States and Israel, namely the fate of the Palestinian refugees. By that time, Jewish/Israeli forces had already forced more than half a million Palestinians from their homes. The resultant international outcry focused attention on the implications for Middle East peace as well as on the suffering of the refugees. Moreover, the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews who resided in the Arab world, mainly in Iraq, Morocco, Yemen and Egypt, was placed at risk because of Israeli expulsion policy. The day before the assassination Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett publicly accused Bernadotte of bias against the state of Israel and in favor of the Arab states. Stephen Green points to evidence that the Israeli government was itself directly involved in the killing. On the night of the assassination the Czech consulates in Jerusalem and Haifa were busy processing some 30 visas for Stern gang members who had been rounded up for their involvement in the planning and execution of the assassination. Between September 18 and September 29, most if not all of the 30 left Israel on flights for Prague, Czechoslovakia. The scale, precision, and speed of the evacuation-escape made the State Department suspicious that the Stern gang was not involved alone. The U.S. wondered if the operation might have been planned and prepared in Czechoslovakia, and that a specially trained squad had been flown into Israel from Prague for that purpose.2 In addition, historian Howard Sachar notes that Yehoshua Cohen, a friend of Ben Gurion, is widely believed to be the trigger man. 3 Eight months later, in May 1949, the Israelis revealed to the U.N. that the majority of the Stern Gang members rounded up in the purge had been released within two weeks. Those not released were held until a general amnesty was granted on February 14, 1949.4 No one was ever put on trial for the killing. The assassination of Bernadotte made international headlines and for a time more attention was paid to the issue of the Palestinian refugees. In the end pressure to repatriate them was never successfully mustered. Arguably, from the point of view of Israeli expulsion policy, the assassination was a success since none of Bernadottes successors was able to focus sufficient pressure on the Israelis to make any concessions. Had Bernadotte lived, he might have succeeded where others had failed. At the least, his murder was a warning to any who might have tried to
[CTRL] (2 of 3) Israel: In the Beginning, There Was Terror
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=249aid=358pg=1 At the time of the bombings negotiations were at their height between Cairo and London for the evacuation of the Canal Zone, and between Cairo and Washington for arms supplies and other aid in connection with a possible U.S.-Egyptian alliance. Stephen Green presents an even more cynical picture of top Israeli officials who initiated the terrorist operation in order to sabotage Prime Minister Sharetts ongoing and quietly successful negotiations with Egyptian President Gamal Nasser.15 Today, a standard, even routine method of sacrificing Israelis on the altar of politics is the Israeli tactic of provoking Palestinian attacks by assassinating high profile activists. One such example was so clear that a leading Israeli journalist forecasted the Israeli casualties that would result from an Israeli targeted assassination. On November 23, 2001, the Israelis assassinated Mahmud Abu Hunud, a top Hamas operative. Two days later, Israeli journalist Alex Fishman, in a front-page article, explained that before the assassination of Hunud there had existed a secret and unacknowledged gentlemens agreement between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority that Hamas was to avoid in the near future suicide bombings in Israel. As Fishman wrote: Whoever decided upon the liquidation of Abu Hunud knew in advance that the agreement with Hamas would be shattered. The subject was extensively discussed both by Israels military echelon and its political one 16 Just as Fishman had predicted, Hamas soon struck back and less than a week later, on December 1 and 2, suicide bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa killed 25 Israelis. The effect of this cycle of violence was predictably to heighten tensions and to dramatically weaken the constituency in Israel and the U.S. for peace negotiations. Raiding a Camp in Gaza Rokachs Israels Sacred Terrorism provides previously unavailable documentation relating to Israels preparations for the October 1956 surprise attack by Israel, France and Britain against Egypt. In that operation, the Allies conquered the Suez Canal, Eastern Sinai and the Gaza Strip. The combined invasion occurred at a time when the U.S. sought to stabilize the area. But the Israeli interest was precisely the opposite. It was to exacerbate tensions and make it difficult or impossible for Egypt to gain the weapons it needed to deter Israel from war. An important incident leading up to the October 1956 war was a massive raid on an Egyptian Army Camp in Gaza, the bloodiest incident between Egypt and Israel since the 1948 war.17 The raid took place about a year and a half earlier in a period of relative tranquility following the enforcement of repressive measures decided on by the Egyptian administration of the Strip. On the night of February 28, 1955, the Israelis sent in 50 paratroopers who wound up killing 39 Egyptians and wounding 30 others. Sharett approved the operation, but was shocked by the loss of life, as he wrote on March 1, 1955: The number (of Egyptian victims) changes not only the dimensions of the operation but its very substance; it turns it into an event liable to cause grave political and military complications and dangers The army spokesman, on instructions from the Minister of Defense, delivered a false version to the pressWho will believe us? It is widely acknowledged that the Gaza raid was a decisive turning point in Nassers relations with Israel. From then on, the Egyptian president took every opportunity to explain to visiting diplomats that the attack was a moment of truth when he finally perceived the dimensions of the Israeli problem and he soon decided to turn to the Soviets for arms in order to defend his country.18 In the aftermath of the Gaza raid, Sharett instructed his embassies to go on the offensive despite what he knew of the origins of the attack. He hoped to counter the general impression that while we cry out over our isolation and the dangers to our security, we initiate aggression and reveal ourselves as being bloodthirsty and aspiring to perpetrate mass massacres.19 Sharett was very much concerned about U.S. pressure to reduce tensions in the area. He understood, as seen in his March 12, 1955 entry, that the U.S. interpreted the Gaza raid as signaling a decision on our part to attack on all fronts. The Americansare afraid that it will lead to a new conflagration in the Middle East, which will blow up all their plans. Therefore they wish to obtain from us a definite commitment that similar actions will not be repeated. However, Ben Gurion had recently emerged from retirement to rejoin Sharetts government as Defense Minister precisely to prevent Israel from committing to discontinuing such reprisals. Indeed, within days of rejoining the government, Ben Gurion proposed that Israel proceed to occupy the Gaza Strip, then controlled by Egypt, this time for good, a proposal that Sharett managed to defeat. But the
[CTRL] (3 of 3) Israel: In the Beginning, There Was Terror
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=249aid=358pg=1 Why did The New York Times deliberately screen its readers from the knowledge that the Medreco oil refinery that Israel deliberately attacked on five occasions during the July 1981 bombardment was American owned and operated? Was The Times sensitive to the adverse reaction that might be aroused in its readership and advertisers to news unfavorable to Israel? Did the Jewish ownership of The Times and/or its support of Zionism play a role in suppressing unfavorable coverage of Israel? While it may be impossible to resolve such questions, the episode shows the complicity of the media in support of Israels goals and against the larger interests of U.S. policy and presumably against the interests of most Americans in a stable Lebanon and a peaceful Middle East. Significantly, a year later, as part of the fallout from the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Secretary of State Alexander Haig was forced to resign apparently because he was seen as placing Israels interest in fighting terror ahead of Americas interest in reducing hostilities in the Middle East. A Road Map to ? The resignation of Alexander Haig in 1982 is evidence that the Reagan administrations irresponsibility in raising no effective objections to Israeli excesses in Lebanon had limits. The U.S. government at that time was sufficiently flexible and rational to pull back when it was necessary and was able to focus on the simple idea that a peaceful Middle East was in American interests. Today, a similar awareness is evidently lacking. The disappearance of the Soviet Union as a counterweight to U.S. interests in the Middle East has allowed the current U.S. regime a free hand to ally itself completely with the Sharon governments repressive and brutal policies. Prime Minister Sharon has used his political skills to unite the Israeli public behind dramatic restrictions on the ability of the Palestinians to pursue civil life. Despite the current incarnation of the peace process, inaptly named the road map, never have the Palestinians been so threatened by Israeli policies. Through a combination of intimidation and effective use of the Israeli lobby in the U.S. and the complete subservience of Congress, Ariel Sharon, for example, has not been called to account for the March 2003 bulldozer murder of Rachel Corrie, a U.S. citizen, who was one of three international peace activists killed or seriously wounded by the Israeli army within a months time. Palestinians cannot get to schools, businesses, or pursue normal economic life. They must face checkpoints without end, targeted assassinations, tanks, sharpshooters, F-16s and Apache helicopters in their population centers. A security wall currently being erected in the West Bank is gobbling up thousands of acres of Palestinian olive groves, farms, factories, and is affecting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a hundred villages or communities located in between the wall and Israels 1967 borders or nearby. 45 All this while the world focuses on the Road Map which many observers view as little more than a distraction and a public relations ploy. 46 It seems clear that the Israeli government will continue to do everything it can to prevent the replacement of Palestinian infrastructure destroyed by the IDF in the West Bank during their Spring 2002 campaign. Without reconstruction, without a viable economy, what can the future possibly hold for the Palestinians? An indication of what the Israelis have in store for the Palestinians, is the uninhibited talk of transfer even by a member of Sharons cabinet. 47 As prime minister, Sharon knows better than to espouse such views. However, in 1988, as trade minister and member of the inner cabinet during the first intifada, he warned that the Palestinian uprising would lead inevitably to war with the Arab states and the necessary expulsion of the Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza and the Galilee. 48 Many observers feared that the war on Iraq might have provided a sufficient screen for the mass expulsion of many of the more than 3.5 million Palestinians living in the occupied territories. But Israel was not attacked and the American advance on Baghdad was so rapid that no opportunity was provided for mass expulsions. Nevertheless, time is on the side of the Israelis and they are masters of creating and making use of opportunities. After they were forced by President Eisenhower to return the Sinai and Gaza in 1956, they waited until the political scene was primed in 1967. Once again time is on their side as the war on terror continues and U.S. policy makers continually make threats against Iran and Syria, both high on Israels enemies list. Prospects for peace seem slim and growing slimmer. One indicator of the difficulties that lie ahead is National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rices comment in Tel Aviv in mid-May 2003. Ms. Rice said that the security of Israel is the key to the security of the
[CTRL] Jewish Writers Claim Powerful Zionists Drove USA Into...War For Israel's Sake!
http://www.theweeklyinformant.com/arishavit.htm JEWISH WRITERS CLAIM POWERFUL ZIONISTS DROVE USA INTO MID-EAST WAR FOR SAKE OF ISRAEL! When Congressman James Moran (D-VA) told an audience that leaders of American Jewish groups were pushing America into a war with Iraq, he was denounced as an "anti-Semite" and pressured to resign. (click here) When Syndicated columnist and former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan accused Jewish neo-conservatives and the US-Israeli lobby of pushing America into a war against Israel's enemies, he was also widely denounced as an "anti-Semite." (click here) But what are we to make of the many outspoken Jewish writers, Jewish intellectuals and Jewish activists who have been warning us about the exact same thing? Should we dismiss these jews as "anti-Semites" or "self-hating Jews"? Following are some very revealing quotes from just a few of these Jewish writers and journalists. Joe Klein, Time Magazine, Time.com, February 5, 2003 "A stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war with Iraq. It is a part of the argument that dare not speak its name, a fantasy quietly cherished by the neo-conservative faction in the Bush Administration and by many leaders of the American Jewish community. The fantasy involves a domino theory. The destruction of Saddam's Iraq will not only remove an enemy of long-standing but will also change the basic power equation in the region. It will send a message to Syria and Iran about the perils of support for Islamic terrorists. It will send a message to the Palestinians too: Democratize and make peace on Israeli terms, or forget about a state of your own." (click here) MichaelKinsley, Slate Magazine, October 24, 2002 Tariq Aziz has a theory. Saddam Hussein's deputy told the New York Times this week, "The reason for this warmongering policy toward Iraq is oil and Israel." Although no one wishes to agree with Tariq Aziz, he has put succinctly what many people in Washington apparently believe. The lack of public discussion about the role of Israel in the thinking of "President Bush" is easier to understand, but weird nevertheless. It is the proverbial elephant in the room: Everybody sees it, no one mentions it. The reason is obvious and admirable: Neither supporters nor opponents of a war against Iraq wish to evoke the classic anti-Semitic image of the king's Jewish advisers whispering poison into his ear and betraying the country to foreign interests. (click here) Ari Shavit, April 5, 2003 Haaretz News Service (Israel) "The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history. In the course of the past year, a new belief has emerged in the town (Washington): the belief in war against Iraq. That ardent faith was disseminated by a small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish, almost all of them intellectuals (a partial list: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Eliot Abrams, Charles Krauthammer), people who are mutual friends and cultivate one another and are convinced that political ideas are a major driving force of history." (click here) James Rosen, April 6, 2003 The Sacramento Bee (California) "In 1996, as Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to take office, eight Jewish neoconservative leaders sent him a six-page memo outlining an aggressive vision of government. At the top of their list was overthrowing Saddam and replacing him with a monarch under the control of Jordan. The neoconservatives sketched out a kind of domino theory in which the governments of Syria and other Arab countries might later fall or be replaced in the wake of Saddam's ouster. They urged Netanyahu to spurn the Oslo peace accords and to stop making concessions to the Palestinians. Lead writer of the memo was Perle. Other signatories were Feith, now undersecretary of defense, and Wurmser, a senior adviser to John Bolton, undersecretary of state. Fred Donner, a professor of Near Eastern history at the University of Chicago, said he was struck by the similarities between the ideas in the memo and ideas now at the forefront of Bush's foreign policy." (click here) Thomas Friedman, April 4 2003 New York Time Columnist I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened. It is not only the neo-conservatives who led us to the outskirts of Baghdad. What led us to the outskirts of Baghdad is a very American combination of anxiety and hubris."(click here) Dr. Henry Makow Phd., February 10, 2003 Writer, Inventor of Board game "Scruples" If the U.S. gets bogged down with heavy casualties on both sides, Americans are going to blame big oil and Zionism for
[CTRL] In Day of Violence in Iraq, Attacks From All Directions
-Caveat Lector- http://www.iraqwar.ru/?userlang=en In Day of Violence in Iraq, Attacks From All Directions02.07.2003 [08:05] Iraq's plague of violence showed no signs of abating today, as six American soldiers were wounded in two separate attacks, American soldiers killed four Iraqis at checkpoints in Baghdad, and a huge explosion killed at least five people at a mosque. The gunfire and bombing seemed to come from all directions today, leaving a trail of bitterness, confusion and hunger for revenge. The death toll included militant anti-American Muslims and people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. American soldiers came under attack today by rocket-propelled grenades in two incidents. The United States Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said tonight that three American soldiers had been wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade about 8:45 a.m. today along Highway 8 in Baghdad. At 9:45 a.m., three others were wounded in a similar attack, but Central Command has not pinpointed the location. The wounded were treated at a combat support hospital outside Baghdad. There were reports here of an Army convoy struck by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from a passing car. According to a witness on the street, a man popped out of the sunroof of a sedan and fired at a Humvee, which was engulfed in flames. Witnesses said they saw American soldiers pull out two soldiers and an Iraqi civilian who were seriously wounded, but it was not clear whether this was one of the attacks that Central Command described. There were at least two other attacks on military trucks today, but information about casualties was unclear. The total number of attacks on military vehicles is considerably higher than the number of incidents announced by American officials. Though often willing to confirm attacks when asked about them, Army officers rarely announce incidents that do not result in American casualties. On Saturday night, for example, an Army convoy in Baghdad came under fire but the rocket-propelled grenade hit an Iraqi truck. Army officers who were on the scene said the truck's Iraqi driver was badly wounded and probably did not survive, but the incident was never mentioned in military announcements. In Tikrit today, Iraqi officials reported that unidentified assassins had shot to death Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khattab, the chief of the Bani al-Nasiri tribe of Saddam Hussein. The slaying, which occurred on Sunday, was the latest in a series of assassinations carried out against tribal leaders who wielded power under the previous government. In Falluja, 35 miles west of Baghdad, a blast of undetermined origins ripped through the front office of Al Hassan mosque about 11 p.m. on Monday, killing at least five men. Members of the mosque immediately accused American forces of firing a missile at them, but Army officers said the explosion appeared to have been generated from within the mosque itself. Outside the mosque's destroyed offices today, Muhammad Jassim, a militant Sunni Muslim, provided a glimpse into the dynamics of escalating violence. "Anyone who shoots an Iraqi in this town will have a reaction, a random reaction," he said. "It might be that other people are hurt, innocent people. And after this, the families of those victims will ask for revenge." The incidents have made anxious American soldiers even quicker about pulling their triggers. Late this afternoon, soldiers at a checkpoint in one of Baghdad's wealthiest neighborhoods opened fire on three cars and killed at least two Iraqis. Confronted with maddeningly unpredictable attacks, and sweltering in Baghdad's scorching summer heat, American soldiers have become more willing to shoot first and ask questions later. In two separate incidents only an hour and a few hundred feet apart, American soldiers manning checkpoints here fired on cars carrying Iraqi civilians, killing at least two people and wounding several others. "People have used car bombs against us," said Maj. Scott Slaten, a public affairs officer with the First Armored Division. "People running checkpoints are usually criminals, Baathists or people fleeing crimes who didn't think they would get caught." Witnesses said there were no signs ordering drivers to stop, and it was easy to miss or misunderstand the soldiers. "They killed innocent people for nothing," said Selwain al-Naimi, who witnessed the second incident. The first occurred at 4:30 p.m., at a roundabout leading to a bridge that provides entry to the grounds of the Republican Palace,
[CTRL] Pentagon's urban surveillance system could be used at home
-Caveat Lector- http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/1976076 July 1, 2003, 10:12PM 'Combat Zones That See' Pentagon's urban surveillance system could be used at home By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city. Dubbed "Combat Zones That See," the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas. Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans. The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face. According to interviews and contracting documents, the software may also provide instant alerts after detecting a vehicle with a license plate on a watchlist, or search months of records to locate and compare vehicles spotted near terrorist activities. The project is being overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is helping the Pentagon develop new technologies for combatting terrorism and fighting wars in the 21st century. Its other projects include developing software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide to predict terrorist attacks. Scientists and privacy experts -- who already have seen the use of face-recognition technologies at a Super Bowl and monitoring cameras in London -- are concerned about the potential impact of the emerging DARPA technologies if they are applied to civilians by commercial or government agencies outside the Pentagon. "Government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time," said John Pike, a Global Security.org defense analyst. DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker dismissed those concerns. She said the Combat Zones That See technology isn't intended for homeland security or law enforcement and couldn't be used for "other applications without extensive modifications." But scientists envision nonmilitary uses. "One can easily foresee pressure to adopt a similar approach to crime-ridden areas of American cities or to the Super Bowl or any site where crowds gather," said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. Pike agreed. "Once DARPA demonstrates that it can be done, a number of companies would likely develop their own version in hope of getting contracts from local police, nuclear plant security, shopping centers, even people looking for deadbeat dads." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- also includes "I think we're pumping oil out of Iraq to pay for this war." scroll for news articles American Psychiatric Association Statement Diagnostic Criteria For Pedophilia June 17, 2003 Arlington, Va. - "Pedophilia, included in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) since 1968, continues to be classified as a mental disorderThe essential features of a Paraphilia are recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors that generally involve nonhuman subjects, children, or other non-consenting adults, or the suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner. An adult who engages in sexual activity with a child is performing a criminal and immoral act and this is never considered normal or socially acceptable behavior. Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H., Director, American Psychiatric Association's Division of Research states, "there are no plans or processes set up that would lead to the removal of the Paraphilias from their consideration as legitimate mental disorders." http://www.psych.org/news_stand/diagnosticcriteriapedophilia.pdf two from L Moss Sharman O'Malley defends allowing priest to stay in mission posting By Stephen Kurkjian and Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 7/2/03 "A Fall River priest was allowed to continue as a missionary in Bolivia for eight years after Bishop Sean P. O'Malley was told by a woman that she had been sexually molested by the priest for seven years beginning when she was 9, a spokesman for the Fall River Diocese confirmed last night." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/183/metro/O_Malley_defends_allowing_priest_to_stay_in_mission_posting+.shtml http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.asp?id=986F60A1-804E-4B3A-8AF9-0AD0E0A B5F8F 'It's shocking, mind-blowingly shocking' B.C. women's group calls on government to stop funding polygamist school VANCOUVER (CP) -- A women's centre is outraged that the provincial Liberal government provided $632,000 in funding last year to a school at a polygamous commune in southeastern British Columbia Critchley said she's also concerned about the welfare of teenage girls who are being married off to older men and then bearing several children each. Three women who sought refuge at the women's centre in recent years after escaping from the commune have said very few children are even being educated there, Critchley said. Journal of Trauma Dissociation: "Preschoolers' memory for threatening information depends on trauma history and attentional context: Implications for the development of dissociation" by K.A. Becker-Blease, J.J. Freyd, K.C. Pears, K.C. "Contrary to prediction, children with relatively high dissociation scores did not differ in their memory for charged and neutral pictures under divided attention when compared to children with low dissociation scores. Consistent with predictions, under divided attention, abused children remembered fewer charged pictures relative to non-abused children. The same pattern was found when comparing abused children with high dissociation scores to non-abused children with low dissociation scores. These results are consistent with the idea that some traumatized people use divided attention to keep threatening information out of awareness." Jennifer Freyd, an investigator in both research studies, is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Oregon; 1227 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1227; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/peoplestoryA1172A.htm Palm Bay man has eye for detail 6/3/03 Meteorologist's work featured in national weather magazine By Billy Cox FLORIDA TODAY On May 25, while scanning the Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program images pipelined into his desktop from 450 miles in orbit, Hank Brandli skidded at a nighttime photo of Iraq. It looked familiar. But not exactly. Brandli retrieved another DMSP image he'd archived from May 3. He compared the two. The most recent photo showed a blazing corridor of light running the length of Kuwait, south to north, all the way to the Iraqi border. The image wasn't there on May 3. "It's going right up to Iraq's oil fields," says the retired Air Force colonel from his home in Palm Bay. "Maybe I'm full of s---. Maybe all they're doing is building a highway to put in McDonald's and sell hamburgers. But why go that way? I think we're in bed with Kuwait. I think we're pumping oil out of Iraq to pay for this war." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the
