[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Indicted Hyundai Heir Plunges to Death in Seoul
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uh-huh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / advertisement ---\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \--/ Indicted Hyundai Heir Plunges to Death in Seoul August 4, 2003 By JAMES BROOKE SEOUL, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 4 - Chung Mong Hun, a South Korean industrialist who was the business driver behind the South's policy of reconciliation toward North Korea, died this morning after falling from the 12th floor of the headquarters here of his family company, Hyundai Asan. The police said it was a suicide. Mr. Chung's body was found by a Hyundai janitor, who saw it crumpled behind the building, and identified by his secretary, a local police officer said. Mr. Chung, the 55-year-old heir to one of South Korea's largest fortunes, was facing a trial on charges that he secretly passed $100 million in money from the South Korean government to North Korea in the spring of 2000. The payment was said to have been a way to ensure that Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, would receive Kim Dae Jung, then president of South Korea, on a visit to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Shortly after the June 2000 inter-Korean summit meeting, the South Korean president received the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Chung, whose father, the founder of the Hyundai conglomerate, had chosen him to handle Hyundai's dealings with North Korea, was one of a number of South Korean business leaders who accompanied Kim Dae Jung on the trip to Pyongyang. He made numerous trips to North Korea since then to promote business projects with the North as a reflection of the passion of his late father, born to a peasant family in North Korea, for inter-Korean reconciliation. Earlier this year, Hyundai was implicated in arranging a total of $400 million in payments to North Korea, not only to ensure that the summit meeting would take place, but also to win contracts for a tourism enclave, an industrial park, a sports complex, dams, an airport, telecommunications infrastructure and power generation. The contracts make Hyundai the leading foreign business player in North Korea, but none of the projects show any sign of making money for several years. The summit meeting was the beginning of a process of reconciliation between the two Koreas that endures in the form of railway and commercial projects, including plans to build a vast industrial park in Kaesong, North Korea. Hyundai Engineering and Construction, which remains as one of the core companies of the Hyundai Group, was to be one of the primary contractors in the project. The younger Mr. Chung reveled in playing the role of inter-Korean conciliator and decorated his headquarters with framed photos of Hyundai officials meeting in Pyongyang with Kim Jong Il or showing the North Korean leader around the Hyundai-operated resort in North Korea. Ten days ago, Mr. Chung returned from a three-day business trip to North Korea, to announce that on Sept. 1, daily bus service would start across the demilitarized zone to his most promising project, the Mount Kumgang resort. Mr. Chung had traveled to North Korea with the welcome news that President Roh Moo Hyun, a political ally of the former South Korean president, had vetoed an opposition party's bill to extend the term of a special prosecutor into the payoff scandal. But on his return, Mr. Chung learned that government prosecutors, operating independently of the president, had placed a travel ban on Mr. Chung. The prosecutors were going to question him about his statements that, two months before the summit meeting, he ordered an underling to give $13 million to Park Jie Won, then the presidential secretary, for distribution among South Korean congressmen for use in elections. Mr. Park has denied receiving the money. Mr. Chung had been indicted on charges of having ordered the altering of records to disguise the transfer of nearly $100 million of the payments that have been confirmed as having gone to North Korea. He was one of eight former Hyundai executives and government officials indicted so far in the scandal. Mr. Chung, through his aides, said the money was sent to North Korea as payment for business dealings. Mr. Chung reportedly left several notes and a will. Mr. Chung was forced to give up the title of Hyundai Group chairman when several of his companies encountered severe financial difficulties as a result of business dealings in North Korea. He retained the title of chairman of Hyundai Asan, the company responsible for operating tours to the Mount Kumgang resort region in southeastern North Korea. Mr. Chung was the fifth son of Chung Ju Yung, who divided his business group among his sons. Mr. Chung, who held a master's degree in business from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, N.J., was selected
[CTRL] [JBirch] It's time to deep six the Endangered Species Act (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 00:30:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Marv Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] It's time to deep six the Endangered Species Act Here's an excerpt from a good article on this subject: -- Fourteen hundred farmers owning 200,000 acres in the Klamath River Basin of southern Oregon and Northern California were denied their water rights during the summer of 2001 because of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Nearly $200 million of life savings and hard work were wiped out instantly as the farmers were left with essentially worthless land. They are not alone. This has been the legacy of the ESA from its inception. It has confiscated billions of dollars of private property, harmed or destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and has not saved one endangered species! Not one. Read it all at http://www.newswithviews.com/Coffman/mike2.htm What do you suppose is the REAL reason for the ESA?? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sO0ANB/LIdGAA/ySSFAA/A0NplB/TM -~- The opinions expressed on this forum are those of the authors of the articles posted. The John Birch Society has no responsibility for anything that is posted on this forum. The OFFICIAL John Birch Society web page is a www.jbs.org Look alike clone pages, run by others, violate JBS policy. Visit The New American at www.thenewamerican.com The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get FAST unlimited reliable uncensored internet service for $9.95 per month No Setup Fees. No Contracts. No limits as to the number of emails you can send at a time No limit on email groups. 5 email accounts at no additional cost. Fastest Dialup Connection available. Click here now http://www.getmysmartisp.net Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org 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. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Anthrax Anniversary
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html August 4, 2003 ANTHRAX ANNIVERSARY Two years into the persecution of Steven Hatfill shows what the feds have in store for us all We are fast approaching the second anniversary of the anthrax scare: the first letter filled with the deadly spores was postmarked September 18, 2001. Almost two full years after the FBI fixed its sights on Steven J. Hatfill as a "person of interest" in the anthrax-by-mail attacks, John Ashcroft's G-men are still persecuting Hatfill without pressing any charges, and persistently ignoring abundant leads pointing away from their hapless victim. While there is not a single iota of physical evidence supporting the case against Hatfill, a recent story in the Washington, D.C. City Paper chronicles the life of a man whose privacy and sanity have been held hostage by the FBI in this, the season of terror. It is a spectacle at once sinister and pathetic: "The video cameras seem to be the latest hassle. One time, [press liaison Pat] Clawson remembers, Hatfill spotted a few agents trying to rig a camera to a lamppost across from his apartment building. He decided to have a little fun and go out there and offer his assistance. "'What are you guys doing?' Hatfill asked, according to Clawson. "The agents told him that they were installing an 'Internet relay device.' Whatever that means. He offered to help them install it anyway. The joke in Hatfill's camp is that he's secured the best Internet service in the District." Your tax dollars at work. More tax dollars were spent draining a pond in Frederick, Maryland, a few miles from the Ft. Detrick government lab that may have been the source of the anthrax. Four weeks and 50,000 gallons later, a veritable army of feds, both FBI and postal agents, came up with a couple of logs, a few fishing lures, and an old gun unrelated to the attacks. Tests for traces of anthrax came up negative. The search was conducted on the basis of a "tip" that Hatfill had once confided that he would dispose of anthrax by doing it in the water. After this embarassing blow to the FBI's strategy, Hatfill's attorney, Thomas Connolly, called on Ashcroft to back down: "It comes as no news to Dr. Hatfill that the search of the pond yielded nothing. Dr. Hatfill had no involvement in the anthrax attack. It is now time for those law enforcement officials who have orchestrated a campaign of smears to do the honorable thing and issue an apology to Dr. Hatfill and an apology to the taxpayers for spending a quarter-million dollars on a wild goose chase." For two years, an American citizen has been characterized as a mass murderer by government officials and treated like a convicted criminal by their agents: he has been spied on, rendered unemployable, and publicly humiliated all without being charged. How can this happen in America? In the age of terror that is, government-initiated terrorism directed against us Hatfill's Kafkaesque predicament is a metaphor for life in the 21st century life, that is, as our rulers would like to see it. In the world of Steven J. Hatfill, the Bill of Rights has been repealed and you're guilty until proven innocent. You can't go out of your home without being observed, you're subject to warrantless searches, and the FBI shows up for your job interview. The truly nighmarish aspect of all this is Hatfill's glaringly obvious innocence. The case against him is entirely circumstantial, based on his public pronouncements on the subject of bio-terrorism and a "profile" of the anthrax killer worked up by scientist Barbara Hatch Rosenberg. On the other hand, the trail of some pretty substantial evidence leads in another direction altogether, one that has been inexplicably neglected by law enforcement agencies and the news media, but is, nevertheless, a matter of public record. In late September, 2001, days before the anthrax story broke but after the deadly missives had been mailed an anonymous letter arrived at military police headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, stating that Dr. Ayaad Assaad, who formerly worked at Ft. Detrick, was the mastermind behind a bio-terrorist plot. The letter's author demonstrated a detailed knowledge of Dr. Assaad's life and work at USAMRIID, tending to validate the claim of this poison-pen author to have once worked with the Egyptian-born scientist. The FBI soon cleared Dr. Assaad of any connection with the anthrax, but his story of how his former colleagues at Ft. Detrick, who called themselves the "camel club," targeted him and essentially set him up for just such an accusation points so clearly in the direction of the real culprits that it's hard to believe this aspect of the case has been completely ignored. Security was so lax at the Ft. Detrick bio-terror facility that, in the early 1990s, an investigation turned up the disturbing news that 26 sets of deadly specimens including anthrax, hanta virus, and two labeled "unknown" were
[CTRL] War Under False Pretense
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/08-11-2003/vo19no16_wmd.htm War Under False Pretense by Thomas R. Eddlem President Bush was able to play up the uranium issue only by ignoring his own intelligence agencies. Bush administration officials were recently forced to admit that the president never should have spoken the following 16 words in his January 28th State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." That charge, we now know, was based on forged documents and fragmentary intelligence. Yet, according to the administration and its defenders, the contested statement was cleared by the CIA, was technically correct, comprised only one small part of a large body of evidence justifying going to war, and should be put "behind us." The issue, President Bush is finding out, is not "behind us." It is becoming increasingly clear that the whole house of cards that made the case for the war is falling down, from the alleged nuclear purchases, to the elusive chemical and biological weapons stockpiles, to the supposed ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda terrorists. By itself, the uranium issue could have been dismissed as an unfortunate mistake. But the Bush administration engaged in a pattern of downplaying or even ignoring intelligence disproving its alarmist claims. President Bush was able to play up the uranium issue only by ignoring his own intelligence agencies. According to CIA Director George Tenet, the CIA did warn the Bush administration that the evidence supporting the claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Africa was unreliable. Tenets July 11th mea culpa, parts of which the media quoted heavily, also contained the following account: "[CIA] officials who were reviewing the draft remarks [in the State of the Union speech] on uranium raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed. From what we know now, Agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct i.e. that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa." That is, the administration resorted to relating what the British report said because it knew that the evidence supporting the allegation was fragmentary. Even the much-touted huge stockpiles of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons have not been proven to exist. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer warned on September 6th of last year there "is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest." But the White Houses mountain of evidence hasnt amounted to a molehill. President Bush said the Iraqi regime possessed "thousands of tons of chemical agents" in an October 2, 2002 Cincinnati speech. Those thousands of tons must have evaporated by July 13th of this year, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told NBCs Tim Russert that Iraq possessed only a "relatively small amount of very lethal chemical or biological weapons or capability." Before Saddams regime fell, the Bush administration supposedly knew where the weapons of mass destruction were, and would soon capture and destroy them. On March 30th, as American troops were closing in on Baghdad, Rumsfeld said of the WMDs: "We know where they are. Theyre in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." Now Rumsfeld is not so sure where they are, telling Tim Russert in his July 13th Meet the Press interview: "I think we will find them." Ithink? Whatever happened to that huge mountain of evidence? It was never there just like the supposed ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Before the war, the president sounded the alarm about extensive ties between Hussein and al-Qaeda. "Weve learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases," Bush said in a major address on October 7, 2002. He added that Iraq and al-Qaeda had "high-level contacts that go back a decade." Yet the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq (leaked to the press in June) revealed that Bushs own intelligence agencies have said all along that there was no reason to believe any serious ties ever existed between the two. "There was no significant pattern of cooperation between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist operation," former State Department intelligence official Greg Thielmann told the Boston Globe on July 12th. Foreign intelligence agencies agree with the U.S. intelligence consensus. A British intelligence dossier leaked before the war concluded that any collaboration between the two would be improbable because "his [bin Ladens] aims are in ideological conflict with present day Iraq." Of course, if Saddams regime did not threaten the U.S. with its WMDs and with its al-Qaeda ties, as the Bush administration
[CTRL] Neoconservatism, Where Trotsky Meets Stalin Hitler
-Caveat Lector- http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsST072303.html NEOCOSERVATISM, WHERE TROTSKY MEETS STALIN AND HITLER by Srdja Trifkovic The neoconservatives are often depicted as former Trotskyites who have morphed into a new, closely related life form. It is pointed out that many early neoconsincluding The Public Interest founder Irving Kristol and coeditor Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, and Albert Wohlstetterbelonged to the anti-Stalinist far left in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that their successors, including Joshua Muravchik, and Carl Gershman, came to neoconservatism through the Socialist Party at a time when it was Trotskyite in outlook and politics. As early as 1963 Richard Hofstadter commented on the progression of many ex-Communists from the paranoid left to the paranoid right, clinging all the while to the fundamentally Manichean psychology that underlies both. Four decades later the dominant strain of neoconservatism is declared to be a mixture of geopolitical militarism and inverted socialist internationalism. Blanket depictions of neoconservatives as redesigned Trotskyites need to be corrected in favor of a more nuanced analysis. In several important respects the neoconservative world outlook has diverged from the Trotskyite one and acquired some striking similarities with Stalinism and German National Socialism. Todays neoconservatives share with Stalin and Hitler an ideology of nationalist socialism and internationalist imperialism. The similarities deserve closer scrutiny and may contribute to a better understanding of the most influential group in the U.S. foreign policy-making community. Certain important differences remain, notably the neoconservatives hostility not only to Nazi race-theory but even to the most benign understanding of national or ethnic coherence. On the surface, there are also glaring differences in economics. However, the neoconservative glorification of the free market is more rhetoric, designed to placate the businessmen who fund them, than reality. In fact, the neoconservatives favor not free enterprise but a kind of state capitalismwithin the context of the global apparatus of the World Bank and the IMFthat Hitler would have appreciated. Some form of gradual but irreversible and desirable withering away of the state is a key tenet of the Trotskyite theoretical outlook. The neoconservatives, by contrast, are statists par excellence. Their core beliefthat society can be managed by the state in both its political and economic lifeis equally at odds with the traditional conservative outlook and with the non-Stalinist Left. In this important respect the neoconservatives are much closer to Stalinism and National Socialism. They do not want to abolish the state; they want to control itespecially if the state they control is capable of controlling all others. They are not patriotic in any conventional sense of the term and do not identify themselves with the real and historic America but see the United States merely as the host organism for the exercise of their Will to Power. Whereas the American political tradition has been fixated on the dangers of centralized state power, on the desirability of limited government and non-intervention in foreign affairs, the neoconservatives exalt and worship state power, and want America to become a hyper-state in order to be an effective global hegemon. Even when they support local government it is on the grounds that it is more efficient and responsive to the demands of the Empire, not on Constitutional grounds. The neoconservative view of America as a hybrid, imagined nation had an ardent supporter eight decades ago: in Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler argued for a new, tightly centralized Germany by invoking the example of the United States and the triumph of the Union over states rights. He concluded that National Socialism, as a matter of principle, must lay claim to the right to force its principles on the whole German nation without consideration of previous federated state boundaries. Hitler was going to make a new Germany the way he imagined it, or else destroy it. In the same vein the Weekly Standard writers are patriots only insofar as the America they imagine is a pliable tool of their global design. Their relentless pursuit of an American Empire overseas is coupled by their deliberate domestic transformation of the United States federal government into a Leviathan unbound by constitutional restraints. The lines they inserted into President Bushs State of the Union address last January aptly summarized their Messianic obsessions: the call of history has come to the right country, we exercise power without conquest, and sacrifice for the liberty of strangers, we know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation: The liberty we prize is not Americas gift to the world, it is Gods gift to humanity. Such megalomania is light years away from a patriotic appreciation of ones
[CTRL] Republicans Put Immigration Laws Back on Political Agenda
-Caveat Lector- Backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens but only if requested by a "business." - JR http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/politics/04IMMI.html?pagewanted=printposition= August 4, 2003 Republicans Put Immigration Laws Back on Political AgendaBy RACHEL L. SWARNS ASHINGTON, Aug. 3 For the first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, several Republicans in Congress are pushing for broad legislation that would regulate the flow of foreign workers into the country and potentially legalize millions of illegal employees. Senator John McCain and Representatives Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake, all Republicans from Arizona, introduced bills in July that would grant permanent residency over several years to foreign workers who enter the country legally and to illegal workers already in the United States. Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, also introduced a guest worker bill last month. The measures have been criticized by liberal advocacy groups that contend that they do too little for immigrants and by conservative Republicans who say they go too far. White House officials say they have not taken a stance on the bills, and their proponents do not expect them to pass this year. But critics on both sides of the political divide said the proposals were still significant because they constituted the first time Republicans in Congress had pushed aggressively for comprehensive changes in immigration laws since talks on the issue between President Bush and President Vicente Fox of Mexico collapsed after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mr. Bush and Mr. Fox had been working on a long-term strategy to regulate immigration flows from Mexico and legalize the status of millions of illegal immigrants already in this country. The plan appealed to Hispanics and to big businesses, important political constituencies for the Bush administration. "To have Republicans stepping up and proposing these important but imperfect bills is something of a breakthrough," said Frank Sharry, who runs the National Immigration Forum, a policy group. "To me, it's the post-9/11 signal that it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when we're going to legalize more migration so that we can better regulate it," Mr. Sharry said. Mr. McCain said he expected the plans to be attacked from "both ends of the spectrum" and that the legislation would face many political obstacles. Advocates for immigrants said that the bills lacked adequate safeguards for workers and created a complicated and arduous legalization process. On the other side, Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado, has criticized the plans as an attack on America's borders. "It's really amnesty on the installment plan," said Mr. Tancredo, the leader of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, which favors reducing immigration. "They are even more ambitious in their amnesty proposal than some of the Democrats I've seen. We have to watch this carefully." Mr. McCain and other supporters of the proposals said that many illegal immigrants did jobs that Americans do not want and that legalizing such workers would help many businesses. They also said they hoped that the legislation would help curtail or end the abuses some illegal immigrants suffer. Many die during desert crossings or suffer at the hands of smugglers and ruthless employers. "We all know it is an issue that must be addressed," Mr. McCain said in a telephone interview. "The status quo is no longer acceptable. This starts the debate." The bills would allow the number of worker visas to be determined by the demand for workers. Jobs listed on a Labor Department registry for 14 days and not filled by Americans could be given to an immigrant guest worker. The jobs would be advertised every three years to ensure that American workers were not interested. Foreign workers who apply for temporary work visas while living abroad could apply for legal permanent residency after working in the United States for three years. Illegal immigrants already here would have to pay a $1,500 fine and wait for three years before applying for permanent residency if an employer sponsored the application, or six years without an employer sponsor. "We will be able to funnel 99 percent of the currently undocumented population through ports of entry, where they can be documented, screened and monitored to give the U.S. a better understanding of who is living within the nation's borders," Mr. Kolbe said in a speech in
[CTRL] State Dept. Changes Seen if Bush Reelected
-Caveat Lector- I hope this guy's a lousy prophet. - Jim washingtonpost.com State Dept. Changes Seen if Bush Reelected Powell and Armitage Intend to Step Down By Glenn KesslerWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, August 4, 2003; Page A01 Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, have signaled to the White House that they intend to step down even if President Bush is reelected, setting the stage for a substantial reshaping of the administration's national security team that has remained unchanged through the September 2001 terrorist attacks, two wars and numerous other crises. Armitage recently told national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that he and Powell will leave on Jan. 21, 2005, the day after the next presidential inauguration, sources familiar with the conversation said. Powell has indicated to associates that a commitment made to his wife, rather than any dismay at the administration's foreign policy, is a key factor in his desire to limit his tenure to one presidential term. Rice and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz are the leading candidates to replace Powell, according to sources inside and outside the administration. Rice appears to have an edge because of her closeness to the president, though it is unclear whether she would be interested in running the State Department's vast bureaucracy. With 18 months left in Bush's current term, many officials said talk of a new foreign policy team is highly premature -- particularly because Bush's reelection is not assured. No one inside or outside the administration agreed to be quoted by name or affiliation in discussing possible Cabinet choices. But on the eve of the country's first post-Sept. 11, 2001, presidential campaign, in which foreign affairs will play a prominent role, the national security lineup for a second Bush term is already a major topic of conversation, at least among those who make and analyze U.S. foreign policy. Indeed, Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet is already the third longest serving CIA chief and is expected to depart, perhaps before the current term ends. Tenet's role in the Iraq weapons controversy has led to calls on Capitol Hill for his dismissal, fueling speculation he will quit soon. The current administration has been characterized by fierce policy disputes, often between Powell and more hawkish members, and a reshuffling likely would significantly change the tenor and character of the foreign policy team. Although Bush appears to value the range of opinions he has received from his chief national security advisers, he may feel free if he wins a second term to realign his foreign policy more closely to the harder-edged, conservative view exemplified by Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. Powell has staffed key positions in the State Department with close associates, and many of those officials also are expected to leave at the beginning of a second Bush term, giving the new secretary of state the opportunity to substantially re-staff the department. Some observers have speculated that Powell, who made an extensive presentation before the United Nations in February on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war, has been embarrassed by the failure to find much evidence of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs. But Powell, both publicly and privately, has said he has no regrets about his comments to the Security Council, arguing that they hold up well if read carefully. Powell has declined to answer questions about his plans. "I serve at the pleasure of the president," he said last month. "That's the only answer I've ever given to that question, no matter what form it comes in." Bush recently named Rice as his personal representative on the Middle East conflict, a move that some State Department officials view as an audition for secretary of state. Republican political operatives have also touted Rice as a possible candidate in the 2006 race for California governor. But Rice's image has been tarnished by the fallout over the administration's use of intelligence about Iraq's weapons, raising questions about her scrutiny of the materials and the veracity of her public statements. Rice "is an honest, fabulous person, and America is lucky to have her service, period," Bush said at a news conference before departing for his August vacation. Wolfowitz, the administration's foreign policy intellectual and prime advocate of a confrontation with Iraq, would be a more daring and controversial choice. A senior Senate Democrat said Wolfowitz would have little trouble winning confirmation in a Republican-controlled Senate. But others said that because Wolfowitz is considered more of a strategic thinker than a manager, he could be tapped as Rice's replacement as national security
[CTRL] Thinking Outside the U.S.
-Caveat Lector- If this isn't impeachable conduct, then nothing is. - JR http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16862-2003Aug3?language=printer washingtonpost.com Thinking Outside the U.S. By Charles LaneFull Court Press column Charles LaneMonday, August 4, 2003; Page A13 The Supreme Court is going global -- and not just in the sense that several of the justices have embarked on their annual summer voyages to European destinations. Rather, the court's own decision-making is beginning to reflect the influence of international legal norms, as well as rulings by courts in foreign countries. The trend peaked in the two most important cases of the recently completed term -- the court's rulings permitting race-conscious admissions in higher education and abolishing state prohibitions on private, consensual homosexual conduct. In both cases, justices invoked legal principles that were not made exclusively in the United States. In the affirmative action case, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for a 5 to 4 majority that the University of Michigan Law School's effort to enroll a "critical mass" of black, Latino and Native American applicants could pass muster under the U.S. Constitution -- though such programs might not be necessary 25 years from now. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a separate concurring opinion, joined by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, that noted that the court's 25-year time frame was consistent with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ratified by the United States in 1994, but that it should not be considered a firm forecast. More decisively, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy buttressed his majority opinion in the homosexual conduct case by noting that the court's past approval of state sodomy bans was out of step with the law in other Western democracies. Citing opinions of the European Court of Human Rights, he wrote that "the right the petitioners seek in this case has been accepted as an integral part of human freedom in many other countries." The court's consideration of these international perspectives was a breakthrough for the "transnational" legal perspective, which, advocates say, recognizes that the United States -- historically an innovator in constitutional adjudication -- now has much to learn from the rapidly developing constitutional traditions of other democracies. "Human rights progress is not the same in every part of the world at the same time," said Harold Hongju Koh, a professor of international law at Yale who served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton administration. "In the U.S., we're ahead on some issues, but behind on others, such as the death penalty, gay rights and immigrants' rights." Koh noted that the court's 2002 ruling banning the death penalty for mentally retarded criminals also invoked international opinion. In explaining why that practice violated contemporary notions of permissible punishment, Justice John Paul Stevens writing for a 6 to 3 majority, said that "within the world community, the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by mentally retarded offenders is overwhelmingly disapproved." Stevens attributed this observation to a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the European Union. This approach is not without its critics, however, and some of the sharpest criticism has come from within the court itself, especially from Justice Antonin Scalia. Responding to Stevens in the death penalty case, Scalia sardonically awarded Stevens's reference to the "world community" a "Prize for the Court's Most Feeble Effort to fabricate 'national consensus.' " Citing his own words from one of the court's previous death penalty cases, Scalia wrote: "We must never forget that it is a Constitution for the United States of America that we are expounding. . . . [W]here there is not first a settled consensus among our own people, the views of other nations, however enlightened the Justices of this Court may think them to be, cannot be imposed upon Americans through the Constitution." Scalia's view is supported by conservative legal scholars who regard the court's use of international legal sources as an intellectually amorphous endeavor that would subject U.S. citizens to the decisions of foreign legal institutions. "When the court starts taking things like that into account, it reveals itself as more interested in making policy than interpreting the fixed texts of the Constitution or statutes," said John C. Yoo, a former Bush administration adviser on international law, who teaches law at the University of California at Berkeley. Koh and Yoo agree on one thing: Both said that the justices' interest in international law has probably been influenced by meetings with fellow jurists on their frequent visits abroad. "Today, the justices are traveling much more than they once did," Koh said. "And when they
[CTRL] Saddam Wanted Dead - NOT Alive
-Caveat Lector- http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_aug3.html August 3, 2003 U.S. wants Saddam, but dead - not alive By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor In 1987, Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy led me by the hand through the ruins of his Tripoli residence, showing me the bedroom where American 2,000-lb bombs, launched in an attempt to assassinate him, had killed his 2-year-old daughter. The bombing of a Pan Am airliner filled with Americans two years later may have been revenge for this attack. Murder breeds murder. Now, the latest irksome Arab leader is in Washington's gun sights. Time seems to be running out for Iraq's fugitive former president, Saddam Hussein. Chances are Saddam, like his sons, will be killed in a Bonnie and Clyde-style shootout. He is unlikely to be captured, unless incapacitated. The Bush administration will be delighted not to put Saddam on public trial. Dead dictators tell no tales. The White House would much prefer to display a bullet-riddled Saddam as a trophy to divert mounting criticism over U.S. casualties in Iraq and the litany of falsehoods it used to drive America to war. If put on public trial, Saddam would have a field day revealing the embarrassing alliance between his brutal regime and Washington: * The CIA's role in bringing the Ba'ath Party to power in a 1958 coup, opening the way for Saddam to take control. * U.S., Israeli, and Iranian destabilization of Iraq during the 1970s by fueling Kurdish rebellion. * Washington's egging on the aggressive shah of Iran in the Shatt al-Arab waterway dispute, a primary cause of the Iran-Iraq War. * The U.S. secretly urging Iraq to invade Iran in 1980 to overthrow that nation's revolutionary Islamic government. * Covert supply of Saddam's war machine by the U.S. and Britain during the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict, plus biological warfare programs and germ feeder stocks, poison gas manufacturing plants and raw materials. * Billions in aid, routed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Italy's Banco del Lavoro and the shadowy BCCI. Heavy artillery, munitions, spare parts, trucks, field hospitals and electronics. * Equally important, the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency and CIA operated offices in Baghdad that provided Iraq with satellite intelligence data on Iranian troop deployments that proved decisive in the war's titanic battles at Basra, Majnoon and Faw. * The murky role played by Washington just before Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait. The U.S. ambassador told Saddam "The U.S. takes no position in Arab border disputes." Was this a trap to lure Saddam to invade Kuwait, then crush his army, or simple diplomatic bungling? Saddam could supply the awkward answers. Military and financial aid In short, Saddam was one of America's closet Mideast allies during the 1980s, a major recipient of U.S. military and financial aid. Saddam's killing of large numbers of Kurds and Shia rebels occurred while he was a key U.S. ally. Washington remained mute at the time. After George Bush Sr. called on the Kurds and Shia Muslims to revolt in 1991, the U.S. watched impassively as Saddam slaughtered the poorly armed rebels. Better a bullet-riddled Saddam, or one executed by a military kangaroo court in Guantanamo, or hanged by the new, American-installed Iraqi regime in Baghdad. Saddam should be handed over by the U.S. to the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague that is trying Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and other accused Balkan war criminals. After all, it was Washington that engineered Milosevic's delivery to The Hague, an act for which the U.S. deserves high praise. What applies to Milosevic applies equally to Saddam Hussein. In fact, it would be better for the Iraqi leader to stand trial at the newly constituted International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. But the Bush administration, in one of its most shameful acts, has refused to join this tribunal or co-operate with it. Should Saddam be gunned down, like his two sons, there will be glee among many Americans and rejoicing in the White House. But Saddam Hussein is not John Dillinger or a prize elk. However odious, he was the leader of a sovereign nation and a government recognized by the U.S. Killing foreign heads of state violates international law and the directives made by three American presidents. Dropping 2,000-lb bombs on sites where Saddam was believed to be is called attacking "leadership targets" in the new Orwellian Pentagonspeak, but it's still old-fashioned murder from the air. Gunning down Saddam will also be murder, or, to use a more polite term, assassination. America, the world's greatest democracy, has no business murdering foreign leaders. Such behaviour is criminal, immoral, undemocratic and reeks of the law of the jungle. Past U.S. attempts to murder foreign leaders have proved self-defeating. Last week, Task Force 20, a trigger-happy U.S. military hit squad hunting Saddam, killed as many as 11
[CTRL] Kabul - That Wild and Crazy Party Town
-Caveat Lector- Afghanistan gets its first party town Sunday, August 3rd, 2003 Email to Friend | Printer Friendly Version The Guardian - The old man in a turban stared in disbelief at the row of Land Cruisers parked in a smart Kabul street, their drivers waiting for the partygoers in the house where Madonna blared out. The imported alcohol and scandalous dancing, men and women together, could not be seen from the street, but Afghans have a pretty good idea about what happens on the foreigners' weekend party circuit and lurid imagination fills in the gaps. Plenty of Afghans are going to the parties too, or throwing their own, and it's a far cry from the Taliban days when fun was banned and you could be jailed for watching a smuggled Bollywood video. But with the fundamentalists long gone and thousands of well-heeled foreign aid workers and ex-pat Afghans moved in, Kabul has been transformed from dusty backwater to wild party town - for those with the cash to enjoy it. Jack Straw pointed out the change on his stopover in Kabul last month, excitedly remarking on how many new businesses he'd seen on his drive from the airport to the foreign ministry. With trouble in the Middle East, Afghanistan looks like the success story the foreign secretary and other international visitors have been praying for. But away from the boom times in the capital, under the protection of an international peacekeeping force, is another Afghanistan where private armies still rule. The growing gap between capital and country was starkly underlined this week in a report by Human Rights Watch, who bluntly said US-backed gunmen have hijacked the country outside Kabul and created a climate of fear. Straw didn't see this, and sure enough Kabul is doing very nicely. Centre of this glittering new world is the exclusive suburb of Wazir Akbar Khan, once home to senior al-Qaeda men and almost untouched by years of fighting that left much of the city scarred. Roomy houses with big leafy gardens are seeing a London-style property price boom and it's also home to the hottest restaurant of the moment, the Lau Thai, run by enterprising Thais with branches in East Timor and Kosovo. The restaurant has been such a success, replacing last year's favourite B's Place, that the family is planning to set up next in Baghdad. But if its tables are fully booked there's Italian, Chinese, Indian or German to choose from or a steak and a few beers at the Mustapha Hotel's new bar, the first to open in two decades. The days when the choice was just kebab or greasy pilau seem long ago. Later the international set head out to party in the expensive mansions they have taken out on long leases, jamming streets with cars and blasting out music until late. Afghans are so shocked that frequent warning memos have to be sent out by the UN begging party goers to tone down the wild behaviour. Afghan parties may be tamer, but plenty of Kabulis are joining in the fun. Every Friday an exodus heads out of town on picnics, banned by the Taliban and merchants and landlords are prospering. Mercedes cars are proliferating on Kabul 's potholed streets and tawdry Pakistani-style mansions covered with marble and fake Roman pillars are going up, along with a giant five-star hotel owned by the powerful defence minister, Marshall Fahim. Aid workers complain about corruption, some government departments are said to have 11-year-old schoolchildren and hosts of ghost workers on the payroll, but after years of puritanism and economic stagnation, cash is swilling around town and everybody wants to enjoy it while the chance lasts. Internet cafes have sprouted up, mobile phones are everywhere, and pirated DVDs that would have given the Taliban apoplexy are on sale. If you can ignore the beggars and grinding poverty all around, it's fun, frenetic, and a little paranoid with fears that the party could come to a premature end with a car bomb or a grenade tossed over a wall. And it's a different world to the other Afghanistan, the one which starts just over an hour's drive to the southeast. Rape, robbery and murder are common in the Pushtun lands near Kabul where US troops are still based, according to researchers for the Human Rights Watch report, Killing You is Very Easy For Us. Spokesman Brad Adams said: Human rights abuses in Afghanistan are being committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United States and its coalition partners after the Taliban fell in 2001. These men and others have essentially hijacked the country outside Kabul. With less than a year to go before national elections, Afghanistan's human rights situation appears to be worsening. The group's findings made depressing reading for anyone who believes Afghanistan is on the road to recovery. Kidnap for ransom, house breaking, rape and extortion of shopkeepers and drivers on the roads are widespread. Villagers live in fear of gunmen. Girls are generally too scared to go to school
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[CTRL] ritual murder case, Magdalene Sisters, former child psychiatric patients abused
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[CTRL] Massive US Job Bleed to China
-Caveat Lector- THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR from the August 05, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0805/p01s02-usec.html Booming China trade rankles US Trade deficit with China, now running at $120 billion a year, surpasses the total US trade gap of six years ago. By Ron Scherer | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - She was the weaver; he was the loom-fixer. For the past 20 years of their marriage, Delores and Robert Gambrell strode the heart-of-pine floors at Pillowtex's Plant 16. The noise from the looms forced the couple to communicate in a sign language. They even had their own signal for I love you. Those days are over for now - the victim of a flood of imports from China. The nation's third-largest textile company, where the Gambrells worked, closed its doors last week. For the moment, that means the end of sheets and towels with the household names of Cannon and Fieldcrest. The trend reaches far beyond the textile industry or Kannapolis - a community whose name means city of looms but which is shedding 5,000 Pillowtex jobs. Manufacturing businesses from electronics to furniture and fishing lures are closing their doors or moving production to China. The rapid erosion of well-paying jobs has wide implications for the economy. Consider that the US trade deficit with China is now running at an annual rate of $120 billion - a record single-country amount that is larger than America's entire trade deficit only six years ago. This will become the dominant economic policy issue in the US [over] the next five years, says Don Straszheim of Straszheim Global Advisors in Santa Monica, Calif. Indeed, China's export push is already becoming a front-burner issue in Washington. Congress has asked everyone from think-tank experts to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan for answers to the problem. Three members of the president's cabinet on a cross-country jaunt to promote the Bush economic plan have gotten an earful from angry businesspeople trying to compete with Chinese imports made by workers getting 50 cents an hour. The loss of jobs to imports is almost certain to be a recurring theme in the Presidential campaign next fall and beyond. The numbers are eye-opening. Chinese exports soared 22 percent last year. And it's not just low-cost towels. Exports of computer and telecom products are growing 60 percent annually. While American firms have struggled, Chinese companies reported profits rose in the first quarter by 56 percent from the previous year. To some, this may seem like a replay to the 1980s, when the US trade deficit with Japan swelled to about $50 billion a year. It seemed as if Japanese automakers and semiconductor companies would devastate the US economy. The atmosphere today reminds me of the 1980s, says Clayton Yeutter, who was the United States Trade Representative back then. Everyone worried about the Japanese being 10 feet tall, and all of that turned out to be inaccurate, recalls Mr. Yeutter, now of counsel at Hogan Hartson, a Washington law firm. Back then one of the major complaints was about the Japanese yen, which many felt was kept unreasonably low to benefit the big exporters. Today, business is complaining about the value of the Chinese yuan, which is pegged to the US dollar. It is hugely undervalued, says Frank Vargo, of the National Association of Manufacturers. It could be as much as 40 percent undervalued, and that is a major reason for the trade deficit. The argument has been picked up quickly by members of Congress. Last week, Rep. Donald Manzullo (R) of Illinois, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, was among 14 cosigners of a letter to the administration encouraging stronger action. Last week, Treasury Secretary John Snow said it was a critical issue that he intended to discuss with the Chinese during a planned trip this fall. Yeutter says a floating yuan would make China, now a corn exporter, a net importer of corn and soybeans. Mr. Manzullo says his district is among those feeling the heat from China. Unemployment in Rockford, Ill., is now 11.3 percent. Machine tool manufacturers, tool and die companies, and bolt and screw manufacturers are all struggling. One of those who has testified at the end of June before Congress is businessman Jay Bender of Falcon Plastics Inc. in Brookings, S.D. In an interview, he recounts how one of his customers, a manufacturer of fishing lures, has decided to move its production from the US to China. This would allow the company to cut its manufacturing costs by half. It asked him to bid on molds to make the plastic bait. He bid $25,000 per mold. That was a competitive price, he says. Instead, the company found a Chinese source for $3,000 a piece. I can't even buy raw materials for that, he says. There are two possibilities: Either they are subsidized by the government or they gave away the molds to get the manufacturing business, says the businessman, who has to lay off 30
[CTRL] Contracts, Monday, August 4, 2003
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 5:02 PM Subject: Contracts, Monday, August 4, 2003 CONTRACTS from the United States Department of DefenseNo. 569-03FOR RELEASE ATAug 04, 2003(703)697-5131(media)(703)428-0711(public/industry)Monday, August 4, 2003 - 5:00 PMContracts, Monday, August 4, 2003_CONTRACTS__NAVY_Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $1,932,012,688cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the system development and demonstration (SDD) ofthe E-2 Advanced Hawkeye (AHE). The SDD phase will consist of modifying two E-2Hawkeye 2000 aircraft to the E-2 AHE configuration. The contractor will design,develop, fabricate, assemble, integrate, furnish, manage, test, evaluate and supportthe software, hardware and engineering associated with the SDD phase. Work will beperformed in Bethpage, N.Y. (55.39%); at various locations across the United States(20.75%); Syracuse, N.Y. (13.91%); Baltimore, Md. (4.98%); Menlo Park, Calif.(3.22%); and El Segundo, Calif. (1.75%), and is expected to be completed in December2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Thiscontract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, PatuxentRiver, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-03-C-0057).[Web Version: http://www.dod.mil/contracts/2003/ct20030804.html]-- DODCONTRACTS-L distributes DoD contract announcements-- Contracts: http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/-- DoD News: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/dodnews.html-- Subscribe/Unsubscribe/FAQ: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/e-mail.html-- Today in DoD: http://www.defenselink.mil/today/ Weapon Spotlight, Defense Daily Network's newest feature, provides analysis on weapons that may be used in coming conflicts. To learn more about the weapons featured in this forum, visit DDN's searchable archive to read corresponding intelligence. Weapon Spotlight: E-2C Hawkeye airborne warning and control aircraft Manufacturer: Northrop Grumman [NOC] is prime contractor for the $51 million E-2C now in production. The latest version of the E-2C, Hawkeye 2000, produced since 1999 under a $1.4 billion five-year multiyear contract, includes mission computer upgrades and Raytheons [RTN] Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) hardware. E-2C is powered by two Rolls-Royce T-56-A427 turboprop engines, with a maximum speed of more than 300 knots and a service ceiling approaching 30,000 feet. Lockheed Martin [LMT], Raytheon [RTN], L-3 [LLL], and Britains BAE SYSTEMS are working with Northrop Grumman under that companys $49 million system development and demonstration contract for the E-2C radar modernization program (RMP), launched Jan. 8, 2002, to improve the APS-145 electronics housed in the planes 24-foot diameter rotating radome. The Advanced Hawkeye effort is also aimed at incorporating naval theater air and missile defense functions into the aircrafts current mission capabilities set. Characteristics: Northrop Grumman is producing 21 Hawkeye 2000s for the Navy, with the third aircraft delivered in April. Low-rate production for RMP-equipped Advanced Hawkeye may begin in 2006, with initial operational capability set for 2009. The Navy may buy 75 Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. In November 2002, the program received $69 million more, propelling a more than $2 billion system development and demonstration effort. The Advanced Hawkeye includes Lockheed Martins advanced UHF radar, an electronically steerable antenna by L-3 Communications [LLL]. Combat Use: Hawkeye 2000, which the Navy began receiving in 2001, went to sea for the first time aboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68) for service during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Advanced Hawkeye is to arrive at the end of the decade. Foreign Users: International customers include France, which is purchasing one Hawkeye 2000, and Taiwan, seeking to buy two Hawkeye 2000s. Japan and Egypt are funding fleet upgrade programs to modernize their E-2Cs. Egypt is also buying one additional new aircraft to augment its current fleet of five E-2Cs, part of a $174 million contract. Northrop Grumman notes the Hawkeye 2000 export configuration, does not include CEC and satellite communications capability. Analysis: The E-2 Advanced Hawkeye RMP and the E-2C reproduction Hawkeye are listed in the Navys Acquisition Category IC programs outline for 2003. Between now and the end of the decade, the Navy plans to use E-2C Advanced Hawkeye and RMP program funding to develop software associated with missions including cruise and ballistic missile defense, littoral warfare, combat
[CTRL] America, like Napoleon, takes colonialism to absurd lengths
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=983 History Repeats Itself Tamim Al-Barghouti - The Daily Star, Beirut, July 23,.2003 America, like Napoleon, takes colonialism to absurd lengths Sorry for the unprofessional language, but the decision taken by the Iraqi governing council to make April 9 Iraqs new national day is utterly stupid. But colonizers are generally stupid. Colonialism is based on intentional omission of information; blindness is a structural component of colonialism; the colonial master sees Africa but not the Africans, Palestine but not the Palestinians, Iraq but not the Iraqis. Nevertheless, the American stupidity in Iraq is, like many things American, exaggerated. When Napoleon first came to Cairo, he first tried the American trick to make an invasion look like a liberation. In a pamphlet distributed in Alexandria one day before the city fell into the hand of French troops, Napoleons translators introduced the _expression_ al-Umma al-Misriyya (the Egyptian community or nation) for the first time to the Arabic language. Napoleon claimed to be liberating the Egyptians from the Mamlouks, who were foreigners; he was a savior rather than an invader. Of course, to the people of Cairo, the Mamlouks and the Ottomans were no foreigners; Islam, not nationalism, was the basis of political identity. Al-Umma al-Islamiyya (the Islamic community, sometimes translated as the Islamic nation) was the only Umma around, especially when it came to dealing with Europe. Napoleon was quick in understanding that his invention did not work, so he swiftly changed his discourse. In order to avoid the inevitable comparison between his campaign and the Crusades, he kept asserting that he himself was not a Christian and that he had attacked the Popes seat in Rome. In his meeting with the notables of Cairo and the sheikhs of Al-Azhar University in July 1798 he claimed to be a Muslim himself. The officers of the French Army were ordered not to attack women, not to drink wine in public and not to enter mosques. He appointed a ruling council, just like the one Paul Bremer has composed in Iraq. Fourteen sheikhs of Al-Azhar university were now the administrative government of Egypt under French occupation. Their decrees all started by declaring the there was no God but God and that Mohammed was His Prophet. He even made this council of 14 issue a fatwa (a religious edict) stating that Napoleon was the awaited Mahdi, a religious figure, whose appearance, Muslims believe, would fill the land with justice just as it has been filled with oppression. They claimed that 20 verses of the Koran implicitly referred to Napoleon! It did not take the Egyptians long to respond to this nonsense. After a couple of months, Cairo was burning under the feet of the French. The younger sheikhs of Al-Azhar declared jihad, complaining that the clerics who supported Napoleon had become French and therefore ceased to be Muslims (a move that proved very effective in convincing many of the 14 sheikhs to rethink their political alliances, and join the revolt). The invaders were invaders after all, and they had no right to rule over Muslims, this was a new crusade, and Napoleon, despite his continuous declarations, was no different the Louis IX, and he deserved no better a destiny (Louis IX was locked in a judges house and hit with a thick stick everyday until he was returned to France on ransom). The British colonial discourses after World War I were no different. They claimed to save the peoples of the Middle East from despotic Turkish rulers, whom they, i.e. the British, decided were foreign to the region. The scheme did not work then either, and a lot of blood had to be spilled in Egypt, Palestine and Iraq just to get the message through: We hate you and we want you out of our lands. Nevertheless, clumsy and useless as these French and British measures were, the American policies in Iraq are much worse. Attacking Iraqi civilians had started 10 years before the invasion. The mass killing of Iraqis by the invisible weapon of mass destruction called the embargo could not have left kind feelings in the hearts of Iraqis. Then, right after the invasion, more killing of civilians, searching of homes, unveiling of women and humiliation took place. Americas war on terrorism has turned into a war on sentiments and feelings; any sympathy for Islam or Arabism is seen as a political danger, and that is stated in so many words. The first step the Americans took to bring democracy to Iraq was postponing elections indefinitely, only because the results might not suit them. Now this declaration by the governing council that April 9, the day Baghdad fell, is the national holiday, is just as stupid, ridiculous and useless, as the declaration by the 14 sheikhs that Napoleon was the Mahdi. Only this time, even the cautious steps that were taken by Napoleon and later on by the British are not there. When Napoleon declared that he
