-Caveat Lector- It seems Rather, Robalini, and others agree with my earlier post that Bush is wagging his dog named 'spot'. It is dumb name for a dog, but look who named him. You do not have to be smart to be President, just the son & Skull & Bonesman of a Skull & Bonesman.
Live in a coffin for a while and see your perspective change overnight, after the reptillians have implanted you... ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 23 May 2002 01:48:13 +0000 From: robalini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Konformist: Wag The Osama To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.mediawhoresonline.com "Trust" Whether they admit it or not, most Americans' first thought when the latest terror alert was announced was surely "Wag the Dog." Why? Because everyone, including the dimmest Faux viewer, knows that an administration that would hide the truth about pre-September 11 warnings from the American people for eight months out of political expediency would not be above concocting a warning for the same reason. As a result of Bush's Nixonian secrecy and the media's continued complicity, the credibility of the administration when it comes to terrorist warnings has been permanently undermined, and the consequences could be tragic. ***** Afghan Chiefs Say Bin Laden, Omar Likely Alive Thu May 16, 9:01 AM ET By Brian Williams GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A provincial governor and a warlord from a part of eastern Afghanistan (news - web sites) where Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were once believed to be hiding said on Thursday they thought the pair may still be alive. Governor Taj Mohammad Wardak of Paktia province, scene of fierce U.S.- led fighting in March and bordering the mountainous Tora Bora area which was heavily bombed by U.S. planes, said he believed the al Qaeda leader and reclusive Taliban chief were in Pakistan. Wardak said as the noose tightened on the Taliban late last year, Mullah Omar fled to tribal areas of Pakistan's Baluchistan province while bin Laden made his way to eastern Afghanistan before escaping into Pakistan's Waziristan tribal area. "As I know it, bin Laden is in Waziristan and Mullah Omar is probably in the Quetta area (of Baluchistan)," Wardak told Reuters in an interview in Paktia's capital Gardez. Pakistan's government says it is confident the pair are not hiding in its territory, saying it has not only sealed its borders but also engaged local tribal leaders to help ensure the two find no sanctuary in Pakistan. Warlord Padshah Khan Zadran, who is involved in a bloody feud with Wardak over who controls Paktia Province, said he did not know exactly where bin Laden, chief suspect for September 11's suicide plane attacks on the United States, and Mullah Omar were. "But according to my knowledge they may be alive," he told Reuters in a separate interview at his isolated headquarters near Gardez. He also believed the pair were probably in Pakistani tribal areas but was not as specific as Wardak. Both men said they also believed there were few al Qaeda followers left in Paktia province but there could be plans for them to regroup in Pakistan and launch new attacks. "They (al Qaeda in Pakistan) could have some secret contacts with people in Afghanistan and they are probably thinking about new tactics to attack us," Wardak said. On Wednesday, General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. Central Command and in charge of the Afghan campaign, said on a visit to Kabul that Washington was pleased with Pakistan's cooperation but recognizes a lot of work needs to be done in Pakistan's lawless border area. Some U.S. personnel are working with Pakistani troops there but soldiers in the field in Afghanistan say it is frustrating not to be able to send a larger conventional force across the border. Franks dismissed those grumblings and said he was pleased with the cooperation the U.S.-led coalition had received from Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. "Do we have work that we're going to want to do on that border area for the foreseeable future? Yes we do, we have work to do in the eastern part of Afghanistan and in western Pakistan, he said." ***** Mullah Omar Says US Doomed In Afghanistan 5-19-2 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden is alive and the future of the United States in Afghanistan is "fire, hell and total defeat," fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was quoted as saying by a pan-Arab newspaper Friday. "We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan ... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny," Omar was quoted as saying by the London-based Asharq al-Awsat. "As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British," Omar reportedly said. "The sheik (bin Laden) is, thank God, still alive and this hurts (President) Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama," Omar reportedly asserted. Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, editor-in-chief of the paper, said Omar answered questions delivered by reporter Badie Qorhani to the mullah's media adviser in northern Pakistan. Omar's responses were recorded on tape and returned to the reporter, the editor said. Al-Rashed told The Associated Press his newspaper ran the story only after a Taliban official confirmed the tape's authenticity in an e- mail. The Taliban said on its official Web site that the interview was Omar's "first with an Arab newspaper after his pullout from Kandahar." The authenticity of the quotes could not be independently confirmed. The language in the quotes mirrored that of leaflets circulated in Afghanistan and some earlier statements by the Taliban. In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he had no "current information on the whereabouts or even the existence" of bin Laden or Omar. "We continue to see scraps of information" that claim "they are alive or they're dead or they're sick or they're hiding or they're running," Rumsfled said. "But none of it seems to prove out." State Department official said he would have no comment, including whether the interview was genuine, but said it provided no new information. Omar, who led the Taliban between 1994-2001, has been a fugitive since a U.S.-led force overran his stronghold of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December. Authorities want to know, among other things, what support the Taliban gave to bin Laden's al-Qaida network, the prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks. Asked if he denied that bin Laden was behind the attacks, Omar said, "Those who carried out the operation ... had a clear goal and this goal was dearer to them than their lives, and they achieved it. Asking about them, who they are, is not important." The interview, illustrated with a blurred archive photo of Omar, ended with a message to the Palestinians. "I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle .... We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same," Omar was quoted as saying. ***** US Detects 'Enhanced' Threat Of New Attack By Steve Holland 5-19-2 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials have detected "enhanced activity" that points to a potential new attack against the United States or American interests abroad, a White House official said on Saturday. The FBI also warned of a possible plot by Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network to detonate bombs in apartment buildings in the United States. The comments came as The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies have intercepted a series of messages among al Qaeda operatives indicating the group is attempting to launch an attack as big as or bigger than the one on Sept. 11. Quoting unidentified intelligence and law enforcement officials, the Times characterized the communications as vague but disturbing. The intercepted messages are so general that they have left President Bush and U.S. counterterrorism officials uncertain about the timing, location or method in this potential attack, the Times reported. "There has been information of concern, enhanced activity of concern," the White House official, who asked not to be quoted by name, told Reuters. The information has been detected in recent weeks and months, the official said. "Certainly we are always concerned about the possibility of a terrorist attack. The president and senior administration officials and the vice president, just a couple of days ago, have told the country that there always exists the possibility of a terrorist attack against the country, and the country's interests. We as American citizens want to be vigilant, but also live our lives." Separately, the FBI has received information that al Qaeda operatives are "considering renting apartments in unspecified areas of the United States and then planting explosives," said bureau spokeswoman Debbie Weierman. The information was "nonspecific" and "uncorroborated," she said. During the last few days, the FBI has passed the potential threat on to its field offices around the country as well as to local officials and managers and owners of apartment buildings, Weierman said. The FBI has issued no official alerts, and put out the notices "only in an abundance of caution," but there was "no reason to believe (the threat) has gone past the discussion phase," she added. CREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE Officials cited by the Times said the intercepted messages represent some of the most credible intelligence gathered on al Qaeda's plans since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington involving hijacked commercial airliners. U.S. intelligence agencies have gathered reports of potential threats to U.S. interests by al Qaeda continuously since Sept. 11 and are still worried about another attack, an intelligence official who requested anonymity told Reuters. "We remain concerned that there could be an attack. They have not gone away," the official said, adding that the reports are "the same unspecific, generalized concern" that had arisen in the months prior to the Sept. 11 attacks. "There is no reason to think terrorism has gone away, there is threat reporting every day, we get new stuff every day," the official said. Asked whether the level of al Qaeda threat reports being picked up by intelligence agencies was similar to that in the months before Sept. 11, the intelligence official said it was "in the neighborhood." The officials cited by the Times compared the messages with the pattern of communications picked up in the spring and early summer of 2001, when al Qaeda operatives were detected speaking about a major operation. "There's just a lot of chatter in the system again," a senior administration official told the Times. "We are actively pursuing it and trying to see what's going on here." One senior official said the volume of intelligence relating to a potential future attack -- in Europe, the Arabian Peninsula or the United States -- has increased in the past month, the report said. The Times said messages referring to mass casualties do not specifically mention the use of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Bush has faced criticism in recent days over disclosures that a series of possible clues about al Qaeda's plans went unheeded in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks. The Republican president on Friday hit back at Democratic "second- guessing" of his handling of intelligence ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks, adding: "Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." Vice President Dick Cheney cautioned on Thursday that "without a doubt a very real threat of another perhaps more devastating attack still exists." (Additional reporting by Tabassum Zakaria and Peter Kaplan) ***** Prepare For Another Attack, Cheney Tells US By Julian Borger in Washington The Guardian - London 5-19-2 The American vice-president, Dick Cheney, warned yesterday that a new terrorist attack on the United States was "almost certain" amid reports that US intelligence had intercepted al-Qaida communications about a plan involving mass casualties. However, despite the reported upsurge in messages between suspected followers of Osama bin Laden, the FBI and CIA have no idea of where or when the next attack will happen, nor what form it will take. "In my opinion the prospects of a future attack against the US are almost certain. It's not a matter of if, but when," Mr Cheney said. "It could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week, it could happen next year. They will keep trying and we have to be prepared." Mr Cheney acknowledged past failures in responding to signs of terrorism, but said he did not know if the September 11 attacks could have been prevented "even if we had all those pieces together". "You try to read the tea leaves, you look for pieces of evidence, but you never get the complete picture," he told NBC's Meet the Press. The CIA and the FBI, under fire for missing clues about al-Qaida's planning for September 11, are scrambling to decipher the intercepts which, according to the New York Times, indicate preparations for an operation on the scale of the devastating attacks on New York and Washington. The communications, mostly on the internet, do not specifically mention weapons of mass destruction. The lack of detail highlights the problems faced by US intelligence in combating al-Qaida's loose cell-like network. Even after US forces unearthed piles of documents in Afghanistan and detained dozens of members, most of the organisation's leaders remain at large and there are still thought to be one or more "sleeper" cells within the US. In an attempt to remedy the shortcomings in intelligence-gathering, the CIA and FBI now share information on a daily basis. The FBI also participates in a daily intelligence briefing in the White House. Both agencies are struggling to detect a pattern in the "chatter" of al-Qaida communications like the one critics say should have been spotted in the months before September 11, when signs that the organisation might be considering using aircraft as a weapon went unheeded. More details emerged yesterday of a key document in the inquiry into the intelligence failure, a memo sent to FBI headquarters by a respected agent in Arizona in July, recommending an investigation into the activities of Middle Eastern student pilots in US flying schools. According to the Washington Post, Kenneth Williams' report said that one suspect had a picture of Bin Laden on his wall and another had called a man possibly linked to an al-Qaida associate. The memo was ignored by his superiors. The mood of anxiety was heightened over the weekend by the appearance of a previously unseen Bin Laden video. Imran Khan, a journalist for the Birmingham-based Islamic New Agency, which released the video, said the 100-second segment had been supplied by a Pakistani intelligence officer who claimed it had been filmed two months ago in the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak. But Mr Khan said there was no conclusive proof of the date. ***** Mike Ruppert's Geraldo Appearance Cancelled Last Minute 5-19-2 (FTW) - I have just been advised by FOX News Producer Jack De Marco that my scheduled live appearance on FOX News with Geraldo Rivera has been cancelled. The reason given was that the New York Times is just now breaking news about newly intercepted Al Qaeda communications which indicate that another major attack is imminent. Wag the dog? This cannot be hidden for long. The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence warned the Bush Administration last summer that 25 suicide hijackers were going to hijack commercial aircraft and attack major U.S. targets gives the complete lie to statements by Ari Fleischer, Condoleeza Rice and the President himself. Please do everything you can to get this information into the mainstream news and in a place where the administration is forced to respond to it. This is a time of great danger for all of us. This administration is backed into corners wherever it turns and - given what it has already permitted - we can have no doubts that it will willingly and easily let more Americans be killed to remain in power. Mike Ruppert ***** Bin Laden Appears in 'Two-Month-Old' Video - Report Sun May 19,10:24 AM ET By Dominic Evans LONDON (Reuters) - A British-based Islamic news agency released video footage of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) Sunday that it said was filmed just two months ago. The 100-second clip showed bin Laden seated outside a stone building in a camouflage jacket as he spoke to unseen supporters, extolling the merits of martyrdom. If the film were just two months old it would be the first proof that bin Laden survived the U.S. onslaught on his militant al Qaeda network and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks in the United States. Neither bin Laden's comments nor the setting of the film -- under a tree against a backdrop of hills -- appeared to shed light on when it was filmed. The Ansaar news agency said Pakistani intelligence officers who supplied the video said it was shot in March. "We can't verify or confirm it," said Ansaar journalist Imran Khan. "But bin Laden looks gaunt, thinner and whiter." He said he believed it was filmed in the southern Afghan border town of Spin Boldak. He said the footage was part of a 40-minute film which the agency obtained in Pakistan four weeks ago. It was brought to Britain on an encrypted CD-ROM that was decoded and transcribed last week, Khan said. "Concerning the situation that we are in, we must praise Allah that he has allowed us to follow the path of (men who are among) the best of creation," bin Laden said. "We ask Allah for victory, and we ask Allah to grant us martyrdom," added Washington's chief suspect for the Sept. 11 suicide plane attacks in the United States. BIN LADEN MYSTERY Bin Laden's fate remains unclear since the U.S. retaliatory strikes on his Afghan strongholds. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said last week he had no idea where he was. "But I've got no doubt in the end we will secure him," Blair added. In the last video of the fugitive militant, which emerged last month, bin Laden warned that the United States would not feel safe until Palestinians enjoyed peace and vowed Muslims would fight on despite their relative military weakness. That undated video sounded as if it could have been made ahead of the attacks on New York and Washington -- attacks which bin Laden has never clearly claimed responsibility for. A separate clip in the 40-minute film released Sunday featured an interview with bin Laden carried out by a reporter from the Arab satellite news network al-Jazeera, in which bin Laden warned that any country that sided with Israel or the United States would be an al Qaeda target. Referring to comments by one of his aides specifically targeting Britain and the United States, bin Laden said: "This war is not confined to them." Khan said the interview was filmed in November but had not been broadcast by al-Jazeera. ***** Question Raised About Latest Bin Laden Video Sun May 19,11:52 AM ET By Dominic Evans LONDON (Reuters) - A British-based Islamic news agency released video footage of Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden Sunday which it said was filmed just two months ago. But the independent Arab satellite news network al-Jazeera said it had seen the tape three or four months ago and believed it was recorded in October. The 100-second clip showed bin Laden seated outside a stone building in a camouflage smock as he spoke to unseen supporters, extolling the merits of martyrdom. If the film were just two months old it would be the first proof that bin Laden survived the U.S. onslaught on his militant al Qaeda network and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks in the United States. Neither bin Laden's comments nor the setting of the film -- under a tree against a backdrop of hills -- appeared to shed light on when it was filmed. The Ansaar news agency said Pakistani intelligence officers who supplied the video said it was shot in March. "We can't verify or confirm it," said Ansaar journalist Imran Khan. "But bin Laden looks gaunt, thinner and paler." He said he believed it was filmed in the southern Afghan border town of Spin Boldak. He said the footage was part of a 40-minute film which the agency obtained in Pakistan four weeks ago. It was brought to Britain on an encrypted CD-ROM which was only decoded and transcribed last week, Khan said. "Concerning the situation that we are in, we must praise Allah that he has allowed us to follow the path of (men who are among) the best of creation," bin Laden said. "We ask Allah for victory, and we ask Allah to grant us martyrdom," added Washington's chief suspect for the September 11 suicide plane attacks in the United States. BIN LADEN MYSTERY Ibrahim Helal, editor in chief of the Qatar-based al Jazeera, said his network had received the same tape three or four months ago. "We did not broadcast it because... he is not saying anything new," he told Reuters. "My impression was that bin Laden was speaking in October to encourage his followers to fight the Americans even before the start of the ground operations." Bin Laden's fate remains unclear since the U.S. retaliatory strikes on his Afghan strongholds. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said last week he had no idea where he was. "But I've got no doubt in the end we will secure him," Blair added. In the last video of the fugitive, which emerged last month, bin Laden warned that the United States would not feel safe until Palestinians enjoyed peace and vowed Muslims would fight on despite their relative military weakness. That undated video sounded as if it could have been made ahead of the attacks on New York and Washington -- attacks which bin Laden has never clearly claimed responsibility for. A separate clip in the 40-minute film released Sunday featured an interview with bin Laden carried out by a reporter from the Arab satellite news network al-Jazeera, in which bin Laden warned that any country which sided with Israel or the United States would be an al Qaeda target. Referring to comments by one of his aides specifically targeting Britain and the United States, bin Laden said: "This war is not confined to them." Khan said the interview was filmed in November but had not been broadcast by al-Jazeera. ------- End of forwarded message ------- "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.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! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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