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An American overkill? Jang Group of Newspapers <snip> President Bush also cautioned the Warsaw gathering that the Al-Qaeda is seeking nuclear weapons and the US will not wait for it to succeed and cause more innocent deaths. Coming in the midst of the anthrax alarm in the US, for which also Al-Qaeda is being fingered even while conceding that no evidence regarding the origin of the germs has been unearthed, this threat of a preemptive nuclear strike becomes very ominous. There is, it needs to be recalled, still no credible evidence even to establish the existence outside Afghanistan of the supposedly omni-presence of Al-Qaeda. In fact, the US is having difficulty even in locating it within Afghanistan. Neither is there evidence of its quest for weapons of mass destruction. Yet, the threats of a preemptive nuclear strike are being hurled freely. As stressed earlier, this is too horrendous an option to even be considered. Apart from the destruction it would cause, in the currently charged atmosphere, the powerful symbolism of a nuclear or chemical strike against Muslims will cause ripples to turn into waves. Moreover, the US intelligence agencies, which have suddenly become so efficient as to forecast specific threats to the bridges in the Bay Area of San Francisco, were totally clueless about the catastrophe that struck the US on September 11. Much of what has been unearthed by them ever since is also unconvincing, forcing the US not to fulfill the promise of publishing a white-paper linking Al-Qaeda to the attacks on USA. <snip> Bin Laden 'has nuclear weapons' BBC News Osama Bin Laden has told the mass-circulation Dawn newspaper in Pakistan that his al-Qaeda group possesses chemical and nuclear weapons. But, while the English-language newspaper carries a clear message from Bin Laden that he has access to such weapons, he makes no such claim in an Urdu-language version of the interview .... Dawn's English version quotes Bin Laden as saying: "If America used chemical and nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. We have the weapons as a deterrent" .... But in the Urdu version of the article, Bin Laden does not threaten to use nuclear or chemical weapons. "The US is using chemical weapons against us and it has also decided to use nuclear weapons. But our war will continue," he says, according to the BBC's own translation of the Ausaf article. The two versions are otherwise very similar, says the BBC Monitoring unit. <snip> Return of the king By Reggie Rivers Denver Post columnist Thursday, November 08, 2001- Were you aware that the attorney general of the United States now has the power to arrest someone without probable cause, hold that person without presenting evidence, and ultimately give that person a life sentence without ever having a trial? That's the power Congress has given to the attorney general, which is stunning because I've always believed that the United States was a nation where due process could not be voided. With this legislation, we've put a rule on the books that puts us on the level of evil, repressive dictators who rule by arbitrary and capricious whim and who lock people up on the authority of a king with no opportunity to challenge the order .... This is America. How could Congress, even in its darkest moment of panic, eliminate due process and put the United States on par with terror states that arrest people and throw them away without trials? <snip> Britain placed under state of emergency Kamal Ahmed, Antony Barnett and Martin Bright Sunday November 11, 2001 The Observer Britain is to be placed under a state of 'public emergency' as part of an unprecedented government move to allow internment without trial of suspected terrorists. In a historic initiative that will incense civil liberties groups, David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, will lay the order before the House of Commons in the next 48 hours, to be followed by anti-terrorist legislation which will be rushed through in the next four weeks. The order, which says the events of 11 September are 'threatening the life of the nation', will allow Britain to opt out of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which bans detention without trial .... It is the first time the Government has sought such a major opt-out of the Convention, which is the cornerstone of human rights laws in the country .... The Government plans to rush the legislation through both Houses of Parliament by Christmas and is hoping for cross-party support. The public emergency order will be the first of a series of controversial measures closing what the Government says are loopholes in the law. >snip> THE TOP FIVE LIES ABOUT THIS WAR By: The Anti-War Committee of Students in Solidarity at the University of Pittsburgh <snip> And the biggest lie of them all . . . Lie #1: "It's possible to win a 'war against terrorism.'" Reality: Terrorism is a tactic, not a political or social force in and of itself. Anyone can use it, and the idea that you can wage a "war" against it is as dishonest as the idea behind the "War on Drugs." The use of food as a political weapon, indiscriminate aerial bombardment, and the arming of gangsterish groups of religious fanatics all count as "terrorism" by any reasonable definition of the word, and the United States has long employed all of them -- and more. This war is really about sordid material interests and power, and in defense of these interests the U.S. is prepared to shift the label "terrorist" as it sees fit, to apply to all manner of dissident political movements and not just marginal bands of fanatics like bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Conversely, it's willing to call its own terrorists "freedom fighters." Maybe some of them will get transformed into "terrorists" again in a few years. It's a sick game and a charade, and the government is manipulating the very real grief and anger of the people of the United States after the September 11 atrocities to get us all to fall for it again. Don't believe them for a second. A Just Cause, Not a Just War The Progressive by Howard Zinn <snip> Let's talk about "military targets." The phrase is so loose that President Truman, after the nuclear bomb obliterated the population of Hiroshima, could say: "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." What we are hearing now from our political leaders is, "We are targeting military objectives. We are trying to avoid killing civilians. But that will happen, and we regret it." Shall the American people take moral comfort from the thought that we are bombing only "military targets"? The reality is that the term "military" covers all sorts of targets that include civilian populations. When our bombers deliberately destroy, as they did in the war against Iraq, the electrical infrastructure, thus making water purification and sewage treatment plants inoperable and leading to epidemic waterborne diseases, the deaths of children and other civilians cannot be called accidental .... I suggest that the history of bombing--and no one has bombed more than this nation--is a history of endless atrocities, all calmly explained by deceptive and deadly language like "accident," "military targets," and "collateral damage." <snip> Bush may order smallpox jabs for all FROM ROLAND WATSON IN WASHINGTON The Times ALL Americans could be forced to have smallpox jabs under plans being considered by President Bush, despite fears that such a programme would kill hundreds. Underlining White House fears about America�s vulnerability to a new wave of bioterrorism, Mr Bush said that he was discussing with Tommy Thompson, the Health Secretary, whether to order mandatory vaccinations. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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