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Terrorism and Western Sahara to top US-Algeria talks From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Israeli generals' plan to "smash" Palestinians: report From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3. Israel, UN in row over shock Indian bribe allegations to kidnap soldiers From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4. 'Laden has raised 35,000-strong militant force' From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5. Russia Warns on U.S. Missile Plans From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6. Pentagon to Begin Missile Site Tests From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7. 'Father' of Iran's missile program is found dead From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8. Key Iranian missile man dies mysteriously From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:20:04 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Terrorism and Western Sahara to top US-Algeria talks Terrorism and Western Sahara to top US-Algeria talks By James Drummond in Cairo July 11 2001 16:32GMT When Abdel Aziz Bouteflika meets George W. Bush on Thursday he will be the first Algerian president to make an official visit to the US for at least a decade, during which more than 100,000 people have died in a brutal civil war. However, the lingering effects of that conflict and an uprising in a Berber region of Algeria that has threatened Mr Bouteflika's tenure are likely to be far down the agenda, diplomats say. The main items are likely to be US concerns about international terrorism and United Nations proposals for the long-running Western Sahara dispute. Late last month Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, put forward a plan to bring about a solution in the territory, which is disputed by Algeria's neighbour, Morocco, and the pro-independence Polisario Front. Under the proposals the territory would be granted some autonomy from Morocco and a referendum on its final status would be held after five years. The Polisario Front, backed by Algeria, has rejected the proposals and the US will be hoping to work on Mr Bouteflika in the hope of bringing about a change in policy, diplomats say. US officials will also want to raise security issues. In April an Algerian, Ahmed Ressam, was convicted of trying to smuggle explosives into the US from Canada in order to carrying out attacks on US targets. Despite the brutality of the Algerian regime, US officials are known to believe that overt pressure on a country that is the second largest recipient of US investment in the Arab world after Saudi Arabia is likely to be counterproductive. "He [Mr Bouteflika] is in the process of rebuilding, not his power but his importance in the eyes of the Algerian military. He's doing the thing that he does best for the military, which is improving Algeria's image abroad," said a western analyst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- URL: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3KMM7B1PC&liv e= true&tagid=YYY9BSINKTM&useoverridetemplate=IXLZHNNP94C ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:27:18 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Israeli generals' plan to "smash" Palestinians: report Israeli generals' plan to "smash" Palestinians: report Thursday July 12, 9:18 PM http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010712/1/19712.html LONDON, July 12 (AFP) - Israeli generals have updated plans for an all-out assault to smash the Palestinian authority, force out leader Yasser Arafat and kill or detain its army, according to a report published Thursday in London. Foreign Report, published by the influential Jane's information group, says it has seen what it claims to be an executive summary of a proposal presented to the Israeli government Sunday. The assault would be launched at the government's discretion after the next big suicide bomb attack in Israel that causes widespread deaths and injuries, citing the bloodshed as justification. According to Foreign Report, the generals envisage a military operation of up to one month. Estimated Israeli casualties would be measured in the hundreds. Palestinian losses would be in their thousands. By the end of the operation, the generals believe Arafat would either have left or been forced to leave the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His closest allies would be either dead or also out of the area. The Palestinian armed forces, estimated at some 40,000, would be disarmed, and either dead or held in detention camps. The blueprint, with the title "The destruction of the Palestinian Authority and disarmament of all armed forces," was presented by Israeli chief of staff Brigadier-General Shaul Mofaz, Foreign Report said. A suicide bomb attack would provide the necessary motive for Israeli troops as well as enabling Israeli ambassadors and other officials to tell concerned countries that military action was a justified response. The journal's sources said the Israeli army's current high command, perhaps reflecting the views of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, wants the military to be given a more assertive role. The planned operation would certainly do that. It would begin with heavy air raids by F-16 and F-15 warplanes against all the main Palestinian Authority installations in Gaza and Ramallah. It might be preceded by a heavy artillery barrage to soften up targets. Israel would then deploy around 30,000 paratroopers, infantry and armoured brigades, the equivalent of an army. The Palestinians may not put up much resistance, the proposals say, but if they do, around 300 Israeli soldiers might be killed. As for international reaction, that would be too little, too late. The generals say some kind of peace force would probably be sent to protect the Palestinians, but by the time it got there it would be faced with a "fait accompli." Moreover, Israel's neighbours would be unlikely to retaliate with any great effect, the planners believe. Quoting forecasts by the military intelligence service, the generals doubt Egypt, Jordan or Syria would want to go to war on behalf of the Palestinians. Egypt might send troops into Sinai, in response to which Israel would call up its reserves. Iraq may try to mobilise its forces, but they would be destroyed by Israeli warplanes before they could even reach the Jordanian border. Copyright � 2001 AFP. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:28:25 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Israel, UN in row over shock Indian bribe allegations to kidnap soldiers Israel, UN in row over shock Indian bribe allegations to kidnap soldiers Thursday July 12, 5:00 PM http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010712/1/196eh.html JERUSALEM, July 12 (AFP) - Israel's war of words with the United Nations escalated Thursday when a newspaper alleged UN peacekeepers allowed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas to kidnap three Israeli soldiers after being bribed. A UN official angrily denied the allegations in the Maariv daily, which cited an unnamed "very senior" source who said the militants paid off dozens of Indian members of the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). "This is nonsense and very cheap and I reject it completely," UNIFIL spokesman Timur Goksel said in the Lebanese city of Tyre. "Any unproven allegations are a slander and an insult." The charges come a day after the "embarrassed" UN's spokesman announced an investigation into the world body's handling of a videotape which may show the Hezbollah militants who abducted the three in October. "The reason for the inquiry is that, frankly, the organization was embarrassed and its credibility was hurt by what appears to be a mishandling of this event," spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York. Maariv said Israeli investigators have already interrogated Indian soldiers in the multinational UNIFIL force patrolling south Lebanon, which was occupied by the Israelis until May 2000. They allegedly spoke in India to some of the troops who negotiated with the fundamentalist Hezbollah, which paid what the paper said was thousands of dollars to get access to the Israelis in the disputed Shebaa Farms area. Maariv said senior officers were not thought to be involved. "There is no doubt that what happened here will shake up the organisation," the paper quoted a senior source close to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as saying. But Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told army radio: "We must be prudent, and verify what is the case." There has been no reliable word on the fate of the soldiers, who were abducted in a border area which is claimed by Lebanon but was seized from Syria by the Jewish state in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Hezbollah says Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon remains incomplete until it evacuates Shebaa, while the United Nations has verified the Israeli withdrawal is complete. Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah warned Monday it would consider the United Nations to be "spying for the enemy" if it hands over the 30-minute videotape to Israel. Until last week UN officials denied the existence of the tape, which was filmed by Indian UNIFIL troops on the day after the October 7 kidnapping and which Israel believes may show Hezbollah guerrillas. It reportedly shows two blood-stained vehicles thought to be used in the kidnapping, as well as UNIFIL troops being intercepted by armed gunmen, believed by Israel to be the kidnappers or their associates. UN officials have agreed to let Israel see the tape but only after the faces of the presumed militants have been obscured, a decision which Israel says is simply caving in to pressure from Hezbollah. "Our invitation to view an edited version of the tape is the secretary general's final offer," spokesman Eckhard said on Wednesday. The UN has denied it refuses to show the whole tape out of safety concerns for UNIFIL troops. Israel welcomed news of the internal UN inquiry into the handling of the tape but continues to insist on seeing an unedited version. Israel has long accused the international body of having an anti-Israeli bias, and diplomats say the latest row will further fuel the Jewish state's mistrust. One diplomat said the case could undercut UN efforts to be an "honest broker" between the conflicting parties in the Middle East conflict. Copyright � 2001 AFP. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:34:19 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 'Laden has raised 35,000-strong militant force' 'Laden has raised 35,000-strong militant force' 13 July 2001 http://www.timesofindia.com/today/13mide3.htm MOSCOW: Saudi millionaire terrorist Osama Bin Laden has raised an "army" of 35,000 men for incursion and terrorist activities to destabilise central Asian countries, a media report said. Chiefs of the border guards of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), who met in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday, said they had noted a rise in Bin Laden's activities in the central Asian region, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. They said major camps of international terrorists, including Arabs, Chechens and Filipinos, are located in the Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan along the borders of CIS countries. These camps reportedly receive generous aid from Bin Laden. Meanwhile, anticipating a massive incursion of Islamic militants in central Asia in the coming months, Russia and its regional allies have begun holding military exercises, it said. Recently, the Kazakhstan army conducted an exercise to "liberate villages occupied by Islamic militants." In Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, the Russian emergency situations and civil defence ministry conducted a mock operation to tackle possible rocket strikes by extremists on vital chemical installations, the report added. Russia and other members states of the CIS are also preparing their quick reaction strike forces in central Asia to deal with the emerging threat. (PTI) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:35:58 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Russia Warns on U.S. Missile Plans Russia Warns on U.S. Missile Plans By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press Writer Thursday, July 12, 2001; 9:32 a.m. EDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010712/aponline093214_000.ht m MOSCOW -- A senior Russian official warned the United States on Thursday that its unilateral withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty would spark a news arms race. The statement by Vladimir Rushailo, the head of President Vladimir Putin's Security Council, came after the State Department notified American diplomats that U.S. tests for the planned missile defense system would soon come into conflict with the 1972 treaty with Moscow. "Russia, as well as many other countries, believes that a unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the ABM Treaty would lead to the destruction of strategic stability, a new powerful spiral of the arms race, particularly in space, and the development of means for overcoming the national missile defense system," Rushailo told reporters on a trip to Belarus, according to the Interfax news agency. The Russian Foreign Ministry refrained from immediate comment, saying it reacts only to "official statements and concrete actions, but not leaks," but added that it would "closely watch the U.S. actions in that sphere," Interfax reported. The unclassified State Department memorandum to all U.S. diplomatic posts, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, warned that tests of the anti-missile system "will come into conflict with the ABM treaty in months, not years." Deployment of an interim ground-based system in Alaska could be completed as early as 2004, the memorandum said. While the Foreign Ministry refrained from comment, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official warned Washington that plans to deploy an anti-missile defense system in Alaska would "clearly and flagrantly" violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. "We will view the first cubic meter of concrete laid under the launching pad for interceptor missiles in Alaska as the United States' formal withdrawal from the ABM Treaty," the official, who did not give his name, told Interfax. Washington wants to deploy a missile defense system to fend off threats from smaller states antagonistic to the United States and says it wouldn't pose a threat to Russia. But Russia has strongly opposed the U.S. plans, warning that the deployment of such system would offset the strategic balance and make other arms control agreements void. � Copyright 2001 The Associated Press ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:37:11 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pentagon to Begin Missile Site Tests Pentagon to Begin Missile Site Tests By Barry Schweid AP Diplomatic Writer Thursday, July 12, 2001; 1:25 p.m. EDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010712/aponline132538_000.ht m WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon plans to begin construction next April for new tests of a missile defense, which could violate a 1972 treaty banning national missile shields, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee, Wolfowitz did not describe in detail the proposed test facility. But he appeared to be referring to sites in Alaska, which he said would be part of an expanded network of facilities for testing missile defenses. He said there would likely be legal arguments about whether such activities violate the Antiballistic Missile Treaty but added that the administration intends to reach a new understanding with Russia shortly that would make such questions moot. "As the program develops and the various testing activities mature, one or more aspects will inevitably bump against treaty restrictions and limitations. Such an event is likely to occur in months, rather than in years," Wolfowitz told the committee. "It is not possible to know with certainty whether that will occur in the coming year." Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a speech elsewhere at the Capitol, said the Pentagon has so many rules and requirements that it would be unlikely any violation would occur without plenty of notice to Congress. "The United States is not going to violate the treaty," he said. "If we get to the point where we need to get beyond the treaty and we haven't been able to negotiate something, obviously, there's a provision you can withdraw in six months and that's what you'd have to do." The State Department has notified its diplomats around the world that the tests will come in conflict with that 1972 treaty with Moscow. Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association, a private group, said: "The document makes clear that the U.S. consultations with its allies and Russia have been a sham and that tests will be conducted in 'months, not years' in violation of the ABM treaty, despite the lack of a credible urgent threat from so-called rogue states." The Pentagon has scheduled for Saturday its first flight test in a year of interceptors designed to shoot down long-range missiles. An attempt last July failed. The State Department memo drew immediate reaction from the Russian government. According to the Interfax news agency, Vladimir Rushailo, head of President Vladimir Putin's Security Council, told reporters in Belarus: "Russia, as well as many other countries, believes that a unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the ABM treaty would lead to the destruction of strategic stability, a new powerful spiral of the arms race, particularly in space, and the development of means for overcoming the national missile defense system." The Pentagon intends to notify Congress as early as next week that it will begin ground-clearing work in August for a new missile defense test site in Alaska, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. The site at Fort Greely will be part of an expanded network of missile defense test facilities that Rumsfeld hopes will accelerate development of a variety of missile defense technologies. The Pentagon intends to place between five and 10 silo-based missile interceptors at Fort Greely for testing against target missiles fired from an aircraft and perhaps from ground-based locations. "The world has changed fundamentally and the rationale for Cold War arrangements no longer exists," says the memorandum sent to U.S. embassies and consulates July 3. It is intended to provide American diplomats with talking points to help persuade other governments to support President Bush's aspirations for a missile shield. Answers to prospective questions are provided. Among "misconceptions" the American diplomats are cautioned to anticipate is that "states like North Korea and Iran would not dare attack the United States, knowing they would pay a terrible price in response." Deployment of an interim ground-based system in Alaska could be completed as early as 2004, the memorandum said. Bush has called the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia a relic of the Cold War. It bans deployment in any state except North Dakota of a U.S. shield against long-range missiles. Russian President Putin opposes setting aside the treaty and has warned it could touch off a new nuclear arms race. He has suggested negotiations to reduce U.S. and Russian arsenals. Many U.S. allies are skeptical or noncommittal of the Bush administration's aspirations. On Wednesday, Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, agreed with Bush's assessment of a growing nuclear danger in the world. But he signaled on a visit to Washington that his government intends to withhold a judgment on an anti-missile system while the administration weighs its options on the program's possible variations. Putin proposed on July 6 that the five long-established nuclear power states - the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China - start negotiations aimed at eliminating 10,000 warheads in the next seven years. Putin is expected to bring up the proposal with Bush this month at an economic summit meeting in Genoa, Italy. The Russian leader is not likely to get very far. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Putin's proposal is not going to win over the administration. --- On the Net: Pentagon's National Missile Defense Program: http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/nmd.html State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs: http://www.state.gov/t/pm/ � Copyright 2001 The Associated Press ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:28:59 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 'Father' of Iran's missile program is found dead 'Father' of Iran's missile program is found dead SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, July 12, 2001 http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html LONDON - An Iranian defense official known as the "father" of the Islamic republic's intermediate- and long-range missile programs has died under mysterious circumstances. Col Ali Mahmoudi Mimand was found dead in his office in Teheran on late Monday. Iranian authorities are investigating the death and so far have not announced their findings or ruled out speculation that he was assassinated. Mimand was a leading official in the Defense Ministry. He was regarded as the chief developer of Iran's Shihab-3 missile, Middle East Newsline reported. The missile has a range of 1,300 kilometers and is capable of striking targets in Saudi Arabia and Israel. Conflicting reports have been issued over how Mimand died. The state-run Iranian television said Mimand died of a heart failure. Another report quoted by the prominent London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat said the official died in an explosion during a ground test of the Shihab-3 missile. The official, honored for his work by Iranian supreme leader Ali Khameni, was also a developer of Iran's long-range Shihab-4 missile, with a range of up to 2,400 kilometers and a planner of the Shihab-5 missile. The Shihab-5 aims for a range of at least 5,000 kilometers. Mimand was also said to be developing missiles meant to down such U.S. helicopters as the Cobra and the Bell. Mimand was also said to have headed the development team of the Zalzal solid-fuel rocket. The rocket was tested in June and is regarded as the most advanced in the Iranian arsenal. The Shihab-3 is a liquid-fuel rocket. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:46:56 +0100 From: "MariosE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Key Iranian missile man dies mysteriously Key Iranian missile man dies mysteriously By Arieh O'Sullivan http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/07/12/News/News.30263.html TEL AVIV (July 12) - The brain behind Teheran's effort to build medium-range missiles capable of reaching Israel was reportedly found dead in Iran under mysterious circumstances. Ali Mahmudi Mimand was one of the chief engineers in the Iranian Defense Ministry's Satellite and Aeronautics Industry. According to the Saudi Arabian newspaper Ashark al-Awsat, he was known as the "father of the Iranian missiles." On Monday night, Mimand was found semi-conscious in his office, a source in his department told Ashark al-Awsat. He was rushed to a military hospital but died before he could receive medical treatment. But other sources said Mimand was killed by an unexplained explosion at the Shahid Hemat Industrial Group research facility just south of Teheran, where technical tests were being carried out on an advance launching apparatus to be used for the Shihab-3 medium-range ballistic missile. Israel has been closely watching the Iranian progress in its missile development. On Monday, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said in Turkey that the Shihab-3 was close to becoming operational. The report of Mimand's demise is bound to generate a lot of interest among intelligence officials in Israel and the West, who are likely trying to figure out just what impact it will have on the ambitious Iranian missile quest. Mimand headed the Zelzal (earthquake) group which is working on four Shihab-3 projects. The Shihab 3 is believed to be a derivative of the North Korean Nodong-1, has a range of 1,300 km., and is capable of carrying a 750-1,000 kg warhead, according to the Federation of American Scientists, which monitors weapons development. The Iranians have a robust missile industry and Mimand was also working on the Shihab-4, with a range of about 2,000 km. Mimand was recently awarded the prestigious "Ayatollah Khomeni" citation for developing an air-to-surface rocket for Iran's attack helicopters. � 1995-2001, The Jerusalem Post ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
