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http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610461,00.html Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver Sunday December 2, 2001 The Observer America intends to depose Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer has learnt. President George W. Bush has ordered the CIA and his senior military commanders to draw up detailed plans for a military operation that could begin within months. The plan, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders, threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'. http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2001-11-21/triangles.html The Poster Police A Durham student activist gets a visit from the Secret Service B Y J O N E L L I S T O N A.J. Brown, a 19-year-old freshman at Durham Tech... But then the man in the suit introduced himself and the woman as agents from the Raleigh office of the U.S. Secret Service. The other man was an investigator from the Durham Police Department. "Ma'am, we've gotten a report that you have anti-American material," the male agent said, according to Brown. Could they come in to have a look around? ....A poster of Bush, even if he's in a noose, is protected speech during wartime or peacetime," notes Alex Charns, a Durham attorney who specializes in civil rights. Such speech is all the more protected, he points out, when it's displayed within a person's home.... "If a trained police officer doesn't know the difference between political speech and a threat to the president, then we're all in trouble," Charns says. "If the Secret Service has nothing better to do than check on political posters, that's a bad sign." Ron Paul's Speech of 11/29/01 http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr112901.htm Congressman Ron Paul, House of Representatives, November 29, 2001 Keep Your Eye on the Target Mr. Speaker: We have been told on numerous occasions to expect a long and protracted war. This is not necessary if one can identify the target- the enemy- and then stay focused on that target. It's impossible to keep one's eye on a target and hit it if one does not precisely understand it and identify it. In pursuing any military undertaking, it's the responsibility of Congress to know exactly why it appropriates the funding. Today, unlike any time in our history, the enemy and its location remain vague and pervasive. In the undeclared wars of Vietnam and Korea, the enemy was known and clearly defined, even though our policies were confused and contradictory. Today our policies relating to the growth of terrorism are also confused and contradictory; however, the precise enemy and its location are not known by anyone. Until the enemy is defined and understood, it cannot be accurately targeted or vanquished. The terrorist enemy is no more an entity than the "mob"or some international criminal gang. It certainly is not a country, nor is it the Afghan people. The Taliban is obviously a strong sympathizer with bin Laden and his henchmen, but how much more so than the government of Saudi Arabia or even Pakistan? Probably not much. http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2001-daily/17-11-2001/national/n4.htm The News International November 17, 2001-- Ramadan 01,1422 A.H ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mounting concern over human cost of war in Afghanistan QUETTA: Doctors and relief workers are voicing growing concerns that the psychological impact of the war in Afghanistan is not being addressed as the human cost mounts. There are no accurate figures on how many civilians have been killed, wounded or maimed in Afghanistan since the US unleashed its military might on October 7, but it undoubtedly runs into the hundreds, perhaps thousands. Millions more Afghans have been displaced, watched family members die or their homes destroyed. Outside of Afghanistan, the most visible sign of the human impact can be seen in this southwestern Pakistani city, close to the border where the war-wounded and others who have run for their lives are found. Doctors at the city's main hospital, the Sandeman Provincial, treat new cases every day and are now running out of a lack of supplies, particularly the metal plates used to repair limbs crushed by falling walls. They estimate they have seen at least 60 seriously injured people in the weeks since the US started bombing. Quetta's other hospitals have treated similar numbers, as has the basic medical facility at Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan. Psychiatrists have also had to cope with a massive rise in patient numbers. "A large number have post traumatic stress disorder," Dr. Ghulam Rasool, consultant psychiatrist at the Bolam Medical College said. Rasool is one of just five psychiatrists in Quetta and is seeing at least 100 patients a day, more than 60 percent of whom are traumatised Afghans. And that, he says, is just the tip of the iceberg..... http://www.truthout.com/11.17A.Oil.Taliban.htm U.S. Policy Towards Taliban Influenced by Oil - Say Authors By Julio Godoy, Inter Press Service "Several meetings took place this year, under the arbitration of Francesc Vendrell, personal representative of UN secretary general Kofi Annan, to discuss the situation in Afghanistan," says the book. "Representatives of the U.S. government and Russia, and the six countries that border with Afghanistan were present at these meetings," it says. "Sometimes, representatives of the Taliban also sat around the table." These meetings, also called "6+2" because of the number of states (six neighbours plus U.S. and Russia) involved, have been confirmed by Naif Naik, former Pakistani Minister for Foreign Affairs. In a French television news programme two weeks ago, Naik said during a "6+2" meeting in Berlin in July, the discussions turned around "the formation of a government of national unity. If the Taliban had accepted this coalition, they would have immediately received international economic aid." "And the pipe lines from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would have come," he added. Naik also claimed that Tom Simons, the U.S. representative at these meetings, openly threatened the Taliban and Pakistan. "Simons said, 'either the Taliban behave as they ought to, or Pakistan convinces them to do so, or we will use another option'. The words Simons used were 'a military operation'," Naik claimed. NYT - December 3, 2001 THE SPORES - Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S. By WILLIAM J. BROAD The dry powder used in the anthrax attacks is virtually indistinguishable in critical technical respects from that produced by the United States military before it shut down its biowarfare program, according to federal scientists and a report prepared for a military contractor. 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