>In a 1980 book on the Letelier case, "Assassination on Embassy Row," John >Dinges and Saul Landau wrote that Letelier learned in early September 1976 >that Chile's military government had stripped him of his citizenship for >"carrying out in foreign lands a publicity campaign aimed at bringing about >the political, economic and cultural isolation of Chile." > >After a reporter called Letelier with the news shortly before a speaking >engagement in New York, Dinges and Landau wrote, Letelier announced at >Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum that he had just been stripped of his >citizenship by Pinochet and members of his Cabinet. > >"I was born a Chilean, I am a Chilean, and I will die a Chilean," Letelier >said. "They, the fascists, were born traitors, live as traitors, and will >be forever remembered as fascist traitors." > >Less than two weeks later, the powerful bomb ripped through Letelier's >Chevrolet Chevelle as he drove into Sheridan Circle here, killing him >instantly. > >Copyright 2000 The Washington Post Company > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >HAIDER MEETS LIBYAN LEADER FOR SECRET TALKS >____________________________________________________________________ > >THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH >International News >Sunday, 28 May 2000 >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ >by Michael Leidig in Vienna and Tony Paterson in Berlin > >JORG HAIDER, Austria's far-Right leader, has been called on to explain a >secret meeting this month with Libya's Col Gaddafi amid growing speculation >over clandestine financial links between the Austrian Freedom Party and >Tripoli. > >Mr Haider admitted last week that he made what he described as a "private >visit" to Libya on May 9 after he was seen emerging from the Libyan >leader's tent by an American journalist waiting for an interview. Mr Haider >was accompanied by a leading Austrian banker. > >While the Freedom Party insists that there was nothing untoward about the >meeting, opposition politicians in Austria have voiced concern. Doris >Bures, the manager of the Austrian Social Democrat Party, said: "This >meeting was extremely dubious and demands an immediate explanation." > >Concern about Mr Haider's links with Libya has since been fuelled by >remarks given in an interview by Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the >Austrian magazine, News, in which he pledged to give political support to >the Freedom Party during the next Austrian elections. > >Gaddafi's son told the magazine: "At the next election he [Haider] has his >best chance of becoming chancellor and I will do all I possibly can to >support him." Asked if he would provide financial support, he said: "I will >start a campaign for him." > >Wolfgang Kulterer, the chairman of Austria's Hypo Bank, last week admitted >accompanying Mr Haider to Tripoli. The presence of a leading banker on an >allegedly private visit caused alarm among opposition politicians in >Austria. The Social Democrat politician Melitta Trunk, said: "You do not >need a bank director to make a private visit to Libya." > >Austria's Social Democrats have demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the >affair. Their calls have been given added weight after disclosures last >week of longstanding links between the Freedom Party and Libya. They said >Mr Haider's "various statements" on the subject of his visits to Libya on >May 9 and on at least two other previous occasions were "at the least >dubious". > >Mrs Trunk said Mr Haider had been highly evasive over his trip. She said: >"First he was not there, then he was there to see Gaddafi's son, then for >business reasons, and finally a private visit." > >She pointed out that Mr Kulterer admitted accompanying Mr Haider a day >after the politician had insisted: "It would have been great if a banker >had come along, at least it would have meant the trip was financed." She >said Mr Haider needed to explain why he had accepted the use of the private >Lear jet of Robert Rogner, a Carinthian businessman, to travel in. > >The Freedom Party's "Libyan connection" appears to have been established in >1988, the year in which the party scored its first success in an Austrian >general election. The party's then financial manager, Harald G–schl, was >exposed for maintaining links with both Libya and the Palestine Liberation >Organisation. He was widely rumoured to have been involved in supplying >weapons to the Libyan leader. > >Although Mr G–schl denied charges that he had helped Gaddafi to set up a >missile defence system - four years after the 1985 American air strike on >Libya - he admitted in an interview that he was prepared to supply >everything "that helps Libya to strengthen its armed forces". But Mr G–schl >denied charges that he had used Libyan cash to fund the Austrian Freedom >Party. > >Mr Haider has also maintained close links with Libya. He befriended Saif >al-Islam Gaddafi three years ago, when the Libyan leader's son began a >postgraduate economics course at the private "Imadec" university in Vienna. >Last year Mr Haider appeared in public with Gaddafi junior. Since then Mr >Haider has been televised during his meetings with Saif al-Islam in Austria >on numerous occasions. > >However, Gaddafi junior failed to make any significant political impact in >Austria until last week when he pledged to offer support to Mr Haider's >cause. In his interview with News he said: "J–rg Haider is a very good >friend of mine, my father's and of our country." > >Although the Freedom Party has declined to provide a full explanation as to >what occurred during Mr Haider's visit, the Austrian foreign ministry said >that there was nothing unusual about the trip. A spokesman said: "Austria >maintains diplomatic relations with Libya. Therefore Haider's visit was not >unusual." > >The Austrian Green Party condemned the visit outright. The MP Peter Pilz >said: "Whoever courts dictators like Gaddafi is sending completely the >wrong signal." > >Gaddafi's son said last week that the visit was merely concerned with >attempts to supply Austrian timber to Libya. Saif al-Islam said: "The >Libyan government would like to get into the timber trade with Carinthia." > >Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2000. > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >SOLDIERS CELEBRATED IRA DEATH WITH CAKE >Security forces kept memorabilia of shot suspects >____________________________________________________________________ > >THE GUARDIAN >UK News >Wednesday, 24 May 2000 >http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,255217,00.html >John Mullin, Ireland correspondent > >Undercover soldiers in Northern Ireland would celebrate the shooting dead >of a terrorist suspect with a cake adorned with the victim's name in icing, >it emerged yesterday. > >The BBC released a photograph of one of the cakes, in the shape of a cross, >baked to mark the SAS killing of the IRA man William Price, 28, in Ardboe, >Co Tyrone, 16 years ago. It was marked RIP, with his name and where he >died. > >The reporter Peter Taylor discovered it when interviewing members of the >security forces for Brits, the BBC2 series on the role of intelligence >during the troubles. They often kept memorabilia, including snaps of shot >suspects, and the cake photo was no big deal to them, he said. > >In tonight's episode, a member of 14 Intelligence Company, an undercover >army unit, denied there was any shoot to kill policy. Soldiers adhered to >the yellow card stipulating when they could legitimately open fire, she >said. But they would mark the killing of suspected IRA volunteers. > >The woman, identified as Anna, said: "We celebrated, if you like, as the >IRA would if they had shot somebody. They made no secret of the fact that >they celebrate the death of a soldier or a policeman, and they can be >highly public about their celebrations. We celebrated in the same way. We >went to the bar. We drank quite a lot. The cooks made us a cake." > >She added: "After a shooting occurred, if a terrorist was killed there was >a cake made with their name on it, part of the celebration. Some of the >cakes were in the form of a cross with RIP on it." > >Asked by Taylor whether she thought that macabre, she replied: "Possibly, >but the saying is: Live by the sword and die by the sword." > >Price was shot four times in July 1984 as the IRA planned an incendiary >attack on a factory to coincide with the death of the hunger striker Martin >Hurson. The SAS was laying in wait. > >Two soldiers told the inquest they had opened fire fearing Price was about >to shoot. He was hit in the legs and then in the head as he was in a >sitting position. > >An IRA statement at the time said Price was scouting a way to the factory >with another IRA man, adding: "When they got within 20 yards or so of the >bushes, three to four figures rose in front of them, and suddenly the whole >place lit up with gunfire. William Price fell moaning. The other volunteer >crawled back through the long grass to make his escape. > >"From the time William Price was shot and wounded to the time the other >volunteer got out of the firing line, the shooting never stopped. Some time >after that shooting the other volunteers heard the SAS whooping >hysterically like Indians in a wild west film. A good three minutes after >the firing, there seemed to be one shot and then a burst of shots." > >A private in the parachute regiment said on the programme that he had >arrived on the scene after a shootout in Belfast between undercover >soldiers and the IRA. It was hard to know who the enemy was. He began >dressing the wound of an injured with his own shoulder dressing, reassuring >him. The victim was going blue when the private learned he was an IRA man. > >The private added: "Without thinking, I took the shoulder dressing off, >threw it on the floor, picked up a handful of grass and sod of earth and >shoved that where the shoulder dressing had been in his femur, obviously >creating a load of pain and alarm." Asked if he had said anything, he >replied: "'It looks like you're on the way out, mate,' and that was it. >Thought no more of it." > >Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000 > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >BRITISH ENVOY SENT POPE BULLETINS ON THE HOLOCAUST >____________________________________________________________________ > >THE TIMES >World News: Europe >Wednesday, 24 May 2000 >http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/24/x-timfgneur01001.htm >l >FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME > >DOCUMENTS found by chance in a Rome flea market prove that Pope Pius XII, >accused of having turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, was given a daily >account of Nazi atrocities by the British envoy to the Holy See. > >Defenders of Pius XII, who include the present Pope, insist that he could >not have known about the Nazi death camps, but Francis D'Arcy Godolphin >Osborne, the British Minister to the Holy See, gave the Pope a daily >typewritten report culled from Allied broadcasts after he took refuge in >the Vatican in 1940. > >Fabrizio Coisson, a journalist and antiquarian book collector, came across >bound carbon copies of the reports at Porta Portese market in Rome. "I was >astonished to find a signed note in which the British diplomat describes >how every day he transcribed BBC broadcasts and passed them to the Pope," >Signor Coisson said. He did not know how the papers had found their way on >to the second-hand market, but Osborne died in Rome in 1964 and Signor >Coisson presumed that some of his effects were sold. > >Professor Owen Chadwick of Cambridge University, author of Britain and the >Vatican During the Second World War, said that the find was remarkable. >Father Pierre Blet, the Jesuit historian whose recent book Pius XII and the > >Second World War is seen as the Vatican's riposte to accusations that the >Pope turned a blind eye, said he was astonished by the discovery. > >The reports, which Osborne hoped would counteract Italian and German >propaganda, give a detailed account of Jewish deportations, mass killings >and "inhuman experiments". The disclosure is bound to slow down further the >Vatican's much-criticised plans to beatify Pius XII. Rabbi Marvin Hier of >the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles said it would "desecrate the >memory of the Holocaust victims" to beatify a man "who sat in silence on >the throne of St Peter and watched the trains take Jews across Europe to >the death camps". > >Last autumn the writer John Cornwell caused a furore by claiming in his >book Hitler's Pope that Pius XII not only failed to speak out against Nazi >persecution when he was Pope but, as Papal Nuncio (ambassador) in Berlin in >the 1920s and Secretary of State in the 1930s, helped Hitler to come to >power by suppressing German Catholic resistance to the Nazis. The book was >denounced by the Vatican as "trash". > >Osborne, who arrived in Rome to represent Britain at the Holy See in 1936 >and initially regarded Pius XII as "saintly", retreated inside the Vatican >walls when Fascist Italy entered the war on Hitler's side in June 1940. He >followed Allied broadcasts intently and began compiling what he called >"British wireless news" for the Pope, emphasising "the sufferings of >civilians in Nazi occupied Europe" and German "crimes against humanity". >Although it was known that he wrote the reports, scholars failed to find >them. > >In October 1940 he warned the Pope that the Germans were "actively >promoting anti-Semitism in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria". By 1941 the tone >became more dramatic, as the Nazis committed "atrocities in the name of the >myth of the superior race". He wrote: "They are conducting experiments on >sick and mentally deficient children in Germany." > >Osborne, noting that Hitler had vowed to "liquidate the Jews for at least a >thousand years", told the Pope that Jews in Poland were being murdered and >deported en masse, adding - in words that carry poignancy with hindsight - >that some were being given "special permits" to travel by rail, "but only >by slow trains". > >After Pius XII's Christmas Eve homily in 1942, in which he condemned >extermination "by reason of nationality or race" but failed to mention the >words Nazi or Jew, Osborne stepped up the campaign, informing the Pope in >1943: "In Slovakia, 77 per cent of the Jewish population has been deported >to an unknown destination, which probably signifies death." He added: "The >number of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto has been reduced by 400,000 since last >July - there are barely 35,000 left." > >However, Sir Martin Gilbert, the historian and biographer of Churchill, >said the Vatican had sheltered 4,000 Jews during the Gestapo raids in Rome >in 1944. Sir Martin, whose latest book Never Again is a history of the >Holocaust, said many Christians had taken a stand against the Nazis, and >that "Christian anti-Semitism" should not be confused with the Holocaust, >which had been "carried out by people who were hostile to Christian >values". > >Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd. > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >APARTHEID SCIENTISTS KEPT HIV-INFECTED BLOOD FOR "POLITICAL ENEMY" >____________________________________________________________________ > >AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE >Wednesday, May 24 10:45 PM SGT > >PRETORIA, May 24 (AFP) - Apartheid chemical warfare expert Wouter Basson >held freeze-dried HIV-infected blood and a cocktail of poisons and bacteria >to kill or sicken opponents of the white regime, a witness told his trial >Wednesday. > >Bacteriologist Mike Odendaal said he collected lethal substances while >working at Roodeplaat Research Laboratories outside Pretoria, a front >company for the apartheid military, and that his main client was Basson. > >Dubbed "Dr Death," Basson is facing 61 charges ranging from fraud to drug >dealing, and his trial in the High Court has for weeks heard harrowing >tales of how hundreds of apartheid foes were murdered using sinister >methods he allegedly suggested. Basson has pleaded not guilty to all >charges. > >Odendaal said on one occasion the head of Roodeplaat handed him a bottle of >HIV-infected blood taken from a man who had died of AIDS in a military >hospital. > >He was ordered to freeze-dry the blood for Basson, who wanted to use it >"against a political opponent." > >Odendaal said he thought his job was to develop a defensive capability >against biochemical attacks, but soon found himself supplying chemical and >biological agents to attack anti-apartheid activists. > >One of the victims of Roodeplaat's germ factory was a cleric, Frank >Chikane, now a senior advisor to President Thabo Mbeki, he told the court. > >He said he was never too sure where the poisons he prepared went, but >Roodeplaat boss Andre Immelman once told him that organophosphate was put >on someone's clothes to poison him. > >After reading newspaper reports about such an attack on Chikane, who became >very ill, he came to the conclusion that Immelman had been talking about >the cleric. > >Another time, he was told to give Immelman salmonella to slip into the >sugar at a meeting of African National Congress members. > >It worked well because everyone became ill, he said. > >Odendaal had also tested the use of botulinum, one of the most toxic >substances on earth, in liquids such as water and whisky, which were then >injected into laboratory animals. > >At one stage, he also put anthrax into cigarettes destined for "terrorists >in Zambia or Angola," into soft-centred chocolates and on a letter. > >Odendaal made it clear that he had received his orders from Immelman, but >that Roodeplaat's main client was the military, represented by Basson. > >Basson's defence has ridiculed the testimony of a string of witnesses who >connected Basson to acts ranging from the bizarre -- such as bewitching >Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu with a baboon foetus -- to the >brutal, including injecting captured freedom fighters with lethal >substances before throwing them into the sea from high-flying planes. > >On Wednesday defence council Jaap Cilliers said he found absurd the >suggestion that one would "grab the enemy, inject him with the (HIV) >infected blood, and he would only die 14 years later". > >"I suppose that is what one can call long-term planning," he said. > >Copyright 2000 AFP. All rights reserved. > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >ARRESTS AS NEO-NAZIS MARCH THROUGH GERMAN TOWN >____________________________________________________________________ > >REUTERS >Saturday, May 27, 2000 1:59 PM ET > >PASSAU, Germany (Reuters) - Around 4,000 neo-Nazis and skinheads from >Germany's ultra right-wing National Democratic Party marched through the >Bavarian town of Passau shouting right-wing slogans on Saturday. > >A police spokesman said 50 people were arrested, most of them left-wing >activists staging a counter-demonstration. One policeman was injured. > >Around 850 left-wing demonstrators tried to stop the march to the Nibelung >Hall, which was used by the Nazis in the 1930s to stage party congresses >and has become a shrine for right-wing extremists. > >The march through the normally calm town on the Czech border was escorted >by a large number of police officers. > >Around 1,000 people protested against neo-Nazism in a separate >demonstration organized by the Social Democrats, church groups and trade >unions. > >Addressing the demonstration, Michel Friedman, deputy chairman of the >Central Council of Jews in Germany, warned of the danger of right-wing >radicalism in Germany. ``We cannot accept right-wing violence,'' he said. > >Copyright 2000 Reuters Limited. 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