[CTRL] FL: Governor Changes Executive Order Four Days Before Attack
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/sep/29/arst092901.htm FL: Governor Changes Executive Order Four Days Before Attack (Paragragh added that mentions 'terrorism') Sierra Times 09.28.01 Executive Orders by state Governors are made in cases of state emergencies wherein martial law is declared and authority needs to be delegated. These Executive Orders are on the books and are revised from time to time. In the State of Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R), an Executive Order was signed on January 19, 2001, wherein authority was delegated in case of emergencies and in cases of drug smuggling. At the end of the order, it said that it would be revised in June of 2003 unless earlier revoked. Jeb Bush is the brother of President George W. Bush. EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-17 On September 7, 2001, Florida's governor revoked the old Executive Order and issued a new one. In the new one he added one additional paragraph, i.e. Section 3 (the old Section 3, now became Section 4), and it speaks of acts of terrorism on ports in Florida. ... The Florida National Guard may order selected members on to state active duty for service to the State of Florida pursuant to Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to assist FDLE in performing port security training and inspections. Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism, and inhibiting the smuggling of illegal drugs into the State of Florida, the use of the Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing port security training and inspections is extraordinary support to law enforcement as used in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes. .. - FL EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-261 What is interesting is that the old Executive Order anticipated a revision in the year 2003, unless revoked sooner. It was revoked sooner on September 7, 2001, 4 days before the attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the new Executive Order is identical to the old Executive Order, with the one exception of the new paragraph that speaks of acts of terrorism. -- Best wishes ...war itself is a moral substitute for many things that are far worse. While the late combat to free the world from Wagner, Koch and Nietzsche was being fought, no one heard anything about the Ku Klux Klan, or, indeed, about Prohibition. These horrors descended upon us when the Armistice was signed, and millions of morons found themselves without entertainment. - H. L. Mencken A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/new s/2001/09/30/wtal30.xml -- Best wishes Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. -Rebecca West A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) Thirty attacks against West are still to com, says Italy
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 2001 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330021- 2001335716,00.html The Times (U.K.) FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME ITALYS secret services told US and British intelligence in July that Tony Blair and President Bush were the targets of an Islamic terrorist plot to assassinate them, from the air, at the Genoa G8 summit. They believe that a further 30 attacks, including some form of airborne assault, are still planned against London and other Western capitals. A report by SISDE, Italys equivalent of MI5, warned its counterparts in London, Washington and European capitals that Osama bin Laden had devised a plan to attack the Genoa summit with the specific aim of killing Mr Bush and Mr Blair, according to the newspaper La Repubblica yesterday. His target was and is the Anglo-American alliance above all, one intelligence source said. La Repubblica said that the report, sent to SISDEs Western counterparts and all Italian anti-terrorist units on July 6, two weeks before the summit, contained many details not only of what actually happened on September 11, but also of what may happen in the US and in Europe. It said that Italy had been one of the first countries to focus on the terrorist threat because of security fears before Genoa. The Italian assessment had not been given sufficient attention by other Western nations in the two months between Genoa and the attacks in America. Italian officials said they could confirm that the deployment in Genoa of special forces, radar and anti-aircraft missiles had not just been a reaction to the violent antiglobalisation protests. President Mubarak of Egypt confirmed this week that there had been intelligence warnings of an airborne threat at Genoa, although no one had imagined this might take the form of Boeings full of passengers slamming into buildings. It is not clear why the Genoa plot was abandoned. Gianfranco Fini, the Deputy Prime Minister, said that many people had scoffed at Italian security measures at Genoa as melodramatic, but perhaps those people will now reflect. La Repubblica quoted intelligence sources as saying that they had been tipped off originally that bin Laden was seeking to develop some kind of plane or airborne device which could avoid detection by radar and could thus be used to evade anti-aircraft defences and attack Genoa, and subsequently Western capitals. It said that the under-valued report had stated that the terrorists meant to strike US and British targets including the American and British capitals. This phrase in the SISDE report had been in bold type and underlined. Italian anti-terrorism experts agreed that it seemed unlikely that bin Laden s organisation could have developed a radar-invisible device or aircraft. But they said that Italys information was that he still had more than 60 suicide terrorists in the West. They claimed that there were as many as 1,200 members of al-Qaeda, the bin Laden terrorist network, in Britain alone. Since September 11, Italian police have arrested dozens of suspected terrorists in Rome, Milan, Turin, Cagliari and Bari and raided mosques and Islamic foundations suspected of using charities as a cover for fundraising for terrorists. Police said that a Syrian suspect held in Sardinia, named as Hassaim Lailed, had taken part in a machine-gun attack on the British Airways office in Rome 18 years ago, when he was 17. He had been deported after a jail sentence, but had re-entered Italy illegally. When arrested at Nuoro he had been wearing a T-shirt with an image of bin Laden on it. According to the Italian assessments, the attacks in the US were part of an enormous terrorist operation which includes planned outrages against Italy and the Vatican. The Pope returned yesterday after a tour of Kazakhstan and Armenia, during which he appealed for peace and the avoidance of catastrophic bloodshed, but also condemned terrorism. Police are on high alert for tomorrows Mass at St Peters Basilica. Italian officials say that the country has been in the forefront of the fight against terrorism, not least during the 1970s and 1980s when the Red Brigades engaged in murder and kidnapping. Italian experience in anti-terrorism and the monitoring of illegal immigrants was being put at the disposal of the global coalition. Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard terms and conditions. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from The Times, visit the Syndication website. --- End of forwarded message --- -- Best wishes War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you. - G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 7/24/15 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds
[CTRL] W.'s Paper Chase
-Caveat Lector- http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09- 28/pols_feature2.html HOME: VOL.21 NO.4: NEWS: W.'S PAPER CHASE Bush Attempts to Have His State Papers Declared Federal Property W.'s Paper Chase BY LUCIUS LOMAX September 28, 2001: Where Is Angelina Eberly When We Need Her? According to the Handbook of Texas, in 1842 Republic of Texas President Sam Houston tried to move the Texas capital to the city of Houston. Austinites fiercely opposed the move, and when Texas Rangers came to transport the state's papers out of Austin, innkeeper Eberly fired a cannon at them, setting off what became known as the Archive War. As George W. Bush attempts to abscond with his gubernatorial papers, Eberly's cannon might come in handy again. illustration by Doug Potter In January, while the eyes of the world were on recounts in Florida and the never-ending U.S. presidential election, a convoy of trucks left the state Capitol complex in Austin. The trucks were on a 110- mile trip to the southeast, to College Station and Texas AM University -- specifically, to the George Bush Presidential Library on the AM campus. Carrying 60 shrink-wrapped pallets of documents, the convoy was removing Gov. George W. Bush's gubernatorial records from direct state control and passing them into the hands of federal archivists, already working to catalog the papers of the elder Bush's government service. The move was not remarked upon or apparently even announced in Austin. But as early as 1997, the younger Bush had made clear his intention to store his gubernatorial records at the library devoted to his father's government service, instead of at the state archives in Austin. Frustrated at first by a Texas law that would have in theory barred him from housing his papers at the presidential library at AM (a federal facility, managed by the National Archives and Records Administration), Gov. George W. Bush had successfully sought state legislation which would allow him to designate an institution of higher education or alternate archival institution in the state, in lieu of the Texas State Library and Archives, as the repository for the records of the executive office of the governor. But what began in 1997 as an effort by the then-governor simply to house his public papers with those of his father has, step by step -- with some assistance from the current occupant of the Governor's Mansion -- led to a legal struggle conducted behind closed doors. The final outcome, intended or not, may be to keep the record of George W. Bush's six-year term in Austin out of reach of historians and journalists -- and the public -- at least until Bush's term in the White House ends, and perhaps longer. There is some doubt about who has ownership [of the Bush documents] now, State Archivist Chris LaPlante told the State Library Commission at a meeting earlier this year, in which the impasse between the state and federal governments was discussed. (The discussions are available to the public on audiotape.) And because of the difficulty of accessing these records, it's entirely possible that at some point, someone could take legal action under the Texas Public Information Act for failure of the Bush Library to provide the information that one has requested, in accordance with the Public Information Act. Of course on their hand, [the archival staff of the Bush Library] is saying 'That's a state law, that doesn't apply to us.' They're only liable for the Freedom of Information Act, a federal law. It's really important that this issue be resolved. George W. Bush is not the first former Texas governor to consign his papers to a repository other than the state archives. John Connally, for example, left his papers to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library at UT. Bill Clements' archives are also at AM, although not housed in the federal archives. But a crucial difference separates these past cases from what President Bush is now attempting to do. The state of Texas retained title to the official papers of Connally and Clements, and the State Library and Archives kept copies of the documents as well. In the case of the Bush papers, state archivists have never been permitted even to sort through the complete documents, or arrange or classify them. President Bush's private attorney, supported by Gov. Perry's office, is apparently now taking the position that the records no longer belong to the state. State archivists have offered to catalog the records for the Bush Library either at College Station or during a temporary return to Austin. I think we have more agreement with the National Archives and Records Administration than we do with other units of state government, said one State Library official, alluding to the difference of opinion between the state agency and Gov. Perry. We can deal with [NARA] as archival professionals, and they know the kind of work that needs to be done. They know they can't do it. They know they're not
[CTRL] Stories that have gone missing
-Caveat Lector- 1. The collapse of the Queen Isabella Causeway connecting Padre with the mainland. This occurred on 9/11 and was said to be caused by an off course tug towing a barge. Has anyone heard or read any more about this? Who was piloting the tug? Has there been any investigation? If you have any recent links, I'd appreciate your sharing them with me. 2. Yesterday there was an article titled Bin Laden's Son Warns US - I'm pretty sure it was in The Telegraph - in which his 10 year old son was quoted as saying Hatred of Americans is the basis of the faith. Fifteen minutes later I went back to archive the article and it was no longer there. It's frightening how rapidly our news is being sanitized. Did anyone else see it? Does anyone have a copy? 3. The recent explosion at a chemical factory in France a few days ago which was initially said to be an accident. I heard briefly on the radio that it is now thought not to be accidental, but there hasn't been any news coverage as far as I can tell. Do any of you have any additional information on this? -- Best wishes Another pervasive -- and dangerous -- sign of the mushy thinking of our time are the flagrantly fraudulent phrases that pass muster in the media and in politics.á None is more fraudulent than the word 'asking' in discussions of public policy issues. Liberals love to say things like, 'We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share.'áá But government is not about asking.á It is about telling.á The difference is fundamental.á It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay. - Thomas Sowell A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) [AlasBabylon] Dutch-North African Muslim Hooligans
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- International Terrorist Support Groups Thrive in Belgium and Netherlands Adriana Stuijt Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 ROTTERDAM Top international anti-terrorism experts have identified two of Europe's most legally tolerant regions namely, the Dutch-language areas around Europe's most important west coast harbors, Antwerp and Rotterdam as the main breeding ground for Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist groups. Osama bin Laden 's organization even runs shipping companies as fronts from Amsterdam. The British researcher Dr. R. Gunaratna warned that, especially in The Netherlands, because of its total lack of anti- terrorism laws and its very high level of religious, cultural and judicial tolerance, Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist groups are allowed to thrive. They use Amsterdam and Rotterdam as central bases in the West from which they garnish funds, recruit activists from the local Muslim youth cultural groups, and purchase highly sophisticated arms in the world's largest trading hub: Rotterdam harbor. The Kurdish PKK, the Tamil Tigers and the Philippines' New People's Army all use the liberal Dutch territory, from which they garnish new converts, turn them into activist supporters, launder and raise funds and purchase sophisticated equipment. These Dutch-based groups, especially, also create waves of propaganda material and, being based in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, also have no difficulty in purchasing any weapons and other high-tech support materials with which to mount terrorist attacks abroad. A New Form of Terrorism Another new, disturbing pattern pointing to a new form of terrorism against the civilian population at large has been detected in both harbor towns of Antwerp and Rotterdam: Muslim cultural organizationshave also turned the streets of Antwerp and Rotterdam into main battlegrounds for Muslim-fundamentalist male criminal youth gangs who deliberately attack, rob and invade ethno-European cultural events and throngs of shoppers in the large shopping districts. These well-organized attacks are leaving the local Dutch-speaking ethno-Europeans totally vulnerable and defenseless because their governments have no anti-terrorist laws with which to stop such highly aggressive youth groups from forming in the first place. For instance, about 5.1 percent of Rotterdam's population is of Moroccan origin yet about 10 percent of all the city's arrested criminal suspects are of Moroccan origin, according to Rotterdam's latest police statistics issued by chief inspector J. Verbeek and Erasmus University. In the Dutch-speaking region's latest criminal youth gang attack in Belgium, in the suburb of Hasselt in Antwerp on Sept. 24, large groups of Algerian-Moroccan youths, centrally organized by cell phones and armed with batons and insecticide spray, attacked hundreds of local Flemish citizens holding their traditional end-of-summer fair and circus event at Kruger market square. Many eyewitnesses who described the terror and destruction at the usually jolly and peaceful Flemish circus fair said the Algerian and Moroccan youths targeted especially women and girls as the youth gangs tore into the carnival goers, spraying people's eyes with insecticides and deodorants; spitting at and insulting especially the Flemish; ordering the girls and women to wear headscarves and calling them whores; cursing the men as Flemish pork-eaters; spitting on and befouling with urine and soil the carnival's traditional pancake dinners and destroying the antique, highly valuable carousel and circus equipment hired for the Hasselt community carnival. Flemish old-age pensioners and children alike were forced to flee in fear of being blinded by spray, and were beaten up and kicked. The Flemish carnival goers all local residents had to flee from a steady stream of loud, rude verbal abuse from the young Algerians and Moroccans invading their neighborhood. Many witnesses also said the youths chanted popular slogans used by the Muslim-terrorist organization GIA. Some of these events were described in a local Antwerp newspaper. Carnival goers who tried to remain and finish their traditional pancake meals or who tried to protect the antique circus equipment were physically attacked by kick-boxing youths. The equipment and musical instruments were destroyed during the racist rampage. There were very few police in attendance. The mainstream Belgian news media briefly described the event as a scuffleat a local carnival without mentioning the racist overtones. In Rotterdam, only about 60 miles north of Antwerp, a similar pattern has also been developing over the past year, with widespread reports of assaults by Moroccan-Algerian youth gangs described by Dutch police as criminal youth gangs of North African descentbut who are described by the news media as being highly centrally organized through cell phones. These gangs target major shopping districts and traditional European
[CTRL] (Fwd) [AlasBabylon] Fwd: From the Wall Street Journal
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001194 MIDEAST DISPATCH Whooping It Up In Beirut, even Christians celebrated the atrocity. BY ELISABETTA BURBA Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT BEIRUT--Where were you on Sept. 11, when terrorists changed the world? I was at the National Museum here, enjoying the wonders of the ancient Phoenicians with my husband. This tour of past splendor only magnified the shock I received later when I heard the news and saw the reactions all around me. Walking downtown, I realized that the offspring of this great civilization were celebrating a terrorist outrage. And I am not talking about destitute people. Those who were cheering belonged to the elite of the Paris of Middle East: professionals wearing double-breasted suits, charming blond ladies, pretty teenagers in tailored jeans. Trying to find our bearings, my husband and I went into an American-style cafe in the Hamra district, near Rue Verdun, rated as one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. Here the cognitive dissonance was immediate, and direct. The café's sophisticated clientele was celebrating, laughing, cheering and making jokes, as waiters served hamburgers and Diet Pepsi. Nobody looked shocked, or moved. They were excited, very excited. An hour later, at a little market near the U.S. Embassy, on the outskirts of Beirut, a thrilled shop assistant showed us, using his hands, how the plane had crashed into the twin towers. He, too, was laughing. Once back at the house where we were staying, we started scanning the international channels. Soon came reports of Palestinians celebrating. The BBC reporter in Jerusalem said it was only a tiny minority. Astonished, we asked some moderate Arabs if that was the case. Nonsense,said one, speaking for many. Ninety percent of the Arab world believes that Americans got what they deserved. An exaggeration? Rather an understatement. A couple of days later, we headed north to Tripoli, near the Syrian border. On the way, we read that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who donated blood in front of the cameras, was rejecting any suggestion that his people were rejoicing over the terrorist attack. It was less than 10 children in Jerusalem,he said. In the bustling souk of Tripoli we started looking for the Great Mosque, a 1294 building with a distinctive Lombard- style tower. But in that labyrinth, nobody spoke anything but Arabic, which we don't speak. Finally, in a dark shop, we found an old gentleman who knew French. His round white cap showed that he was a devout Muslim. Leaning on his stick, he managed to get on the street and with most exquisite manners gave us directions. Common decency survives all. Once at the mosque I donned a black chador, but our Lonely Planet guide attracted the attention of a hard-looking bearded guy all the same. Are you Americans?he asked in a menacing tone. Our quick denial made him relax. He gave us the green light to go in. But very soon afterward we were again approached, by a fat young man. He turned out to be one of the 350,000 Palestinians who live in Lebanon, unwelcome by most of the population and subject to severe hardships. Hearing we were Italians, first he recited like a prayer names of Italian soccer players. We were relieved at first that he wanted to talk about sports, but he soon moved on to politics and the events. My people have been crushed under the heel of American imperialism, which took away our land, massacred our beloved and denied our right to life. But have you seen what happened in New York City? God Almighty has drawn his sword against our enemies. God is great--Allah u Akbar,he said. I heard these appeals to religion so often that I needed some theological help. How can God do evil?I later asked an Arab friend, a businessman with an international background. According to what I learnt in my catechism, God lets evil happen. He doesn't do it,I said, and he answered: The Koran has the same teaching, but blood calls for blood. What about compassion? I asked, pointing out that Jesus had turned the other cheek. Isn't Allah also always called the Merciful? He is, but when a people has been begging for a piece of land for 52 years and it has experienced only bloodshed, what can you expect?But the victims of the World Trade Center were civilians, I insisted. In the new intifada, 500 Palestinians have been killed. America didn't give a damn, so why should Muslims care now about those who died in the twin towers? It's hard, but that's the way they see it. I couldn't help it. I kept remembering how a day earlier, in Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder had talked about clash of civilizations. On Thursday night, in the Christian northern part of Beirut, we heard some loud noises. Probably they are celebrating the attacks,someone told us when we asked. You mean the Maronite Christians are also celebrating? I asked. Yes, they also feel
[CTRL] (Fwd) [AlasBabylon] Fwd: Dispatches From a Dying Country
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Democracy is a recent experiment.It is barely over 200 years old in the USA, and less than two hundred years old in the rest of the world.In many, maybe most, European countries, it is less than a century old--that's less than 4 generations.In Germany, Japan,India, and Israel, only 2 generations old.In half of Europe, and in the rising young capitalist democracies of East Asia, it is less than 1 generation old.In Latin America and Africa, it is an on again, off again affair.Even the world's oldest democracy, the USA, has experimented with universal suffrage only for 36 years.Since the emergence of democracy is coincident with rapidly expanding economies, I expect that the eventual arrival of steady-state economics will witness the end of democratic systems of governance; but democracy shows signs of fragility already in some western countries. In my batch of materials I received today from the Libertarian Alliance in London is a promo piece for a book, Dispatches From a Dying Country: Reflections on Modern England,by Sean Gabb.Here is the back cover blurb: Dispatches From a Dying Countryis an ascerbic account of the gradual deconstruction of the essentially liberal traditions of England, a country that the author argues--and documents--is moving ever closer to a police state. England is becoming a nation of serfs under surveillance, harried for their own alleged good by governments and special interests that make use of assorted moral panics to establish their hegemony. The alleged menage of religious cults, of drugs, drunk drivers, demonic gun owners, paedophiles, pornographers and the spectre of racismare just parts of the plague of mythological and socially constructed pseudo-menaces that are used to engineer the legitimation of our rulers. Dr. Gabb further exposes the sordid power lusts, tactics and hypocrisies of what he terms the Enemy Class--the parasitic class of politicians, administrators, lawyers, experts,educators, media people and state employees--who are constructing their new order on a trumped-up basis of post-socialist corporatism and politically correctpieties. He is no less virulent, however, against what he calls the Quisling Right, those Tory politicians and their media cronies who posture as defenders of freedom, but who do nothing effective to defend it in practice. The publisher is: The Hampden Press London, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --- End of forwarded message --- -- Best wishes It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote. - G K. Chesterton,ILN, 8/17/18 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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
Re: [CTRL] Stories that have gone missing
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Sep 2001 at 17:55, Euphorian wrote: Read my post To Lose in Toulouse (this list) dated 29th Sept 2001. Your post apparently didn't make it into the archives. Here is a new article on the subject that just arrived. --- http://thescotsman.co.uk/text_only.cfm?id=111914 MYSTERY deepened yesterday around the massive explosion that ripped through a chemical plant on the outskirts of Toulouse last Friday, leaving 29 people dead, over 2,500 injured and thousands more homeless. The official explanation, that it was an accident is being challenged by witnesses, chemical experts and the media, who lean towards a deliberate attack on the AZF factory, Frances largest producer of fertilisers. Witnesses cited in the daily Le Figaro yesterday say they saw a flash of light moving towards the factory, quickly followed by a small explosion and then the second, devastating, blast. An 18-year-old hairdresser named only as Emilie who lived less than 200yd from the factory was in the garden just before the blast. Suddenly, I saw a sort of flash, like a shaft of light, heading towards the factory warehouse in the space of just a few seconds. There was a first explosion. Panic-stricken, I took refuge in my bedroom and put my head under the covers. Almost immediately, there was a massive blast. Her father, an electrician and fire officer at a neighbouring explosives factory, saw the same thing - a sort of projectile flying at a good height over the roof-tops. Their accounts were confirmed by Emilies brother and other factory employees. However, Emilie and her family told Le Figaro her fathers and brothers statements have been ignored. The police already believed only in the theory of an accident. However, lots of people in Toulouse are thinking it and we saw it: it was a terrorist attack and nothing else, she told the daily. Experts have also called into question the authorities insistence on accidental causes. Louis Médard, an engineer, has analysed the worlds ten worst explosions over the last 80 years. He concludes these disasters have always been the result of an explosive charge in a hardened substance or of a prolonged fire ... in confined conditions. However, as Le Figaro and Le Monde have both pointed out, there was no fire in the warehouse before the blast. As for an explosive charge, the manager of the AZF factory, Serge Biechlin told Le Figaro: The remains of all sensitive equipment located near the warehouse were inspected after the blast - not one of them had exploded. If there was a projectile, it could only have come from outside the factory. Investigators have referred to the compost effect, saying that heat at the base of the 200 to 300 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the warehouse could have triggered the explosion. The heat could have been generated by decomposing nitrates mixed with impurities which acted as a catalyst. However, temperatures inside the warehouse would have had to reach at least 150C to set off an explosion, and this would have activated the heat detectors. Susan Bell In Paris Saturday, 29th September 2001 The Scotsman -- Best wishes Behavior that would rank as clincal paranoia in ordinary life, becomes pragmatic caution in the world of intelligence. -Jesus James Angleton, former director of counter- intelligence for the CIA. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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
Re: [CTRL] Stories that have gone missing
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Sep 2001 at 17:05, thew wrote: -Caveat Lector- it can be found hidden in the new york times No kidding it's hidden. I've put every search term I can think of in the Times' archive search and still haven't found it. -- Best wishes ...secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. ~~Robert Heinlein: Revolt in 2100 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) Some Good News RE: Anthrax
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From: Dallas O Tohill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Some Good News! Date sent: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:26:42 -0400 New Agent Destroys Anthrax, Safe For Animals And Environment From Patricia Doyle, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Michigan 9-28-1 SAN DIEGO - BCTP looks like skim milk. Laboratory rats gain weight when they eat it. Spray it on your lawn and the grass will thrive. But according to tests conducted by University of Michigan scientists, this seemingly benign material could be a potent weapon against anthrax---one of the deadliest bacteria on Earth. In a presentation at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) on Sept. 26, Michael Hayes, research associate in the U-M Medical School, presented experimental evidence of BCTP's ability to destroy anthrax spores both in a culture dish and in mice exposed to anthrax through a skin incision. James R. Baker Jr., M.D., professor of internal medicine and director of the Center for Biologic Nanotechnology in the U-M Medical School, directed the research study. BCTP was developed by D. Craig Wright, M.D., chief research scientist at Novavax, Inc.---a bio-pharmaceutical company in Columbia, Md.--- and president of Novavax Biologics Division. According to Wright, the material is made of water, soybean oil, Triton X 100 detergent and the solvent tri-n-butyl phosphate. One of the most remarkable characteristics of this material is its ability to rapidly destroy a wide variety of dangerous bacteria and viruses, while remaining non-toxic to people, animals or the environment, Baker said. BCTP's effectiveness against anthrax spores is especially significant, because they are so difficult to kill. Spores are like freeze-dried bacteria, Baker explained. Their tough outer coat is resistant to disinfectants, freezing, drought, virtually anything we can throw at them. Spores can survive in the environment for many years and still generate live bacteria when given the right combination of water, nutrients and temperature. Concentrated doses of strong disinfectants like bleach or formaldehyde will kill anthrax spores, according to Baker. Unfortunately, they also are toxic to people and the environment, which makes them useless for decontaminating a person, a piece of land or equipment exposed to the bacteria. Since the Persian Gulf War, military authorities have become increasingly concerned about the threat anthrax and other biological warfare agents pose both to our armed forces and civilian populations. Anthrax is often fatal and easily dispersed through air or water, Baker said. We know that countries hostile to the United States have developed strains of anthrax which are resistant to antibiotics and existing vaccines. To counter that threat, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is testing several possible new weapons against these biologic agents---including BCTP. When properly formulated, the components in BCTP form an emulsion of tiny lipid droplets suspended in solvent, said Wright. These lipids fuse with anthrax spores causing the spore to revert to its active bacterial state. During this process, which takes four to five hours, the spore's tough outer membrane changes allowing BCTP's solvent to strip away the exterior membrane. BCTP's detergent then degrades the spore's interior contents. In scanning electron microscope images, the spores appear to explode. In his conference presentation, Hayes described how even low concentrations of BCTP killed more than 90 percent of virulent strains of Bacillus anthracis spores in a culture dish. We observed sporicidal activity with dilutions as high as one part BCTP per 1,000 parts culture media, Hayes said. To determine its toxicity to animals, U-M scientists fed large amounts of BCTP to laboratory rats and injected mice with the material subcutaneously. The animals gained weight, remained healthy and suffered no adverse effects. To determine BCTP's effectiveness at treating animals exposed to anthrax spores, Baker's research team subcutaneously injected mice with Bacillus cereus---a closely related species of bacteria that can be safely handled in a university laboratory setting. Like B. anthracis, its lethal relative, B. cereus produces large, ulcerous areas of dead tissue if it penetrates the skin through a cut or injury. If untreated, these skin infections spread systemically, producing severe illness and death in 80 percent of the laboratory mice in the study. When we washed the animal's skin lesions with BCTP, the wounds began to heal, Baker said. Mice receiving BCTP either simultaneously with B. cereus spores or whose wounds were washed with BCTP an hour after exposure had a 95 percent reduction in lesion size. The death rate for mice receiving BCTP was only 20 percent. Rapid inactivation of anthrax bacteria and spores combined with low toxicity makes BCTP a
[CTRL] Bin Laden told mother to expect big news
-Caveat Lector- In call before attacks, Bin Laden told mother to expect big news Intelligence service taped incriminating call two days before hijackings, sources tell NBC NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES Oct. 1 Osama bin Laden called his mother two days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks and told her, In two days youre going to hear big news and youre not going to hear from me for a while, NBC News has learned. Word of the phone call came as President Bush reported good progress in the battle against terrorism, saying authorities around the world had frozen $6 million in assets linked to terrorist activities and arrested or detained about 150 terrorists and their supporters. -- Best wishes Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. ~ P.J. O'Rourke A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Companies 'are paying protection money' to terrorists
-Caveat Lector- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=9694 3 01 October 2001 21:39 GMT+1 Companies 'are paying protection money' to terrorists By Paul Peachey 01 October 2001 Campaigns waged by terrorist organisations are being partly financed through protection rackets that extort money from respected large corporations across the world, it was claimed yesterday. Oil companies in South America and Middle Eastern airlines are among those paying to prevent their businesses being damaged, according to the magazine Forbes Global. It claimed timber companies in South-east Asia have also made protection payments and until recently, a Jewish-owned bank was paying off the Lebanese Islamist group Hizbollah. An executive in the financial division of a state-owned oil company in southern Europe claimed that donating money to Islamic groups was a cost of doing business in the Middle East. He said: I have been more and more worried about these transactions over the last seven or eight years, because friends in our government's secret service have told me that a number of these intermediaries have direct links to terrorist organisations. Reports have suggested that the 11 September attacks cost the terrorists about $500,000 (£340,000), which was in part spent on renting cars, flights and large cash withdrawals. Last week, President George Bush issued the equivalent of a financial most-wanted list of groups and individuals in an attempt to starve them of funding. The move was seen as a largely symbolic gesture. Money-laundering experts have dismissed as unworkable attempts to control the terrorists' movements of funds. The man accused of being behind the outrages, Osama bin Laden, is thought to earns hundreds of millions of pounds every year from both legal and illegal activities. Al-Qa'ida, the organisation that he helped establish in Afghanistan 12 years ago, employs some 3,000 civilians and maintains 2,000 armed troops. The group operates communications equipment, training bases and safe houses around the world, which are used by extremists from Egypt to the Philippines. Frank Cilluffo, of the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said: I look at bin Laden as the chief financial officer of a very loose coalition of radicals. It's not a monolithic, hierarchical organisation. But he is the glue that holds these groups together with money, training and support. The financing for his network comes partly from his inheritance of up to £42m and from a cut of the profits from Afghanistan's lucrative heroin trade. Further funding comes from charities, stock market investments and stakes in a variety of businesses in Sudan. The magazine found that Mr bin Laden also controls an Islamic bank and has a majority stake in a plantation. He is likely to use tools such as offshore internet banks to help keep his financial activities secret, experts said. -- Best wishes Wars are caused by undefended wealth. - Douglas MacArthur, New York Daily News, November 18, 1945. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Court Passes on Scientology Libel Case
-Caveat Lector- Court Passes on Scientology Libel Case The Associated Press Monday, Oct. 1, 2001; 11:40 a.m. EDT WASHINGTON Ten years after Time magazine ran an award- winning article portraying the Church of Scientology as a greedy cult, the Supreme Court refused Monday to consider reinstating the church's libel case. Time Warner Inc. had steadfastly defended the 10-page article and said it refused to be intimidated by the church's apparently limitless legal resources. The church contended that the writer was biased and only interviewed critics. Scientology, founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, requires members to take classes and counseling that can cost thousands of dollars. The May 1991 article entitled, Scientology: The Cult of Greed, said that the so-called religion is really a ruthless global scam. Time said the cover story was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, the Worth Bingham Prize and the Conscience in Media Awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. The church had said the story had multiple defamatory comments. While in the past certain church officials concededly committed improper acts ... most of the allegations of past misconduct were false and distorted, the result of the misunderstanding, suspicion and prejudice that typically greet a new religion, the church told the Supreme Court. A judge had dismissed the lawsuit and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Time was not guilty of writing the report with actual malice, which is the standard for libel cases involving public groups or people. The church told the Supreme Court that the rulings rather than encouraging the search for truth, provide a safe harbor for biased journalism. The case is Church of Scientology International v. Time Warner Inc., 00-1683. On the Net: U.S. Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourtus.gov © Copyright 2001 The Associated Press Back to the top -- Best wishes Lesson for life number one: If it moves, kill it. Lesson for life number two: If you can't kill it, for God's sake don't talk about it to the Associated Press. - Cecil Adams Maybe if more people challenged the status quo and demanded more from politicians and newsmen there would be better understanding of how things work (or don't). Children manage to do this daily, yet many adults give way without question. This is worrisome to many of us who believe asking tough questions is the best way to live and remain free. -Paul M. Rodriguez A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) NO FRIENDS OF LIBERTY IN FOXHOLES?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: ME [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:01:25 -0400 NO FRIENDS OF LIBERTY IN FOXHOLES? by David M. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exclusive to TLE http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/index.html Are there no libertarians in foxholes? In a recent op-ed first published by the _Boston Globe_, reprinted by _Reason Magazine_ at their web site, then reprinted by the electronic newsletter _Freematt's Alerts_, Cathy Young opines that maybe individual rights and human freedom aren't so sacrosanct after all -- not if we're in a foxhole and the terrorists are lunging at us with box-cutters in their teeth. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, perhaps there are no libertarians in them either, Young suggests. I don't know. It's a theory. Perhaps no foxhole residents possess any convictions of any kind. Perhaps the human spirit simply shrivels and withers in foxholes. But I doubt it. Do I like the idea of people being able to encrypt electronic communications so that they are beyond surveillance? Cathy Young asks. Frankly, I found it scary even before September 11 -- precisely because of the threat of terrorism. It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes; perhaps there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks. Even in the Declaration of Independence, the right to liberty is preceded by the right to life. How sad to read these comments. Is Cathy Young implying that if I don't want the government to be able to open my mail at will, I'm an enabler of terrorism? I agree that the right to liberty is _grounded in_ the right to life. It pertains to what my right to life entails in a social context -- what others owe to me and what I owe to them, if we are to be able to function in support of our own individual lives and also get along with each other. It's true that the right to liberty doesn't mean the right to do any old which thing I choose to do. I don't have the right to threaten my neighbors or do arbitrary violence to them. If I act as a criminal, I do forfeit the right to walk as a free person. And if government has (true) probable cause to suspect me of criminality, yes they should have every reasonable power to investigate. But how can I be asked to forfeit my right to protect my own personal privacy in advance of _any_ reasonable evidence of _any_ rights-violating wrongdoing or planning of same? When I am in a public context like an airport, whose managers might reasonably request the ability to search my suitcase as a condition of my doing business with them, I can understand submitting to an inspection ... though I might not agree with it and might even think it's offensive and obtuse, depending on how long they linger over the underwear. But Cathy Young is talking about another case altogether. She is suggesting that I must give up a particular right to act on my own behalf when the private enterprise involved is entirely willing to sell (or give me) the particular good which Young says I have no right to possess: robust encryption software. Why? Because I might act as a criminal? Or does encrypting my private stuff per se constitute a violation of somebody's rights? And if so, whose? Young also says that it would be okay to check out my electronic mail as long as there is due process. Well, that sounds okay, though with the FBI's notorious Carnivore technology, my private email may well be read in full if the Carnivore system gleans one or two suspect words. No warrant required. Surely Cathy Young is aware that the government does not always have good reasons for the things it does. At least if the feds and the cops must apply for a warrant, they has to give a court _some_ before prying into my personal things. But from what I gather, Carnivore is premised on the notion of _not_ having to bother about warrants before inspecting the email of particular individuals. It supposedly can gulp and scan every single piece of email that goes through a particular electronic hub, without any differentiation between one individual and another. That is the point. Are probable cause warrants going to be granted to scan the email of all the millions of email users -- and if so, doesn't that destroy the notions of probable cause and warrants? I don't suppose such considerations even apply to making it illegal for people to effectively encrypt their email and documents so as to head Carnivore off at the pass, as well as other possible info thieves. That's some other kind of violation of constitutional protections and basic rights. Young's rationale for violating my rights seems to be the same rationale offered by the critics of bearing arms and other methods of protecting yourself. Gun control is also a violation of liberty in the name of safety. Of course, far from ensuring safety, gun control deprives people of a means to provide for their personal safety. Don't believe me? Well, think about
[CTRL] Govt. Crop Duster Missing from Bahamas Area
-Caveat Lector- http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAQ3FC4BSC.html Tuesday, October 2 Government Plane Missing Near the Bahamas The Associated Press Published: Oct 1, 2001 MIAMI (AP) - A two-seat State Department plane bound for a Florida air force base from islands near the Bahamas was missing late Monday, officials said. The last contact with the plane was at 10:20 a.m. Monday, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. It departed from Turks and Caicos Islands southeast of the Bahamas and was destined for Patrick Air Force Base in Melbourne on Florida's east coast. Coast Guard and Air Force planes were searching an area 50 miles southeast of Freeport, Bahamas late Monday, said Petty Officer Robert Suddarth, Coast Guard spokesman. Pilots that returned from searching this afternoon reported poor weather and visibility, he said. Bergen said the aircraft is an Ayers AY-65, which is an agricultural or crop-dusting type of aircraft, and owned by the State Department. Only the pilot, a 20-year veteran of the State Department, was aboard the plane, Suddarth said. Suddarth and Bergen did not release the name of the pilot. They also said they did not know of any connection to the recent terrorist hijackings. AP-ES-10-01-01 2311EDT Subscribe to the Tribune and get two weeks free! Return to Top News | Weather | Hurricane Guide | Things to Do | Sports Consumer | Classified | Careers | Autos | Relocation -- Best wishes Living dangerously: I will break the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the four winds. -President John F. Kennedy (Nov. 1963) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- http://www.washingtonpost.com September 28, 2001 Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack NEW YORK -- OFFICIALS at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks. Citing a pending investigation by law enforcement, the company declined to reveal the exact contents of the message or to identify the sender. But Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales and marketing, confirmed that workers in Odigo's research and development and international sales office in Israel received a warning from another Odigo user approximately two hours prior to the first attack. Diamandis said the sender of the instant message was not personally known to the Odigo employees. Even though the company usually protects the privacy of users, the employees recorded the Internet protocol address of the message's sender to facilitate his or her identification. Soon after the terrorist attacks on New York, the Odigo employees notified their management, who contacted Israeli security services. In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant message warning. FBI officials were not immediately available for comment today. The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain interests or demographics. Diamandis said it was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message. In addition to operating its own messaging service network, Odigo has licensed its technology to over 100 service providers, portals, wireless carriers, and corporations, according to the company. Odigo is online at http://www.odigo.com . © 2001 The Washington Post Company --- End of forwarded message --- -- Best wishes If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. ~~C.S. Lewis A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Anti-terrorism legislation
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:47:59 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:LP RELEASE: Anti-terrorism legislation From: Libertarian Party Announcements owner- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: October 3, 2001 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === New compromise Patriot Act is still a threat to civil liberties WASHINGTON, DC -- Congress should reject the proposed anti- terrorist Patriot Act -- which would greatly expand the federal government's surveillance, wiretapping, and detention authority -- because no new police powers are needed to effectively fight terrorism, the Libertarian Party said today. There's no evidence that these new police powers will actually stop terrorists -- but there is a clear and present danger that they will curtail the fundamental civil liberties of Americans, said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. That's why this bill should worry Americans more than it will worry terrorists. And that's why Congress should reject it. The Patriot Act -- which will be considered by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday -- is the result of two weeks of closed-door negotiations between Congress and the Bush administration. While the bipartisan compromise made some concessions to civil libertarian concerns, the bill: * Gives any U.S. Attorney or state attorney general the power to install the Carnivore e-mail snooping system in emergency situations without obtaining a court order. * Allows telephone voice mail messages to be obtained by law enforcement with a mere search warrant, which is issued with less court scrutiny than the previously required wiretap warrant. * Expands the definition of terrorist so broadly that it could include non-violent protesters at an anti-war rally. * Makes it easier for the government to tap multiple phones as part of a roving wiretap warrant. * Allows the government to detain legal immigrants for seven days based on a mere accusation of terrorist activity. On Saturday, President Bush urged Congress to approve the provisions in the Patriot Act, saying it gives law enforcement every necessary tool to fight terrorists. But politicians made that promise before, noted Dasbach. For example, in 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which created secret federal courts to approve clandestine wiretaps of suspected spies and terrorists. In 1995, Congress expanded the FISA courts' authority to include searches of homes and computers. During its first 21 years in operation, FISA courts authorized 11,950 secret searches and wiretaps -- while rejecting only one search warrant, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1996, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, which created courts with the power to deport foreigners based on secret evidence; gave the Secretary of State the authority to arbitrarily designate groups as terrorist; and allowed the government to freeze the assets of suspected terrorist groups. In 1998, after the bombings of American embassies in Africa, Congress passed legislation that authorized roving wiretaps for the first time and increased the maximum Counterterrorism Rewards Program from $2 million to $5 million. That same year, President Clinton also issued two Presidential Decision Directives: PDD-62, which established the office of the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-Terrorism, and PDD-63, which created the National Infrastructure Protection Center. A senior FBI agent told Time magazine in 1998: Any one of these extremely valuable tools could be the keystone to successful operations against terrorists. But none of those additional powers did a thing to stop terrorists from killing 6,000 Americans on September 11, noted Dasbach. That's why, instead of demanding ever-expanding powers, the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies should simply do their jobs -- by acting on credible warnings of terrorist attacks, he said. If they had done so, 6,000 Americans might still be alive today. According to a September 27 column by Robert D. Novak, Philippine police arrested several Islamic terrorists in 1995 and discovered plans to use commercial airliners to attack targets in America, including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That information was passed on to the U.S. government. In August 2001, a flight school in Minnesota contacted the
[CTRL] Cracks appear in Al Aqsa Mosque
-Caveat Lector- TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 2001 FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Cracks appear in Al Aqsa Mosque Muslim construction project blamed for damage to shrine Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news- cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition, DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A small protrusion forming ominously in the 2000-year-old Southern Wall of the Temple Mount and spreading cracks in the fabric of the Al Aqsa Mosque are the result of an extensive Islamic construction project opposed but not stopped by the Israeli government. The alarming damage to the ancient sites developed from five years of unsupervised Islamic construction work aimed at turning Solomons Stables and the adjoining chambers under Al Aqsa into the biggest mosque in the Middle East. Carried out by the Islamic religious authority, called the Waqf, and the Israeli Islamic Movement under its leader, Sheik Raed Salah, the project appears to have been overly ambitious. According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly sources in Israel, it now proves to have been marred by serious engineering mistakes. No Israeli or international engineers, historians or scholars were allowed to inspect the work on a site as required by Israel municipal regulations and national laws governing the protection of historical and religious monuments. Successive Israeli governments, fearing an international Islamic backlash, allowed the underground excavations and construction to go forward, unchecked and unsupervised. Every demand by the Israeli authorities and international archeologists to access the project was met with angry refusals. Two weeks ago, Sheikh Salah told his congregation in Umm al Fahm about the cracks and crumbling patches in the Al Aqsa Mosque wall. But, he added suggestively, the neighbors had heard mysterious sounds of digging in the small hours. The mosque has no neighbors. Palestinian Authority spokesman Ahmed Abdul Rahman announced gravely over Radio Palestine yesterday that Israel planned to exploit a small stone that fell off the top of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, the Jewish prayer place, to move in and take control of the entire Muslim site. He also mentioned the cracks, but declared, without explaining how, that they were part of an Israeli plot. Al Aqsa, which like the rest of Jerusalem, is located in the earthquake-prone African Rift Valley region, has been destroyed by earthquake seven times since it was built by the citys first Muslim conquerors in the seventh century. The new construction has weakened the structure, so that a tremor could well compound the damage. Some in Israel fear the right kind of propaganda, alleging Jewish culpability, and the repeated call to Defend Al Aqsa! might rally the Islamic world in a flash against Israel which Yasser Arafats intifada has so far failed to do. The Palestinian leader has now begun to hope that a catastrophe on the Haram might even be built up to outdo the impact of Osama bin Ladens assaults in the United States. Meanwhile, the Muslim builders are not yet done. Using forbidden heavy earth-moving equipment, they are now excavating a northerly channel on the Temple Plaza heading in the direction of the Dome of the Rock, whose gilt and blue faience façade dominate the Jerusalem skyline. Breaking into the bedrock in this area, archeologists warn, would also harm the gold-topped Dome, which sits on that rock. The damage to the Islamic sites comes on top of the destruction of unique relics and artifacts from Jewish Temple, Byzantine, Crusader and medieval times, that the Muslim builders smashed and dumped, in defiance of protests from scholars around the world and warnings from engineers. The Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem and Sheikh Salah simply echoed Arafats assertion that the Temple Mount, including the Western Wall, is a Muslim site and no Jewish temples ever existed. Ergo no relics. To make sure this was true, Salahs builders did what they could to obliterate every trace of an historic Jewish presence above and below the ground of Temple Mount, according to Israeli observers. But they forgot to take this into account: The Islamic structures were built on the early foundations of that presence and were supported by them. Therefore, by their acts of vandalism, the new Muslim builders have also wrought irreparable damage to sites holy to Islam. -- Best wishes The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. -G. K. Chesterton A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are
[CTRL] (Fwd) RE: [AlasBabylon] The End Game
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- I found this article very interesting. Thanks for posting it. From: alypius m. skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Sunday, September 30, 2001 11:52 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[AlasBabylon] The End Game http://www.ddc.net/ygg/new/clips.htm The End Game September 14, 2001 That collector from Northern Virginia who introduced me to Sir Arthur Keith has admonished me to outline for you the debate going on in the halls of government between various factions of the inner party. Op Ed pieces are beginning to appear in our national newspapers which reflect that debate. Numerous articles are floating the trial balloon of ending stateswhich harbor terrorists. In addition, several other press organs are breathing life back into a notion born of our most excellent imperial adventure over the skies of Serbia. In the words of an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal of 9-14-01, any state that harbors or abets terrorists - or abuses its own citizens - forfeits its sovereign rights. In order to examine exactly what such a statement might mean in actual practice we must understand that the attack on the twin towers in Manhattan occurs within the context of a clearly defined imperial structure of rewards and punishments. The multi-racial empire of the old Soviet Union fragmented into its ethnic and racial components (collapsed to a lower order of complexity) because its centrally planned economy could not provide enough tangible benefits to all the constituent groups within that empire to purchase their continued allegiance. The young turks of the KGB decided that they would be better off and have more power with a smaller, ethnically cohesive Russian nation state. See Pillar 7, The Collapse of Complex Societiesby Joseph Tainter. The same exact thing will happen to the United States if the empire can no longer provide tangible benefits to its citizens that justify the expense of the imperial adventure. And the expense of maintaining that empire has just increased dramatically - at least $20 billions in lost real estate, a $40 billion anti-terrorism appropriation, plus untold costs associated with shutting down air travel and the financial markets for a week. Until now, the empire has been ruled by a financial system of rewards and punishments. The American consumer benefits from imports manufactured with cheap foreign labor. In addition, American consumers benefit from the availability of cheap credit to purchase those goods - cheap credit made possible by the recycling of the dollars we pay for those imported goods back into U.S. securities by the importing countries. Because of this basic circular money flow, Americans have been allowed to consume far beyond their means for decades, and it feels good. It is one hell of a seductive arrangement. In addition, our intellectual property laws (patent and copyright) guarantee a stream of payments from our trading partners in perpetuity that resemble tribute, and guarantee that our trading partners within the empire can never compete with the U.S. on an equal economic footing. Indeed, we cripple their ability to innovate and obtain patents of their own by hiring away their best and brightest at our overseas subsidiaries (thereby gaining ownership of their innovations) and by removing talented innovators from their native lands through 16(b) visas and immigration. Our trading partners are, in effect, permanent vassal states. Now you might reasonably ask, why do they put up with this unbalanced system? First, they are reasonably comfortable for the time being, largely because the United States debt balloon provides them with a large export market which allows them to provide employment for their people. Second, because the dollar is used to settle so many trade transactions between nations other than the United States, non-U.S. participants in the empire are forced to hold very large dollar reserves - meaning that they have no choice but to buy our debt - so that they can trade with other nations (buy oil). Third and last are the financial punishments. A number of countries possess cheap labor and compete for the U.S. export market. Thus, we have the power to reduce access or close our markets to one country and open them to another and invest in that other country simultaneously so as to shift production from the country being punished. Next, our Asian trading partners have much higher savings rates than we do, meaning that the capital structures of their companies must have much higher ratios of debt to equity than ours in order to absorb and utilize that pool of savings. Thus, they become vulnerable to sudden withdrawals of foreign capital and attacks on their currencies despite their high domestic savings rates because of the leverage that those high savings rates create in their domestic financial structures. The inner party has demonstrated on many occasions that they know how to pull the
[CTRL] Reports Swirl Out of Afghanistan of Panic and Taliban Defections
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/international/asia/04STAN.html ?todaysheadlines=pagewanted=print October 4, 2001 Reports Swirl Out of Afghanistan of Panic and Taliban Defections By JOHN F. BURNS SLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 3 The Taliban's top Islamic clerics have left their headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar to escape the risk of American bombing, and other senior Taliban officials have fled to Pakistan or sent their families across the border as refugees, according to reliable accounts reaching Pakistan. Other accounts depict gathering panic among the population and the disappearance from major cities of many Taliban soldiers and policemen, and raise the possibility of a mass defection by Taliban fighters. The accumulating signs could indicate the beginning of a wider disintegration of Taliban power. But because the reports are scattered, and in some cases from refugees arriving in Pakistan who are hostile to the Taliban, it is uncertain whether the Taliban are starting to break up as a governing force or are regrouping for a guerrilla war. A top official of the anti-Taliban alliance based in northern Afghanistan said today that dozens of senior Taliban officers commanding as many as 10,000 troops might be willing to switch loyalties, some of them based in key provinces. They are willing to change sides today or wait until something starts and then coordinate their efforts with us, said the official, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, who is nominally the foreign minister of the Northern Alliance. It's quite possible there will be a popular uprising in Kabul before we can move forces into Kabul. He also claimed to have received pledges of continuing support from Iran and Russia, and to have held his first meeting with American officials. We are discussing every aspect of the present situation and cooperation, he said, without disclosing the meeting's location. The alliance, which has fought a long and losing war against the Taliban, has a reputation for exaggerating its claims. There was no way to tell whether Dr. Adbullah was overstating the extent to which Taliban fighters could be tempted into a mass defection a development that would dramatically alter the strategic landscape in the country. Other alliance commanders suggested Dr. Abdullah was making exaggerated claims. But the statements together with the flurry of reports that have leaked out of the isolated country in the past 48 hours from Afghan cities hundreds of miles apart, as well as from provincial towns that have been fortresses of Taliban power suggest that tensions building since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States are reaching a breaking point. With the Taliban leaders refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden, named by the United States as the prime suspect in the attacks, many within the Taliban's ranks appear to have concluded that war with the United States is inevitable. United Nations officials and refugees say looting of shops and homes has begun. In Kandahar, Taliban fighters have stormed into a United Nations compound and driven off with vehicles used in an American- financed program that has been disarming millions of land mines left over from the guerrilla war against Soviet forces in the 1980's. Shops in the capital, Kabul, as well as in Kandahar and the eastern city of Jalalabad have emptied of food. On the streets of all three cities the religious police notorious for beating women for the most trivial offenses against the Taliban's repressive social codes are reported to have virtually disappeared. Intelligence agents have burst into homes and arrested anyone who so much as mentions the name of Mohammad Zahir Shah, the exiled Afghan king who has emerged as a possible figurehead for a post-Taliban government, according to some reports. Religious schools that have indoctrinated young Taliban fighters have been closed, and the students sent off to be inducted into the army. But many have joined the flood of refugees heading for Pakistan, only to be pulled from their families at gunpoint and pressed into service in the Taliban's front-line units. Alongside such accounts, claims by the Northern Alliance of large numbers of front-line Taliban field commanders being prepared to defect had echoes elsewhere. In another region crucial to Taliban power, along Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, Taliban commanders in three key provinces that control the southern approaches to Kabul Paktika, Paktia and Logar were reported today to have been in contact with opposition groups that have come together in a loose alliance against the Taliban. According to officials in Pakistan's military intelligence agency, mostly tribal chiefs have shown some interest in defecting to the new alliance on condition that it be led by the exiled Zahir Shah. These reports, if true, would explain why the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has directed several of his
[CTRL] Will Suggests Suspect Had Long Planned to Die for Beliefs
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/national/04INQU.html?todaysh eadlines=pagewanted=print October 4, 2001 Will Suggests Suspect Had Long Planned to Die for Beliefs By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID JOHNSTON ASHINGTON, Oct. 3 Mohamed Atta, described by law enforcement officials as the ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, left a will in which he said he wanted to be buried next to good Muslims, with his corpse pointed east toward Mecca, the officials said. They said the will was found in a suitcase that Mr. Atta, a 33-year- old Egyptian, left at Logan Airport in Boston, where he boarded an American Airlines jet that later slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York, possibly with Mr. Atta at the controls. The will was dated April 1996, which would suggest that Mr. Atta had been planning for years to die for Islam and that he wanted his final actions to be understood as an effort to serve God. At his funeral, everybody should mention God's name and that I died as a Muslim, which is God's religion, he wrote, adding that everyone who attends my funeral should ask that I will be forgiven for what I have done in the past although not this action. The will was written in broken English. Details of its contents were first reported by the German magazine Spiegel. Mr. Atta was a student in the mid- 1990's at a technical university in Hamburg, Germany, where he was seeking a degree in urban planning. Law enforcement officials would not say why Mr. Atta's luggage had remained at Logan Airport, where he transferred onto the American Airlines jet bound for Los Angeles after flying to Boston earlier that morning from Portland, Me. It was not clear if Mr. Atta had checked the bag only to Boston in the knowledge that its contents would be seized by the police after his death or if he intended the bag to make the connection and to be destroyed in the crash. The suitcase also held a five-page letter in Arabic offering final instructions to the hijackers. Friends and other students have said that while studying in Germany, Mr. Atta underwent a profound change in his religious beliefs and temperament. He embraced Muslim fundamentalism and surrounded himself with other devout followers. Also today, administration officials confirmed that weeks before the terror attacks in New York and Washington, Washington-based supervisors at the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned down a request for a surveillance warrant for a Frenchman who is now being questioned in New York about any knowledge he might have of the hijacking plot. The man, Zacarias Moussauoi, was taken into custody in August after officials at a Minnesota flight school warned the bureau that he was acting suspiciously. Officials confirmed an account in Newsweek magazine that bureau agents in Minnesota had requested a warrant to review his computer hard drive but that they had been turned down by Justice Department officials in Washington. The Washington officials, they said, believed that the request did not provide enough evidence to suggest a crime to support a warrant under terms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The officials would not confirm reports elsewhere that the drive was later inspected and found to contain information about crop- dusters, which law enforcement officials have feared could be used by terrorists for attacks with chemical or biological weapons. Earlier this year, the judge who oversees enforcement of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act complained to the Justice Department over whether prosecutors were presenting enough information to the court to justify wiretaps. Government officials also offered new details today about negotiations several years ago between the United States and Sudan in which the Sudanese government offered to turn over Osama bin Laden, who is reported to be the mastermind of last month's terror attacks. The officials said the United States turned down the 1996 offer because American prosecutors had little hard evidence at the time to use against Mr. bin Laden. Details of the negotiations were first reported by The Washington Post. Mr. Atta's will made clear that he wanted his funeral to be carried out according to strict Muslim tradition. The people who will prepare my body should be good Muslims because this will remind me of God and his forgiveness, he wrote. Those who will sit beside my body must remember Allah, God, and pray for me to be with the angels. When you bury me, the people with whom I will be buried should be good Muslims. I want to face east toward Mecca. There were detailed instructions for the preparation of his body before burial. He wanted only good Muslims to wash his corpse, and he asked that his body then be wrapped in three pieces of white cloth not to be made from silk or expensive material. He asked that the person who will wash my body near the genitals must wear gloves on his hand so he
[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Tennessee bus hijacking
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:28:27 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:LP RELEASE: Tennessee bus hijacking From: Libertarian Party Announcements owner- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: October 4, 2001 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Tennessee bus hijacking shows need for 50-state concealed-carry gun laws WASHINGTON, DC -- In the wake of the Tennessee bus hijacking yesterday that left six people dead, every state should immediately pass Vermont- style concealed-carry gun laws so Americans can defend themselves against terrorists or deranged murderers, the Libertarian Party said today. Let's put the Second Amendment to work to protect Americans, said the party's national director, Steve Dasbach. The best defense against hijackers -- or run-of-the-mill copycat madmen -- is to give every American the legal right to own a gun and carry it everywhere. Early Wednesday, a Croatian man used a box cutter to slash the throat of a Greyhound bus driver just outside Manchester, Tennessee. The man then grabbed the steering wheel and attempted to drive the bus into oncoming traffic. The bus tipped over, killing at least six people including the hijacker, and injuring 34 others. Greyhound temporarily suspended bus service following the attack, but the U.S. Justice Department said the hijacking was probably not related to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Police speculated that the hijacker was a mentally unbalanced copycat criminal. Whatever the man's motivation, the attack points out that no form of transportation is safe from potential attack, said Dasbach -- which is why every law-abiding American needs the right to carry a concealed weapon. After terrorists hijacked four airliners on September 11, the consensus was that greater airport security could stymie such attacks, he said. That may be true, but a similar solution won't protect Americans who use buses, trains, taxicabs, or other forms of travel. There are simply too many modes of public transportation. The only way to keep Americans safe is to decentralize protection: Give every law-abiding citizen the right to carry a weapon at all times. No, that won't stop every attempted hijacking -- and may not even have stopped the tragedy in Tennessee -- but criminals and terrorists will be far less likely to attack if they know they'll be staring down the business end of a dozen American guns. Currently, 31 states have shall-issue concealed-carry laws, which require the state government to issue a gun permit to any resident who is not disqualified by a felony conviction, mental illness, or similar objection. Tennessee has a shall-issue law, but its permit is reciprocally honored in only 12 other states, and Tennessee honors only nine other states' permits. That's a problem, said Dasbach, because the bus that was hijacked in Tennessee originated in Chicago, Illinois and was heading for Atlanta, Georgia. Only one of those states (Georgia) had a reciprocal permit agreement with Tennessee -- making it impossible for passengers to legally carry a weapon for the duration of the trip. America needs 50-state reciprocity, he said. A gun permit valid in one state should be equally valid in all 50 states. That's the only way to protect people on interstate trips. To make that protection as easy as possible to acquire, every state should pass gun permit legislation modeled after Vermont's gun law, said Dasbach. In Vermont, any citizen can carry a firearm without getting a permit, without paying a fee, and without any government-mandated waiting period. Despite the ease with which people can acquire guns -- or perhaps because of it -- Vermont enjoys the 49th lowest crime rate in America, noted Dasbach. The conventional wisdom is that more guns equal more crime, he said. But Vermont is stark proof that more guns, and easier access to guns, are the best possible deterrent to crime. However, evidence of the More Guns/Less Crime principle extends beyond Vermont, said Dasbach. In October 2000, the FBI released a report showing that gunshot wounds inflicted during crimes decreased by 40% from 1992 and 1997 -- falling from 64,100 to 39,400 nationwide. During the same five years, the number of guns in America increased by 12% -- surging from 205 million to 230 million, according to the National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers. Also, according to a study by John Lott and
[CTRL] A Very Bad Idea
-Caveat Lector- Review of Military's Domestic Role Urged By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 5, 2001; Page A26 Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said yesterday that to enhance the nation's ability to counter terrorism, he strongly favors reviewing a legal doctrine that has kept the U.S. military from engaging in domestic law enforcement activities since 1878. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Wolfowitz said the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have made it possible for Americans to envision terrorist attacks -- particularly those involving chemical or biological weapons -- in which the military would have unique response capabilities. Wolfowitz's comment came in response to a question from Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), the committee's ranking Republican. Warner told Wolfowitz that he believes it is time to reexamine the legal doctrine of posse comitatus and asked the Pentagon's second-ranking official whether he agreed. I agree very strongly, Wolfowitz said. He added that it would be much better to determine in advance how the military would function under civilian control in the event of terrorist incident. While much of the questioning involved the Pentagon's response to the Sept. 11 attacks and its new plans for homeland defense, Wolfowitz appeared before the committee to discuss the Quadrennial Defense Review, a congressionally mandated codification of military strategy, force requirements and organization. The 71-page document, completed Monday after months of preparation, makes homeland defense the Pentagon's highest priority and embraces transformational new technologies in information warfare, intelligence and space. In a critical revision, the document does away with the military's long-standing requirement to be able to win two major theater wars simultaneously. Under the new plan, the military is expected to win one major war decisively, meaning that it could occupy the enemy's capital, if necessary. At the same time, the military would be able to swiftly defeat a second adversary, engage in peacekeeping operations and invest in advanced defense technologies. Wolfowitz said the document represents a paradigm shift in planning the nation's future fighting force, defining six key priorities for military transformation. But the committee's chairman, Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), criticized the document, calling it a vision statement that lacked specifics about how Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will proceed beginning with next year's budget. While the document makes homeland defense the Pentagon's highest priority, Levin said, it lacks detail on how the military will rearrange itself to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and support civilian authorities in managing their deadly consequences. One specific initiative favored by some transformation advocates inside the U.S. Air Force -- the purchase of more B-2 stealth bombers -- arose when Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.) asked whether the Pentagon is considering an expansion of the fleet. Previously, top Air Force officials have said the answer is no. But Air Force Lt. Gen. Bruce A. Carlson, a top planner on the Pentagon's Joint Staff who appeared with Wolfowitz, said expanding the B-2 fleet will be one of the options that the Air Force considers. -- Best wishes A totalitarian state thrives on propaganda, and there is no more effective way to limit thought than to control the language itself. By changing definitions of words through continual association, any serious discussion involving the concepts that the words represents becomes hopelessly muddled. The words democracy, hate and racism immediately comes to mind. -Thomas Sowell www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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] Fresh Doubt Is Raised About French Explosion
-Caveat Lector- http://www.iht.com/articles/34600.html Fresh Doubt Is Raised About French Explosion Joseph Fitchett International Herald Tribune Friday, October 5, 2001 Minister Speculates on Possibility of Terrorism PARIS As speculation continued swirling in France about the causes of a deadly, massive industrial blast last month in Toulouse, the French environmental minister, Yves Cochet, said Thursday that the blast might not have been an accident and speculated that it might have a terrorist origin. .But no actual evidence of terrorism has been uncovered yet, according to other French sources with access to police inquiries. They said that a slow, accidental chemical reaction remained the probable cause of the explosion, which killed 29 people, injured 3,200 and devastated a swath of the southwestern French city. .Mr. Cochet's comments, citing an undisclosed new piece of information, coincided with media disclosures about the identity of a body found in the rubble. The corpse was reportedly that of a North African-born worker named Hassan Jandoubi, 35, who is said to have rejoiced about the Sept. 11 suicide bombings against New York and Washington. Five days after those attacks, on Sept. 16, Mr. Jandoubi obtained a temporary job via a local employment agency at the sprawling fertilizer complex owned by ATZ, a subsidiary of TotalFinaElf, the French petrochemical giant. According to official sources cited in French newspaper reports, he had been working at the complex for five days when the explosion occurred Sept. 21. So little was known about him that he did not figure in the initial lists of workers killed in the blast. The night before, witnesses said, Mr. Jandoubi had quarreled loudly with truck drivers outside the plant over the American flags decorating their cabs in sympathy with the U.S. victims of the terrorist attacks. French investigators are said to believe this may have been a sign of his extremist views and sympathy for Islamic terrorism. When his body was uncovered, Mr. Jandoubi was clad in two pairs of trousers and four pairs of underpants, according to an autopsy leaked to the French press. Other Muslim suicide bombers have worn special garb covering their private parts, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro, which speculated in an article Thursday that he might have been a trained Islamic terrorist. So far, investigators have not linked him to the Osama bin Laden organization or other terrorist groups, a connection that would send a shock wave through France. An investigator in Toulouse complained that a search of Mr. Jandoubi's apartment for clues was spoiled because magistrates took five days to issue a search warrant. The apartment had been completely cleaned out - no clothes, no photos, nothing - by the time the police got in, according to an official who spoke to the daily Le Parisien on condition of anonymity. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has promised legal changes to facilitate police work aimed at combating terrorism, but few changes have come into effect yet. French officials have appeared to struggle since Sept. 21 in trying to manage public perceptions about the Toulouse explosion, France's worst industrial disaster since World War II. It came at a moment of acute international apprehension about major terrorist acts. France has special worries about its large Muslim minority, which includes many fundamentalists like Mr. Jandoubi, whose views have been shaped in poor and isolated Arab-populated suburbs. In trying to calm apprehensions among the French public, officials have to deal with a legacy of mistrust about their reassurances regarding the security of nuclear reactors and toxic industrial processes. French skepticism is nourished by memories of official deception in France about the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986: For years, Paris insisted, falsely, it was later admitted, that there had been no radioactive fallout on French soil. In Toulouse, government officials have steadily denied finding any evidence of terrorism so far, and last week the French prosecutor handling the case said publicly that he was 99 percent certain that the explosion was an accident. When he failed to substantiate the assertion, it triggered fresh speculation across France about the remaining point of doubt. Mr. Cochet, the cabinet minister who evoked the possibility of terrorism, is a member of the Green party who was recently named head of a government ministry partly responsibility for industrial safety. He said in a television interview Thursday that the authorities were not ruling out any hypothesis. Suggestions of terrorism were played down by Jean-Michel Baylet, the publisher of the main Toulouse newspaper, the Depeche du Midi. A ring of conspirators would have been needed to ignite the chemicals, but no one has come up with a shred of evidence after two weeks of investigations, he
[CTRL] The Rifle and the Veil
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/opinion/19GOOD.html?search pv=nytToday October 19, 2001 The Rifle and the Veil By JAN GOODWIN and JESSICA NEUWIRTH Anyone who has paid attention to the situation of women in Afghanistan should not have been surprised to learn that the Taliban are complicit in terrorism. When radical Muslim movements are on the rise, women are the canaries in the mines. The very visible repression of forced veiling and loss of hard-won freedoms coexists naturally with a general disrespect for human rights. This repression of women is not about religion; it is a political tool for achieving and consolidating power. Sher Abbas Stanakzai, then the Taliban regime's deputy foreign minister, admitted as much in a 1997 interview. Our current restrictions of women are necessary in order to bring the Afghan people under control, he said. We need these restrictions until people learn to obey the Taliban. In the same way that many Islamic extremist crusades use the oppression of women to help them gain control over wider populations, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden are now employing the tactics of terrorism to gain control. The Taliban did not start the oppression of Afghan women, nor have they been its only practitioners. In 1989, Arab militants working with the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union based in Peshawar, Pakistan and helping to finance the resistance fighters issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, stating that Afghan women would be killed if they worked for humanitarian organizations. At that time, a third of the Afghan population of 15 million were displaced from their homes, and many were heavily dependent on humanitarian groups for food and other necessities. Among the 3.5 million of these refugees who were then living in Pakistan, many were war widows supporting their families by working for the aid groups. After the fatwa, Afghan women going to work were shot at and several were murdered. Some international aid groups promptly stopped employing Afghan women, and though many women were infuriated, most complied after being intimidated by the violent attacks. Soon afterward, another edict in Peshawar forbade Afghan women to walk with pride or walk in the middle of the street and said they must wear the hijab, the Arab black head and body covering and half-face veil. Again, most women felt they had no choice but to comply. In 1990, a fatwa from Afghan leaders in Peshawar decreed that women should not attend schools or become educated, and that if they did, the Islamic movement would meet with failure. The document measured 2 feet by 3 feet to accommodate the signatures of about 200 mullahs and political leaders representing the majority of the seven main mujahedeen parties of Afghanistan. The leading school for Afghan girls in Peshawar, where many Afghan refugees still lived, was sprayed with Kalashnikov gunfire. It closed for months, and its principal was forced into hiding. When an alliance of mujahedeen groups took over in Kabul in 1992, it forced women out of news broadcasting and government ministry jobs and required them to wear veils. But it was the Taliban who institutionalized the total oppression of women after Kabul fell to them four years later, and who required the total coverage of the now familiar burqa. Now, as Afghans, Pakistanis and Americans look to the future of Afghanistan, most plans call for a broad-based new government giving representation to all of Afghanistan's ethnic groups and major political parties, including the Taliban. No one, however, has called for the participation of women, even though women, after many years of war, now almost certainly make up the majority of the adult Afghan population. Afghan women gradually gained rights in the first decades of the 20th century. Women helped write their country's Constitution in 1964. They served in parliament and the cabinet and were diplomats, academics, professionals, judges and even army generals. All of this happened well before the Soviets arrived in 1979, with their much-touted claim of liberating Afghan women. Many of the forces now opposing the Taliban include signatories of the later fatwas that deprived Afghan women of their rights. History is repeating itself. Any political process that moves forward without the representation and participation of women will undermine any chances that the principles of democracy and human rights will take hold in Afghanistan. It will be the first clue that little has changed. Jan Goodwin is author of Price of Honor, a book on women and Islamic extremism. Jessica Neuwirth is president of Equality Now, an international women's rights group. -- Best wishes I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad peopleYou're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, *but some of them are on opposite sides.* ùThe Patrician, character in _Guards, Guards_, Terry Pratchett
[CTRL] F.B.I. Asks if Hijacking Plot Included Plane at Kennedy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/national/20PLAN.html?todaysh eadlines October 20, 2001 AN INQUIRY F.B.I. Asks if Hijacking Plot Included Plane at Kennedy By MATTHEW L. WALD ASHINGTON, Oct. 19 The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into whether a United Airlines flight scheduled to leave Kennedy International Airport for San Francisco was a target of hijackers on Sept. 11, aviation and law enforcement officials said. The United plane, Flight 23, was late pushing back from the gate and was seventh in line for takeoff when Kennedy was closed because of the terrorist attacks. When the captain announced that the plane was returning to the gate, four male passengers described as Middle Eastern in appearance stood up and began urgently consulting with each other, two aviation officials said. The men refused orders from flight attendants to return to their seats, the officials said. The cockpit crew did not wait for the men to be seated but decided to taxi back to the gate anyway, the officials said. As soon as the door opened, these four guys bolted, said one of the officials. The other added that the F.B.I. later interviewed the crew about the incident. Law enforcement officials confirmed that the F.B.I. is investigating the incident. A United spokesman refused to comment, except to say that the passenger list had been turned over to investigators. Like two of the four planes that were hijacked that day, the Kennedy plane was a Boeing 767, and like all four, it was scheduled for a transcontinental flight. Its scheduled departure time, 8:30, was within the time range of the four hijacked flights. The question of whether hijackers had intended to take over more than four flights on Sept. 11 has been the subject of confused speculation in the last few days. On Wednesday, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Jane F. Garvey, said in a speech that her agency's quick grounding of commercial air traffic nationwide had thwarted other hijackings. But later in the day she said she had no evidence of other planned attacks and was relying partly on news reports of knives being found on other airplanes. Other flights using Boeing 757's and 767's are under scrutiny because all four planes hijacked were of those two models. On the morning of Sept. 11, when the number of planes hijacked was still not clear, federal officials took a quick count of 757's and 767's still airborne and told air- traffic controllers to watch them for any unusual behavior. In the days after Sept. 11, rumors and reports have swept the F.A.A. and airlines about possible additional targets, including an Air Canada flight scheduled to go from Toronto to La Guardia Airport, and an American Airlines flight at Kennedy waiting to take off for London, although the evidence for those cases appears to be circumstantial. The Air Canada plane was scheduled to fly from Toronto to La Guardia but was caught on the ground by the closing of American airspace. On Sept. 14, when the plane was scheduled to fly to Calgary, Alberta, a passenger spotted two knives in an overhead baggage compartment. But speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Herb Gray, the deputy prime minister of Canada, said that it was not clear when the knives were put on the plane, and that they weren't the big box cutters believed to be used by the hijackers of the other planes. An Air Canada spokesman described them as X-acto-type knives, saying that they had small, retractable blades. The Air Canada plane was impounded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but then released. It was an Airbus A-320, which is considerably smaller than the 757's and 767's that were hijacked, and has a far different control system. Some aviation officials also believe that American Airlines Flight 142, which was due to take off from Kennedy for London at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, was also a target. That plane was delayed at the gate when the cockpit crew asked for a mechanic to check a valve in an engine. When a delay was announced, one passenger asked to leave, so the cabin door was opened for him and closed again. Then, according to aviation officials, a second passenger also demanded to leave, and became rude and indignant when the door could not be opened immediately. A cockpit crew member wanted to alert the F.B.I. immediately but did not know the passenger's name, the officials said. The flight attendants knew the man's identity, but they had been escorted out of the airport with the passengers. That plane was a Boeing 777, which would have had an explosive force similar to a 767, but has a slightly different cockpit from the planes that were hijacked. -- Best wishes If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of
[CTRL] OSAMA BOUGHT A BATCH FOR 10G
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32458.htm OSAMA BOUGHT A BATCH FOR 10G By NILES LATHEM October 24, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Terror master Osama bin Laden bought samples of anthrax by mail from shady laboratories in Eastern Europe and Asia for as little as $10,000, a former follower has told authorities in Egypt. The astonishing claim of how easily - and cheaply - the world's most wanted terrorist was able to acquire anthrax and other deadly germ agents was made in a 143-page confession of former extremist Ahmad Ibrahim al-Najjar at a recent trial of more than 100 members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Al-Najjar, serving a life sentence in Egypt, was among several Islamic Jihad operatives arrested in Albania in 1999 and brought home to Egypt to face trial for a series of attempts to destabilize the pro-Western government of President Hosni Mubarak. According to translated accounts of his testimony obtained by The Post, al-Najjar told authorities there was nothing cloak- and-dagger about bin Laden's transactions involving deadly biological agents. Factories in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Eastern Europe supplied deadly bacteria, including e-coli and salmonella, by mail without checking the identities of the purchasers as long as bin Laden's agents paid $7,500 up front, al-Najjar said. Bin Laden's group was able to get the anthrax germ from another factory in Southeast Asia, which supplied it to the Indonesian-based Islamic Moro Front, a terror group closely associated with bin Laden. The price for the anthrax spores, al-Najjar said, was $3,685, plus shipping costs. U.S. officials say they don't yet know whether bin Laden is responsible for the anthrax scare gripping the nation, although President Bush and other senior officials say they are suspicious. Bin Laden is known to have contacts with Iraqi officials and mafia groups in former Soviet republics - nations that have extensive chemical- and biological-weapons programs and that are known to have experimented with anthrax. -- Best wishes A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] FloridaTrooper Overcome With Fumes
-Caveat Lector- http://www.icflorida.com/partners/wftv/news/story1.html Trooper Overcome With Fumes The northbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike were shut down south of St. Cloud late Friday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol is very concerned about a trooper who became very sick after making a traffic stop. The people inside the car he stopped drove off after making some sort of threat. The trooper is being decontaminated in the emergency room at ORMC. He had pulled over a black Nissan on the turnpike. The trooper gave the driver a ticket, the driver laughed and drove off. The trooper was overcome by some kind of fumes, could not breathe and became disoriented. The driver and passengers are reportedly two men of Middle Eastern descent. The car tag is registered in Cape Coral. The trooper is reportedly in stable condition. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Israel Finds Radiological Backpack Bomb
-Caveat Lector- http://www.bid4assets.com/Newsroom/index.cfm?fuseaction=displa ystorystoryid=277394 Israel Finds Radiological Backpack Bomb RICHARD SALE, UPI Terrorism Correspondent, United Press International, October 14, 2001 WASHINGTON, Oct 14, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Israeli security last month arrested a man linked to suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden armed with a radiological backpack bomb, as he attempted to enter Israel from the Palestinian Territories via a border checkpoint at Ramallah, according to U.S. government officials. The arrest took place during the last week of September, according to one knowledgeable official who spoke on condition of anonymity. He declined to give the exact date of arrest. Two other sources interviewed by UPI confirmed the incident, but also declined to give further details. People know how to walk a dog back, one said, meaning that relating too exact an account could lead to the identification of the source of the information. Regarding the arrest, a U.S. government official said: There was only one individual involved. He was from Pakistan. Another source said U.S. officials believed that the suspect had probably gotten to the territories via Lebanon. Information on the arrest went immediately to U.S. President Bush and a close circle of advisors, another U.S. official said. He described the appearance and character of the top-secret report circulated among the Cabinet members and signed by each official present. Former Pentagon terrorism expert, Peter Probst, described a radiological bomb as a device with a small explosive core that is encased in radioactive material. It would not kill a great many people, but it would contaminate a considerable area with radiation, he said. A U.S. government expert said that the weapon captured by Israel was a backpack device that CIA officials learned about through Russian intelligence agents in place in 1995. He emphasized it was not a so-called nuclear suitcase bomb. The CIA had intelligence reports from senior Arab intelligence officials alleging that in October 1998 bin Laden had obtained one or two nuclear suitcase weapons from a Central Asian republic in return for $30 million in cash and two tons of heroin worth $70 million - a deal brokered by the Chechen mafia. Russian Gen. Aleksandr Ivanovich Lebed, a former national security advisor to then-President Yeltsin acknowledged publicly in 1997 that several nuclear suitcase bombs had disappeared from Russia's arsenal. But former CIA counter-terrorism official Vince Cannistraro has no patience with such accounts: All talk of bin Laden having a nuclear suitcase bomb is crap, he said. Cannistraro could not be reached for comment about the backpack device. Nuclear suitcase bombs were designed for Soviet Speznatz or special operations troops to assault and destroy NATO command and control bunkers in Europe in the event of a NATO-Soviet war. The devices could not be detonated without matching codes held in strictest security by Moscow, a former CIA official said. Backpack bombs have no such codes, but they were also designed for Spetznetz forces and have such an intricate and complex system of activation that the ability of a terrorist to detonate one would be incredibly limited, according to one U.S. government official. There is such a complicated sequence you have to perform that some terrorist isn't going to be able to get it to work. You have to be very highly trained, an intelligence official agreed, describing the chances that the device could have been activated as practically miniscule. Probst is nevertheless convinced that radiological bombs are still a danger for New York City. Bin Laden is fascinated by Wall Street. My fear is that he will attempt to smuggle in some dirty bomb that wouldn't kill many people but would dangerously contaminate the area, he said. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. -- Best wishes Only ugly and filthy Western cultures allow women to be insulted and dishonoured as a toy. ~~Mohammed Omar (What he means is that only the West allows women to be treated as equals.) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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:
[CTRL] Arrest of second Pak n-expert exposes jehadi bomb trail
-Caveat Lector- http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/ Arrest of second Pak n-expert exposes jehadi bomb trail HTC and Agencies (Islamabad/Moscow, October 25) There is now a nuclear dimension to the Afghan war. A second retired Pakistani atomic scientist was picked up by Islamabad on Tuesday night on the suspicion that he was developing a nuclear device for Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. The arrests followed tip-offs by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Pakistani authorities. Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood and Abdul Majeed, both scientists who had retired from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), were picked up after the FBI provided evidence of their links to jehadi outfits. The Pakistan Interior Minister, Moinuddin Haidar, said on Thursday that Bashiruddin was being taken into protective custody. Military spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, only said the scientist was being questioned. After retirement, Bashiruddin had formed an NGO called Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (Reconstruction of the Muslim Ummah). This NGO was affiliated to the Al Rasheed Trust, an organisation banned for its links with Al-Qaeda network. The NGO was one of the few allowed by Mullah Muhammad Omar to carry out relief work in Afghanistan. Majeed was the chief engineer of PAEC until last year. Pakistani press reports said he had been trying to get a hold of supplies of plutonium and enriched uranium to send to the Taliban. Bashiruddin was with the PAEC for 35 years. He held many senior positions, including director of the Kahuta Enrichment Project. He was also one of the designers of the Khusab nuclear plant in Punjab. He took early retirement in 1998 to protest moves by the then Nawaz Sharif government to sign the CTBT, a treaty he strongly opposed. Bashiruddin founded Ummah Tameer-e-Nau after vowing to rebuild Afghanistan. Most of its membership consisted of nuclear scientists and military officers. Bashiruddin's Islamic fervour was well known, catching even the attention of Mullah Omar. The Taliban gave him permission to conclude business agreements on their behalf. This strengthened suspicions that Bashiruddin's NGO was looking for nuclear hardware for Kabul. He and Majeed had been under investigation by a joint US- Pakistani intelligence team. The West is reportedly also concerned about A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. Khan resigned as head of the country's nuclear programme in March this year. Because he had publicly expressed sympathy for the jehad movement, it was rumoured he was joining the fundamentalists. The detention of the two scientists follows statements by Pakistani officials, including President Pervez Musharraf, that the country's nuclear installations and assets were secure. There have been persistent rumours Bin Laden has sought weapons of mass destruction chemical, biological and nuclear. Pakistan is increasingly seen as a possible source of such weaponry for the Taliban or Bin Laden. One reason is the large number of scientists employed by its nuclear programme. The other is the creeping popularity of the fundamentalist cause among educated, urban Pakistanis. In the past, the most likely source was one of the loose nukes scattered about the ex-Soviet Union. Seven years ago, Russian agents stopped a planeload of Russian nuclear scientists heading off to North Korea. Says Michael Krepon of the Henry Stimson Centre in Washington, which does research on nuclear security, It is easy to get fissionable material, but difficult to make a bomb. He points out the Taliban could just mix nuclear material with RDX. This would not produce an atomic explosion. But, say other experts, the very knowledge Kabul has weapons-grade nuclear material could deter US bombing as Washington would have to fear a terrorist strike that could leave nuclear contaminants. Osamas chain reaction * Bin Laden has spent $3 million since 1996 to acquire Soviet- made nuclear suitcase bombs. * Vladimir Orlov of the Pir Centre, a nuclear security think tank in Moscow, says one Central Asian atomic bomb expert works for Bin Laden. * US intelligence reports say Bin Laden's agents tried buying nukes, chemical weapons from Russian mafia groups post September 11. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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.
[CTRL] FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet
-Caveat Lector- Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic surveillance kl FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html AP Friday, October 26, 2001 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to broaden considerably its ability to tap into Internet traffic in its quest to root out terrorists, going beyond even the new measures afforded in anti-terror legislation signed by President Bush Friday, according to lawyers familiar with the FBIs plans. Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington D.C.-based Steptoe Johnson and a former general consul to National Security Agency, said the FBI has plans to change the architecture of the Internet and route traffic through central servers that it would be able to monitor e-mail more easily. The plans goes well beyond the Carnivore e-mail-sniffing system which allows the FBI to search for and extract specific e-mails off the Internet and generated so much controversy among privacy advocates and civil libertarians before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. From the work Ive been doing, Ive seen the efforts the FBI has been making and it suggests that they are going to unveil this in the next few months, Baker said of the plan. FBI Spokesman Paul Bresson said he was unaware of any development in the e-mail surveillance arena that would require major architectural changes in the Internet, but acknowledged that such a plan is possible. Any new efforts would would be in compliance with wiretapping statutes, Bresson said. We would be remiss if we didnt. Such a move might have been unthinkable before Sept. 11. Last year, privacy groups and civil libertarians howled in protest when the FBI trotted out plans to start using the Carnivore system. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington was ready to go full rounds with the government in court over Carnivore, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to take another look at its constitutionality. Now, though, the country is asking for more, not less, law enforcement on the Internet, and even those who once complained are coming around. I have two minds on this, says Fred Peterson, vice president of government affairs for the Xybernaut Corporation, which manufactures computer technology for military and law enforcement. The past six weeks have left little doubt in most peoples mind, he said, that new measures must be taken. I think that the threat has increased and while (FBI) demands were unreasonable at a time when the threat was less immediate and less fatal its just not the same story anymore, he said. Others are still skeptical, though not as much. I dont think (FBI) motives are bad, but I do think theyre using peoples current state of mind theyre using it to their advantage, said Mikal Condon, staff attorney for EPIC. The new FBI plans would give the agency a technical backdoor to the networks of Internet service providers like AOL and Earthlink and Web hosting companies, Baker said. It would concentrate Internet traffic in several central locations where e-mail and other web activity could be wiretapped. Baker said he expects the agency will approach the Internet companies on an individual basis to ask for their help in the endeavor. But Jim Harper, staff counsel for privacy advocate Privacilla.org said the FBI may have a hard time convincing some companies to redesign the Internet on its behalf. Its not really surprising, but I would be shocked to see if it gets done, he said. Restructuring the Internet? I dont think so. Others say the Internet companies will not put up much of a fight. Sue Ashdown, executive director of the Washington-based American ISP Association, an Internet company trade group, said most Internet companies arent healthy enough financially to take on the government in court to protect their subscribers privacy rights. And no one, she says, wants to appear hostile to law enforcement right now. I know there are a lot of members in the association with feelings on both sides, said Ashdown. In the current patriotic climate, enterprises of all types will likely play along with the FBI in order to avoid a public relations disaster, said Gene Riccoboni, an Internet attorney with the Stamford, Connecticut-based Grimes Battersby. -- Best wishes F.B.I. - Fellowship of Baby Incinerators -??? A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Mailed Anthrax Confirmed in Pakistan
-Caveat Lector- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011026/1/1l94a.html Saturday October 27, 4:50 AM First case of anthrax linked to suspicious mail confirmed in Pakistan A local employee at a foreign bank in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has contracted anthrax, the doctor treating him told AFP. The man was admitted to the private Aga Khan hospital this week after coming in contact with a suspicious letter at the bank, the doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. The doctor said the patient's contition was not life threatening. He definitely will not die. His condition is okay. He will be out in a week or so, the doctor said. The anthrax case is the first in Pakistan linked to suspicious mail following a series of similar apparent biological weapon attacks in the United States. Fourteen people in the United States have contracted the disease through either inhalation or the less serious manifestation, skin anthrax, after spores were sent in the mail. The attacks began after the September 11 suicide plane terrorist attacks on New York and Washington but US authorities have not been able to determine who is behind them. Aga Khan hospital officials confirmed this week it had received three possible anthrax samples delivered in letters to at least two foreign banks in Karachi. The doctor said early Saturday the man he was treating was the only person at the hospital to have contracted the disease. He did not name the bank but said it was a branch of a major international financial institution located in the business district of southern Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub. -- Best wishes I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ~~ Abbie Hoffman A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Driver questioned, `reeked of suspicion,' but FBI disinterested
-Caveat Lector- Now this is more like the FBI I remember - too busy to worry with legitimate leads when there are cults to be tracked down and burned out of their homes. http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/71175 Driver questioned, `reeked of suspicion,' but FBI disinterested 2001-10-25 by Lance Coleman of the Daily Times Staff An Atlanta man of Middle Eastern descent was stopped and questioned after he almost hit a Blount County Sheriff's Office cruiser on Hall Road Tuesday night. What deputies found and how the man acted ``reeked of the odor of suspicion,'' Chief Deputy Tony Crisp said. Deputies searched his vehicle and found several valid driver licenses from Georgia and Tennessee, a Social Security card and receipts from several cash wire transfers to Pakistan and Indonesia. Alcoa police had questioned the man earlier in the day at Kroger in Alcoa when he made a $10,200 wire transfer to Pakistan, the report said. Deputy Angie Condee reported at 9:30 p.m., a black Toyota Celica driving erratically on Hall Road and slowly in the passing lane. When the vehicle jerked back into Condee's lane and almost struck the cruiser, Condee stopped the vehicle and spoke with the driver, her report said. ``The deputy was behind him and he bowed up and stopped in the road. The vehicle behind the deputy almost hit her by having to make an abrupt stop, too,'' Crisp said. Deputy Steve Anderson arrived, then Condee asked and was given consent to search the man's vehicle. The deputies found several passports with different names and several wire transfer records with dates over the last year and funds sent to Pakistan and Indonesia. He had three different Georgia licenses -- one temporary, one permanent and one for identification only -- one Tennessee driver's license (for I.D. only) and a Social Security card with a different name. The Social Security number came back not on file. The 36-year-old man said he was driving his brother's vehicle and told deputies he was in town to work at an Alcoa restaurant, officials said. Crisp said deputies didn't have any idea why the man drove four hours to work at an Alcoa restaurant, ``and he couldn't articulate why he was doing that, either.'' The money transferred Tuesday from the Alcoa Kroger was four different transfers, three for $3,000 and one for $1,000, Crisp said. The man denied making the transfers, even though his vehicle tag number matched the tag number of the man who made the Alcoa Kroger cash transfers, Crisp said. Sheriff James Berrong, Capt. Jim Long and Sgt. Tim Wilson came to the scene of Condee's traffic stop. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials were contacted, but never responded. Crisp said the man acted suspiciously. ``He never did ask why we stopped him. He could speak English pretty fluently, but when he felt uncomfortable answering, he would indicate he couldn't speak very good English,'' Crisp said. Crisp said the man had records of monthly money transfers to Indonesia from 1999. The man followed deputies to the Blount County Jail where he was photographed, fingerprinted and released as part of the investigation for criminal impersonation due to information given about the wire transfers, the report said. -- Best wishes Abuse of any one generally show that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence. - Tryon Edwards A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) Clintonized FBI Fingers 'Right-Wing Hate Groups' i
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Saturday Oct. 27, 2001; 2:31 p.m. EDT Clintonized FBI Fingers 'Right-Wing Hate Groups' in Anthrax Probe In a move reminiscent of the botched FBI investigations of the Clinton era, the bureau is actively pursuing weak leads suggesting right-wing hate groups are involved in the recent wave of anthrax attacks on the U.S. Meanwhile, clear circumstantial evidence pointing to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden appears to have been placed on the back burner. Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 the U.S. hadn't suffered a single case of inhalation anthrax since 1976. Still probers continue to insist they see no connection between the events of that day and the anthrax-laden letters sent out the next week to every branch of the U.S. government, the CIA, the big three network news divisions and the headquarters prominent newspapers from New York to Florida. Everything seems to lean toward a domestic source, one senior FBI official told the Washington Post Saturday. Nothing seems to fit with an overseas terrorist type operation. For some victims, such a claim seems more than a little absurd. Steve Coz, for instance, whose National Enquirer headquarters in Florida was the first to be hit with an anthrax attack, complained two weeks ago that al Qaeda terror kamikaze pilot Mohamed Atta had been spotted in a local drugstore with reddened hands -- a condition he thought could be a symptom of cutaneous anthrax. Another detail the FBI seems anxious to overlook: The widely reported visits by Atta and his coconspirators to Florida airfields where they inquired about renting cropdusters and the size of the chemical loads the planes could disperse. The bureau seems none too interested in other potential evidence that could tie Atta to the anthrax assault. In Florida, agents haven't tested cars or residences used by some of the hijackers, including those of Mohamed Atta, reported the Wall Street Journal Thursday. FBI officials said testing isn't a priority, because they assume that by now, the hijackers' cars and apartments would have been cleaned, removing any trace of anthrax. Ken Alibek, who headed up the Soviet Union's biological weapons program said the FBI's assumption is wrong. He told the Journal that investigators should be conducting extensive testing for anthrax traces in vehicles used by suspects and in all places that a suspect resided. Alibek's advice notwithstanding, Special Agent Rene Salinas told the paper, At this time, there are no plans to go back and check (Atta's car and apartment) for traces of anthrax. The FBI's belief that so-called domestic terror groups are behind the bioterror scourge is also belied by Friday's reports that anthrax found in a letter sent to Sen. Tom Daschle contained bentonite, a substance weapons experts say is Iraq's signature. While some analysts point out that bentonite was also used in U.S. anthrax production, the Journal reported Friday that those stocks were destroyed in the 1960's. Dr. Khidhir Hamza, a former top official in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, also disagrees with the FBI's domestic terrorism hunch. This is Iraq, Hamza told CNBC. This is Iraq's work. Nobody (else) has the expertise outside the U.S. and outside the major powers who work on germ warfare. Nobody has the expertise and has any motive to attack the U.S. except Saddam to do this. This is Iraq. This is Saddam. (Read NewsMax.com's exclusive report on Dr. Hamza's comments.) Saturday's news that the Czech government now confirms several meetings betweeen Atta and a top Iraqi intelligence official in Prague last June -- combined with reports last week that bin Laden was able to purchase anthrax from a factory in the Czech Republic -- add further legitimacy to suspicions of a foreign bioterror tie. (See: Osama Bought Anthrax) Still, as the evidence mounts of al Qaeda and Iraqi involvement, the FBI seems hellbent on looking the other way. Ultra right-wing organizations -- including a particular West Coast Group -- have become a key focus of the massive federal investigation into the murderous anthrax attacks, the New York Post reported Thursday. Our feeling is the anthrax does not point to an international terrorist group, an FBI source told the Post for its front page report. The sentiment was echoed by a Washington Post front page report two days later: The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are considering a wide range of domestic possibilities, including associates of right-wing hate groups and U.S. residents sympathetic to the causes of Islamic extremists, reported Post star Bob Woodward. What actual evidence does the FBI's have of a homegrown anthrax plot? Not much, at least if published reports are any indication. Charges against suspected domestic bioterrorist Larry Wayne Harris, who was thought to be targeting Las Vegas with weapons grade anthrax earlier this year, had to be dropped after the
[CTRL] Bin Laden's roots in South Africa
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=2509 7 SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 2001 WAR ON TERROR Bin Laden's roots in South Africa Osama's wealth family gives millions to spread fundamental Islam By Anthony C. LoBaido © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Recent reports in the Afrikaans language newspaper Rapport indicate that Osama bin Laden's wealthy family has worked for years to increase the influence of Islam in South Africa, specifically in the Zulu-speaking community. This activity includes giving millions to translate the Koran into Zulu and converting Zulus in key legal and law-enforcement positions to Islam fundamentalism. Yousouf Deedat, 45, of Durban, South Africa confirmed that his Islamic center received substantial funding from the bin Laden family and that Deedat family members often traveled to Saudi- Arabia and had met Osama bin Laden there over the years. They also claim bin Laden is being turned into a scapegoat by American authorities. Deedat, who triggered a storm when he distributed thousands of anti-Semitic handbills featuring a picture of Adolf Hitler during the World Conference Against Racism in Durban last month, said he and his father first met bin Laden in 1989 in Saudi Arabia and again in the 1990s while the Deedats were drumming up support for the Islamic Propagation Center International in Durban. The Deedats have had close links with the bin Laden family since first meeting Osama's elder brother, Sheikh Bakr bin Laden, in 1986. Since then, many of the 27 Bin Laden brothers have contributed generously to the center. The sheikh alone gave the center $3.1 million over eight years to buy a building, print the Koran in English and Zulu, and print and distribute Islamic literature. At least 100,000 Zulu translations of the Koran were distributed in South Africa, say both Islamic and government sources. In appreciation, the Deedats named their building on Durban's Victoria Street after the family in 1988. Deedat told the South Africa media that bin Laden had also invited him on a number of occasions to attend his lectures in Saudi Arabia. He moved me to tears. He was a man of few words, but when he spoke in public, he had this magnetic effect on all who listened to him. Whether he was guilty or not, Deedat said, the U.S. would always use him as a scapegoat. Other Muslims in Durban also told the newspapers that they frequently met bin Laden in Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly holds regular lectures and maintains close ties with his entire bin Laden clan. This information from Durban contradicts claims from U.S. government sources that bin Laden had been estranged from his Saudi tribe for many years and had in fact been living in Afghanistan. Evidence coming out of South Africa suggests that bin Laden's entire Saudi family backs his activities completely. Anthony C. LoBaido is an international correspondent for WorldNetDaily. -- Best wishes God said in the holy Koran that men are better than women. Why can't we settle for that? -Ahmad al-Baqer, Kuwaiti MP, on announcement that Kuwait's highest court voted against women's right to vote and hold public office. (Jan 16, 2001) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Postal Clerk Dies From Legionnaire's Disease
-Caveat Lector- http://www.mycfnow.com/orlpn/news/stories/news- 103194020011027-201020.html Postal Clerk Dies From Legionnaire's Disease Posted: 9:13 p.m. EDT October 27, 2001 Updated: 9:20 p.m. EDT October 27, 2001 BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A female clerk at a Palm Beach County post office has died from Legionnaire's disease, but the case appears isolated and is not a threat to the community, health officials said. Rosa Anderson, 55, a distribution clerk at the Boca Rio post office, died at Boca Raton Community Hospital, said Judy Johnson, head of the American Postal Workers in Miami. Legionnaire's disease is a respiratory infection that generally spreads through the inhalation of mist from contaminated water. It does not spread from person to person. The disease is treatable, but Anderson arrived at the hospital very, very sick,'' director of the Palm Beach County Health Department Dr. Jean Malecki said. Since Anderson was hospitalized a few days after a man died from anthrax, she was also tested for the bacteria. Bob Stevens, who worked for American Media, Inc., in Boca Raton, died of the inhaled form of anthrax in early October. Anderson's tests for anthrax came back negative. It was only after she died that health officials determined she had Legionnaire's disease. There's no obvious source'' for the disease and there are no new cases in the area, Malecki said. We're all very saddened,'' postal service spokeswoman Ellen B. Bohde said. She was a wonderful employee and she'll missed by all of our employees.'' Legionnaire's disease was discovered in 1976, when 34 people died and 221 became ill at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified the bacterium responsible for the outbreak in January 1977, calling it Legionella pneumophilia. Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) NYTimes.com Article: Pakistani Intelligence Had Links to
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pakistani Intelligence Had Links to Al Qaeda, U.S. Officials Say October 29, 2001 By JAMES RISEN and JUDITH MILLER WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - The intelligence service of Pakistan, a crucial American ally in the war on terrorism, has had an indirect but longstanding relationship with Al Qaeda, turning a blind eye for years to the growing ties between Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, according to American officials. The intelligence service even used Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan to train covert operatives for use in a war of terror against India, the Americans say. The intelligence service, known as Inter-Services Intelligence, or I.S.I., also maintained direct links to guerrillas fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir on Pakistan's border with India, the officials said. American fears over the agency's dealings with Kashmiri militant groups and with the Taliban government of Afghanistan became so great last year that the Secret Service adamantly opposed a planned trip by President Clinton to Pakistan out of concern for his safety, former senior American officials said. The fear was that Pakistani security forces were so badly penetrated by terrorists that extremist groups, possibly including Mr. bin Laden's network, Al Qaeda, would learn of the president's travel route from sympathizers within the I.S.I. and try to shoot down his plane. Mr. Clinton overruled the Secret Service and went ahead with the trip, prompting his security detail to take extraordinary precautions. An empty Air Force One was flown into the country, and the president made the trip in a small unmarked plane. Later, his motorcade stopped under an overpass and Mr. Clinton changed cars, the former officials said. The Kashmiri fighters, labeled a terrorist group by the State Department, are part of Pakistan's continuing efforts to put pressure on India in the Kashmir conflict. The I.S.I.'s reliance on Mr. bin Laden's camps for training came to light in August 1998, when the United States launched a cruise missile attack against Al Qaeda terrorist camps near Khost, Afghanistan, in response to the bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa. The casualties included several members of a Kashmiri militant group supported by Pakistan who were believed to be training in the Qaeda camps, American officials said. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, the Pakistani government, led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has turned against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in favor of the United States. One element in that shift was General Musharraf's decision to oust the chief of the intelligence service, Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, who may have been reluctant to join an American-led coalition against the Taliban government that his organization helped bring to power. Still, American officials said the depth of support within elements of the I.S.I. for a war on the Taliban and Al Qaeda remained uncertain, and a former chief of the agency has become one of the most vocal critics of American policy in Pakistan. The former director general, Hameed Gul, complained in an interview with a Pakistani newspaper that the Bush administration was demanding that the agency be placed at the disposal of the Americans, as if it were a mercenary force. The I.S.I. is a national intelligence agency, whose potential and ouput should not be shared or rented out to other countries, Mr. Gul said. American officials acknowledged that recent American policies toward Pakistan had fueled such attitudes. In the 1990's the Central Intelligence Agency failed to maintain the close ties it had developed with the I.S.I. in the American agency's covert action program to support the Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet army of occupation in the 1980's. The close personal relationships that had developed between C.I.A. and I.S.I. officials - General Gul among them - during the war against the Soviets withered away. After the Soviets were forced out of Afghanistan, said Shamshad Ahmad, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations and a former foreign secretary, you left us in the lurch with all the problems stemming from the war: an influx of refugees, the drug and gun running, a Kalashnikov culture. In recent years, in fact, American officials said, the United States offered few incentives to the Pakistanis to end their relationship with the Taliban. Washington gave other issues, including continuing concerns about Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and its human rights record, much greater emphasis than the fight against terrorism. Those priorities were illustrated by the apathetic reaction within the United States government to a secret memorandum by the State Department's chief of counterterrorism in 1999 that called for a new approach to containing Mr. bin Laden. Written in the the wake of the bombings of
[CTRL] FBI Missed White Powder in Atta's Car
-Caveat Lector- NewsMax.com Monday, Oct. 29, 2001 12:57 p.m. EST FBI Missed White Powder in Atta's Car FBI investigators performing anthrax tests on vehicles used by kamikaze terror pilot Mohamed Atta failed to discover a suspicious spot of white powder in a rental car he used just two days before the Sept. 11 attacks. A Pompano Beach rent-a-car company owner told the Miami Herald Monday that Atta had rented the 1995 Ford Escort twice - once in August and again in September. When the kamikaze terror pilot returned the vehicle, its trunk contained a teaspoon of unidentified powder, he told the paper. I don't know what [the powder] is, said Bradley G. Warrick, 48, owner of Warrick Rent-A-Car and Budget Truck Rental. I don't know if it's anything I need to be concerned about. The 1995 Escort had been in FBI custody for two weeks after the attacks, but went unchecked for anthrax during that time. Warrick told the Herald he hadn't alerted the bureau to the white powder in Atta's vehicle earlier because he assumed they had discovered it on their own and analyzed it. But FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela was surprised to hear about the white powder. We were not called out on that, she told the paper. I find it hard to believe. Over the weekend the FBI examined two cars owned by Atta and another hijacker after reports surfaced revealing investigators had failed to do so. Both vehicles tested negative for presence of the deadly bacterium. Based on the negative test results for the two vehicles, investigators had decided not to test Atta's Florida residence for anthrax. But that decision is expected to change in the wake of news of the suspicious powder in Atta's rental car. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. -- Ayn Rand A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] The Next Pig Thing
-Caveat Lector- http://www.motherjones.com/ The Next Pig Thing Canadian researchers have developed a genetically-engineered pig that could help clean up a major source of water pollution -- but environmental groups want the swine squelched. by Leora Broydo Vestel October 26, 2001 Once upon a time there were three little pigs. They were very special pigs. Their genes were engineered by scientists to make them less damaging to the environment than any of their swine brethren. And everybody lived happily ever after. Or maybe not. The three pigs in question, developed by researchers in Canada and already patented as 'Enviropigs,' represent a unique dilemma for environmentalists. Major green environmental organizations are virtually unanimous in the view that genetically-modified products should be banned. But the Enviropigs address a major environmental problem -- one those same groups have been fighting for years. At this point, while researchers and pig farmers have extolled the environmental benefit Enviropigs present, most of the leading environmental groups aren't following suit. While the hogs' virtues may be attractive to the green groups, their modified genes represent a vice too significant to overlook. The crux of the debate centers around the manure pigs produce. Modern pig farming often involves raising thousands of swine in a single facility -- which can in turn generate thousands of tons of manure every year. That manure is then spread in fields or stored in lagoons. The contaminants in the manure can spread from either fields or lagoons into water sources. In 1995, for instance, an eight-acre hog-waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, spilling 22 million gallons of manure into a nearby river and killing enormous numbers of fish. Concentrations of manure rank among the greatest threats to our nation's waters and drinking water supplies, according to a recent Environmental Protection Agency study. The Enviropig, developed at the University of Guelph in Ontario and introduced to the world in August, have been modified so that their manure contains up ot 75 percent less phosphorus than the average swine. Several substances in pig manure cause environmental damage, but phosphorus is one of the major culprits. The presence of phosphorus in waterways can cause fish kills, biodiversity loss and foster the growth of toxic organisms, according to the EPA. Unlike their predecessors, such as a salmon that are designed to grow faster, the Enviropig is the first animal engineered for environmental benefit. Not surprisingly, scientists and pork industrialists are thrilled, since proposed government limits on phosphorus output threaten the industry's growth. Ontario Pork, a trade association representing pig farmers in the Canadian province, calls the Enviropig the biggest breakthrough in pig farming since the invention of the trough. The environmental barriers are the largest in terms of growing as an industry, says Clare Schlegel, chairman of Ontario Pork, which represents 4,400 hog farmers in the province and has been a primary funder of the Enviropig research. [Pork producers] are being looked at as polluters -- this is one technology to show that we do care. Environmentalists aren't buying it. The Sierra Club, which has made lobbying for controls on pig manure pollution a centerpiece of its clean water campaign, calls the Enviropig a load of hogwash. This is just another quick fix, says Laurel Hopwood, chair of Sierra Club's genetic engineering committee. The way to reconcile [the problem] is to stop factory farming. Greenpeace and other environmental groups have echoed the Sierra Club message, arguing that the only real solution is moving away from massive industrial-style hog-growing and instead raising fewer pigs in bigger outdoor spaces. Other technical fixes also exist. Pigs don't digest most of the phosphorus in their grain-based diet, so it ends up in their manure. A new breed of corn, developed by a USDA researcher, reduces phosphorus in manure by up to 50 percent. A widely practiced strategy of adding the enzyme phytase to feed can also reduce phosphorus content by 56 percent. There are a lot of sustainable agriculture programs that offer real benefits to food security and to the environment that take far less resources than the biotech solutions being proposed, says Michael Khoo of the Union of Concerned Scientists. The Guelph researchers addressed the problem by modifying the pigs' digestive abilities. They combined a bacterial gene which makes an enzyme that breaks down the form of phosphorus found in pig feed with a mouse gene that causes the enzyme to be secreted from an animal's mouth. The composite gene was then injected into one-celled pig embryos that were subsequently surgically implanted into a surrogate mother. The results were the first three Enviropigs, which researchers named Wayne, Jacques and Gordie after famous Canadian hockey players. Today, Guelph houses more
[CTRL] (Fwd) Trust the government?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Trust the government? By Joseph Farah © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com There's so much news breaking, these days, it's hard to keep up. It's overwhelming. There's just no precedent for it in my 25 years in the news business. One of the recent stories that didn't have legs because of information overload was one broken by the New York Times Oct. 4. (Too bad that paper's registration doesn't permit direct hotlinks to important stories like this.) Security for domestic shipments of surface-to-air missiles, cruise missiles and other explosives has been so poor that terrorists could easily obtain them for use in an attack in this country, according to a classified government report and other confidential records, the story said. Wow! The article went on to explain that the General Accounting Office had found stunning lapses in the system for shipping military explosives around the United States by truck. The GAO characterized those lapses as posing substantial national security or public safety risks. The report was issued in July, but, since Sept. 11, takes on new significance. Listen to some of the details and conclusions: a.. Terrorists could obtain weapons of the U.S. military that are moved and temporarily stored in private trucks with little difficulty. b.. The U.S. military, unlike Federal Express, often cannot even identify where weapons and explosives are when they are being shipped. c.. Investigators found that a shipment of 192 Stinger missiles was left in a civilian storage area without the knowledge of the military or the contractor who shipped them. d.. Trucking companies transporting weapons are allowed to leave trucks in commercial-carrier terminals with few safeguards from intruders. e.. Investigators were able to access missiles and rockets in storage terminals by simply flashing phony Defense Department credentials. f.. Investigators who deliberately tried to raise suspicions were not challenged. g.. Gates protecting dangerous materials were left unlocked. h.. None of the facilities had alarms to detect intrusions. i.. A site responsible for storing Hawk surface-to-air missiles left open its garage door. j.. Five sites containing a full military arsenal including cruise missiles, SAMs, anti-tank rockets, 72 bombs, 14,000 rounds for howitzers and other explosives and munitions were accessible. Such irresponsibility on the part of government would lead me to believe it's not aquestion of whether terrorists have obtained such deadly firepower it's a question of how much. It also puts the lie to the assertion that only more federal government authority and regulation can make us safe. These people are the problem. They are inept at best, co-conspirators with the terrorists at worst. Just so I'm not accused of using 20-20 hindsight to make my case, let me remind you about the 14 Syrian pilots who were permitted to attend flight schools in Texas recently. This story was broken by WorldNetDaily's Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry and widely disseminated (with little credit, I might add) after Sept. 11. This incredible oversight took place amid the new awareness of the terrorist threat. I submit to you only the federal government could be that dumb or that corrupt or that complacent about national security threats of this magnitude. But, to make matters worse, to my knowledge these Syrians have still not been given the boot. Neither has the federal government done a thing yet to secure its borders. Neither has the federal government done anything to clean up corruption in the Customs Department that permits trainloads of material to enter the United States without inspection. And I'll bet you a dollar to a donut America's military weaponry is still not under proper guard when it is in transit. On and on it goes. Do you think the answer is more centralized authority and more federal bureaucracy? I don't. I think that's the problem. But what's the solution? The American people need to become more self-reliant. They need to hold their government accountable. They need to take matters into their own hands. They need to arm themselves and be prepared to defend themselves. They need to stop looking to Washington for help and start asserting their proper authority in local governments. They need to realize the federal government is a great albatross around their necks even, unfortunately, in times of crisis. http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25122 --- End of forwarded message --- -- Best wishes This underground empire is controlled by a handful of people for money - that's the only secret of the temple. - Investigative reporter Danny Casolaro, prior to his murder by the Octopus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are
[CTRL] (Fwd) Arab-Christians attacked in Israel
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- CHRISTIAN STUDENTS BEATEN NEAR TEL AVIV TEL AVIV, Oct 31, 01 (FIDES/CWNews.com) -- Several students from a Catholic school in the Holy Land were injured, and three hospitalized, when they were assaulted and beaten by Jewish teenagers, the Fides news service has reported. Israeli officials reportedly declined to press charges against the assailants. Students from the Terra Santa School in the old town of Jaffa, adjacent to Tel Aviv, were on a field trip last week when their bus stopped at a McDonald's restaurant in Beersheba for a lunch break. Soon several buses of students from a Jewish school arrived, and-- upon hearing the younger Christian children speaking in Arabic-- provoked a fight that soon escalated to include the use of sticks, stones, and knives. Father Arturo Vasaturo, OFM, the pastor of the parish where the Terra Santa School is located, protested that the adults supervising the Jewish teenagers did not intervene to stop the beating, and Israeli police who arrived to break up the melee refused to help the victims identify their attackers. --Best Wishes The police aren't here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder. -Mayor Richard Daley --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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
Re: [CTRL] New York Post Article on Anthrax Mailings
-Caveat Lector- On 1 Nov 2001 at 13:25, Al Hidell wrote: I don't understand how anthrax mailed prior to 9/11 would necessarily lead the feds to think it was a domestic group. It's very necessary if you have someone in your sights and need an excuse to burn them alive in their homes. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Iraq smuggles agents into Germany via Prague
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Iraq smuggles agents into Germany via Prague
By Hugh Williamson and Philipp Jaklin in Berlin
Published: October 31 2001 20:10 | Last Updated: November 1
2001 08:23
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Iraq has moved secret agents into Germany as part of illegal
people-smuggling operations, German authorities confirmed on
Wednesday.
The agents had been smuggled from eastern European
countries in an operation co-ordinated by Iraqi diplomats in
Prague, the Czech capital.
There is evidence that Iraqis with secret service backgrounds
have infiltrated Germany, helped by professional smuggling
gangs, according to a spokesman for Germany's Agency for
the Protection of the Constitution, Berlin's internal intelligence
authority.
The confirmation, and the connection to Prague, may reinforce
allegations of Iraqi involvement in the terrorist attacks in the
US in September.
Stanislav Gross, the Czech interior minister, said last week that
Mohammed Atta, one of the alleged ringleaders of the attacks,
met an Iraqi diplomat in Prague earlier this year.
The diplomat, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, was later
expelled from the Czech Republic for spying. Prague is
allegedly an important base for the Iraqi secret service.
The German internal intelligence agency had in 1999 identified
efforts by Iraq to move spies into the country, the spokesman
said. There's nothing to suggest that Iraq's approach has
changed since then, he added.
The main activity of Iraqi agents in Germany is to monitor
groups opposed to Saddam Hussein's regime, according to the
internal intelligence agency. No details were available on how
many spies may have entered Germany.
The illegal smuggling of nationals from Iraq, Afghanistan and
other countries via eastern Europe into Germany and other
parts of western Europe has become a main security concern in
recent years. The German-Czech border is a common crossing
point in this process.
A spokesperson for the BND, Germany's international secret
service, said the agency was investigating the problem and was
in contact with the Czech authorities.
German investigators into the terrorist attacks in September
have not published any evidence linking Iraq to the incidents.
Three of the hijackers, including Mr Atta, recently lived in the
northern city of Hamburg.
Some US officials, and other terrorism experts, have pointed to
links between the terrorism network of Osama bin Laden - the
chief suspect behind the attacks - and Iraq.
The Czech government confirmed last week that Mr Atta had
visited Prague at least twice. His most recent visit was by bus
from Germany, arriving in Prague on July 2. He left the city by
air for the US the following day.
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[CTRL] Yes, This Is About Islam By SALMAN RUSHDIE
-Caveat Lector- November 2, 2001 Yes, This Is About Islam By SALMAN RUSHDIE LONDON -- This isn't about Islam. The world's leaders have been repeating this mantra for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror it can't afford to suggest that Islam and terrorism are in any way related. The trouble with this necessary disclaimer is that it isn't true. If this isn't about Islam, why the worldwide Muslim demonstrations in support of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda? Why did those 10,000 men armed with swords and axes mass on the Pakistan- Afghanistan frontier, answering some mullah's call to jihad? Why are the war's first British casualties three Muslim men who died fighting on the Taliban side? Why the routine anti-Semitism of the much-repeated Islamic slander that the Jews arranged the hits on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with the oddly self-deprecating explanation offered by the Taliban leadership, among others, that Muslims could not have the technological know-how or organizational sophistication to pull off such a feat? Why does Imran Khan, the Pakistani ex-sports star turned politician, demand to be shown the evidence of Al Qaeda's guilt while apparently turning a deaf ear to the self-incriminating statements of Al Qaeda's own spokesmen (there will be a rain of aircraft from the skies, Muslims in the West are warned not to live or work in tall buildings)? Why all the talk about American military infidels desecrating the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia if some sort of definition of what is sacred is not at the heart of the present discontents? Of course this is about Islam. The question is, what exactly does that mean? After all, most religious belief isn't very theological. Most Muslims are not profound Koranic analysts. For a vast number of believing Muslim men, Islam stands, in a jumbled, half-examined way, not only for the fear of God the fear more than the love, one suspects but also for a cluster of customs, opinions and prejudices that include their dietary practices; the sequestration or near-sequestration of their women; the sermons delivered by their mullahs of choice; a loathing of modern society in general, riddled as it is with music, godlessness and sex; and a more particularized loathing (and fear) of the prospect that their own immediate surroundings could be taken over Westoxicated by the liberal Western-style way of life. Highly motivated organizations of Muslim men (oh, for the voices of Muslim women to be heard!) have been engaged over the last 30 years or so in growing radical political movements out of this mulch of belief. These Islamists we must get used to this word, Islamists, meaning those who are engaged upon such political projects, and learn to distinguish it from the more general and politically neutral Muslim include the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the blood-soaked combatants of the Islamic Salvation Front and Armed Islamic Group in Algeria, the Shiite revolutionaries of Iran, and the Taliban. Poverty is their great helper, and the fruit of their efforts is paranoia. This paranoid Islam, which blames outsiders, infidels, for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. This is not wholly to go along with Samuel Huntington's thesis about the clash of civilizations, for the simple reason that the Islamists' project is turned not only against the West and the Jews, but also against their fellow Islamists. Whatever the public rhetoric, there's little love lost between the Taliban and Iranian regimes. Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to deny that this self-exculpatory, paranoiac Islam is an ideology with widespread appeal. Twenty years ago, when I was writing a novel about power struggles in a fictionalized Pakistan, it was already de rigueur in the Muslim world to blame all its troubles on the West and, in particular, the United States. Then as now, some of these criticisms were well-founded; no room here to rehearse the geopolitics of the cold war and America's frequently damaging foreign policy tilts, to use the Kissinger term, toward (or away from) this or that temporarily useful (or disapproved-of) nation-state, or America's role in the installation and deposition of sundry unsavory leaders and regimes. But I wanted then to ask a question that is no less important now: Suppose we say that the ills of our societies are not primarily America's fault, that we are to blame for our own failings? How would we understand them then? Might we not, by accepting our own responsibility for our problems, begin to learn to solve them for ourselves? Many
[CTRL] Nazis tied to anthrax attacks
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25290 Nazis tied to anthrax attacks FBI sources see links between Hezbollah, fugitive Germans Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news- cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition, DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Fresh foreign leads in the FBI's anthrax investigation point to the involvement of one or more German or Austrian biological or chemical researchers with pro-Nazi leanings part of a complicated South American web linked to the Hezbollah and fugitive Nazi communities, some of whom are also connected to Iraqi military intelligence, say intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly. One or more researchers are thought to have entered the United States and found jobs with American industrial laboratories or research institutes, setting up clandestine private biological warfare labs in their spare time, the report says. Last month, a group of 10 terrorists was caught in Mexico City on its way to assassinate Mexican President Vicente Fox and carry out a mass strike in the Mexican Senate. They were found by U.S. and Mexican investigators to be a Lebanese Hezbollah gang, preparing to celebrate the first months anniversary of their allys feats in New York and Washington by hitting one of Americas foremost allies on the continent. The terrorists reached Mexico from the Brazil-Uruguay-Paraguay triangle, fresh from training at the hands of German neo-Nazis. They could not say if their instructors were linked to Arab or Islamic intelligence agencies, but a description of one of those instructors rang a bell he sounded like one of the suspects long sought in connection with the Hezbollah bombings of the Israeli Embassy and Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in 1993 and 1994. Imad Mugniyeh, the notorious hostage-taker and bomber of Beirut in the 1980s, is now believed to have masterminded those strikes. Currently a senior commander of al-Qaida, Mughniyeh is thought to have developed neo-Nazi contacts in Latin America through local Lebanese expatriate businessmen. Various agencies, including the FBI, are now probing his possible complicity in the bioterror attack on America, in view of the evidence of his involvement in the Sept. 11 atrocities in New York and Washington and his links to neo-Nazi elements in South America. At the same time, Iraqi military intelligence is also known to be very active in Latin America throughout the Arab and Nazi expatriate communities. Subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly -- Best wishes Beware of isms, for they breed ists. - Stewart Brand A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Times of India Online
Title: TOIonline TOIonlineWhile surfing I found this click that made me tick at The Times of India online. This site offers us complete Access to the World of News and Information.I thought you too might wanna check it out!ISI is treacherous, Bhutto warns West Check This Out!!!
[CTRL] Digital moles in White House
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24594 Digital moles in White House? Terrorists had top-secret presidential codes © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Air Force One is next, read the message received by the U.S. Secret Service at 9 a.m. Sept. 11, after two hijacked planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Three minutes later, Secret Service agents grabbed Vice President Dick Cheney from his seat opposite a television set in the White House and hustled him down to the president's emergency operations center, a bunker built to withstand a nuclear blast. The terrorists' message threatening Air Force One was transmitted in that day's top-secret White House code words. As the clock ticked away, the Secret Service reached a frightening conclusion: The terrorists had obtained the White House code and a whole set of top-secret signals. This made it possible for a hostile force to pinpoint the exact position of Air Force One, its destination and its classified procedures. In fact, the hijackers were picking up and deciphering the presidential plane's incoming and outgoing transmissions. The discovery shocked everyone in the president's emergency operations center Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Their first question was: How did the terrorists access top-secret White House codes and procedures? Is there a mole, or more than one enemy spy in the White House, the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA or the Federal Aviation Administration? In the week after the attacks in New York and Washington, more hair-raising facts emerged. The terrorists had also obtained the code groups of the National Security Agency and were able to penetrate the NSA's state-of-the-art electronic surveillance systems. Indeed, they seemed to have at their disposal an electronic capability that was more sophisticated than that of the NSA. This startling observation came as no surprise to those tracking the globe-spanning investments of Saudi Arabia's bin Laden family and those of its exiled son, Osama, in some of the world's biggest and most advanced satellite and telecommunications companies. Bin Laden also has the NSA beat on the employment front, hiring the best computer experts on the market. One such is Nabil Khan Kani, a Syrian who lived in Barcelona with his Spanish wife, Jenna Florine, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. No one ever suspected what the amiable Syrian was really up to until January 2000, when FBI agents found two apartments he used thousands of miles from Barcelona, in the Bab el-Shabaa district of Saana, Yemen. The apartments served as transit points for Egyptians suspected of operational links with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Algerians connected with the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA. There, investigators turned up nine fake identity cards in different names, all with Kani's photo, Spanish, Italian, French and Sudanese passports, likewise with the same photo but in different names, and two pistols fitted with silencers. Kani must have used yet another alias for his getaway. His whereabouts are unknown to this day. Computer and terrorism experts suggest that the missing Syrian computer whiz was the author of the technology known as steganography, as first described in the Washington Post yesterday. This technology enables users to bypass electronic monitoring by hiding messages randomly in seemingly innocent digital files, such as music files, those of the popular online marketplace eBay, pornographic files or even e-mail headers. Scrambled with the help of basic encryption tools, they can only be read by those with a key. These messages leave no trace of their presence. U.S. intelligence has been unable to trace their authors and recipients in the three years since first detecting evidence of their existence in the files of the bin Laden organization. U.S. agencies now believe that the attacks in New York and Washington were coordinated through those encrypted electronic messages, which were opened by key holders. They also believe that terrorists are in possession of all or part of the codes used by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Reconnaissance Office, Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, Marine Corps Intelligence and the intelligence offices of the State Department and Department of Energy. Intelligence and counter-terror sources report that, while rescuers in New York and Washington were sifting through rubble inch by inch, US government experts were changing codes one-by-one and even more difficult, replacing procedures and methods of encryption. The nagging question of a mole in the highest reaches of the U.S. government and intelligence community with direct or indirect links with bin Laden remains. Since no single individual has access to every top-level code at any given time a single mole would not answer the case; it would have to be a
[CTRL] (Fwd) 4000 Zimbabwe Farmers to be Evicted
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- According to this article, the government of Zimbabwe is moving to destroy domestic agriculture while simultaneously requesting millions of dollars worth of food aid from the UN. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3- 2001393866,00.html --- --- TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 2001 4,000 Zimbabwe farmers to be evicted FROM JAN RAATH IN HARARE ZIMBABWE announced new measures yesterday to enable the Government to nationalise up to 90 per cent of all white-owned land at the stroke of a pen -- a move expected to wipe out next year's crops almost totally. With immediate effect, 800 farmers have been given three months' notice to get off their land. The owners will be confined to their homes during the three months while their properties are occupied by black settlers, Patrick Chinamasa, the Justice Minister, said. Every other white-owned farm that has been formally notified -- about another 3,700 properties -- that the Government intends to take will also be issued with eviction orders, he said. The first result will be that nearly all Zimbabwe's commercial farmers will cancel their cropping and livestock plans for the cropping season just started, experts said. About 22 million acres, nearly all of it intensively farmed, will fall out of production almost immediately. It is suicide, John Robertson, an independent economist, said. Anything that has been planted will go to waste. Gross domestic product will be cut by half. It will make us equal to the poorest countries in the world. These are the actions of madmen. On Friday the Government passed a decree under President Mugabe's sweeping presidential powers that provided almost state-of-emergency authority. Any farm issued with a notice of acquisition becomes state property immediately. The Government can move settlers in and the owner is immediately banned from any farming. Mr Chinamasa refused to say how long it would take for the regime to sign all the orders for seizure. The Commercial Farmers' Union would not comment immediately, but one senior official said privately: This is very, very serious. The announcement came as the United Nations prepared to respond to the Government's appeal two weeks ago for nearly $365 million in emergency relief for serious famine that has already begun. With food stocks due to run out by the end of January, one million people are already in dire need of food. The decree is seen as the final act in Mr Mugabe's campaign effectively to end any significant white presence in the countryside and to avenge the confiscation of land from blacks by white settlers, who began arriving 110 years ago. Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. END -- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] (Fwd) MAILED ANTHRAX FINALLY THE TRUTH?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey December 6, 2001 MAILED ANTHRAX FINALLY THE TRUTH? It has too often been the case in the last decade or so, the truth about important events is first published either on the Internet or in a foreign newspaper. And it usually is in direct contradiction to the (authorized) leaks from knowledgable but unidentified government officials propagated by the mainstream media. The subject of mailed anthrax has followed this pattern. Many (too many) Americans will only accept facts when they see them on the eleven oclock network news or read them in the establishment newspapers, e.g. The New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times. One of the earliest bits of misinformation that probably resulted in several deaths was the assurance that those not in the vicinity where the envelope containing the anthrax spores was opened had nothing to worry about. That had to be revised when victims hundred of miles from the capitol came down with anthrax poisoning. Cross contamination was finally acknowledged, but the danger was downplayed contending that treatment with Cipro (and later other antibiotics) was 100% effective in those cases. We were told that inhalation of anthrax would require a concentration of eight to ten thousand spores in the lungs to be potentially fatal. We were told initially that the anthrax mailed was crude in form and could easily have been used by foreign terrorists. This was reinforced by repetitive showings of the crude lettering on the envelopes on TV. As test results began to filter out, the focus of the media changed to the weaponization of anthrax spores, i.e. milling them down to a diameter of one to three microns. (A micron is one millionth of a meter.) This required a degree of expertise beyond that of a single individual without access to a fairly sophisticated laboratory. After a spate of speculation in the media that a right wing fanatic might have been responsible, the FBI released a profile of its suspect. Predictably, they postulated a loner who may have worked in a laboratory and acquired a couple of test tubes of anthrax he kept in his basement for all these years. After the 911 tragedy this person, for his own reasons might have mailed the anthrax. As test results confirmed the (Ames) strain of anthrax used in the mailings, attention began to focus on the armys top-secret bioweapon laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The Ames strain is one of the most virulent (deadly) strains available and was in high demand both for developing weapons and vaccines to protect against all strains. Ft. Detricks records are incomplete but it is known to have furnished the Ames strain to Britains Porton Down laboratory, a number of university and private labs and probably to Iraq. During the cold war, Ft. Detrick, Britains Porton Down, Russia and South Africa produced and stockpiled large amounts of toxic biological and chemical weapons including anthrax. In 1969, in contemplation of a treaty signed in 1972, President Nixon ordered Ft. Detrick to cease production and destroy the stockpiles. Although research and development was done at Ft. Detrick, the actual production and storage was at the armys facility in the Pine Bluffs Redstone Arsenal in Arkansas. Now, some thirty years later, the U.S. Government appears to be relying on the expertise of two cold war bioweapon veterans, Dr.s William C. Patrick III, and Kenneth Alibek, President and CEO of Advanced Biosystems Inc. (ABS). Patrick was in charge of the anthrax weaponization program at Ft. Detrick. He developed a process that resulted in anthrax far more potent than that known to have been produced by Britain or Russia. He holds five secret patents on the process. The armys anthrax comprised up to one trillion spores per gram, double the amount other programs reached. To put that in perspective, if 10,000 spores is a lethal dose, then the two grams said to have been in the envelope addressed to Senator Daschle had enough for 200 million lethal doses. A gram is just one-twenty-eighth of an ounce. But even the 8 to 10 thousand spore number is misleading the public according to Edgar W. Bud Larson, one of several other Ft. Detrick veterans who granted on the record interviews to Scott Shane of the Baltimore Sun. Larson says that number (which he helped develop) is an average for lethal doses. Depending on several factors, 100 spores or less could be fatal. Larson was head of the aerobiology division at Detrick. Another veteran of the biowars, Norman M. Covert, adds that their experiments showed that spores of one to four microns easily escaped from ordinary envelopes, which have pores of ten microns. Another former Detrick expert is Manuel S. Barbeito who was in charge of decontaminating 75 to 100 buildings at Ft. Detrick after the program was shut down. He has doubts about the chlorine dioxide cleanup method that the EPA has chosen
Re: [CTRL] Illuminati- Prime Directives
-Caveat Lector- On 2 Sep 2001 at 22:20, William Shannon wrote: all forms of bacteria, diseases and microbes. can eventually produce a soup of the most deadly viruses The author obviously is not one of those with the required biology degree. -- Best wishes PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] US walks out of racism conference
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/timesBreakingNewsDisplay/0,,3,00.html World News : last updated, September 03, 2001 18:17 US walks out of racism conference The US has walked out of the World Conference Against Racism after failure to reach a compromise over moves to condemn Israel and Zionism. US Secretary of State Colin Powell has issued a statement denouncing language proposed for the UN meeting's final declaration which condemned Israel. Israel is also withdrawing its delegation, says Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. US delegate Tom Lantos, a Democratic congressman said he expected several other nations to also withdraw from the conference in Durban, South Africa. Sharon to explain role to Putin Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon aims to enlist support over the Middle East peace crisis as he starts a four-day visit to Russia. The prime minister wants to build on the relationship between the two nations and explain Israel's outstanding need to fight against terror during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says aide Raanan Gissin. Russia has largely left the Middle East stage to the United States despite being co-sponsor of the peace process. Arab leaders including Jordan's King Abdullah II, in Moscow last week, have urged Russia to get more involved. Court go-ahead to move boat people The Australian military operation to remove 438 refugees from a cargo boat off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is expected to begin within hours. The refugees, mainly Afghans will be transferred from the boat to a troop ship that will then depart for Papua New Guinea. The transfer and departure have been given the go-ahead after an Australian federal court lifted an injunction which had been stopping the transfer of the boat people and their removal from Australian waters. Government HQ blast kills one An explosion has ripped through the headquarters of the Russian- backed government in Chechnya during a Cabinet meeting, killing at least one person. Several wounded people have been taken to hospital although no news of their condition has emerged. No one in the Cabinet meeting was injured, according to the Interfax news agency. The blast appears to have been timed to coincide with a meeting of top officials in the building, situated in the capital Grozny. War crimes chief seeks more suspects The chief UN war crimes prosecutor is in Belgrade to seek more extraditions of suspects, including Serbian figurehead president Milan Milutinovic. But Carla Del Ponte faces a daunting mission - Serbian officials have indicated they are unwilling to comply with her demands to extradite all of the 15 war crimes suspects who are still at large in Serbia. Del Ponte can demand whatever she wants, but the Serbian government doesn't have to discuss it, says the dominant Yugoslav republic's justice minister Vladan Batic. Ethnic Albanian politician murdered Gunmen in Kosovo have shot and killed an ethnic Albanian politician with alleged ties to Slobodan Milosevic and other Yugoslav authorities. Qerim Ismajli was killed when unknown assailants shot through the front door of his house in the village of Gornje Godance, 25 kilometres miles southwest of Pristina. The 47-year-old was a member of the Kosovo Democratic Initiative, a political group that had close links to Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president. Community shocked after shark kills boy The Virginia Beach community is in a state of shock after a shark killed a 10-year-old boy in the first fatal shark attack in the US this year. Beachgoers are staying ashore and authorities are patrolling local waters following the weekend tragedy - the first in the area in 30 years. David Peltier, of Richmond, Virginia, suffered a 17-inch gash to his left leg in the attack and lost a huge amount of blood from a severed artery. He died in a Norfolk hospital. South Korean sympathiser loses vote South Korea's parliament has passed a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet minister in charge of policy towards North Korea. The vote is a blow to President Kim Dae-jung's so-called sunshine policy of engaging North Korea, which helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize last year. It follows a North Korean proposal to resume stalled talks, which the South says will help restore the reconciliation process that began with an inter-Korean summit last year. Man charged over Arctic ship death A Norwegian with a history of mental illness has been charged with murdering a 69-year-old tourist who fell from a ship cruising in Arctic waters. Myrtha Vogt, from New Mexico, was quickly pulled out of the icy waters of the Norwegian Sea but was already dead. Police first believed the death was accidental until witnesses described a man who had been acting strangely and had been seen near the woman. Minister's Majorcan frolic is excused Germany's defence minister, caught frolicking with his girlfriend in a Majorca after a flight at taxpayers' expense, appears secure in his job. Chancellor
[CTRL] The Fix Is In: Police Tell Intern's Brother, Your Sister May Have Committed Suicide
-Caveat Lector- FreeRepublic.com The Fix Is In: Police Tell Intern's Brother, Your Sister May Have Committed Suicide News/Current Events Breaking News News Keywords: CONDIT/LEVY/CHIANG FBI COVER-UP Source: EtherZone Published: 08/04/01 Author: Todd Brendan Fahey Posted on 09/03/2001 09:20:37 PDT by gobshite The Fix Is In: D.C. Cops Tell Intern's Brother, Your Sister May Have Committed Suicide by Todd Brendan Fahey The cover-up has begun. It was only ever a question of how. My stomach dropped this morning, upon reading that Washington D.C. police have met for the first time with the brother of another dead, dark-haired, 20something intern, Joyce Chiang, who had become an attorney for Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), to tell him: Your sister may have committed suicide. As reported August 31 by WJLA TV, Channel 7 (an ABC affiliate), Roger Chiang--whose sister's decayed corpse was found along a stony embankment on the Potomac River, three months after she had gone missing at 1:00am from a Dupont Circle-area Starbucks coffeehouse--was summoned to a meeting with D.C. police. There, in their first meeting since Ms. Chiang's disappearance in 1999, Assistant D.C. Police Chief Terrance Gainer also had the temerity and recklessness to state to Mr. Chiang that there is no connection between your sister's death and the disappearance of Chandra Levy. Where I come from, and where I've been, this says to Mr. Chiang: Son, stay away from this; you are not wanted here; go quietly and you'll be much better off. Further, police sources are now trotting out the theory that Ms. Chiang was distraught upon the sudden breakoff of her relationship with an INS investigator, and that Ms. Chiang was spreading scurrilous information about her lost-lover (the Clintonian nuts-and- sluts routine rears its head again). (Recall, that, for a time, Chandra Levy told friends and relatives that she was dating an FBI agent, who, in fact, turned out to be Gary Condit.) Roger Chiang, who shared a Dupont Circle area apartment with his sister, stated recently to Greta Van Susteren on CNN that the relationship-in- question was an old one, that it had ended months before her disappearance, and that his sister displayed no signs of sadness in the recent days and up to the very morning of her disappearance, when he last saw her--nor was he ever interviewed by D.C. police, in the months following her disappearance. Mr. Chiang, for his part, rejects police speculation of suicide, stating: One -- the tear in my sister's jacket; two -- the hair DNA samples that were found on the jacket, three -- the anonymous page she received from a pay phone at Dulles Airport the night she turned up missing, Chiang says. [Of this last point, on Joyce Chiang's beeper, which remained in her apartment after her disappearance, was a call which D.C. police eventually traced to a pay phone at Washington's Dulles International Airport; the caller was never determined.] He also points to the message that was painted on the wall of a building behind the Dupont Circle Starbucks where Joyce was last seen. It reads, 'Good day J.C. May I never miss the thrill of being near you.' And Gainer didn't know about it, Chiang says. I don't think that the analysis and investigation into my sister's case was good and thorough. And so that was what our meeting was about. And Gainer was very receptive. (italicized text via Horace Holmes, reporter, WJLC Channel 7) Chandra Levy's body has not been found; FBI sources report that there are no new leads being considered in the Joyce Chiang death (read: The Case Is Closed), and D.C. police are confident enough about the outcome of these matters to be able to report to Roger Chiang that there is no connection between his sister's death (a bizarre disappearance of a vivacious young woman, who had just returned from dinner with friends and insisted upon being let out of the car, so that she could walk the rest of the way home, on a frozen January evening in D.C.; who stopped into Starbucks, intersection of Connecticut and R streets, to make a phone call and whose living entity was never seen again, the corpse being discovered by a paddling canoeist in Fairfax county months later) and that of Chandra Levy. Which is so much bunkum. Shattering the suicide theory: --Joyce Chiang's government identification card and torn jacket were found in Anacostia Park the day after her disappearance. --Ms. Chiang's office during much of her internship with Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) was directly adjacent to that of the office of Congressman Gary Condit. --Chandra Levy was (also) told by Gary Condit to keep any identification off her person during their rendezvous. No person with two functioning neurons left in his skull should ignore the glaring portion of Gary Condit's letter to constituents, which reads: I pray that she has not met the same fate as the other young woman who have disappeared from the same neighborhood. Crime-TV show host
[CTRL] Campground Owner Fatally Shot by FBI Agent After Four-Day Standoff
-Caveat Lector- Campground Owner Fatally Shot by FBI Agent After Four-Day Standoff The Associated Press Published: Sep 3, 2001 http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAMGNE47RC.html VANDALIA, Mich. (AP) - A campground owner facing drug and weapons charges was fatally shot by an FBI agent Monday night after a four-day standoff, authorities said. Grover T. Crosslin, 47, was shot and killed after he walked out of a building with a rifle and pointed it at the agent, Cass County Sheriff Joseph Underwood Jr. said in a news release Monday night. The FBI did not immediately return calls for comment. Crosslin became agitated after authorities brought a phone to him in an attempt to begin negotiations, Underwood said. Crosslin asked to speak with a third party, and when authorities denied the request, he began making threatening remarks and gestures, the sheriff said. Crosslin left the building with another man and began walking around outside the building with his weapon. Crosslin approached an area where an FBI observer had been stationed, and upon seeing the FBI observer, Crosslin immediately raised the weapon to shoulder height and pointed it directly at the agent, Underwood said. The FBI agent shot Crosslin once, the sheriff said. A judge had signed a warrant Monday charging Crosslin with attempted destruction of an aircraft and using a firearm in a felony, Clenney said. Authorities alleged Crosslin, who owns the southwest Michigan campground called Rainbow Farm, shot a news helicopter from WNDU-TV in nearby South Bend, Ind., as it flew overhead Friday. Shots also were fired at an unmarked state police plane Saturday but missed, police said. Both aircraft landed safely without injuries. The situation began Friday when deputies went to the farm after neighbors said Crosslin was burning buildings on his property, which is the target of civil forfeiture proceedings. It appears a house and four main buildings on the campground property have been burned since then, Underwood said. Deputies said they believe Crosslin was upset about a bond revocation hearing scheduled for Friday. It was set because police believed he was violating the terms of his release on bond on previous drug and weapon charges. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest when he didn't show up at the hearing. Authorities arrested Crosslin and five others in May after a two-year investigation into allegations of marijuana use at the 34-acre campground, Underwood said. Crosslin was charged with felony possession of a firearm, growing marijuana and maintaining a drug house. A court order issued in June prohibited Crosslin from having festival gatherings at the farm, whose Web site says it supports the medical, spiritual and responsible recreational uses of marijuana for a more sane and compassionate America. Police allege he violated the order by holding a festival August 17-18, which prompted the bond hearing. About a mile away from the campground, about a half-dozen people displayed placards in support of Crosslin and Rainbow Farm. Crosslin's attorney, Dori Leo, said her client was upset because a child he helped raise has been taken from the home he shares with a friend. The boy was placed in foster care about a month or two ago after Crosslin and the friend, Rolland Rohm, were charged with the drug counts, Leo told the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune. Related links: http://www.surfnetinc.com/hempmuseum/events1b.htm http://www.surfnetinc.com/hempmuseum/History/hempaid.htm http://www.surfnetinc.com/hempmuseum/History/ha_mm.htm -- Best wishes Well all of my friends are stoned lord All of my friends are stoned Janie got stoned cause she couldn't get boned But we're all gonna die someday ~~Kasey Chambers A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy
Re: [CTRL] The Illuminati Strikes Back
-Caveat Lector- When the Vatican decided to have the VIA (Vatican Intelligence Agency) ordered the liquidation of one of our dear friends, John F. Kennedy, because he was preparing to expose the Church and the Jesuits, Another story is that he was preparing to put the US back on the gold standard and revoke the Federal Reserve's charter. -- Best wishes 'Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, `but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.' -Edward Abbey A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] FROM WACO TO SANTA CLARITA THE BATF STRIKES AGAIN
-Caveat Lector- FROM WACO TO SANTA CLARITA THE BATF STRIKES AGAIN By: Barbara Stanley I watched in horror as the BATF sacrificed a motorcycle cop to excuse their burning down a house with a suspect in it. Thats right: a suspect! Not a murderer, not someone who wasnt easy to nab on the street (like Koresh could have been nabbed) while going for the daily paper. And to top it off, the home of this suspect was burned to the ground, while robot water cannons sprayed the neighbors homes. Will I ever know just whos bullet was taken from the slain officers head; will I ever know why he was called in to assist a SWAT team when it is usually the other way around? I always thought if the local p.d. couldnt get the job done, they called in the SWAT team, but not in this case, if the reporting sequence is to be believed. Did the BATF need a reason and this officers life was it, to apply their own kind of justice? I saw several tear gas canisters tossed into the house and what appeared, by the flash of bright, quick light, to be a flash-bang grenade and soon thereafter, the house was involved in fire. Did the firefighters work to extinquish the flames with their safely distanced water hoses? Nope. After all, the BATF cannot afford any evidence, can they? Is this the instant justice that awaits anyone who is on their list? Ok, W, time to step up to the plate and scrap the bullyboys in black shirts. Reno aint at DOJ anymore and the corrupt Clinton team isnt in charge. How did this happen? Was the suspected cache of guns illegal? Is anyone who owns more than one gun safe in their homes? Is he really a felon as the BATF claim? Is anyone comfortable taking anything the BATF says as gospel? Will the fire department stand by and watch an American citizen burn alive as they become complicit in this street justice? Will your neighborhood be next? Did the BATF consider the neighbors while they fired live rounds in their direction? Maybe the BATF first put up a red-haired, pony-tailed black woman to spout their nonsense because no one would say anything about that protected minority class and maybe the BATF later put up what looked like a muscle man to give some non-answers and, perhaps, propagandize with, finally, a spokesman for the local police, but Im not buying it. A suspect is dead. His property is burned to the ground. The evidence is as gone with the wind as was in the case of Waco and the Murrah Building so many questions, so few answers but too much bad conduct. This should scare the bejeezus out of everyone. How interesting that the suspect is not around to give his side of the story. How convenient that the evidence is rubble. I completely expect the ashes to yield only what the BATF want them to yield and their investigation is surely suspect from here on out. As suspect as from the very beginning, shades of Waco and Oklahoma City. Only this time, the actual trial was scrapped for the instant burn-down after the dust-up. Will Americans stand for this? Will Americans even know? I checked around the major media at the six oclock news hour, and aside from Hillary Clinton discussing produce and supermarkets (as if she would know), heard nothing about this travesty. What I would have thought was a first story, never even showed up on the radar as local news bumped the Santa Clarita pogrom. Even Fox news is saying, This is nothing like Waco. Oh, really? And just what leads them to make this claim? Havent we had enough of police standoffs? Havent we had enough of shoot first and ask questions later? Is any American safe? While Rita Cosby continues on about Condit, sounding like Dan Ackroyd doing Julia Childs, will anyone get to the bottom of this horror and make the BAFT accountable? Im not holding my breath if the first reports are any indication of what is to come. Will this story cool on the ashes of someones home and life? We all know about the goon squads penchant to get an address wrong and destroy the innocent lives of non-criminals. But, with the current gun laws that obviate the Constitutional protections to own firearms, is anyone safe anymore? What happened to getting a day in court? Would you not defend your own home should the BATF goons break down your door? Is it time for Americans to scream down the rafters and demand answers? Will some illiterate Goon squad misread your address and destroy your life someday? Innocent until proven guilty? Not as long as the BATF has their way. Break out the tear gas and lets get it on, their new motto.
[CTRL] China offers access deal to News Corp and AOL
-Caveat Lector- http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=Viewc=Articlecid=FT3 DU5E08RClive=trueuseoverridetemplate=ZZZ99ZVV70Ctagid =FTDO9DHMZJC China offers access deal to News Corp and AOL By James Kynge and Robert Thomson in Beijing Published: September 4 2001 18:42GMT |Last Updated: September 4 2001 23:29GMT China is set to allow News Corporation and AOL Time Warner access to its domestic television audiences in return for their agreeing to distribute a Chinese government-sponsored channel in the US. International broadcasters have fought for more than two decades to gain access to the Chinese market. Approval would be a particular triumph for Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp. Xu Guangchun, the Chinese minister responsible for radio, film and television, said that it was his intention to allow both companies access to cable viewers in southern China. We should say that [broadcasting by News Corp and AOL Time Warner] in a restricted area in Guangdong province would be fine, Mr Xu said. He said the only outstanding issue was whether News Corp and AOL Time Warner would ensure that a China Central Television channel would be widely available in the US. It is understood negotiations are far advanced for a general entertainment channel from News Corp's Star TV network to be carried in Guangdong, China's most prosperous province, which neighbours Hong Kong. Permission to broadcast in China will be particularly sweet for Mr Murdoch, who has spent the past eight years repairing a reputation damaged by his 1993 statement that satellite TV represents an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes. He dropped the BBC from the Star network in 1994 after a series of unflattering documentaries on China's politics and social problems invoked the government's wrath. Earlier this year, James Murdoch, his younger son and head of operations for News Corp in Asia, pleased the Chinese authorities with strong criticism of the outlawed mystic movement, Falun Gong. Foreign companies have been banned from directly broadcasting into China, apart from in some tourist hotels and foreign residential compounds. China's intention to allow News Corp and AOL Time Warner access to the domestic television market represents an unprecedented liberalisation in one of its most closed industries. AOL Time Warner said: We've been in positive and constructive discussions with the Chinese government to get increased access for China Entertainment Television in China. -- Best wishes The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. -Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984) _Once Around the Sun_ [1951], December 11 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] White House Acknowledges Germ-Warfare Research
-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,33596,00.html White House Acknowledges Germ-Warfare Research, Says Aim Was to Develop Vaccine Tuesday, September 04, 2001 WASHINGTON The United States has spent years conducting secret research on biological weapons with the goal of developing a vaccine to protect U.S. soldiers from chemical attacks, the White House said Tuesday. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer cast the research as purely defensive in nature and in keeping with a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons. The New York Times reported Tuesday that the research, begun under the Clinton administration, pushes the limits of that treaty, which allows nations to work on vaccines and other protective measures. Citing government officials, the Times said the secret research mimics the major steps a state or terrorist group would take to create a biological arsenal. Fleischer said the U.S. program is designed to protect our servicemen and women in particular. He did not say how long the research has been under way, but noted concerns during the 1991 Gulf War that American soldiers were vulnerable to a chemical attack by Iraq. That was a real issue, Fleischer said. The United States does have a program, it's been around for a while, to develop vaccines and protective measures in case we are attacked. National security spokesman Sean McCormack said the research did not mean the United States wants to move away from the global chemical weapons ban. He noted that the United States did away with its offensive biological weapons years ago. We fully support the biological weapons program, McCormack said. This is purely biodefense research, which is allowed. Bill Harlow, a CIA spokesman, told the Times that the agency conducted laboratory or experimental work to assess the intelligence it had gathered about biological warfare. Everything we have done in this respect was entirely appropriate, necessary and was briefed to the National Security Council staff and appropriate congressional oversight committees, Harlow said. The secret U.S. work included a Pentagon project to assemble a germ factory in the Nevada desert from commercially available materials, the newspaper said. It quoted Pentagon officials as saying the project demonstrated the ease with which a terrorist or rogue nation could build a plant that could produce pounds of deadly germs. -- Best wishes Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliance with none. ~~ Thomas Jefferson The Spirit of 1776, A letter to Thomas Lomax, Monticello, Mar. 12, 1799 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] THE TRAIN IS COMING IN ARI FLEISHCHER, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET
-Caveat Lector- (http://etherzone.com). THE TRAIN IS COMING IN ARI FLEISHCHER, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET By: Paul Fallavollita President Bush condemned anti-globalization protesters targeting the G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy. According to Reuters, Bush stated that those who protest free trade seek to deny [the] best hope for escaping poverty. Bushs plug for free trade, reminiscent of the prattle of the childs toy, speak-nsay, is wholly unremarkable. The event prompting his comments, however, indicates that the elites are taking more notice of the discontent their policies generate. A key rule for patriots should always be that when the elites are disturbed by something and dont want it done, then we should investigate that thing and do it more. The nationalist approach to trade policy suffers from two key handicaps. The first is that the bulk of active protest against free trade comes from the Left, especially from anarcho-communists of various stripes. By active protest, this often means direct confrontation with the authorities, due to the desire of the anarchists to shut down the meetings by blocking the streets and otherwise creating an unsafe environment for the elites. Of course, we on the Right have an excellent excuse for our reticence: we tend to be clean-cut types, respectful of legitimate authority, and we endeavor to conduct ourselves in a dignified manner. Our general lack of nose rings and other such piercings attests to this, as does our regular use of items including shoes and soap. The second handicap is implicit in the first: those of us on the Right are prone to rely exclusively on words, even when we turn our attention to the problems caused by free trade. It is important that this second handicap of the Right not be misunderstood. Words mean things, as we learned from Richard Weavers classic Ideas Have Consequences. They represent ideas, and appeal to mans exclusive domain of reason. Ideas are capable of serving as a powerful motivator, one that interacts with mans spiritual element and keeps him fighting strong even when the odds seem overwhelmingly against him. The complications arising from over-reliance on words become evident in a pre-revolutionary climate in a nation, such as present day America. In such a climate, a sizeable proportion of the population expresses important ideas, yet are ignored by the elites in power. A prime example of this situation is the passage of NAFTA and its threatened expansion into the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), despite the protests of many unionized workers who are threatened by the Janus-faced demon of liberal cosmopolitanism and exploitative global pan-capitalism. Given the fact the current power structure ignores the concerns and welfare of White Americans, is it any wonder that a trend of people physically lashing out is on the rise? The pen and the sword might yet combine and enhance their power. This is the reason why the Bush Administrations Zionist silver-tongue, Ari Fleischer recently stated, its becoming an unfortunate part of summitry that violence is becoming a standard that distorts the goals of the summit. It is difficult to fathom how Fleischer, who is presumably politically savvy, can fail to appreciate how the goals of the summit create the very conditions that spur discontented people to try to distort those goals. Fleischer seems offended that the peons on the Global Plantation have the audacity to complain. His attitude is symptomatic of the appalling arrogance of power our ruling class indulges in, and it is indicative of a sycophant who at last can enjoy his position and the ability to talk down to the average citizen. Those of Fleischers ilk do not have the right to feel welcome or comfortable as they go about their nefarious business. They can count on resistance, and they can expect it to increase. Fleischer is a modern-day Marie Antoinette, and we know from history that such figures earn themselves places on the list of elites deserving special consideration by patriots when revolution or civil war breaks out. Speaking of which, how long can the liberals and mega-corporations continue to lull their victims to sleep with beer and football? Has Fleischers motley crew calculated these variables yet? Eventually, our second-rate rulers are going to slip up and push too far, too soon. With each outrage perpetrated against White Americans, the ranks of citizens awaiting the opportunity to strike a retaliatory blow increase. Fleischers friends should view his concerns as a clear warning. As the elites usher in their brave new world, the rightfully indignant discontents it creates will rise
[CTRL] New solid oxide fuel cell from Penn State runs on diesel
-Caveat Lector- Source: University Of Pennsylvania (http://www.upenn.edu/) Penn Engineers Develop Fuel Cell That Uses Liquid Diesel, The First Such Device To Run On A Widely Available Fuel PHILADELPHIA - Chemical engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a prototype fuel cell that's the first to run on a readily available liquid fuel source, in this case ordinary diesel fuel. The work nudges fuel cells closer to viability, offering the promise of compact, portable power sources that offer much more bang for the buck than combustion engines or existing batteries. Scientists, corporations and the military are all interested in fuel cells, which are far more efficient and less polluting than other energy sources. Work to develop commercial fuel cells, however, has been hindered by the limited fuel sources on which they have been known to run. There used to be a saying that you could run a fuel cell on any fuel as long as it's hydrogen, said Raymond J. Gorte, professor of chemical engineering at Penn and the lead author of a Journal of the Electrochemical Society paper reporting the finding. Gorte and colleague John M. Vohs, professor and chair of chemical engineering at Penn, shook the fuel cell world in March 2000 with the publication of a Nature paper in which they reported developing a fuel cell that could run on butane, the first fuel cell to operate on a fuel other than hydrogen. With the development of a fuel cell that runs directly on liquid diesel of the type sold at gas stations, the team has sidestepped the thorny problem of reforming fuels to hydrogen to run fuel cells. In our earlier work, we were unable to feed liquid diesel to the fuel cell because we did not have a means for vaporizing fuels that have a low vapor pressure at room temperature, Gorte said. This paper demonstrated that we could feed these liquids to a fuel cell using a method analogous to a fuel injector in an internal combustion engine and still get stable operation of the fuel cell. Much past research with fuel cells has focused on the messy question of how best to process, or reform, available hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel into pure hydrogen, an expensive and inefficient proposition. The Penn fuel cell is the first to run directly on hydrocarbons, without requiring complicated reforming into hydrogen either within the device itself or at specialized filling stations. Generating electric power through controlled electrochemical reactions rather than combustion, its only emissions are water, carbon dioxide and heat. Smaller than a penny, the prototype fuel cell developed by Gorte, Vohs, graduate student Hyuk Kim and postdoctoral researcher Seungdoo Park operates in a furnace set at 700 degrees Celsius. A commercial, self-contained fuel cell would ideally generate that heat itself using the fuel placed in it. Although unlikely to replace household batteries for small appliances and portable electronics, researchers have suggested that fuel cells might be appropriate for powering cars and laptop computers. We are excited by the progress that Professor Gorte and his colleagues are making in the area of direct oxidation of hydrocarbon fuels using solid oxide fuel cells, said David Bauer, team leader for the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell project at the Ford Research Laboratory in Dearborn, Mich. The ability to utilize conventional fuels with little or no reforming is particularly important in transportation applications where fuel storage and system packaging are such critical issues. Fuel cells could also make possible electric generators that operate on propane or butane. Gorte's team is interested in developing a relatively small, five-kilowatt fuel cell. Such a unit, placed in a home's basement, could be used to generate electricity from natural gas, using the excess energy to heat the home or its hot water. It's much more efficient to produce energy on-site than it is to make it many miles away, Gorte said. The U.S. military regards fuel cells as a possible source of portable palm power for soldiers carrying electronic devices. Together with Honeywell, Penn researchers have recently been awarded $1.8 million by the U.S. Army and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration to develop a coffee-can-sized fuel cell capable of generating power equivalent to 50 D-cell batteries. The military is particularly interested in diesel-run fuel cells because diesel's low vapor pressure makes it less explosive and therefore safer; the Penn fuel cell also runs on the hydrocarbons toluene and n-decane. DARPA has indicated to the team that it would like fuel cell technology to find civilian applications. We believe this is very doable and that this technology should be very easily modifiable for many applications, Gorte said. Gorte, Vohs, Kim and Park's work with solid oxide fuel cells was funded by the Office of Naval Research and published in the July issue of JECS. -- Best wishes America will tolerate
[CTRL] Self-assembling organic thin-film photovoltaics
-Caveat Lector- Photovoltaics Researchers Developing Self-Assembling Solar Cells TUCSON, Ariz. -- Photovoltaics - the high-tech approach to converting sunlight directly into electricity - could be low cost and widely practical if based on organic self-assembling thin film technologies, say scientists at the University of Arizona. UA chemists and optical scientists have been funded by two separate new grants totaling more than $1 million to develop organic molecules that self assemble, or self-organize, from liquid into efficient solar cell coatings. Neal R. Armstrong, Bernard Kippelen, David O'Brien, Seth Marder and Jean-Luc Bredas together have previously pioneered breakthroughs in such related areas as organic light-emitting diode and holographic storage technologies. They are now applying their discoveries and new materials to unconventional photovoltaics (PV) -- organic solar cell thin films. They are designing, synthesizing and characterizing molecules that will self-organize from solution into coatings about 100 nanometers thick, or about one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair. Molecules in the layer must be very highly ordered to efficiently transport electrical charge. What you'd really like is a solar panel array that would come on a flexible plastic substrate which would be extremely inexpensive and which you could roll out on your roof like wall paper, said chemistry Professor Neal R. Armstrong. It would be efficient enough at energy conversion to economically generate power. Armstrong is principal investigator on a 3-year, $490,000 grant from the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Laboratory (NREL). The grant is aimed at developing new organic liquid crystal PV materials that could be inexpensively wet-processed into large area panels. Ninety-nine percent of the photovoltaic market today is based on single crystal silicon, an efficient and reliable but expensive material for solar cells. Silicon PV powers satellites and space missions, but cost, mainly, limits how much it does in meeting the world's energy demands. According to Department of Energy statistics, Americans currently pay 6-to-7 cents per kilowatt-hour for conventionally generated electricity and 20-to-30 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar-generated electricity. That sounds discouraging, but the cost of solar-generated power was about 90 cents per kilowatt-hour 10 to 15 years ago, and can be expected to drop even more, Armstrong noted. Efficient new inorganic thin films such as cadmium telluride and cadmium-indium-galleium-selenide are entering the PV market, he said, and their efficiencies and potentially lower cost are impressive. But the heavy metals, tellurium and selenium, in these PVs raise environmental concerns, both during their manufacture and ultimate disposal. New organic solar cells would potentially be a less-toxic, Earth-friendly way to tap energy from the sun, he emphasized, because most of the target organic materials are environmentally benign when processed and when discarded in devices. Armstrong was among hundreds of scientists world-wide interested in organic PV thin films when he joined the UA in the late 1970s. But until recently, these films were only one to one-and-a-half percent efficient at converting solar power to electrical power. There also were serious concerns about the long term stability of such thin organic films. Not surprisingly, funding agencies from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s weren't interested in organic solar cell research. The discouraging thing was that these materials could be tailored to absorb most of the solar spectrum, they were very cheap, and they were easy to spread as a thin film on a transparent electrode. But their electrical properties were very bad. Even if you could generate a lot of electrical charge inside a thin film you couldn't transport it, and you couldn't harvest it efficiently, Armstrong said. But the last decade has seen a big change in how people feel about organic technologies in general, and, specifically, about how you make them better electrical materials, he added. Optical sciences Associate Professor Bernard Kippelen agreed. Ten years ago, if you went to the Department of Energy and said you wanted to make an organic solar cell, they would have been very skeptical. But a lot of research has been done in the emerging field of organic electronics in the past 10 years, and it has completely changed the way people think. Kippelen is principal investigator on a 3-year, $580,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research that involves Armstrong, Marder and Bredas . Their goal for Kippelen's grant is to develop self-assembling polymer (plastic) liquid crystals for lightweight, flexible and shock-resistant light-emitting diodes and devices needed by the military, as well as for PV use. Even a few years ago, people thought that any organic material for optical or optoelectronic application was unstable, that it could have only a
Re: [CTRL] Fw: The World's Most Unselfish Act (For Tenorlove)
-Caveat Lector- On 7 Sep 2001 at 6:11, Tenorlove wrote: My neighbor was telling me yesterday that they would not allow her daughter to eat her lunch because she had a peanut butter sandwich. They did not provide a substitute lunch either, so by the time she got home she was so hungry she was sick. Tenorlove I do hope she reported this blatant child abuse to the DSS. :} -- Best wishes Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property ... He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the state... [Education] can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the Legislature. - Benjamin Rush, 1786 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] 700,000 Salmon Destroyed in Maine
-Caveat Lector- and the sabotage of our food supply continues http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/aponline/20010906/aponline141036_000.htm 700,000 Salmon Destroyed in Maine The Associated Press Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001; 2:10 p.m. EDT PORTLAND, Maine More than 700,000 farm-raised salmon in Maine have been destroyed this year to stop the spread of a deadly virus. The disease, which has wreaked havoc on the Canadian and European salmon industries, was discovered in New Brunswick salmon pens in 1997. It was identified in Maine last March and has been spreading ever since. The virus is harmless to humans but can cause internal bleeding in fish and destroy their organs. Farmers expected to kill 130,000 more fish Thursday after new cases of the disease, infectious salmon anemia, were found in Cobscook Bay at the state's eastern tip. Officials quarantined the area, banning aquaculture boats from entering or leaving unless they are cleaned and certified. We feel that because of the good management that's being employed, that the continuing risk is minimized, said Penn Estabrook, deputy commissioner of the Marine Resources Department. So far, salmon worth an estimated $12 million have been destroyed in Maine, most of them made into fish meal or buried in a landfill. Some Maine companies want the federal government to compensate them. On the Net: Maine Department of Marine Resources http://www.fishresearch.org/RPDMR.asp -- Best wishes Humans are exploiters and destroyers, self-appointed world autocrats around whom the universe seems to revolve. -Sydney Singer, director, the Good Shepherd Foundation, The Neediest of All Animals, The Animals Agenda, Vol. 10, No. 5 (June 1990), p. 50. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] E-Bomb
-Caveat Lector- http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/mil_c4i8.html-ssi -- Best wishes I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. - Abbie Hoffman A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] At long last, signs of a BSE breakthrough
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,546972,00.html At long last, signs of a BSE breakthrough We may soon know the size of the CJD epidemic and how to treat it Special report: the BSE crisis Stephen Dealler Wednesday September 5, 2001 The Guardian As a scientist, it feels as if I have been holding my breath for 13 years while the BSE epidemic took hold, was exported to much of the world, and then the human form got going. Now at last, it looks as if breathing can start again: the good news is starting to come through. Only a few weeks ago things were still looking fairly dire. In the UK, we have had 181,294 cases of BSE. It hit a peak in 1993 and we don't expect to see our last cases until after 2006. The disease is now rising rapidly on mainland Europe with, for instance, seven cases in Germany in 2000 and 94 already this year. We had exported 25,000 tons of the infectious meal and bone meal (MBM) - by then banned for feeding to cattle in the UK - to Europe in 1989, and consequently their BSE epidemics may not be over until after 2010. In the UK, one of the major problems was that we did not know which cow was infected before it had any symptoms. As a result we ate six out of every seven of them. This represents over 800,000 infected cattle entering the human food chain and the population eating 50 meals each made of their tissue. So far, 106 cases of variant CJD have been identified, with between 1,000 and 10m potential cases incubating the disease. We don't know who to treat, whose blood to avoid at blood transfusion, who represents a risk at surgery or dentistry, or which asymptomatic cattle to dispose of. A diagnostic test is urgently needed, but we would need to be able to look for less then 1,000 molecules of the infectious agent in blood or urine - less than one thousandth of the amount that can be sought by the best test available so far. The BSE inquiry report last year showed how, through inadequacy rather than villainy, the government convinced itself that the risk to humans was minimal. Why, then, waste money on research? Early in the epidemic it was difficult for scientific researchers to get hold of BSE tissue samples just to use for tests. The government refused to fund any research to look for treatment because it would suggest to the population that there may be a risk to them. In the early 1990s I was the only researcher looking for treatments for the disease and had to do the work in my garage. One scientist, Iain McGill, quit the government research group after warning of risks being taken. He was told it would be illegal to tell anyone what he had found. When vCJD appeared, the government still considered whether or not to tell the public. But at last the hiding of information, blocking of research, denying of facts and damning of anyone speaking out in this field appears to be over. A group in Switzerland has now found a way to increase the number of prion molecules in a sample - perhaps enough to be able to identify these triggers for vCJD. From Israel we have data showing that urine contains lots of the prion molecules and that these appear long before any symptoms. A London company can now look for 1,000 molecules of other proteins and is using this to look for prions. There is now an official supply of tissues and blood fractions to try out on any new tests. Companies around the world have realised just how much money they could make if they had a test for vCJD in its incubation period - and ideas are appearing out of the woodwork. I would be surprised if we did not have one by this time next year. But what could doctors do then? Will it be like the test for HIV in the 1980s? Thank you for donating your blood, Mr Smith, but I am afraid that you have vCJD and we will not be able to treat you. In fact, a treatment is also on the way, too. In 1997 the UK government invited the pharmaceutical industry to a meeting with the BSE/vCJD scientists. Only three companies turned up - there was no money to be made, so why should they? In 1999 Laura Mannuelidis at Yale showed that an anti-leprosy drug, dapsone, increased the incubation period of scrapie in mice dramatically. Last year, an anti-malarial drug, quinacrine, was demonstrated in the US to stop prions growing in cell culture. The story of Rachel Forber, the British woman treated for symptomatic vCJD in the US with quinacrine, has just been published. A patient in London has also started the treatment. There are now over 40 drugs that are active against prion infection and we have some that are of adequately low toxicity to permit testing on patients. We expect that some of these drugs and diagnostics will also be useful against Alzheimer's disease, a condition that is extremely difficult to experiment on with animals or in test tubes. So we may well find, in the end, that BSE had a silver lining. We might even end up with government that does not deny bad news and avoid research in case of what it may
[CTRL] Sioux fight Feds, this time over hemp
-Caveat Lector- Sioux fight Feds, this time over hemp Non-potent version could be a cash crop, tribe argues Federal agents cut down hemp stalks in Alex White Plume's field in Manderson, S.D. Though agents stormed his property in 2000, last July's visit from the Drug Enforcement Agency was arranged in advance. By Jon Bonné MSNBC Sept. 7 As Alex White Plume tells it, the raid began with the rising sun and the whir of helicopter blades. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration spread out across his property on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, nestled by the Black Hills the Sioux consider sacred, looking for drugs. One of them came running towards me, and he pointed his gun and told me to halt, White Plume says. In my mind, I was going to jail. HE WASN'T headed for jail, and has not been charged with a crime, but the raid last year was heartbreaking to him. It ended what had otherwise been a charmed attempt to grow a crop that would help White Plume, an Oglala Sioux, and his family supplant their meager income from raising horses, herding buffalo and offering pony rides. Of course, White Plume was growing hemp the durable weed known in some forms as marijuana. All marijuana is hemp; not all hemp is marijuana, at least not in the psychotropic sense. So-called industrial hemp, which lacks pot's chemical potency, has been used for centuries in everything from clothing to lip balm. Marijuana usually has at least 5 percent or more of the hallucinogen tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but industrial hemp contains less than 1 percent far from enough to give even a mild high. And while marijuana remains illegal in most countries, the industrial hemp movement has gained momentum in recent years, especially in North America, though it's unclear how large a market exists for hemp products. SUPPORT FROM STATES Canada has begun licensing industrial hemp. State legislatures in 19 states, including agricultural centers like North Dakota and Minnesota, have compiled legislation backing industrial hemp. Hawaii now allows private hemp research, and former tobacco farmers in Kentucky successfully pushed the legislature and governor to pass a bill last March creating an Industrial Hemp Commission to regulate research. Despite pressure from states, the federal government makes little distinction between industrial hemp and the potent variety. According to DEA officials, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 bars not only marijuana but also THC so that all hemp, even varieties with only faint traces of the chemical, is considered illegal. Federal authorities would not discuss the seizure on White Plume's land. (I can't make any comment, says Michelle Tapken, the U.S. Attorney for South Dakota.) Nor would the DEA discuss new regulations it says are in the works. But when the DEA did another seizure this past July, it negotiated with White Plume in advance and came without guns pointed. FIGHT FOR SOVEREIGNTY The seizures at Pine Ridge were largely business as usual, except for one thing: The DEA flexed its muscle on a tribal reservation. For White Plume and others in the Oglala tribe, growing these plants has become a basic issue of tribal rights. Theis tribe, they argue, has a history with hemp and a right to uphold their traditions. There's a word for the plant in the tribal language, which means it's got a history here that precedes contact with the Europeans, says Tom Ballanco, White Plume's attorney. Indeed, White Plume says there is a single word wahupta for both hemp and marijuana. But he says he's not interested in growing the potent variety. Instead, he hopes to turn hemp into a cash crop, selling both the finished products and seeds to others eager to harvest a plant revered in past times for its versatility and its ability to endure harsh climates and gritty soil. It was hemp's economic potential that drew White Plume's attention. He was impressed by the range of hemp products, usually imported from nations such as Canada and Germany, but the high prices of hemp items stunned him. Most of it is import-export taxes, which drives the market up high, White Plume says. People in the country could pay less for a good article, and we could make some money. Hemp's economic potential is unclear, but its uses are manifold. . FOOD The seeds are used to make animal feed and are edible by humans in much the same way as sunflower seeds. They have been made into snacks, cookies, porridge and trail mix. They can be ground into flour and have been used as a grain to make beer. . OIL The plant's seed is about 30 percent oil, which can be used for cooking, lubrication and medicinal purposes. In Russia, it also was used as a butter. . BODY CARE The presence of fatty acids in the oil make hemp a useful material for health and beauty products. It has been made into soaps, lotions, creams, shampoo, lip balms and more.
[CTRL] NO CENSORSHIP IS GOOD CENSORSHIP
-Caveat Lector- NO CENSORSHIP IS GOOD CENSORSHIP (or subtitled another way, No Establishment News is Good News.) by Fritz Springmeier It is possible that certain technology is like the release of a genie from the bottle (or something from Pandora's box, depending on your perspective). For instance, digital movie cameras may be enough to give Big Brother a mid-life crisis. It appears that way from two bloody incidents where they were used. Recently, in the anti- globalist riots in Rome, two groups were bloodied by the police: those who battled the police with sticks captured some of their vehicles, and the other group were those who were sending digital photos over the internet. Another example comes from the L.A. riots where an establishment propaganda news crew had a camera aimed at them by some black kids. The newsmakers activities could not stand the light of exposure, and they were embarrassed by what these black kids did. Their spinmaking was caught red handed. Big Brother has a better idea than God, its censorship. (By the way, this article rates G, no dirty movie here.) While we have been busy buying better ways to communicate with new fax machines, new cell phones with automatic digital dialing, satellite dishes, new word processing software, and last but not least digital cameras, Big Brother has been working overtime to control our every communication and thought. There's a kind of hush, all over the world, so listen very carefully, you know what I mean, it isn't a dream We love to see singers express themselves in song. We love to see athletes express their energy on the field and on the court. Music and art are expressions of who we are. However, when I heard this song it didn't make me think of lovers in love but how there is a hush (Big Brother's censorship) all over the world. It's enough to bring tears to any signer of the Declaration of Independence. The World Order has been turning the clock back on our civil rights. Personal sensitivities don't concern them, unless it happens to be offensive to those in political power. You can commit genocide against millions of Christian people during the 1980's and '90's, and it can go unreported, but don't you dare criticize homosexuality. How, you might ask, can the genocide of millions of Christians go unreported, and a graffiti swastika or rude homosexual joke make the news? There's a kind of hush, all over the world tonight, all over the world you can hear the sound of censorship in action. You know what I mean? You communicate with people, and you do it in part so that you can be part of something bigger than yourself. You can change other people's lives for the good with your words. You can give them a vision of what God has planned for them, and what their purpose is on this planet. Words can give life. They can inspire. They have power, and their power, if uncontrolled, scares Big Brother. Christ was never afraid of words. He never found it necessary to tell someone to shut up. But some of us might be more careful in how we throw words around. Matthew (12:37) states, By thy words thou shalt be condemned. But God was never afraid of words. He lets humanity blather on, curse Him, speak with a forked tongue, exaggerate, mutter repetitious pagan rituals, or insult someone. For some of us, it might be better if we shut up, but God still gives us the freedom to decide for ourselves. Rush Limbaugh once suggested we practice Safe Talk' like Safe Sex. This makes me wonder if the schools in the future will pass out safe talk condoms like they pass out safe sex condoms. God may give us freedom of speech, but not the World System. Since the World System is founded upon deception, it cannot tolerate freedom of communication. They like people to check in their critical thinking like hats and coats, before you enter their audience. They proudly proclaim that all the news that is news they print. This article is some that they missed, and there is a lot more. It's a popular pastime to think our government is here to protect us. Many Americans relax their entire lifetimes thinking that their mail and telephone conversations are unmonitored. Somehow reality hasn't broken through. Was the reader aware that the Post Office Act of 1908 gave the British government the legal right to open and examine the contents of any mail, and it had the same rights with telegraph communication? The newspapers have repeatedly reported how the U.S. government examines mail. You may have thought that this happened to the other guy but not you. Unfortunately, there are mail-reading machines that can read your letter's contents without it being opened, and millions of pieces of mail are read everyday. How does this relate to censorship? In the United States and the U.K., the World Order prefers to use voluntary censorship. In other words, if you misbehave you lose your job, or your marriage goes sour, or some accident happens. If you misbehave the IRS may close your
[CTRL] Coca keeps poor Peru farmers hooked
-Caveat Lector- Coca keeps poor Peru farmers hooked -- to survive APURIMAC-ENE VALLEY, Peru (Reuters) -- For 10 hours a day, Lucia Huarca strips green coca leaves off bushes with callused hands and collects her harvest in her wide blue skirt alongside fellow women day-laborers and their children in ragged, filthy T-shirts in a field in Peru's southern jungle. Her day's haul -- typically 66 lbs (30 kilos), for which she will get paid around $3 -- will probably end up in the hands of drugs traffickers to be transformed into cocaine. Despite a decade-long, U.S.-backed crackdown to strangle the drug trade at source in the world's No. 2 cocaine producing country, coca cultivation is thriving -- even spreading -- where Huarca works in the lush Apurimac-Ene valley across the Andes, some 520 miles (830 km) southeast of Lima. We live off coca because we're poor. Without it, our children can't eat, said Huarca, 52, as she harvested a field in Pichari where stray coffee plants nestling among the coca bushes bear witness to the plot's now-abandoned crop. A few yards away, men with picks cleared ferns ready for replanting with coca -- a sacred plant for Peru's Inca emperors and still enthusiastically -- and legally -- chewed by Andean people as a cure for altitude sickness and to alleviate hunger, and harvested as an ingredient in Coca Cola. Coca can be sold legally to the State Coca Co. but it offers lower prices than do drug traffickers. Meanwhile, glutted markets and plunging world prices for traditional coffee and cocoa output have turned coca leaf into the only viable cash crop and backbone of the local economy. Such a picture is not likely to cheer U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell when he visits Peru and Colombia, the world's cocaine capital, from Monday to Wednesday for a visit in which fighting the drug trade will be high on the agenda. Peru is already complaining that its skies are inundated with drug smugglers after Washington halted joint surveillance flights in April, when Peru's air force killed an American missionary and her baby after mistaking their plane for traffickers. Stark reality Peru's eradication efforts in the 1990s made it a key ally in Washington's regional drug war. But analysts say the illicit trade here has been boosted by the U.S.-backed anti-drug Plan Colombia, spurring prices which coffee, cocoa and alternative crops such as fruit and palm hearts cannot hope to match and leaving dirt-poor farmers little choice but to depend on coca. Producers say export-ready coffee fetches just 60 cents a kilo, a big loss on the $1.52 each kilo costs to produce. Coca goes for up to $2.30 on the black market. Farmers say they would have to sell eight kilos of coffee to buy one of beef. Despite official figures, experts say the stark reality is that Peru's coca production is rising again. Some hills are literally covered with closely-packed, vivid green coca bushes and in villages and on many roadsides, carpets of leaves left out to dry in the sun are common. -- Best wishes I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. -Robert Frost (1874-1963), 1935 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[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] Sarandon's Mom, Getting Battle Support
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1027- 2003Mar20.html Sarandon's Mom, Getting Battle Support Self-described rabid Republican Lenora Tomalin, the 79-year-old mother of left-wing actress Susan Sarandon, has been getting her 15 minutes since Tuesday's item about her stout support for President Bush and the war against Saddam Hussein -- and her lament that her famous daughter doesn't respect her enough. Radio and television stations have been calling to interview her, and friends and neighbors have been offering congratulations. A lot of good has come out of it, she told us yesterday. Yesterday morning, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush phoned Tomalin at home in Lakeland, Fla., to offer his help in arranging a tour of the White House on her next trip to Washington sometime in May. Jeb said, 'We're going to make sure you get a very good visit,' Tomalin said. She added that her eldest daughter's companion, actor Tim Robbins, also called -- but apparently that conversation wasn't as happy. I didn't talk to Susan, but I did hear from Tim, let's just leave it at that, Tomalin said. I know there's a war on, but let's just say I'm in the middle of my own private war. Robbins, the father of three of Tomalin's 19 grandchildren, declined to comment yesterday. But Bush told us through a spokeswoman: I called to thank her for supporting the president and for supporting me on my last campaign. She's a great American. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] U.S. strike killed terror-group member
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31635 Friday, March 21, 2003 OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM U.S. strike killed terror-group member Palestinian Liberation Front says officer 'fell as a martyr' in air raid Posted: March 21, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A Palestinian terrorist group announced that one of its officers was killed in the initial U.S. missile attacks on Iraq. The Palestinian Liberation Front, headquartered in Baghdad, said in a statement from Lebanon that 1st Lt. Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz fell as a martyr facing the American air raids on Iraq. His martyrdom illustrates the links between Palestinians and Iraqis, the group said, according to Agence France-Presse. Known for its seizing of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and murder of a Jewish American passenger, the PLF is one of several terrorist organizations that maintain offices in Baghdad, according to the U.S. State Department. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in his speech to the United Nations on Feb. 5 that Baghdad trains Palestine Liberation Front members in small arms and explosives. The group's leader, known as Abu Abbas, has been on the run from authorities since the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking. He returned to the Gaza Strip after the Oslo agreement and is believed to have fled to Iraq due to Israeli crackdowns on militants in the disputed territories. The PLF is a primary channel for Saddam Hussein's payouts to Palestinian families that lose a member in the Intifada, or uprising, against Israel. Saddam gives $25,000 to the family of a suicide bomber and $10,000 to other families, the PLF says. The group claims Saddam has contributed an estimated $35 million since September 2000. The slain PLF officer al-Baz was employed as a taxi driver with a Jordan-based company. He had stopped at a roadside rest area about 190 miles west of Baghdad when he was struck by a missile from a helicopter while using a satellite phone, Agence France- Presse said. The attack reportedly occurred just after midnight this morning, said a colleague, Akram Abu Samaha. Al-Baz, 34, had a house in Baghdad but moved with his family to Amman, Jordan, in recent weeks ahead of the anticipated war. Born in Jenin, in the West Bank, al-Baz was married with an infant son. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) Trying To Help - By Dennis Miller
-Caveat Lector- Donna Larry Steed wrote Trying To Help - By Dennis Miller (Noted Radio/TV personality) All The Rhetoric On Whether Or Not We Should Go To War Against Iraq Has Got My Insane Little Brain Spinning Like A Roulette Wheel. I Enjoy Reading Opinions From Both Sides But I Have Detected A Hint Of confusion From Some Of You. As I Was Reading The Paper Recently, I Was Reminded Of The Best Advice Someone Ever Gave Me. He Told Me About The Kiss Method (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) So, With This As A Theme, I'd Like To Apply This Theory For Those Who Don't Quite Get It. My Hope Is That We Can Simplify Things A Bit And Recognize A Few Important Facts. Here Are 10 Things To Consider When Voicing An Opinion On This Important Issue: 1) Between President Bush And Saddam Hussein ... Hussein Is The Bad Guy. 2) If You Have Faith In The United Nations To Do The Right Thing Keep This In Mind, They Have Libya Heading The Committee On Human Rights And Iraq Heading The Global Disarmament Committee. Do Your Own Math Here 3) If You Use Google Search And Type In French Military Victories, Your Reply Will Be Did You Mean French Military Defeats? 4) If Your Only Anti-War Slogan Is No War For Oil, Hire a pit bull lawyer and sue Your School District For Allowing You To Slip Through The Cracks And Robbing You Of The Education You Deserve. 5) Saddam And Bin Laden Will Not Seek United Nations Approval Before They Try To Kill Us. 6) Despite Common Belief, Martin Sheen Is Not The President. He Plays One On T.V. 7) Even If You Are Anti-War, You Are Still An Infidel! And Bin Laden Wants You Dead, Too. 8) If You Believe In A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy But Not In The Danger That Hussein Poses, Quit Hanging Out With The Dell Computer Dude. 9) Even multi-culturalists who try to browbeat us into believing that all cultures are equally deserving of respect have trouble explaining the past 500 years of Islam. 10) Whether You Are For Military Action Or Against It, Our Young Men And Women Overseas Are Fighting For Us To Defend Our Right To Speak Out. We All Need To Support Them Without Reservation --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Chemical Ali Dead
-Caveat Lector- http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Primetime/iraq_main030321.h tml March 21, 2003 Ali Hassan al Majid earned the nickname Chemical Ali for using chemical weapons to suppress the Kurds in northern Iraq. (Jockel Finck/AP Photo) Chemical Ali Dead Three Key Iraqi Leaders Believed Killed; Explosions Shake Baghdad B A G H D A D, Iraq, March 21 Three top Iraqi leaders including Saddam Hussein's cousin, the infamous Chemical Ali are believed to have been killed in what would be a major blow to the regime's defense against the U.S.-led onslaught, CIA officials told ABCNEWS. ABCNEWS' Brian Ross reported that the three critical Iraqi officials Taha Yasin Ramadan, Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, and Ali Hassan Majid, known as Chemical Ali are believed to have died in Wednesday night's decapitation attack, the opening salvo of the war. A spokesman said the CIA had no information to confirm the report that the three men had been killed but government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told ABCNEWS they had reason to believe the three men were dead. The officials said they reached this conclusion from analysis of radio traffic and after watching who went where, and who didn't arrive where they were expected. Chemical Ali, Saddam's cousin and governor of southern Iraq, earned his chilling nickname by using chemical weapons to suppress a Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq in the late 1980s, killing thousands. Both Ramadan and Ibrahim were longtime advisers to Saddam. Along with Saddam himself, the two men were the only surviving plotters who carried out the coup that brought the Baath Party to power in 1968. The three men did not appear in a videotape of Saddam meeting with advisers released today. Also absent was Saddam's eldest son Odai. There are suspicions he also may have been killed, but this could not be confirmed. In Baghdad, sirens sounded another warning following hours of U.S.-led bombings that pummeled the city, and bombs and missiles continued to rain over targets across the country. This is much, much, more than anything we've had earlier, ABCNEWS' Richard Engel reported from Baghdad as attack aircraft were heard over the Iraqi capital for the first time in this war. It's hard to even see the western side of the city through all the smoke. Elsewhere, as many as 1,500 Turkish troops crossed over into northern Iraq. The United States has told Turkey that it would not welcome incursions into the Kurdish-dominated territory, but Ankara fears a weakened Baghdad would encourage the Kurds to create their own state. Turkey also says the troops are also needed to control refugees. Air War Under Way While the string of devastating bombings appeared to have paused over Baghdad, sirens soon blared again, and there were reports of new explosions near the northern Iraqi cities of Mosul and Kirkuk and in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Defense officials said the air campaign would continue for 24 hours, until approximately 1 a.m. ET Saturday, as a continually rolling operation involving 1,500 total sorties by missiles and strike aircraft. Meanwhile, in another major development, U.S. military sources said the commander of Iraq's 51st Division and his top deputy surrendered to U.S. Marines today. The 51st was the division charged with defending Basra, a strategic city south of Baghdad. It was the first time that the commander of an Iraqi division has surrendered to allied forces. Blasts Slam Western Baghdad Engel said he was sure nearly all of the large government buildings on the western side of Baghdad had been destroyed by repeated hits and the ensuing fires. The Iraqi information minister, appearing on al Jazeera television, said the Zahir Government Palace had been bombed and destroyed. At one point the bombs were so powerful that Engel said he could feel a strong blast of hot wind against his face, even though he was about a mile away from the site of impact. He also expressed concern for his fellow journalists, many of whom are staying at the Al Rashid hotel, which is located on the western side of the city. I really hope my colleagues are OK, he said. In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sought to reassure those who feared today's bombings may have caused massive collateral damage. The weapons being used today have a greater precision than any used in prior conflict, he said. The CIA believes that three top Iraqi leaders including Saddam Hussein's cousin, the infamous Chemical Ali were killed. The commander of an Iraqi division surrenders to allied forces for the very first time. The air war for Iraq begins as 1,500 bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad and the key cities of Kirkuk, Mosul and Tikrit. Two U.S. Marines die in combat and another dozen U.S. and British Marines die in a helicopter crash. A Turkish commando force of around 1,500 troops crosses into northern Iraq but U.S. officials oppose a large incursion. Iraq's U.N. envoy angrily
[CTRL] Fwd: [I-S] (fwd) [osint] Dreher: Ex-Friends
-Caveat Lector- On 22 Mar 2003 at 7:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From National Review -- http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher032103.asp Ex-Friends Casualties of this war. by Rod Dreher We're already moving toward Baghdad in our war against Iraq, one I believe with all my heart is just and necessary. We dont know how long it will last, or what the fallout will be. When the smoke clears, I am afraid that one home-front casualty will be some friendships. Weve seen this coming. Stephen Pollard, writing in the Times of London, says a number of his friendships have broken up because he supports war to disarm Saddam Hussein and his friends dont. In all my 38 years, I have never before felt such a sense of personal shock. I am shocked that so many of my friends would rather a brutal dictator remained in power for that would be the direct consequence if their views won out than support military action by the United States. I am ashamed that they would rather believe the words of President Saddam Hussein than those of their own Prime Minister. I am nauseated that they would rather give succor to evil than think through the implications of their gut feelings. I have many friends with whom I disagree politically; it would be a small-minded person who could not say that. But this goes beyond mere politics. This is about fundamentals. And what makes it truly shocking is how many normal, apolitical, otherwise decent people are so deeply wrong, so stridently misguided. Ive not had that same sense of outrage, but thats probably because long ago I quit talking about the war to most friends who disagree with me. It wasnt my choice, but it was necessary if we were still to be friends. It shouldnt be this way. Ive tried to think through my pro-war position carefully, and if Im wrong in my facts or analysis, I want to know. But in my (deeply unpleasant) experience, theres simply no point in talking to most antiwar people, left and right, because theyre lost in a fever swamp of emotionalism. If its not leftists obsessing about blood for oil, corporate plots and Iraqi children, its rightists going off about imperialism, Israel and Jewish conspiracies. Now, I dont think its unfair to discuss the role, if any, corporate interests, Israeli government policy, the potential suffering of Iraqi civilians, or a number of other issues have in the development of U.S. policy towards Iraq. Its just that so many people concerned with these things have given themselves over to the kind of hysteria that makes rational debate impossible. On MSNBC earlier this week, Republican pollster Frank Luntz said hes found that about one in four Americans hes focus-grouped are hard-core anti-war types, are much more committed to their position than Bush supporters, and are incandescently angry. You expect this from the ideological left, for whom, as The Manhattan Institutes Myron Magnet points out, every war is Vietnam. My conservative anti-war friends have been much more troubling to me personally, because we agree on so many fundamental principles. Some educated, sophisticated professionals have given their good hearts and fine minds over to anti-Semitic conspiracy mongering. And Ive also heard conservatives trash-talking this country in terms previously associated with America-hating campus radicals. Its as if the world has been turned upside down by this war and this was long before the fighting started. When I blogged something about this in The Corner earlier this week, many readers from across the country wrote to say they too had been nonplussed by the inability to have a civil discussion with antiwar friends and family. I have lost, probably forever, at least four, and maybe more friends, including my college roommate from almost 45 years ago, one wrote. Another reported: I have lost a friend I have had for 30 years over the war argument. I cant believe she can say the things she does no war for oil, etc. without even thinking about making a logical argument for or against. Friends for over four decades. Friends for three decades. Gone, just like that. Many marriages dont last that long. Its ripping up families too. I actually hung up on my own mother yesterday after getting into a discussion about the war, a young woman wrote. I got angry after she asserted that our government was just as bad as Saddams. What do you say to a statement like that? The woman said she and her mother agreed not to discuss the war again, for the sake of their relationship, but she fears that things may rupture between them if theyre not careful. A Canadian reader writes to say everybody she knows except her significant other is angry at her for supporting the war. Here we are in the wonderful world of Bush Is Retarded/Michael Moore Is My Hero e-mail coffee klatches. Im wearing a US/Canadian flag pin. In public. In downtown Toronto. The countdown to my ass-beating starts now. One New Yorker who supports the president says hes had it with
[CTRL] Fwd: [American_Liberty] The Rage and the Pride
-Caveat Lector- On 22 Mar 2003 at 4:43, Mike Schneider wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/21/1047749914360.html Battle cry from a biased heart March 22 2003 Death threats don't faze best-selling author Oriana Fallaci, which is just as well now she's taken on the world's Muslims, writes George Gurley. On a recent afternoon, the telephone rang in Oriana Fallaci's Manhattan townhouse. The tiny, blue-eyed 72-year-old writer put down her cigarette and picked up the receiver. Oh, it is you! she said. She assured the caller she was all right, then thanked him and hung up. He calls to see if I'm alive. To see if I need something. The caller was a police officer, who has been checking in on Fallaci since the publication of her most recent book, The Rage and the Pride, which she wrote in New York during the weeks following September 11. The book, a passionate cry in which she accuses the West of being blind to the true threat of Islam, caused a scandal when it was published in Europe last year, but has raised barely a murmur in the US. In her native country of Italy, the book has sold more than 1million copies and at least 500,000 in the rest of Europe. In America, it had sold just 40,000 copies by the beginning of this year. The relative silence with which Americans have greeted the book is puzzling: it is they who have the most evidence, in downtown New York, of the danger that Fallaci lays out. In The Rage and the Pride, she compares Islam to a mountain which in 1400 years has not moved, has not risen from the abyss of its blindness, has not opened its doors to the conquests of civilisation, has never wanted to know about freedom and democracy and progress. In short, has not changed. In France, a group called the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between People tried to have the book banned. A French court rejected the request. In Italy, a booklet titled Islam Punishes Oriana Fallaci, written by the president of the Italian Islamic Party, called for Muslims to go and die with Fallaci. Fallaci sued the author for slander and instigation to murder. My life, Fallaci wrote in her book's preface, is seriously in danger. And not only from terrorists. In 1992, she underwent surgery for breast cancer; she says she could die any day. But she still moves about like a spunky teenage girl, leaping up and down, making faces. She drinks fine wine and smokes two packets of cigarettes a day - her oncologist allows it, she says. Before her new book, La Fallaci had achieved international fame as a journalist and author. She covered the Vietnam War and conducted spirited interviews with celebrities as well as world leaders - Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, the Shah of Iran, Ariel Sharon, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat and Deng Xiaoping (or, as she called some of them, those bastards who decide our lives). Henry Kissinger said his interview with Fallaci was the most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press. Her writing has made her life comfortable. In addition to her Manhattan townhouse, she owns a home in Florence and a 23-room house in the Tuscan countryside, though comfort has not dulled her edges. I have been months and months and months of bestseller No.1, Fallaci says in her strong Florentine accent. I do not say this to make self-congratulations. I say this to underline my thesis - that the moment was mature. That I have put the finger on the nerve of something: the Muslims' immigration, which grows and grows without inserting itself in our way of life, without accepting our way of life and, on the contrary, trying to impose on us its way of life ... People in Europe are so exasperated by the arrogance of most of these 'invaders', and being blackmailed with the unfair term 'racist' when they protest, that there was a kind of thirst for a book like this ... There is no other explanation for the book's success. I have written better books. This is a scream rather than an essay - a book written in two weeks, come on. Why? It was not the book itself. It was the thirst, the hunger. The West, she says, is under assault and doesn't realise it. If we stay inert, if we let ourselves be scared, then we become collaborationists. If we are passive ... then we lose the war that has been declared against us. We can talk for centuries about the word 'racist', Fallaci says. 'Racist' has to do with race and not with religion. Yes, I am against that religion, a religion that controls the life of people in every minute of their day, that puts the burqa on women, that treats women as camels, that preaches polygamy, that cuts the hands of the poor thieves ... I am not religious - all religions are difficult to accept for me - but the Islamic one is not even a religion, in my opinion. It is a tyranny, a dictatorship - the only religion on earth that has never committed a work of self-criticism ... It is immoveable. I ask about the death threats she receives. You put the finger on the
[CTRL] Backpack full of Molotov cocktails found in S.F.
-Caveat Lector- http://sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/22/MN285779.DTL Backpack full of Molotov cocktails found in S.F. Discovery near planter box at 11th and Howard streets Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, March 22, 2003 San Francisco -- A backpack full of Molotov cocktails was found Friday where anti-war demonstrators had earlier been dodging San Francisco police, and authorities said they suspected a protester of stashing the explosive devices. About a dozen bottles filled with gasoline and equipped with makeshift fuses were discovered at 10 a.m. by a developmentally disabled man who was tending a planter box on the corner of 11th and Howard streets, near an outreach center. The weapons, which are designed to explode when the gasoline fumes hit the lit fuse after the bottle is broken, were probably hidden in the bushes by a demonstrator Thursday night, police said. No one, however, was immediately arrested in connection with the find. The man who found the explosives brought them to a friend who works around the corner at a printing plant. The man, Carl Hester, 43, immediately realized the danger and called police. Peace protesting with Molotov cocktails? Hester said angrily after police had cordoned off the area and sent in hazardous materials specialists. What . . . is that? Lt. Larry Minasian said most of the weapons were fashioned out of beer bottles, but one quart-size bottle may have been an olive oil container. They were wrapped in newspaper and rags and stuffed with a wrench in a black backpack. Minasian said they were probably stashed when riot police swept through to break up roving groups of protesters in the area. Molotov cocktails are extremely dangerous, Minasian said. Flammable gasoline is almost like napalm. These are created to hurt people or cause significant damage. Hester, who works in shipping and receiving at Biss Printing Inc. on Natoma Street, said stashing explosives where developmentally disabled people are likely to find them is worse than shameful. My friend has Down's syndrome and he doesn't talk very well, so he brought it to me because I understand him, Hester said. He's so innocent. He has a smile every day. To jeopardize his life like that is crazy. Investigators interviewed the witnesses, photographed the evidence and processed the bottles for fingerprints before handing them over to the Fire Department for disposal. This is a big find, Minasian said. It raises the level of caution for the demonstrations. E-mail Peter Fimrite at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) [I-S] (fwd) Conscripts shoot their own officers rather than fight
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Times of London March 22, 2003 Conscripts shoot their own officers rather than fight From Tom Newton Dunn with 40 Commando near al-Faw, southern Iraq IRAQI conscripts shot their own officers in the chest yesterday to avoid a fruitless fight over the oil terminals at al-Faw. British soldiers from 40 Commandos Charlie Company found a bunker full of the dead officers, with spent shells from an AK47 rifle around them. Stuck between the US Seals and the Royal Marines, whom they did not want to fight, and a regime that would kill them if they refused, it was the conscripts only way out. In total, 40 Commando had collected more than 100 prisoners of war yesterday from the few square miles of the al-Faw peninsula that they controlled. Two of them were a general in the regular Iraqi Army and a brigadier. They came out from the command bunker where they had been hiding after 40 Commandos Bravo Company fired two anti-tank missiles into it. With them was a large sports holdall stuffed with money. They insisted that they had been about to pay their troops, to the disbelief of their captors. These were the men who had left their soldiers hungry, poorly armed and almost destitute for weeks, judging by the state we had seen them in, while appearing to keep the money for themselves. It was only as dawn broke that the 900 Royal Marine commandos, who had moved forward during the night, realised the pitiful shape of the enemy. The first white flag was hoisted by three soldiers in a trench just outside the complexs north gate, which had been surrounded by heavy machinegunners from Command Company. They were taken prisoner by Corporal Fergus Gask, 26, who may have accepted the first surrender of the war. We started engaging their positions with GPMGs (general purpose machineguns) when I noticed this white flag go up, he said. I didnt know whether it was a trick or not, but I approached the trench anyway, probably a pretty silly thing to do if I think about it. But as soon as I saw their faces I knew they were genuine. They actually looked very relieved they didnt have to fight any more. And they became very pleased to see us when they realised we werent going to do them any harm. The dawn light appeared to have provoked an exodus. Small groups of dishevelled Iraqis were standing up all around us with their hands in the air, or with a dirty white T-shirt tied to a stick waving above them. Every time you turned around, a new trickle of silhouettes emerged from the horizon walking slowly towards us. One Marine joked: Oh no. Theyre surrendering at us from all sides. Each prisoner was thoroughly searched before he was accepted into captivity in a procedure that the commandos had clearly practised many times. The injured were quickly treated and a handful received almost immediate helicopter evacuation from the oil terminal to HMS Ocean, where a temporary hospital for PoWs has been set up. As a new day began, so did the Marines gradual expansion outwards into the large expanse of waste ground that is still pockmarked with shell craters from the Iran-Iraq War.To save them having to translate from Arabic maps, 40 Commando named the clear paths they had established or wanted to seize with London street names: Downing Street, Abbey Road or Fulham Road. Engineers, meanwhile, began the work of shutting down the many oil pipeline valves. This is a pooled dispatch for the British press --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) [I-S] I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:51:08 -0500 Subject:[I-S] (fwd) [American_Liberty] I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:57:40 -0800, Tim Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/03/23/d o2305.x mlsSheet=/opinion/2003/03/23/ixop.html I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam By Daniel Pepper (Filed: 23/03/2003) I wanted to join the human shields in Baghdad because it was direct action which had a chance of bringing the anti-war movement to the forefront of world attention. It was inspiring: the human shield volunteers were making a sacrifice for their political views - much more of a personal investment than going to a demonstration in Washington or London. It was simple - you get on the bus and you represent yourself. So that is exactly what I did on the morning of Saturday, January 25. I am a 23-year-old Jewish- American photographer living in Islington, north London. I had travelled in the Middle East before: as a student, I went to the Palestinian West Bank during the intifada. I also went to Afghanistan as a photographer for Newsweek. The human shields appealed to my anti-war stance, but by the time I had left Baghdad five weeks later my views had changed drastically. I wouldn't say that I was exactly pro-war - no, I am ambivalent - but I have a strong desire to see Saddam removed. We on the bus felt that we were sympathetic to the views of the Iraqi civilians, even though we didn't actually know any. The group was less interested in standing up for their rights than protesting against the US and UK governments. I was shocked when I first met a pro-war Iraqi in Baghdad - a taxi driver taking me back to my hotel late at night. I explained that I was American and said, as we shields always did, Bush bad, war bad, Iraq good. He looked at me with an expression of incredulity. As he realised I was serious, he slowed down and started to speak in broken English about the evils of Saddam's regime. Until then I had only heard the President spoken of with respect, but now this guy was telling me how all of Iraq's oil money went into Saddam's pocket and that if you opposed him politically he would kill your whole family. It scared the hell out of me. First I was thinking that maybe it was the secret police trying to trick me but later I got the impression that he wanted me to help him escape. I felt so bad. I told him: Listen, I am just a schmuck from the United States, I am not with the UN, I'm not with the CIA - I just can't help you. Of course I had read reports that Iraqis hated Saddam Hussein, but this was the real thing. Someone had explained it to me face to face. I told a few journalists who I knew. They said that this sort of thing often happened - spontaneous, emotional, and secretive outbursts imploring visitors to free them from Saddam's tyrannical Iraq. I became increasingly concerned about the way the Iraqi regime was restricting the movement of the shields, so a few days later I left Baghdad for Jordan by taxi with five others. Once over the border we felt comfortable enough to ask our driver what he felt about the regime and the threat of an aerial bombardment. Don't you listen to Powell on Voice of America radio? he said. Of course the Americans don't want to bomb civilians. They want to bomb government and Saddam's palaces. We want America to bomb Saddam. We just sat, listening, our mouths open wide. Jake, one of the others, just kept saying, Oh my God as the driver described the horrors of the regime. Jake was so shocked at how naive he had been. We all were. It hadn't occurred to anyone that the Iraqis might actually be pro-war. The driver's most emphatic statement was: All Iraqi people want this war. He seemed convinced that civilian casualties would be small; he had such enormous faith in the American war machine to follow through on its promises. Certainly more faith than any of us had. Perhaps the most crushing thing we learned was that most ordinary Iraqis thought Saddam Hussein had paid us to come to protest in Iraq. Although we explained that this was categorically not the case, I don't think he believed us. Later he asked me: Really, how much did Saddam pay you to come? It hit me on visceral and emotional levels: this was a real portrayal of Iraq life. After the first conversation, I completely rethought my view of the Iraqi situation. My understanding changed on intellectual, emotional, psychological levels. I remembered the experience of seeing Saddam's egomaniacal portraits everywhere for the past two weeks and tried to place myself in the shoes of someone who had been subjected to seeing them every day for the last 20 or so years. Last Thursday night I went to photograph the anti-war rally in Parliament Square. Thousands of people
[CTRL] (Fwd) [I-S] US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar. 23, 2003 US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT By CAROLINE GLICK An Najaf, Iraq http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%2 6cid=1048 389497622 About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad. One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration camps. The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum. It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to make it look like the surrounding desert. Within minutes of our entry into the camp on Sunday afternoon, at least 30 Iraqi soldiers and their commanding officer of the rank of General, obeyed the instructions of US soldiers who called out from our jeep in loudspeakers for them to lie down on the ground, and put their hands above their heads to surrender. Today's operation is the third engagement with Iraqi forces by the First Brigade of the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, since Saturday afternoon. So far in the campaign, the brigade has suffered no losses. But two were wounded Saturday night in an ambush on the outskirts of As-Samwah in southern Iraq. --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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
Re: [CTRL] [ctrl] (Fwd) [I-S] US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT
-Caveat Lector- Can you believe it? - the UN weapons inspectors say they were totally unaware of this 100 acre chemical weapons facility 90 miles outside of Baghdad. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) Group Shows Iraqis Welcoming US
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From another list Group shows Iraqis welcoming U.S. By Arnaud de Borchgrave http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030323-9543832.htm THE WASHINGTON TIMES AMMAN, Jordan A group of American anti-war demonstrators, part of a Japanese human-shield delegation, returned from Iraq yesterday with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present, with Iraqis eager to tell of their welcome for American troops. Top Stories The Rev. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor of the Assyrian Church of the East, said the trip to Iraq had shocked me back to reality. Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera, he said, told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam [Hussein]'s bloody tyranny. Mr. Joseph said the Iraqis convinced him that Saddam is a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so the [torture masters] could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head. The pastor and others making it across the border into Jordan tell harrowing stories about their journey. The only gasoline station between Baghdad and the border, a distance of 400 miles, was blown up by U.S. fighter-bombers. The station, in the one-camel village of Ramadi, had the only telephone booth on the road across the desert and a Jordanian, who had stopped to call his parents in Amman to let them know he was on his way home, was killed in the explosion. The few taxi drivers in Baghdad willing to drive to the Jordanian border are charging $1,500 per passenger. Very few Iraqis can afford the fare, and only about 300 third-country nationals, mostly Sudanese and Egyptians, have reached the border post since the shock and awe campaign began. Travelers have to struggle with their luggage across the last two miles on foot to Al Karama, the first Jordanian outpost. From there, they are taken by bus to a tent city at the Ruwaished refugee camp, 36 miles inside Jordan. The Baghdad-Jordan highway was busy with commercial traffic before the beginning of the war, with some 700 tanker-trucks shuttling daily with part of the 12,000 tons of oil consumed by Jordan every day. All of it comes from Iraq at discounted prices under the U.N. oil-for-food program. Some 2,600 Jordanian and 1,500 Iraqi tankers have been involved in the overland oil traffic. Movement was down to 140 tankers the day before the bombing started. It stopped abruptly two days ago. Jordan had made plans for a quick switch to tankers anchored off Aqaba. Qatar had pledged to replace whatever shortfall Jordan experienced. Jordanians see one favorable omen. Every day, almost a thousand white storks arrive at a supermarket parking lot on one of Amman's seven hills, a pit stop on their way from Africa to their East European breeding grounds. About 100,000 storks are expected to stop here over the next month, numbers not seen in 10 years. Jordanians take this as a sign of ample rain and a good harvest ahead. The difference between official and private views of some ranking Jordanian officials may be an omen, too. Officially, they condemn the war and say they are deeply troubled by the prospect of repercussions of the war on the region, and describe the situation as critical. Privately, they say, the war is developing a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East. Says one former prime minister: If the U.S. can get a new Iraq to recognize Israel as a quid pro quo for a final Palestinian settlement, others will fall into place Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf states. Iran would then have to pull back its military support for Hezbollah. Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of The Washington Times and of United Press International. This dispatch was distributed by UPI --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] (Fwd) Troops find hidden Iraqi cruise missiles (Brit and Russian munitions)
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- FromMichael Doughty [EMAIL PROTECTED] From an LP list... -- Forwarded message -- now this, London Guardian 3/24/03 Troops find hidden Iraqi cruise missiles British soldiers stumble upon bunkers full of arms and ammunition including sophisticated Russian-made rockets Gethin Chamberlain of the Scotsman, with the Black Watch outside Basra Monday March 24, 2003 The Guardian British troops mopping up Iraqi opposition outside Basra have discovered cruise missiles hidden in bunkers abandoned by Saddam Hussein's disintegrating southern army. The massive arsenal includes cases of rockets, giant anti-shipping mines and other ammunition piled from floor to ceiling in dozens of bunkers at what is marked on maps as the Zubayr heliport. Some of the boxes are clearly marked with the names of British manufacturers. One pile of boxes in a store housing rocket-propelled grenades bears the name of Wallop Industries Limited, based in Middle Wallop, Hampshire. But the most disturbing find was two Russian-made Harith cruise missiles, each six metres (20ft) long, and nine warheads hidden in two enormous, reinforced-concrete bunkers. Another missile, as yet unidentified, was found still in its crate. The scale and possible implications of the weapons find took British forces by surprise and raised fresh questions about the extent of the Iraqi war machine and the ability of weapons inspectors to cope with the task of scouring such a vast country for prohibited ordnance. The discovery of the missiles - which were stamped with the year 2002 - came as British troops from the Black Watch regiment fought to secure the area around Iraqi's second city, Basra, in preparation for the capture of the city. Several units were involved in skirmishes with pockets of Iraqi troops and with civilians who have seized abandoned weaponry. One unit from the Black Watch came under attack from rocket-propelled grenades four times yesterday morning, but there were no casualties. It was while trying to secure the area around the heliport that units from the Black Watch stumbled upon the missiles and other weapons. The vast complex, surrounded by barbed wire, stands to the south-west of the town, defended by tanks. The defenders fled after coming under attack from coalition forces. Outside the perimeter fence about 40 bunkers were packed with rocket-propelled grenades and other ammunition. Inside, 22 larger, fortified bunkers contained larger weaponry including the Harith missiles. The missiles, with al-Harith 2002 stencilled in red paint on the side and covered with Cyrillic writing, were housed in 60ft-long bunkers protected by steel double doors 1ft thick. Painted grey, the missiles have two wings, each with a span of about 2ft, and three tail fins. There was no indication of the nature of the warheads fitted and experts have been called in to examine them. Also housed inside the reinforced bunkers were what appeared to be large anti-shipping mines, and a host of other munitions. On one box, written in English, were the words: Contract AS Navy. 5/1980 Iran. Corporal Iain Robertson said troops had discovered the missiles when they spotted children breaking into the heliport. We came to see what they were looking at and found the bunkers with their doors wide open. When we went inside we came across those things. Corporal Steven Airzee added: The initial sight was a shock. We were trying to figure out what they were. You have to wonder whether the weapons inspectors have been there because they looked pretty big. The entrance to the heliport was decorated with a picture of Saddam Hussein in military uniform. The area was surrounded by wrecked vehicles and abandoned, sandbagged fox holes, some flying white flags, and was overlooked by a network of watchtowers. Many of the buildings had already been looted by local people who took anything that could be carried by truck. There were also fears that weapons may have been taken from some of the bunkers that lay open outside the perimeter fence. Inside one, troops discovered open boxes containing rocket-propelled grenades. In the same building were a large pile of wooden weapons crates, unopened, marked Wallop Industries Limited. The boxes had red stickers warning: Danger - do not load in passenger aircraft. Lieutenant Angus Watson said soldiers had found the haul when they arrived on Saturday night. The complex is massive and we were surprised to find a lot of the kit intact, easily enough for a whole brigade, he said. They also discovered hundreds of leaflets lying on the floor, dropped by coalition planes, urging the defenders to surrender. The leaflets, and evidence of a bombardment from the air or by artillery, appeared to have persuaded the defenders to abandon their posts without a fight. --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION
[CTRL] (Fwd) Re: Someone Needed to Say It
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ahhh, Michael Moore. I grew up basically around the corner from him in the Flint area and can tell you we are all amazed at the coverage he has gotten. Essentially, he was and is a very rude, ego-centric power monger. He tries to win arguements through verbal intimidation, basically of the school ground variety, the same thing he has always done. If you don't think the way he wants you to, you must be a moron and are open to any form of public humiliation he can dream up. Let's look at this bit of drivel and see whether this is a fact driven argument, or opportunity to name call and get himself a little play.. 1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. 74% according to last nights news do support this, and in Atlanta, the support demonstration outnumbered the anti bush protesters. Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. Hmm, do we ONLY think that a fight is necessary if a knife is held to each of our throats on our own soil? How many of us did Hitler kill on our soil before we declared war? none. And the Iraqis have not threatened to bring this fight to us on our soil, they have promised to do so on multiple occasions. 2. The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected you.. Get over it Michael, they counted those votes every way the oppostion thought they might have an advantage and still couldn't make 4 become 1. the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars A little change of subjects, normal for Michael, revealing his true agenda. This is an attack on bush, not a cry for peace. Of course, the stock market is rebounding strongly now, and gas here dropped between 16 and 22 cents per gallon this week. 3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them. A quote from a comedic monologue from the only man in media to lose his show over attacking the President offered here as if it were an impartial nugget of truth from a valid source. 4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! Duhhh, Michael, what does he expect the pope to say about war? 5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! Traditionally, the military is not overflowing with the children of the rich and powerful, Michael. None of the children of congress and Senate went to Kosovo for Clinton, but Michael didn't care about that. I don't think he realizes that this whole portion of his arguement is valid if we are drafting, but right now, we have a volunteer army, comprised of men and women far better educated than at any time in our history. 96% possessing either a high school or college degree. They made informed decisions and chose the risk when they joined. 6. Finally, we love France ... have you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? Possibly, but the French did not join sides with us technically and never saw this as the fight for American independence. They made small loans of weapons and cash so we would be able to make trouble for the Brits and draw attention away from other areas the French were interested in to the south, and buy time until they could attack to regain the lost territory of the French and Indian wars. They voted to not get involved, but Lafayette chose independantly to come to America and funded personally the initial involvement here. Then the French declared war on England and pitched in with us with the understanding they would get choice of land. That our greatest thinkers and founding fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc. -- spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts that lead to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution? Franklin and Jefferson got their ideas from many sources, with Voltaire being the lone Frenchman with a great deal of influence in their later work. The French, built their own revolution and subsequent documents on the back of ours, not the other way around. Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of. Another bit of name calling from the childish Mr. Moore. He wrapped it up with a sarcastic paragraph of namecalling, which I need not repeat, and another intimation that we are just after oil, etc. etc. his usual pandering to the extreme left. Why he is not a bit critical of the French an their 60 billion dollar oil agreement with Saddam that
[CTRL] FW: Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago
-Caveat Lector- From another list -Original Message- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago Oakland Township man says he later lived in fear http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0303/25/a05-118470.htm By Jennifer Brooks / The Detroit News OAKLAND TOWNSHIP -- Gazi George is certain that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction, because he used to be one of the people hiding them. Two decades ago, while he was employed by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, George says he hid 39 rods of enriched uranium -- enough to build two nuclear bombs -- in a hastily converted swimming pool near the grounds of the Osirak nuclear power plants at Tuweitha. Israeli fighter jets destroyed the plants in 1981. But to his knowledge, no one ever discovered or destroyed the uranium. Instead, when an international inspector came to visit the ruined site, George said he was ordered to contaminate the grounds with alpha emitters, materials that mimic a uranium spill. The inspector, he said, went away satisfied that the plant's nuclear material had been destroyed. We faked the whole thing, said George, who fled the country soon afterward. Today, he runs a chemical and environmental consulting company and lives comfortably in Oakland Township. But he has not forgotten the five years he spent in the Iraqi nuclear program and has never stopped looking over his shoulder, for fear Iraqi agents might appear to carry out his sentence. The former nuclear scientist, who was in charge of health and safety programs at the Osirak plants, recalls harrowing years with his country's fledgling nuclear plant. Perhaps the worst experience was a secret bunker he visited -- hidden beneath a government agriculture building -- where he was asked to test for radiation levels. He found radioactive residue in syringes surrounded by bloody swabs and in cages too small for a person to stand up. He says political prisoners were locked up in those cages, injected with radiation and exposed to an external bombardment of cobalt 60 radiation until their mouths bled, their skin blistered and they died. --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) NM- Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese
-Caveat Lector- from another list --- Forwarded message follows --- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/25/125438.shtml Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese Connection Charles R. Smith Tuesday March 25, 2003 There is one Iraqi weapon system with U.S.A. stamped on it; the NATO code-named Tiger Song air defense system. Much of Tiger Song is U.S. made fiber-optic network systems sold to China by the Clinton administration. The fiber-optic Tiger Song air defense network was installed in Iraq during the 1990s by China in violation of the U.N. ban on weapons sales to Baghdad. Tiger Song is a distributed network and it is similar to the Internet, allowing Iraqi mobile radars and missile units to link into the network from pre-positioned fiber optic sites. Ironically, the Bush administration has so far denied an even greater sale of sensitive U.S. fiber-optic systems to China. The Defense Department opposes the sale of Global Crossing to Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing and his Hutcheson Whampoa company for obvious national security reasons. Although, the U.S. Defense Department opposes the sale of the fiber-optic giant Global Crossing to Hutcheson Whampoa, Li Ka-Shing is fighting back. Bush defense advisor Richard Perle, who was hired to advise Global Crossing on security to satisfy the U.S. government's concerns, conceded that the Chinese Army is in business with Hutcheson Whampoa providing military communications for the PRC and that China has provided fiber-optic systems to Iraq. I am not surprised, he stated. I do not trust the Chinese government on these matters. They have sold dangerous things to Iraq and other nations. It was very clear that the previous Global Crossing proposal was not going to meet U.S. government requirements. The U.S. government is concerned that the Hutcheson ownership will give them the ability to do injury to U.S. national security. Hutcheson Whampoa will now end up with 20% ownership. I have been retained to help Global Crossing find a structure to protect U.S. national security, said Mr. Perle. LI KA-SHING As this reporter has previously written, Li Ka-Shing has a history of helping the Chinese military erect communications networks using U.S. made equipment. For example, in 1989 Li Ka-Shing raised $120 million to buy a HUGHES built communications satellite for AsiaSat. AsiaSat is also a front company for the People's Liberation Army (PLA). According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, AsiaSat is part owned by the Chinese Army unit COSTIND or the Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The AsiaSat Hughes satellite regularly carries military communications traffic for PLA units and Chinese military owned companies. A 1996 report written by then U.S. Ambassador to China James Sasser alleges that the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) and Chinese billionaire Li Ka Shing were both directly involved with the PLA in financing the communications networks for the Chinese army. The report also states that the PLA was directly involved in the so-called civilian Chinese fiber optic communication systems. Sasser's report noted that the PLA actively worked on a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) fiber optic network that the Clinton administration stated was civil for the House National Security Committee. For example, wrote Sasser, in laying long distance fiber optic lines for the MPT's telephones and digital data network, the PLA has provided soldiers to do much of the work. The PLA cadres are considered disciplined and hard working. Once the cable has been laid, the MPT typically allocates some of the bandwidth to the PLA. In 1997, the Rand Corporation wrote a secret report on the Chinese Defense Industry and it also included a section on billionaire Li Ka Shing and his business with the Chinese Army. The Rand report was obtained in a successful federal lawsuit against the Commerce Department. The Rand Corporation report highlights Li Ka-Shing's direct connections to the Chinese military. According the Rand report, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts, which would build upon his equity interest in [Chinese army] Poly-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building infrastructure on China's Hainan Island. U.S. and allied forces are now fighting a Clinton-era mistake made in 1994 allowing the fiber-optic systems to be sold to China. The same Tiger Song fiber optic system is now sending the commands of the Iraqi military to fight our soldiers. The Chinese Army would love to get its hands on Global Crossing. It is clear from previous sales of such U.S. made systems to Li Ka-Shing that the Chinese Army will benefit from that technology. It is just as clear that - if given the opportunity - the Chinese Army will use Global Crossing technology and assets against the national
[CTRL] Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit
-Caveat Lector- Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit Source: DJI - Dow Jones International News Mar 25 07:25 JERUSALEM (AP)--International donors have frozen funding for a leading Palestinian human rights group after an independent audit raised suspicion that millions of dollars in grants has been mismanaged, the European Union said Tuesday. The group under scrutiny is called Law Society. Which has been monitoring Israeli and Palestinian human rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1990. An audit by the accounting firm Ernst Young indicated that Law Society funneled at least $1.5 million in donor money into a savings account without the donors´ knowledge. The group did this by overstating wages and other expenses and by falsifying annual budget statements and audits, according to an initial report. Israel´s Haaretz newspaper, citing the audit report, said Tuesday that $4 million is unaccounted for. A partial copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press makes note of about $2 million that was apparently mismanaged. The audit spans the period from September 1997 through August 2002, a time when LAW received nearly $10 million in grants. The report names LAW´s former director, Khader Shkirat, as being involved in the mismanagement of funds. In a telephone interview Tuesday, Shkirat acknowledged setting up savings accounts without the donors´ knowledge, but denied any money disappeared. The accounts were set up to make sure the group would have money in the future, should donors decide one day to stop the funding, Shkirat said. 'We wanted to secure the future,' Shkirat said. 'The donors would not have agreed to allow us to save money for the future which is why we didn´t tell them.' The European Union said in a statement that the audit´s initial findings 'indicate considerable mismanagement within LAW.' It said it was continuing to examine the legal and financial implications of the audit and 'in the meantime, the donors have decided to freeze all contributions' to the group. The audit said LAW´s 'accounting records and the accounting system were not reliable.' In addition to setting up the savings account, the audit says LAW misused donor money to give no-interest loans to one of Shkirat´s relatives and to buy cars that members of the group weren´t eligible for. The audit said it has been unable to account for all the grant money. 'It cannot be ruled out that assets have been disposed of,' the report said. In September 2002, LAW informed the donors that some $1.5 million had been set aside in savings accounts without the donors´ knowledge. Shkirat said all the money was found intact in the bank. (Copyright (c) 2003, Dow Jones Company, Inc.) http://imf- clk.dep.divinems.com/fpweb/fp.dll/$imfexport/htm/x_dv.htm/_id/512 575532/_u/mdavid2/_k/maNAI3JQ7qEo0wLB Received Id DJI0308401980 on Mar 25 2003 07:32 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) (fwd) The Dems' Michael Moore Problem
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jewish World Review March 25, 2003 / 21 Adar II, 5763 Laura Ingraham The Dems' Michael Moore Problem http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | [W]e live in fictitious times-a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president-a time when a man is sending us to war for fictitious reasons. --Michael Moore, accepting his Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Don't get suckered into believing that Moore's anti-Bush, anti-war rant is an isolated viewpoint on the far-left of the Democrat party. The dirty little secret is that most Dem-elite intellectuals agree with stupid white man Moore but are afraid to say so publicly. The truth is that leading Democrat thinkers have at one time or another explicitly or implicitly conveyed the same sentiments. Take the fictitious election comment. Bill Clinton, still the titular head of the Democrat Party, has made similar cracks. Ditto for recovering politician Al Gore. At a speech in the Dominican Republic in December, Gore asked the crowd, In your presidential election here, does the candidate who gets the most votes win the election? As for Moore's fictitious reasons for war comment, Senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd have made comparable charges in recent weeks. When Moore refers to Bush as a fictitious president, what he really means is that he is a stupid president. When Tom Daschle last week blamed the President's miserable failure in diplomacy for forcing war, he too was really saying that Bush is dunce. Tom the Towering Intellect believes President Bush is woefully incapable of maneuvering in our complex, interconnected world. He's no Jacques Chirac. The Dem-elites in Hollywood and Washington, utterly convinced of their intellectual and moral superiority, are hopelessly out of touch with the public whose welfare they claim to care so much about. Take the Oscars. On a day when we learned that American POWs were being humiliated before Iraqi television cameras, ABC decided the Academy ad revenues were too big to pass up. For the Academy, toning down the red carpet was an adequate sacrifice. Chef mogul Wolfgang Puck, who was catering the big after-party bash for the Academy, wailed that if the awards were cancelled, hundreds of pounds of imported sea bass would go to waste. Well, Americans spoke last night. Ratings for the broadcast were down 23 percent from last year. Some proudly boycotted the Oscars, others opted to focus on what was happening in the real world. Turns out that the 70+ percent of those stupid Americans who support the President and the war in Iraq were smart enough to tune out Hollywood's ill-timed narcissistic exercise. Actor Tom Hanks was classy enough to bow out, undoubtedly uncomfortable with the spectacle. On this channel, see our brave military men and women in harms way, donning chemical suits. Flip to ABC and see Oscar nominees and presenters air-kissing one another for their artistic sacrifices, clutching their $25,000 goodie bags, decked out in couture. Their idea of an MRE is a take-out order of capellini with white truffles from the Ivy. Democrats' confused, muddled foreign policy message isn't playing any better with the American public than the Oscar ceremony played with American television viewers. The reason is that, except maybe for Joe Lieberman and Dick Gephardt, Democrats have made it clear that they believe that France should have veto authority over US national security decisions. Listen to Rep. Nancy Pelosi before for war, and it's clear that if France had agreed to the war, then she would be for it, too. To heck with the fact that the American president, the intelligence community, the entire Cabinet, believe the war is necessary for our security! To heck with the American people who support President Bush's decision! Guinea and Cameroon aren't on board! That so many liberals see this as an illegitimate or even illegal war is why liberalism is on life-support. The Michael Moore sympathizers in the Democrat party actually believe that the French (who helped Iraq build a nuclear plant) and the Russians (who sell unauthorized radar jamming equipment to Iraq) are acting in good faith, but the President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are not. The Dem-elites trust the judgment of the international community on foreign policy. Americans trust the judgment of their president. The Dem-elites are enamored with the UN. Americans see the UN as a forum for America-bashing. The Dem-elites believe America has become too arrogant. Americans think France is too arrogant. The Dem-elites don't like the idea of America as a super-power. Americans are proud to be the strongest, freest country in the world. The Dem-elites think this war is our fault. Americans think that it's Saddam's fault. It would be refreshing if more in the entertainment industry confronted the idiocy of Michael Moore.
[CTRL] Fwd: Saddam Hussein's Ongoing War Against the Iraqis
-Caveat Lector- On 28 Mar 2003 at 8:05, someone from another list wrote: [Iraq has violated sixteen UN Security Council resolutions, most of which were passed under the rarely used Chapter VII, which makes them legally biding on all UN members to enforce by military means if necessary. What is the point of these resolutions if the member nations of the UN do not show the will to enforce them?] Saddam Hussein's Ongoing War Against the Iraqis http://www.defenddemocracy.org/templ/display.cfm?id=336dis=2 By Safia Taleb Al Souhail Safia Taleb Al Souhail is Advocacy Director for the Middle East and Islamic World at the International Alliance for Justice (www.i-a-j.org), and the publisher of the independent newspaper Al Manar Al Arabi. Al Souhail participated in a delegation of nine Iraqi women who met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on December 2nd 2002, to brief him on the persecution of their communities in Iraq. This perspective is based on the delegation's remarks. As we watch UN inspectors search Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, I ask, why are there no UN inspectors investigating Saddam Hussein's crimes against the Iraqi people? Along with hidden caches of biological and chemical weapons, Iraq also has hidden torture chambers, prisons and mass graves. In Saddam's Iraq, women are especially vulnerable pressure points - victims who can be used to influence other victims. They are harassed, abused, raped, tortured and gassed both for their resistance to the regime and as a means to control their families. For reasons like this, other Iraqi women and I have been organizing to get our voices heard in the international arena. Last December we met with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain to brief him on the Ba'th regime's systematic abuse of women in Iraq, and how our families and communities have been persecuted by Saddam's regime. Zahraa Mohammed is a Shi'a, Feyli Kurd from Baghdad. She described to Mr. Blair how she was imprisoned with her family for three months in 1980, during a mass deportation campaign of Feyli Kurds from Iraq to Iran. Saddam's regime has conducted three such campaigns, in 1969, 1971 and 1980, in which hundreds of thousands of Feyli Kurds were expelled and lost all their property. Saddam's agents took away Mohammed's four brothers and eight cousins, and dumped the rest of her family on the heavily mined Iranian border. To this day, she does not know what happened to her brothers and hundreds of other relatives who have also disappeared. In total, seven thousand young men of the Feyli Kurdish community were taken hostage in April 1980, and twenty-three years later their fate remains unknown. Berivan Dosky, a Kurd from northern Iraq, described how her mother was forced to flee her village in Duhok province in the 1961 Iraqi war against the Kurds, merely two hours after giving birth to Berivan. Berivan herself was later forced to repeat the scenario with her three-month-old son. In 1988, during a chemical attack against the Kurds, Berivan had to make a Faustian choice: She had only one gas mask, and had to decide whether to use it for herself, or give it to her then two-year-old son. She decided neither would wear it; they would either live or die together. Berivan is worried that Saddam will once again use chemical weapons against the Iraqi Kurds who live in the British and American-protected Kurdish safe haven. She asked Mr. Blair to make sure that there are enough gas masks for everyone. Fatima Bahr-al-Ulum is a Shi'a from a respected religious family in Najaf, in Southern Iraq. She listed over twenty clergy members in her immediate family who are in prison; none of them were released in the recent amnesty. Scores of others have been killed. The Iraqi Shi'as have suffered greatly from the discriminatory policies of Saddam's regime, which has massacred over two hundred thousand Shi'as, murdered five of their religious leaders (Al Maraji'), and destroyed their Marsh lands, known as the Venice of the Middle East. All the great Sh'ia religious families in Iraq, like Fatima Ulum's, have been targeted by Saddam's regime for their opposition to its brutal policies. Layla Kelenchy, a Turkoman from Kirkuk, in Northern Iraq, described how she was expelled from her home during the 1990's as part of Saddam's Arabization campaign in which Sunni Arab Iraqis are resettled around the country to disrupt other Iraqi ethnic communities. There are an estimated one million non-Arab refugees within Iraq who have been displaced by Saddam's ethnic cleansing campaign and live in refugee camps or scattered in various cities in Iraqi Kurdistan. Melina Bakhos, an Assyrian poet, told the Prime Minister how Saddam's regime has destroyed more than two hundred villages, and dozens of ancient churches and monasteries, in her small Christian Assyrian community. Only this summer, his agents beheaded a 72-year-old nun in a Mosul Church. Hundreds of Iraqi women have been beheaded in the last
[CTRL] Al-Jazeera Web hijack
-Caveat Lector- http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030328/152/dwhdq.html Friday March 28, 09:35 AM FBI to investigate Al-Jazeera Web hijack By Robert Lemos, CNET News.com Visitors to both the Arabic and English versions of the Al-Jazeera Web site on Thursday were greeted with an American flag and a pro-US message, the work of an apparent online vandal. The FBI has opened an investigation into the attack on Al-Jazeera's Web site, a representative with the bureau has said. The Middle Eastern news service was the victim of a domain hijacking. The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. Technically known as a redirect, the hack caused Web browsers that attempted to go to www.aljazeera.net -- as well as the English-language site -- to be surreptitiously redirected to the content hosted on NetWorld's servers. The NetWorld service detected a spike in traffic early on Thursday morning, and an email from a security specialist confirmed that visitors to Al-Jazeera were being redirected to NetWorld's service, said Ken Bowman, chief executive of the Salt Lake City company. We pulled down the content immediately, Bowman said. He added that VeriSign, which administers the domain registry, eliminated the redirect later in the morning. They never even touched (Al- Jazeera's) site, he said. The problem has been corrected by eliminating the redirect and reinstating the correct addresses for Al-Jazeera's sites. However, the changes take time, up to three days, to filter throughout the Internet. Moreover, even without the redirect issue, Al-Jazeera's sites may remain unreachable as they continue to come under attack by online vandals flooding the news outlet's network with data. A representative of VeriSign couldn't immediately answer questions regarding how the domain had been hijacked. VeriSign maintains the Internet registry for the .com, .net, .cc and .tv top-level domains and administers the authoritative database for all domain names registered in those top-level domains. The records from the whois database -- the distributed directory that holds information about each domain -- indicated early on Thursday that online vandals had managed to forge new domain records. Such records typically describe the services that are offered by a particular domain, such as Web, mail and file hosting. Instead, VeriSign's records pertaining to Al-Jazeera had apparently been replaced by data that pointed to name servers hosted by MyDomain.com. Those name servers in turn referred Web requests to the defacement site located at NetWorld. MyDomain has learned from NavLink, the company that hosts the aljazeera.net Web site from its data centres in France, that Al- Jazeera's domain name account at Network Solutions (a subsidiary of VeriSign) was compromised, MyDomain.com said in a statement on Thursday. NavLink has confirmed...that it has regained access to the account at Network Solutions and changed the name servers back to the correct settings. Email messages to NavLink requesting comment weren't immediately answered. MyDomain believed that changes would take as long as 72 hours to filter out to all parts of the Internet. The defacement is the latest in a flurry of activity surrounding the Middle Eastern news service. Al-Jazeera has had to contend with both technical problems and attacks this entire week. The Arab satellite TV network launched its English-language Web site on Monday, attracting significant media coverage. The site hosts the station's controversial video coverage, which has included images of US soldiers killed and taken prisoner. The controversy and resulting media coverage has also made the site a target of a number of online miscreants. Let Freedom Ring! stated Thursday's defacement, featuring a large American flag and signed by a vandal with the handle Patriot and claiming to be part of a group called the Freedom Cyber Force Militia. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!! NetWorld's Bowman said the site had been created using a free hosting service that the company offers. He also explained that, because the service is free, the company doesn't keep very rigorous watch on the activities. All the supplied information was fictitious, he said, quashing any possibility of aiding in a law enforcement investigation. It's is a free site, so we don't track any data. We don't track the Internet addresses or anything else. It would take a staff of about 500 to do so. Bowman said they are analysing what happened and may change the way the free portion of the site is administered to prevent future incidents. One security expert familiar with the defacement scene said that he had never heard of a group called Freedom Cyber Force Militia. We didn't hear about many other defacers who hacked right (before) the war, the administrator of Zone-H.org, a popular security and defacement news site, said in an email interview. I guess a lot of IT (security) professionals took the chance of this war
[CTRL] fWD: Tony Blair's unlikely partnership
-Caveat Lector- On 28 Mar 2003 at 11:38, toni howard wrote: Tony Blair's unlikely partnership http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2895793.stm By Paul Reynolds BBC News Online world affairs correspondent Last Updated: Friday, 28 March, 2003, 15:25 GMT The question is often asked, and is being asked even more frequently now that things are getting rough in Iraq: Why has Tony Blair hitched his wagon to that of George Bush and the Republican Party? On the face of it, a moderate left of centre British Labour Party prime minister who was a pal of the Democrat leader Bill Clinton has little in common with the born again conservative Republican president. Even less so when you consider the kind of figures who surround Mr Bush. The option was open to him to do what the then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson did with President Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam war. He did not publicly criticise the Americans but did not send troops. Tony Blair is not however Harold Wilson. And yet, going back to an earlier Camp David meeting shortly after Mr Bush was elected president, the signs were there that Tony and George would be an item as much as Tony and Bill were. They made a joke at the news conference they held - in shirt sleeves on that day, not in the suits they wore after their latest talks - that they used the same brand of toothpaste. It became a symbol of their closeness. The British ambassador in Washington at the time, Sir Christopher Meyer, who had been to Texas to see George Bush when he was still governor, became a fan of Mr Bush as well. He and Tony Blair saw in the new American president a more thoughtful man than the media caricature had suggested. They believed their assessment to be confirmed after the attacks on New York and Washington of 11 September. Christopher Meyer recounted later how on the evening of 20 September, before President Bush went to Congress to deliver his war on terror speech, the two men spoke in the White House. The British side was impressed at how calm the president was, and how he readily agreed that there should be no attack on Afghanistan until there had been an ultimatum to the Taleban. Here, they felt, was a man of reason as well as determination. The following weekend, again at Camp David, Mr Bush ruled out an immediate attack on Iraq. Those events, and the subsequent decision by George Bush to go to the Security Council over Iraq, have fed Tony Blair's belief that the American president is not a Texas cowboy. 'Visionary and opportunist' But that in itself is not enough to explain Tony Blair's position. A large part of the answer to the question lies in his own character. There is a visionary side to Tony Blair which cannot be underestimated Those who are surprised at his role over Iraq should remember what happened four years ago over Kosovo. It was Tony Blair who was pressing for ground troops - 50,000 British soldiers if necessary - to be sent into Kosovo if the bombing campaign against Serbia failed to move the then Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. He was way out in front of the cautious Mr Clinton. There is a visionary side to Tony Blair which cannot be underestimated. After all, he revolutionised his own party. He talks about right and wrong. And he has staying power. A columnist for the London Times, Michael Gove, compared him to William Pitt, who fought against Napoleon. He is the pilot who weathered the storm. Tony Blair may not appreciate the comparison with William Pitt but the prime minister is a leader who has seen through a war and emerged with his international reputation enhanced, wrote Gove two years ago. Michael Gove now says that events since 11 September have enhanced Tony Blair's role with the Americans and have shown that he is neither a geopolitical gnat nor a poodle. Others however see a more opportunistic side to Tony Blair, a leader who has cosied up too close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and who has all but ignored what is going on in Chechnya. There is also the suspicion that Mr Blair likes to be a figure on the world stage which he could not be if he settled quietly into the conformity of a common European foreign and security policy. He is also seen as an American salesman. Nelson Mandela dismissed him with the comment: He is the foreign minister of the United States. The war is going to test the relationship. There are tensions about the exact role of the United Nations in a future Iraq, over contracts for reconstruction, over American reluctance to press Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians. Major decisions lie ahead about the conduct of the battles and Mr Blair's voice might have to be raised in order to be heard. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot
[CTRL] Fwd: CAS: British Link Iraq to al-Qaeda
-Caveat Lector- On 28 Mar 2003 at 9:13, DOC wrote: Unfortunately, this will not change anyone's mind. As we all know, radlibs conveniently ignore facts that are contrary to their agenda. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/28/90101.shtml British Link Iraq to al-Qaeda NewsMax.com Wires Friday, March 28, 2003 British intelligence officials said they now had evidence of a direct link between the Iraqis and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. British intelligence officers have learned that up to a dozen al-Qaeda volunteers were fighting alongside the pro-Baghdad guerrilla forces in As Zubaya, a town outside Basra. After a British raid on the Baath Party headquarters in As Zubaya Wednesday to capture paramilitary leaders, Arabic-speaking intelligence officers interrogated the captured defenders. They were told that volunteers from al-Qaeda were taking part in the town's defense and helping to organize the pro-Baghdad resistance. Transcripts of the interrogations have been shared with U.S. military intelligence. -- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus You will recall that head UN weapons inspector Hans Blix nattered on that he expected Saddam Hussein would not deploy chemical weapons out of fear of international public disapproval. We doubt the Iraqi regime's fear of public disapproval. What such fear causes them to kill Basra citizens who are simply trying to escape the war zone? What fear kept them from executing some of our POWs and displaying their corps on Arab TV network, Al-Jazeera? More likely, Saddam has yet to use chemical weapons because most of his chem-warfare commanders were taken out in the first 48 hours of the war. - Federalist Digest A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] (Fwd) [American_Liberty] A visit to relatives in Baghdad radically changed my mind
-Caveat Lector- Mike Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:47:01 - 0600 http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-040242-4131r By Ken Joseph Jr. From the Life Mind Desk Published 3/27/2003 AMMAN, Jordan, March 27 (UPI) -- I was wrong. I had opposed the war on Iraq in my radio program, on television and in my regular columns -- and I participated in demonstrations against it in Japan. But a visit to relatives in Baghdad radically changed my mind. I am an Assyrian Christian, born and raised in Japan, where my father had moved after World War II to help rebuild the country. He was a Protestant minister, and so am I. As an Assyrian I was told the story of our people from a young age -- how my grandparents had escaped the great Assyrian Holocaust in 1917, settling finally in Chicago. There are some 6 million Assyrians now, about 2.5 million in Iraq and the rest scattered across the world. Without a country and rights even in our native land, it has been the prayer of generations that the Assyrian Nation will one day be restored. A few weeks ago, I traveled to Iraq with supplies for our Church and family. This was my first visit ever to the land of my forefathers. The first order of business was to attend Church. During a simple meal for peace activists after the service, an older man sounded me out carefully. Finally he felt free to talk: There is something you should know -- we didn't want to be here tonight. When the priest asked us to gather for a Peace Service, we said we didn't want to come because we don't want peace. We want the war to come. What in the world are you talking about? I blurted. Thus began a strange odyssey that shattered my convictions. At the same time, it gave me hope for my people and, in fact, hope for the world. Because of my invitation as a religious person and family connections, I was spared the government snoops who ordinarily tail foreigners 24 hours a day. This allowed me to see and hear amazing things as I stayed in the homes of several relatives. The head of our tribe urged me not to remain with my people during its time of trial but instead go out and tell the world about the nightmare ordinary Iraqis are going through. I was to tell the world about the terror on the faces of my family when a stranger knocked at the door. Look at our lives! they said. We live like animals -- no food, no car, no telephone, no job -- and, most of all, no hope. That's why they wanted this war. You can not imagine what it is to live like this for 20, 30 years. We have to keep up our routine lest we would lose our minds. But I realized in every household that someone had already lost his or her mind; in other societies such a person would be in a mental hospital. I also realized that there wasn't a household that did not mourn at least one family member who had become a victim of this police state. I wept with relatives whose son just screamed all day long. I cried with a relative who had lost his wife. Yet another left home every day for a job where he had nothing to do. Still another had lost a son to war and a husband to alcoholism. As I observed the slow death of a people without hope, Saddam Hussein seemed omnipresent. There were his statues; posters showed him with his hand outstretched or firing his rifle, or wearing an Arab headdress. These images seemed to be on every wall, in the middle of the road, in homes. Everything will be all right when the war is over, people told me. No matter how bad it is, we will not all die. Twelve years ago, it went almost all the way but failed. We cannot wait anymore. We want the war, and we want it now. When I told members of my family that some sort of compromise with Iraq was being worked out at the United Nations, they reacted not with joy but anger: Only war will get out of our present condition. This reminded me of the stories I heard from older Japanese who had welcomed the sight of American B-29 bombers in the skies over their country as a sign that the war was coming to an end. True, these planes brought destruction -- but also hope. I felt terrible about having demonstrated against the war without bothering to ask what the Iraqis wanted. Tears streamed down my face as I lay in my bed in a tiny Baghdad house crowded in with 10 other people of my own flesh and blood, all exhausted, all without hope. I thought, How dare I claim to speak for people I had not even asked what they wanted? Then I began a strange journey to let the world know of the true situation in Iraq, just as my tribe had begged me to. With great risk to myself and those who had told their stories and allowed my camera into their homes, I videotaped their plight. But would I get that tape out of the country? To make sure I was not simply getting the feelings of the oppressed Assyrian minority, I spoke to dozens of other people, all terrified. Over and over, they told me: We would be killed for speaking like this. Yet they did
[CTRL] Militants Gone, Caves in North Lie Abandoned
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30NO RT.html?pagewanted=2th March 30, 2003 Militants Gone, Caves in North Lie Abandoned By C. J. CHIVERS ILIP, Iraq, March 29 Some of the cave entrances were slung low and obscured by shadows, waist-high openings in cool, moss- cloaked rock. Others were door-sized slots, tall enough for the passage of upright men. The caves, penetrating the darkness under the ridge at Dari Baramaran, were among warrens of defenses in this remote valley along northern Iraq's border with Iran, which until this weekend had been controlled for nearly two years by Ansar al-Islam, a militant Islamic group. An American-coordinated ground offensive against the group continued today with intensive fighting in small pockets in the mountains, but officials said the military battle against Ansar al- Islam was nearly over. It began with cruise missile strikes a week ago and escalated on Friday when about 100 United States Special Forces soldiers and 10,000 local Kurdish fighters seized a network of villages from Ansar and drove the militants from their bases to nearby caves and mountains. The United States contends that Ansar is a terrorist group that links Al Qaeda and Baghdad, and cited the group's operations in the largely autonomous Kurdish zone of northern Iraq as one of the justifications for the war against Saddam Hussein. The Kurds said at least 176 Ansar fighters had died. About 150 more were said to have surrendered to the Iranian authorities at the border. Pockets of resistance in the mountains could be heard returning fire, but Kurdish military officers said the outcome seemed certain. They will all be finished because there is no choice, said Gen. Mustafa Said Qadir, commander of military forces in the eastern Kurdish zone. There is just death. Kurdish and American soldiers also captured two Islamic fighters alive, including a Palestinian man who appeared to provide further proof of the group's connections to the international jihad. The Palestinian, Ahmed Muhammad Tawil, from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was taken into custody near here. He was a large and dirt-caked man with a filthy beard, a cracked- toothed smile and a bullet wound in his left calf. He limped into the company of three American journalists tonight, handcuffed and escorted by guards. He gagged repeatedly, as if to vomit, and then was cheerfully defiant, saying the United States was an Israeli toy. I struggle against you, fight against you, he said. If I die, or kill, or am arrested, it is because of you. You are the criminals, the American people. His Kurdish guards presented him as evidence of what seemed a nearly total victory. Signs of a rout could be seen here, in this network of hastily departed caves, where Ansar fighters abandoned food, clothing and ammunition, and fled for higher ground. It was a setting reminiscent of Afghanistan, a mix of natural caves and those improved by man. Some were large, others small. The most sophisticated was about 50 feet wide by 20 feet high. Inside, Ansar had built two rooms resembling subterranean houses, complete with plastered walls, thatched roofs and paned windows accessible only through a simple slot of unfinished stone. The cave entrances offered paradoxical sights throughout the day. A few hundred yards away, American Special Forces fighters called in heavy machine guns mounted on Humvees, and the column of guns began firing in the valley, at the remnants of Ansar. The canyon boomed intermittently all afternoon. But here, Kurdish fighters lounged and chatted, napping and eating after a night of mountain fighting. Some slept deeply, afloat on the spring's surge of fresh clover and bright red wildflowers. Other Kurds fired rockets, taking aim at positions where remaining Ansar fighters had taken refuge in the local peaks and gorges. Having been pushed from their positions with great speed on Friday, the Ansar fighters had also abandoned their heavy weapons. Ansar and its 650 or so fighters had been feared in northern Iraq since 2001, when they ambushed a column of Kurdish fighters near here. It has since deployed assassins and suicide bombers, and succeeded in infantry raids against the secular Kurdish authorities, whom it rejects as infidel rulers. But today Ansar seemed on the verge of military insignificance. We are very excited, said Dr. Barham Salih, the Kurdish region's prime minister. It will be over before too long. Even as skirmishes raged, Kurdish official said they were sifting through intelligence collected at Ansar's offices and command posts. Lots of documentation and computers have been captured, Dr. Salih said. But not all the news was cheerful. No Americans were wounded in the fighting, but 22 Kurdish fighters were killed and 73 were wounded, local officials said. As Kurds grieved for their dead, and Special Forces fighters crisscrossed the newly claimed territory in pickup trucks and
[CTRL] Fwd: A stop-the-war stance I could accept
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Mar 2003 at 6:31, Tim Parker wrote: How about: ''Stop Hanging teenage girls who disagree with you'' -Original Message- A stop-the-war stance I could accept Even the stubbornest antiwar types must've come to the conclusion by now that marching and shouting isn't going to dissuade the coalition from doing whatever it wants. Time for a change of tactics, then. Seems to me the war will end when Saddam surrenders, right? Hence, some signs worth waving: SAVE THE CHILDREN: SADDAM SURRENDER! NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL: SADDAM GET OUT NOW! STOP THE WAR NOW! SADDAM LEAVE! STOP THE BOMBING! SADDAM SURRENDER! ...feel free to share these thoughts with your antiwar friends. --S. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Fwd: A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour
-Caveat Lector- On 29 Mar 2003 at 23:43, toni howard wrote: GULF WAR II: Brit support grows for conflict + Officer reveals brutality http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/news4.html A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour By Ian Kirby, Political Editor A SMILING teenage girl who waved at patrolling British soldiers and accepted a big-hearted squaddie's gift of chocolate was HANGED by agents of Saddam. The butchers of the dictator's corrupt Ba'ath party had spied on the Muslim youngster from an alleyway in Az Zubayr near Basra. Battle-hardened troops of the 1st Batallion, The Royal Irish Regiment choked back tears when they later saw her limp beaten body swaying from a lamp-post in the ramshackle south Iraq town held by Allies. And yesterday their grim-faced commander, Lt Colonel Tim Collins chewed on a cigar and confirmed: A teenage girl who waved at my troops was hanged within the hour. These daily outrages have made us more determined than ever to crush Saddam's evil regime. There's still much fear among the people we're meeting. Our mission is to assuage it, to fill the power vacuum left by the decapitation of the Ba'ath Party. You have to understand that nobody under the age of 45 has ever known life without it. They have no concept or inkling of freedom-and that's a heavy weight on our shoulders. We came into this area hard and at no little risk. We've had great success in cutting off the Ba'ath Party here. Its chief who was Lord God On High in these parts is currently considering his options in a Prisoner of War cage. I'd reserved judgment on him-and then I found the knuckleduster in his drawer. One of the few good things I can say about the party is that they keep meticulous records. We established all the names of local members. We knew they were threatening people co-operating with us, so we paid some of them a visit overnight. It's not straightforward but it works. One man found a shot through his kitchen floor helped him remember where his weapon was hidden. Belfast-born Lt Col Collins (pictured above) wears trendy Ray-Ban sunglasses and a kukri-the blade he is entitled to carry as a Gurkha commander. His troops are distributing food and medical supplies and restoring water and power while Ba'ath thugs terrorise the population. The soldiers have seen the mass graves Saddam's henchmen dug for their countrymen murdered for co-operating with US troops during the last Gulf War in 1991. This time round, in an unspeakable act of barbarism, children had their throats slit. And yesterday families fleeing Basra were fired on by Iraqi troops. Compassionate US marines picked up children and took them to safety. Royal Irish Regiment soldiers foiled a plot by the Ba'ath monsters to assassinate one of their comrades as 'reprisal' for their liberation of the town. Lt Col Collins, who gave a rousing speech to his men at the start of the war, stormed: There will be no murders on my watch. We came into this area with excellent intelligence and have since made first-class local contacts. At the risk of their lives local people offered information to my patrols and it was spot-on. It saved the life of one of my men. Lt Col Collins based himself in the Ba'ath party HQ as a psychological move. On the front door, one of his men has defiantly scrawled: Welcome to Free Iraq. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Fwd: [I-S] Exclusive: 'Terrified of Saddam Hussein'
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Mar 2003 at 0:03, daisy meme wrote: [When we finally made it to Safwan, Iraq, what we saw was utter chaos. Iraqi men, women and children were playing it up for the TV cameras, chanting: With our blood, with our souls, we will die for you Saddam. I took a young Iraqi man, 19, away from the cameras and asked him why they were all chanting that particular slogan, especially when humanitarian aid trucks marked with the insignia of the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society, were distributing some much-needed food. His answer shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. He said: There are people from Baath here reporting everything that goes on. There are cameras here recording our faces. If the Americans were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before, we want to make sure that we survive the massacre that would follow as Baath go house to house killing anyone who voiced opposition to Saddam. In public, we always pledge our allegiance to Saddam, but in our hearts we feel something else.] Exclusive: 'Terrified of Saddam Hussein' Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24481 UMM QASR/BASRA, 30 March 2003 - Four days ago my friend, Mohammed Al-Deleami and I were invited by Abdul Rahman Almotawa, a journalist at our sister publication Asharq Al-Awsat, to accompany him on a trip organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information to report on the humanitarian relief effort at Safwan, an Iraqi town at the Kuwaiti border. I jumped at the opportunity to get past the Kuwaiti Army checkpoint at Mutla', which was the biggest obstacle keeping me from entering Iraq. As we raced to catch up to the convoy heading out of Kuwait, I told Almotawa that if the opportunity presented itself for us to break away from the ministry's convoy once we got into Iraq, that we should, as such an opportunity may not present itself again. When Mohammed and I left our hotel, we had no idea that that would be exactly what happened. We were ill-prepared for we had nothing but our gas masks, which we carried everywhere, the clothes on our backs, my cameras, a satellite phone, a Kuwaiti mobile and laptop. After 75 minutes of driving in a manner likely to get me arrested in most countries, we were able to catch up to the convoy as it passed through the dreaded checkpoint at Mutla', where we had been turned back several times in the days before. When we finally made it to Safwan, Iraq, what we saw was utter chaos. Iraqi men, women and children were playing it up for the TV cameras, chanting: With our blood, with our souls, we will die for you Saddam. I took a young Iraqi man, 19, away from the cameras and asked him why they were all chanting that particular slogan, especially when humanitarian aid trucks marked with the insignia of the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society, were distributing some much-needed food. His answer shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. He said: There are people from Baath here reporting everything that goes on. There are cameras here recording our faces. If the Americans were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before, we want to make sure that we survive the massacre that would follow as Baath go house to house killing anyone who voiced opposition to Saddam. In public, we always pledge our allegiance to Saddam, but in our hearts we feel something else. Different versions of that very quote, but with a common theme, I would come to hear several times over the next three days I spent in Iraq. The people of Iraq are terrified of Saddam Hussein. I broke away from the hundreds of people literally climbing over one another and fighting to get a box of the rations being distributed. What ended up happening is that the weak and the elderly who needed the food most were getting nothing, whereas the young and fit were getting up to six boxes each. I broke away from this disgusting scene and wandered into the desert to take some pictures of the elderly and young children picking through the heaps of trash, having given up on getting any of the rations, searching for food. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a British Army convoy driving through Safwan heading north being followed by one, then two, then three SUV's marked TV. I ran back to Arab News' SUV and yelled at Abdul Rahman and Mohammed to get in. Of course, they asked why I was screaming at them like a mad man. I explained that the opportunity to get into Iraq was driving away from us. I turned to Abdul Rahman and said: Decide right now. Are you in or not? He thought of his wife and children and how volatile and unpredictable the situation in Iraq and working with me could be, and opted to stay. My friend, Mohammed Al-Deleami, jumped right in without hesitation. We caught up to the convoy of TV crews and army vehicles and just drove behind them. Within minutes we were on an Iraqi freeway, with signs directing us to Umm Qasr, Basra and Baghdad. I was ecstatic.
[CTRL] An Open Letter to Robin Cook
-Caveat Lector- http://israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2128 An Open Letter to Robin Cook by Yoram Halberstam March 27, 2003 Mr Cook, On March 17 you made the decision to resign from Tony Blair's government. Your statement on this occasion in the House of Commons was used as a platform to misinform the House and the British public. You stated that you have heard that Iraq has not had months but 12 years in which to complete [compliance with UN resolutions]... Yet it is over 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. This analogy between Iraq and Israel is not only wrong, it is a premeditated attempt to mislead on your part. Mr Cook, your statement does not attempt to redress the strong sense of injustice throughout the Muslim world, it only helps them in their attempt to continue to mislead world opinion at large. UN Resolution 242 is not under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, unlike most of the 17 UN Resolutions against Iraq. You should know that only the resolutions under this Chapter allow the use of force to impose the will of the international community. Mr Cook, UN Resolution 242 only applies to countries that were taking part in the war with Israel, which started on June 5th 1967. Those countries were Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Palestine was not at war with Israel, as it did not exist on paper, in history or in the hearts and minds of the Jordanian and Egyptian population that, today, call themselves Palestinians. Judea and Samaria were annexed by Jordan in 1950. They were renamed the West Bank by the Jordanians - that is west of Jordan, not east of a country that supposedly was taken over by the Jewish state. This annexation was never recognized by the United Nations, only by Britain and Pakistan. The reason why the annexation of this land was not recognized is because it was not a definite border. The so called 1967 borders were no borders. On the contrary, they were an armistice line drawn up by the UN and which ended the 1948-49 war launched by the Arabs to destroy the State of Israel. Again no reference to Palestine's borders. Should you care to look in a dictionary you shall see that armistice means a temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent or a truce. Again, no reference to defined borders. Nevertheless, Britain decided in 1950 to go along with Pakistan and recognize the legitimacy of the new border of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Under UN Security Council Resolution 242, Israel is only expected to withdraw from territories to secure and recognized boundaries and not from all of the territories captured in the Six-Day War. This language was the result of months of negotiations within the United Nations. Therefore, the Security Council recognized that Israel was entitled to part of these territories for new defensible borders. The later UN Resolution 338 made it clear that such peace must be achieved through negotiations not though military imposition. Iraq resolution 660, on the other hand, demands that Iraq withdraw immediately and unconditionally all its forces to the positions in which they were located on 1 August 1990. This demand was passed under Chapter VII with UN Resolution 678. Mr Cook, under the UN Resolution you are referring to and under UN Resolution 338, the negotiations would determine from which territory Israel must withdraw. You seem to have forgotten that the result of peace agreements between the parties must result in termination of all claims and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence . A peace agreement has been signed with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994; therefore, there cannot be any claim of territories, because the only ones that can claim it where the countries that formerly held these territories before the Six-Day War and until such time as they signed peace pacts with Israel. UN Resolution 242 did indeed refer to these territories as occupied; however, you have once again mislead the House of Commons into calling them as such in 2003. The term occupied was and is only used to refer to the responsibility for the well-being of a civilian population where the 1949 Geneva Convention applies. This convention states that the Occupying Power shall be bound by the Convention rules to the extent that such Power exercises the functions of government in such territory. Since the Declaration of Principle signed at Oslo, Israel has given up these functions of government and transferred power to the Palestinian Authority in areas where most of the Arab civilians live. In March 1994, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright, stated: We simply do not support the description of the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 War as occupied Palestinian territory. On May 4 1998, James Baker was interviewed by Hoda Tawfik from the newspaper al- Ahram. He was asked, What do you think is right? That these are occupied Arab
Re: [CTRL] Why Liberals Hate America
-Caveat Lector- March 20, 2003 at 19:28:48 Why Liberals Hate America Ron Marr / Troutwrapper -- In Bruce Springsteen's tune Glory Days, The Boss weaves the tale of a guy whom we all know. He sings of a middle-aged fellow whose life peaked as a high school sports hero. The former jock's evenings are now spent at the local bar, regaling all with stories of his brief success and synthetic heroics.Such describes perfectly the liberal philosophy generally, and Tom Daschle particularly. Liberals suffer from a number of maladies and delusions, but several are painfully obvious. First, not only are they incapable of taking care of themselves, they cannot comprehend why they should be FORCED to take care of themselves. They are terrified of everything that is not pre-processed, homogenized and approved by an official governmental entity. Governmental Entity, by the way, is defined as Martin Sheen, a guy who's not the President but plays one on TV. That the recycling truck might be an hour late propels liberals into a state of near hysteria. That someone might actually own a gun sends them running to the therapist for Prozac, grief-counseling and Deepak Chopra seminars. They seek order, safety and security at any cost, rather than individuality, liberty and freedom. The goals of a totalitarian, Fascist state are reflected in the ramblings of liberal politicians and Hollywood idiots. They say they want peace, but the sort of peace they seek is more akin to slavery then it is the ideals upon which America was founded. Following the Glory Days scenario, liberals are bitter, angry and dogmatic. They cannot believe they lost the 2000 and 2002 elections. They feel the conservative ascendancy is an anomaly, and wax nostalgic over the administration of a lecherous sociopath who offered soothing words but never a vestige of reality, substance or results. They yearn for a choreographed fantasy world which disputes human nature. They swoon at the idea of standing on the side of the hill while reciting poetry with talking raccoons and drinking decaffeinated Coke. Liberals want to play happily in a field of daisies, unable to accept that we live in a time of daisy cutters. True, if their desires were the rule of the land they would get their wish. Our enemies would gladly provide that field of daisies, and make certain every single American - liberal or conservative - was pushing them up. The garden variety leftist attacks our country with every breath, oblivious to the fact that their ability to speak out, to acquire their toys, to travel and protest and whine, are provided by the very system they despise. They know only hate for those who disagree with their Utopian vision of unchecked liberalism. They immediately label as racists any who counter their nonsensical ramblings with the logic of protecting our sovereignty and future. They want but one thing...for their fellow travelers to control Congress and the White House. The personification of this ideology is Tom Daschle. Shortly after the President gave Saddam Hussein his ultimatum, the diminutive Daschle donned his elevator shoes, climbed a tall stepladder and stood on his soapbox. I am saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war, said Senator Shortcake. I'm saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country. South Dakota should be embarrassed. Daschle, still in shock over his loss of the undeserved power and prestige he once held, never misses an opportunity to engage in character assassination. He doesn't ask questions. He blubbers. He is an angry little man who cares far more about his party than he does his country. Diplomacy? The President worked for months to try and bring a speck of rationality to those who openly despise the US. Diplomacy failed due to the irrelevant UN weasels who refused to enforce 12 years worth of their own mandates. They were led by France, a country that sold Iraq nuclear materials and stands to risk billions of dollars in oil contracts if their friendly neighborhood butcher is deposed. But the second half of Daschle's quote is far worse than the first. As a government leader, Daschle should know that Saddam will portray his moronic words as a sign that the American government is in disarray at the highest level. He should know the Butcher will use those words for propaganda purposes, hoping to fire up troops that, perhaps, were losing their morale. Tom is saddened? Well boo hoo. I'll be saddened if we lose one American life because Daschle's self-serving attempt to stain George Bush might convince a single Iraqi soldier that we are not united, might lead him to think there's a chance of winning. I'm saddened that giving such comfort to the enemy might convince one of Saddam's minions to shoot a brave American soldier in the back, rather than laying down his rifle in fear. I'm saddened
[CTRL] Another missile Hans Blix missed
-Caveat Lector- Another missile Hans Blix missed Baghdad was mass-producing, possibly exporting, 'al-Fatah' http://g2.wnd.com/article/articleview/72/1/4/ © 2003 G2 Bulletin Publishing date: 27.03.2003 18:45 Military experts examining the debris of an Iraqi artillery missile fired on Kuwait were surprised to find the missile carried the name al- Fatah in English characters. The missile system, also known as a-Babil-100, was manufactured at the al-Maamun site southwest of Baghdad, and in other locations such as the al-Haytham Missile Center. Hundreds of Iraqis, as well as foreign technicians were, until recently employed in a mass production project for the new missile. In those facilities and others the Iraqis copied, developed and manufactured weapons systems of the Frog (Free Rocket Overground) Russian type, known also as Tochka-9-K-79 or in NATO code SS-21-Scrab. The markings on the downed missile were clearly in English, suggesting two possibilities -- that Iraqis intended to export the weapon system or that the a-Babil missile was partly produced outside of Iraq. Hans Blix U.N. weapons inspectors, lately nicknamed by military officers as the Hans Blix Gang, knew about but never issued a confirmation on the existence of the missile. According to Global Security Publication: In February 2003, U.N. weapons inspectors evaluated the al-Fatah and, using computer models, assessed that the missile is capable of flying 150 kilometers. One configuration was declared by Iraq to have flown 161 kilometers in tests. However, the U.N. inspectors declined to announce a formal conclusion on the missile pending verification of Iraqi declarations. The inspectors also noted that 32 al-Fatah had already been deployed with army units. The fact that Iraq managed to develop the missile, a project which started before the adoption of U.N.1991 resolution 687, is not only proof of the inability of UNSCOM to enforce its mandate, but also to the flexibility, ingenuity and adaptability of the Iraqi military industry to new conditions and restrictions. It is now clear the al-Maamun facility managed to deliver the al- Fatah to the army and that the 400 mm missile is fully operational. Some sources estimate the number of operational al-Fatah missiles at anywhere between 50 and 100 units. It is mainly based on the Frog-7 system, but computer simulations suggest the missile incorporates technologies from a number of countries, including western. The Iraqis, like the Egyptians with whom they cooperated before the first Gulf War and the Argentineans, managed to use many components of the Russian Volga-SA2 surface-to-air missiles and modify them into a surface to surface weapon. The al-Fatah missile fired at the U.S. forces in Kuwait is described as very mobile, a rocket launched from a special Zil-131 truck chassis. This special vehicle can carry and launch a multiple number of missiles, apparently up to six units, and is capable of traveling fast on paved and dirt roads, as well as on hard surface desert terrain. The system can easily be camouflaged, misleading electronic satellite eyes to appear as a large trailer. It can be successfully sheltered in garage bunkers, underground hangars and other temporary fortifications. Some information coming from Baghdad suggests the Zil trucks were hidden in industrial and commercial buildings. Central Intelligence Agency analysts are aware of live tests conducted in Russia during October 1999, where at least 2 Frog-K-79 (NATO code SS-21) were launched under real battlefield conditions. The launchers were deployed in the Mosdak region, some 100 kilometers northwest of Grozny in Chechnya, and the missiles were launched at Grozny, killing at least 143 people. Information and complete data of the results of the tests were delivered to the Iraqis, who translated them into the al-Fatah system. The Iraqis used this technique of conducting tests abroad, or buying test results from foreign countries and private enterprises, so as to bypass U.N. restrictions. By doing so they prevented thorough U.S. monitoring of their progress. Some of those tests were conducted in Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan and maybe also in some laboratories in the west, predominantly France, Italy, Germany and Argentina. Until recent days Iraq has been maintaining excellent technological-scientific relationships with other countries. Iraqi experts were reported in dozens of countries involved in the production of missiles and electronics. The importance of the information on al-Fatah, as deriving from the missiles fired on Kuwait, is the conclusion that other weapon systems were not only being developed but also reached the production level. There is no doubt that many of those weapons are deployed in and around Baghdad. Basic analysis of the al-Fatah suggests that it crossed the 150 kilometer range barrier, and through changes in its warhead, the Iraqis may have developed the capability to launch
[CTRL] (Fwd) AP: Raid Finds al-Qaida Tie to Iraq Militants
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030331_1922.html Raid Finds al-Qaida Tie to Iraq Militants Raid on Iraqi Militant Group Indicates Ties to al-Qaida but Leadership on the Run to Iran The Associated Press BIYARE, Iraq March 31 A U.S.-led assault on a compound controlled by an extremist Islamic group turned up a list of names of suspected militants living in the United States and what may be the strongest evidence yet linking the group to al- Qaida, coalition commanders said Monday. The cache of documents at the Ansar al-Islam compound, including computer discs and foreign passports belonging to Arab fighters from around the Middle East, could bolster the Bush administration's claims that the two groups are connected, although there was no indication any of the evidence tied Ansar to Saddam Hussein as Washington has maintained. There were indications, however, that the group has been getting help from inside neighboring Iran. Kurdish and Turkish intelligence officials, some speaking on condition of anonymity, said many of Ansar's 700 members have slipped out of Iraq and into Iran putting them out of reach of coalition forces. The officials also said a U.S. missile strike on Ansar's territory on the second day of the war missed most of its leadership which crossed into Iran days earlier. U.S. officials said the government had reports some Ansar fighters could have made it into Iran and have been shuttling back and forth with fresh supplies. According to a high-level Kurdish intelligence official, three Ansar leaders identified as Ayoub Afghani, Abdullah Shafeye and Abu Wahel were among those who had fled into Iran. The official said the three were seen being detained by Iranian authorities Sunday. We asked the Iranian authorities to hand over to us any of the Afghan Arabs or Islamic militants hiding themselves inside the villages of Iran, said Boorhan Saeed, a member of the pro-U.S. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. We asked them about it Sunday, and still don't have a response. Last week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned the Iranians to stop meddling in the war. Tehran denied any involvement. Using airstrikes and ground forces, Kurdish soldiers and U.S. troops have cooperated in the past week to dislodge and crush Ansar militants in 18 villages surrounding the Iraqi city of Halabja about 160 miles northeast of Baghdad. We actually believe we destroyed a significant portion of the Ansar al-Islam force there, Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of operations on the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said Monday. He said forces were investigating the finds. Among a trove of evidence found inside Ansar compounds were passports and identity papers of Ansar activists indicating that up to 150 of them were foreigners, including Yemenis, Turks, Palestinians, Pakistanis, Algerians and Iranians. Coalition forces also found a phone book containing numbers of alleged Islamic activists based in the United States and Europe as well as the number of a Kuwaiti cleric and a letter from Yemen's minister of religion. The names and numbers were not released. What we've discovered in Biyare is a very sophisticated operation, said Barham Salih, prime minister of the Kurdish regional government. Seized computer disks contained evidence showing meetings between Ansar and al-Qaida activists, according to Mahdi Saeed Ali, a military commander. It was unclear how strong Ansar remains. Officials from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two parties that share control of an autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, say they killed 250 Ansar members during two days of intense fighting and aerial bombardments. There was ferocious fighting, Saeed said. He said he chased 25 Ansar militants across the Iranian border and captured nine Ansar sympathizers belonging to a group called the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan. The remaining Ansar fighters are thought to be in the mountains along the Iraq-Iran border, U.S. and Kurdish military officials have said. Kurdish soldiers on Monday continued sporadic fighting in several villages around Halabja and along the Iran-Iraq border near the village of Sargat, site of a destroyed building once allegedly used by Ansar militants to produce poison. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday the Sargat compound was probably the site where militants made a biological toxin, traces of which were later found by police in London. We think that's probably where the ricin that was found in London came (from) he told CNN's Late Edition. At least the operatives and maybe some of the formulas came from this site. British police raided a London apartment in January and found traces of ricin, a powerful poison made from castor plant beans. U.S. officials believe the poison and those arrested were linked to Ansar. The group's leader, Mullah Krekar, is being held in Norway on charges of
[CTRL] (Fwd) 'TORTURE CHAMBER' FOUND
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- 'TORTURE CHAMBER' FOUND http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-12278787,00.html A torture chamber used by Saddam Hussein's henchmen has been discovered by British troops in Iraq, according to reports. Cells in a police station contained a meat hook attached to a ceiling and a live cable said to be used to give electric shocks. Royal Marines found it in a suburb of Basra, reported the Daily Mirror's Tom Newton Dunn, who is with the troops. Dozens of Iraqi national ID cards were spread across the Chief of Police's abandoned large oak desk, he wrote. Troops captured the Abu Al Khasib suburb after 13 hours of fighting. The police station was empty when the marines arrived. One local said: The Ba'ath Party were bad people, they used to hurt people inside the police station. You say bad words about Saddam, they take you in there and you never come out. Everybody also knew not to ask what happen to them there, then they disappear too. Newton Dunn wrote everything we saw inside that building yesterday suggested that it was wasn't really a house of law and order at all, but used instead to torture possibly hundreds of local civilians. The police sation was also said to be used by the Mukhabarat - by far the most infamous of Saddam Hussein's internal security services. Last Updated: 11:49 UK, Wednesday April 02, 2003 --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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
