-Caveat Lector- LONDON is still a haven for Islamic extremists preaching global terrorism, despite tough laws passed last year to curb their activities. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320005-2001321765,00.html
Investigators trying to destroy Osama bin Laden's financial network are now looking right in there own backyard -- at U.S. banks that had direct relationships with a bank founded by bin Laden, reports CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson. http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,313496-412,00.shtml Osama bin Laden's extensive financial interests in Britain were outlined yesterday in a French parliamentary report that says the City of London financial center is a money-laundering haven for billions of dollars of tainted and terrorist money. http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2001/10/11/story/0000106622 Laden associate enjoys asylum in UK http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=1671745431 Terrorist flaunts 'covenant' with British http://www.aboutsudan.com/issues/terrorism/british_covenant.htm Governments Worldwide Protest London Safehousing of Terrorists http://www.aboutsudan.com/issues/terrorism/governments_worldwide_protest__l.htm American State Terrorism http://www.geocities.com/americanstateterrorism/ Why is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) mounting an attack on pastas, cereals and salad dressings, among other products? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1504 The Israeli army launched a night-time raid on an Arab village, shooting dead four policemen, setting fire to one house and dynamiting another, and arresting several dozen residents. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=109215 On 12/9/01 the Montreal Gazette reprinted a story by Christina Lamb for the London Daily Telegraph about even more deaths from starvation and cold at another camp near Herat: "A dirty gray blanket on the hard desert ground is all that is home for Bibi Gul and her family in the new Afghanistan.... It is more than a week since she and her five children had their last meal - a begged bowl of rice - and on Friday she woke to find her 2-year-old son, Tahir, stiff and cold, frozen to death in the rain. While the West celebrates the surrender of Kandahar and the collapse of the Taliban, here in Maslakh camp in western Afghanistan there is no celebratory slaughtering of goats or distribution of sweets, but only weeping and funerals.... Every night as the temperature dips well below zero, as many as 40 people die from cold and starvation. In the six cemeteries scattered through the camp, many of the piles of stones marking graves are so tiny that it is clear most victims are children and babies." http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qf6.html According to the Pentagon's Defense Science Board, a strong correlation exists between U.S. involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States. President Clinton has also acknowledged that link. The board, however, has provided no empirical data to support its conclusion. This paper fills that gap by citing many examples of terrorist attacks on the United States in retaliation for U.S. intervention overseas. The numerous incidents cataloged suggest that the United States could reduce the chances of such devastating--and potentially catastrophic--terrorist attacks by adopting a policy of military restraint overseas. http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb50.pdf The academics maintain that the term "Islamic fundamentalism," especially when used as indiscriminately as it is, merely generates stereotypes and misinforms policy. Esposito points out that Iran, Saudi Arabia and Libya are labeled fundament-alist. He wonders what exactly is common to a revolutionary Islamic Iran that is hostile to the United States, a traditional monarchy in Saudi Arabia that is its best ally in the region and a socialist Libya that is as vulnerable to Islamic resurgence — as are other states such as Tunisia and Morocco.34 Islamic fundamentalism, in Esposito’s opinion, is a pejorative used to demonize Islamic resurgence.35 Others, such as Zachary Karabell, Graham Fuller and Ian Lesser, have also argued that the use of the term serves to delegitimize and demonize attempts by Muslims to apply their religion to their own lives. http://www.mepc.org/journal/9710_khan.html When I met a few days earlier with Osama al-Farra, the mayor of Khan Younis, he explained to me why the Israelis chose to build a settlement right between Mawasi and Khan Younis: "It is over the aquifers. In 1980 the Israelis began to drill. They have thirty-two wells. They built a pipeline in 1994 to carry the water into Israel. There are probably about 1,000 people in the settlement next to the camp, but they consume one third of our water supply, though about 160,000 people live in Khan Younis." http://www.harpers.org/online/gaza_diary/?pg=1 For a brief period in September-October 1999 it appeared that Washington was making some progress over the matter with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who for the first time publicly accused the Taliban of supporting sectarian violence and fueling Islamic extremism in Pakistan. However, within days of speaking out, the prime minister was deposed in a coup, led by General Pervez Musharaf, bringing to power the very forces (the military and the ISI) that had been the real shapers of Pakistan's Afghanistan and Kashmir policies since the early 1980s. http://www.mepc.org/journal/0010_saikal.htm Significant new data on the "quiet" Carlyle-ite, Daniel D'aniello (associate of steve norris) http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158931/000092838501501704/0000928385-01-501704.txt The first we knew that something was wrong was when the car stopped in the middle of the narrow, crowded street. A film of white steam was rising from the bonnet of our jeep, a constant shriek of car horns and buses and trucks and rickshaws protesting at the road-block we had created. All four of us got out of the car and pushed it to the side of the road. I muttered something to Justin about this being "a bad place to break down". Kila Abdulla was home to thousands of Afghan refugees, the poor and huddled masses that the war has produced in Pakistan. http://www.zmag.org/fiskbeating.htm A striking aspect of America's apparent victory in Afghanistan is that there were few pitched battles. U.S. planes started bombing, the Taliban pulled out of the cities and the Northern Alliance moved in. Yet soon enough, the winners could find themselves working with former Taliban, who easily change identities. PNS Editor Franz Schurmann is an emeritus professor at UC Berkeley. He is the author of "The Mongols of Afghanistan" published by Mouton in 1962. http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1208taliban.html Danger, to many Americans, before John Walker Lindh -- the 20-year-old Californian who fought with the Taliban -- had a brown face. What happens, asks PNS Editor Richard Rodriguez, when militant Islam has blue eyes and a white face? Rodriguez is author of "Days of Obligation: An Autobiography With My Mexican Father" and the forthcoming "Brown: The Lost Discovery of America." http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1207suburbs.html We need to bring out all the progressive-minded people in their districts to provide some backbone and direction on these issues. We need to get ourselves organized to keep the pressure on those who are supposed to be our national, progressive, political leaders. (We can't wait for the day, hopefully soon, when there's a decent group of independent progressives in Congress.) http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/09glick.cfm So the world is being told that a tape has been found in which bin Ladin admits all. Hogs breath. Yes, the Yakima-Herald-Republic carried the same story with exactly the same suspicious elements and unfounded conclusions. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1489 The United Nations publicly rebuked the United States Monday over brutality in its prisons and called for an end to chain gangs and to the use of electro-shock belts for restraining inmates. The U.N. Committee against Torture said it was concerned about breaches of the international convention against torture in the United States, citing the alleged sexual assault of female prisoners by law enforcement officers and the holding of minors in adult jails. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1490 Nearly 30 years ago, the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) warned that a new technology of repression was being spawned in an effort to contain civil unrest. In 1977, BSSRS published The Technology of Political Control which analyzed the function of these new technologies. Largely created as a result of research and development undertaken as part of Britain's colonial wars, work on this technology was further enhanced by technical developments achieved by the US' military-industrial complex. http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=279&journalID=49 US intelligence officials appear to have drawn up a detailed target list of terror bases across the globe. They are urgently assessing the risks posed by facilities in the Aceh region of Indonesia (a secessionist part of Sumatra), the Hadramawt region of Yemen, and Ras Komboni in southern Somalia, near the Kenyan border. The sites have been identified from documents and confessions from captured fighters. http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,616256,00.html POLICE Chiefs are proposing the effective de-criminalisation of heroin, with plans to supply it free to eliminate dealers and associated crime. http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$VP4CARQAABNYRQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/12/09/ndrug09.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/09/ixhome.html Binyamin Netanyahu, a leader of the Likud Party and an ex-prime minister of Israel has been all over the news lately. Why did no one ask him about these incredible statements he made in Hebrew but available in English and widely cited. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1492 Attorney General John Ashcroft has released an Israeli suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist events who “had trouble” with a seven-hour polygraph test administered by the FBI—but who “did better on a second try.” In other words, the suspect still flunked both times. http://www.americanfreepress.net/12_08_01/Ashcroft_Talking/ashcroft_talking.html More than 100 signatories of the Geneva Convention gathered in Switzerland yesterday to reprimand Israel for "indiscriminate and disproportionate violence" against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories. The 114 states, including Britain and the rest of the European Union, issued a declaration urging Israel to abide by international laws enshrined in the 1949 accord seeking to protect civilians in wartime or under occupation. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1494 "Russia is vehemently opposed" to a U.S. attack on Iraq, and President George W. Bush's demand that Iraq allow the re-entry of U.N. weapons inspectors "is used as a pretext" to justify an attack on Iraq, according to official Russian sources. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25619 It is a bitter pill for middle-class baby boomers that their parents are dying without seeing the fabulous future which they once reasonably expected would emerge, certainly by now, from their years of collective sacrifice and toil. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1495 In its latest attack on medical services, Israeli authorities have announced that all ambulances and medical vehicles in Gaza will require a permit from Israeli government to travel between Gaza and Rafah. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1496 This afternoon, Israeli Apache helicopters killed two Palestinian children and injured nine Palestinians in an assassination attempt on a Palestinian activist in Hebron. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1497 The Bakers were closely aligned with Rice University and with Exxon--having been involved in both institutions from creation. The Bakers also created a bank which merged with the one started by Jesse Jones, located in the second building Jones constructed for Gulf Oil. This Texas Commerce Bank would later become Chase Bank. The Bakers had also been involved in gas distribution in Houston through a company that merged into Houston Natural Gas in 1976, a few years before the Houston group merged with Omaha gas interests to become ENRON. Omaha, of course was the headquarters of the Union Pacific Railroad--Harriman interests--which gets up back to our starting point--Brown Brothers and Harriman, which put so much money (from such unknown sources) into railroads, oil and gas. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1498 It is far from clear that Woodward represented a threat to anyone except himself at the time of the shooting. Witnesses have said police officers warned Woodward to drop the knife, but nothing except Woodward’s refusal to drop the knife has emerged as a reason that he was shot. And that is not sufficient grounds for shooting to kill. http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/Archive/Articles/Article/38900 The Right of Return organization, Aidun from both Lebanon and Syria proposed a paper that would reaffirm and clearly state the importance of the Palestinian right of return initiative, which is the only durable solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This paper was modified by the attending participants and finalized in Arabic text. An English translation of the paper will be completed soon. Anyone interested in obtaining a copy of this paper prepared on behalf of the Palestinian ROR Coalition (ROR Network) should contact Badil at [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1499 The right of Palestinian refugees to return is not only legal. It is possible. The notion that Israelis would have to be displaced to allow for the refugees' return is a myth. Demographic studies show that about 78% of Israeli Jews live in 14% of Israel. About 20% live in a few Palestinian cities and the remaining 2% live on 86% of the land which belongs to the refugees. In contrast, 5,000 Palestinian refugees live per square kilometer in the Gaza Strip while their own land, beyond the barbed wire, is practically empty. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1500 Many Arab governments seem to be waiting for Europe and, especially, the United States to take action on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/10/LatestNews/LatestNews.39700.html Picture of crazed cop with gun at Mumia rally http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/anarchopunk/vwp?.dir=/&.src=gr&.dnm=phillycopatmumiamarch.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/anarchopunk/lst%3f%26.dir=/%26.src=gr%26.view=t Scott + Scott, LLC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), a Connecticut-based law firm with offices also outside of Philadelphia, filed an Amended Class Action Complaint on December 6, 2001 for Violations of the Federal Securities Laws in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Civil Action No, H-01-4071) on behalf of purchasers of publicly traded debt securities of Enron Corporation (NYSE: ENE) during the period of October 19, 1998 to November 19, 2001, inclusive. http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8113454-0.html?tag=ats on Israeli Terrorism [update] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1507 Former US Senator Robert Kerrey, newly inaugurated as the president of the New School University, one of the most prestigious positions in American academia, has admitted participating in a death squad attack on a Vietnamese village 32 years ago, in which he and six soldiers under his command killed 21 women, children and elderly men. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/may2001/kerr-m04.shtml The SS - 'Security Service' (official title), MI5, is Britain's domestic military intelligence division. The SIS or 'Secret Intelligence Service', MI6, is Britain's foreign military intelligence division. Though described as 'services' they are more like plain clothes military units with out an effective system to ensure they serve the public. Appropriately called the Secret State they operate as a 'state within a state' having almost no legal or democratic accountability. And going to great lengths through draconian use of the Official Secrets Act to stave off embarrassing revelations about what a waste of our public money they are. http://www.bilderberg.org/sis.htm How unreal... the 'experts' trying to justify war on our TV screens again. But are we being served up reasons, or excuses? The mainstream media's double standards stink to heaven. Has nobody told them that the US and other Western governments started this 'war'? And how, if our governments address the Western sponsored injustices in Palestine, Iraq and other non-compliant countries, the terrorist threat will evaporate. Or could it be they like it this way? http://www.bilderberg.org/boneswar.htm Schools have you for all of your most formative years. John Taylor Gatto calls them vast laboratories of behavioral modification. Much of the world 'order' rests on this foundation stone of ensuring conformity and efficiently preventing too much critical awareness or interest in what is really going on. http://www.bilderberg.org/homedn.htm You know, Ross Perot was damned—I never liked the guy too much—but he was damned wrongly by Gore, when Gore was Vice President, on this question of outsourcing with respect to NAFTA. And Perot was right. He may have had the wrong spin on it, but it was right: that the jobs and the well-being of American communities were being destroyed by exporting U.S. jobs, agriculture, and so forth, to cheap labor markets. It was a mistake—a very bad mistake. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/011009_stockwell.html The charge of insanity to be made against both President George W. Bush and Israel's "Mega" minister Ariel Sharon, is that, considered either separately, or in their present combination, they are, functionally, clinically insane. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/010421_bentham_syndrome.html Whatever else the early future might bring for Georgia's Newt Gingrich, he, and his infamous "Contract With America" will continue to typify the variety of fascist intention which currently dominates the radical, populist right-wing of the U.S. Republican Party.[1] This is not only a national issue of U.S. internal affairs; it is a strategic threat, both to the United States itself, and of global importance for humanity as a whole. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2815_fascism.html During the past days, the New York Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), a bastion of such notables as China specialists Henry A. Kissinger and Winston Lord, has unleashed its efforts to manipulate the leadership succession of the government of China. The featured element of this onslaught has been the unveiling of what are alleged to be authentic records, which it calls "The Tiananmen Papers," allegedly secret records from circles of the China leadership from the period of the celebrated 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. This release, published in the January/February edition of CFR's Foreign Affairs, has already been a featured subject of a major, cold-war-style propaganda barrage in the U.S.A. the above was written in march of this year - of course, a couple of months ago kissinger was named one of the top advisers to a chinese oil firm...larouche seems so on the ball sometimes one teeters on the verge of calling him a prophet...see: http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2803_cfr.html from january: LaRouche was responding to a question from a representative of the Congressional Black Caucus, who questioned Ashcroft's ability to uphold the principles of the U.S. Constitution, given his ardent support of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. The questioner asked what could be done from the House of Representatives, given that no member of the Senate Judiciary Committee has so far indicated a willingness to mount a serious challenge to Ashcroft's certification. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2802_ashcroft.html The U.S. Strategic Interest in Russia http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2000/2749_russia.html In and of itself, the shocking experience of the attack upon the USS Cole,[1] should have awakened relevant, witting U.S. policy-shapers to the urgency of an immediate and sweeping reversal of the process of "privatization" of the military and immediately related institutions and functions of the U.S. government. Unless the U.S. military were efficiently obliged, and equipped to operate under what had been those traditional U.S. notions of rules of engagement, which requires reversing recent trends toward privatization, such important matters as the issue of responsibility for the security of U.S. forces deployed, tend to fall between the cracks of diverse and ill-coordinated governmental and other agencies. Such is but one among the several classes of closely related leading issues implied in the fatal fueling-stop of the Cole. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2000/2744_cole_lessons.html The following memorandum, dated Jan. 11, 2000, was prepared for delivery to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. It is a request to launch an investigation, pursuant to placing Great Britain on the list of states sponsoring terrorism. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2000/terror_memo_2703.html LaRouche to Clinton: Tell the truth about China Embassy bombing http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1999/lar_to_clinton_2626.html Mad Brzezinski's chessboard http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1999/lar_mad_brzezinski_2614.html On the surface, the evidence points to the recent bombing attack at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya's capital, as being an expression of London's, and also Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's rage, against what they regard as the U.S. government's interference with London's ongoing, continent-wide stage-managing of mercenary armies' deployments in Africa raw-materials grabs. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1998/lar_kenya_bombing_2534.html How the top one percent of American citizens think by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1998/lhl_top_1_percent.html British terrorism in Africa http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1997/lhl_ed_03-07-97.html A Ring around China http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1996/ring_around_china.html Tamil Tiger rebels fighting in Sri Lanka have warned that the peace process will be seriously undermined if they are banned in Britain. A decision on whether to include the Tigers on a list of organisations proscribed under new anti-terrorist legislation in the UK is expected shortly. http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1167000/1167705.stm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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