-Caveat Lector- also article excerpts on Sudan, Iraq and oil and the Taliban
excerpts from the articles are below Second Opinion: Coping With Traumas, Public and Private - By Abigail Trafford - Washington Post Staff Writer - 12/11/01, "But there is a difference between public and personal trauma. One is acute and visible – repeated daily on television. The other is chronic and hidden – largely ignored by the press. One elicits sympathy. The other provokes revulsion. Yet both kinds of trauma share a common dynamic: fear. As the woman at the House of Ruth described it: "I was afraid to breathe." This kind of fear leads to permanent anxiety and in many victims of domestic violence, the development of mental illness such as PTSD, depression and addiction. This may be heavy for survivors of abuse. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22474-2001Dec10?language=printer Our Nazi allies - A German amateur investigator finds information on the U.S. government's friendly dealings with war criminals. Meanwhile, the FBI and CIA guard their records. By Ken Silverstein - 5/3/00 - Washington "December 12, 2001 "That U.S. officials collaborated with Nazis after World War II is, of course, well known. Just one day after Germany's surrender, on May 10, 1945, the Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to arrest all suspected war criminals, though advising him "to make such exceptions as you deem advisable for intelligence and other military reasons." In other words, cut deals with war criminals who could be usefully employed by U.S. intelligence. Over the years, the United States found a spot on the payroll for thousands of former Nazis, especially as part of intelligence gathering operations aimed at the Soviet Union, our wartime ally but soon-to-be mortal foe." http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/03/nazi/ http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/011205/n04321155_2.html Wednesday December 5, 2:07 pm Eastern Time United Defense to break 5-year drought for defense IPOs By Elena Molinari NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Defense companies are back after a five-year absence from the market for new equity issues. And they could not have picked a better time.... United Defense will sell 21.1 million shares, but the company's main stockholder, private equity firm Carlyle Group, will get more than half of the money raised. http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/war11.xml&sSh eet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html US mounts spy mission in Somalia By Adrian Blomfield and Michael Smith (Filed: 11/12/2001) AMERICAN officers have secretly entered Somalia in the first indication of President Bush's determination to extend the war against terrorism. Five military personnel reached the heart of the country and met a rebel movement in Baidoa, 150 miles west of the capital Mogadishu, in a search for terrorist camps. In another move indicating wider military action, the United States 3rd Army began deploying several hundred headquarters staff to Kuwait.... America is determined to widen the war to include countries such as Iraq, Somalia and Yemen. But British politicians have repeatedly said that they have seen no evidence linking Iraq to the September 11 attacks. http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66430,00.html Feds boost online surveillance activity Efforts to ferret out sleeper cells raise civil liberties concerns, say experts By DAN VERTON (December 10, 2001) Significant changes are under way in the federal government's war on terrorism, including unprecedented electronic surveillance measures designed to uncover terrorist cells in the U.S. ADVERTISEMENT FBI officials have acknowledged that the agency is developing a combination computer worm/Trojan horse called Magic Lantern that's designed to capture keystrokes on a target computer and encryption keys used to conceal data. http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/war211.xml&; sSheet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html Pentagon switch in Gulf heralds wider war By Ben Fenton in Washington (Filed: 11/12/2001) THE Pentagon has moved the headquarters of its 3rd Army from America to Kuwait, apparently in preparation for expanding the war on terrorism to Somalia and elsewhere. Military analysts said the transfer of several hundred headquarters staff from Fort MacPherson, Georgia, to an undisclosed location in Kuwait was "significant". They said it would give Gen Tommy Franks, commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, a base from which to expand his campaign. Gen Franks said last week that he was considering sending more troops to Afghanistan. When asked which other areas his planners had been looking into, he mentioned Somalia, Sudan and Iraq. http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/556/5war.htm Al-Ahram Weekly Online 18 - 24 October 2001 Issue No.556 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Fuel for the war machine Big Oil, defence, and policy-making: Pascale Ghazaleh discovers some curious connections Outside the oil industry, not many people would have exclaimed over the news, in January 1998, that the Taliban had signed an agreement allowing a 1,272km, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic- feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project to proceed. The proposed pipeline, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration (EIA), would have transported natural gas from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad natural gas field to Pakistan, and was projected to run from Dauletabad south to the Afghan border, through Herat and Kandahar, to Quetta in Pakistan before linking up with Pakistan's natural gas grid at Sui. By March, however, Unocal, the company leading the project, had announced that details would not be finalised immediately due to the civil war in Afghanistan. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> 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. 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