From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Czech Banana Republic Forges Police State, Sacks Workers HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- [Turbo-charged NATO integration/subordination, wide-ranging police state powers and mass layoffs all at the same time: The war against terror just doesn't get any better than that.] Czech Defense Chief Calls for Unity in Fighting Terror PRAGUE, Jan 31, 2002 -- (dpa) Czech Republic Minister of Defense Jaroslav Trvdik said the country's police, intelligence and health services should join the military in protecting the country from terrorism. In an address to the Czech Senate, Tvrdik called for parliament to spread the cost of anti-terrorism initiatives to several agencies. "The responsibility for the next part of combating terrorism isn't only on the Defense Ministry and soldiers," he said. "Funding also is needed, above all, for activities by the Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry." The health ministry, for example, should be prepared to handle domestic threats and emergencies involving biological attacks, Trvdik said. And the interior ministry's intelligence services should be capable of tracking terrorists on Czech soil and cooperating with foreign intelligence agencies. In a related development Wednesday, the defense chief and a trade union representing civilian army workers signed an agreement that will lead to eliminating about 12,000 civilian jobs by 2006 as part of the ministry's reform plan tied to the phase-in of an all- volunteer army. Under the deal, workers will receive hefty severance allowances. (C)2002. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
