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Pentagon flies home 18 body bags The Frontier Post ISLAMABAD: All was set to fly eighteen body bags to the United States from Quetta some time Tuesday night, The Frontier Post has learnt. Well placed sources disclosed to this scribe that the arrangements are in place to fly home eighteen dead bodies lying in a Quetta hospital. The sources confirmed that these bodies are of US Special Forces troops who lost their lives on the course of the campaign in Afghanistan. �These soldiers died in action and not in any accident�, said a source. The precise time of the departure of the body bags could not be ascertained. <snip> UN fears 'disaster' over strikes near huge dam By Richard lloyd Parry in Quetta 08 November 2001 The Independent The United Nations is warning of a "disaster of tremendous proportions" after US planes bombed a hydro-electric power station close to a vast dam in southern Afghanistan .... "In case the dam and/or the three tunnels (with regulators) leading the water out of the dam also has been damaged it may result in a disaster of tremendous proportions," says an internal report prepared by the regional co-ordinator in the Pakistani city of Quetta and made available to The Independent. "If the dam collapses the whole Helmand valley would be flooded, risking the life of tens of thousands of people in addition to destroying the lands benefiting around 500,000 people (and feeding around 1,000,000 people) ... It is crucial to have the situation at the Kajaki dam/power plant assessed." The 48-year-old dam on the Helmand River is 300ft high, 900ft long, and holds back 1.85 million cubic metres of water in a 32-mile long reservoir. Ironically, the dam's engineering and the manufacture of the two turbines are American. <snip> SECRET WEAPONS: Sting-ray weapon could be used against Taliban The Sunday Times AMERICAN forces in Afghanistan may use top-secret weapons in the war against Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organisation. New weapons, such as stealth helicopters and "directed energy weapons", which drive off approaching infantry with painful rays, are already in the arsenal of military planners as they attempt to track down and destroy the Al-Qaeda forces. Up to $500 billion has been spent in 20 years on such weapons as part of what are known as "black projects". For the fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, silent helicopter technology would be of the greatest benefit to frontline forces. The American military has worked for about 20 years on at least two helicopter projects. One is ultra-quiet, the other so stealthy that Stinger missiles would be unable to lock on to them .... Military scientists have also been working on a "reactive skin", enabling aircraft to change colour to blend into their background - a visual stealth to add to the radar and infrared kind already in place on the F-117A stealth fighter and the B-2A stealth bomber. Yet another innovation is a millimetre-wave ray, developed in the past 10 years at a cost of about $40m. It is intended to heat moisture in the outer skin enough to sting surrounding tissue like scalding water. It is said to cause no lasting damage. FBI 'was told to back off bin Laden family' The Sydney Morning Herald, London: United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed BBC2's Newsnight also said on Tuesday night that it had secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks which showed that despite claims that Osama bin Laden is the black sheep of the family, at least two other US-based members are suspected of links with a possible terrorist organisation .... The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah from 1987 to 1989, Michael Springman, told the program: "In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high-level State Department officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants - people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained there. I complained here in Washington ... and I was ignored." He added: "What I was doing was giving visas to terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets." <snip> America turns up the heat BY ROLAND WATSON IN WASHINGTON AND MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR The Times (UK) <snip> The clearest sign of escalation came with the massive daisy cutter bombs, which float to the ground by parachute. The blast impact is said to be similar to that from a small tactical nuclear weapon. General Peter Pace, vice-chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: �They make a heck of a bang when they go off and the intent is to kill people.� <snip> 50 US cluster bombs found in Pak The Times of India UETTA: A shepherd stumbled across some 50 unexploded US cluster bombs in a mountainous region of Pakistan, local police officials said on Thursday. The bombs were found in a remote area 70 km east of Kharan, in Pakistan's southern province of Baluchistan. The site is 100 km south of the Afghan border and is in the vicinity of two Pakistani airbases that have been made available to the United States for their assault on Afghanistan -- Dalbandin and Shamsi. A rural police official said the shepherd, identified as Eshar, found the bombs on Tuesday as he herded his sheep. He hit one and it exploded, injuring him in the legs, hands and torso. <snip> US Chopper Shot Down, Crashes in Pakistan PakNews ISLAMABAD: Four US military personnel were killed when their helicopter crashed in Pakistan after taking fire in Afghanistan, said sources. According to details, the US helicopter had crashed in Chaghi district, near the Afghan border to the north of the Dalbandin air base in Baluchistan province, but had no further details of casualties. It took fire in Afghanistan and it managed to enter into Pakistan where it crashed. Final US ultimate warning to Iraq Arabic News, Iraq-USA, Politics, 11/5/2001 The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyash issued on Sunday quoted sources at the British house of commons as saying that the British prime minister Tony Blair asked the Jordanian King Abdullah II during his visit to Amman to convey a final warning from the US administration to Iraq on the need of accepting the return back of the UN inspectors to Baghdad within three weeks, otherwise the next station of the war against terrorism after Afghanistan will be Iraq. The sources indicated that Iraq was told about the warning through an envoy in the Jordanian royal court. The sources also told the paper about information reported from Moscow that the Russian foreign minister Igore Ivanov conveyed to the Russian administration following his meeting with the US secretary of state Colin Powell about a conviction formed within himself that a British- American attacks at Baghdad has become very near. CIA to watch the watchers in intelligence overhaul By Walter Pincus in Washington The Sydney Morning Herald A high-level presidential commission is expected to recommend that the Pentagon's three largest intelligence-collection agencies be transferred to the CIA. Under the proposal, the National Reconnaissance Office, which develops, builds and manages spy satellite systems, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, which handles imagery intelligence systems and mapping, and the National Security Agency, which is responsible for electronic intercepts, would each come under the control of the CIA director. The proposal, to be delivered to President George Bush this month, would constitute the biggest overhaul of United States espionage in decades. It aims to consolidate programs and reduce rivalries within a huge bureaucracy that involves 12 separate agencies .... The House and Senate intelligence committees, which have been pushing for greater authority for the CIA director, are expected to support the plan. <snip> Sedition Law Used to Hold Suspects The Associated Press By PETE YOST WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors seeking to hold people they suspect were in the early stages of terrorist plots may turn anew to a very old weapon - the Civil War-era law on sedition. Last week, prosecutors cited the rarely invoked law in the case of a student being detained in New York, and hinted they might make fuller use of it in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. With roots in laws that date back more than 200 years, the statute gives the government great flexibility in assembling prosecutions against people who plan but don't carry out criminal acts against the United States .... Law enforcement officials, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said prosecutors are examining other cases in which they might use the sedition law against people who did not carry out attacks but had been in various stages of planning .... The government used the sedition law after World War I to convict anarchists. In the 1950s, the Supreme Court upheld convictions of communists on sedition charges for teaching doctrines that were held to be subversive. "These weren't people blowing things up; they were basically basement seminars where people would read Marx,'' said constitutional law professor Richard Primus of the University of Michigan. <snip> ----- 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. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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