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"Join the anti-war coalition: International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop
War & End Racism). We have assembled International A.N.S.W.E.R. to call for
worldwide rallies against war and racism. On October 27th, there will be a
local marches and rallies in the U.S. and around the world. "
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"It is past U.S. war policies that have created the chaos, poverty and
rage throughout this whole region. This anger has now endangered working
people right here in the U.S. More of the same U.S. military terror will not
create security. War is not the answer."
International Action Center Statement
"King George II: The Imperial President"
THE ANOINTED ONE follows the lives of George Herbert Bush and his children.
The primary focus is on the ascent to power of George W. Bush. It includes
his ventures in the oil business and with the Texas Rangers. His questionable
behavior is analyzed in Chapter 13: his avoidance of the Vietnam War and
allegations of AWOL; his drunk driving arrest and subsequent dismissal from
jury duty when he was governor; charges of seeking an abortion for a
girlfriend; and his unethical and crude conduct in the 2000 Presidential
campaign. The Anointed One evaluates his six years as governor as well as
Election 2000 where "Five Politicians in Black Robes" handed over to him the
keys to the White House.
Silent Repression examines the CIA from its inception in 1947 to the present.
American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee
Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP)
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Making Sense of the Middle East
Al Awda. Palestinian Right of Return Coalition
Dartmouth maps tracing the impact of various treaties and wars on
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UN Resolutions relating to the Palestinian situation
Iraq-Desert Storm resource page
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"Terrorism can only be stopped by cultures of peace, democracy, and
people's security. It is wrong to define the post September 11th world as a
war between "civilisation and barbarianism" or "democracy and terrorism". It
is a war between two forms of terrorism which are mirror images of each
other's mindsets - mindsets based on this that can only conceive of
monocultures and must erase diversity, the very pre-condition for peace. They
share the dominant culture of violence. They used the same weapons and the
same technologies. In terms of the preference for violence and use of terror,
both sides are clones of each other. And their victims are innocent people
everywhere."
-- Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism, by Vandana Shiva
Read the introduction and table of contents
"The greatest book of the year." --William Blum, author of Killing Hope
and Rogue State
"A shocking revelation, a rich treasure of taboo information and criticism
about the undemocratic repression, militarism and aggression perpetrated by
U.S. elites at home and abroad. Every American should read Derailing
Democracy." --Michael Parenti, author of America Besieged and History as
Mystery
"The U.S. has perverted the U.N.
weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely
so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war."
-- Scott Ritter, former head of the U.N. arms inspection team in Iraq, on
the NBC Today show, December 17, 1998.
Myths and Realities Regarding Iraq and Sanctions - Voices in the Wilderness
Leslie Stahl: "We have heard that a half million children have died (as a
result of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died in
Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Madeleine Albright: "I
think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth
it."
-- A CBS Sixty Minutes interview between Leslie Stahl and U.S. Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright, on 12 May 1996
Blowback : The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
"Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world -
particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the
elite-owned media."
- Ralph McGehee, former CIA analyst, CIABASE; The Crisis of Democracy, also
author of Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA
You Are Being Lied To
The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes &
Cultural Myths
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable meaning is
nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious
and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and
conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power.
That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism
is slavery."
-- Leo Tolstoy
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a
continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national
emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous
foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally
behind it...."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked
fingers out of the business of these [Third World] nations so full of
depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And
if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the
"haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least
what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't
want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans."
- General David Sharp, former United States Marine Commandant 1966
"It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."
- General Colin Powell when asked about the number of Iraqi people who were
slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign (200,000
people!)
"To maintain this position of disparity (U.S.economic-military
supremacy)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and
day-dreaming....We should cease to talk about vague and... unreal objectives
such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and democratization.
The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power
concepts.... The less we are then hampered by idealistic > slogans, the
better."
- George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department 1948
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controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of
free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority,
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5 Oct issue: Pax Americana - The Fourth Reich?
26 Sept issue: It's About Oil - Not Terrorism
Making A Killing
war good business for top elite
(links here go down the page)
Forget the Mafia. This gang is looting governments and decimating whole
populations. From insider trading to buying up Caspian and Balkan assets at
fire sale prices, the Carlyle Group is set to multiply its sudden fortune,
and its investor list of revolving door ex-officials reads like a Who's Who
of the powers that be in the U.S., World Bank, and NATO.
Terrorists are retaliating. You will pay the price.
You won't hear this from the major media. What do you expect when the FCC
is run by the son of the Secretary of State?
Bush dynasty and corporate tentacles have it all sewn up.
Caspian oil and gas alone is worth $5 trillion, give or take...
The Untold Story: the media isn't carrying NATO's phony cover story to
invade the Balkans, the recent CIA use of Bin Laden in the Balkans, or the
much more compelling Bin Laden connections among Saudi intelligence. We now
know of the baiting of Russia to invade Afghanistan in early '90s -- Iraq,
Kosovo, now Afghanistan -- different cover stories, same motive.
It was provocation, attack plans "leaked" to Taliban before WTC attacks
Stan Goff says the Empire is beginning to unravel.
Mike Ruppert says we need to learn the real lesson of Pearl Harbor.
"On behalf of the oil companies, an array of former cabinet members from
the elder Bush administration have been actively involved in negotiations
with the former Soviet republics. The dealmakers include James Baker, Brent
Scowcroft, John Sununu and, notably, Dick Cheney, now vice president."
"One of the material results of the elder Bush's Desert Storm campaign in
1991 was to secure access to the huge Rumaila oil field of southern Iraq,
which was accomplished by expanding the boundaries of Kuwait after the war.
This allowed Kuwait, a former British protectorate where American and British
oil companies are heavily invested, to double its prewar oil output."
"The Trepca mine complex in Kosovo, one of the richest mines in Europe,
was seized last year by front companies for George Soros and Bernard
Kouchner, two members of the New World Order gang who devastated Serbia."
The Gang's All Here
Bush Sr. In Business With Bin Laden Family Conglomerate Through Carlyle Group
Judicial Watch article based on Wall Street Journal
Family had renounced ties to terrorist son but bamily still under FBI
investigation, father of president should pull out of international
investment firm
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that
investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, reacted with
disbelief to The Wall Street Journal report of yesterday that George H.W.
Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business
in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm.
The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top
Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former
Secretary of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had
supposedly been “disowned” by his family, which runs a multi-billion dollar
business in Saudi Arabia and is a major investor in the senior Bush’s firm.
Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi family
have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported
yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business’s bank
records.
Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized President Bush’s
father’s association with the Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5
statement that it was a “conflict of interest (which) could cause problems
for America’s foreign policy in Middle East and Asia.” Judicial Watch called
for the senior Bush to resign from the
firm then.
“This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the
President’s father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company
under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is
horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out
of the Carlyle Group,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel
Larry Klayman.
“This has the potential of making ‘Billygate’ (Jimmy Carter’s brother’s
dealings with Libya) look like small potatoes,” added Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton.
See "Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to
Ties to U.S. Bank," by Daniel Golden, James Bandler, and Marcus Walker, The
Wall Street Journal, 9/28/01 (www.wsj.com, subscription required). Story
at Judicial Watch
It Helps To Have Connections - all about the Bushes and the Carlyle Group
04 October 2001
Dallas attorney Robert Jordan was confirmed Wednesday by the United States
Senate to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan has no diplomatic
experience. However, his connections leave no doubt as to why he was named to
the post. He defended George W. Bush in a probe of insider trading
allegations in 1990. Whole article Eyes on America
"Criminal insider trading lead directly into the CIA's highest ranks"
Michael C. Ruppert
FTW, October 9, 2001 - Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S.
media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in
financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the
September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case
of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize
unclaimed -- the firm used to place the "put options" on United Airlines
stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three
Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.
... Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the
World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the
three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27
contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley's share price fell from
$48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks. Much more to this story
Bush Insider Trading in 1991 coverup
According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission records, on four
separate occasions Gov. George W. Bush disregarded federal statutes by
failing to file insider stock trade reports on a timely basis, back-dating
one trade by some four months. Moreover, one key trade just a few weeks
before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- but reported some eight months late after the
Gulf War was over -- netted Bush close to $1 million in profit as he sold
stock in Harken Energy, an oil company doing business in the Middle East
wherein some of his father's largest contributors also maintained substantial
positions. WorldNet Daily
Same Old Names, Faces Primed to Make Big Bucks Off Tragedy
President Bush's "crusade" against the Taliban of Afghan istan has more to
do with control of the immense oil and gas resources of the Caspian Basin
than it does with "rooting out terrorism." Once again an American president
from the Bush family is leading Americans down an oil-rich Middle Eastern
warpath against "enemies of freedom and democracy."
Enron, the biggest contributor to the Bush campaign of 2000, conducted the
feasibility study for a $2.5 billion trans-Caspian gas pipeline, which is
being built under a joint venture agreement signed in February 1999 be tween
Turkmenistan and two American companies, Bechtel and General Electric Capital
Services.
Enron, a Texas-based gas and energy company, to gether with Amoco, British
Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Unocal are all engaged in a
multi-billion dollar frenzy to extract the reserves of Azerbaijan, Kazakh
stan, and Turkmenistan, the three newly independent Soviet republics that
border on the Caspian Sea.
In Turkmenistan, a "former" Israeli intelligence agent, Yosef A. Maiman,
president of Merhav Group of Israel, is the official negotiator and policy
maker responsible for
developing the energy resources of Turkmen istan.
Maiman acted as the intermediary between the Turkmenis and the U.S. firms,
but won't discuss "his cut" or whether he will receive a stake in the pipe
line. Maiman's Merhav Group is also involved in a $100 million project that
would reduce the flow of water to Iraq by diverting water from the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers to southeastern Turkey.
The Merhav Group has hired the Wash ington lobbying firm Cassidy & Asso
ciates and spent several million dollars to "en courage" U.S. officials to
push for the trans-Caspian pipeline.
On behalf of the oil companies, an array of former cabinet members from
the elder Bush administration have been actively involved in negotiations
with the former Soviet republics. The dealmakers include James Baker, Brent
Scowcroft, John Sununu and, notably, Dick Cheney, now vice president.
Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are also closely allied with Israeli
commercial interests and Israeli military intelligence.
Israeli officials boast of having "excellent relations" with Azerbaijan,
where an Israeli company, Magal Secur ity Systems, has a contract to provide
security at Baku airport. Magal is one of several Israeli companies that
will "turn Israel into a major player in Azer baijan" by providing security
for the 1,200 mile pipe line taking oil from the Caspian to the Turkish port
of Ceyhan on the Me diter ranean Sea.
President George W. Bush, whose family is well connected to oil and energy
companies, has called for an international crusade against Islamic
terrorists, who he says hate Americans simply because they are "the brightest
beacon of freedom" and a democracy. The focus on religion-based terrorism
serves to conceal important aspects of the Central Asian conflict. President
Bush's noble rhetoric about fighting for justice and democracy is masking a
less noble struggle for control of an estimated $5 trillion of oil and gas
resources from the Caspian Basin.
One of the material results of the elder Bush's Desert Storm campaign in
1991 was to secure access to the huge Rumaila oil field of southern Iraq,
which was accomplished by expanding the boundaries of Kuwait after the war.
This allowed Kuwait, a former British protectorate where American and British
oil companies are heavily invested, to double its prewar oil output.
The Trepca mine complex in Kosovo, one of the richest mines in Europe, was
seized last year by front companies for George Soros and Bernard Kouchner,
two members of the New World Order gang who devastated Serbia.
When it was reported that the Taliban might turn bin Laden over to face
justice, the Bush administration said that surrendering bin Laden would not
prevent an American-led attack on Afghanistan. Read detailed account
History and recent conflicts over corporate control of Central Asia and the
Balkans
Heavily footnoted and referenced, from Endgame Research Services, a project
of the Public Information Network
While Dick Cheney was U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. construction giant
Brown & Root was awarded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
construction contracts in war zones from Bosnia to Somalia to Haiti. Soon
after, Cheney quit the Pentagon and was hired as the CEO of Halliburton, the
corporate parent of Brown & Root.
The European Union, the U.S. government, and a gang of multinational
corporations (including BP, Amoco, Exxon, Unocal, Caterpillar,
Halliburton/Brown & Root, and Mitsubishi) are using all the military,
political, and economic tools at their disposal to destroy and recreate the
infrastructure and economy of southeastern Europe in their own image. The
conflicts of interest between government officials and corporate executives
are blatant and revealing.
Recent NATO military action in Yugoslavia is part of a long strategic
(economic) battle to control the Balkans. The current focus is to secure oil
and gas pipeline routes from the oilfields of the Caspian Sea to the
consumers of Europe. Multinational oil corporations from the U.S., Britain
and other European countries, and Russia are signing multibillion-dollar
contracts with Kazakhstan,
As reported by Project Underground in its journal Drillbits and Tailings,
"Less than a decade after the final diplomatic skirmishes of the Cold War,
the men who led the battle on both sides have joined forces to exploit the
oil reserves of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian, which is the world's largest
inland sea, is estimated to contain as much as 200 billion barrels of oil
alone plus another 100 billion barrels' worth of gas under the neighboring
Kara Kum Desert and other sites. At average price levels for the 1990s, that
adds up to a treasure chest of roughly US$5 trillion. Today Amoco, British
Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Unocal are leading a multi-billion
dollar frenzy to extract these reserves from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and
Turkmenistan, the three countries that surround the Caspian together with R
ussia and Iran."
"Stated U.S. policy goals regarding energy resources in this region
include fostering the independence of the new states and their ties to the
West, breaking Russia's monopoly over oil and gas transport routes,
encouraging the construction of East/West pipelines that do not transit Iran
and denying Iran dangerous leverage over the central Asian economies." --
chairman of U.S. House Committee on International Relations Story at
Endgame Research Services
Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to
U.S. Bank
reprint of article by Daniel Golden, James Bandler and Marcus Walker
Wall Street Journal, 27 September 2001
"If the U.S. boosts defense spending in its quest to stop Osama bin Laden's
alleged terrorist activities, there may be one unexpected beneficiary: Mr.
bin Laden's family.
Among its far-flung business interests, the well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan
-- which says it is estranged from Osama -- is an investor in a fund
established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant bank
specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies.
Through this investment and its ties to Saudi royalty, the bin Laden
family has become acquainted with some of the biggest names in the Republican
Party. In recent years, former President Bush, ex-Secretary of State James
Baker and ex-Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to
the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Bush makes
speeches on behalf of Carlyle Group and is senior adviser to its Asian
Partners fund, while Mr. Baker is its senior counselor. Mr. Carlucci is the
group's chairman.
"If there were ever any company closely connected to the U.S. and its
presence in Saudi Arabia, it's the Saudi Binladin Group," says Charles
Freeman, president of the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington nonprofit
concern that receives tens of thousands of dollars a year from the bin Laden
family. "They're the establishment that Osama's trying to overthrow."
Story reposted from Wall Street Journal source
The Bin Laden family financial network and endless connections to Bush
Story
The Taliban: A CIA & Osama Bin Laden Production
Story
Cutting your friends in on the deal - from Carlyle Group official website
May 14, 2001- John Major appointed European Chairman of The Carlyle Group
April 17 2001 - Afsaneh Beschloss, World Bank Executive to Head Firm's New
Asset Management Group
May 2, 2001 - Former FCC Chairman Kennard to Join The Carlyle Group
April 30, 2001- Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to Join The Carlyle Group
Fund Overview
Carlyle Arabia has, since 1994, served the Saudi Arabian Government as
official Advisor to its Economic Offset Program. A key objective of the
Program is to facilitate private sector joint ventures within the Kingdom.
In addition, as The Carlyle Group expands its global private equity
capabilities, the Carlyle Arabia team is focusing on selected investment
opportunities inside Saudi Arabia.
Carlyle Arabia’s team is made up of highly skilled professionals, with
offices located in Washington, Riyadh and London. In addition, the team is
supported by Carlyle’s senior management, which combines extensive
governmental, operational and merchant banking experience.
Mr. Holman is a Managing Director--International of Carlyle. Mr. Holman
leads the Carlyle Arabia Team, which advises the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with
regard to its Economic Offset Program and identifies selected investment
opportunities for Carlyle within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Holman has
nearly thirty years of international business experience, with broad
involvement in project management, including corporate restructuring and
turnarounds. Mr. Holman also possesses extensive experience in start-up
ventures, real estate and natural resource development, specializing in
government relations and marketing. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Holman
co-founded and served as the president of U.S. Business Centers, Inc., a
developer of a major office building project in Warsaw, Poland. Previously,
Mr. Holman helped manage the turnaround and restructuring of Commonwealth Oil
Refining, Purolator Courier, Pilot Freight Carriers and Trans Ocean Airways.
Mr. Holman served nine years with Conoco and was Consolidation Coal Company's
Director of Federal Government Relations. Mr. Holman received his B.A. from
Princeton and M.A. from Harvard, both of which were in Middle East Studies.
He serves on the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute.
Carlyle Arabia
The oil behind Bush and Son's campaigns
Asia Times, India, Oct 6
NEW DELHI - Just as the Gulf War in 1991 was all about oil, the new
conflict in South and Central Asia is no less about access to the region's
abundant petroleum resources, according to Indian analysts.
"US influence and military presence in Afghanistan and the Central Asian
states, not unlike that over the oil-rich Gulf states, would be a major
strategic gain," said V R Raghavan, a strategic analyst and former general in
the Indian army. Raghavan believes that the prospect of a western military
presence in a region extending from Turkey to Tajikistan could not have
escaped strategists who are now readying a military campaign aimed at
changing the political order in Afghanistan, accused by the United States of
harboring Osama bin Laden. Asia Times
Caspian Crossroads Interview With James Baker
Mr. Baker discussed the strategic role of the U.S. oil companies-which
maintain a majority of oil shares in this consortium - and the extent to
which the U.S. government is involved in support of this endeavors. " It is
important to solve the question of marketing and transportation of oil....and
this will he a supplemental source of energy for the United States and the
other countries in the West". Article
The War Dividend
Congress is poised to write a blank check for the Pentagon's favorite
programs - -whether or not they have anything to do with fighting
terrorism. Mother Jones
The Bush cabinet: a government of the financial oligarchy and shady deals
No US administration in nearly a century has been dominated to such an
extent by personnel drawn directly from the executive suites of American big
business as that of George W. Bush. Not only is the White House pursuing an
agenda dictated by corporate America, the men and women who occupy top posts
in the new administration have intimate ties to giant firms that stand to
profit to the tune of billions of dollars from its policies, and they
personally can expect their fortunes to grow by millions and tens of millions
of dollars. StoryTerrorists Are Retaliating
Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack
Saturday September 22, 2001 The Guardian
Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American
military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New
York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born
fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established.
The threats of war unless the Taliban surrendered Osama bin Laden were
passed to the regime in Afghanistan by the Pakistani government, senior
diplomatic sources revealed yesterday. Story at The Guardian
U$ invasion into Afghanistan in October was planned already in mid-July
Story at BBC
Bin Laden Interview in Esquire
Osama bin Laden gave an interview three years ago in which he promised to
send American soldiers home in coffins. He told Esquire magazine journalist
John Miller that "superpowers" were a myth and anyone, including America,
could be defeated. Bin Laden added that his first priority was to get the US
military out of Saudi Arabia. Story
18:17 2001-10-10
ALLIANCE WITH ISRAEL, IRAQ SANCTIONS FUEL ARAB HATRED OF U.S.
>From Pravda
DAMASCUS, Syria - A morgue assistant pulls out drawers holding the
mutilated corpses of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israelis. Doctors
pummel the chest of a dead Palestinian in a desperate attempt to revive him.
The body of an infant, swathed in bloodied blankets, held by a grieving
parent. These raw images - aired almost daily on Arab television since the
Palestinian-Israeli clashes erupted a year ago - haven't lost the power to
touch the hearts of Arab viewers. Indeed, they have fed a buildup of Arab
anger - not only against Israel but also against the United States, its chief
ally, already resented for imposing 11 years of sanctions and carrying out
repeated airstrikes on Iraq. That anger provides a potential base of support
for the militants, who can use it to keep governments from cracking down on
them. From PravdaThe Untold Story
Missing the Oil Story
TomPaine article
The false reporting that supported NATO invasion of the Balkans' Death Camps
and Desert Storm Frame Bosnia Coverage
FAIR 1992
'Excerpts from News Reports - Bin Laden in the Balkans'
Evidence that bin Laden aided or is aiding the U.S.-sponsored forces in
Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia. Story
'Osama bin Laden: Made In USA'
Excerpt from article on U.S. bombing of a pill factory in Sudan in August,
1998.
Argues that bin Laden was and still may be a CIA asset. Story
Al Qaeda itself has strong connections to Saudi intelligence.
The Public i
After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait he (Osama) lobbied the Royal Family to
organize a popular defense of the kingdom and raise a force from the Afghan
war veterans to fight Iraq. Instead, King Fahd invited in the Americans. This
came as an enormous shock to Bin Laden. As the 540,000 US troops began to
arrive, Bin Laden openly criticized the Royal Family, lobbying the Saudi
ulema to issue fatwas, religious rulings, against non-Muslims being based in
the country.
In early 1997, the CIA constituted a squad that arrived in Peshawar to try
to carry out a snatch operation to get Bin Laden out of Afghanistan. The
Americans enlisted Afghans and Pakistanis to help them but aborted the
operation. The US activity in Peshawar helped persuade Bin Laden to move to
the safer confines of Kandahar. On 23 February 1998, at a meeting in the
original Khost camp, all the groups associated with Al Qaeda issued a
manifesto under the aegis of "The International Islamic Front for Jihad
against Jews and Crusaders." The manifesto stated "for more than seven years
the US has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the
Arabian peninsular, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers,
humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbours, and turning its bases in
the peninsular into a spearhead through which to fight the neighbouring
Muslim peoples."
The meeting issued a fatwa. "The ruling to kill the Americans and their
allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim
who can do it in any country in which it is possible to." Bin Laden had now
formulated a policy that was not just aimed at the Saudi Royal Family or the
Americans, but called for the liberation of the entire Muslim Middle East. As
the American air war against Iraq escalated in 1998, Bin Laden called on all
Muslims to "confront, fight and kill, Americans and Britons." The Public i
Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist
The Public I
By Ahmed Rashid
In 1986, CIA chief William Casey had stepped up the war against the Soviet
Union by taking three significant, but at that time highly secret, measures.
He had persuaded the US Congress to provide the Mujaheddin with
American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down Soviet planes and
provide US advisers to train the guerrillas. Until then, no US-made weapons
or personnel had been used directly in the war effort.
The CIA, Britain's MI6 and the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence] also agreed on a provocative plan to launch guerrilla attacks
into the Soviet Socialist Republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the soft
Muslim underbelly of the Soviet state from where Soviet troops in Afghanistan
received their supplies. The task was given to the ISI's favourite Mujaheddin
leader, Gulbuddin Hikmetyar. In March 1987, small units crossed the Amu Darya
river from bases in northern Afghanistan and launched their first rocket
attacks against villages in Tajikistan. Casey was delighted with the news,
and on his next secret trip to Pakistan he crossed the border into
Afghanistan with [the late Pakistani] President Zia [ul-Haq] to review the
Mujaheddin groups.
Thirdly, Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to
recruit radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight
with the Afghan Mujaheddin.
Ahmed Rashid of Pakistan is a member of the International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity. He
is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far
Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph of London. This is an excerpt
from his book "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central
Asia" (Yale University Press). Entire article is at The Public I
Bush must not ignore the Saudi connection
London Times writer
But the question that people in Washington are now beginning to ask is what
happens if the chain of money and state support does not lead to such pariah
states as Iraq, Iran or Syria. What if a great deal of the money, training,
and religious and political inspiration comes from Saudi Arabia, America’s
main “strategic ally” in the Gulf? Israel has for years been warning of Saudi
involvement with the suicide bombers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Now there
are numerous circumstantial links with September 11. Many of the US hijackers
were Saudis, as is bin Laden. In several cases, their terrorist
indoctrination began at fundamentalist Islamic colleges, funded by Saudi
money. Their political attitudes reflected an anti-Western religious zeal
that is widely promoted in the Saudi media, even though these media are
subject to some of the strictest censorship in the world. Saudi Arabia, it
should also be remembered, is the source of the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi
sect of Islam that inspired the Taleban regime. Saudi Arabia is also the only
country apart from Afghanistan that practises the medieval version of Sharia
in all its horror. And the head of the Saudi intelligence service, believed
to be the Royal Family’s main link with the Taleban, resigned abruptly within
24 hours of the horror in New York. When you put these facts together, there
is surely a risk that the trail of money and blood that started at the World
Trade Centre could ultimately lead to Riyadh.
What could the West do if evidence emerged of active Saudi involvement
with bin Laden? Military action and economic embargoes would be out of the
question. Even in a global recession, the world couldn’t live without eight
million barrels a day of Saudi oil. Moreover, the Saudi financing of
anti-Israeli terror has always been through private “charitable and religious
foundations” with no direct links to the State. But public opinion would find
it hard to understand why US forces continue to defend a Saudi Royal Family
that rules with an iron rod over every corner of civil society but seems
unable or unwilling to control the monstrous behaviour of its religious
extremists. Americans might even start to wonder why they are protecting
Saudi religious zealots, with their anti-American blood lust, against an
ordinary secular dictator such as Saddam Hussein, whose lust is for Saudi
oil. London Times writer
The So-Called Evidence Is a Farce
By Stan Goff
Goff writes, specifically relevant to Our América, that "wars on
terrorism" are "far better than drug wars as a rationalization, and the drug
war thing was being discredited in any case. Leftists are regaining power and
popularity in Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Colombia, the
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Brazil, and Argentina. Cuba has gained immense
prestige over the last few years. The empire is beginning to unravel...."
Like Goff, who understands how recent events in this hemisphere have
pulled the thread that was on the verge of unraveling the drug war - the
prior pretext for squelching true democracy, human rights and peace with
justice at home and abroad - we don't believe that governments are telling us
the truth right now. We don't accept the party line. We demand better
evidence from Power.
Goff cites two premises that should not, that must not, be accepted at
this hour without more convincing proof: "One, there is the premise that what
this de facto administration is doing now is a 'response' to September 11th.
Two, there is the premise that this attack on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon was done by people based in Afghanistan. In my opinion, neither of
these is
sound." Entire Article at NarcoNews
Boom, Bust and Echo: A Dark Theory Behind Black Tuesday
Mike Ruppert
Let's take a look at one historical model that we absolutely know. Anyone
who's watched the History Channel in the last year as seen the revelations
that the United States had broken the Japanese code and knew that the
Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor well before it occurred. The
historical paradigm prior to that is in the 20's and 30's, the U.S. and the
British had been closing Japan off from its access to oil from Indonesia,
Malaysia, South East Asia and everything else. In other words, economically,
Japan had been backed into a corner. We knew that the Japanese were going to
attack - and the History Channel has eyeball witnesses and US government
documents, this is out of the bag now - and yet because it suited political
and economic and social purposes to bring the US into World War II, we
allowed it to happen. And I think we need to learn from that lesson.
And I need to make something else very clear here. I'm an ex-cop, and you
know that. watched the firemen and the policemen in New York and I wept.
Because that is who I am and what I am and that's America. What America is
not is what has been done around the world to cause enormous anger at the
United States, whether it be the genocide of 2 million people in Rwanda for
U.S. economic interest. The attacks in Kosovo which have left large portions
of that landscape radioactive for a million years.
The radioactivity and D.U. and leukemia in Iraq that is there from ten
times the amount of depleted uranium. The million displaced persons in
Colombia, the genocides in East Timor. All of these are related to U.S.
foreign and economic policy and there are a lot of people in the world who do
not like us and, you know what, they have good reason.
And that's not to justify these attacks. Mike RuppertFBI Press Release
Oct 11
Washington D.C.
Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government
reason to believe that there may be additional terrorist attacks within the
United States and against U.S. interests overseas over the next several days.
The FBI has again alerted all local law enforcement to be on the highest
alert and we call on all people to immediately notify the FBI and local law
enforcement of any unusual or suspicious activity. FBI National Press
Office
18:27 2001-10-10
Is China Moving In? Sources Report Thousands of Troops Deployed to Back
Taliban
>From Pravda
According to the information from Debka-Net-Weekly, long Chinese convoys
were carrying armed Chinese Muslim servicemen through northwest China into
Afghanistan to support the Taliban militia prior to today's U.S. offensive,
according to the intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly. From Pravda
Blunder puts FBI suspects on internet
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 06/10/2001)
The Telegraph, U.K.
A CONFIDENTIAL FBI list of 370 people suspected of helping Osama bin
Laden's terrorist network has leaked out.
The names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail, and social security codes
of the suspects were posted on the internet by Finland's Financial
Supervision Authority (RATA).
When the error was spotted, the website was shut down. The list was put
together by the FBI and European counter-terrorism agencies for use in
tracking down the bank accounts, assets, and money flows of the al-Qa'eda
network. The Telegraph, U.K
Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons
The Journal of the Federation of American Scientists
International Action Center Statement
excerpts
Washington is preparing the Pentagon's vast network in the region - bases
and floating bases in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean that have been
war-ready for years - for strikes against any country it chooses.
It is past U.S. war policies that have created the chaos, poverty and rage
throughout this whole region. This anger has now endangered working people
right here in the U.S. More of the same U.S. military terror will not create
security. War is not the answer.
What's Behind Washington's Latest War
The U.S. military-oil complex sees the World Trade Center tragedy as a
cynical opportunity in the race, against rivals in Germany and Russia, for
the oil resources of the former Soviet Union. For years, Texaco, Chevron and
ExxonMobil -the world's biggest oil corporations with vast investments in
Central Asia - have been itching to build an oil and gas pipeline from the
Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean. That is, through Afghanistan.
Ten years of war and sanctions against Iraq that continue to this day
have given the U.S. an occupying force in the Gulf Region, including aircraft
carriers, bases and 30,000 U.S. troops. The bombing of Yugoslavia anchored a
similar occupying force in the Balkans - the largest U.S. base since the
Viet Nam war is being built today in Kosovo.
This latest war campaign is a first step in securing a permanent U.S.
military presence in Central Asia - completing an new, armed ring of bases
stretching from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan, and designed to give U.S.
companies the upper hand. As of this week, thousands of U.S. troops and
equipment have been stationed in Uzbekistan.
As in past wars, the Pentagon claims to bomb only military
installations. But those wars always targeted civilian areas and
infrastructure, and this time is no different. Using a heavily racist
campaign focused on demonizing one person, Osama Bin Laden, Washington's
warplanes are dropping bombs on thousands. The results of this campaign will
range from outright murders to the dislocation of millions of Afghanis,
suffering now from extreme malnutrition after years of drought and war.
Afghanistan is a country already reduced to rubble by 20 years of continuous
warfare, fed incessantly by U.S.-supplied weaponry. Entire IAC
statement
Some more recent history
Bush announced he will recognize The Taliban as a "faith-based organization"
on 1/31/01.
The Taliban blew apart two 2,000 year old Buddha statues on 3/2/01.
On 5/17/01 Colin Powell announced a gift to The Taliban of $5 million dollars
worth of food and $43 million dollars for aid in their anti-drug(?) campaign.
On 5/25/01 a U.N. panel accused Afghanistan's Taliban rulers of selling opium
and heroin to finance its war against northern rebels and to train terrorists
.
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