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Ariaaram>Saddam's stepson sparks anti- terrorist false alarmTimes New Roman 
Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor Friday July 5, 2002 The Guardian
Given the current heightened state of alert of US security services, suspicion was aroused when a man of Middle Eastern appearance turned up at passport control this week and was discovered to be planning to sign up for a Florida flight school.
Concern grew when investigators found that the school, the Aeroservice Aviation Centre, was the same as that attended by one of the September 11 hijackers.
Suspicion turned to alarm when the man, Mohammed Nour al-Din Saffi, was found to be the stepson of one of America's foremost public enemies, Saddam Hussein.
But the fears appear to be groundless. Although Mr Saffi, 36, is apparently related to Saddam, he is now a New Zealand citizen. He has lived there since 1997 and works as an engineer for a New Zealand airline.
Intensive investigations by the New Zealand security services after September 11 found no terrorist links. US security agents have reached the same conclusion.
But he is being held at the Krome detention centre in Miami and is to be deported to New Zealand because his papers were not in order.
There has been no history of Iraq sponsoring terrorism overseas for 10 years. A suspected Iraqi agent was convicted of the attack on the World Trade Centre in 1993 and there was an assassination attempt on the then president, George Bush, in Kuwait about the same time.
Ms Orihuela said intelligence agents tracked Mr Saffi after he flew into Los Angeles from New Zealand late on Tuesday or early Wednesday. He flew on to Miami international airport and was arrested soon after checking into the Comfort Inn.
James Goldman, assistant director of investigations at the US immigration and naturalisation service, said Mr Saffi turned up on a tourist visa and failed to tell customs agents of his intention to take the air training course. He had not applied for the required student visa.
Mr Goldman said Mr Saffi, who has a pilot's licence, was seeking recertification training at the flight school.
US papers reported that Mr Saffi is the eldest son of Samira al- Shahbandar, Saddam's second wife. 
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Saddam's stepson sparks anti-terrorist 
false alarm 
Ewen MacAskill, 
diplomatic editorFriday July 5, 2002The Guardian 
Given the current heightened state 
of alert of US security services, suspicion was aroused when a man of Middle 
Eastern appearance turned up at passport control this week and was discovered to 
be planning to sign up for a Florida flight school. 
Concern grew when investigators found that the school, the Aeroservice 
Aviation Centre, was the same as that attended by one of the September 11 
hijackers. 
Suspicion turned to alarm when the man, Mohammed Nour al-Din Saffi, was found 
to be the stepson of one of America's foremost public enemies, Saddam Hussein. 
But the fears appear to be groundless. Although Mr Saffi, 36, is apparently 
related to Saddam, he is now a New Zealand citizen. He has lived there since 
1997 and works as an engineer for a New Zealand airline. 
Intensive investigations by the New Zealand security services after September 
11 found no terrorist links. US security agents have reached the same 
conclusion. 
But he is being held at the Krome detention centre in Miami and is to be 
deported to New Zealand because his papers were not in order. 
There has been no history of Iraq sponsoring terrorism overseas for 10 years. 
A suspected Iraqi agent was convicted of the attack on the World Trade Centre in 
1993 and there was an assassination attempt on the then president, George Bush, 
in Kuwait about the same time. 
Ms Orihuela said intelligence agents tracked Mr Saffi after he flew into Los 
Angeles from New Zealand late on Tuesday or early Wednesday. He flew on to Miami 
international airport and was arrested soon after checking into the Comfort Inn. 

James Goldman, assistant director of investigations at the US immigration and 
naturalisation service, said Mr Saffi turned up on a tourist visa and failed to 
tell customs agents of his intention to take the air training course. He had not 
applied for the required student visa. 
Mr Goldman said Mr Saffi, who has a pilot's licence, was seeking 
recertification training at the flight school. 
US papers reported that Mr Saffi is the eldest son of Samira al-Shahbandar, 
Saddam's second wife. 

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Afghanistan: Scores killed by SAS - Guardian [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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Scores killed by SAS in Afghanistan
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Role of UK special forces under scrutiny as Royal Marines pull out

Richard Norton-Taylor
Friday July 5, 2002
The Guardian

SAS troops have killed scores of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in
search-and-destroy missions across the mountains of south-eastern
Afghanistan, according to senior military officials.

Two SAS squadrons - a total of about 100 soldiers - have been operating on
their own, without American minders, in rugged mountainous terrain over the
past few months, the sources say.

But unlike operations involving American or Australian special forces or
Royal Marine commandos - who began returning home yesterday - the discussion
of SAS operations are covered by an official blanket ban by the Ministry of
Defence.

Four SAS soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, in an intense
firefight during an assault on caves in the mountains near Kandahar last
November which left 18 enemy dead. They have continued to scour the
mountains in operations conducted without US support, according to defence
officials, killing dozens more enemy fighters in a number of clashes.

The SAS prefer to operate alone. They regard themselves as fitter than their
US counterparts, although they are envious of the better communications
equipment which is available to the American special forces, including the
Delta Force.

Sources confirm reports of frustration and rivalry between the two - notably
last December when US commanders prevented the SAS from searching for
al-Qaida fighters in the caves around Tora Bora, where it was believed that
Osama bin Laden was hiding.

The Americans wanted US special forces to do the job. But by the time US
commanders had discussed the risks involved and what air cover was needed,
Bin Laden and his al-Qaida fighters had left, sources say. They say the SAS
have been repeatedly frustrated by the practice of American commanders of
referring operational decisions to command headquarters in Tampa, Florida,
and Washington.

Well-placed sources report SAS engagements with groups of al-Qaida fighters
who were well armed but appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

In one incident, after returning fire, the fighters waved their hands in the
air shouting slogans before hiding behind rocky outposts awaiting another
volley from the SAS.

It is impossible to obtain official confirmation of the accounts of SAS
operations, because of the MoD's policy of never discussing the activities
of special forces. However, the ministry is anticipating the prospect of a
flood of disclosures when SAS troops return from Afghanistan and leave the
force.

It is undertaking a review of the existing blanket ban, which some senior
officials are advising will not hold.

Special forces are likely to be increasingly in demand in the fight against
international terrorists, an unconventional enemy widely expected, after the
experience of the Afghanistan campaign, to concentrate on guerrilla warfare.

The SAS, which is experienced in counter-insurgency operations, is already
showing signs of overstretch, according to defence sources. But it is
determined to resist moves floated by the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, to
increase its size from the present 400 troops. That would dilute the elite
nature of the force, SAS commanders say.

The first batch of marines from 45 Commando arrived back at their base at
Arbroath, Scotland, last night after three months in Afghanistan where,
according to the MoD, they found and destroyed ammunition and weapons dumps
and deterred al-Qaida terrorists from attacking friendly Afghan forces, but
did not fire a shot in anger.

The marines were the first of 1,700 due to pull out of Afghanistan over the
next two weeks after the end of Operation Jacana, Britain's largest combat
deployment since the 1991 Gulf war.

"I'm looking forward to what everyone is looking forward to," marine Alan
Hazelwood told Reuters news agency at Kabul airport as he waited to board an
unmarked Boeing 747 heading for Scotland. "A cold beer out of a pint glass."

Mr Hoon told reporters at Bagram airbase north of Kabul on Tuesday: "We are
ready to take part in further operations should that be necessary."

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Calm urged amid chaos of LA airport shooting
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Oliver Burkeman in New York
Friday July 5, 2002
The Guardian

Intense security was stepped up still further across the United States
yesterday as Americans nervously celebrating Independence Day tried to
absorb what initially seemed to be exactly the kind of news they had been
fearing.

Three people were killed at Los Angeles airport when a gunman opened fire
near the El Al counter, killing a man and a woman and wounding seven others
before being shot dead by a security guard for the Israeli airline.

In New York, where about 4,000 police officers were joined by fighter jet
patrols with hours to go before a massive firework display along Manhattan's
eastern shore, the shooting in Los Angeles prompted increased police
protection for "Israeli locations" including the El Al area at JFK
international airport in Queens.

"We are going to err on the side of caution here," New York's police
commissioner, Ray Kelly, told CNN. "We're going to the El Al facilities...
providing extra coverage at the airport and other high-profile locations we
have covered in the past, we're now putting additional police coverage in
those locations."

Flight restrictions were already in place at altitudes lower than 10,000
feet over Manhattan - an echo of the days immediately after September 11 -
with similar precautions in Washington DC, where people celebrating the
226th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at the National Mall
were subject to rigorous screening and bag searching.

But with news that the FBI did not have reason to believe the incident was
"terrorist-related" came a concerted push by law enforcement agencies and
civic leaders for Americans to enjoy themselves as planned.

"We want everyone to go on and enjoy the holiday - we'd like people to be
vigilant, though, to be a little bit on guard, on alert," Mr Kelly said. "If
anybody sees anything out of the ordinary we would appreciate a call [but]
go out and enjoy - law enforcement is very much on the job."

Speaking at a press conference called after the shooting, James Hahn, the
mayor of Los Angeles, advised a similar watchful calm. "I don't know that
there's any reason for the travelling public to shy away this moment from
air travel," he told reporters.

And as news spread of the crash of a small private plane into a crowd
enjoying Fourth of July celebrations in a Los Angeles suburb, killing at
least one person, a spokeswoman for the federal aviation administration,
Laura Brown, urged calm. The crash "sounds completely like an accident", she
said.

A certain jitteriness had characterised preparations for events across the
country yesterday - from the famous Boston Pops concert alongside the city's
Charles river, to the notorious hot-dog eating contest on Coney Island.

The day was the first major test for the homeland security coordination
centre, which was reported to be monitoring about 2,100 events nationwide.

The tension on what was a swelteringly hot day - with a high of 38C forecast
in Washington - had been heightened early on when the nation woke to FBI
warnings that people "with terrorist ties" had downloaded pictures of
stadiums in Indiana and Missouri from the internet. But they had no
information about planned attacks, they said, and both venues were shut for
the holiday.

There was no immediate response from the White House to the Los Angeles
incident. Speaking at a war veterans' memorial in Ripley, Virginia, George
Bush made gratitude the message of the first presidential Independence Day
speech since September 11.

"The anniversary of America's independence is a day for gratitude and a day
for celebration," he said. "On the Fourth of July we count our blessings.
And there are so many to count: we're thankful for the families we love,
we're thankful for the opportunities in America, we're thankful for our
freedom, the freedom declared by our founding fathers, defended by many
generations, and granted to each one of us by Almighty God."

California's governor, Gray Davis, said: "I can assure the people of
California that there are more law enforcement officials on duty in
California tonight than has ever been the case, and that was before the
incident at LA airport... I would encourage them to continue with the
celebrations."

Mr Davis said the shooting did not indicate a failure of the state's
security plans. "The law enforcement profession are going to withhold
judgment about what, if any, changes should be made to airport security
until they determine exactly what was going on," he said.


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SCMP: US mulls missile transfer to Taiwan [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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US mulls missile 
  transfer to Taiwan
  

  


  REUTERS in 
Washington
  
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  Updated at 10.19am:The 
Bush administration may let Taiwan take delivery of advanced 
air-to-air missiles originally sold on condition they not be 
delivered straight away for fear of triggering a regional arms race, 
the Pentagon said on Friday (HK time). 
At issue is the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, 
or AMRAAM, which could be deployed on Taiwan's US-built F-16 fighter 
fleet. Taiwan contracted for 120 of the combat-proven missiles in 
2000. They are now in production by Raytheon. 


  
  

  

  

  

  
   ''Our 
policy requires that these missiles not be released to Taiwan unless 
there is evidence that China has similar missiles as part of its 
operational inventory,'' said Defence Department spokesman Air Force 
Maj. Jay Steuck. 
''Our policy is under review,'' he added. ''No decision has been 
made'' on whether the missiles will be sent. 
Word of the policy review follows China's reported testing last 
week of a similar ''fire-and-forget'' missile, the AA-12 ''Adder'' 
built by Russia. Once fired, such missiles use an active radar on 
board to guide them independently. 
The Washington Times, the first to report the test-firing, cited 
US defence officials as saying two Russian-built Su-30 fighters had 
used the weapons to destroy target drones. 
Any deployment of the AA-12, known as the R-77 in Russia, would 
significantly enhance Chinese combat capabilities against Taiwan's 
air force, defence experts said. 
China considers Taiwan a wayward province that must be united 
with the mainland, by force if necessary. 
In Taipei, Major General Peng Chin-ming, head of Taiwan's air 
force's operations bureau, told reporters on Tuesday that Taiwan was 
ready to take delivery of AMRAAMs and confirmed the Chinese test of 
its Russian equivalent. 
Mr Steuck, the Pentagon spokesman, declined comment on the 
reported Chinese test-firing, citing a policy of not discussing 
intelligence matters. Asked about the release of the AMRAAM to 
Taiwan, he referred a caller to the State Department, which oversees 
government-to-government US military sales. 
The State Department had no immediate comment, said a spokesman, 
Frederick Jones. 
Richard Fisher, an expert on the Taiwan and Chinese militaries at 
the Washington-based Jamestown Federation, a research group, said 
Taiwan needed the AMRAAM to counter Chinese military advances. 
In patrols over the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan fighters already were 
reluctant to approach within the ''envelop range'' of short-range 
air-to-air missiles that can be fired from helmet-sited gear used by 
Su-27 and Su-30 fighters, he said. 
The AMRAAM has scored combat victories over the skies in Iraq, 
Bosnia and Kosovo, according to Raytheon. It can be launched at an 
enemy aircraft day or night regardless of weather 
conditions.
 
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Xinhua: Roundup: DPRK-S.Korea Clash Challenges "Sunshine Policy" [WWW.STOPNATO.

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  Roundup: DPRK-S.Korea Clash Challenges "Sunshine Policy" 
  
  

  

  

  
  Xinhuanet 2002-07-05 
  12:49:56
  

  
  

  
  
  SEOUL, July 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The "Sunshine Policy" initiated by 
  South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was once again in trouble owing to the 
  armed clash last week between warships of South Korea and the Democratic 
  People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the Yellow Sea, analysts here said. 
  The inter-Korean relations were relaxed after the historic summit 
  in Pyongyang between South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and DPRK leader 
  Kim Jong Il, on June 13-15, 2000. The South Korean leader proposed the 
  "Sunshine Policy" to promote dialogue with Pyongyang for settlement of 
  Korean Peninsula issues. 
  But the peace process on the Korean Peninsula has been stalemated 
  since U.S. President George W. Bush took office in January and labeled the 
  DPRK as part of the "axis of evil" in his State of the Union speech. 
  The armed clashes, which occurred on June 29 to the southwest of 
  Yonpyong Island in the Yellow Sea, dealt another blow to the sound 
  development of North-South relations. 
  The DPRK blames South Korea for causing the armed clash, claiming 
  that the South Korean fleet and more than 10 fishing boats intruded into 
  the territorial waters of the DPRK, to the southwest of Yonpyong Island in 
  the Yellow Sea, and fired at the DPRK People's Navy, which was on a 
  regular guard mission. 
  In the wake of the armed clash, the South Korean conservative Grand 
  National Party (GNP) on Wednesday said it would propose a non-confidence 
  motion on Defense Minister Kim Dong-shin and other top military leaders 
  unless President Kim sacks them, claiming the defense minister and his 
  colleagues responded "passively" to last week's naval clash, which left 
  four South Korean servicemen dead, one missing and 19 others injured when 
  the two sides exchanged fire. 
  However, the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae refused the GNP's 
  call for Kim Dong-shin's dismissal. 
  Moreover, Lee Hoi-chang, GNP's candidate for the coming general 
  elections at the end of this year, urged the government to "re-examine" 
  its "Sunshine Policy" toward the DPRK and halt inter-Korean cooperation 
  programs. 
  The government should cancel financial aid to the DPRK and suspend 
  a set of inter-Korean exchange programs such as the Mountain Geumgang 
  tourism business project, Lee said. 
  The GNP holds 130 seats in South Korea's 260-member 
  parliament,while President Kim's Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) holds 
  111 seats. 
  Some MDP members also challenged Kim's DPRK policy, claiming that 
  the "Sunshine Policy" which favors inter-Korean rapprochement projects 
  should be changed. 
  The government talked back by arguing it was not time to discuss 
  such issues. "If something happens, it is important to resolve the matter 
  with a sense of responsibility," presidential spokeswoman Park Sun-sook 
  said. 
  Amid complaints of some political groups, President Kim's "Sunshine 
  Policy" seemed to face another drawback when the United States, in 
  response to last week's North-South clash, announced on Wednesday that it 
  would cancel the planned trip of an envoy to the DPRK in the second week 
  of July. 
  The South Korean government, which is worried that the clash could 
  hinder the dialogue process between Pyongyang and Washington, planned to 
  send an envoy to the United States after July 4 Independence Day to 
  persuade Washington to continue its talks with Pyongyang, a senior 
  government official said. 
  In contrast with a chorus of opposition, some South Korean experts 
  on inter-Korean relations voiced their support for the sunshine policy, 
  the country's English-language paper Korea Times reported. 
  "The Inter-Korean project continued in 1999 when a similar naval 
  clash occurred and there is no reason to stop the project," said Lee 
  Jong-seok, a research fellow of the Sejong Institute, a private think 
  tank. 
  "The principle of the sunshine policy within a big framework should 
  be kept intact," said Koh Yu-hwan, a professor from the Dongguk 
  University. "If the policy is suspended now, it would be difficult for 
  South Korea to move forward." 
  "The sunshine policy should, in principle, continue because there 
  is no alternative," said Michael Breen, an expert on Korean affairs. 
  Enditem 
   --by Wang Mian 

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Chief of British Defense Staff to Visit Korea July 
7-9 


   Seoul, July 5 
(Yonhap) -- Admiral Michael Boyce, chief of  Britain's Defense Staff, will 
visit South Korea July 7-9 at the  invitation of his Korean counterpart, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff  Chairman Lee Nam-shin, officials said 
Friday.   Boyce will hold talks with Defense Minister Kim 
Dong-shin and  the JCS chairman on military exchanges between the two 
countries,  including holding a bilateral military cooperation conference 
on a  regular basis, officials said.
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  Yellow Sea Clash: An All-Familiar 
  Multi-Purpose Anti-N. Korean Bogy to 
  Torpedo James Kelly Pyongyang Visit and Dampen Growing 
  Anti-Americanism
   By Kim Myong 
  Chol
The June 29 Yellow Sea 
clash, which sank one South Korean navy boat, killed four South Korean sailors 
and wounded twenty others, can be safely characterized as an all-familiar 
Cold-War warrior-type general-purpose anti-North Korean bogy invoked to torpedo 
the intended James Kelly visit to Pyongyang, to dampen the growing anti-American 
sentiments in South Korea, and to divert public attention from the arrests of 
South Korean President Kim Dae Jung’s sons.
This picture emerges from 
a critical look at available facts culled from South Korean, Japanese and 
American mass media: (1) a South Korean fisherman’s eyewitness account of the 
naval shootout, (2) specific details of the shooting incident, (3) its timing 
and (4) its political fallout – who stands to benefit most from the 
incident.
Things, however, are a 
far cry from the Cold War period. Such an anachronistic anti-North Korean genie 
has a short-lived life. Pandora’s box has now very few genies left, which are 
capable of doing much mischief.
(1) An Anonymous Young 
fisherman’s Eyewitness Account 
Yesterday the Korea 
WebWeekly posted an English version of an eyewitness account of the June 29 
Yellow Sea battle by an anonymous young crab fisherman based on Yonpyong-do 
Island near the scene of the clash. The Korean original was initially posted on 
a South Korean website and then picked up by the South Korean Yonhap News Agency 
and Digital Mal (http://www.digitalmal.com/news 
read.php?no=458)
The point of the 
eyewitness account is that South Korean crab fishing boats violated the North 
Korean waters and that South Korean navy boats rammed two approaching North 
Korean patrol boats at a high speed. Nothing is more provocative and dangerous 
than the act of ramming North Korean patrol boats by South Korean navy boats in 
North Korean waters. This means that two North Korean navy vessels did not take 
any action against the four hostile South Korean navy boats while allowing them 
to approach to the point where they were rammed by the South Korean ships.
(2) Specific Details of 
the Shootout 
The available specific 
details of the shootout strongly indicate that not so much the North Koreans as 
the South Koreans provoked the battle as the South Korean speedboats began 
firing their automatic 20-mm Vulcan Gatling guns at random at the reluctant 
North Korean boats. The South Korean Defense Department said that one North 
Korean patrol boat began firing at South Korean ships at a distance of about 450 
m. This indicates that the North Korean boats did not begin firing for nearly 
one minute after the South Korean navy vessels rammed them. It was not until 
they moved nearly half a kilometer from the South Korean ships that the North 
Korean ship opened fire on the South Korean ships. In other words, the North 
Korean patrol boats did not anticipate the South Koreans to take such action and 
kept their restraint.
According to South Korean 
news accounts, the two North Korean patrol boats are of the SO-1 type, make 25 
knots per hour, displace 215 tons, each carrying one 85 mm gun which strikes a 
target 15.5 km away, one 37 mm gun with a range of 8 km and two 14.5 mm 
machine-guns with a range of 7 km. The 85 mm gun in question is manually 
operated and has a firing rate of 24 spm. In short, the North Korean boats are 
ill prepared for a close battle. 
On the other hand, the 
four South Korean boats are better equipped for close combat. They are 156-ton 
Chamsuri-class speedboats which cruise at 38 knots per hour and are armed with 
one 76 mm naval gun and two 20 mm Vulcan Gatling guns which have a firing rate 
of 2,000 spm with a range of 3 km. The automatically primed 20 mm Vulcan guns 
are capable of wreaking havoc on enemy ships in a close quarter battle.
The key lesson that the 
North Koreans ought to have learned is that the North Koreans must fire a 
torpedo or long-range guns or an anti-ship missile at a South Korean navy vessel 
when the enemy ship violates territorial waters and comes within an effective 
range. However, again the North Koreans restrained their behavior partly because 
the South Koreas are fellow Koreans, not Americans and partly because the South 
Koreans were hosting the World Cup soccer games. Apparently the South Korean 
navy vessels were escorting South Korean fishing boats operating in North Korean 
waters. The North Koreans had good reason to show tolerance. 
It is quite obvious that 
the South Koreans again took advantage of the compatriotic tolerance and 
self-restraint shown by the North Koreans. The South Koreans expected an easy 
replay of the June1999 battle that began with South Korean boats ramming North 
Korean ships and ended with o

Filipino Organizations in Canada: U.S. Troops Out of the Philippines Now! - TML

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U.S. Troops Out of the Philippines Now!

http://www.cpcml.ca/tmld/D32129.htm#7
- Statement of Filipino Organizations in Canada, June 12, 2002 -

As overseas Filipino workers, women, and youth in Canada, we meet June 12
with a greater resolve to continue the Filipino people's struggle for
genuine independence and democracy. With the Philippines currently under
fire by growing U.S. military aggression on sovereign Philippine soil, there
is an ever urgent need to carry on the people's fight for true independence.

Officially, June 12 is the day designated by the Philippine government to
celebrate the so-called independence that the Philippines is now supposedly
enjoying. For the people, this date marks the Filipino people's victory over
their Spanish colonizers of three centuries. The Philippine Revolution of
1896 was the first-ever successful anti-colonial revolution in Asia. But
soon after the people's victory in 1896, U.S. troops invaded the Philippines
and the U.S. has since imposed its imperialist will on the people -- first
holding the Philippines as its colony and now as its semi-colony.

Today, the nation's cries for genuine independence reverberate more clearly
and loudly among the people.

Under the flimsy pretence of helping the Philippine military quell a handful
of rebels of the Abu Sayaff, ironically a group created by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, over 4,000 U.S. combat troops have stormed into the
Philippines since earlier this year to open up the second front in its
international war against terrorism.

In direct violation of Philippine sovereignty and territorial integrity, the
U.S. military is pushing its way throughout the archipelago. Now U.S.
military aggression is spreading with greater intensity outside of the
original combat zone into other areas of the Philippines, as far north as
Central Luzon. President Bush has even proclaimed that the Philippines will
pay for the death of the American held hostage by the Abu Sayaff who was
recently killed in cross-fire from the Philippine military. Even though the
Filipino people are already experiencing a high degree of militarization and
terror, U.S. imperialism is prepared to launch an even more massive military
campaign against the Filipino people.

President Macapagal-Arroyo has been completely subservient to the interests
of U.S. imperialism by constantly and consistently siding with the U.S. in
its bid to maintain control in the Asia Pacific region by using the
Philippines. Macapagal-Arroyo continues the anti-people economic and
political policies of former regimes, and persists in the practice of
flagrant corruption.

For overseas Filipinos, Macapagal-Arroyo's economic policy to pursue the
continued export of highly-skilled Filipino workers to industrialized
countries has caused greater hardship. In Canada, the Filipino community
experiences greater exploitation and oppression. With the worsening economic
crisis in the Philippines pushing thousands more Filipinos to migrate to
Canada, we face greater desperation.

Clearly, with such a puppet president and the re-occupation of the
Philippines by the U.S. military, genuine independence for the Filipino
people remains unanswered.

Therefore, on this June 12, we, as overseas Filipino workers, women, and
youth are resolved in our commitment to continue the Filipino people's
unfinished fight for genuine national freedom and democracy begun over 100
years ago. We will not stand idly by as Macapagal-Arroyo shamelessly stages
a hollow celebration of Philippine independence while U.S. troops re-occupy
our homeland. We will continue to educate, organize, and mobilize our
community to struggle for our genuine equality and development in Canada and
to forward the struggle for a Philippines free from puppets like
Macapagal-Arroyo, free from feudal exploitation, and free from foreign
rule -- we struggle for a nation with true independence.

U.S. troops out of the Philippines now! Out with Macapagal-Arroyo! Down with
U.S. imperialism! Long live the Filipino people's struggle for genuine
independence, freedom, and a just and lasting peace!

Statement of:
B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Filipino-Canadians Against Racism
Filipino Nurses Support Group
Philippine Women Centre of B.C.
SIKLAB (Overseas Filipino workers' organization)
Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino-Canadian Youth
Alliance-Vancouver

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  July 5, 2002 - No. 
  129
Korea Vigorously Oppose Crimes of U.S. 
Troops!
On June 13, U.S. troops stationed at the U.S. Second Division base in 
Uijongbu, south Korea drove at armoured vehicle over two 14-year-old 
schoolgirls, Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, killing them both on a roadside. Then 
on June 26 more than 10 GIs savagely clubbed and detained two south Korean 
reporters who were covering a demonstration protesting the GIs' killing of the 
schoolgirls. TML Daily vigorously denounces the atrocities committed by 
U.S. aggressor troops stationed in south Korea and demands that they be brought 
to justice. 
On June 29, a mass rally was held in front of the U.S. base in Uijongbu to 
demand an investigation into the killing of the schoolgirls. In a resolution, 
the "All-People Measure Committee of the Murder of Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son" 
demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from south Korea, the dismantling of 
all U.S. bases on the Korean peninsula, an official apology from U.S. President 
George W. Bush and punishment for those responsible for the killing of the 
schoolgirls. 
Also on June 29, the central committee of the Korean Journalists Union issued 
a statement on behalf of all journalists and other mediapersons in north Korea, 
condemning the U.S. imperialists' ceaseless killings and violence in the south 
and their attempts to block the independent reunification of the Korean nation. 
"The assault made by GIs against the South Korean reporters is a clear reminder 
of their extremely arrogant and high-handed practices. This once again clearly 
proves that the U.S. is, indeed, the real axis of evil and the root cause of 
evils," the union said. "The recent incident clearly shows the master-servant 
relationship between the U.S. and south Korea. It is the height of shame that 
south Korea is still under the yoke of U.S. domination and subjugation, its 
sovereignty wantonly violated. The U.S. should apologize not only to the south 
Korean people but to the whole Korean nation for the aggression, plunder and 
mass killing it has committed for over half a century," the union stated. 
[Return] 


Spring 2002 Sees 
Growing Anti-U.S. Action in South Korea
The April issue of the south Korean monthly magazine Min carried an 
article entitled "Anti-U.S. struggle in the spring of 2002," featuring the 
massive and daily-growing anti-U.S. struggle of the south Korean people. It 
analyzed the mounting anti-U.S. campaign from three perspectives. 
First, an increasing number of people are joining the anti-U.S. campaign. 
Anti-U.S. songs and animated images are now omnipresent on the Internet and 
users hold cyber rallies and protests. The intense anti-U.S. sentiment during 
the Winter Olympics was one of the results of this trend. A group of anti-U.S. 
websites launched a "society for a boycott of U.S. goods," and are working 
closely with each other to carry out their action program. 
Anti-U.S. books are increasingly popular and voices shouting anti-U.S. 
slogans can be heard everywhere in south Korea. The most notable feature of the 
current surge of anti-U.S. feelings is that it was started by teenagers. 
In the past, anti-U.S. slogans were not a rallying cry for all political 
movements, but they have come to the fore with the growing public realization, 
gained through firsthand experience, that the United States is responsible not 
only for the massive lay-offs and structural reform imposed by the IMF but for 
the break-up of their families. The perception of the anti-U.S. struggle, which 
was previously confined to a handful of political groups, has now changed. 
Second, anti-U.S. and anti-Bush sentiments have now penetrated into the 
everyday life of the people. Satirical songs such as "Laudable Pretzel," "Ttorai 
Bush," "Nasty U.S." and "Paper Plane" are re-edited with the addition of various 
animated images on the Internet, and used as a call signal by mobile phone 
users. This shows that anti-U.S. behaviour has now become part of their lives. 
The very mention of the U.S., to say nothing of Bush, on TV or in other places 
naturally invites expletives. Some bars offer refreshment services for anti-U.S. 
protesters. 
Third, the anti-U.S. struggle will develop to a higher stage in the future. 
According to a public opinion poll conducted by the south Korean media, 87 per 
cent of respondents supported the anti-U.S. struggle, 56.1 per cent said "No" to 
the U.S., 71.4 per cent opposed the expansion of the U.S. war on terrorism, and 
62.9 per cent were against Bush's north Korea policy. Even the sponsors 
themselves expressed their shock at the dramatic change in public attitude 
towards the U.S. 
Meanwhile, the anti-U.S. sentiment of the south Korean people is growing 
daily with no sign of abating. The anti-U.S. campaign launched in spring will 
turn this year into a year of a brighter future for Korea. 

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WHY WE (AS AN EXCEPTION) SHOULD SAY
"WELCOME!" AND "THANK YOU!"

Not least in the so-called superstructure, in fields of cul-
ture and education, in quite a lot of important scientific
fields, is there a very sharp class struggle going on in the
world today.

Here's one small example of this, concerning, quite directly,
one rather small (though politically important) area in the
world, indirectly however more or less the whole globe too:


In some newspaper and Internet articles recently, it has been
reported that the racist, wildly aggressive, mass murdering
and totally illegal "state" of "Israel" is planning also to

"...turn the Palestinian Authority-ruled area of the
West Bank into a vast dumping-ground for its domestic
industrial, chemical and nuclear waste, thereby
creating a potentially catastrophic environmental
nightmare".

As far as actual industrial and chemical wastes are concerned,
this of course must be emphatically protested against and
combated, just must as all other acts of Zionist aggression.
Many kinds of such wastes are quite dangerous to people's
health.

However, if the Zionists would really dump such substances as
are, in precisely all of the multi-moronic mass media of the
all the fanatically Zionism-backing US and other imperialists
in the world precisely always being called, multi-moronically,
nuclear "wastes", then this should really be welcomed and in-
deed applauded, by the Palestinians and by the supporters all
over the world for their just cause of annihilating those mass
murderers and their racist "state" and establishing a democra-
tic state in all of Palestine.

Why is this?

Because of the longtime and still today continued rule of the
imperialists, with their multi-moron media, multi-moron
school "teaching", multi-moron "regulations" on (e.g.) radia-
tion, multi-moron everything that has remotely to do with
culture in its widest sense, this long-since established fact
may not yet be known to all that many outside some circles of
scientists and technicians:

*A little more* ionizing radiation than that which people in
most areas in the world (including e.g. the West Bank) today
are receiving from natural sources - a suitable, not too big,
addition to that amount - actually is *beneficial* for their
health, and by no means detrimental.

What's always being called nuclear "wastes" (*none of* which
of course are *really* wastes, all of which, on the contrary,
of course can be put to quite excellent, peaceful, use, al-
ready with that technology which there is today) by all the
rabidly-reactionary rulers, in all their daily mega-moron poi-
son propaganda, comes basically in two kinds:

"Highly-active", respectively, "low-active" "wastes" - or, to
call them by their proper name, *residual products* or *ma-
terial which has been made more radioactive than normal*,

Now *highly-active* "wastes", that's mainly such stuff as has
been inside a nuclear reactor, and which has therefore or in
some other way gotten to be emitting radiation at high levels,
very intensively. These are dangerous for humans to be close
to, even for some short time, and are therefore, normally at
least, kept tightly enclosed in thick-walled containers. Most
improbable, and silly indeed, would it be, even for the Zio-
nists, just to "dump" *such* stuff in places to where they
might later, "hopefully", send some aggressor troops of
theirs, such as the West Bank.

Only *low-active* "wastes", of which there is always much more
too - since lots of stuff which has just been realtively
close to a nuclear reactor in included in this - could the
Zionists reasonably be expected to plan to "dump" in such an
area as the West Bank.

And these are *not* dangerous for people to approach, and
to stay close to for as long as they migh

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  US planning massive attack on Iraq: US newspaper 
  
  

  

  

  
  Xinhuanet 2002-07-05 
  23:49:02
  

  
  

  
  
  WASHINGTON, July 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States is planning a 
  comprehensive attack on Iraq to topple President Saddam Hussein, The New 
  York Times reported Friday. 
  According to the paper, the US military is working on a preliminary 
  planning document which calls for air, land and sea-based forces to attack 
  Iraq from three directions -- the north, south and west. 
  The document projects that tens of thousands of US marines and 
  soldiers would probably be needed to stage an invasion from Kuwait. 
  Meanwhile, hundreds of warplanes based in as many as eight 
  countries, possibly including Turkey and Qatar, would unleash a huge air 
  assault against thousands of targets, including airfields,roadways and 
  fiber-optics communications sites in Iraq. 
  Special operations forces or covert CIA operatives would strikeat 
  depots or laboratories storing or manufacturing Iraq's suspected weapons 
  of mass destruction and the missiles to launch them. 
  The New York Times said that the existence of the document, though 
  preliminary one, indicates an advanced stage of planning inthe US military 
  even though the Bush administration states publicly it has no plan on the 
  table for an immediate invasion of Iraq. 
  It said that the document, entitled "CentCom Courses of Action," 
  was prepared by planners at the Central Command in Tampa, Florida, and has 
  already undergone revisions. 
  "Right now, we're at the stage of conceptual thinking and 
  brainstorming," the newspaper quoted a senior US defense official as 
  saying. Enditem 
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>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From:   "X98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date:   Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:30:30 -0700
>Subject:Pentagon RESCUE  (Part 2 of Parts 1-4)
>
>
>
>- Original Message -
>From: X98
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 8:51 PM
>Subject: Pentagon RESCUE (Part 2 of Parts 1-4)
>
>
>It was murder, actually -- with a sham "rescue" slicked over the
>top.
>
>This article has been divided up into sections for e-mail
>purposes.
>You may read the entire article at: 
>http://www.Public-Action.com
>
>* * *
>
>Pentagon RESCUE?  Open, Bloody, Questions . . .
>by Carol A. Valentine
>President, Public Action, Inc.
>Entire article available 
>at:  http://www.Public-Action.com
>Copyright, June, 2002
>May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes
>
>* * *
>
>PART II
>
>" . . WE MAY NOT RESCUE THEM FROM A COLLAPSE . . ."
>
>Rescue From Collapsed Buildings
>Earthquake Victims Can Live Up To 12 Days in Rubble
>Wreckage Must be Removed Vertically
>Unstable Sections of Building Must Be Shored
>Cranes Must Be Available
>Cranes On Site September 12, 13
>Wrecking Ball Used Instead of Vertical Lifting And Shoring
>Murderous Use of Wrecking Ball
>One Excuse After Another To Stall Rescue
>Six Days Later, "Stabilization" Continues
>Civilian Rescue Workers Exhausted
>How Things Should Have Been
>Arrival of The Soda Pop Brigade
>Head Shrinking & Smoochie Poochies
>Darin Pontell Calls Home From The Grave
>Survivors Be Damned!  Pass The Money!
>Accomplices to Murder
>Black Hawk Down Revisited
>
>RESCUE FROM COLLAPSED BUILDINGS
>
>Now let's turn our attention to the subject of rescuing people
>trapped in collapsed buildings.  The Emergency Response &
>Research
>Institute (ERRI) is a crisis, conflict and emergency services
>news
>and resource center.  It has won awards from a variety of
>paramedic,
>security, and law enforcement organizations.  The ERRI homepage
>is
>here:
>http://www.emergency.com/
>cached at:
>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-homepage
>
>You can see the awards they have received from police and
>emergency
>rescue organizations.
>http://www.emergency.com/erriawrd.htm
>cached at:
>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-awards
>
>Now let's visit the ERRI page that deals with rescues from
>collapsed buildings.
>http://www.emergency.com/bldgclps.htm
>or
>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-bldg-rescue
>
>Study these pages.  This is how the pros do it when they want to
>save
>lives.  The ERRI will be our standard for measuring the Pentagon
>[non-] rescue.
>
>EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS CAN LIVE
>UP TO 12 DAYS IN RUBBLE
>
>The Emergency Response & Research Institute tells rescuers that:
>" . . . you should remain aware of the fact that people have been
>successfully rescued alive after as much as twelve (12) days . .
>.
>buried in the rubble of an earthquake . . . In the March, 1992
>Turkish earthquake, a 22 year old nurse was pulled from beneath a
>building collapse after eight days. She was also quoted as saying
>that she had been 'talking with her two friends,' who were also
>buried, for several days after the collapse . . . until she
>'didn't
>hear them anymore.'  The thought of someone remaining buried
>alive
>for several days should be enough motivation for most rescuers to
>continue with their efforts until every possible hope has been
>exhausted."
>
>Repeat:
>" . . . you should remain aware of the fact that people have been
>successfully rescued alive after as much as twelve (12) days. .
>."
>
>Yet here is Rumsfeld declaring the 9-11 victims dead after nine
>hours . . .
>"There cannot be any survivors; it just would be beyond
>comprehension."
>(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09112001_t0911sd.html
>cached at:
>http://www.public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-911pressconference)
>Rumsfeld's "it's all hopeless" statement was pulled out of thin
>air.
>He could not possibly have known whether the buried victims were
>alive or dead.
>
>Leadership drives men to extraordinary effort or paralyzes them
>with
>apathy.  Rumsfeld's words seem designed to discourage any heroic
>effort.
>
>WRECKAGE MUST BE REMOVED VERTICALLY
>
>According to the ERRI webpage, debris from a collapsed building
>MUST
>BE REMOVED VERTICALLY.
> 
>http://www.emergency.com/bldg

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>Subject: Pentagon RESCUE ??? Open, Bloody, Questions . . . 1/3
>
>It was murder, actually -- with a sham "rescue" slicked over the top.
>This article has been divided up into three sections for e-mail
>purposes.  You may read the entire article at:
>http://www.Public-Action.com
>
>* * *
>
>Pentagon RESCUE?
>Open, Bloody, Questions . . . 1/3
>by Carol A. Valentine
>President, Public Action, Inc.
>Entire article available 
>at:  http://www.Public-Action.com
>Copyright, June, 2002
>May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes
>
>* * *
>
>"There cannot be any survivors; it just would be beyond comprehension."
>--  Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, speaking of missing
>Pentagon personnel on September 11, 2001 -- just nine hours after
>impact.
>
>"And just as we may not rescue them from a fire, so may we not rescue
>them from a collapse [of debris] or from water or from anything that
>may destroy them."
>
>June 23, 2002 -- The recent movie "Black Hawk Down (Leave No Man
>Behind)" deals with an important lesson -- the military has two jobs.
>The military must destroy the enemy's forces and they must ensure the
>survival of their own.  "Black Hawk Down (Leave No Man Behind)"
>dramatizes a story of survival: the heroic efforts of soldiers who
>attempted to rescue their fellows who were trapped behind enemy lines
>in Mogadishu, Somalia.  The rescuers themselves become trapped, and
>they, too, needed to be rescued.
>
>For about 140 minutes, "Black Hawk Down (Leave No Man Behind)" deals
>with how much soldiers -- from the generals down to the enlisted man
>-- care about each other.  We see soldiers risking their lives to get
>their wounded buddies, risking grenades, risking machine gun fire,
>risking rockets, risking belligerent mobs -- all to rescue other
>soldiers.  We hear dialogue that goes like this:
>
>"Medivac! Medivac!"
>"No man gets left behind,"
>"You all right?"
>"No man gets left behind,"
>"We won't leave you behind,"
>"If he don't get to the hospital in 1/2 hour, he's in trouble!"
>"No man gets left behind."
>
>At one point, two soldiers are talking about a helicopter crash.  The
>dialogue goes something like this: "There can't be any survivors,"
>says the first man.  The second replies: "We don't know that, we
>gotta go back and look!"
>
>At the conclusion of the movie, soldier hero Sgt. Hoot Gibson is
>asked why he risks life and limb in these military actions: Is he a
>war addict?  Hoot replies:
>"It's about the man next to you."
>
>Camaraderie, being a team member -- that's what the US military is about.
>
>Or is it?
>
>What would you think of a military that refused to rescue its
>soldiers from certain death -- even though those soldiers were within
>arm's reach, right in the Pentagon office building?
>
>What would you think of a military that publicly pretended rescue,
>but meanwhile deceitfully ensured the deaths of its own soldiers?
>
>What would you think of a military that gave away the its rightful
>jurisdiction over military matters to perfidious civilians, and stood
>by while the civilians let US soldiers die?
>
>Who would support such a military?
>
>As you read this article, keep in mind that on September 11, the
>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was General Henry Hugh Shelton.
>Shelton is a former Commanding General of the 101 and 82nd Airborne
>Divisions.  He is a former Commanding General of the XVIII Airborne
>Corps, and a former Commander in Chief of the Special Operations
>Command.  It was Special Operations that conducted the "Black Hawk
>Down (Leave No Man Behind)" mission in Mogadishu, Somalia.  (See
>Shelton's career highlights at: 
>http://1-14th.com/GenShelton.htm
>cached at:
>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-shelton-career
>
>There's what you need to know:  On September 11, the top commander of
>the entire US military machine was intimately familiar with aircraf

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[05.07.02]


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WHY WE (AS AN EXCEPTION) SHOULD SAY
"WELCOME!" AND "THANK YOU!"

Not least in the so-called superstructure, in fields of cul-
ture and education, in quite a lot of important scientific
fields, is there a very sharp class struggle going on in the
world today.

Here's one small example of this, concerning, quite directly,
one rather small (though politically important) area in the
world, indirectly however more or less the whole globe too:


In some newspaper and Internet articles recently, it has been
reported that the racist, wildly aggressive, mass murdering
and totally illegal "state" of "Israel" is planning also to

"...turn the Palestinian Authority-ruled area of the
West Bank into a vast dumping-ground for its domestic
industrial, chemical and nuclear waste, thereby
creating a potentially catastrophic environmental
nightmare".

As far as actual industrial and chemical wastes are concerned,
this of course must be emphatically protested against and
combated, just must as all other acts of Zionist aggression.
Many kinds of such wastes are quite dangerous to people's
health.

However, if the Zionists would really dump such substances as
are, in precisely all of the multi-moronic mass media of the
all the fanatically Zionism-backing US and other imperialists
in the world precisely always being called, multi-moronically,
nuclear "wastes", then this should really be welcomed and in-
deed applauded, by the Palestinians and by the supporters all
over the world for their just cause of annihilating those mass
murderers and their racist "state" and establishing a democra-
tic state in all of Palestine.

Why is this?

Because of the longtime and still today continued rule of the
imperialists, with their multi-moron media, multi-moron
school "teaching", multi-moron "regulations" on (e.g.) radia-
tion, multi-moron everything that has remotely to do with
culture in its widest sense, this long-since established fact
may not yet be known to all that many outside some circles of
scientists and technicians:

*A little more* ionizing radiation than that which people in
most areas in the world (including e.g. the West Bank) today
are receiving from natural sources - a suitable, not too big,
addition to that amount - actually is *beneficial* for their
health, and by no means detrimental.

What's always being called nuclear "wastes" (*none of* which
of course are *really* wastes, all of which, on the contrary,
of course can be put to quite excellent, peaceful, use, al-
ready with that technology which there is today) by all the
rabidly-reactionary rulers, in all their daily mega-moron poi-
son propaganda, comes basically in two kinds:

"Highly-active", respectively, "low-active" "wastes" - or, to
call them by their proper name, *residual products* or *ma-
terial which has been made more radioactive than normal*,

Now *highly-active* "wastes", that's mainly such stuff as has
been inside a nuclear reactor, and which has therefore or in
some other way gotten to be emitting radiation at high levels,
very intensively. These are dangerous for humans to be close
to, even for some short time, and are therefore, normally at
least, kept tightly enclosed in thick-walled containers. Most
improbable, and silly indeed, would it be, even for the Zio-
nists, just to "dump" *such* stuff in places to where they
might later, "hopefully", send some aggressor troops of
theirs, such as the West Bank.

Only *low-active* "wastes", of which there is always much more
too - since lots of stuff which has just been realtively
close to a nuclear reactor in included in this - could the
Zionists reasonably be expected to plan to "dump" in such an
area as the West Bank.

And these are *not* dangerous for people to approach, and
to stay close to for as long as they might care. Children's
perhaps even putting some of such stuff into their mouths,
that's not dangerous either. In fact, the only thing that
*such* stuff does is to *increase just a little*, in its vi-
cinity, that so-called "background" radiation which there
always is in nature, in all places on earth.

And this, their possibly increasing the level of radiation
in some areas of the West Bank by a small amount, this can
only - if anything - *improve* the