[CTRL] Senate OKs national motto In God we Trust in courts, if funded

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Senate OKs national motto in courts, if funded
By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press
 February 18, 2002

RICHMOND -- The Senate approved legislation Monday that would require posting
of the national motto, ``In God We Trust,'' in state courtrooms, but put its
effectiveness in doubt by adding an amendment requiring the state to pay for
it.

On a 30-10 vote, the Senate approved the bill the House had OK'd
overwhelmingly in January, but a related bill to require posting the motto in
public schools was passed by for the day when a senator sought to add the
same funding amendment.

 Requiring the legislature to appropriate money to post the motto in schools
or in courts could keep the measure from taking effect for years as
legislative budget writers summarily reject most new spending requests as
they struggle with a $3.8 billion shortfall.

``So unless the General Assembly appropriates funds, which I don't believe is
done in the Senate budget, the law won't become effective,'' said Sen.
Kenneth W. Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, who heads the committee that added the
funding requirement.

Sen. Linda T. ``Toddy'' Puller liked the amendment so well that when the bill
to require posting the motto in schools came up moments later, she offered a
floor amendment requiring the state to pay for that as well.

``If we're going to indeed put this law into effect, then it is our
responsibility to pay for these plaques, or whatever they are, that are
mounted in our schools,'' said Puller, D-Fairfax County.

Sen. Nick Rerras asked that the amendment be rejected. He said schools should
be allowed instead to accept private contributions to pay for displaying the
motto, ``to provide strength and inspiration, to help with perseverance in
times of need especially in days when we have terrorists flying jumbo jets
into our towering skyscrapers.''

``Is the junior senator from Norfolk telling us that had this been posted for
the last 20 or 30 years nobody would have flown a plane into the World Trade
Center?'' Sen. Richard L. Saslaw, D-Fairfax County, asked in response.

In other business, the Senate also voted 34-5 with one abstention for
legislation that would remove a limit on the amount of real estate that
churches may own.

If it becomes law, the measure could resolve a conflict the Rev. Jerry
Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg encountered in its efforts
to expand. Falwell sued in U.S. District Court contending the state's acreage
limit for churches was unconstitutional.


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[CTRL] Rebels Fight Philippine Troops; U.S. Not Involved

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Rebels Fight Philippine Troops; U.S. Not Involved
Mon Feb 18,11:43 PM ET

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine troops exchanged fire with
Muslim guerrillas on a remote southern island on Tuesday but U.S. special
forces who were nearby for joint exercises were not involved, a senior
military officer said.

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The Abu Sayyaf guerrillas ambushed a Philippine military squad early in the
morning on the small island of Tingulan, off the island of Basilan, said
Colonel Roland Detabali, operations chief for the Philippine military's
southern command.

He said two Philippine soldiers were wounded in the attack and that the
guerrillas suffered an undetermined number of casualties. He added the troops
called in air support, and two MG-520 attack helicopters launched strikes on
rebel positions.

U.S. Green Berets started moving to Basilan, 560 miles south of the capital
Manila, on Sunday for exercises with local soldiers aimed at wiping out the
Abu Sayyaf, which Washington has linked to the al Qaeda network of Osama bin
Laden.

A group of six U.S. special forces men was at a marine camp in the town of
Maluso, about four miles from the scene of the fighting, Detabali said.

The Americans will not be involved here, he said. This (patrolling on
Tingulan island) was part of our operations even before the exercise began.

Earlier on Tuesday, the guerrillas released two local farmers they had
abducted at the weekend in the wake of pursuit operations by troops on
another part of Basilan, Detabali said.

The guerrillas demanded $1,000 for the victims but let them go when they saw
the soldiers pursuing them.

The Abu Sayyaf guerrillas say they are fighting for an Islamic state in the
south of the Roman Catholic nation, but appear to be concentrated on
kidnappings and random bombings.

They have been holding an American couple and a local nurse hostage for
almost nine months on Basilan.




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[CTRL] Arizona Guard may be on border within 3 weeks

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Az Guard may be on border within 3 weeks
Citizen Staff Report
Feb. 18, 2002
Governor Jane Hull's office is expecting the federal government to activate
Arizona's National Guard to police the U.S.-Mexico border within three weeks.
U.S. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said the Justice Department, which
oversees the Immigration and Naturalization Service, signed off on an
agreement last week.
Hull spokeswoman Francie Noyes said today that direction from Washington,
D.C., about the deployment of troops is imminent.
We have been waiting for that to happen for about a month, she said.
Hull activated 60 Arizona National Guard members in November to assist border
inspectors and reduce traffic delays at the border.
Following the Sept. 11 attacks, bottlenecks at Arizona ports of entry hurt
businesses on both sides of the border.
Nationwide, the president plans to activate more than 1,500 troops, who could
help with security at ports of entry, intelligence operations and cargo or
vehicle inspections, among other tasks.
It was unclear how many troops would come from Arizona or where they would be
assigned, Noyes said. Ridge's office could not be reached for comment today.
The deployment of the military on the border has been a controversial
sticking point for politicians and immigrant activists.


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[CTRL] Wal-Mart sales push it to world's top

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It should say China's Wal-mart because 90 something % of products are from
China!
Isn't it wonderful!  Now they can send a few more missiles our way!  By the
way, Thank You Bill Clinton for you donations to China too!   Also thank you
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Wal-Mart sales push it to world's top
By Lina Saigol in New York
Published: February 19 2002 14:15 | Last Updated: February 19 2002 22:01



Wal-Mart has dethroned oil giant Exxon-Mobil as the world's biggest company
in terms of sales, on the basis of record fourth-quarter earnings and sales.

Lee Scott, president and chief executive officer, said Wal-Mart, the world's
largest discount store chain, had been able to increase sales and earnings
while expanding market share, despite a difficult year for retailers.

The fact that a discount retailer has overtaken one of the world's biggest
oil companies during a year-long recession is a triumph of organic growth
over acquisition and demonstrates changing consumer attitudes.

Wal-Mart sales for the quarter rose 13.5 per cent to $64.21bn. Aggressive
markdown activity meant that net income rose 6 per cent for the year, from
$6.295bn to $6.671bn, lifting earnings per share to $1.49 from $1.40 a year
earlier. Full year sales increased 13.8 per cent to $217.8bn.

Exxon reported full-year 2001 revenues of $213bn.

While the slow economy caused many companies to report negative or flat
sales growth, we gained share in the difficult consumer market and grew our
revenues, Mr Scott said.

His comments cheered US investors who last month witnessed one of the biggest
retail collapses in corporate history when Wal-Mart's rival, Kmart, filed for
bankruptcy.

Analysts had expected Wal-Mart to gain market share as a result of Kmart's
collapse, with expectations growing that it could now acquire some of its
stores.

However, the pace of consumer spending on goods has accelerated over the past
few months, despite falling employment, and global market volatility. Retail
sales, excluding autos rose 1.2 per cent.

Thomas Schoewe, chief financial officer, said profit growth in the fourth
quarter was hindered as consumers shied away from unnecessary spending and
instead bought lower-priced goods. Mr Schoewe said that it was too early to
tell whether the US economy had turned the corner and that so far this year,
customers showed no signs of returning to more normal buying patterns.

The increase in Wal-Mart's market capitalisation in the last year to $266bn -
Exxon's is $267bn - will also cheer the Walton family. Five individual family
members, related to Sam Walton who founded the store in 1962, hold a 38 per
cent stake in the company, estimated to be worth around $100bn.

Wal-Mart, based in Arkansas, said it expected earnings for the year of $1.74
to $1.76 a share, up from its previous forecast for earnings of $1.71 a
share. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.74 a share.

Food sales also grew in the quarter as the company contined to expand its
Supercenter units which sell groceries and general merchandise. Including
discount store replacements, Wal-Mart opened 178 Supercenters during the year
and the company said it planned to accelerate store openings this year.

The international operations, which include the UK supermarket chain Asda,
performed well, reporting a 19.2 per cent increase in operating profit to
$584m from $490m.

Operating losses at its German stores, which have been a source of
disappointment for investors, were in line with expectations.




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[CTRL] 'Big Brother' in America

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   William Safire  Tuesday, February 19, 2002
'Big Brother' in America

WASHINGTON Stipulated: The protection of the U.S. capital, its monuments and
its centers of authority is a vital national interest.
.
Early in American history, when faced with a potential rebellion of unpaid
officers, one U.S. leader employed an uncharacteristic emotional trick -
pretending to be going blind - to appeal to the infuriated military not to
march on the capital. He soon had them in tears and in hand. In another time,
another leader risked all by turning the capital's defense over to the man
most opposed to his political aims, gambling that he could later overcome the
nation's gratitude to a man on horseback. In contemporary times, after the
Pentagon was hit, the White House targeted and the Capitol anthraxed,
Washington again saw itself besieged. But now, in terror of an external
threat, U.S. leaders are protecting the capital at the cost of every
American's personal freedom.
.
Surveillance is in the saddle. Responding to the latest Justice Department
terror alert, Washington police opened the Joint Operation Command Center of
the Synchronized Operations Command Complex (SOCC). In it, 50 officials
monitor a wall of 40 video screens showing images of travelers, drivers,
residents and pedestrians.
.
These used to be the Great Unwatched, free people conducting their private
lives; now they are under close surveillance by hundreds of hidden cameras. A
zoom lens enables the watchers to focus on the face of a tourist walking
toward the Washington Monument or Lincoln Memorial.
.
The monitoring system is already linked to 200 cameras in public schools. The
watchers plan to expand soon into an equal number in the subways and parks. A
private firm profits by photographing cars running red lights; those images
will also join the surveillance network.
.
Private cameras in banks and the lobbies and elevators of apartment buildings
and hotels will join the system, and residents of nursing homes and hospitals
can look forward to an electronic eye in every room. A commercial camera atop
a department store in Georgetown catches the faces of shoppers entering
malls, to be plugged into omnipresent SOCC. Digital images of the captured
faces can be flashed around the world in an instant on the Internet. Married
to face-recognition technology and tied in to public and private agencies
around the world, an electronic library of hundreds of millions of faces will
be created. Terrorists and criminals - as well as unhappy spouses, runaway
teens, hermits and other law-abiding people who want to drop out of society
for a while - will have no way to get a fresh start.
.
Is this the kind of world Americans want? The promise is greater safety; the
trade-off is government control of individual lives. Personal security may or
may not be enhanced by this all-seeing eye and ear, but personal freedom will
surely be sharply curtailed. To be watched at all times, especially when
doing nothing seriously wrong, is to be afflicted with a creepy feeling. That
is what is felt by a convict in an always-lighted cell. It is the pervasive,
inescapable feeling of being unfree. As the law now stands, there is no
privacy in public places; that's why sports stadiums are called Snooper
Bowls. A whisper to your spouse on your front porch is the public's
business, say the courts; and on that intrusive analogy, long-range
microphones may soon be allowed to pick up voice vibrations on windowpanes.
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports
team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity,
you are placed under unprecedented control. This is not some alarmist
Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and
$15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear.
.
By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States
yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system
capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans. So far,
the reaction has been a most un-American docility.
.
This Monday was Presidents' Day. To save the capital and thus the nation, the
leader who manipulated his rebellious officers with an emotional pretense of
incipient blindness was George Washington, and the one who risked creating a
Caesar out of a necessary general was Abraham Lincoln. Neither would
sacrifice America's freedom to protect his monument.
.
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its centers of authority is a vital national interest.
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Early in American history, when faced with a potential rebellion of unpaid
officers, one U.S. 

[CTRL] 6 Israelis, 8 Palestinians Killed

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6 Israelis, 8 Palestinians Killed

By Steve Weizman
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, February 19, 2002; 7:29 PM

JERUSALEM –– In one of the bloodiest days of the 17-month Palestinian
uprising, gunmen shot and killed six Israelis in a West Bank assault Tuesday,
and Israeli raids left eight Palestinians dead.

The Palestinian attackers entered a building close to an Israeli roadblock
near the village of Ein Arik and opened fire on the occupants, then escaped,
Israeli television said. The army did not immediately comment.

The Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement,
distributed leaflets claiming responsibility for the attack, Palestinians
said.

The upsurge in violence increased the pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
to take more decisive action.

Deputy Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra said the Palestinians had taken
over the element of surprise, once an Israeli prerogative.

They attack and we defend. In the past we attacked and they defended, Ezra
said. We need to return to that...we have to control the situation.

A group of 1,200 retired Israeli security officials proposed an immediate
Israeli withdrawal from much of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the
dismantling of 40 to 50 isolated Jewish settlements.

In a position paper published this week, the Council for Peace and Security
said troops being used to defend the settlements should be deployed along a
line close to the frontier between Israel and the West Bank.

In recent weeks, more than 200 Israeli reserve soldiers have declared they
will no longer serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Earlier Tuesday, Israeli airstrikes, shelling and a raid by undercover forces
killed eight Palestinians, including a 14-year-old girl, according to
Palestinian sources.

Also Tuesday, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up seconds after he
was pushed off an Israeli bus by its suspicious driver near the northern West
Bank settlement of Mehola, police said. There were no other casualties.

In all, the day of carnage left 15 dead: the suicide bomber, the eight
Palestinians, and the six Israelis.

A total of 25 Palestinians were wounded, including five children, according
to Palestinian sources.

In one Israeli strike, helicopter gunships fired three missiles at the office
of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the crowded Jebalya refugee camp,
killing two Palestinians and critically wounding four, including a
10-year-old girl, doctors said.

In the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, Israeli tank shells hit homes, killing three
Palestinian civilians, including a mother and her 14-year-old daughter,
Palestinian witnesses said. The army declined comment.

Later Tuesday, one of two Palestinians who shot at soldiers near a junction
in the Gaza Strip was killed by return fire, the army said.

Sharon decided after consultations with top security officials late Monday to
intensify military strikes but stop short of a large-scale military
operation. There will be no strategic change, but there will be wider use of
military means, said Sharon adviser Raanan Gissin.

In 17 months of fighting, Israel has launched air strikes against Palestinian
Authority installations, raided Palestinian areas, killed suspected militants
in targeted attacks and destroyed hundreds of acres of crops.

With 15 Israelis killed over six days, Sharon came under growing criticism by
hard-liners in his coalition.

He doesn't have the right to be prime minister when a Jew is killed every
hour, right-wing member of parliament Zvi Hendel told the Yediot Ahronot
daily.

Newspaper commentators said Sharon's policy had failed. The army should
either conquer the Palestinian territories, withdraw unilaterally or pursue a
peace agreement, Yoav LImor wrote in the Maariv daily.

Arafat said Tuesday that despite the Israeli reprisals, we are still
committed to the peace process. Israel accuses Arafat of professing
commitment to peace talks while quietly encouraging militants to carry out
attacks.

In Washington, the State Department repeated a call for Arafat to clamp down
on Palestinian militants.

We are deeply troubled by the continuing violence, State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said. We've made very clear that Chairman Arafat
and the Palestinian Authority must take strong, resolute and irreversible
action now to halt violence and terror.

In Amman, Jordan, King Abdullah II said that solving the Arab-Israeli
conflict can only be achieved through dialogue, not violence. The policy of
violence will only bring more tension and instability to the Middle East,
Abdullah said.

His comment came during a meeting with Richard N. Haass, the head of the U.S.
State Department's policy planning office, Jordan's official Petra news
agency reported.

Tuesday's events were the latest in a string of incidents which began Monday,
with three separate attacks.

On the outskirts of 

[CTRL] Supreme Court Will Reject Campaign 'Reform'

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Supreme Court Will Reject Campaign 'Reform'
NewsMax.com Wires
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002
HIGHLANDS, N.C. – The Shays-Meehan campaign finance bill passed the House
last week. The Senate considers it this week. The House focused on
constitutionality, as will the Senate. So will the White House internal
debate on whether to veto. What will the Supreme Court do?
The Supreme Court will decide that certain provisions of the act are
unconstitutional. The vote will be at least 7-2, perhaps 9-0.

There are minor differences between Shays-Meehan in the House and the
McCain-Feingold bill that previously passed the Senate. Those must be
reconciled. The final version must pass both Houses, including 60 votes in
the Senate to close debate if there is a filibuster. Both versions define as
crimes certain ads run by interest groups urging voters to support or oppose
candidates.

Seldom do congressional floor debates center on whether a bill is
unconstitutional. The Senate, like the House, probably will focus on the ad
ban and the First Amendment.

There are more than 25,000 interest groups headquartered in Washington, and
perhaps another 250,000 groups in states and localities. Under the bill, none
of these professional, trade and issue groups can publish ads urging support
or defeat of candidates for House, Senate or president within 60 days of a
general election or within 30 days of a primary. Only candidates
themselves, parties and news media can publish during those critical times
before national elections.

Blatantly Unconstitutional

The Constitution and the Supreme Court are clear on this subject. The First
Amendment says, Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of
the people peaceably to assemble and to petition ... for a redress of
grievances. This applies to organization, speech, and political activity.

The court has called voting the most basic right, because all other rights
depend on it. It has also said freedom of expression is essential to
elections.

Two cases predict what the Supreme Court would do. In First Nat'l Bank vs.
Bellotti, 1978, the court struck down a Massachusetts ad ban against
corporations in referendum elections. A bank concerned with a tax referendum
won the right to publish its views. In Virginia State Board of Pharmacy,
1976, the court struck a Virginia ban against druggists advertising their
prices.

In Bellotti, it was not the speech of citizens, but merely of a corporation.
In Virginia Pharmacy, there was no political content. Still, the court called
the ban highly paternalistic, concluding that the First Amendment has made
the choice between suppressing information and the dangers ... if it is
freely available.

In dozens of cases, political speech by citizens is the most protected right
in what Thomas Jefferson called the marketplace of ideas.

Not Right vs. Left

This will not be a narrow decision, split between conservative and
liberal justices. Such analysis is irrelevant here.

Concerning abortion, the ad ban equally silences National Organization for
Women and Right to Life. It equally tells Hand Gun Control and National Rifle
Association to sit down and shut up. Every organization, on all sides of
every issue, is equally silenced by this bill.

Attempts to stifle political speech always attract strange bedfellows. This
writer was part of the planning of Buckley vs. Valeo, 1976, which
successfully challenged the first campaign finance reform act. The general
counsel of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the legal director of ACLU were
together in that group. Today, NRA and ACLU will challenge this act.

Court action will be prompt. Like the 1974 act, the current bill provides
that legal challenges go to the three-judge court, then to the Supreme Court,
and should be accelerated on the dockets. Buckley went from trial to final
decision in just six months. This case may move even faster.

The bill itself demonstrates doubts of its supporters about
constitutionality. The ad ban contains alternative definitions of what is
prohibited. In effect it says to the court, if you won't accept A, try B.
Neither will survive.

Assuming this bill does pass, the last issue is a presidential veto. The
votes are not there to override a veto. Should President Bush veto the bill
as unconstitutional and hypocritical? Note that despite denouncing the
present system, supporters made the effective date Nov. 6, after the next
election. Nothing changes until then.

Should the president sign the act and let the Supreme Court decide? If so,
the court certainly will strike the ad ban and several other provisions.

Each branch of government has its own obligation to follow the First
Amendment, the liberty to discuss ... all matters of public concern per
Bellotti. Sometimes only the Supreme Court takes that duty seriously.
Analysis by 

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Buchanan, Nader Decry Campaign Finance Bill
Jim Burns, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002
Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and former Reform Party
presidential candidate Pat Buchanan say the Shays-Meehan campaign finance
legislation would infringe on free speech without ending corruption.
It's like trying to stop water from running downhill. It will squirt away
and keep running downhill and take our democracy with it, Nader said Monday
at a Washington news conference.

The bill was passed by the House last week and is awaiting debate in the
Senate, where a filibuster has been threatened. Nader did allow for some
qualified support for the bill, saying it would be better to pass the bill
because it broke the myth that Congress can never address any kind of
campaign finance reform.

But Buchanan split with Nader on the measure, noting his qualms about the
legislation.

I have a problem with the idea that groups of citizens as individuals to get
together are not going to be allowed to run ads for and against their
candidates and causes right up to Election Day, said Buchanan. I have a
First Amendment problem with that.

The Reform Party candidate, who previously sought the Republican presidential
nomination, said he was not a great believer in the efficacy of campaign
finance reform, and warned that further restrictions on political spending
might be a tough way to interfere with capitalist acts between consenting
adults.

In the Congress, they are looking for the corporate money, and the corporate
people are looking to buy votes and I think they are going to find a way down
the road to get together, Buchanan said.

The Libertarian Party worked actively against the Shays-Meehan bill and will
continue to work to defeat it.

Libertarians: 'Horrible Infringement'

Buchanan's concerns over First Amendment issues were echoed by Libertarian
Party political director Ron Crickenberger, who called the bill a horrible
infringement on free speech rights.

Crickenberger said the campaign finance proposals to limit political spending
by interest groups would amount to taking away the mutual funds of politics
and making it much harder for individual citizens to effect the process.

Although the House passed a major campaign finance bill for the first time
last week and similar measures have made it through the Senate in earlier
years, the fate of the Shays-Meehan bill remains murky.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., an ardent opponent of restrictions on political
spending, said Sunday that he expected 41 senators to oppose the bill, which
would be enough to prevent the House bill from coming up for a vote in the
Senate.

McConnell told Fox News Sunday that he had all but secured the vote of Sen.
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who had backed an earlier version of the bill, to
become the much-needed 41st vote to block the bill.

Senator Stevens ... is now on our side, said McConnell. I'm pretty
confident that I have 41 senators.



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a.  An armed man is a citizen.  An unarmed man is a subject.

b.  A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone

c.  Smith  Wesson: The original point and click interface.

d.  Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

e.  If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

f.  If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

g.  Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

h.  If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.

i.  Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

j.  The United States Constitution (c) 1791.  All Rights Reserved.

k.  What part of shall not be infringed do you not understand.

l.  The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.

m.  64,999,987 firearm owners killed no one yesterday.

n.  Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians.

o.  Know guns, Know peace and safety.  No guns, no peace nor safety.

p.  You don't shoot to kill; You shoot to stay alive.

q.  911 - government sponsored Dial a Prayer.

r.  Assault is a behavior, not a device.

s.  Criminals love gun control - it makes their jobs safer.

t.  If Guns cause Crime, then Matches cause Arson.

u.  Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens try to control them.

v.  You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

w.  Enforce the gun control laws in place, don't make more.

x.  When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

y.  The American Revolution would never have happened with Gun Control.

z.  a government by the people, for the people


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Propulsion Without Propellant Moving Ahead

Les Johnson, a scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala., inspects the nonconducting part of a tether as it exits a
deployer similar to the system to be used in NASA's Propulsive Small
Expendable Deployer (ProSEDS) experiment. Inexpensive and reusable, ProSEDS
technology draws power from the space environment around Earth, allowing the
transfer of energy from the Earth to the spacecraft. The ProSEDS experiment
is managed by the Space Transportation Directorate at the Marshall Center.
Huntsville - Feb 4, 2002
Propellant-free propulsion technology has taken a critical step toward
reality, completing a series of systems tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer system -- called ProSEDS -- is a
tether-based propulsion experiment that draws power from the space
environment around Earth, allowing the transfer of energy from the Earth to
the spacecraft.

Inexpensive and reusable, ProSEDS technology has the potential to turn
orbiting, in-space tethers into space tugboats -- replacing heavy, costly,
traditional chemical propulsion and enabling a variety of space-based
missions, such as the fuel-free raising and lowering of satellite orbits.

The initial flight of ProSEDS, scheduled for early summer, will mark the
first time a tether system is used for propulsion. To be launched from
Kennedy Space Center, Fla., ProSEDS will fly aboard an Air Force Delta II
rocket and demonstrate an electrodynamic tether's ability to generate
significant thrust.

We achieved an important milestone with our tests in November, said ProSEDS
project manager Leslie Curtis of the Marshall Center's Space Transportation
Directorate. Using a vacuum chamber to represent the space environment, we
successfully simulated the first 16 hours of the experiment's initial flight.

In orbit, ProSEDS will deploy from a Delta-II second stage a 3.1-mile-long (5
kilometers), ultra-thin bare-wire tether connected with a 6.2-mile-long (10
kilometers) non-conducting tether. The interaction of the bare-wire tether
with the Earth's ionosphere will produce thrust, thus lowering the altitude
of the stage.

Although the mission could last as long as three weeks, the first day is the
most critical, because the primary objective of demonstrating thrust with the
tether should be achieved during the experiment's first 24 hours.

During the mission profile tests last November, engineers from the Marshall
Center, along with their partners in academia and industry, tested the
experiment's multiple systems as if the flight were actually taking place.

We took ProSEDS through every step of the mission's first 16 hours, Curtis
said. We operated its hardware, batteries, cables and software, activated
and deactivated systems, and collected and transmitted data as we would
during an actual flight.

During the tests, all subsystems functioned as designed, including the hollow
cathode plasma contactor, a critical component that enables the tether system
to complete its electrical circuit.

During the flight, the process of collecting energy will begin when the
electromagnetic portion of the tether collects electrical current along the
tether's length as it moves through the Earth's magnetic field. To keep the
current flowing, the plasma contactor reconnects the electrons with the
invisible, electrically charged plasma that surrounds the Earth, emitting the
electrons back into space so it can complete its circuit.

We were pleased to see the plasma contactor perform well throughout the
test, even under conditions outside its expected operating range, said
Curtis. It demonstrated the robustness of its design and the performance
range of the ProSEDS operating system. The contactor was designed and built
by the Electric Propulsion Laboratory in Monument, Colo.

Additional testing of ProSEDS hardware leading to its launch will include
thermal testing, tether deployment and final system verification with flight
software.

NASA's industry team for the ProSEDS experiment includes the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, Alpha Technologies of Huntsville, Ala., Electric
Propulsion Laboratory of Monument Colo., the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., Tether Applications Inc. of Chula Vista,
Calif., and Triton Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass.

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SAUDIS STEP UP TO THE PLATE

EXPECT ANOTHER STRIKE-OUT, IF NOT WORSE

 Furthermore this whole matter also has the scent
 of the Americans and the Israelis all over it as
well...
 as they attempt to manipulate the upcoming Arab
 League meeting and divert it from actually acting
 firmly and harshly against both Israel and the U.S.
 as today's unprecedented situation truly requires.

MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/17/2002:
 Crown Prince Abdullah certainly doesn't read MID-EAST REALITIES -- or he
certainly wouldn't be privately meeting with Tom Friedman in the first place
and supposedly rewarding him with this scoop.   There are many ways to do
things; and the Saudis have specialized in doing things in the wrong ways for
the wrong reasons for a very long time now.  Back in 1990, for instance, the
Saudis thought they were taking another unprecedented step when they invited
Martin Indyk to be their guest in Riyadh, an idea pushed forward by none
other than their Ambassador in Washington, Bandar bin Sultan, working
ever-more-closely with the Americans and Israelis at the time because of the
impending Gulf War.  Bandar pushed Indyk forward and personally issued him
the coveted visa as someone who had become a personal friend.   Now at the
time Indyk was actually the Executive Director of the hawkish Israeli lobby
think-tank in Washington -- but in the Kingdom he was presented to most at
least as just an important Middle East analyst.   Indyk and the lobby then
used this important legitimacy and Indyk's many Arab friendships in order
to propel the Israeli lobbyist into Bill Clinton's White House delegated to
be in charge of pushing forward the apartheid-style peace process,
something very much wanted by the Israelis at the time.
 More importantly at this historic moment, anyone who believes this whole
thing regarding Abdullah and the Saudis is innocent and really just happened
to happen as Tom Friedman reports just doesn't understand the way the world
really works.   This whole matter has the smell of Ambassador Bandar all over
it; and its not the rich and sweet smell of his expensive and excessive
cologne.  Furthermore this whole matter also has the scent of the Americans
and the Israelis all over it as well...as they attempt to manipulate the
upcoming Arab League meeting and divert it from actually acting firmly and
harshly against both Israel and the U.S. as today's unprecedented situation
truly requires.



   SAUDI CROWN PRINCE SAYS CONSIDERED OFFERING PEACE TO ISRAEL

[Ha'aretz Service - 17 February] -  The Saudi Crown Prince, Abdullah bin
Abdul Aziz al-Saud, has considered proposing that the Arab world offer Israel
full normalization of relations in exchange for full withdrawal from all the
occupied territories in accord with UN resolutions, including in Jerusalem,
The New York Times reported Sunday.

New York Times columnist Thomas Freidman writes in his column that Saudi
Arabia's de facto ruler told him in a recent interview that he has the speech
already written to make such a proposal, but that he decided not to deliver
it due to the high level of violence under the government of Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon.

During the interview, Friedman first suggested such an idea that the Arab
countries offer normalization to Israel in exchange for a withdrawal
according the the UN resolutions, to which the Crown Prince replied by asking
if the New York Times columnist had broken into his desk.

I have drafted a speech along those lines, he said. My thinking was to
deliver it before the Arab summit and try to mobilize the entire Arab world
behind it. The speech is written, and it is in my desk. But I changed my mind
about delivering it when Sharon took the violence, and the oppression, to an
unprecedented level.

I wanted to find a way to make clear to the Israeli people that the Arabs
don't reject or despise them, he added. But the Arab people do reject what
their leadership is now doing to the Palestinians, which is inhumane and
oppressive. And I thought of this as a possible signal to the Israeli
people.




 AN INTRIGUING SIGNAL FROM THE SAUDI CROWN PRINCE
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

[NEW YORK TIMES - 17 February - R IYADH, Saudi Arabia]  —  Earlier this
month, I wrote a column suggesting that the 22 members of the Arab League, at
their summit in Beirut on March 27 and 28, make a simple, clear-cut proposal
to Israel to break the Israeli-Palestinian impasse: In return for a total
withdrawal by Israel to the June 4, 1967, lines, and the establishment of a
Palestinian state, the 22 members of the Arab League would offer Israel full
diplomatic 

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For The Return of America's Missing Servicemen
World War II - Korea - Cold War - Vietnam - Gulf War

Dolores Alfond - 425-881-1499
Lynn O'Shea --- 718-846-4350
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February 9, 2002  Bits N Pieces

We Extend Our Deepest Sympathy To The Families Of Our Servicemen and
Women
Who Have Lost Their Lives In America's War On Terrorism.
We Honor Those Servicemen and Women Who Serve Our Country.


The National Alliance of Families mourns the passing of Matthew Carr,
brother
of POW/MIA Donald Carr.  Matthew passed in December.

The National Alliance of Families mourns the passing, on January 20th,
of
POW/MIA advocate Lillian Roberts of Hobart, Indiana.

To the Carr and Roberts' families we offer our deepest sympathy.
#

457 South Korean POWs Believed To Be Alive In North - from the Korea
Herald,
January 18th, The Defense Ministry said yesterday that 457 former South
Korean soldiers are being held in North Korea after being captured by
communist forces during the Korean War (1950-53).We have secured a list
of
457 South Korean prisoners of war (POWs) believed to be alive in the
North,
a ministry spokesman said.

The number is an increase from 385, which the ministry tallied in July
last
year. A total of 23 South Korean POWs have returned home after fleeing
the
North since 1994, including six last year, the official said.  An
interagency
task force met Wednesday to review the government measures on POWs,
including
the legal status of POWs remaining in the North. The South's POWs in the
North are considered deceased, and their families are granted government
assistance. The official said their legal status will not be changed
until
they are confirmed alive upon their return to South Korean territory.
The
government will continue efforts to trace the POWs in the North and have
all
of them repatriated, and assist returned POWs in the South in accordance
with
law, the official said.  The task force first convened in January in
1999
and held the sixth meeting this week.  In 2000, Seoul repatriated more
than
60 former North Korean spies and soldiers following the inter-Korean
summit
in June. But the North returned none of the South Korean POWs or others
believed to have been abducted.
#

Make That 456 - The 24th South Korean POW Held By North Korea Escapes -
from
the Associated Press, February 1, 2002, Seoul, South Korea (AP) - A
former
South Korean soldier who was captured by communist forces during the
1950-53
Korean War has returned home after fleeing the North, the government
said
Friday.

Kim Jong-wan, 73, was among 13 people who arrived recently in South
Korea
after escaping from North Korea, said the National Intelligence  Service
in a
news release. The others were North Korean citizens, and two will be
reunited
with family members who had already fled to the South.

The man was taken prisoner during a battle in central Korea during the
1950-53 war. He spent most of his life working at a coal mine in the
North
before escaping in December, the agency said. It did not reveal other
details, such as the former soldier's escape route.  Most North Korean
defectors arrive via China. But South Korean authorities usually do not
identify China out of respect for that  country's relations with North
Korea.

Over the years, 24 South Korean POWs have returned home after fleeing
the
North. South Korea believes North Korea still holds 300 South Korean
soldiers captured during the war. Pyongyang denies it . . . 
###

U.S. Navy At Cam Ranh Bay??? - Dateline Hanoi, from the  Associated
Press,
February 2, 2002, By David Thurber - The United States is interested in
closer military ties with former enemy Vietnam, including visits by U.S.
Navy
ships, the commander of American forces in the Pacific said Saturday.

Admiral Dennis Blair, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command,
said
military ties between the countries still focus on their past war,
including
attempts to account for personnel listed as missing in action.  I think
it's
time to transition and look more toward the future, he said.  Blair,
the
first recent Pacific commander in chief who did not fight in Vietnam,
met
in
Hanoi with Vietnamese Defense Minister Pham Van Tra  and other
military officials . . . 

... Blair described this week's visit, his first, as productive. I
think
we're moving in a positive direction in military relations, he said.
Deputy
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Blair's visit was an important
step in accelerating the multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and
the
U.S., the official Vietnam News Agency reported.

Overall ties between the nations, although strained by periodic
disagreements over human rights, have warmed since the approval in
December
of an agreement establishing normal trade 

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U.S., Britain Conduct Joint Nuclear Test
February 15, 2002
Reuters

The United States and Britain yesterday conducted their first joint nuclear
experiment allowed under the global Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, officials
said. The test was conducted deep underneath the Nevada desert.

Officials said the subcritical nuclear experiment was aimed at maintaining
the safety and reliability of both nations' atomic weapons without resorting
to underground nuclear blasts. In a subcritical test, there is no nuclear
explosion. Scientists can use the experiments to draw conclusions about
materials such as plutonium.

The National Nuclear Security Administration said the experiment took place
about 960 feet beneath the Earth's surface at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
(4:30 p.m. EST) at the Nevada Test Site, 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Subcritical nuclear experiments are allowed under the treaty signed by 165
countries, including Britain and the United States.

The Bush administration has refused to forward the treaty to Congress for
ratification and did not attend a global conference in November 2001 on the
treaty's entry into force.

Some critics have argued subcritical tests could allow the United States to
develop new warhead designs.



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0258.  Combat controller brings in initial OEF airflow

by Tech. Sgt. Ginger Schreitmueller
Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFPN) -- Among an Air Force combat controller's many
missions is the ability to provide air traffic control under the most
austere conditions.  Within the first few days of Operation Enduring
Freedom, one combat controller proved his long years of training in this
skill as a valuable asset to the mission.

Master Sgt. Bart Decker, an 18-year combat control veteran, was among the
first to arrive at a forward-deployed base in Uzbekistan in October to
support America's war on terrorism.  Within days of arriving, Decker put his
expertise to work.  In order to bring the force, needed supplies and
equipment to the fight, Decker and fellow combat controllers had to tackle
the antiquated air traffic control systems in place.

The tower and the runway [were] not in bad condition, and the host nation
was actively using [them], Decker said.  However, the control tower was
set up with Cold War-era equipment with 1950's technology.  It had fairly
old systems that weren't in the best of shape.

Since combat control teams had surveyed the tower equipment and runway
systems in advance, the controllers came prepared to augment the existing
gear.

As a standard, controllers deploy with portable navigational and
communications systems to establish austere runways and landing zones
without the benefit of an existing tower or large communications or
navigational systems.

In this case, the controllers knew existing systems were useable but more
modern equipment would better meet the needs of the mission.

The in-place radar system was not up to today's technology and would limit
the ability to bring U.S. aircraft in bad weather and if visibility was not
perfect, Decker said.

This was a critical factor as winter was moving in and dust storms are
common occurrences in the region.

After integrating a U.S. navigational system and portable lights along the
runway and approach end, the controllers set up their mobile microwave
landing system.

MMLS is a mobile antennae system that enhances our ability to keep the
airflow going, Decker said.  Weather and dust storms could limit the
ability of the aircraft to get in and out of the airfield.  The MMLS
provides the aircrew a [means to] 'stair-step down' through clouds or dust
storms, to bring them in to be able to see the runway. The radar system in
place at the airfield was a basic system, which would limit our ability to
bring the airflow in to the base.

Though the MMLS was used during peacekeeping operations in Bosnia, this is
the first combat employment of the system.

We train on the system and know it would provide us enhanced air traffic
control capabilities under the circumstances in country, Decker said.

Based on information from the advance team, we arrived at the site with the
system so we could begin air traffic control operations quickly, he said.
It worked perfectly and ensured we could bring in the aircraft safely.  We
averaged about 15 sorties a day, around-the-clock airflow; bringing the
aircraft in, getting them moved and unloaded, and flying them back out
again.

A team of combat controllers worked 24-hour shifts throughout the first
weeks of the operation to bring the force to the fight.

Our team brought in the initial airflow of C-17 [Globemaster III] aircraft
to the forward location, Decker said.  The C-17s brought in everything
needed to establish the base camp, from people to supplies.

Despite the obstacles faced with the equipment, Decker said working with
host nation controllers was a positive experience.  The host nation
controllers and combat controllers worked in unison to bring in the airflow.

They received the initial call from another tower that aircraft [were]
inbound, he said.  From there, they passed us the information and we began
interfacing with the main radar to pick up the in-coming planes.

The working relationship did mean overcoming the language barrier, but
Decker said the cooperation was good.

We had interpreters who helped with the language barriers, but after a few
days of working in the tower together we developed a good rapport with our
host nation controllers, Decker said.  One of the host nation controllers
even brought in a chess board and we all started playing chess during any
quiet times.

After several weeks of providing critical air traffic control for the U.S.
military transporters, Decker and his team of controllers brought in the
bare-base support, supplies and people to turn the dot on the map into a
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by Maj. Paul Koscak
Air Force Print News

WASHINGTON -- Air Force and Department of Defense officials told members of
the Senate Armed Services Committee on Feb. 13 that 

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Once upon a time there was a place called the United States of America.

I remember the way it was back then.  During Veteran's Day ,Memorial Day
and
4th of July Parades thousands of people were there lining the streets.The
Band,the Boy Scouts, the World War 1,World war II and Korean War Veterans
marched with us as the drums beat and the fireworks sounded in the sky.

Back then in America the USA was number one in the world in banking,
farming, business, industry, mining, manufacturing, education, military might
and most of all number one in Freedom, Liberty and Happiness.

We could leave our home for a day with the doors unlocked and stealing
was unheard of.  Crime in itself was a rare thing because the nation had high
morals and ethics -police only arrested the worst of people but most could be
warned once and they never repeated it.  The Chief of Police and the Sheriff
were the only authorities that were needed in those days.

On Saturday nights children could ride their bikes through different
ethnic neighborhoods even past bars and they were still safe as they played.
Neighbors visited each other frequently and people on the streets used to
smile -they were happy.

Jobs were so plentiful you could quit Ford Motor Company and go across
the street and work for General Motors without missing a paycheck.  Mom
stayed home and dad could feed 7 kids.

You could hitchhike across the entire USA in a couple days with a couple
rides.  The hitch-hiker and the drivers were safe.

Our fathers left their guns out in the open and none of the children
would touch them .  When we were older we took guns to school and shot on the
target range out back and used them to hunt after school.  If there was a
domestic dispute in the neighborhood or a fight in school it was with the
fists.  They shook hands afterwords and the looser bought the victor a Coke.

People said what they believed whether Democrat or Republican and stood
by what they said.  Freedom of Speech, the Right the Bear Arms and Personal
Privacy were not privileges with limitations after paying for some license.
The Civil Rights /Constitutional Rights were automatic and exercised to
the fullest extent by the individual as a sealed Birth -Right .  When you
were born an American you were Born Free.  The price of Liberty was paid
for by the blood of millions of War Veterans!

Then on November 22,1963 JFK was killed.It was one assassination after
the other followed by Anti-Vietnam War rallies and Civil Rights Marches.

The Invisible Enemy Within - a secret
Military-Industrial-Complex-President Eisenhower warned the nation about on
national TV-brought drugs into the country via Air America, Project Pheonix,
and Task Force 35.  Todays Taleban were a part of the Golden Triangle of the
CIA.

Hollywood operated by the lowest order of social scum on the planet
pumped out evil role models that twisted the American youths minds into total
perversion.

Greedy corporate America paid off the Federal Government in kickbacks and
corruption flourished in all spheres.

Today you cannot leave your home for a day even if you have burglar
alarms and guard dogs watching your house.

Today the USA has more people in prison per capita than any country on
planet earth.

Today the government, corporations and people in general are corrupt ,
perverted, vile and without any ethics what so ever.

Today the USA ranks 10th,20th and 30th in farming,industry and education.

Today according to the United Nations the USA is supposed to disarm it's
military while the rest of the world is arming itself with nuclear weapons to
the teeth.

Today you have little Freedom of Speech, practically no Personal Privacy
and the United Nations wants our guns.

Today the Utopian schemers are so confident they are winning on
destroying the USA they openly admit they want to eliminate much of the
world's population-as soon as possible.

Today the entire media is totally controlled by the Secret Evil Empire
and the masses of citizens have forgotten who they once were.

Today legislation and legal Constitutional Law is over-riden by Pro-New
World Order courts .

Today the looks on Americans faces on the street is no longer happiness
and promise of a better tomorrow.  The jobs have been systematically sent
overseas for slave labor,the farms have been seized by the government ,the
national forests have been turned over to the United Nations.  Then there are
foreign troops training with a new facist breed of goose-stepping American
Gestapo.  This egomaniac breed of ruthless killers and thugs have shot women
and children at labor rallies and killed innocent people-including children
in SWAT nite raids.

We are told we must live in a Police State against terrorists the Evil
Empire created itself.  Instead we are 

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The following was found in the text section of the Congressional Record at
http://thomas.loc.gov and it is so new, the legislation itself has not yet
been posted on the Thomas bill section.

--Henrietta

INTRODUCTION OF THE MONETARY FREEDOM AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT -- HON. RON PAUL
(Extensions of Remarks - February 14, 2002)


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HON. RON PAUL
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the Monetary Freedom and
Accountability Act. This simple bill takes a step toward restoring
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Congress' constitutional authority over the monetary policy of the United
States by requiring Congressional approval before the President or the
Treasury Secretary buys or sells gold.

Federal dealings in the gold market have the potential to seriously disrupt
the free market by either artificially inflating or deflating the price of
gold. Given gold's importance to America's (and the world's) monetary system,
any federal interference in the gold market will have ripple effects through
the entire economy. For example, if the government were to intervene to
artificially lower the price of gold, the result would be to hide the true
effects of an inflationary policy until the damage was too severe to remain
out of the public eye.

By artificially deflating the price of gold, federal actions in the gold
market can reduce the values of private gold holdings, adversely effecting
millions of investors. These investors rely on their gold holdings to protect
them from the effects of our misguided fiat currency system. Federal dealings
in gold can also adversely affect those countries with large gold mines, many
of which are currently ravished by extreme poverty. Mr. Speaker, restoring a
vibrant gold market could do more than any foreign aid program to restore
economic growth to these areas.

While the Treasury denies it is dealing in gold, the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee (GATA) has uncovered evidence suggesting that the Federal Reserve
and the Treasury, operating through the Exchange-Stabilization Fund and in
cooperation with major banks and the International Monetary Fund, have been
interfering in the gold market with the goal of lowering the price of gold.
The purpose of this policy has been to disguise the true effects of the
monetary bubble responsible for the artificial prosperity of the 1990s and to
protect the politically-powerful banks who are heavily invested in gold
derivatives. GATA believes federal actions to drive down the price of gold
help protect the profits of these banks at the expense of investors,
consumers, and taxpayers around the world.

GATA has also produced evidence that American officials are involved in gold
transactions. Alan Greenspan himself referred to the federal government's
power to manipulate the price of gold at a hearing before the House Banking
Committee and the Senate Agricultural Committee in July, 1998: ``Nor can
private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose
derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand
ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.''
[Emphasis added].

Mr. Speaker, in order to allow my colleagues to learn more about this issue,
I am enclosing ``All that Glitters is Not Gold'' by Kelly Patricia O'Meara,
an investigative reporter from Insight magazine. This article explains in
detail GATA's allegations of Federal involvement in the gold market.

Mr. Speaker, while I certainly share GATA's concerns over the effects of
federal dealings in the gold market, my bill in no way interferes with the
ability of the federal government to buy or sell gold. It simply requires
that before the executive branch engages in such transactions, Congress has
the chance to review it, debate it, and approve it.

Given the tremendous effects on the American economy from the federal
dealings in the gold market, it certainty is reasonable that the people's
representatives have a role in approving these transactions, especially since
Congress has an all-too-neglected Constitutional role in overseeing monetary
policy. Therefore, I urge all my colleagues to stand up for sound economics,
open government and Congress' constitutional role in monetary policy by
cosponsoring the Monetary Freedom and Accountability Act.

[Insight Magazine, March 4, 2002]
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD
(By Kelly Patricia O'Meara)
Even though Enron employees and the company's accounting firm, Arthur
Andersen, have destroyed mountains of documents, enough information remains
in the ruins of the nation's largest corporate bankruptcy to provide a clear
picture of what happened to wreck what once was the seventh-largest U.S.
corporation.

Obfuscation, secrecy, and accounting tricks appear to have catapulted the
Houston-based trader of oil and gas to 

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the substance of religion; when these prevail, civil laws will have
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FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE

Top of the fold...

Ignoring their oaths to support the Constitution, a majority of the
House of Representatives early Thursday passed campaign finance
reform legislation, 240-189. Referring to the money swamping
politics, bill sponsor Marty Meehan (D-Taxachusetts) claimed, James
Madison would be rolling over in his grave if he could see the
attempted influence buying. But we think not!

We think these statements more akin to Madison's view: This bill does
not contain real reform. Instead, this bill strips citizens of their
political rights and unconstitutionally attempts to regulate political
speech, noted Rep. Tom DeLay. Observed Federal Election Commission
Chairman David Mason, In fact, the Shays-Meehan bill would make it
more difficult to achieve consistent, fair, and, yes, vigorous
enforcement of campaign finance laws. Furthermore, certain significant
provisions of Shays-Meehan are so complex, so vague, or so broad as to
be unworkable, or unenforceable. NRA Chief Executive Officer Wayne
LaPierre warned, Shays-Meehan attacks the very heart of the First
Amendment. We will fight this infringement right up to the U.S.
Supreme Court on behalf of all Americans. Fairness and free speech
cannot be victims of politics.

The bill is more accurately called Demo incumbent protection act
than reform, and it violates constitutional rights on several scores
-- notably, free speech, freedom of the press, free association, and
free use of property. As Madison and all the Founding Fathers well
understood, factions would often arise in politics to press for
common goals, and a free people could never suppress factionalism
without destroying liberty. But there is nothing about money in
politics that couldn't be better fixed by injection of a little
integrity into politicos! Now, the issue moves back to the Senate,
which earlier passed a similar bill, and President George W. Bush has
indicated he will sign into law any improvement over existing
campaign finance rules.

But hey, at least it leaves all the Leftlabor graft and payola
untouched!

In other news, on the overseas warfront against Jihadistan, typifying
the enemy we face, a suspected al Qaeda terrorist cornered in Yemen
blew himself up with a grenade rather than be taken prisoner. In
eastern Afghanistan, a team of forensic specialists gathered
biological evidence to determine if Osama bin Laden was among those
killed in a U.S. missile attack last week against members of his al
Qaeda terrorist network. The evidence collection also turned up U.S.
credit card applications and airline schedules. Sources say bin Laden
was in a village near the missile strike site a few days before the
February 4th operation. (We suppose that U.S. intelligence either has
collected DNA samples from members of bin Laden's family for
comparison -- or Monica Lewinsky was a one-time intern to Osama and
she saved the blue burqa as a souvenir!)

Reactions to President Bush's naming names in calling Iraq, Iran and
North Korea the axis of evil continued arriving -- with our European
allies alternately wailing and sniping. Evidently they have not yet
gotten over the Clinton-era propensity of treating words as weapons
and weapons as words. (You know what we mean ... like saying a cruise
missile was lobbed to send a message! Only message ordnance can
send is Boom!)

Mr. Bush said Wednesday of the Iraqi tyrant, President Saddam Hussein
needs to understand I am serious about defending our country. Mr.
Bush repeated that he will keep all options available to deal
appropriately with the Iraqi threat to our countrymen and allies,
including the possibility of a U.S. stand-alone strike. This is not
an argument about whether to get rid of Saddam Hussein. That debate is
over. This is ... how you do it, an unnamed senior administration
official said, about plans to gear up for Iraq as the next major
battlefront in the anti-terror war. Former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher backed up Mr. Bush's stance: His 

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THE SIMPLE TRUTHS

It is time for Americans to be educated and informed with TRUTH!   Congress
must accept its Constitutional responsibilities and restore sanity to
government.  Abusive and tyrannical dictatorship against the sovereign
citizens of the sovereign States  and the world is un-constitutional. We have
been fed enough political hog wash on studies and committees appointed  for
this and that to last ten life times.  We know Income Tax is
un-constitutional as it is applied to the masses.  We know that Executive
Orders as applied to the masses is un-constitutional  as this is a blue print
to dictatorship.  There are now over 13,000 executive orders on the books!
We know that Foreign Aid is un-constitutional.  We know the governments
method of enforcing and forcing Seizures and Forfeitures, EPA, Social
Security, Welfare and any number of a thousand other great humanitarian
schemes are un-constitutional.  You should also know that the American
government signed a document in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the 1976
United Nations Conference on Human Settlements that says, in part: Land
...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and
subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market.  Private land
ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of
wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice...Public control of land
use is therefore indispensable...  America was founded on the belief that
individuals should own the land.  In fact, the Constitution says that the
federal government should own only that land required for public buildings
and facilities.  Yet today, the federal government is the largest land owner
in the United States.

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have:  no federal
meddling in our schools;  no Federal Reserve;  no U.S. membership in the UN;
no gun control;  and no foreign aid.  We would have no welfare for big
corporations, or the poor;  no American troops in 100 foreign countries;
no NAFTA, GATT, or fast-track;  no federal judges usurping states rights;
no attacks on private property;  and no income tax.  We could get rid of most
of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget.
The government would be small, frugal, and limited.  - Congressman Ron Paul

America has been corruptly federalized.  Even our governors, county
commissions, mayors and their departments run amuck.  They have reduced
themselves to little more than a pack of wild dogs, mindlessly marching to
the tune of a geometrically expanding federal regulatory tyranny.

People in America are not free men and women.  We are like branded cattle, we
are tracked and manipulated from the cradle to the grave.  We are federally
numbered pieces of dumbed down chattel slave meat.  If you think this is an
exaggeration just try to accomplish anything in the United States without
showing your federal Social Security (SSA tattoo) or a state drivers license.
 You will starve to death.

If you do not want drugs in your home don't bring them in, or allow them.  If
you do not want immorality in your home don't bring it in or allow it. If you
do not want to be a slave, draw a line in the sand and refuse to participate
or support those who claim to be your master.  Hopefully these simple truths
will set you free.

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World Government by Design
by Steve Bonta

America's subservience to the United Nations and transformation into the
world's policeman is not accidental but is part of a grand design to
establish world government.


As with so many of history's so-called trends, America's transformation into
global policeman isn't accidental. Official admissions of this little-known
truth aren't commonplace, but they do occur. Take journalist Michael Hirsh's
stunning comments in a recent issue of Newsweek, for example. Buried more
than four pages into an otherwise typical anti-isolationism screed entitled
Death of a Founding Myth, we find the following:

While the isolationists … tempted millions with their siren's appeal to
nativism — the internationalists were always hard at work in quiet places
making plans for a more perfect global community. In the end the
internationalists have always dominated national policy. Even so, they
haven't bragged about their globe-building for fear of reawakening the other
half of the American psyche, our berserker nativism. And so they have always
done it in the most out-of-the-way places and with little ado. In December
1917 the Inquiry, a group of eager reformers who included a young Walter
Lippmann, secretly met in New York to draw up Wilson's Fourteen Points. In
1941, FDR concocted the Atlantic Charter in the mists off Newfoundland. The
dense woods of New Hampshire gave birth to the Bretton Woods institutions —
the IMF and World Bank — in 1944. And a year later the United Nations came to
life at the secluded Georgetown estate of Dumbarton Oaks So what emerged
took us more or less by surprise. We had built a global order without quite
realizing it, bit by bit, era by era, with our usual schizoid approach:
alternating engagement and withdrawal Like it or not — and clearly large
numbers of Americans still don't — we Americans are now part of an organic
whole with the world that George Washington wanted to keep distant.

Leaving aside the snide reference to George Washington, and Hirsh's shifty
use of the term we, what of the claim that America has been deliberately,
semi-secretly maneuvered into globalism, that her berserker nativism (i.e.,
patriotism) has been neutralized by stealth and subterfuge?

Background to Betrayal

Hirsh is absolutely correct. America's modern obsession with
internationalism, including global militarism, is hardly a grass-roots
impulse. It all started, as Hirsh observes, with Woodrow Wilson and the war
to make the world safe for democracy. Wilson himself was a left-leaning
idealist, in step with the progressives and socialists of his day with their
heady designs of making America over in their own image. But, as is ever the
case with idealists in the arena of practical politics, Wilson was ultimately
the tool of other men, men of cunning and ambition far surpassing his own.

One of Wilson's keepers was Edward Mandell House, a longtime political
operative from Texas who had learned to work the levers of power behind the
scenes. House had been born into wealth and privilege and had no visceral
need for fame. The consummate political insider, House manipulated Wilson's
internationalist idealism as a personal confidant to the president but
declined any official appointments.

House was the real impetus behind the Inquiry, a semisecret group of
internationalist intellectuals including Harvard-trained journalist and
co-founder of The New Republic Walter Lippmann. Many members of the Inquiry,
including both House and Lippmann, were also involved in the negotiations at
Versailles following World War I.

The Inquiry created the Fourteen Points, the famous set of postwar policy
recommendations that included as its centerpiece the League of Nations, the
predecessor of the United Nations. Despite a blizzard of propaganda on its
behalf, the League of Nations was ultimately defeated in the U.S. Senate, an
act that set back the plans of House and his associates. But House, ever the
patient pragmatist, joined with many others who had thrown their energy into
the League of Nations and formed the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the
American counterpart of the London-based Royal Institute of International
Affairs. The Council on Foreign Relations aspired to nothing less than
creating conditions favorable for the establishment of a world government —
although in recent decades, globalist elites have generally avoided using
that politically risky phrase.

With the outbreak of World War II, internationalists in the CFR and elsewhere
had another chance to convince a reluctant American Congress (and public) of
the wisdom of a world order. Accordingly, the United Nations was created and
this time, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the UN treaty.

From the beginning, the architects 

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How Best to Achieve Justice?
by William Norman Grigg

A military response to the Black Tuesday atrocity was necessary, but the
ongoing war on terrorism fails several critical moral and constitutional
tests.


Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun, declared President
Bush in his January 29th State of the Union address. This campaign may not
be finished on our watch - yet it must and it will be waged on our watch.
While the president's display of resolution drew enthusiastic bipartisan
applause, it provoked a more ambivalent response from those who recall that
throughout history, war has been regarded as a curse - a pitiless scourge
that depletes national wealth, constricts individual freedom, and devours the
lives of the bravest men.

James Madison observed in 1795, Of all the enemies to public liberty, war
is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the
germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts
and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for
bringing the many under the domination of the few No nation could
preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

President Bush's address seemed an ironic tribute to the accuracy of
Madison's dire warning. Set against the backdrop of a potentially endless
war, Mr. Bush's speech outlined vast new expenditures for the military and
the new homeland defense apparatus, as well as a new national service
initiative that would accelerate the regimentation of our nation's domestic
life. The address also acknowledged that the war on terror would require a
new round of deficit spending.

Of course, our nation should not remain passive in the face of the Black
Tuesday atrocity. The blood of our innocent dead cries out for justice - both
the eternal justice that God alone can provide, and the temporal variety that
our government was intended to pursue. But a righteous cause does not
consecrate morally defective means. When measured against the U.S.
Constitution and the Christian Just War tradition, the ongoing war on
terrorism must be judged a morally tainted exercise.

Moral Tests of War

Although the Just War concept is most strongly identified with the Catholic
faith, its principles have been widely accepted throughout Christendom. St.
Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas are regarded as the fathers of the Just War
doctrine, and notable scholars of the law of nations, such as 17th-century
Dutch legal commentator Hugo Grotius and 18th-century Swiss jurist Emmerich
de Vattel, have also elaborated on the concept. The just-war tradition is
not an algebra that provides custom-made, clear-cut answers under all
circumstances, notes Catholic scholar George Weigel. Rather, it is intended
to provide guidance to public authorities on whom the responsibilities of
decision-making fall.

Just War theory involves two sets of moral criteria: the jus ad bello, or
war decision law; and jus in bello, or war conduct law. To be regarded as
morally sound, a responsible public authority must make the decision to go
to war. It must be the product of a right intention, such as
re-establishing justice when offended, repairing an injury, or defending
oneself against aggression, observes Msgr. Luigi Civardi. The envisioned war
must also be proportionate - meaning that the good accomplished by war
would be greater than the evil that would result were another alternative
pursued. And all other reasonable avenues of redress must be exhausted before
a nation resorts to arms.

A morally sound decision to go to war being made, the ensuing campaign is
subject to the war conduct law. This standard deals, once again, with the
test of proportionality, as well as the principle of discrimination. Dr.
Charles Rice, a professor of law at Notre Dame University, explains that
Proportionality relates not only to the war itself (i.e., the whole
enterprise must be for a proportionate good), but also to the use of
particular tactics or weapons Under the principle of discrimination,
Dr. Rice continues, it can never be justified intentionally to kill innocent
noncombatants - although it could be morally justified to attack a military
target of sufficient importance and urgency even though the attacker knows,
but does not intend, that innocent civilians in the vicinity will be killed.

Significantly, the Bush administration has insisted that its conduct of the
opening phase of the war on terrorism - the bombing campaign against
Afghanistan - comports with the Just War doctrine's war conduct law.
Writing in the December 24th issue of The Weekly Standard, Joe Loconte, a
religious scholar with the Heritage Foundation, described a meeting at the
Pentagon between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a group of Catholic,
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But the president, in any case, conspicuously declined to request a
declaration of war from Congress. Some observers have claimed that since only
a scant handful of Muslim states recognized the Taliban junta, it was
illegitimate - and thus not a proper target of a declaration of war. But
President Bush treated the Taliban as the legitimate governing authority when
he demanded its cooperation in arresting and extraditing terrorists. If the
Taliban was a suitable subject for a presidential ultimatum, it was just as
suitable a target for a congressional declaration of war.

Under the law of nations as understood by the Founding Fathers,
declarations of war are intended to put both governments and their subjects
on notice of impending hostilities. Reflecting the recognized international
conventions at the time of the American founding, Emmerich de Vattel pointed
out in his definitive work The Law of Nations that issuing a declaration of
war is a duty owed to humanity, and especially to the lives and peace of the
subjects of the hostile government. By issuing such a declaration, the
aggrieved nation formally notifies that unjust nation, or its chief, that we
are at length going to have recourse to the last remedy, for the purpose of
bringing him to reason.

Vattel also emphasized that where custom has introduced certain formalities
in the business of declaring war, those formalities must be dutifully
observed, unless they have been set … aside by a public renunciation. In
the case of the United States of America, the formalities in question are
specifically defined not by custom, but by the Constitution - which has not
been amended to relieve the president of his duty to seek a formal
declaration from Congress.

Congressional Abdication

Prior to the president's September 20, 2001 address, Congress passed a joint
resolution authorizing the president to use all necessary and appropriate
force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned,
authorized, or aided the terrorist attacks on September 11. (Emphasis
added.) As commentator Sheldon Richman observes, that resolution was not a
declaration of war, but a grant of Caesarian power. When asked if the
president would have to obtain congressional authorization to attack nations
other than Afghanistan, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) replied:
No, he certainly wouldn't have to clear it with us. He's an independent
branch of government. Daschle's reply misrepresents the Constitution's
division of war powers between the executive and legislative branches. In our
constitutional system, the president does not have the privilege of
committing our nation to war; only Congress has the power to make that
decision.

The description of the president as commander in chief of our military
describes a function, not an office. In peacetime, this presidential role
insures civilian control of our military. But even in wartime, the president
exercises his role under a mandate from Congress, and subject to its
budgetary and regulatory restraints.

In carrying out the functions of commander in chief, wrote Alexander Hamilton
in The Federalist, No. 69, the president's authority would be nominally the
same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior
to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction
of the military and naval forces … while that of the British king extends to
the raising and regulating of fleets and armies, all which, by the
Constitution … appertain to the legislature.

In a June 1793 essay written as the infant American republic confronted the
prospect of a war with Britain, Hamilton re-emphasized the primacy of
Congress' role in committing our nation to war: It is the province and duty
of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The
Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a
state of War.

Notably, Hamilton was an outspoken proponent of energy in the executive.
But like the other Framers of the Constitution, he insisted that the
president should devote his energies to carrying out the constitutionally
sound measures passed by Congress - including declarations of war.

War Without End?

In a 1798 letter to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison pointed out: The
Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that
the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone
to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in
the legislature. Allowing the executive to decide unilaterally the question
of war would be tantamount to installing a monarchy - and potentially set
the stage for continual warfare, a condition in which liberty cannot long
survive.

The Bush administration has eagerly acted upon Congress' open-ended grant of
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U.S. Navy vessels collide at sea

By U.S. 5th Fleet Public Affairs

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ARABIAN SEA (NNS) -- USS Ogden (LPD 5) and USS Greeneville (SSN 772) were
involved in a collision at sea Jan. 27 in international waters in the Arabian
Sea. No injuries were reported and initial assessments indicate minor damage.


Greeneville was on the surface preparing to transfer two emergency leave
eligible crewmembers from the attack submarine to the amphibious transport
dock ship when the incident occurred.


The incident is under investigation. Ogden is part of the Bonhomme Richard
Amphibious Readiness Group operating in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.


For additional information, contact U.S. Central Command Public Affairs at
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Ga. Town Struggles to ID Corpses
Sun Feb 17, 6:19 PM ET
By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer

NOBLE, Ga. (AP) - Distraught families began the wrenching task of trying to
identify loved ones Sunday in this rural community where dozens of
decomposing corpses were being removed from a crematory.

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Authorities said they had recovered 97 bodies — including one infant — from
storage sheds and scattered in woods behind Tri-State Crematory in this
hamlet about 25 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn.

The final toll is expected to be at least 200, said Dr. Kris Sperry,
Georgia's chief medical examiner. Sixteen people have been identified so far.
The discoveries began Friday when a woman walking her dog found a skull.

We're just barely skimming the surface, Sperry said. Some of the remains
are mummified.

Gov. Roy Barnes declared a state of emergency Saturday so local officials
could receive state assistance. He visited Noble Sunday afternoon and had a
private meeting with about a hundred people who believed their loved ones
were at the crematory.

They are mad, Barnes said. They are angry. I would be upset too. They
thought they had closure on the death of a loved one and they do not.

There are 729 crematories and only two inspectors in Georgia, said Gary
McConnell, director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. He said only
crematories that deal directly with the public have to be inspected, and that
Tri-State was never inspected because it worked only with funeral homes.

Officials were requesting federal assistance and equipment to help process
the remains, a task which has overwhelmed local resources, Sperry said.
Investigators believe the crematory had stacked the corpses for up to 15
years.

They just piled them on top and then piled more on top. And then they just
left them, Sperry said. I wish we had a good explanation for this, but we
don't.

The crematory's operator, Ray Brent Marsh, 28, was charged with five counts
of theft by deception, a felony, for taking payment for cremations he didn't
perform. Walker County and state authorities said other charges are likely
against Marsh.

A magistrate released Marsh on Sunday after he posted a $25,000 bond.

Officials, who have set up a morgue on the site, said they will also search
Marsh's entire 16-acre property and a small adjoining lake.

When asked why the bodies had not been cremated, Marsh said the crematory
incinerator was not working, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John
Bankhead said late Saturday.

Families on Sunday completed Red Cross paperwork to help identify the bodies
and several dentists opened their offices to make dental records available.

Pat Higdon of Chattanooga, Tenn., made the drive to fill out paperwork for
her husband, Tommy Higdon, who died of lung cancer last fall. She said she
chose to cremate his body because she couldn't afford a burial.

He looked like a corpse for two months before he died. He just laid there
with his mouth open and his eyes open, Higdon said. I can't bear to think
he still looks like that, only he's lying in a shed or a creek somewhere.

Stanley Payne of Chattanooga said he had believed the Marshs' crematory would
properly handle the remains of his mother, who died two years ago.

We were childhood friends growing up together, Payne said of the Marsh
family. We trusted them. Everybody trusts everybody here, and everybody
believes everybody.

Rusty Cash, of East Ridge, Tenn., said he considers himself one of the lucky
ones — authorities told him Sunday they had identified the body of his
mother, Norma Hutton. After the call, Cash opened the urn he had received
from the crematory.

It looked like burnt wood chips as far as I could tell, Cash said.

Sperry said authorities suspect Marsh may have provided ashes from wood chips
to clients as the remains of loved ones. Authorities have asked families to
return ashes for examination and have established an information center.

The crematory owners, Ray and Clara Marsh, turned the business over to their
son in 1996. The couple has turned over company records to authorities and
were cooperating, Walker County chief deputy Hill Morrison said.

Between 25 and 30 funeral homes in Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama routinely
sent bodies to Tri-State for cremation, Bankhead said.

Some of the bodies had been delivered to the Tri-State Crematory within the
last few days, and some bore hospital toe tags, Bankhead said.

Some bodies were found in rusty coffins, some as much as 10 years old, that
had evidently been buried and then later disinterred, Bankhead said.

At one time they apparently were buried in the ground in some other cemetery
and were dug up and taken to the crematory, he said. We don't know why that
is.

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Love and Marriage ... and Government Counseling

Sunday, February 17, 2002
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans



WASHINGTON — Those who think they're not the marrying type may be persuaded
otherwise once they attend a Bush administration program designed to promote
love and marriage between low-income couples.


The brainchild of marriage czar Wade Horn, a marriage and fatherhood advocate
who was appointed assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and
Families at the Health and Human Services Department, the proposal would give
local governments money from failing welfare programs to educate low-income
parents about marriage skills and the benefits of two-parent households.

The idea has already drawn ire from groups like the Cato Institute and the
National Organization for Women.

Marriage is one of the most intimate associations in our lives, and the
government should stay out of it, said David Boaz, executive vice president
of Cato. Marriage has lasted for thousands of years without a federal
program to encourage it.

Supporters say the program isn't a matter of government-arranged marriages;
it's a program to help couples develop the foundations for a healthy marriage.

Most of the people who find it controversial don't know what it is, said
David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values. We're
providing some good services to people who choose to take advantage of them.
It's not imposing anything on anyone, and they are not taking any services
away from single parents.

The plan proposes using $100 million already appropriated to the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families program that was designed by Congress to
encourage states to reduce unmarried birth rates, an initiative that has seen
few tangible results.

Instead, money from the program will be given to state and local governments
to set up voluntary services — like pre-marital counseling, and marriage and
relationship education workshops — for couples in poor communities who want
to say I do.

All the evidence we have tells us there's a very strong link between the
weakening of marriage and the growing number of children in poverty,
Blankenhorn said. Society has a stake in stable marriages.

But NOW President Kim Gandy said the stakes might be too high if the federal
government winds up funding unhealthy or violent marriages or penalizing
states that aren't successful in increasing marriage rates.

For individual people, marriage may or may not be the right choice,
especially if the person is an abuser, Gandy told Fox News. To say to these
women, where the father of their children has abandoned them or abused them,
'You've got to track him down and marry him or your check is going to be
reduced,' that's terrible, she said.

No one argues that bad relationships are good, Blankenhorn said, and
dysfunctional couples are not the target of the program.

According to Blankenhorn, about half of all low-income mothers who seek
public assistance are living with the father at the time the child is born,
and many say they're in love and are considering getting married — but don't
wind up tying the knot.

Even with good intentions, some aren't convinced that a government-sponsored
marriage plan will actually lower child-poverty rates and strengthen
families. Such services already exist in a number of local communities, in
states such as Oklahoma and California, but there are not definitive,
widespread statistics that show they're getting results.

I'm skeptical that the kinds of programs we have right now are going to make
much difference. But I would not argue against some experimental efforts,
said Brookings Institution senior fellow Isabel Sawhill.

Early indications are that the plan will be approved, but even Blankenhorn
admits he's not sure how successful it will be.

We don't have solid evidence that these programs will achieve a goal,
Blankenhorn said. It might not work. But this particular program seems
modest and well designed. I think we should give it a try.






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Cruise Missile Gap May Help Explain Iraq Bypass
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz’s recent declaration that Iraq is
on the back burner of the War Against Terrorism may have less to do with
recalcitrant allies, a limited U.N. mandate, or a politically correct shift
from targeting Muslims and Arabs - and more to do with the Pentagon’s
crippling shortage of conventionally armed cruise missiles.
The Department of Defense in its $1 billion cruise missile budget authority
for FY 2001 and FY 2002 was clear about the crisis: The United States has a
shortage of conventionally armed, air-launched cruise missiles; specifically,
it has about 60 of these missiles but needs about 1,000.”

During the critical early days of any offensive into Iraq, cruise missiles
would be the vanguard to attack systems and tactical aircraft; deny forward
movement of enemy forces; neutralize enemy operations; suppress enemy air
defenses; attack electrical generating facilities, command and control nodes,
and weapons assembly/storage facilities.

Currently, however, according to the Pentagon budget document, the Air Force
is scrambling and improvising when it comes to procuring these key tools of
warfare – relying on converting the nuclear payloads of aging Air Launched
Cruise Missiles (ALCMs) to conventional missiles (CALCMs).

The Background

The United States originally procured 1,715 nuclear-tipped air-launched
cruise missiles. Converting this stock to conventional warheads began in
1986.

The conventionally armed and deadly accurate cruise missiles debuted on
international television during the 1991 Gulf War. They quickly became the
weapon of choice to enforce foreign policy.

For example: In 1998’s Operation Desert Fox, the four-day punitive bombing
campaign in Iraq, the U.S. expended 90 air-launched cruise missiles. During
that same operation, ships and submarines fired more than 300 Tomahawk Land
Attack Missiles, or TLAMs, at $1 million a copy.

By April 1999 and the massive bombing campaign in Kosovo, the U.S. Senate was
deep in testimony and debate about the depleted inventory of cruise missiles.
It became clear to congressional investigators that the Pentagon’s holiday on
procuring new systems and armaments during much of the 1990s had come home to
roost.

Bottom line: At one point, the Air Force simply ran out of CALCMs during the
Kosovo campaign.

The last production line for the Air Launched Cruise Missile had shut down in
1986 and would take 30 months to restart. Its replacement, the Tri-service
Stand-off Attack Missile (TSSAM), was canceled in 1994 because its successor
was supposed to be cheaper.

But that successor, the $400,000 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile
(JASSM), was still in development and would not be available for years.

Congressional Ire

In the Congressional Record on April 19, 1999, Sen. Frank Murkowski,
R-Alaska, commented in a floor speech: Given President Clinton's propensity
to fire off cruise missiles apparently at whim, and given Secretary
Albright's blustery rhetoric, we wonder if anyone in the administration in
recent years gave consideration in advance to reopening the closed production
lines to allow us to rebuild our inventory before we began the air campaign
in Yugoslavia.

Or did they believe that diplomatic bluster from the State Department would
convince adversaries that military confrontations would not happen until our
new generation cruise missiles were on line in 3 to 4 years?”

Congressional investigators also pointed to a similar issue with the Navy
cruise missile, the Tomahawk. As in the case with the Air Force, the Tomahawk
production line had been shut down in anticipation of a new generation of
missiles that would not be available before the year 2003.

Which brings us back to the current state of affairs.

According to the Pentagon’s cruise missile budget authority for FY 2001 and
FY 2002, the Air Force recently contracted to convert an additional 322
missiles from nuclear to conventional.

The rub, however, said the Pentagon, is that the rehabbed CALCMs are
produced at the expense of nuclear ALCMs, are aging, and are increasingly
vulnerable to enemy air defenses.”

The Air Force has taken the nuclear mission away from its B–1 bomber fleet
and returned the mission to its 1950s-era B–52s. But advances in technology
made by potential enemies make these older bombers and the old CALCMs
increasingly vulnerable.

To maintain the utility of the vulnerable B-52s, the DoD is developing the
Extended Range Cruise Missile (ERCM) for use on the aging bomber and other
strategic and tactical aircraft. The subsonic air-launched cruise missiles
will be conventionally armed and will have a range of more than 1,000 miles.

Progress

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Commentary: Gung-Ho And Alone In Iraq
NewsMax Wires
Monday, Feb. 18, 2002
WASHINGTON -- At a book party given by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and
Lynn Cheney last week, there was no doubt among conservative columnists and
intellectuals that the United States would be at war with Iraq before summer.
Within two months of Cheney's return from a 10-day, 10-country (no reporters
allowed) swing through the Middle East (which begins in mid-March),
predicted one of the better informed columnists, the United States will take
on Iraq until the Saddam regime, like the Taliban, is defeated.

The only reason for not going after the Iraqi leader as an addendum to
Afghanistan, another media insider explained, is that the Pentagon had to
replenish its almost exhausted arsenal of smart bombs and other
precision-guided munitions.

The fact that no European ally or Mideastern friend (with the exception of
Kuwait) will back the Bush administration if it decides to go it alone does
not faze Cheney. He told the Council on Foreign Relations he believed the
international community would stand behind the administration.

It is hard to believe that U.S. Embassies have fallen prey to telling the
home office what the administration wants to hear. More likely ranking
visitors from the Middle East have nodded instead of shaking their heads. The
only problem with a nod in the Arab world is that it's a sign of politeness,
not acquiescence. The Arabs are always loathe to say no. It's rude.

At the vice president's book party for the paperback of edition of the novel
The Apprentice by Scooter Libby, his national security adviser, the buzz
was that the United States would go it alone, or almost alone.

All we need is Turkey and Kuwait, said one media star, and we have them
both. When it was suggested that Turkey was not even lukewarm, the
knowledgeable columnist said, not according to my Turkish sources, including
the ambassador.

Phone calls to equally knowledgeable sources in Ankara elicited no favorable
echo.

Day of Reckoning At Hand

A check with other guests amid the dozens of loud conversations that drowned
out the lone army piano player conveyed the same foregone conclusion. The day
of reckoning with Saddam Hussein was at hand, the dye had been cast.

When it was suggested such an operation would require about 100,000 U.S.
combat personnel and that the only immediately deployable divisions are the
101st Airborne and the 10th Mountain, the conventional wisdom was that the
United States wouldn't need that many troops, witness the fact that Colin
Powell during Desert Shield had estimated that 500,000 troops were needed
before Desert Storm could be launched.

The Afghan model came up repeatedly. The vast difference between a backward,
medieval society like Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and the Middle East's most
militarized society was dismissed with, Saddam's forces are only one-third
the strength they were when he invaded Kuwait in 1990. Iraq now has 424,000
men under arms and another 650,000 in the reserves.

Clearly Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who was among the guests,
and his let's-get-Saddam-now hawkish followers within the administration, has
won the intra-mural struggle against Secretary Powell. But the Saddam devil
is in the Pentagon details.

That the Kurds will rise up against Saddam as soon as the first bombs fall
was another given at the vice president's party. Two days later, the Wall
Street Journal front-paged a 2,000-word piece from the Kurdish area of Iraq
that made clear the Kurds had never had it so good with their share of Iraqi
oil sales and wanted no part in a war to remove Saddam from power.

Another question raised with the conservative opinion-makers was what happens
if the U.S. victory in Afghanistan continues to unravel as it appears to be
doing. There was a response for all the caveats. We should not be involved
in Afghanistan beyond the defeat of al Qaida and Taliban, said another
stalwart.

What happens if Saddam does not sit this out waiting for the superpower to
strike? He may well agree to a return of U.N. inspectors -- whatever weapons
of mass destruction capability he has accumulated is well hidden by now and
presumably beyond discovery -- under the 1991 U.N. Resolution 687?

Nuclear Weapons Free Zone

Saddam is reported to be leaning in that direction with a little wrinkle
designed to sway Arab opinion: Resolution 687 has an unimplemented provision
that calls for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the
Middle East region. Israel is known to have a nuclear arsenal of some 300
weapons. Such a ploy would automatically garner the support of the Arab
league of 22 nations.

This was a likely dilatory diplomatic tactic that might throw a monkey wrench
in the timetable for unilateral U.S. action. But questions that 

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MX Missile Retirement: Part of a Complex Shell Game
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2002
In 1982 President Ronald Reagan concluded, [T]he MX [Peacekeeper] is the
right missile at the right time…. The United States wants deep cuts in the
world's arsenal of weapons, but unless we demonstrate the will to rebuild our
strength and restore the military balance, the Soviets … have little
incentive to negotiate with us.”
Decades later, as the venerable Peacekeepers face a slow but inexorable
retirement, experts have given the world’s most powerful and complex ICBM
(ten, individually targeting W-87 warheads each) high marks, demonstrating
that Reagan was right on target.

More than even the original Star Wars” missile shield, America’s deployment
of the MX missile was credited by many with accelerating the collapse of the
Soviet Union, which acknowledged that it could not afford to stand toe-to-toe
with the Pentagon’s technological superiority.

Even now in its twilight, the MX serves.

The planned retirement of the nation’s inventory of 50 of the giant weapons
has become part of the White House’s assuagement of Russia as the U.S.
breaches the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by developing its Son of
Star Wars” missile defense.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin pledged he would dismantle all of Russia's
giant SS-18 ICBMs in exchange for the MX retirement.

According to the Washington Post, the Air Force plans to stretch out the
dismantlement the missiles until 2007, taking one missile at a time from its
silo. All operational MX missiles are housed at F. E. Warren AFB in Wyoming.
Two of the 16 missiles slated for deactivation this year were destroyed” in
January.

But even in death the ever-useful Peacekeeper will have life.

The 10 highly accurate and nuclear-hardened warheads from each missile are to
be packed off to the Pantex plant in Texas for storage, there to join an
ever-growing strategic reserve.

Under U.S. policy, an MX counts as destroyed” if the top stage is
dismantled. The U.S. reserves the right to use the rest of the missile as a
launch vehicle for satellites or other things.” This policy has long been a
bone of contention with the Russians that maintain the entire missile must be
destroyed.

The Shell Game

And therein the shell game,” officially referred to as the hedge” policy,
which would allow the United States to quickly ramp up its nuclear forces
back to Cold-War levels.

Like the MX warheads, most weapons removed from active status under the
Strategic Arms Reduction Treat [START I, II] go right to the inactive
stockpile to meet the lead and hedge” requirements contained in the
administration’s Nuclear Policy Review.

The inactive stockpile was created in early 1990 to provide extra warheads
for reconstitution of part of the force, ostensibly in case arms control
expectations failed to materialize.

Consequently, although only about 5 percent of the total stockpile was in the
inactive category before START I, under START II the inactive stockpile could
increase to 50 percent or more.

And if that is not enough life after death for the MX, according to defense
expert William Arkin, a program is under way to extend the service life of
the missile’s W87 warhead by 40 years -- possibly for use on the Navy’s
Trident II missiles.

As the MX is brought off line, the nation’s ICBM clout will fall to the
arsenal of 500 Minuteman IIIs, currently the subject of an expensive
rehabilitation program ($4.5-billion) to replace guidance and propulsion
systems aboard the 1960s vintage missiles. According to the experts, the
refurbishment will keep the missiles in operational order until 2020.

However, said Arkin, the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles
being upgraded program are less accurate and have a shorter range than the
ones they replace.

These shortcomings explain why the Air Force is contemplating the development
and eventual deployment of an all-new Minuteman IV ICBM. Work on the
state-of-the art ICBM could begin as early as 2004, said Air Force Maj. Gen.
Franklin J. Blaisdell recently.

The shell game has made more than the Russians uneasy.

Some Criticism

Although most applaud the Bush administration’s decision to drop the
strategic deployed arsenal from 6,000 to about 1,700 to 2,200, critics
suggest that the force levels at the end of the decade will be virtually the
same as those agreed to by President William Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in
1997.

Furthermore, because of the inactive stockpile, critics also see the U.S.
cutbacks as only paper reductions, rapidly reversible with the re-fitting of
missiles with the reserve warheads.

Administration officials say they must take into account multiple potential
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B-1B Bombers Slated For Retirement Hang On
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax
Monday, Feb. 18, 2002
When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld submitted his 2002 budget proposing to
retire 33 B-1B bombers and consolidate the remaining 60 on two bases -- Dyess
Air Force Base, Texas, and Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D, the home states of
President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. --
congressional delegations from Kansas, Idaho and Georgia, states losing the
aircraft, got busy.
Led by Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., congressional conferees on the Fiscal
Year 2002 Defense Authorization Bill last week authorized the Secretary of
the Air Force to proceed with reducing the B-1 fleet -- but only after
providing Congress with reports on the service’s strategy for implementing
the proposed reduction and consolidation.

The conferees also provided $100 million for continued operations of the Air
Guard B-1 fleet, as well as $95.5 million for B-1 modifications and $194.5
million for B-1B research and development activities.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been strongly against any delay in the
proposed B-1B retirements. From the Congressional Record:

Just as discouraging, given its pork barrel nature, is a provision that
would delay the B-1B Lancer bomber force restructuring or downsizing at a
cost of $165 million to U.S. taxpayers.

This provision has literally made it illegal for the Secretary of Defense to
reduce, retire, dismantle, transfer, or reassign the Air National Guard B-1B
bomber force by 33 aircraft until the following reports have been prepared:
The National Security Review, the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Revised
Nuclear Posture Review, the Secretary of Defense Report on the B-1B Bomber,
the Bomber Force Structure Report, and a Comptroller General Report on the
B-1B Bomber.”

Old Issue

Moves to trim the swept-wing bomber, originally designed to deliver nuclear
bombs deep into Soviet territory, are not new. In 1996, the General
Accounting Office suggested cutting 27 planes from the fleet and staging them
on fewer bases.

But the bomber has until now always managed to avoid the chopping block,
despite a history of controversy and the grim statistic that of the original
100 B-1Bs, six have crashed.

B-1s, operating from Missouri, dropped more bombs on Afghanistan than any
other aircraft and have garnered recognition as a critical workhorse of the
conflict.

The B-1s flying over Afghanistan, however, have been upgraded from the
versions that failed to perform in the Persian Gulf War. Over the last couple
of years upgrades to the aircraft have increased the bomber’s weapons,
navigation and communication capabilities.

Furthermore, the bomber’s iron bombs were converted into smart” weapons
that use a global navigation system to target precisely. Eventually, the B-1
was equipped with a towed decoy system that lures enemy missiles away from
the aircraft.

After President Ronald Reagan resurrected the bomber, the military purchased
100 B-1s at $200 million apiece. Originally delivered to the Air Force at
Dyess in June 1985, the aircraft reportedly suffered from cracked landing
gears, leaking fuel tanks and faulty engines. False images in the
terrain-following radar and incompatibility with more advanced systems also
troubled the B-1.

But the Air Force reportedly corrected the problems over the years.

War Record

During Operation Desert Fox, the B-1 struck Iraqi military bases, and later
the B-1 flew 100 combat missions against prime targets in Kosovo during
Operation Allied Force.

The aircraft’s nuclear weapons carrying role was terminated in 1997. However,
a so-called nuclear re-role plan” for the B-1B exists if they are ever
required for nuclear war. In the meantime, B-1s cannot participate in nuclear
exercises.

Under the Rumsfeld plan, the $130 million saved from the cuts would be routed
back into the B-1 program for upgrades and operational costs attendant to the
remaining fleet.

The additional dollars are needed to assuage what many critics in uniform and
out have described as chronic under-funding of what is still the nation’s
premier heavy bomber. At one point, an Air Force secretary reported that the
B-1 program was $2 billion short of what it needed over a six-year period.

The Air Force has never supported the B-1 with the necessary parts and funds
it needs,” said retired Col. Johnny Griffin, a former Dyess commander.
Currently at Dyess, only 30 of the base’s 40 B-1s are fully funded.

Once the reports required under the Chambliss compromise are filed, digested
and approved, the 33 B-1’s slated for retirement will be stripped of parts
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Fallout Shelters Fall Short in U.S.
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 15, 2002
Despite intelligence of homespun dirty nukes” and the inevitable use by
terrorists of nuclear device delivery via cruise missiles, the new federal
Office of Homeland Security is not promoting fallout shelters, according to
spokesman Gordon Johndroe. The reasoning behind the policy has the most to do
with dollars and cents, with a little history and psychology percolating in
the mix.
According to Commander Michael Dobbs, a policy planner on the Joint Staff, an
effective shelter program would cost $60 billion, 30 times the cost of
implementing a crisis relocation strategy in large cities.

Evacuation is still the primary protective measure in the event of a nuclear
incident,” said Don Jacks of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

'Duck and Cover'

Edwin Lyman, scientific director for Nuclear Control Institute, has evaluated
the state of affairs as nothing less than a return to the primitive Cold War
ritual of duck and cover.”

If there were a nuclear explosion of relatively small yield, people who are
maybe tens of miles away would have something like a half an hour to shelter
themselves,” Lyman said. Does this mean that the U.S. should reactivate a
system of fallout shelters? I don’t know.”

According to Dobbs, civil defense programs have historically been on the
government’s back burner. Annual appropriations for civil defense never
totaled much more than $1 billion (1962) and, from 1952 to 1986, varied
between $200 million and $400 million.

In 1984 per capita federal expenditures for civil defense programs were 75
cents, contrasted with $6 for ballistic missile defense and $1,350 for the
Department of Defense.

In 1957, with a bellicose Soviet Union flexing, President Dwight Eisenhower
refused to initiate a fallout shelter program. Following through with his
campaign promises of missile gap” catch-up with the Reds, however, President
John Kennedy was an exception to the rule, calling for a fallout shelter for
everyone as rapidly as possible.”

In 1972 President Richard Nixon followed the lead of his former boss and
refused to augment civil defense programs.

And it is not just the government that’s been slow to get hot and bothered by
the issue.

In a 1953 poll, Americans were asked whether they were likely to build an air
raid shelter within the next year. Fewer than 3 percent said yes. True to the
poll, 10 years later, fewer than one in 50 Americans had built any kind of
shelter. And this was the time of the Cuban missile crisis, when fears of
nuclear holocaust were nearly pandemic.

According to Dobbs, the public apathy toward shelters during the Cold War was
mostly grounded in a mind-set that such preparations were futile in the face
of a large-scale nuclear exchange.

But that mind-set is changing and was well on its way to being recast, even
before September 11.

In a 1999 survey by the Pew Research Center, 64 percent of those polled
stated that they thought a major terrorist attack on the U.S. involving
biological or chemical weapons would happen sometime over the next half
century.

The experts agree. They now see nuclear attacks from terrorists or a rogue
nation as limited in scope and duration, making precautions for a WMD
incident prudent. There is no more exaggerated fear of nuclear winter.”

The experts also agree that despite all that is being done by the states and
the federal government, self-help will be the rule for many citizens during
the initial hours of a large-scale nuclear incident.

The rub, according to Dobbs: We are spending billions to train first
responders and local leaders, but very little to train the general public.”
He suggested that FEMA provide citizens with information on how to protect
themselves and their families from attack just as the Home Front Command does
in Israel. Another imperative: tax incentives for Americans who install a
sheltered space in their home.

Dobbs also sees the nation’s stockpiling of antidotes such as the
controversial potassium iodide as a step in the right direction, but of
limited utility for those who have to wait days after an incident until the
medicines can be distributed.

Gimme Shelter

In the meantime, some Americans are voting with their pocketbooks and digging
up their backyards just like the good old days of the Cold War. They’re
treating me less like a crazy woman than they did before,” Dr. Jane Orient of
Tucson, Ariz., who promotes home shelters as head of Doctors for Disaster
Preparedness, told NewsMax.com.

Fallout shelters are a good defense from radiation but are woefully
inadequate in the U.S. and should become a government priority, she said.

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Pakistan Ready To Test New Missile
NewsMax Wire
Monday, Feb. 18, 2002
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani scientists have developed a new missile, called
Shaheen II, and are ready to test it, reports said Sunday.
The reports follow two recent missile tests by rival India.

The mass circulation Jang newspaper said a recent report sent to the
government said Pakistan's rocket scientists have sought permission to test
fire the missile.

The report said the Shaheen-II, so far the country's most advanced long-range
missile, is nuclear-capable and has a range of up to 1,553 miles.

The test fire is necessary to accelerate production for defense purposes,
said the newspaper, quoting the report.

Using solid fuel, Shaheen-II can reach its target in less than 12 minutes and
can carry 1 ton of explosives.

With this missile, Pakistan can target distant Indian cities, such as Madras
and Calcutta. If fired from the Pakistani border, it can reach any target in
India, the report said.

Pakistan's missile technology is more accurate and advanced than India's,
said Samar Mubarikmand, who is in charge of the Shaheen missile project. And
this fact has been recognized by international experts.

Both Pakistan and India tested nuclear devices in 1998 and have since been
working on their delivery systems.

They also have deployed thousands of troops along their shared border after a
Dec. 13 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament, triggering fears of a
nuclear conflict in one of the world's most populous regions.




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February 13, 2002

Soldiers For The Truth (SFTT) Weekly Newsletter

When we assumed the Soldier, We did not lay aside the Citizen.
General George Washington, to the New York Legislature, 1775

In this week’s Issue of DefenseWatch:

Lessons From Black Hawk Down


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Table of Contents
Hack's Target for the Week: Putting Black Hawk Down in Proper Context

Article 01 - Economics of Demining: Success and Failure, by Robert G.
Williscroft

Article 02 - Critical Lessons from the Wartime Olympics, by Matthew Dodd

Article 03 - Remember the Alamo! Testament to Our Fighting Spirit by Patrick
Hayes

Article 04 - Identity Thieves Harvesting DD-214s, by Andrea West

Article 05 - Praise For Black Hawk Down From One Who Was There, by Gerry Izzo

Article 06 - Guest Column: Advice to a Superpower, by Margaret Thatcher

Article 07 - On the Lighter Side: The Army Balloonist

Medal of Honor:

Article 08 - SHEA, RICHARD T., Jr., 1st Lt. USA

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By David H. Hackworth
The five-star movie Black Hawk Down smacks you right between the eyes with
the sheer brutality of infantry combat, however magnificently portrayed by
film maestro Ridley Scott. But while it showcases the professionalism and
bravery of our U.S. Army Special Operations warriors in Mogadishu, it's far
too light on the lessons to be learned from that terrible disaster.

In December 1992, I went to Somalia. On a much smaller scale, the conditions
were like those in Vietnam: snipers, mines and booby traps were killing and
wounding our soldiers, and we had a hard time finding the guerrilla enemy -
who fought only on their terms.

This time, I was looking at the battlefield as a war correspondent, but there
was no way to take the young soldier out of the old reporter. My style was to
hang out with one of the rifle platoons for five days and then send in my
copy. Pretty soon, eating and sleeping with the grunts, I became just a guy
who'd been around a war or two. It wasn't long before, Hey, Hack, does this
machine gun have a good field of fire? and, What do you think of this
patrol formation?

I was tagging along with Maj. Martin Stanton of the 2/87th Infantry, an old
pal, when he asked me to give a class on how we used choppers in Vietnam.
Are you sure? I asked. Remember, I'm bad news as far as the Army's
concerned. What's the Pentagon going to say when they hear you've got me
teaching a class?

Stanton was sure. I gave a two-hour lecture on airmobile operations in a
guerrilla environment. This is how we did it in Vietnam, I told them.

Most looked at me with blank faces as if I were talking Star Wars to the
moon. I realized with an electric shock that these fine young 10th Division
soldiers were like explorers in an unknown land without a map or compass, and
one single cram session on airmobile missions wasn't going to be much help.
All of the lessons paid for so dearly from Vietnam had disappeared.

After I left Somalia, a Ranger Task Force, some of the best warriors going,
deployed to Mogadishu. They conducted six chopper operations, all using
identical tactics and techniques, during which they dropped into the
objective, conducted a raid and returned to base. On their seventh raid, they
were tasked to capture Mohammed Aidid, a clan guerrilla leader. But because
their leaders hadn't factored into the equation that Aidid's boys were
watching - the way smart terrorists do - they ended up surrounded, trapped
and, except for their courage and fighting skill, would have been destroyed
to the man.

Besides employing a bush-league tactical plan, the general in charge, William
Garrison, had no contingency plan to bail out his boys if the op turned bad.
No USAF tactical air support. No tanks ready to break through to the besieged
Rangers - even though Marine tanks were close, the Army didn't want the
Marines to ride to the rescue because of inter-service rivalry. And so our
warriors were severely bloodied - 18 died, and more than 100 were wounded, a
rout that caused the sole surviving superpower to beat feet out of Somalia,
dragging its tail.

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ARTICLE 02 - Critical Lessons from the Wartime Olympics, by Matthew Dodd

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From the majestic mountain backdrops and the appropriately memorable opening
ceremonies, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, are off to
a terrific start.

But despite all the patriotic fervor, and the accompanying fanfare of
friendly international competition, we must remember that our nation is still
at war. We must not forget that those who would do us harm are carefully
watching our every move and probably plotting their next moves. We must also
analyze ourselves and our enemies, and be very careful about the lessons we
learn.

Only five months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Salt Lake City is arguably
the most secure public place in the world. Depending on which report you
believe, approximately 16,000 law enforcement personnel and more military
personnel than were on the ground in Afghanistan are providing security in
support of the games.

Our security personnel enjoy the home field advantage and virtually
unlimited access to equipment, resources and personnel. This unprecedented
security effort was well publicized before the games and is now the subject
of a lot of media attention.

President Bush reminds us that this war against terrorism and the Axis of
Evil is just beginning, and the drumbeat of news in the war on terror
continues unabated.

The FBI has just released yet another terrorist warning against American
targets, including the names and photos of 17 suspected al Qaeda terrorists
identified through intelligence sources and interviews with detainees at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

We have forces in the Philippines, Afghanistan, the North Arabian Sea, and
Guantanamo Bay as a direct result of international terrorist activities. The
military's budget is being increased in preparation for future operations.
Our airline and airport security measures are changed forever. The president
has created the Office of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense is
poised to change its unified command structure to include standing up a new
four-star Northern Command to coordinate the military's role in homeland
defense.

So with the Winter Games underway, it is appropriate to pose this question:
Are we, as Americans, fighting a war during peacetime, or seeking a return to
peacetime normalcy in a time of war, or something in between?

Let's try to look at the situation from the perspective of a terrorist
wanting to attack the United States. Effective terrorist attacks require
detailed, long-term planning, often measured in years.

However, even if al Qaeda operatives had planned an operation in Salt Lake
City that began months or years prior to 9-11, it is likely that the massive
security presence there will prove to be an effective deterrent. Thus, any
failure of a terrorist attack or attempt, while probably a small setback to
the terrorists, would be a major moral and psychological victory for the U.S.
war against terrorism. While the games are a very lucrative target with a
global audience, the risk is too great - the United States is taking no
chances.

The best course of action for terrorists wanting to attack the United States,
therefore, is for them to patiently observe and learn from the U.S. security
efforts in Salt Lake City. It would not be surprising to see al Qaeda
initiating some small-scale terrorist activities elsewhere in the world -
before, during and after the games - that would allow the terrorists to
observe and study the U.S. responses. The terrorists can also learn by
monitoring how the United States reacts to other random acts of terrorism,
such as car bombs, anthrax letters, the airline shoe bomber and female
suicide bombers in Israel.

Meanwhile, the United States cannot and must not rest on its laurels. Despite
the impressive security at Salt Lake City and our combat victory in
Afghanistan, the United States still must grapple with a complex challenge as
the war on terrorism continues.

Time remains an ally to the terrorists, and an enemy to the United States.
One likely terrorist goal is to wear down U.S. resolve and resources.
Psychologically, the United States is still reeling from last September's
attacks. The administration's public acknowledgement of possible terrorist
sleeper cells in the United States is a great way to increase the public's
vigilance, but it can also be free psychological warfare victory handed to
the terrorists.

The dilemma is that public awareness is essential to thwart additional
attacks, but keeping everyone on edge can also erode public confidence over
time. (On the other hand, another terrorist tactic for not attacking the
ongoing games is to rebuild the U.S. perception of security and invincibility
that was shattered last September.)

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ARTICLE 04 - Identity Thieves Harvesting DD-214s From Courthouse Records

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It was one of the last pieces of advice I received while preparing to leave
active duty. Take your DD-214 down to the county courthouse and register
it, my first sergeant said. That way, if you lose the hard copy you can
replace it easily.

It seemed like wise advice at the time - since it can be very difficult to
replace a lost DD-214 form - but filing your formal discharge document with a
local courthouse can make you extremely vulnerable to an even more serious
problem: identity theft.

But as Kelly Reid, an alert DefenseWatch reader, recently alerted us, the
danger is very real:

I had a retired Master Chief come by my office this morning with a scary
story. His identification was stolen the beginning of September. He received
a call from a lady at American Express because someone had established credit
with them (in his name) and was trying to cash a $9,000 check in his name in
early September, made out to a Muslim/Arabic-sounding name. The lady flagged
the check because apparently she had a different address on file for the
Master Chief than what showed on the check. When she called him, he of course
reported it.

Last night, the Master Chief received a call from an investigator telling him
that they finally tracked down the fellow who stole his identification. The
guy is a lawyer and had a lap-top computer with several thousand military
names, SSN's and other information. Each military person was a separatee or
retiree and their common link was that they had their DD-214s filed with a
county clerk. The Master Chief was told that this lawyer had accessed the
DD-214 information through the public court computer system.
When I left the service, I followed my first sergeant's advice and had my
DD-214 registered with the county clerk and recorder. For convenience, I did
this in several places as I moved around the country. When I heard about this
situation, I called two of the counties where I am registered (for obvious
reasons, I won't say where) to see what their security procedures are.

Bad news: one of the county clerks said that the DD-214 is a public document
and there is no legal way to prevent someone from looking at it and
requesting a copy. Moreover, since this particular county clerk intends to
post all documents online at some point, my DD-214 and others will be
available on the Internet as well.

The second county clerk I contacted said the office is aware of the security
problem, and on a recommendation from the county attorney has removed the
index to all filed DD-214s from public view. They also now require that a
person trying to access a DD-214 prove that he or she is either the person
named therein or that he or she has this person's permission. While the
county in question cannot remove the documents themselves from public access,
it intends to take all legally permissible steps to keep potential identity
thieves out of the DD-214s. At the end of our conversation, I asked this
clerk to speak to his counterpart in the first office I had spoken to and
pass along these ideas.

You cannot underestimate the hazard of someone obtaining your DD-214. A
DD-214 is an identity document. It links a Social Security number to a name,
and makes it simple for an identity thief to connect the dots. In view of
this, it is unwise in the extreme to register a DD-214 at the county
courthouse.

If you have done so, the best you can do is protect yourself against identity
theft. The best defense is vigilance. According to the Federal Trade
Commission's ID Theft website (www.consumer.gov/idtheft/), you should check
with the three major credit bureaus and request a copy of your credit ratings
from each of them. The URLS are as follows:

Equifax: www.equifax.com/ 1-800-685- fraud line 1-800-525-6285.

Experian: www.experian.com 1-888-EXPERIAN (397-3742) fraud line
1-888-EXPERIAN.

TransUnion: www.tuc.com 1-800-916-8800 fraud line 1-800-680-7289.

If you discover items in your credit history that look fraudulent to you,
notify the credit bureau immediately. The FTC has additional recommendations
at the following website: www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/idenalrt.htm.

Next, keep close track of your personal information. Watch bills and bank
statements and follow up if they don't arrive on time. If you intend to
dispose of anything with your credit card number, driver's license number,
SSN, signature, bank account number, or the like on it, destroy it by
thoroughly tearing it up or shredding it finely. Be especially vigilant about
credit card offers. Dispose of them as you would a piece of credit
information. If possible, it may be worthwhile to have your mail delivered to
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ARTICLE 06 - Guest Column: Advice for a Superpower

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LONDON - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing
herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.
Milton's words perfectly describe America today. After the horror of Sept. 11
the world has seen America gather its strength, summon its allies and proceed
to wage war halfway across the globe against its enemy - and ours.

America will never be the same again. It has proved to itself and to others
that it is in truth (not just in name) the only global superpower, indeed a
power that enjoys a level of superiority over its actual or potential rivals
unmatched by any other nation in modern times. Consequently, the world
outside America should never be the same either. There will, of course, arise
new threats from new directions. But as long as America works to maintain its
technological lead, there is no reason why any challenge to American
dominance should succeed. And that in turn will help ensure stability and
peace.

Yet, as President Bush has reminded Americans, there is no room for
complacency. America and its allies, indeed the Western world and its values,
are still under deadly threat. That threat must be eliminated, and now is the
time to act vigorously.

In many respects the challenge of Islamic terror is unique, hence the
difficulty Western intelligence services encountered trying to predict and
prevent its onslaughts. The enemy is not, of course, a religion - most
Muslims deplore what has occurred. Nor is it a single state, though this form
of terrorism needs the support of states to give it succor. Perhaps the best
parallel is with early Communism. Islamic extremism today, like Bolshevism in
the past, is an armed doctrine. It is an aggressive ideology promoted by
fanatical, well-armed devotees. And, like Communism, it requires an
all-embracing long-term strategy to defeat it.

The first phase of that strategy had to be a military assault on the enemy in
Afghanistan, a phase that is now approaching its end. I believe that while
the new interim government there deserves support, the United States is right
not to allow itself to become bogged down with ambitious nation-building in
that treacherous territory. Some would disagree, arguing that the lesson of
the present crisis is that neglect of failed states causes terrorism. But
this is trite. It implies a level of global interventionism that almost
everyone recognizes is quite impractical.

The more important lesson is that the West failed to act early and strongly
enough against Al Qaeda and the regime that harbored it. And because there is
always a choice in where you concentrate international efforts, it is best
that the United States, as the only global military superpower, deploy its
energies militarily rather than on social work. Trying to promote civil
society and democratic institutions in Afghanistan is best left to others -
and since those others now include the British, I only hope that we, too,
are going to be realistic about what can (and cannot) be achieved.

The second phase of the war against terrorism should be to strike at other
centers of Islamic terror that have taken root in Africa, Southeast Asia and
elsewhere. This will require first-rate intelligence, shrewd diplomacy and a
continued extensive military commitment. Our enemies have had years to
entrench themselves, and they will not be dislodged without fierce and bloody
resistance.

The third phase is to deal with those hostile states that support terrorism
and seek to acquire or trade in weapons of mass destruction. We have gotten
into the habit of calling them rogue states. There is nothing wrong with
that, as long as we don't fall into the trap of imagining that they will
always and on every issue fit into the same slot.

For example, Iran and Syria were both sharply critical of Osama bin Laden,
the Taliban and the attacks of Sept. 11. Nevertheless, they are both enemies
of Western values and interests. Both have energetically backed terrorism:
the former has just been caught out dispatching arms to foment violence
against Israel. Iran is also making strides toward developing long-range
missiles that could be armed with nuclear warheads.

Other critics of Sept. 11 are a menace, too. Libya, for example, still hates
the West and would dearly like revenge against us. And Sudan undertakes
genocide against its own citizens in the name of Islam. As for North Korea,
the regime of Kim Jong Il is as mad as ever and is the world's main
proliferator of long-range ballistic missiles that can deliver nuclear,
chemical or biological warheads.

The most notorious rogue is, without doubt, Saddam Hussein -proof if ever we
needed it that yesterday's unfinished business becomes tomorrow's 

[CTRL] Panel: Clintons Took $362,000 in Gifts

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Panel: Clintons Took $362,000 in Gifts

By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 13, 2002; Page A04


A House investigative panel reported yesterday that former president Bill
Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton took with them at least $362,000 in gifts
worth $260 or more when Bill Clinton left office, and asserted that the
former first family may have undervalued dozens of gifts, some in a possible
attempt to avoid disclosure.

Of that amount, about $63,000 was not reported on the Clintons' financial
disclosure forms. The law requires that in most cases gifts valued at $260 or
more be disclosed.

The information was released as part of a year-long investigation into gifts
received by the Clinton White House led by Rep. Doug Ose (R-Calif.), chairman
of the House Government Reform subcommittee on energy policy, natural
resources and regulatory affairs. Ose chaired a hearing yesterday on
legislation to standardize presidential gift rules.

The former president's office issued a statement denouncing the report as
blatantly partisan.

The inquiry comes a year after reports that the Clintons had plans to keep
for personal use $190,000 worth of furnishings, flatware and china given as
gifts over their eight years in the White House. Prompted by the outcry, they
paid the donors for $86,000 worth of gifts and returned $28,000 worth of
furniture.

Ose said he would refer the information his staff gathered to the Justice
Department for possible criminal investigation. A knowing failure to report a
gift or falsification of information subject to disclosure rules is a
violation of federal law that carries a maximum penalty of five years in
prison.

The gifts not heretofore disclosed, according to the report, include two
Lenox crystal bowls each valued at more than $25,000, and $739 worth of Liz
Claiborne cosmetics. Gifts that the report suggests are undervalued include a
$249 Yves Saint Laurent suit, an $800 Ferragamo coat and a $150 Tiffany
silver necklace.

The former president's office countered Ose's charges of failure to disclose,
saying that the Lenox bowls, for example, were gifts from Congress and that
the rules specifically advise not to report anything received from relatives
or the U.S. government.

Spokeswoman Julia Payne said the Clintons followed all the rules. She said
the White House used an independent professional appraiser (Hagen  Hagen,
used by former presidents George Bush and Ronald Reagan) or used donor or
store information.

In all, the report said the Clintons took with them 14,445 gifts. The rest of
the 94,178 gifts they received generally go to either Clinton's presidential
library or the General Services Administration. Two percent of the gifts kept
were appraised at $260 or more, in most cases requiring disclosure, according
to the report.

The total value of gifts retained by the former first family creates at
least an appearance problem, Ose said. The fact that so many gifts were
undervalued raises many questions, including whether some were undervalued
deliberately.

Phil Schiliro, staff director for Rep. Henry A. Waxman (Calif.), the panel's
ranking Democrat, charged that the committee's GOP majority was hewing to a
double standard. It has ongoing probes into the Clinton administration on
campaign finance, gifts, pardons and White House e-mails but has not opened
one inquiry into the Bush administration, he said.

It's just striking that it's almost as if, for the purposes of our committee
and investigations, the Clinton administration had never left office,
Schiliro said. The White House talks about ending partisan investigations,
but if it's a Democratic administration, different rules apply.

The report said that at least 30 gifts were misplaced or lost, including a
$1,200 Boukhara rug.

It also said the Clintons accepted 15 shares of Coca-Cola stock valued at
$1,027, despite the fact that they were advised by the White House counsel
not to accept 10 shares of General Electric stock.

Payne said the Coca-Cola stock was a gift to the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea,
who was not a public figure and could keep it, while the GE stock was a gift
to the president.

The report also said that $38,617 worth of fine flatware went to Hillary
Clinton in December 2000, after she was elected to the Senate but before she
took office. The Senate forbids acceptance of gifts worth more than $50.
Payne said Hillary Clinton paid for those gifts.

Ose, who said he launched his inquiry to bolster the case for his
legislation, denied that the Republicans acted out of partisan motives.

This is not a witch hunt to bash the Clintons, he said at the hearing. I
introduced my bill in March of last year. . . . We have tried to collect the
facts.

Several laws involving six federal offices and agencies govern the receipt,

[CTRL] Raider detachment returns from Afghanistan

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Raider detachment returns from Afghanistan
Submitted by: MCAS Miramar
Story Identification Number: 2002214153419
Story by Sgt. W.A. Napper



MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif.(February 14, 2002) -- The last of
the Raiders' original detachment to Afghanistan returned to Marine Corps Air
Station Miramar Monday, after being deployed for six months in support of
Operation Enduring Freedom. The KC-130 Hercules came to a rest in the
afternoon with family and friends waiting for their Marines with open arms.

According to Capt. Mike Alvarez, powerline division officer, Marine Aerial
Refueler Squadron 352 (VMGR-352), the aircraft was the last of the original
four KC-130s that departed the Air Station Sept. 27 - only 16 days after the
tragedy at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Alvarez, 30, Huntington, N.Y., native, returned from Operation Enduring
Freedom in December and he said he could relate to what Raiders were going
through during the long flight home.

You feel euphoric when you finally get back on the ground, he said. The
last hour (of the flight), right about when you're over Nevada, is the worst.
Everyone starts getting anxious and you see people walking around the
aircraft. I just missed the general every day infrastructure of American
society. Things like paved roads and showers - a clean environment doesn't
exist over there.

Lieutenant Col. C.T. Parker, commanding officer, VMGR-352, said he was proud
of his returning Marines, although he wished everyone who left could have
returned.

It was great to get the guys home, he said. It's kind of bittersweet
because not everyone can come home. You get mixed emotions because of
everything. They did an outstanding job over there. They were the most
reliable and hardest working (military force) out there.

Alvarez said the first two of the four Raider KC-130s returned in December.
The final two were supposed to return today, but tragedy struck in January
when one of the birds crashed in Pakistan. The cause of the accident is still
under investigation.

Those guys just went through so much - especially with that, said Alvarez.
It's just great to have them home.



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Chinese Company Completes World's Largest Port In Bahamas
Christopher Ruddy and Stephan Archer
Link
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Bahamas - The same Chinese company that recently took operational control of
the http://www.rense.com/politics6/chinabahamas_p.htmPanama Canal is
currently completing construction of the largest container port in the world
in Freeport, Bahamas - just 60 miles from Florida. View Photos of the Port
Several U.S. military experts say that the activities of Hutchison Whampoa
Limited, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, in both Panama and the Bahamas, pose
a significant risk to U.S. national security.

Officials for Hutchison Whampoa have heatedly denied any links with the Red
Chinese government, but several established connections - including new
evidence uncovered by NewsMax.com - suggest the Chinese government has a keen
interest in the company's activities.

One port facility that has captured the interest of the Chinese government is
Hutchison Whampoa's sprawling port facility in the tourist destination of
Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.

Strategically Located Near U.S. East Coast

According to the company's Web site, the port is located at one of the most
strategic spots in the world because Freeport is the closest offshore port
to the east coast of the United States, at the cross-roads of routes between
Europe and the Americas and through the Panama Canal.

In 1995, Hutchison Whampoa entered into a 50-50 partnership with the Grand
Bahama Development Company, a privately owned Bahamian company, to develop
and expand the small Freeport facility that had catered to cruise ships.

Since then, Hutchison has helped dredge and expand the port, making it
capable of handling the largest container ships on the high seas.

According to Michael Powers, Hutchison Whampoa's General Manager for the
Freeport development, the container port is simply a dedicated deep water
trans-shipment hub.

'Hub' Port for Container Shipping

Large container ships coming from several directions can off-load their
container boxes, which can be re-routed on to other large or small container
ships for delivery. The port operates, he says, much like Miami airport might
serve as a hub for travelers going to destinations around the globe.

Already the port is doing a brisk business in container shipments, Powers
said, and has the capacity to become the world's largest container port. He
said the company also plans to make the port the world's largest cruise ship
destination port. Already, Disney cruise lines will soon make Freeport a port
of call.

The company has ambitious plans to create the largest air cargo facility on
land adjacent to the port. Hutchison has a 50 percent stake in the Grand
Bahama Airport Company, which owns one of the largest airport runways in the
world - more than 11,000 feet long. According to Powers, the runway is
capable of handling the world's largest cargo and military aircraft.

On 800 acres of wooded land adjacent to the airport, Hutchison plans to
create the Grand Bahama Sea-Air Business Center - a center that could
potentially allow for 8 million square feet in warehouse space.

Communist China Ties Disturbing

While Hutchison Whampoa has a sterling reputation as a commercial enterprise
- and has not been linked to any illegal activities such as drug or gun
smuggling - the firm's ties to Communist China have raised concerns.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former U.S. Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger have expressed concerns about Hutchison's influence over
the Panama Canal.

Lott has described the Hong Kong firm as an arm of the People's Liberation
Army.

Hutchison Whampoa's chairman, Li Ka-Shing, is also a board member of CITIC ñ
the China International Trust and Investment Corporation. U.S. intelligence
sources have described the firm as a front for China's governmental State
Council.

Congressman Dana Rohrbacher, R-Calif., has stated that CITIC has been used as
a front company by China's military to acquire technology for weapons
development.

Closely Tied to Beijing Rulers

A recently declassified report by the United States Southern Command's Joint
Intelligence Center, prepared in October 1999, said that Hutchison Whampoa's
owner, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing, has extensive business ties in Beijing
and has compelling financial reasons to maintain a good relationship with
China's leadership.

The military intelligence report also warns that Hutchison containerized
shipping facilities in the Panama Canal, as well as the Bahamas, could
provide a conduit for illegal shipments of technology or prohibited items
from the West to the PRC, or facilitate the movement of arms and 

[CTRL] Ala. Court Rules Against Gay Mother

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Ala. Court Rules Against Gay Mother
Fri Feb 15,10:30 PM ET
By PHILLIP RAWLS, Associated Press Writer

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - In awarding custody of three teen-agers to their father
over their gay mother, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court on
Friday wrote that homosexuality is an inherent evil and shouldn't be
tolerated.


The nine-judge panel ruled unanimously in favor of a Birmingham man and
against his ex-wife, who now lives with her gay partner in southern
California.

The parents weren't named in court documents to protect the identity of the
children, ages 15, 17 and 18.

Chief Justice Roy Moore wrote that the mother's relationship made her an
unfit parent and that homosexuality is abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a
crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature.

Moore also quoted scripture, historical documents and previous state court
rulings that he said backed his view.

Moore is known for his decision to place washing machine-sized monuments of
the Ten Commandments in the state judicial building after he became chief
justice last year. He also fought to keep a Ten Commandments plaque in his
courtroom when he was a district judge.

David White, state coordinator for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Alabama,
said Moore's opinion reflected outdated thinking.

It's unfortunate Alabama is going to be embarrassed once again by a
religious fanatic in a position of power in Alabama, White said. It's
obvious he cannot judge a gay person fairly and he should be removed from
office.

John Giles, state president of the Christian Coalition, said Moore's decision
protected the institution of marriage and strengthened the traditional family.

The father had held custody since 1996, but the mother petitioned for custody
in June 2000, contending the father had been abusive.

John Durward, the father's attorney, said his client is very relieved.

The mother's attorney, Wendy Crew, did not return a telephone call seeking
comment.




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[CTRL] Alcatraz Fugitives Still Sought After 40 Years

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Alcatraz Fugitives Still Sought After 40 Years
Prison Notebooks, FBI Papers Detail a Daring Escape

  Includes FBI Documents

March 7, 2000

By Tami Sheheri



AP
The island prison in its heyday

NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- Close to 40 years after three inmates fled from the
supposedly escape-proof Alcatraz island prison, the search for them -- dead
or alive -- continues.

The U.S. Marshal's Service says the Alcatraz escape is its oldest open case.
Since 1979, it has continued to follow leads, mostly dead ends.

FBI documents and a warden's notebook obtained by APBnews.com, in addition to
two pages of an unfinished, unpublished memoir by former Alcatraz inmate
Thomas Kent, provide insight into the prison's internal life and the
investigation of the escape. Kent claims he was involved in planning the
escape but declined to join the others because he could not swim.

A successful breakout


   FBI files show agents were amazed at the escape; a warden's notebook and
an inmate's memoir give an idea of daily life in Alcatraz.


At 6 a.m. June 12, 1962, prison officials discovered that John William
Anglin, his brother, Clarence Anglin, and Frank Lee Morris -- all considered
dangerous criminals with long records -- had successfully escaped. Despite an
immediate all out investigation by the FBI, the three have never been
found.

That morning, a prison guard, trying to rouse the three sleeping inmates,
realized that what he had thought were heads were actually carefully crafted
plaster dummies. They had been painted a fleshlike color and cleverly topped
off with real human hair collected from the prison's barbershop.

A land, sea and air search was launched, and hundreds of soldiers, military
police and coast guard personnel helped comb the area. No bodies were found,
though some wrapped personal belongings and a wallet stuffed with cash washed
up on shore sometime later.

Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover offered his opinion, scribbled on a press
clipping in the file: It certainly looks like loose security on Alcatraz.

Plan was 'fantastic'


Whether security was loose at Alcatraz is debatable; the escape plot,
however, was an elaborate and daring plan of genius. According to FBI files,
one agent stated the inmates' preparation was nothing less than fantastic.

The official account is that for months prior to the escape, the three men
had been scraping out the air vents in their cells using some stolen spoons.
Once behind a 5-inch concrete wall, they began stashing supplies such as
raincoats. They also had constructed fake grids to hide the holes they made.

On the night of the escape, the three inmates placed the plaster dummies on
their beds, leaving the heads poking out of the blankets on the pillows to
look as if they were asleep. They left through the vents, which led them to a
utility pipe tunnel then a ventilation shaft and ultimately, the roof. From
the roof they headed down a drainpipe and climbed over two 12-foot-high
fences, all the time hidden by the San Francisco Bay's fog and steep cliffs.


From clues left behind, authorities pieced together the inmates' next moves.
A makeshift raft had been painstakingly constructed out of 55 raincoats. Each
escapee was also equipped with a life jacket also crafted from more
raincoats, most likely stolen from other inmates. Crude oars and other escape
aids washed up on shore. The FBI files indicate the inmates possibly made
good escape. After all, the file states, no evidence has been developed to
indicate that subjects successfully made their way to the mainland. Likewise,
however, there is no information to show that they did not.

According to Kent, the escape was even more elaborate than the FBI revealed.
The men had used the spoons together with a stolen vacuum cleaner to form a
crude but evidently effective power tool to dig their way out.

Further information about the plot came from another Alcatraz prisoner, Allen
West, who was originally thought to be the mastermind of the plan. West was
supposed to break out with the others, but the air ventilation hole he had
dug with stolen kitchen spoons was simply not big enough for him to crawl
through.

By the time West did manage to crawl out, the three others had already left
the island. On the roof, West realized his comrades had abandoned him, so he
sneaked back to his cell, where he woke up the next morning.

'The underdogs actually got out'

Strange to say, but this unique, surreptitious escape was destined to become
the most-successful, non-violent, joint-prisoner-venture, and longest running
bustout ever engineered, from deep inside that rocky island penitentiary,
Kent wrote in his never-before-seen memoirs.

Art Roderick, now an inspector for the U.S. Marshal's Service in Arlington,
Va., was just 7 years old at the time of the breakout, but he remembered 

[CTRL] Were U.S. Servicemen Held in Soviet Gulag?

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Were U.S. Servicemen Held in Soviet Gulag?
Russian Memoir Brings News, Pain to Families of MIAs

  Includes FBI Documents and Audio

April 3, 2000

By Tami Sheheri


Samuel Busch in uniform

NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- A recently released memoir from a former Russian
gulag prisoner has raised the uncomfortable possibility that some Americans
who went missing in action during the Cold War were kept for years as
prisoners in the Soviet Union.

The memoir, a transcript of which was released to some of the families by the
Department of Defense, comes from an unnamed source who had been living in
internal exile in the former Soviet Union. The Defense Department notes that
the information in the memoir was collated from second-, third- or
fourth-hand reports.  Related Audio:
 Brother Says Vets Questioned Over POW



The images conjured by the memoir -- of tortured and starved young men forced
to march through the snow before being drowned -- have brought renewed pain
to the families of those they left behind. Some say they can draw cold
comfort from the memoir's conclusion that the deaths spared their loved ones
from a worse fate: years in the gulag.

'Never supposed to talk about it'


   The memoir states that the fliers were held for a time in the Soviet Union
before being tortured and executed. U.S. officials are attempting to verify
information in the document and, if possible, bring the dead men's remains
home.


It's been close to 50 years since Maj. Samuel Busch, his B-29 bomber and 11
fellow crew members disappeared into the sky over the Sea of Japan on a
classified mission during the Cold War.

I was told I was never supposed to talk about it, said Ruth Heller, 76,
Busch's wife. 'You don't discuss it with anyone,' she said a personal
affairs officer had warned her at the time.

But she thought about it. She listened to tales from men who returned home
from Korean War missions and were also instructed not to speak. She heard
rumors of men being taken captive in the Soviet Union and tortured. She
didn't sleep at night for years.

She heard virtually nothing from the U.S. government -- until last year when
Pentagon investigators handed over a Russian emigre's memoir that mentioned
her husband's name.


New Revelations About Missing Pilot




The thing is, [the torture] was true, said Heller. I didn't sleep for
nights after reading those papers. I was upset again for weeks.

The memoir is blunt: The guys from within 'worked over' the Americans so
badly that only eight were take [redacted]. And those had nowhere to go after
that. And so what? Do know what sort of arrogance they had? They were
American. You understand.

Busch's body could very well be buried somewhere in the Soviet Union, after
he was held and executed for being an arrogant American, as the memoirs put
it. The memoirs note that Busch and fellow crewman Master Sgt. David L. Moore
may have been killed, even beaten, in Khabarovsk, which is a Siberian city.

But he [an acquanitance of the writer] did learn the names of two crew
members of the aircraft, BUSH and MOORE, who will forever remain in the soil
of the Khabarovsk Region, said the memoir.

'Vastness of gulag's underworld'


Busch's crew
The memoirs' release was triggered by former Russian President Boris
Yeltsin's 1992 admission that the Soviets in the 1950s had shot down U.S.
planes and taken American airmen into custody. A U.S.-Russian commission was
formed to focus on finding clues as to the Americans left behind in Russia.

The memoirs support an investigation initiated by the Pentagon that probed
how some Americans may have disappeared within the Russian gulags, forced
labor camps spread across the Russian countryside.  Related Audio:
 Sister Says POW Was Seen by Japanese



Busch and Moore, if the memoir is true, were lucky: And however blasphemous
this thought may appear to the uninitiated, let people take my word. By their
horrible fate they were spared the vastness of the gulag's underworld.

Today, there is a team of three or four Americans in Russia trying to find
out what happened to military men who went missing in action.

Our guys are stationed over there full time and are continuing to go through
Russian archives looking for specifics mentioned in these memoirs, said
Larry Greer, spokesman for the Defense Department's POW/MIA office. [The
Russians are] not very restrictive, frankly, about our movements in the
country. They know our people are there for strictly humanitarian purposes,
not collecting intelligence.

Girl meets boy, boy goes to war


Is this Busch? This photo was pulled from the National Archives.
George Busch described his big brother Sam as the strong, quiet type. He's
the stable one, he said. He's the brother that ruled.

Sam Busch, who grew up in Philadelphia, was the oldest of four children, and
he and his 

[CTRL] The Robert C. Byrd Bridge to Poverty

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The Robert C. Byrd Bridge to Poverty
By Ann Coulter

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com -- THE poor's sense of class superiority over
the rich is getting out of hand.


At a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, Sen. Robert Byrd, who was
named after a bridge in West Virginia, viciously attacked Treasury Secretary
Paul O'Neill for having made a success of himself. Claiming to speak for
worthless layabouts, Byrd snippily informed O'Neill: They're not CEOs of
multibillion-dollar corporations. ... In time of need, they come to us, the
people come to us.


Evidently what the people-in-need are asking for is a lot of federal projects
named after Senator Byrd.


Some items funded by taxpayers -- but still somehow named after Robert C.
Byrd -- are: The Robert C. Byrd Highway; the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam;
the Robert C. Byrd Institute; the Robert C. Byrd Life Long Learning Center;
the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program; the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank
Telescope; the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing;
the Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse; the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences
Center; the Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center; the Robert C. Byrd
United Technical Center; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building; the Robert C.
Byrd Drive; the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex; the Robert C. Byrd
Library; the Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center; the Robert C. Byrd
Rural Health Center.


And then it got late, and I had to stop researching. But it appears that
every slab of concrete in West Virginia is named after Bob Byrd.


Really warming to his class-envy tirade, the King Tut of the Senate further
informed O'Neill: I haven't walked in any corporate boardrooms. I haven't
had to turn any millions of dollars into trust accounts. I wish I had those
millions of dollars. Instead, Byrd had to scrape by with billions of dollars
forcibly extracted from the taxpayers to build grotesque banana republic
tributes to himself.


At least the money O'Neill turn(ed) into trust accounts came from his own
pocket. Coincidentally, the money Byrd turned into eponymous monuments also
came from O'Neill's pocket. A humble display of gratitude might have been
more appropriate.


An astonished O'Neill responded to the harangue: I started my life in a
house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral
ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch.


And then the hearing spun totally out of control as Senator Tut redoubled his
own sob story: Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity,
too, no running water, no telephone, a little wooden outhouse. (Though Byrd
was manifestly enamored of these fascinating particulars of his life story,
he unaccountably skipped the part about his youthful membership in the Ku
Klux Klan.)


When did a lack of money and accomplishment become a mark of virtue? Some
rich people may be swine, but so are some poor people. A lot of rich people
work harder, are more creative, and are a lot nicer than the poor. Paul
O'Neill was never in the Klan. Paul O'Neill never filched taxpayers'
hard-earned money to build a vast complex of shrines to himself.


More perplexingly, when did a scoundrel whose only source of capital comes
from other people's paychecks assume the high ground over a rich man who
dispersed paychecks? O'Neill is rich, I'm not, oh well. At least he didn't
dip into my earnings.


Every society must have concentrations of wealth in order to build and
create. Even the Soviet Union of beloved memory had concentrations of wealth
-- but it was in the government, rather than in corporations. It's called
capital. Capital is needed to launch society's most important projects --
factories, inventions, bridges, skyscrapers and telescopes named after Bob
Byrd.


O'Neill's concentration of money came to him through the voluntary decisions
of investors and consumers. Byrd's far larger concentration of money came to
him by force. Send in half your paycheck to the government or go to jail.


The specious core of the liberal mantra on tax cuts -- tax cuts for the
rich -- is that unless taxes are cut across the board, it never happens. As
loaded Hollywood liberals are always reminding us, they don't need a tax
cut. The rich we shall always have with us, kind of like the poor. At least
conservatives defend the right of middle-class people to keep their money,
too.


The only rich people deserving of malice are rich liberals who express
bemusement at the non-rich's desire for a tax cut. They want the middle class
to pay more in taxes and use the lumpen poor as a battering ram against these
hated, acquisitive, coupon-clipping climbers.


Despite his maudlin self-flattery, Robert Byrd and the rest of his party
don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf
of the 

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ASSAULT ON FREEDOM: Over the past several weeks, the forces that are seeking
to destroy liberty in this nation have been launching salvo after salvo, and
in the final week their assault against the republic and all that it stands
for has built up to a fevered pitch. So uniform has been the attack that, if
one were of a suspicious mind, one could easily suspect that this axis of
evil is engaged in a full-blown and coordinated conspiracy to deny the
American people their freedom. The enemies of freedom are cunning, so they
have adopted the methods of the saboteur, sowing destruction piecemeal and by
stealth. In preparation for the final assault launched this week, they
carefully laid the groundwork over the course of many months and even years,
one by one gradually undermining the institutions of defense and sapping the
will of freedom's defenders. Like the saboteur they have used lies and
deception to confuse and disorient their intended victim. In some isolated
instances a few over-eager attackers have mistakenly betrayed their designs
too soon and were smashed, providing a reminder to the foes of freedom that
their enemy was still potent, still capable of defending itself when
confronted by the full face of evil in the broad light of day. So like rats,
the enemies of freedom scurried back into the shadows, continued to lay their
plans, and were amazed that their enemy still couldn't see the danger that
confronted it. But the stealthy assault could only accomplish so much, and
laying the groundwork for the destruction of freedom could not achieve that
goal all by itself. The minions of tyranny knew that they would eventually
have to come out of the shadows. Then a series of random events gave them
their opening, and they rose up and struck their fatal blow. They had spread
their propaganda well and found that, like Lenin had foretold, the camps of
their victim were infested with useful idiots who were tragically deluded
into thinking that they were helping the cause of freedom, while in reality
they were aiding in its ultimate destruction.

No, this is not a recount of some terrorist assault on America, laying the
groundwork for the outrages of September 11th. After that attack, we were
urged to use caution lest in our desire to protect our nation, we do damage
to our Constitutional freedoms. Laws were enacted to safeguard our country
and our people, and the hand-wringers squalled that we had overdone it,
scolded that those laws might be (heaven forbid!) infringing on the
theoretical rights of foreign psychopaths bent on our death and destruction.
But this week those same hand-wringing scolds were quite content to see the
Constitutional rights of American citizens shredded for the professed goal of
saving us from corrupt politicians.

This week, one of the most basic of our freedoms was trampled in the House of
Representatives -- the people's House. Severely damaged was our very
freedom to speak and to criticize those grandees ensconced in the United
States Congress, who increasingly see themselves not as our elected public
servants, but as lords and masters who rule by divine right. Campaign finance
reform was the sham used to expand the tyranny of Congress over the citizens
they rule. It is difficult to realize the extent to which this republic has
become degraded since our noble beginnings, and the extent of dishonor that
we are willing to accept, but perhaps a simple thought experiment will
provide some insight.

Imagine if George Washington had stood before the assembled crowds at his
second inauguration and spoken the following words: Thank you for
re-electing me your President. I must tell you, however, something that I
discovered during my first term in office. I am corrupt. My loyalties, my
political convictions, my very actions as your President can be bought by the
highest bidder. But because I enjoy the pomp and the prerogatives that come
with my office, I will not step down to allow you to replace me with another
individual with more integrity. And to make sure that there are no
unpleasantries and no unkind comments from you about whatever I do as your
President, I will also insist that you citizens make a sacrifice. It concerns
this new Bill of Rights ratified just two years ago, and this First Amendment
of yours, the one that permits you to speak your minds in the realm of
political debate, the provision that actually allows you to criticize your
government. This is simply unacceptable. The idea that the peasants of this
country could put their pennies together and buy space in a newspaper or
print broadsides to criticize me or other public officials, well that is
simply ridiculous. Even though we may lie and we may be corrupt, you should
not be allowed to say so. So I will just delete this small part of the First
Amendment that guarantees 

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[CTRL] Canadians Skaters Get Gold, Russians Furious

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Canadians Skaters Get Gold, Russians Furious

February 15, 2002 03:42 PM ET


By John Mehaffey

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David
Pelletier were awarded a pairs gold medal Friday after the International
Olympic Committee moved swiftly to defuse a judging scandal overshadowing the
Winter Games.

IOC president Jacques Rogge told a news conference the Canadian duo would be
given the second gold of the event following a decision by the International
Skating Union to suspend a French judge in Monday's final.

ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta said Marie-Reine Le Gougne, who had voted for
the Russian winners Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze in the 5-4 split
decision, had been suspended for misconduct. The Russians will retain their
gold medal.

It is only the third time in the history of the modern Summer and Winter
Olympics that a result has been overturned for something other than doping.

The Canadians reacted with relief, Russia with outrage.

We are happy justice has been done, Pelletier told a news conference. It
does not take anything away from Yelena and Anton. This was not something
against them. It was something against the system.

RUSSIAN FURY

Russian Olympic Committee official Rudolf Nezvegsky told Reuters Rogge had
given a clear signal that competition could be determined in the courtrooms,
not the sports arena.

By doing this, they just struck a huge blow not only to the Olympic spirit
of fair competition, but also to the whole nature of sport, he said.

Back in the competition arenas, there was some solace for Russia when Olga
Danilova won her country's first cross-country skiing gold medal of the Games
in the combined pursuit.

Danilova outpaced team mate Larisa Lazutina in the five km classical race by
only 0.2 of a second to set up an exciting battle with the five times Olympic
champion in the 10 km freestyle leg.

She was happy to shadow her team mate for the first half of the race and made
the decisive break after 3.7 kms before opening up a gap on the final
downhill.

Danilova added the gold to the silver medal she won in the women's 10 km
classical and her two golds from Nagano, while Lazutina has now won two
silvers at these Games.

In the luge, Germans Patric-Fritz Leitner and Alexander Resch, the overall
World Cup champions, dashed the host nation's title hopes with victory over
Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin.

At Park City, Isabelle Blanc won an all-French final over favorite Karine
Ruby in the debut Olympic parallel giant slalom snowboarding event,

Ruby, the 1998 giant slalom champion, left herself too much to do after
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[CTRL] IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT

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local Newspaper.
IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are
offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on
Sept. 11, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of
Americans.

However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the
politically correct crowd began complaining about the possibility that our
patriotism was offending others.

I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against
anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to America. Our population is
almost entirely comprised of descendants of immigrants. However, there are a
few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently
some born here, need to understand.

This idea of America being a multicultural community has served only to
dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Americans, we have our
own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle.

This culture has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and
victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak
ENGLISH, not Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other
language.


Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society,

LEARN THE LANGUAGE!!

In God We Trust is our national motto. This is not some Christian, right
wing, political slogan. We adopted this motto because Christian men and
women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly
documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our
schools.

If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as
your new home, because God is part of our culture.

If Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don't like Uncle Sam,
then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We
are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't
care how you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, our land,
and our lifestyle.

Our First Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion and
we will allow you every opportunity to do so. But, once you are done
complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our pledge, our national
motto, or our way of life, I highly encourage you to take advantage of one
other great American freedom,

THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.



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[CTRL] Movie Alert (2/15/02) - Please Read

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Dear Friends:
 This is a unbelievable good movie about prophecy and out-of-body
experience and its also a true story.  If you got to work set your VCR to
tape it.  It is on the LIFE Channel and is on 1:00 PM on Friday Feb 15, 2002.
 Eric Roberts does a good job in the part of Danion Brinkley

God Bless;

Bill

Saved by the Light
90 min.
Recounting an alleged out-of-body experience that transforms the life of a
cocky belligerent (Eric Roberts), who was struck by lightning and prematurely
pronounced dead. Casey: Lynette Walden. Dr. Moody: Don McManus. Margie: K
Callan. T.M.: Don Harvey. Brink: Ted Manson. Coach: Michael Flippo. Julie
Nelson: Amber Elias. Lewis Teague directed.




Cast: Michael Flippo, Amber Elias, Chris Nelson Norris, Don McManus, Don
Harvey, Ted Manson, Eric Roberts, Lynette Walden, K Callan
Rating: NR
Category: Movie, Drama
Director: Lewis Teague
Release Year: 1995

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Show times
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Here is more on the story from which I got from the Web:

Dannion Brinkley
New York Times Best-Selling Author of
Saved by the Light and At Peace in the Light
Back



Born in South Carolina in 1950, Dannion Brinkley served in the Marine
Corps and worked within U.S. intelligence operations.  A veteran of several
war zones and intelligence work, Brinkely had just returned home form
Nicaragua in 1975 when his life was forever changed.
   While his wife fixed dinner, Brinkley called a friend on the phone.  As
thunder rolled in the distance, a light drizzle began to fall.  All of a
suden, Brinkely was hit in the neck by a bolt of lightening.  It traveled
down his spine and welded the nails in the heels of his shoes to the nails in
the floor.  It knocked him out of his shoes and into the air; threw him back
down and bent the bed frame.  As his body burned form the inside out, he was
paralyzed.  As fear engulfed him, Brinkley feared for his wife's safety.
Because of his espionage background he thought that someone had come to even
thescore by doing exactly what Brinkley had done many times and in many
places in the world.
   As Brinkley opened his eyes, he was in a blue-gray place.  In this place,k
he was calm and no longer on fire.  Brinkley rolled over and saw himself
sprawled across the bed.  He watched his wife come down the hall and begin
CPR efforts. He watched as paramedics arrived and began working on his body.
   Brinkley didn't think about being dead.  He didn't know about near-death
experiences and had no idea that he was experiencing one.  As many other
people who have under gone near-death experiences report, Brinkley saw a
tunnel and a bright, wondrous light.
   During Brinkley's near-death experience he underwent a panoramic life
review.   He felt every emotion, thought every opinion and saw every event
that had ever happened in his life.  In addition to reviewing everything
about his life, Brinkley also got be every person he had ever met.  He got
to feel the direct interaction between the other person and himself, all of
the pain, anguish, frustration, humiliation and anger that he had inflicted
on so many people.
   Eventually, Dannion returned to his body.  He sad been clinically dead for
28 minutes.  His body had been massively traumatized by the lightening
strike.   It took two years for Brinkley to relearn to walk and to feed
himself.
   Once recovered, Brinkley wanted to find a way that he and otherscould
benefit from his near-death experience.  To this end, he has been a hospice
volunteer for 17 years, helping peo;le eliminate their fears of death.  In
May 1997, he founded the national hospice volunteer organization, Compassion
In Action.  For more information about Dannion Brinkley's near-death
experiences, read his best-selling books; Saved by the Light and At Peace in
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[CTRL] United States links PA to axis of evil practicing terrorism

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United States links PA to axis of evil practicing terrorism
By Ellis Shuman   February 14, 2002



 Sharon meets British Minister despite anger over terrorism remarks
  For the first time, the United States yesterday included the Palestinian
Authority in its short list of regimes that practice terrorism. Speaking at
a press conference following President George W. Bush's meeting with
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer
said that the PA, along with North Korea, Iran and Iraq, was a regime of
particular concern to the president in his global campaign against terrorism.

The president has always been very clear, in all the statements he's made,
whether it was about North Korea or Iran or Iraq, or anywhere, Palestinian
Authority, that it's the people that the United States is concerned with,
that they are victims of regimes that invite terrorism and then practice
terrorism, Fleischer said.

The Bush administration has decided to tighten its inspection over funds
transferred to the Palestinian Authority, Maariv reported. Administration
officials suspect that some of these funds are financing terror actions
against Israel, the paper said. Several months ago, the Administration
cracked down on U.S.-based foundations believed to be channeling funds to
support terrorist activities against Israel.

Despite the unprecedented American statements connecting the Palestinian
Authority to terrorism, the Bush administration has signaled that it does not
intend to sever its connections with Arafat's regime.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a congressional subcommittee on
Wednesday that PA Chairman Yasser Arafat accepted some responsibility for the
Karine A weapons shipment. Powell said that Arafat still insisted he was not
personally involved in, or responsible for the shipment.

On Tuesday, Powell described a letter written to him by Arafat regarding the
Karine A as somewhat positive. In a statement Powell said the Bush
administration was in contact with Chairman Arafat and his closest
associates, to try to get more movement with respect to the arrests of
terrorists, with respect to an accounting for the Karine A.

It wasn't the standard denials, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
said of the letter. It indicated that he intended to take some actions, and
was taking some actions, with regard to ending any possible arms smuggling or
for that matter any relationship between Iran and the Palestinian Authority.

The United States does not intend to work towards replacing Arafat as
Palestinian leader, nor does it plan to close down PLO offices in Washington,
Yediot Aharonot reported. According to a classified report prepared by the
Israeli Embassy in Washington, the Bush Administration was extremely pleased
with the results of its talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the White
House last week, in which all of Israel's demands to sever ties with Arafat
were rejected, the paper said.

According to the report, Bush made clear to Sharon that the United States
would continue to apply pressure on Arafat, but would not deal with
suggestions of an alternative Palestinian leadership. The American message to
Arafat remains a demand for serious actions fighting terror, not words,
Yediot Aharonot reported.

UK Foreign Secretary demands Arafat actions against terror
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Wednesday that the first step
[towards resuming negotiations between Israel and the PA]… is to make the
life of the people of Israel much more secure. That means clamping down on
the terrorism that comes from the occupied territories.

After meeting in Jerusalem with Peres and with Defense Minister Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer in Tel Aviv, Straw met with Arafat in Ramallah and pressured the
Palestinian leader to crack down on militants. Straw said the goal must be to
resume peace talks, and in order to achieve that, there has to be an end to
the violence. The ultimate outcome, he said, should be independent states of
Israel and Palestine, each living in peace within secure borders.

Diplomatic officials in Jerusalem were pleased with Straw's comments
insisting on a complete cessation of terrorism as a prerequisite to a
resumption of talks. Straw's remarks improved the impressions left from his
previous visit to Israel in September, which came in the wake of a column he
wrote, published in Iran, that ascribed some blame to Israel for recent
outbreaks of terrorism, including the attacks in the United States.

In his talks with Israeli officials, Straw registered his criticism of a new
European Union peace initiative calling for Palestinian elections to be
followed by the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. Instead, Straw
was reported to have fallen in line with the U.S. and Israel approach that a

[CTRL] Al Qaeda Leader Abu Zubaydah Planning New Terror Attacks, Officials Say

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Al Qaeda Leader Abu Zubaydah Planning New Terror Attacks, Officials Say








Abu Zubaydah
Thursday, February 14, 2002

WASHINGTON — A 30-year-old, Saudi-born Palestinian is emerging as Usama bin
Laden's third-in-command, and U.S. officials believe he is actively
organizing Al Qaeda cells to commit new acts of terror against Americans.


U.S. officials said Thursday that they have assumed for some time that Abu
Zubaydah has assumed Al Qaeda's operational responsibilities following the
death of Muhammad Atef, the terror organization's former chief of operations,
who was killed by an American bomb in November.

Zubaydah has a thorough knowledge of Al Qaeda's entire worldwide network,
much of which he recruited.

The officials said Zubaydah, whose full name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad
Husayn Abu Zubaydah,  is believed to have been in Afghanistan or Pakistan
last fall, but his current whereabouts are unknown.

He is an expert at moving around the world undetected and has frequently
served as the only direct link between senior Al Qaeda members and the
organization's terrorist cells around the world.

According to a report in Thursday's New York Times, Zubaydah has been linked
directly to the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, as well as a wave of attacks that were planned to occur in
Europe last year — including plots to bomb the U.S. embassies in Paris and
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He's as dangerous as anyone we are looking for, including bin Laden, a
senior law enforcement official told The Times.

Zubaydah, who has been one of bin Laden's top men for several years, uses
multiple passports and aliases and has taken great care to avoid being
photographed, the Times reported. One publicly available photograph is grainy
and indistinct; U.S. intelligence agencies are believed to have more recent
images.

Tall, light-complexioned and able to speak at least some English, Zubaydah
has managed to move continuously around the world undetected even as other Al
Qaeda officials outside of Afghanistan or Pakistan were captured in the years
following the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Despite his prominence, Zubaydah has been so elusive that American
law-enforcement officials have been unable to make any public charges against
him, and he was left off both the Most Wanted list put out by the FBI in
October and the list of potential terrorists issued by Attorney General John
Ashcroft on Monday.

Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a wealthy family in the Palestinian
diaspora, Zubaydah did not become involved with militancy of any kind until
his 20s, when he met bin Laden.

He's interesting for many reasons, The Times quoted a Bush administration
official as saying, including the fact that he bypassed the more typical,
nationalist route that leads other Palestinians into terrorism.

His central goal has never been a Palestinian state, the official
continued. It's been the cause of Islamic extremism.

For a large part of the past decade, Zubaydah operated out of Peshawar,
Pakistan, supervising the thousands of young volunteers from around the
Muslim world who came to train with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

 Zubaydah would screen them in the Al Qaeda compound in Peshawar, known as
the House of Martyrs, and also ran one of the training camps in Afghanistan
himself.

Even more significantly, it was Zubaydah who would meet the freshly trained
recruits upon their return from Afghanistan — and who would then assign each
one to Al Qaeda cells around the world.

American officials believe Zubaydah is one of the few men alive who knows the
names and missions of virtually all Al Qaeda operatives outside of
Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Zubaydah first drew notice from terrorism analysts when information was
received showing that he had masterminded the foiled millennium plots to
attack Los Angeles International Airport and tourist areas in Jordan on New
Year's Eve. He has been subsequently sentenced to death in absentia in
Jordan.

Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian whose arrest in December 1999 helped uncover the
millennium plots, testified at an accomplice's trial in July 2001 that
Zubaydah had received him as an Al Qaeda recruit in Peshawar in 1998.

He is the person in charge of the camps, Ressam testified. He receives
young men from all countries. He accepts you or rejects you. And he takes
care of the expenses of the camps. He made arrangements for you when you
travel, coming in or leaving.

Since Sept. 11 and the death of Atef in November, Zubaydah has apparently
risen to be the No. 3 man in Al Qaeda, third only to bin Laden and Ayman
al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian physician who merged his own organization with Al
Qaeda in 1998.

Zubaydah's satellite phone number was found programmed into the memory of a
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Terror war shifts to Lebanon, Iran
U.S. forces prep for major action targeting top bin Laden operative

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U.S. military forces are preparing for a major operation in Lebanon to
capture or kill one of Osama bin Laden's top operatives, according to the
military and intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly.

Abu Zubaydah, one of bin Laden's five top lieutenants and a leading candidate
to be his successor, has been pinpointed hiding in Lebanon by Israeli
military intelligence, according to DEBKA sources.

He is the first member of bin Laden's five-man inner operational team to be
located since the war in Afghanistan began Oct. 7 – one, moreover, who is
directly implicated in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, the
bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and the
attack that crippled the USS Cole in Yemen two years later.

Nabbing Zubaydah would be the biggest coup of the U.S. war on terror, sorely
needed after the failure to bring any prominent al-Qaida leaders to Camp
X-Ray in Cuba.

Since last week, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rushed the news to
President Bush, American troops, including special forces, have been pouring
into Turkey, Israel and Jordan, preparing a major operation to throw the net
over Zayan al-Abdeen Mohammed Hussein, better known by his nom de guerre of
Abu Zubeidah. U.S. military spy satellites and a large number of manned and
pilot-less surveillance planes have been diverted to keep tabs on his every
move and make sure he does not escape.

The wanted man arrived in Lebanon about two weeks ago, according to sources,
and is closely guarded by three hefty layers of security. One consists of 30
to 35 al-Qaida loyalists willing to lay down their lives to defend him. A
second is provided by 50 Hezbollah special security men, under the command of
General Secretary Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, while the third is a band of
Palestinian intelligence and security agents mustered by Sultan Abdul Ayan,
strongman of the South Lebanese Fatah militias, who defers only to Yasser
Arafat.

Not far away lurk Iranian Revolutionary Guards units posted in south Lebanon
and Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and Syrian military intelligence
officers. However, the United States has quietly warned Tehran and Damascus
that they will feel the rough edge of American military might if their men
raise a finger to help Zubaydah evade capture. Military sources report the
American admonition to Tehran was blunt, spelling out threats of reprisals
against Iranian military targets in Lebanon and beyond.

Washington made a point of not addressing Arafat directly. Instead, Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak dispatched Egyptian intelligence chief General Omar
Suleiman to Ramallah Tuesday to caution Arafat severely on Washington's
behalf of the peril he will incur if his security and intelligence forces
interfere to save Zubaydah.

According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's sources, the al-Qaida operative's whereabouts
and Iran's complicity in his escape were passed on to Bush before he
delivered his State of the Union Address Jan. 29. It was one of the factors
leading him to include Iran in his axis of evil.

Iranian leaders, for their part, rather than further strain their already
sour relations with Washington, have resorted to a war of words against
Israel.

Hezbollah, nervous about a U.S. or Israeli attack in south Lebanon, staged
half a dozen artillery attacks on Israeli air force planes flying regular
reconnaissance missions over the Israel-Lebanese border. The Tehran-sponsored
Shiite group has also placed its forces on supreme alert.

Tehran sees it cannot explain away the incriminating picture emerging from
the investigations that followed Israel's seizure of the Karin-A in the Red
Sea Jan. 3 and the boat's tie-in with Zubaydah's assisted flight from
Afghanistan. The top al-Qaida man was given safe passage through Iran and,
according to the findings of Israeli military intelligence, was made welcome
for several days on the Iranian island of Kish near the Straits of Hormuz,
the same island from which the Karin-A took on its contraband arms cargo for
the Palestinians. Zubaydah reached Lebanon aboard yet another of the arms
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Campaign reform heads to Senate




President Bush suggested Wednesday that he may sign a campaign finance reform
bill if it gets to his desk. NBC's David Gregory reports on the fierce debate
in the House over the Shays-Meehan bill.


  By Tom Curry
MSNBC

  Feb. 14 —   Hours after the House passed a bill to overhaul the way
political campaigns are financed, Senate supporters of the measure appeared
to have enough votes Thursday to block a threatened filibuster and send the
measure to President Bush for his signature or veto.

SEN. FRITZ Hollings, D-S.C., who voted against a similar Senate bill
last year, said he would supply the 60th vote needed to cut off Senate debate
on the Shays-Meehan bill.
   Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said as soon as the bill reaches
the Senate, which could be after a one-week recess next week, he would seek
unanimous consent to bring up the measure and pass it.
   Bush has not said if he will sign or veto the measure.
   Sponsored by Reps. Chris Shays, R-Conn., and Marty Meehan, D-Mass, the
legislation would outlaw “soft money” contributions to national political
parties and ban certain types of political advertising 60 days prior to an
election.
 WashPost: Tactics, theatrics color vote

   The House passed the measure early Thursday after hours of debate and
voting on 13 amendments. Despite the ban on “soft money” donations to
national political parties, it would permit soft money contributions — up to
$10,000 per donor per year — to any state or local party.
   Last April, the Senate approved its own version of campaign finance
legislation, which is similar to the Shays-Meehan bill.
   But the Senate margin then was one less than the 60 votes needed to
stop a filibuster, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pledged to filibuster the
Shays-Meehan bill, essentially talking it to death.
   But Hollings’ Thursday morning announcement that he’d block a
filibuster appears to pave the way for quick Senate approval of Shays-Meehan.

 Clift: Congress votes for real reform

   This would confront Bush with a hard decision — sign a bill most of
whose provisions he opposes, or veto the bill and incur the wrath of
supporters of tighter restriction on campaign spending.
   White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was noncommittal about whether
Bush would sign the legislation: “The president has made clear that he would
like to sign something that will improve the system. He will have something
declarative to say at the end of the process.”

VETO CONSEQUENCES
   If Bush did veto the bill, it might give impetus to his rival, Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., to launch an independent presidential candidacy and
jeopardize Bush’s chances of re-election in 2004.
   Last March, Bush issued a set of principles that he said he wanted to
see embodied in any campaign legislation. They include:
 Banning corporate and labor union “soft money,” but not individuals’ “soft
money” donations.
 Requiring labor unions to obtain prior authorization from dues-paying
members before spending their money on political campaigns.
 Maintaining the right of advocacy groups to broadcast “issue” ads that
mention a particular candidate.
 Non-severability, which means that if the courts struck down any portion of
the bill, the entire measure would be invalid.
   If Bush sticks to these principles, then he’d find the Shays-Meehan
bill unacceptable.
   In the final tally on the Shays-Meehan bill, 198 Democrats and 41
Republicans voted for it, while 176 Republicans and 12 Democrats voted
against it.
   The House’s two independent members split on the bill. Six members
didn’t vote.
 House roll call vote on campaign finance

   The bill’s foes tried offering amendments Wednesday night and into
Thursday morning that, if adopted, would have made it unacceptable to the
Shays-Meehan forces and difficult for the Senate to accept. But most of those
amendments were rejected before final approval of the measure shortly before
3 a.m. ET.

BUSH: WHY NOT NOW?
   Bush signaled his opposition Wednesday to a provision that would delay
implementation of the bill until after this November’s elections, allowing
both parties to continue to use unlimited “soft money” contributions from
labor unions, corporations and individuals.

 Alterman: Is this reform?

   “I want to sign a bill that improves the system, and it seems like, to
me, that if they get a bill out of the House of Representatives that improves
the system it ought to be in effect immediately,” Bush told reporters at the
White House. “But we’ll see what comes my way.”



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 Defining two kinds of campaign contributions:
   'Hard money': Donation to a specific candidate, limited 

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OPERATION: ENDURING FREEDOM
GOP senator questions war results
Bunning blasts Gen. Franks for letting
al-Qaida leaders flee

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WASHINGTON – Just moments after Gen. Tommy Franks bragged about prosecuting
the most accurate war in U.S. history, a Republican senator blasted him for
letting Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders escape from Afghanistan.

The heated exchange, largely ignored by the mainstream media, took place Feb.
7 during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that featured a lot of
back-patting over the Pentagon's accomplishments so far in the war on terror.

But Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., punctured the hype with a sharp dose of reality.

If our mission was to seek out and destroy the Taliban and al-Qaida, he
grilled Franks, why were so many able to flee Afghanistan?

Bunning noted that only a small number – some 500 – of the thousands of
terrorists are in custody at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Cuba. Many,
including leaders Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar, have escaped, and
are regrouping and preparing to launch additional attacks on the United
States, he said.

I'm not pleased, and I don't think any Americans are pleased, that we
haven't done a better job on al-Qaida, Bunning scolded Franks, who's running
the war as commander in chief of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla.

His dressing-down came just moments after Franks appeared very pleased with
himself and the administration's accomplishments.

One of the obvious characteristics of this campaign [in Afghanistan] has
been the accuracy that I described – 18,000-plus weapons having been
delivered, 10,000 of those precision munitions, Franks said. By far and
away the greatest application of precision munitions in the history of our
country at any point at any place at any time.

Of course, they weren't precise enough to hit their primary targets – bin
Laden and Omar and most of their top henchmen, who are still at large and a
threat to America.

I think we're half-way there, Bunning groused, to which Franks had to
agree.

I wouldn't argue with you a bit, the general said.




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U.S. unlikely to attack until suitable replacement identified

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Despite the Bush administration's increasingly belligerent tone regarding
Iraq, military strikes against the regime in Baghdad remain distant.

The United States needs to plan a military campaign and subdue international
opposition to such a move. Meanwhile, the largest question remains unsolved:
Who could run Iraq after Saddam Hussein?

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to visit the Middle East in
March in what is seen as a prelude to potential U.S. military action against
Saddam Hussein's regime.

President George W. Bush recently explained Cheney's visit – which will
include stops in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and Kuwait, all of which border
Iraq – by saying, There's nothing like looking somebody in the eye and
letting them know that when we say we're going to fight terror, we mean it,
according to the Guardian.

Despite the fiery rhetoric of the president's State of the Union address,
there does not yet seem to be a clear consensus on how the United States
should act against Iraq. Options range from a CIA-sponsored coup to a
conventional military campaign similar to Desert Storm.

But as complicated as this question is, a tougher question remains: Who will
run Iraq after Saddam Hussein? The United States is unlikely to attack Iraq
until it believes it has identified a suitable replacement regime.

More than anything else, finding such a regime is the biggest hurdle keeping
Washington from launching strikes.

It should be noted that removing Saddam from power would entail a shift in
regimes, not simply a transfer of power. Arresting Saddam for war crimes –
assuming he left the country – or assassinating him would not bring about
much change, since Saddam has spent more than five years grooming his son
Qusay as his successor.

Although Qusay, 35, keeps a lower profile than his reputedly psychotic elder
brother Uday, he is no less ruthless. Qusay has almost total operational
control over Iraq's armed forces, including the elite Republican Guard and
the special security agency in charge of protecting the president.

Since 1995, Qusay has led efforts to conceal Iraq's programs for developing
missiles and weapons of mass destruction, according to the U.S. State
Department. Last summer, he took on his first official role when he was
elected to the Baath party's highest authority, its 18-member regional
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Afghanistan charges Pak intelligence with helping Osama
PTI
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Afghanistan has charged elements in Pakistan's intelligence services with
helping Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar evade capture.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf needs to act in a more firm way to
filter all the elements in the intelligence services supporting the
terrorists, Afghanistan interim interior minister Yunus Qanooni said in an
interview with Arabic language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.

The New York Times, which quoted the interview, said the charges were the
most direct expression of deep suspicions among Afghanistan's current leaders
that old ties between Pakistan and Taliban government had not been entirely
broken.

On a visit to Islamabad, the paper noted, Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid
Karazai had tried to end the bitterness. With Musharraf, he had said distrust
between Pakistan and those who now form Afghanistan's leadership should soon
be eclipsed by trust and partnership.

But Qanooni's remarks seemed intended almost as a rebuttal of such
assurances, the Time said. Qanooni said some former Taliban officials and
fighters were trying to regroup in Pakistan in a new formation.

The former officials and fighters, he said, have relations with Pakistani
intelligence that still insists on interfering in the Afghani affairs and
that is not in the interest of the relations between the two countries.

But in interviews, speaking with The Times on condition of anonymity, senior
Pakistani officials vehemently denied continuing support of the Taliban or
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Valentine's Teddy bomb threat

Thursday 14 February 2002

US law enforcement authorities today issued a warning of a possible
Valentine's Day Teddy Bear bomb threat after a man went on a suspicious
shopping spree that included buying nine cuddly toys.

The FBI said a man, possibly of Arab descent, bought 14 gas canisters, 12
packages of lead gun pellets and nine white Valentine teddy bears at
Stevenson Ranch in California on January 15.

We don't know why he bought this or what he was going to use it for, FBI
spokesman Matt McLaughlin said.

It's possible he had nine Valentines ... but we believe this could also be
used as an explosive device, he added.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said authorities had been alerted to the
purchases by an anonymous tip but added that the man who was between 22 and
35 years old was not a suspect.

This man isn't a suspect but we want the public to be aware that this might
be considered suspicious activity so that they can be conscious if they
receive, for instance, an anonymous gift in the form of a Teddy Bear.

Detectives want to interview the man who made the suspicious purchases and
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Jetliner Lust Attracts F-16s


By JOHN MARZULLI and BILL HUTCHINSON
Daily News Staff Writers

 randy, drug-fueled romp in a New York-bound jet's rest room sparked a midair
terror scare that sent a pair of F-16 fighter jets scrambling, authorities
revealed yesterday.

But the red alert aboard American Airlines Flight 101 from London on Friday
gave way to red faces when authorities discovered all the fuss was over two
amorous British men.

Police said the passengers, whose names were not released, admitted smoking
crack cocaine and having sex in the cramped rest room.

The miles-high ordeal began about 8:15 a.m. Friday on the London-to-New York
flight, said an American Airlines spokeswoman.

Flight attendants complained to the pilot that the two men were acting
suspiciously, making four or five trips to the rest room together.

A captain had requested that the local authorities meet the two passengers
at the gate at Kennedy, said airline spokeswoman Sonja Whitemon.

Air Force Listens In

Air Force officials overheard the captain's radio dispatch to American
Airlines operations and sent two F-16s to intercept the jetliner over the
Atlantic Ocean, said Federal Aviation Administration officials.

Whitemon insisted the airplane's crew did not ask for the military escort.

The captain requested that that not happen because he didn't believe the
situation was that serious, but it happened anyway, Whitemon said.

The two passengers were asleep when the plane touched down at JFK and were
escorted off by Port Authority, Customs and FAA agents.

No drugs were found on the men, who were not charged with any crimes.
Immigration officials denied them entry into the country because they
admitted smoking crack in the rest room, law enforcement officials said.

The men were put back on a plane bound for London later Friday, officials
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By Ted Bridis
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, February 13, 2002; 2:14 PM


WASHINGTON –– Comcast Corp., the nation's third-largest cable company,
pledged Wednesday to immediately stop recording the Web browsing activities
of each of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers.

Comcast said in a statement that it will stop storing the information in
order to completely reassure our customers that the privacy of their
information is secure. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the
company had started recording each customer's visit to a Web page as part of
a technology overhaul to save money and speed up the network.

Comcast reassured customers Wednesday that the information had been stored
only temporarily, was purged automatically every few days and has never been
connected to individual subscribers. But it said it will stop recording the
information, anyway.

In response to the AP's coverage, Rep. Ed Markey, an aggressive privacy
advocate in Congress, pressed Comcast President Brian Roberts in a letter
Wednesday about the recording. Markey said the company's action could be in
violation of federal law.

Markey, D-Mass., wrote that he was concerned about the nature and extent of
any transgressions of the law that may have resulted in consumer privacy
being compromised.

The ranking Democrat on the House Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications
and the Internet, Markey said the 1984 Cable Act prohibits Comcast from
collecting personal information from its Internet subscribers without
obtaining prior written or electronic consent. The act was originally
intended to protect the privacy of cable TV customers.

The 1984 law does allow cable operators to collect private information if it
can show it needs the information to operate its service.

Comcast Executive Vice President Dave Watson said Tuesday that the company
was recording no more information about its customers than is common in the
industry and no more than needed to optimize its network.

He said that while the company was recording details about customer Web
browsing, it did not use the information to build profiles of online consumer
behavior.

Comcast absolutely does not share personal information about our customers,
and we have the utmost respect for our customers' privacy, Watson said.

Outside experts, including the vendor whose powerful software Comcast is
using, said Comcast was recording more information about the online
activities of customers than necessary for the technology enhancements.

It's not needed, said Steve Russell, a vice president of Inktomi Corp.
Russell said Inktomi's software also records other information from Comcast
subscribers, which can include passwords for Web sites and credit-card
numbers under limited circumstances.

Russell discounted privacy concerns, saying engineers are using some of the
information to improve Comcast's performance and that many other Internet
devices record data racing across computer networks.

But two of the nation's largest Internet providers, America Online and
Earthlink, said they purposely do not collect details about the Web browsing
of their combined 35 million subscribers.

We definitely would have no interest in doing that at all, Earthlink's
chief privacy officer, Les Seagraves, said. We don't want to have customer
records about where they've visited.

AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said, We do not track the personal Web
activity of our members for privacy reasons.

A Comcast spokesman, Tim Fitzpatrick, said Web browsing was already being
recorded for its subscribers in Detroit and in parts of Delaware and
Virginia, and would be extended across the nation by the end of this week.

I'm furious, said George Imburgia, an Internet security expert in Dover,
Del., and a Comcast customer. They're monitoring and logging everybody's
activities. Imburgia compared the monitoring to the surveillance software
the FBI uses. It's an evil, Carnivore-type thing, he said.

Comcast's recording is part of an overhaul requiring new and existing
customers to use behind-the-scenes technology known as a proxy, which
funnels a person's Web surfing through powerful, centralized Internet
computers controlled by Comcast. Customers previously could volunteer to use
these proxy computers, but they are automatically activated under the new
system for all subscribers.

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[CTRL] Beijing's war on Christ

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A handful of internal Chinese government documents, just published by a U.S.
religious-rights organization, reveal that Beijing's zeal to crush
unauthorized Christianity is far from waning.

Working in tandem with sympathetic officials, Chinese Christians were able to
smuggle the documents – which appear legitimate – out of the country,
according to a Wednesday report by the Washington Post's Philip P. Pan.

I've never seen anything like it in such quantity, said Robin Munro, China
specialist at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. These
documents are from all around the country, all consistent, all quite
draconian, and all expressing implacable hostility toward these groups and
determination to eradicate them.

In China, any religious group which operates without Beijing's stamp of
approval is verboten, and adherents are vigorously pursued and punished.

Describing non-state-sanctioned religious groups as hostile, Sun Jianxin,
vice director of public security in Anhui province, warned in one of the
documents that they have hastened their infiltration through various
methods, such as via foundations or academic delegations, and all kinds of
media.

And don't think he's worried just about Wednesday night prayer meetings. Sun
sees something far worse: Hostile Western powers headed by the U.S. have
hastened to carry on their strategies of Westernizing, splitting and
weakening our country. (If only evangelicals really had that kind of
influence.)

Even while Beijing and the Vatican discussed better relations concerning
China's Catholics, who are obligated to follow the state and not Rome, Sun
declared that his security forces began to search, educate, convert,
reconnoiter and control some key members of the underground Catholics.

Indeed, as Ananova.com reports, Vatican news agency Fides has just released
the identities of 33 bishops and priests either detained or being kept under
strict police surveillance and forbidden to worship. It said about 20 more
priests, whose names are not known, are also being detained.

Documents also reveal an attempt to infiltrate illegal Protestant groups
and squash the Falun Gong sect.

As panda huggers wax eloquent about the mercy of Beijing, which did recently
release a Hong Kong businessman jailed for smuggling Bibles, one can hardly
escape the conclusion that China, on the eve of President Bush's visit, is
only attempting to curry favor by such a move. Bush showed special concern
for the Bible runner.

But don't buy it – the release of one Bible smuggler will not counterbalance
Beijing's overall goal.

Said one security minister quoted in the smuggled papers, We need to work
more, talk less to smash the cult quietly.

The current regime in China will not ease up until it has eradicated any form
of independent Christian worship. All believers who have not bowed the knee
to the Baal of Beijing will be punished.




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Pentagon and CIA making plans for war against Iraq this year

Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill
Thursday February 14, 2002
The Guardian

The Pentagon and the CIA have begun preparations for an assault on Iraq
involving up to 200,000 US troops that is likely to be launched later this
year with the aim of removing Saddam Hussein from power, US and diplomatic
sources told the Guardian yesterday.
President George Bush's war cabinet, known as the principals committee,
agreed at a pivotal meeting in late January that the policy of containment
has failed and that active steps should be taken to topple the Iraqi leader.

But, according to a US intelligence source familiar with CIA preparations,
provisional plans for a parallel overt and covert war only landed on the
president's desk in the past few days.

I will reserve whatever options I have. I'll keep them close to my vest.
Saddam Hussein needs to understand that I'm serious about defending our
country, Mr Bush said yesterday.

Since the principals committee decision, Colin Powell, the secretary of state
and the dove of the administration, has pointedly added his voice to the
calls for a regime change.

We are looking at a variety of options that would bring that about, he told
the Senate budget committee.

The blueprint for a campaign against Iraq has evolved from a contingency plan
drawn up by the joint chiefs of staff that envisaged the use of a
200,000-strong US force, the bulk of which would invade from Kuwait.

The final version is likely to involve a lighter, more mobile force, which
relies more on covert and special forces, in the light of the Afghan
experience. A working document has been forwarded to the White House, but it
is far from definitive. The generals remain deeply uneasy about the threat of
Iraqi chemical and biological retaliation against US troop concentrations or
against Israel in the event of a conflict.

Central command has already set up forward headquarters in the Gulf from
which each of the component services will be able to coordinate the war.

The air force headquarters (Afcent) is at the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi
Arabia. The army headquarters (Arcent) is in Kuwait, while the navy (Navcent)
is in Bahrain. Central command's marine component (Marcent) is also expected
to move to Bahrain in the next few days, weeks after the main marine force
left Afghanistan.

The US, Israel and Turkey were due to hold joint exercises codenamed
Anatolian Eagle this year, but in another sign of accelerated preparations
there will be three such exercises in the next few months, based at the
Turkish air force base at Konya. Once upgraded, Konya could be used alongside
Incirlik as a base for air strikes on northern Iraq.

The Pentagon's military planners are reported to have agonised over the Iraq
plan because of the significant risk that Saddam - aware that unlike during
the Gulf war his own life is at stake this time - would use chemical and
biological weapons against US troop concentrations and Israel. The danger
would be minimised by intensive bombing of missile launchers, but the
generals reportedly remain extremely concerned that the risks cannot be
eliminated entirely.

The CIA's covert war would involve arming and training Kurdish fighters in
northern Iraq and Shi'ite forces in Kuwait. CIA trainers and special forces
troops have already been dispatched to Kuwait for that purpose, and may
already have begun work.

Meanwhile, CIA and special forces will launch a campaign of sabotage and
information warfare in the next few months. The CIA puts very little faith in
the military capacity of the main opposition movement, the Iraqi National
Congress, but it has begun intensive consultations with INC officials about
the logistics of training and arming the movement's supporters.

The trigger could be the expected row over weapons inspections in three
months' time. America's allies are clinging to the hope that US military
action will be forestalled by Baghdad's acceptance of unconditional and
unfettered weapons inspections when the international sanctions regime comes
up for review at the United Nations in May.

However, Iraq's vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, said yesterday there was
no need for spies from the UN inspection teams to return to the country.

A US state department official said he thought it very unlikely that the
Iraqi regime would be prepared to accept the stringent programme of
inspections the US will demand.

As the American intelligence source put it, the White House will not take
yes for an answer, suggesting that Washington would provoke a crisis. He
added that he expected the war to begin soon after the May ultimatum.

US allies in the Middle East have been informed that a decision to attack
Iraq has already been taken, and diplomats 

[CTRL] Texas researchers clone cat

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Texas researchers clone cat


This is Cc:, the first cat clone

Researchers in Texas have cloned a cat, producing a two-month-old kitten
called Cc:.
The work is described in the scientific journal Nature and is the first time
anyone has cloned a pet.

Cc: is a copy of her genetic mother, not of the surrogate cat which actually
gave birth to her.

Despite having the same genes and the same colour coat as her genetic mother,
Cc: has a different coat pattern, given that these patterns are not
exclusively down to genes.

The Wall Street Journal says the work at Texas AM University was financed by
an 81-year-old financier called John Sperling, who wants to charge wealthy
pet owners to clone their animals.

He was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that he would also like to see
cloning used for socially useful animals such as rescue dogs.

Previous animal cloning experiments have concentrated on livestock and
laboratory animals with a view to duplicating expensively created transgenic
animals.

Such animals have been genetically modified to make them produce valuable
drugs in their milk or to make them potentially suitable for organ
transplants.

Cc: is the only surviving animal of 87 kitten embryos created by cloning.

The success rate is similar to that achieved with sheep, mice, cows, goats
and pigs.

It will have to improve if pet cloning is to become a reality.



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Bin Laden in hiding near US missile strike
By Martin Arostegui
Published 2/13/2002 5:36 PM


KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The CIA Hellfire missile attack in
eastern Afghanistan that killed three men believed to be senior al Qaida
leaders came as Afghan forces planned to raid a nearby village where Osama
bin Laden was thought to be holed up, United Press International has learned.

Controversy still surrounds the Feb. 3 missile attack, launched remotely by
the CIA from an unmanned Predator aircraft. Locals have told journalists that
the three men were residents collecting scrap metal. The U.S. military is
investigating, but says it is in a comfort zone about the strike, and does
not believe the men were innocent.

Buttressing the U.S. case, two Afghan security sources tell UPI that in the
days leading up to the missile strike, they were monitoring a group of al
Qaida leaders -- believed to include bin Laden himself -- and their heavily
armed bodyguards holed up in a nearby village.

The sources are an American security adviser to Afghanistan's Northern
Alliance -- part of the U.N.-backed interim government of the country -- and
a local informant of his. Both asked not to be named and their stories could
not be independently verified.

At the time of the missile strike, the adviser was assembling a force of
Afghan fighters to raid the village of Kote Tangai -- where the al Qaida
group had been in hiding since last December.

The adviser and his informant -- who had been monitoring a string of villages
along the border with Pakistan -- believe the group was the same one targeted
by the Hellfire, and was in the act of fleeing across the border to Pakistan
when the missile struck.

Locals who reported bin Laden's suspected whereabouts did not inform the U.S.
military at the time because they feared airstrikes against their villages,
the adviser says.

Two powerful local warlords who are helping to hide al Qaida were also
exerting pressure on locals not to reveal the presence of the terrorists they
were protecting, he added.

Since the missile attack, U.S. Special Forces have occupied Kote Tangai and
surrounding villages in southern Nangahar province where the al Qaida group
had been moving secretly for over a month.

The Americans have come in with helicopters, Humvees and motorcycles,
passing around money to obtain information from villagers, said the
informant, adding that they were too late, and that the fugitives have
already fled to other hiding places in the surrounding Spin Gar Mountains or
across into Pakistan.

The informant, a native of the area who had been an intelligence official in
a pre-Taliban government, spoke under condition of anonymity, using the
pseudonym Daoud. He told UPI about the possible presence of bin Laden in the
area a day before the Hellfire attack.

A U.S. military team has been combing the area where the missile struck,
Pentagon officials said this week.

I can report that the team has recovered some documents, some clothing, two
missile fins, an empty box used for a hand-held radio, some AK-47 ammo
pouches and some 300 rounds of 50-caliber ammo, and, yes, some human
remains, Defense Department spokesman Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem told
reporters, adding, There are no initial indications that these were innocent
locals... So I think that that sort of puts us in a comfort zone right now.

The evidence is being brought to an undisclosed forensics facility in the
United States for study, a process likely to include DNA testing to determine
if any of the body pieces could have belonged to bin Laden or other senior al
Qaida leaders.

U.S. intelligence officers operating the drone aircraft fired its remote
controlled missile when its video camera relayed images of a group of al
Qaida suspects showing deference to a tall man getting into a 4X4 vehicle,
Pentagon officials have said.

According to Daoud, the group had been in the area since mid-December, when
they used steep mountain passes to escape from the al Qaida cave complex at
Tora Bora being pummeled by American B-52s.

The leaders met up with vehicles provided by Leeaz Khel, a Pakistan based
local warlord with long standing ties to the Taliban and al Qaida, Daoud
says, basing his account on his own surveillance and information he gleaned
from residents of the area.

In an ingenious deception, he says, the fugitives boarded a flying carpet
or public transport bus intended to deceive U.S. air and satellite
reconnaissance. After driving all day, the bus met up with 4X4 vehicles into
which the al Qaida VIPs transferred for the rough trek to Kote Tangai along a
mountain range bordering Pakistan, which was not being targeted by American
airstrikes.

The hideout was mainly chosen due to its inaccessibility. At an elevation of
12,000 feet above sea level, the village has no 

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states
By JACKIE HALLIFAX, Associated Press
Published 6:02 p.m. PST Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The fate of nearly 800 death row inmates in Florida
and eight other states may hinge on the outcome of a case before the U.S.
Supreme Court that could have the most dramatic effect in 30 years on the way
states apply the death penalty.
The high court agreed last month to hear a case from Arizona that asks
whether a judge instead of a jury can decide whether a convicted killer
deserves the death penalty.

The court's decision, expected by summer, could affect sentences already
handed down in nine states where judges choose between a death sentence and
life in prison for a convicted killer.

In Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Nebraska, juries have no role in
sentencing those they convict in capital cases. In Florida, Alabama, Delaware
and Indiana, juries make recommendations but judges make the decision.

It goes to the very heart of what we mean by the right to a jury trial, and
we have argued it forever, said Denise Young, a lawyer in Tucson, Ariz., who
represents death row inmates.

Defenders of the sentencing laws at issue have argued that judges can be
better than juries at applying the law without passion. Having a judge make
the choice may lead to fewer death sentences, or sentences better able to
withstand scrutiny on appeal, some prosecutors have said. Florida leads the
nine states with 372 inmates on death row, followed by Alabama with 184,
Arizona with 128 and Indiana with 39.

The court could rule broadly on whether it is ever appropriate to have a
judge make the final call or confine its ruling to the situation in Arizona
and the four other states with nearly identical laws.

Since the Supreme Court agreed on Jan. 11 to hear the challenge to Arizona's
law, it has granted stays of execution to two Florida inmates whose lawyers
had cited the pending Arizona case. That has led some lawyers to suggest that
the Supreme Court believes that Florida's law - and those like it - are
constitutionally suspect, too.

Under Florida's law, a judge can impose the death penalty even if a jury
recommends a life sentence.

Exactly what would happen if the death penalty laws in the nine states were
invalidated is not clear. Some lawyers have speculated that the death row
inmates' sentences could be commuted to life in prison. Or the inmates might
be resentenced, with some receiving a death sentence all over again.

The defendant in the Arizona case is Timothy Ring, who was condemned for the
1994 murder of an armored car driver during a holdup.

His case could be the biggest challenge to the nation's death penalty laws
since 1972, when the Supreme Court declared that capital punishment had
become too arbitrary and capricious. The court imposed a moratorium on
capital punishment across the country, leading to some 600 death sentences in
dozens of states being reduced to life in prison.

In 1984 the Supreme Court upheld Florida's law against a challenge that
asserted it violates the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury. In 1990, the
high court upheld Arizona's law against a similar challenge.

But in June 2000, a Supreme Court decision in an unrelated New Jersey case
gave new hope to death row lawyers.

In Apprendi v. New Jersey, the justices struck down the state's hate crime
law, ruling that a judge could not use the law to lengthen the sentence of a
man who shot into a black family's home.

To do so meant the judge was considering facts not put before the jury, and
that violates the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury, the court ruled.

Defense attorneys hope the Supreme Court will apply that reasoning to laws
that allow judges to impose the death penalty.



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:: ARAFAT: SHIPMENT IS MY FAULT, BUT ISRAEL DID IT
:: ARAFAT, RAJOUB AT ODDS OVER CONTROL OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
:: PALESTINIANS BEGIN LAUNCHING ROCKETS
:: LEBANON HEARS CASE AGAINST SHARON
:: CANADIAN TIES TO HIZB'ALLAH?
:: MSNBC DECLARES STATE OF PALESTINE
:: HAMAS RECEIVES FUNDING FROM EUROPEAN CHARITY GROUPS


:: A THOUSAND ISRAELIS MARCH TO TEMPLE MOUNT: On 1 Adar (12 February), the
first day of Rosh Hodesh Adar, the Temple Mount Faithful and a thousand
Israeli men and women marched to the gates and around the walls of the
Temple Mount through the streets of the Old City. This was the march for
Rosh Hodesh Adar (the beginning of the new month). The marchers stopped at
each of the ancient gates of the Temple Mount and prayed the Rosh Hodesh
prayers which are connected to the Temple and the worship in the Temple. It
was an exciting renewal of a very old Biblical tradition when the
Israelites came to the Temple to celebrate the Rosh Hodesh holiday and to
make the special sacrifice of Rosh Hodesh according to the Word of G-d
(Numbers 10.10, 28.11-15). Rabbi Dudkevitch of Yitzhar emphasized that many
national troubles stemmed in the past from the fact that the people were
not sufficiently concerned about the Holy Temple. In addition, If we want
to sustain our sovereignty in this Land, the very first place we must do
this is here, at this site. We must ask ourselves how is it that we have
lost our hold over Joseph's Tomb and other holy areas in the country?  The
answer lies in the fact that we concentrated on individual goals, even in
terms of settlement in other parts of the Land, but without giving
sufficient attention to G-d's House.

MK (National Religious Party) Rabbi Yitzhak Levy on Wednesday visited the
Chai Vekaiyam organization now in its second week of a protest vigil
outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Shikmim farmhouse in the Negev. The
High Court of Justice approved the vigil that includes a caravan and large
billboard, Ariel Open the Temple Mount to the Jewish People for a
two-week period. The effort is being led by Chai Vekaiyam leader Yehuda
Etzion. Levy added that ongoing efforts by the Waqf Islamic Authority to
eradicate any trace of Judaism's past from the Mount, accompanied by the
government's refusal to permit Jews on the Mount, would never erase the
holiness and significance of the site.


:: PA/PLO INCLUDED IN AXIS OF EVIL?: Wednesday while speaking to
reporters, White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer grouped the Palestinian
Authority (PA/PLO) together with other regimes of terrorism. He included
the PA/PLO as part of the axis of evil that invites and practices
terrorism. Fleischer made his remarks in response to a question about what
steps the US was taking to address cultural tensions that help breed
terrorism. He went on to say that the US is concerned with the lack of
hope among those living under terrorist leadership, including those in
Arafat's PA/PLO. A spokesman in the American Embassy in Tel Aviv declined
to comment on the matter.


:: ARAFAT: SHIPMENT IS MY FAULT, BUT ISRAEL DID IT: US Secretary of State
Colin Powell told Congress that PLO leader Yasser Arafat accepted
responsibility as chairman of the PA/PLO for an attempt to smuggle in 50
tons of weapons from Iran. Powell said Wednesday, however, that Arafat has
not accepted personal responsibility for the operation. Arafat has denied
all knowledge of the shipment but arrested PA/PLO figures suspected of
links to the smuggling attempt.

Meanwhile, in an interview with Lebanon's AN-NAHAR daily published on
Tuesday, Arafat accused Israel of trying to destroy his ties with
Washington by orchestrating the attempt to smuggle in 50 tons of weapons
from Iran. Arafat offered no evidence to back his charge. Both Iran and
Hizb'Allah have denied any links to the ship. A senior Palestinian official
said Sunday that Arafat had written to Secretary of State Colin Powell to
assure that there are no Palestinian military ties to Iran and promise to
punish those responsible for the arms shipment.


:: ARAFAT, RAJOUB AT ODDS OVER CONTROL OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE: PLO leader
Arafat lashed out Monday night against the head of preventive security in
Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza), Jibril Rajoub, after hearing that
Rajoub's forces failed to resist a mob that overran the PA/PLO prison in
Hebron, releasing 17 Islamic 

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What Is a Conservative?
By Chuck Baldwin
February 15, 2002


A reader from California recently took me to task for one of my columns. She
said, Not every liberal is non-religious. Many are very good Christians.
She went on to say, [Homosexuality] is a state of being - not necessarily a
behavior. Many homosexuals are very religious and spiritual people.
Obviously, there is nothing particularly revealing about those sentiments; I
hear them all the time. What is noteworthy is the way she concluded her
letter. After her name and city, she signed off with a P.S. It said, I am a
thinking, independent CONSERVATIVE. (Emphasis added.)

Now let me get this straight. A conservative today is one who believes that
people who think it is alright to kill innocent, unborn babies and who want
to take away my Second Amendment right to own and carry a firearm (liberals,
in other words) are very good Christians. Furthermore, conservatives today
believe that people who think sexual perversion is normal and healthy
(liberals, in other words) are very good Christians. Did somebody change
the dictionary when I was not looking?

It seems that to be identified as a conservative today means something
very contrary to what it used to mean. Consider the fact that President Bush
can submit a budget that escalates federal spending to record levels
(including an education budget that expands federal encroachment into
education in ways Bill Clinton could only dream about). He can support
limited stem cell research (which turns human embryos into guinea pigs) and
can even promote activist homosexuals to high positions of government and
still be called a conservative.

Then again, perhaps by today's definition, both Bush and my California
reader ARE conservatives. My Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary
defines a conservative as: 1. conserving or tending to conserve;
preservative. 2. tending to preserve old institutions, methods, customs, and
the like; adhering to what is old or established; opposing or resisting
change.

Consider with me now what are the old institutions, methods, and customs.
What is the established order that conservatives resist changing? For
one thing, the institution of abortion is firmly established, and, yes,
conservatives resist changing it. The social and political acceptance of
sodomy is firmly established, and, again, conservatives resist changing
it. A political course heading directly toward internationalism is also
firmly established, and, once more, conservatives resist changing it. It
appears that resisting change is the perfect description of
 conservatives today. Yes, it would seem that both Bush and my California
reader are conservatives, at least by the new definition.

That leads to the question, What are people called who believe in limited
government, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, individual liberty,
and state sovereignty? What does one call people who believe that the
federal government has no business in education or law enforcement? What do
we call people who believe abortion-on-demand is premeditated murder and
that sodomy is fornication squared?

When we are able to properly identify and organize those people, we can
begin the process of setting America's house in order. Until then, modern
conservatives and liberals alike will continue to run the ship of state
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0252.  Olympic mission hits close to heart, home

by Capt. Angie Chang
388th Fighter Wing Public Affairs

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AFPN) -- As the world's top athletes vie for the
gold in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, competitors and spectators can rest
assured that F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots are patrolling the skies to ensure
the safest games possible.

The 388th Fighter Wing here is the primary unit tasked by the North American
Aerospace Defense Command to provide air defense during the Winter Olympics.

During the first three days of the games, pilots here responded to three
requests from the Federal Aviation Administration and Secret Service to
intercept aircraft deemed to be potential threats. The interceptions were
the result of small aircraft unknowingly attempting to enter Salt Lake City
airspace without the proper clearances.

The people of Utah are accustomed to seeing aircraft overhead, but fully
armed F-16s orbiting over the Olympic venues is a departure from normal.

This is a wartime mission for us, said Col. Steve Hoog, 388th Fighter Wing
commander, who is flying combat air patrols during the games. We're
performing a mission we never thought we would be doing before Sept. 11, but
it's a mission we're taking very seriously.

Hoog said he considers it unlikely that passengers will stand by while a
commercial carrier is used as a weapon.

The passengers on United Flight 93 set the standard with their 'Let's Roll'
attempt to regain control of their hijacked aircraft, he said.

Regardless, Hoog said his pilots are prepared for such a situation.

We know that shooting down an airliner is something we may have to do as a
measure of last resort, he said. What you have to realize is that if
people with hate in their hearts have taken over an aircraft like they did
on Sept. 11, what we're trying to do now is save additional lives on the
ground.

Capt. Brian Turner, a pilot who intercepted an aircraft Feb. 10, said that
while the Olympic air security mission is like any other, this mission is a
bit more personal in a sense that half my sorties are over my house and the
local community.

Capt. Scott Clyman echoed Turner's sentiments, and said, Athletes can go
for the gold with a peace of mind knowing that we're protecting the skies
over Olympic venues. They can be assured that when they hear the 'sound of
freedom,' it's the 388th Fighter Wing overhead helping to keep the skies
safe.

Since Sept. 11, NORAD aircraft have responded to more than 200 requests by
the FAA to intercept potential air threats. The command continues to operate
with more than 100 fighters at about 30 locations across the country. NORAD
flies random combat air patrol sorties over major metropolitan areas and
continuous patrols over New York City and Washington. (Courtesy of Air
Combat Command News Service)



0250.  Air base in Kyrgyzstan named after hero

by Capt. Kristi Beckman
376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

GANCI AIR BASE, Kyrgyzstan (AFPN) -- He was a legend, a hero, and a role
model, someone everyone looked up to.  He gave his life Sept. 11 protecting
his men during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

He was Chief Peter J. Ganci Jr., chief of the New York City Fire Department,
and his name will forever be etched in time as Air Force officials chose to
name the air base here after him.

When asked why the base was named after Ganci, Brig. Gen. Chris Kelly, 376th
Air Expeditionary Wing commander, said it was just the right thing to do.

A great young American by the name of Captain Erik Rundquist read an
article about Chief Ganci and suggested we name the base after him, he
said.  We started to do the research of trying to find the family, and
without even mentioning the chief's name, we miraculously found his brother.
So, it wasn't us who decided we should name it Ganci Air Base, it was God.

The chief's brother, Army Reserve Col. Daniel Ganci, said his brother
deserves an honor like this and he is very proud of the Air Force for
thinking of him.

I know he wouldn't believe it, Daniel said.  He was just a regular guy
and never thought of himself as someone important even though he was very
important.

Daniel said the Air Force picked the right man to name the base after.

Pete loved the fire department more than life itself, he said.  He saved
lives and fought fires and he did it better than anyone, and he had the
decorations to prove it.  Fighting fire was as important to him as flying is
to the Air Force.

And Peter believed that if you are going to do it, you do it with the best,
you train with the best and you strive to be the best, Daniel said.

When it comes right down to it, Peter J. Ganci is a legend to firemen and
women around the country, not because he's the chief of the FDNY or because
he gave his life on 9-11, said Nick Kelly, a D.C. firefighter and son of
Brig. Gen. Chris Kelly.  Chief 

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0251.  Long-term care insurance available soon

by Tech. Sgt. Eddie C. Riley
Air Force Print News

WASHINGTON -- Federal workers concerned with the rising cost of long-term
care required because of an illness, accident or the normal aging process
will be eligible to apply for added protection as early as March.

Those eligible for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program include Air
Force active duty, selected Reserve, civilian employees, and retirees, as
well as qualified family members.

Officials from the office of personnel management at the Pentagon contracted
with two major companies to provide coverage for the Federal Long Term Care
Insurance Program. Metropolitan Life and John Hancock Life insurance
companies formed Long Term Care Partners, which will be the exclusive
operators of the FLTCIP.

Benefits will include reimbursement up to the limits in each policy for the
expenses of home care, home health care, assisted living facilities, and
adult day care resulting from chronic mental or physical conditions.

Early enrollment is available March 25 to May 15, but the actual open season
starts July 1 and continues through Dec. 31.  Those people who apply during
the early enrollment will pay premiums based on their age when the
application is received.  If they apply during the open season, they will
pay premiums based on their age on July 1, 2002.

Since premiums will be based on age, officials said it may be beneficial for
some people to enroll during the early enrollment to lock in lower premiums;
however, more choices and payroll deduction will not be available until open
season.

Early enrollment may not be valuable to everyone, said Maj. Jeff Keef, an
Air Force personnel official at the Pentagon.  Unless you are informed on
the benefits and circumstances of long-term care and coverage, you should
probably wait for the educational campaign that will start this spring and
make a decision during the open season. After weighing your options, you may
decide not to apply for the coverage at all.

You should also be aware that this is one benefit you can share with your
parents, he said.  If you suspect that they are in the market for
long-term care insurance, you may want to advise them of this new program.
Because this will be a large group plan, this could result in significant
savings over other plans for many participants.

Parents, parents-in-law, and stepparents of employees and members of the
uniformed services (but not of retirees) are eligible to apply.

As members of the Air Force, we take pride in maintaining our fitness and
health, but there is always the potential for accidents or developing a
degenerative medical condition, he said.  About half of us will need
long-term care at some point in our lives that Medicare won't provide. And,
over 40 percent of people who are receiving long term care are under age 65.
For this reason, we suggest that individuals take the time to educate
themselves on the insurance program.

Interested individuals can sign up online to receive information (early in
2002) about the plan, as well as to subscribe to a complimentary health and
financial bulletin at http://www.ltcfeds.com/.  More information on the
insurance program is available at http://opm.gov/insure/ltc/ and (800)
582-3337.



0257.  CSAF survey reports protect your identity

RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Time is running out for those who
haven't taken this year's Air Force Chief of Staff survey -- the deadline is
March 8.

The anonymous survey, which began Jan. 22, is designed to give unit-level
leadership feedback about recognition, leadership, supervision, training,
job satisfaction and other aspects within their organization.

While more than 37 percent of Air Force people have taken the survey, others
have expressed their opinion on anonymity.  To remove any concerns people
may have, the survey team has used the most advanced information-masking
software available to protect people's anonymity.

We want to spread the word that people can provide honest feedback to their
leadership, which is why multiple levels of identity protection are built
into the squadron level reports, said Lori Marcum, survey development team
lead at the Air Force Manpower and Innovation Agency here.

For example, unit-level (squadron-equivalent) reports must have a minimum of
20 respondents before the comments or officer, enlisted, and civilian
demographics are displayed.  For additional identity protection, there must
be at least seven respondents in a category for officer, enlisted, or
civilian for those particular demographic results to be shown.

The only demographic included in a unit-level report is officer, enlisted,
and civilian, officials said.

In fact, demographics such as Air Force Specialty Code, rank/grade, time on
station, etc., will only be used in reports for CSAF and major command

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  What you may think you are obligated to do by law, may not necessarily be
true.  Knowledge is power, and an informed public is the governments worst
enemy. Much of our legislation is enforced by what is termed to be color of
law, and actually no law at all being unconstitutional.

  Sadly over the years Americans have learned to accept their plight of being
under the complete control of government.  We are told it is for our own
good.  If it benefits society, it benefits us all.  So we continually accept
the dark forces restraining our liberty.

  The price of liberty and freedom under any government requires constant
vigilance by the governed.  To be effective, that vigilance must have the
powerful physical force of an armed citizenry to enforce and make it fearful
to political demagogues and bureaucrats who wish to secretly control all
citizens.

  President John Adams stated that our Constitution was capable of governing
a decent, God fearing, religious, law abiding people and was wholly
inadequate for any other.  Which is greater today, fear of government or God?

  Today people are controlled by fear.  Often this fear makes us angry.
Angry at ourselves for not knowing or understanding, and we don't want to
hear anymore or talk about it. This is why we are controlled.  Not because of
some national emergency, such as a war on terrorism, a war on poverty, drugs,
or educational crisis.  Men who lust for power love emergencies. They
constantly hunt for them, exacerbate them, and exploit them.  When none can
be found they manufacture them.  They then offer solutions, extreme
measures that inevitably shift more power to themselves, or to the
government.  By allowing this we have clearly lost control of our government.

  Political theorizing will not restore the true meaning and spirit of the
Constitution.  Writing and calling your government representatives is liken
to sticking your hand in a sack of snakes, it doesn't matter which one you
reach for, they all bite.  No amount of agonizing or protest to government
officials will change the design of those who seek to overthrow the
Constitution, taxing and persecuting the people into slavery.  Nor can any
amount of money save the idolatry of government.

  Liberty and freedom in America is the right to live free from those who
impose their grand plans and humanitarian intentions and visions on society.
Liberty and freedom in America is the right to live by your own means and
judgment, taking responsibility for your own welfare.  We were born free, not
as a ward of the government.

  Above I stated, knowledge is power, and an informed public is the
governments worst enemy.  That is not the case as long as the knowledgeable
are controlled and intimidated by fear of their own government. What has
happen to the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Never in the history of this nation has the American citizen had greater
cause to rise and remove the majority of its elected officials.  More than 95
percent of the elected and appointed officials in Washington and our State
Capitols
  should be removed today for treason and impeached for derelict of duty.
They have failed miserably enforcing the Constitution.  America's fight for
liberty and freedom is not with terrorism or foreign occupation.  It is with
our acceptance of tyrannical and abusive government at all levels.

  The bottom line is described exactly by Congressman Ron Paul.
  ...Our fight won't be won without first the American people rejecting the
merits of government intervention. -Congressman Ron Paul   May 18, 1998


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COMMUNISTS and MASONS BOTH WANT THE SAME THING

The Masonic Lodge is the leading proponent of THE NEW WORLD ORDER (the
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM on the back of the American dollar bill. The entire
phrase ANNUIT COEPTIS NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM means ANNOUNCING THE BIRTH OF THE
NEW WORLD ORDER, and these Latin words were placed by the Masons into THE
GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES, the two circles on the dolllar bill, in
1782.)
The NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM is a totally new civilization without the moral
teachings of God. That means there will be no right to private property, no
right to life, no right to create a family, no national borders, no religion,
etc. in THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
Those who has studied the writings of Karl Marx, the so-called Father of
Communism, (Marx did not originate Communism. The ideas he proposed
preceeded him by centuries) will recognize these as the very tenets he
favored in the writing of THE COMMUNISM MANIFESTO in 1848.
That means that the Masons and the Communists both WANT THE SAME GOALS.
If you are having trouble accepting this, you might consider reading my
book entitled THE NEW WORLD ORDER, available at amazon.com or barnes  noble,
or through your local bookstore. I will document my contentions from Karl
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Dear Friends:
Just read these ads for these books and see how phony the fall of
Communism was!  Also there is a prophecy from heaven where Our Lady appeared
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   Here is an account of two books by a KGB defector named Anatoliy
Golitsyn.  His first book was named New Lies for Old and his newest book is
called The Perestroika Deception.  I have an Outline here for each book and
where to buy them  and their price.

READ THESE BOOKS

OUTLINE OF NEW LIES FOR OLD

It can rarely be said that a single book may hold the key to the future
of the world, but ex-KGB Anatoliy Golitsyn's New Lies For Old is such a
book.  This riveting work, published in 1984, one year before Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev came to   power,
is a terrifying account of how top Communist leaders long ago planned the
current   openess to the West...the
collapse of Communism...the new democracy and
   restructuring of the Soviet economy...the incorporation of
Eastern bloc nations into the
European Common Market...the planned merger of the two Germanies...even the
fall of the Berlin Wall.  According to Golitsyn, once a top KGB expert within
the Politboro on disinformation--the dissemination of false information
through mainstream western media--Soviet leaders are engaged in the final,
offensive phase of a long-range policy of deception.  These communist
strategists are plotting maneuvers and stratagems beyond the imagination of
Marx or the practical reach of Lenin and unthinkable to Stalin.
   What gives Golitsyn's work its eerie, frightening quality is that it
accurately portrays, almost to the last detail, the historic events currently
reshaping the map of Europe.  In his 1984 book, published during the height
of East-West military tensions and the repression of the Polish Solidarity
movement, Golitsyn foretells the triumph of Solidarity as the first
domino in the feigned collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.  He reveals
the planned liberalization of the Soviet Union, including, amazingly, the
staged deepening of the Sino-Soviet split.  At a time of record military
spending, he foretells the so-called peace-dividend --when a new
European-Soviet coalition would make a massive U.S. defense budget no longer
justified and NATO no longer necessary.  In 1984, Golitsyn asks what was
then an unthinkable question: How will the Western German social democrats
respond when the communist regimes begin their 'liberalization' by making
concessions on human rights, such as easing emigration, granting amnesty for
the dissidents, or removing the Berlin Wall?
   Reading like a fast-paced spy thriller, yet bristling with authentic
details only an insider could muster, New Lies For Old is perhaps the most
important book you will ever read.





OUTLINE OF THE PERESTROIKA DECEPTION

The Perestroika Deception is divided into six parts with an Appendix, a
Postscript and an Addendum.
Part One is title The Perestroika Deception where the author discusses
the adoption of the  long-range policy for Perestroika, Soviet research for
the strategy, the KGB's role in preparing for the strategy, as well as the
experiments and rehearsals for Perestroika.
There is also treatment of the main objectives of the final phase of
Perestroika; namely, the restructuring of Eastern Europe, the Third World and
the United States, restructuring the American military and political
alliances.  It also speaks of the Soviet campaign against anti-Communism in
the West.
Part Two, The Communist Grand Strategies and Western Illusions, is a
Memorandum to the CIA dated January 4, 1988, and it is an assessment of
Gorbachev's visit to the United States in light of the Grand Soviet Deception
Strategy.  The author also describes convergence through tactical changes
and disinformation.
The American Counter-Strategy against Perestroika is what makes up Part
Three.  The author discusses past American tragic mistakes  in dealing with
the communist world, as well as mistakes of various American leaders, and
mistakes during the Vietnam period.
The Execution of the Strategy of Perestroika and the Blind Western
Response to it constitutes Part Four of the book.
The author gives 7 keys for understanding Perestroika which are as
follows:

1) Lenin's New Economic Policy as a precedent for Perestroika.
2) Preparation for the use of the Communist Bloc's full political and
security potential.
3) The creation of controlled political opposition in the Communist
countries.
4) Lenin's forging the old and new forms for developing socialism and
Chicherin's idea of false representative institutions through the
admission ofnon-Communists.
5) The deployment of controlled political opposition 

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BACK TO THE USSR - WITH A VENGEANCE!
  (The following item is taken from a lengthy article entitled BACK TO THE
U.S.S.R. - WITH A VENGEANCE! in the May, 1996, issue of the NEW  WORLD ORDER
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE)


...the Soviet Union is not on the verge of collapse. Western defence,
on the other hand, is.

Since British General Sir Walter Walker penned that warning, some
four-and-a-half years ago, Olivia Ward, the TORONTO STAR's extremely able
Moscow bureau chief revealed last year that an unnamed reformist member of
the Russian government, worried about the future prospects for a free-market
democracy in his country, had confided in her that his government was now
spending 60 per cent of its GNP on Russia's military buildup!

General Walker also warned:

The West is so ignorant of Gorbachev and the intentions of this evil man. The
real story of the last ten years goes something like this: the rise of
Gorbachev is the result of a KGB coup which took place in the early 1980's
during the dotage of Leonid Brezhnev.

This coup was executed by Yuri Andropov - the chairman of the KGB. The
helter-skelter of perestroika is an attempt by the clever men in the KGB to
parlay the country's weakness into a winning position, vis-a-vis the West.
With our attention focused on the Soviet Union's current weaknesses and Third
World economic status, we will lower our guard and let the Russian wolf into
the European home.

Have the Western democracies been listening? Suicidally, the British have
chopped troop strengths and merged or laid up the colours of old and
experienced line Regiments; beset by the financial strains of merging East
and West Germany, the German government has cut back its Army size and
expenditures, also; the Canadian Armed Forces are slated to total a paltry
60,000, after all current and projected cuts take effect - few of whom will
actually be at the sharp end, as combat personnel; the Pentagon recently
announced a massive cut in the number of U.S. military reservists - and this
on top of the previous sweeping cuts and base closings mandated by President
Bush.

Throughout NATO, politicians have fallen for the Russian ruse and pressed
on with disarmament, urged on by a public hungry to share the benefits of the
non- materializing promised peace dividend.

The Russians, on the other hand, have been wiser than to listen to their
own propaganda. Prior to the signing of the 1990 Treaty on Conventional
Forces in Europe, the Soviets moved some 20,000 of their most modern main
battle tanks east of the Ural Mountains, out of Europe, and thus beyond the
slashing effects of the Treaty. Railway rolling stock throughout Eastern
Europe was commandeered for the move, which took approximately two weeks -
all it will take to bring them back into Europe again, if necessary!

Meanwhile, the Western Alliance was converting its tanks wholesale for
peaceful uses, selling them to Third World nations, or scrapping huge
numbers, leaving a vastly shrunken armoured component to NATO. It takes
months to build a modern battle tank - it would be impossible to rapidly
replace the numbers thus scrapped under the Treaty were circumstances to
rapidly change.

Even worse, and equally little- known, is the fact that the Soviets kept
their most advanced armoured fighting vehicles in huge reserve depots in the
U.S.S.R. itself - the most modern ones in Eastern Europe, subsequently
withdrawn as described above, were actually second-level equipment. So, since
the Russians never threw military equipment away, but always passed it down,
the tanks that they ended up scrapping in Europe were actually largely third
level, obsolete armoured vehicles!

NATO, of course, cut deeply into its most current, modern armour to meet
the terms of the Treaty. The best advice, long ignored, comes to us from an
unlikely source:

There is only one way to deal with a power like Russia, and that is the
fearless way. -
Karl Marx [1853]

The coup and counter-coup, which took place a few years ago involving
Rutskoi, the Parliament, Yeltsin and a Gorbachev held hostage at his Black
Sea villa were all superb political theatre designed to alarm the Western
masses, persuade them that democracy was in danger in Russia, and to permit
Western politicians a free hand in loaning or giving billions more in credits
and food to prop up Yeltsin, the reformer.

From the Russian perspective, that freed up more of their domestic
capital and resources for their massive arms build-up - one which you, as a
Western taxpayer, have thus been helping to finance!

Refresh your memory for a moment. You'll recollect the vivid 24-hour TV
coverage from Moscow -the defiant Parliament, the columns of rumbling tanks,
the sound of gunfire all over the city. And you'll remember the thrill of
excitement and hope when nine or so democratic tanks broke 

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Bibliographical Information: The New World Order, by A. Ralph Epperson ,
Paperback Published by Publius Press, 1990, ISBN: 0961413514 .


Author's Stated Purpose of Book: Author sets out to report the concerted
effort over the past 200+ years to establish the Global Government, Economy,
and Religion known as the New World Order. He properly links together the
Masters of the Illuminati, Freemasonry, various Secret Societies, Communism,
and Adolf Hitler in cooperating to bring about this Satanic system.


Key Points: 1) Freemasonry is the #1 Occult Power behind the implementation
of this new system; 2) The precursor to the New Age Movement of today was the
House of Theosophy, founded by Helena P. Blavatsky. She fully supported
Freemasonry in its World Plan, training many Freemasons in the 19th Century,
creating an inner Esoteric grouping, called the 'Masters of Wisdom'. 3) The
New Age Movement today is intent upon changing our country, and the attitudes
of its people, so their New Age Christ -- Maitreya -- can appear to take
control; 4) Epperson demonstrates that the Religion of The Christ
[Antichrist] will be the old Satanic Mysteries from Babylon and Egypt; 5)
Secret Societies, including Freemasonry, worship the same supernatural being,
Lucifer; 6) Epperson's chapter on Obelisks is one of the best in print today;
Obelisks [Washington Monument] are occult centers of worship, and a good
occultist will Face the Obelisk at least once per day. Take a look at the
Washington Obelisk, and you will see that both the President, and members of
Congress, can Face the Obelisk every day [See NEWS1081 for full details,
plus a Washington, D.C., city map];


Significance of Book; Contribution Book Makes: Most of Epperson's book is on
Freemasonry, as he shines an excellent light on this organization. He
explores this secret society in depth, revealing it to be the most
duplicitous organization on Earth. At the end of this book, he shows how the
current societal collapse is the natural result of the continuous, and very
sophisticated, attack we have been sustaining for over 200 years!


Is Information Presented New? No.


If Information Is Not New, Does It Break New Ground? Yes, it discusses
Freemasonry in extreme depth, quoting many original sources. He also
demonstrates that Freemasonry created Communism as a means to achieve the New
World Order.


Verification From Other Sources: Original Freemasonry sources support
Epperson's reports as does J.R. Church, Guardians of the Grail, and New Age
author, Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, verify the information by
Epperson.


Recommendation: While we do not consider this book to be the Conspiracy
Classic that Unseen Hand clearly is, we nevertheless recommend this book to
anyone who wants to see the linkage between secret societies, especially
Masonry, to this New World Order Plan.




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February 12, 2002
Bush Featured in G.O.P. Ads Criticizing 5 Senators
By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr.

fter months of largely avoiding head-on partisan attacks on individual
Democrats, President Bush has taken a starring role in a new, decidedly
critical advertisement that is running in the states of five Democratic
senators who voted against his economic stimulus package.

The advertisement is directed at Max Baucus of Montana, Jean Carnahan of
Missouri, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Paul Wellstone
of Minnesota. It accuses them of putting partisan interests ahead of those of
the nation.

The advertisment is another indication that Mr. Bush, who campaigned on a
promise of moderating the partisan tone in Washington and who has tried to
cultivate bipartisan support after Sept. 11, is embracing the
rough-and-tumble of politics.

In recent weeks, Mr. Bush has begun attending political fund-raisers and has
committed himself to dozens of political events for Republicans running in
the 2002 elections.

The five senators, each of them involved in a close re-election contest, say
it is Mr. Bush and the Republican Party who are being partisan. Several
pointed out that the president personally recruited their Republican
challengers in an effort to assure that the one-seat Democratic hold on the
Senate would be overturned in November.

In the advertisement, sponsored by the National Republican Senatorial
Committee and running on both television and radio in slightly differing
versions, an announcer asserts that partisan Democrats put their interests
ahead of national interests in scuttling the stimulus measure, even though
moderate Democrats had worked with the White House to draw up a compromise
bill.

Then, dropping in the name of the Democratic senator from the particular
state in which the advertisement is running, the announcer says that sadly
that senator was among the those who refused to compromise.

At that point, President Bush speaks, his image suddenly visible in the
television version:

There's something more important than politics and that's to do our jobs,
he declares.

The advertisement closes with the announcer urging viewers (listeners in the
radio version) to call the partisan senator and tell him to support the
nation's interests, not partisan interests.

Democrats contend that the advertisement is an egregious example of a
president going back on his word.

Up until now, the president has mostly avoided this kind of thing, said
James M. Jordan, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee. But these ads, coming in the middle of a war and aimed at people
who have given the president total support in that war, people who really
have tried to work things out with him on Capitol Hill ‹ well, such ads just
give the lie to his promise to change the partisan tone in Washington. They
are as extraordinary as they are despicable.

Senator Carnahan issued a statement in which she said she was disappointed
that Republicans had resorted to what she called attack ads and called for a
fair and honest discussion of the issues.

Senator Baucus said it was undeniable that he had tried to work with the
president.

The Johnson campaign said it appeared that Republicans had concluded that the
only way to win back the Senate was to run a negative, distorted campaign.

A spokesman for the Republican Senatorial Committee, Dan Allen, denied that
the new advertisement was an unfair partisan attack. The president has been
calling on Democratic senators for cooperation ever since last October, Mr.
Allen said. He was able to work with moderate Democrats. But other Democrats
said, `Nothing doing.' Those are the people the ad is addressed to in the
interest of the national good.

As for the president's appearance in the advertisements, Mr. Allen said that
no special filming or recording was done.

The president has addressed this issue many times, he said. We had plenty
of stock footage to fall back on.

Mr. Allen would not disclose how much money his committee intended to spend
on the advertising campaign.

We're not addressing that, he said. What we can say is that it is a
substantial buy and we're getting som e help from state parties and that the
campaign will last at least a week, maybe more.



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New York Times | February 13, 2002
G.O.P. Leaders Defeated in Bids to Derail Campaign Finance Bill
By ALISON MITCHELL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 ‹ A scramble to defeat a broad overhaul of the campaign
finance law continued in the House today as Republican leaders were defeated
in two attempts to fracture the coalition of Democrats and Republicans who
want to ban unlimited contributions to the political parties.

Republican leaders tried to scuttle the Shays-Meehan bill to ban soft money
by proposing alternative measures.

The first challenge to the bill was a measure offered by the House majority
leader, Dick Armey of Texas, that went down by 249 to 179 early this
afternoon. The Armey measure would have been even stricter than the
Shays-Meehan bill, but its approval would have necessitated new negotiations
with the Senate and thus stalled passage of final legislation.

Later in the afternoon, the House rejected by 377 to 53 a measure offered by
Representative Boy Ney, Republican of Ohio, that sought to resurrect a
stronger version of the Shays-Meehan bill that passed in 1998.

A series of further challenges was expected throughout the afternoon and into
the evening before a final vote on the measure sponsored by Representatives
Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, and Martin T. Meehan, Democrat
of Massachusetts.

Although the House leaders have long opposed a soft money ban, their new
approach was seen as a way to give undecided Republican moderates political
cover to look as if they are taking a stand against big money even as they
help kill campaign finance overhaul. If the House passes alternative
legislation to the Shays-Meehan bill, campaign finance overhaul would likely
be dead for the year.

At the same time, in a concession of their own designed to nail down some
final votes, Mr. Shays and Mr. Meehan have changed their bill so it would not
take effect until Nov. 6, the day after the hotly contested elections in
which control of the House and Senate are at stake.

Their opponents have charged them with insincerity.

It's a bit hypocritical, Representative John A. Boehner, Republican of
Ohio, said on Tuesday. If they really believe it is the right thing to do,
why not do it now?

The frenzied maneuvering promised to produce a topsy-turvy and confusing
House debate with each side promoting itself as purer than the other.

Passage of a more stringent bill would throw the House into compromise
negotiations with the Senate, which last year passed a bill nearly identical
to the Shays-Meehan one. That would give the opponents another chance to stop
or weaken the legislation.

I hope they don't think their constituents are so stupid, Mr. Shays said of
the tactic, calling it cynical.

The nerve center of opposition to the campaign finance effort was the Capitol
suites of the three senior Republican leaders. Lobbyists for an array of
interest groups swarmed Capitol Hill backing one bill or another or seeking
change, working sometimes in odd-couple alliances. Their united purpose was
to defeat Shays-Meehan, or some of the bill's provisions.

Backers of the Shays-Meehan bill found new fuel for their fight in the
Senate, where Kenneth L. Lay, the former chairman of the Enron Corporation,
whom some are calling the poster boy for changing the system of large
contributions, cited his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify on
Tuesday.

Mr. Meehan said Enron would help him pick up some surprise votes.

Enron's millions of dollars in soft money contributions has tarnished all of
us in the public eye, and we're tired of it, he said on Tuesday.

Mr. Ney, the Ohio Republican, called it shameful for his opponents to use
Enron to propel their cause.

The two parties were working hard against each other, and lobbyists for an
array of interest groups including the National Rifle Association, organized
labor and Common Cause swarmed Capitol Hill, working sometimes in left-right
alliances.

Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the House minority leader,
made calls seeking new Democratic votes for the Shays-Meehan bill, and
Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the minority whip, had her
vote-counting organization getting Democratic votes. Most Democrats are
expected to support the Shays-Meehan bill along with 20 Republicans. That
makes another 20 or so Republican moderates the swing voters.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, who has warned Republicans that they
could lose control of the House without unlimited donations, held strategy
meetings late Tuesday as his aides made calls.

Mr. DeLay of Texas, the majority whip, was deploying his powerful
organization to work on undecided Republicans, and his aides gave out talking
points describing the Shays-Meehan bill's critical flaws.

Several Republican lawmakers acknowledged that they had an uphill 

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Now if we can get it straightened out what is really going down in Utah.
Michigan seems to have some kind of Muslim round up but Patriots there
are Ok.

Pointy

All is well here. I do not know how or whom started this rumor. There has
been no siege or arrest at our home.
The INS was poised north of Dearborn Heights at 9 this morning to go
into the largest Arab community to arrest 3500 that did not voluntarily
go in for questioning. Now they will face absconding charges. The INS
promised that there would be no reprisals for noncompliance now they face
deportation or felony criminal charges (absconding). This report came in
from the ABC station in Traverse City. We have not had a report on this
in the Detroit area. At noon ABC of Detroit mentioned that the INS was
getting ready for Operation Round Up.
   National Guard troops were seen Late Sunday moving Duce  1/2's
loaded with loaded trailers into position in columns of three at their
bases. Most of these were MP and signal core. Locations were Monroe by
the Court house, Ypsilanti  post again by the court house, the Adrian
post,going toward Mackinaw out of Traverse City, Battle Creek,the
Schoolcraft and Beech Daily Rd post as well. The Battle Creek facility is
7-8 miles West of where I 94 and I 69 intersect. Monroe is just off the
US 23 E-way; the Adrian post is near the M52 US 223 intersection and M50
just to the north. Traverse siting I believe was headed to prepare for
close n the Mackinaw Bridge.
I will keep you informed as things progress.
GDW
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0248.  Deployed firefighters practice lifesaving skills

by Master Sgt. Bill Lincicome
40th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (AFPN) -- An explosion rocks the flightline
during a routine maintenance operation aboard a C-17 Globemaster III. Three
maintainers are missing. Others report the emergency to the command post.
Within minutes, firefighters are on the move, racing toward the scene to
save lives and fight the raging fire.

That was the scenario for an emergency exercise held at a deployed location
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom recently. Although the situation
described above did not really happen, the 13 members of the 40th
Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department went roaring into
action as if it were the real thing.

The exercise tested the abilities of firefighters to respond to an emergency
involving a C-17 aircraft, said Senior Master Sgt. Milo, the fire chief.
They train each month on all assigned aircraft to make sure they are
familiar with entry procedures, aircraft shut-down and aircrew extraction.

Most of the firefighters here are deployed from Seymour Johnson Air Force
Base, N.C.  Milo, the only firefighter deployed from MacDill AFB, Fla., said
the exercise went extremely well.

Firefighters positioned vehicles to cover rescue-crew members entering the
aircraft while deploying hand-lines from vehicles to fight the simulated
fire, he said.

The firefighters are coping with the real-world demands of a deployed
environment, Milo said, but training is never set aside.

We only have a few minutes to get into the aircraft and save lives, he
said.  (Courtesy of Air Combat Command News Service)



0240.  MC-130P crashes in Afghanistan

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- A U.S. Air Force MC-130P, deployed in
support of Operation Enduring Freedom, crashed Feb. 12 at about 5:20 p.m.
EST in a remote region in Afghanistan.

Eight crewmembers were onboard at the time of the crash.  All survived and
injuries are not life-threatening.  They were taken to a medical facility in
the Afghanistan area.

The cause of the crash is not known at this time, although officials believe
it does not appear to be the result of hostile fire.

The names of the crewmembers are being withheld pending the notification of
next of kin.



0246.  Teets' goal:  transform space ops

by Tech. Sgt. Scott Elliott
Air Force Print News

WASHINGTON -- Transforming the best aspects of military and national space
operations into one integrated national space security capability is the
goal of the nation's highest space official.

I've been tasked with bringing together the military and national elements
of space to assure that the nation has the best national security
capabilities, said Under Secretary of the Air Force Peter B. Teets in a
meeting with reporters at the Pentagon on Feb. 7.

To make this vision a reality, my first objective is to implement the
recommendations of the National Security Space Commission, said Teets, who
also heads the National Reconnaissance Office. To do so, we're going to
begin exploiting the best practices of military space and the NRO
communities to make the world's best space forces even better.

Teets introduced an organizational change designed to make the
transformation smoother and transparent to national and military customers.


Just as the NRO has a deputy director who is in charge of running day-to-day
operations, I have created a new 'deputy of military space' (position) so
that we can have the same focus on the military side of the space equation,
he said.

Another new office is the Directorate of National Security Space
Integration.

This (directorate) will be responsible for implementing the best practices
of military and national space programs, he said.

Its goal is also to help transform programs and pool resources more
effectively, he said.  Brig. Gen. Michael A. Hamel, director of space
operations and integration, will lead the new directorate.

Among the key goals for national space security is universal situation
awareness, Teets said.

What we've found is that in moving ahead with the war on terrorism, it's
going to be important for us to have persistent intelligence, he said.
It's going to be important for us to develop some breakthrough technologies
and implement techniques that use the best of both military and national
systems to implement the mission.

One way to achieve that persistence is to have more satellites in stationary
orbit, Teets said.  The other way to elevate persistence over a battlefield
is to develop new higher-altitude intelligence collection technology.

Typically speaking, the farther away you are from an object, if you want to
take its picture, the larger the lens you need, he said.  So it becomes a
technical question, really.

I think one of the great powers of the NRO has been the revolutionary,

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Educate and inform the whole mass of people.  Enable them to see that
it is to their interest to preserve peace and order They are the
only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. --Thomas
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Our religion must not alone be the concern of the emotions, but must
be woven into the warp and woof of our every-day life. --Booker T.
Washington  ++  Justice without strength is powerless, strength
without justice is tyrannical Therefore, unable to make what is
just strong, we have made what is strong just. --Blaise Pascal  ++
Christians ought to rise together in defense of spiritual and moral
values against the pressure of materialism and moral permissiveness.
--Pope John Paul II  ++  We can do no great things; only small things
with great love. --Mother Teresa  ++  The morality and values faith
implies are deeply embedded in our national character. Our country
embraces those principles by design, and we abandon them at our
peril. --Ronald Reagan  ++  We never know how high we are/ Till we
are called to rise/ And then, if we are true to plan/ Our statures
touch the skies. --Emily Dickinson ++  Adversity has the effect of
eliciting talents which in times of prosperity would have lain
dormant. --Horace  ++  There is a price which is too great to pay
for peace, and that price can be put in one word.  One cannot pay the
price of self-respect. --Woodrow Wilson  ++  You can't say
civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.
--Will Rogers  ++  Under democracy, one party always devotes its
chief efforts to trying to prove that the other is unfit to rule --
and both commonly succeed and are right. --H.L. Mencken  ++  There
is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make
your blood creep. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  ++  Great men can't be
ruled. --Ayn Rand  ++  The people's good is the highest law.
--Cicero  ++  A government that is big enough to give you all you
want is big enough to take it all away. --Barry Goldwater

__O__
UPRIGHT

It is possible today for American students to pass through elementary
school and high school, and obtain a university degree without gaining
any appreciation for the men who founded their country. --Paul Craig
Roberts  ++  The sole purpose of our Constitution is to define the
limited role of government in order to guarantee individual rights.
--Tom DeWeese  ++  This is the cardinal republican [small 'r']
virtue: People helping people. And while this has always been
important, never has it been more important than in the wake of
September 11. We must pull together as a nation -- neighbors learning
how to help neighbors. And Christians ought to be in the vanguard.
--Charles Colson  {}  The budget Mr. Bush proposed ... deserves kudos
for clarity of purpose. It is a serious budget for a serious war -- a
just war that must be fought, won and paid for. --Austin Bay  {}
Notwithstanding the isolated pockets of international
hyper-ventilation, we do not treat the detainees in any manner other
than a manner that is humane. --Donald Rumsfeld  {}  [W]e...need to
remember that the real enemy is a tactic -- terrorism. As the recent
bombing in Israel proves again, terrorists want to hurl their victims
into confusion and blind fear. --Tony Snow  {}  The new laws passed
by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to
the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of
terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as
bureaucracies, once created, never die. --Charley Reese  {}
...[C]onservatives are vulnerable to being destroyed by unethical
behavior because we emphasize personal moral responsibility. A
conservative with significant moral failings is shocking because
individual responsibility is the point of most everything we fight
for. --Rabbi Daniel Lapin  ++  For some reason, we got the mentality
along the way that conservatism was about leaders -- and it never was.
It was always about the grass roots, about people who had decided to
move for themselves and then created the leaders who corresponded to
their needs. --Alan Keyes  {}  Stripped of its halo, 

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Iran sent missiles to the PLO.Then has threatened to nuke all US ships in
that area. China made similar threts before 911 -3 years before. Now Russia
tells the US not to strike Iraq.
Bill Clinton had Iraq struck a few  times.Clinton gave Russia 5 Billion a
year to update their nuclear missiles. In return Russia sent it's old
hardware to China and Iran.(See Readers Digest Jan.1999)

Hello? Anybody home? This was the exact Muslim-Russo-Sino -Alliance during
the Cold War and it is the exact Alliance in the End Times of the Bible.

That Alliance is anti-Jew and Anti-Christian and anti-American. Thus if you
are an anti-Jew American you are half-way on their side already. The Taleban
and other violent Muslim groups are also anti-Jew, anti-Christian and
anti-American.

Another thorn in my side are these Christians that are much more concerned
about there taxes than anything else. They harp on about the Church 501-C
status when Jesus said give unto Caerser what is his and give unto God what
is his.
They sit in the rocking chair weaving a sweater as if all is normal. But,
scratch their car and they are on the phone with their lawyer. Jesus said
the mere fact you already have lawsuits among you ..you are already
defeated.I want to see the looks on their faces when no rapture occurs and
they are meeting their doom in Homeland USA-because they still think it can
not happen here.



Then there is the other complacent type-the NRA bunch. They think because
Bush -a Republican -is in office they will at least have their guns 3 more
years. Don't bet on it!



I suppose some of us do not worry enough as others worry too much.


 I asked for a specific NUKEwarning documented -because of a rumor going
around.
What I got from 3 different sources was his statement--which I already had10
times over- on the terrorists may hit power plants ,nuke power plants or use
a dirty nuke spreading device-non-explosive.



 My immediate response was to get nuke strike maps of locations and targets
from the Cold War and also the distance and deadliest of downwind radiation.



 I think some people know how to trigger meyank my chain so to
speak.Think Ill drink less coffee-maybe I should sip wine at the computer-
and more milk or something.What a mix ..yuk.



 The DISINFO officers will do this . They suggest such but let you take the
flack . Then the things you said are discreditted-people always throw the
baby out with the bathwater.



 I guess at this point you are either reday or you aint. I have reposted
emergency measures for a lot of newcomers I run into...so it dont make any
difference to me.



 But Im starting to wise up to some of these provocvatuers.



 Did you see the Olympic rip-offf in skating? The Russians even
sabatuered -crashed into-the Canadians in practice. Like that lastOlympics
where the American blonde that tried to brake that girls legs...via a body
 guard.



 Dave J.Smith on shortwave radio-5.070 Mhz- at 7AM- talking about Russians
with armed missiles in subs have been right off our coast before.



 In UFO hunting we would see planes etc and mistake them for UFOs but
somehow that triggered some psycho-spiritual awareness then the real thing
would pop
up-even to be filmed.



 Maybe,,,we are triggered to see what can not see. We are getting the big
picture -via- tons of side data-and/but broadcasting it too soon. The little
boy that called wolf..and the wolf finally came.



 Its like the DNR here denies mountain lions-panthers. But hundreds of
people have seen them for many years. One recently killed tow coon dogs a
few miles
in the woods behind me...The farmer even saw it.



 But the DNR denied it.



 That is the situation we are in. Our officials deny the threats against us
and create other ones as a diversion. Look at all the government terrorists
warnings that have not happened.
 They are numbing us down-to get a good shock effect when it does
happen.The smallest thing may cause this society to approve a Police State
out of amplified''' fear from a series of small events.



 The NWO boys are on the Net and they know how to play us like a fine tuned
piano.



 I'm being more cautious. I have to see some smoke before I yell fire any
more. But, I sense something big is going to happen but I am on edge about
it too. They play on that also.



 I think a lot of us need to chill out and wait a little. These provacatuers
have to shut down communications .One way is to silence the town criers and
watchmen on the wall. Create the situation where no one listens to them any
 longer. They can then climb the wall totally unchallenged as the town
partyies on all night.



 From now on don't yell wolf until you see the whites of his eyes.



 It is more than likely with all of these loyal Muslims in this country
taking electrical engineering etc they can spread radiation via  assembling
an EMP bomb-which I or any ET 

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Only One Thing Will Save Us Now
By Chuck Baldwin
February 12, 2002


A column written by Brannon S. Howse and published in the February 9 edition
of World Net Daily is too significant to ignore. Howse examined the PEERS
test put forth by the Nehemiah Institute, which annually grades the
worldview of thousands of adults and school children.

According to Howse, Results from each category are classified into one of
four major worldview philosophies: Christian Theism, Moderate Christian,
Secular Humanism and Socialism. Howse's findings are staggering.

Howse said, Christian students attending public schools now regularly score
in the lower half of secular humanism, headed toward a socialistic
worldview. Students in typical Christian schools score as a secular
humanist. He also proclaimed, Based on projections using the decline rate
from Christian students, the church will have lost her posterity to
hard-core humanism between 2014-2018.

These revelations help to explain why the United States is adrift in a sea
of humanism and moral relativism. America's churches and families have
failed and continue to fail! The average church today is intoxicated with
entertainment evangelism and politically correct preaching - and they are
growing! Families are immersed in materialism - and they are clueless!

On the other hand, it seems that churches that have pastors who are not
afraid to lift their voices like trumpets and show people their sins have
been relegated to a permanent state of obscurity and isolation. Their
congregations are small; their finances are meager. To aspiring young
clerics, the message is clear: if you want to be successful, you must be
an ear-tickling, crowd-pleasing, socially acceptable, curse-nothing
pussyfooter!

One's view of Eschatology is not the deciding factor, either. I know a few
pre-millennialists who preach like John the Baptist, while many
post-millennialists I know run from controversial issues like Jonah.
Regardless of one's view of apocalyptic events, God's men have a duty and
obligation to proclaim the truth fearlessly and without favor.

Think about the liberal politicians who claim membership in thousands of
churches across the country. Think about the abortionists, evolutionists,
socialists, adulterers, homosexuals, and crooked businessmen who sit
comfortably in church every Sunday.

The above-mentioned school children are not being brainwashed into secular
humanism and socialism by public schools alone. Remember that overall there
is little difference between the worldviews of those attending public
schools and those attending Christian schools. Sure, movies and television
play a part, as do modern music and literature. However, the most glaring
culprits contributing to America's declining spiritual state are Christian
parents and pastors!

If Howse's prediction that within twenty years America will have lost its
Christian worldview is accurate, then Pat Buchanan's prediction that America
will have died within the next fifty years is also accurate. Therefore, the
only solution to America's certain destruction is a modern day Great
Awakening. To that end, we all should pray.


PS.  My new booklet, What Every Christian Should Know about Islam, is sold
out. We are in the process of putting in another order to the printer. In
this little book, you will learn the essential facts regarding this bloody
and burgeoning religion. Chapter titles include: The History of Islam, The
Religion of Islam, Verses From the Koran, Islamic Persecution of Christians
and Jews, and Islamic Beliefs About Women and Children.

The price is only $5 per booklet, plus $2 shipping per book. If you order 4
books or more, there is no shipping cost. Send checks or Money Orders
(sorry, no credit cards) to:

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February 11, 2002

FBI ISSUES NEW TERROR ALERT

The FBI issued late Monday night a new terrorism alert indicating a Yemeni
national and several associates may soon carry out attacks inside the
U.S.  The FBI reports that credible information was gathered recently from
al-Qaeda terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan, which
warranted this new warning.  Stay tuned with CitizensLobby.com at
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suppression of free speech of individuals and groups 60 days before an
election. The vast majority of constitutional scholars and legal experts,
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amendment.

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0224.  Post office in Kyrgyzstan keeps airmen smiling

by Capt. Kristi Beckman
376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

GANCI AIR BASE, Kyrgyzstan (AFPN) -- More than a ton of long-awaited mail
arrived Feb. 9 for the airmen deployed to Kyrgyzstan who are setting up a
coalition air base in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Airman James Risban, a 376th Air Expeditionary Wing postal specialist from
Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., handed the first package to Senior
Airman Tommy Williams, a 376th AEW Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter from
Travis AFB, Calif.

I've been waiting about three-and-a-half weeks now for mail, Williams
said.  My parents sent me a care package from San Antonio, Texas.  This is
definitely a real morale booster.

It was an exciting day, said Risban, who was the first postal worker to
arrive here Jan. 11.  This tent was packed this morning with boxes.

Risban arriving by himself was one of the bittersweet stories of this whole
deployment, said Brig. Gen. Christopher A. Kelly, 376th AEW commander.

We were all excited, of course, because we heard a postal worker was
inbound, and what we got was a one-striper fresh out of (technical) school
who thought he was falling in on a full-up operating post office, Kelly
said.

There was nothing here and I've never set up a post office before, Risban
said.  I just pitched in and did what I could.  Help arrived about two
weeks later.

J.J. Risban has been one of the great stories of Ganci Air Base, Kelly
said.  He immediately volunteered to do all kinds of things while he waited
for some expertise and equipment to get here.  He and the rest of the team
have done great work.

It has been quite an experience setting up this post office from scratch,
Risban said.

I like doing what I do, he said.  Getting mail is fun for the troops.  I
love watching everybody come in and get a big smile on their face when they
receive a letter or package from their loved ones or friends.

It takes planning for equipment, personnel and the most updated supplies to
start a post office, said Tech. Sgt. Cedric Palmore, 376th AEW postmaster.

I like what I do because it stays busy, he said.  You'll never find a
postal person out there that has nothing to do.  Plus, we keep everybody
happy.  We play an important role in keeping morale up.

Kelly said the post office is that human touch that you get from back home.


What famous war movie doesn't have the scene of mail call in it? Kelly
asked.  This is war, and young men and women want to be in touch back home
and there's nothing like a letter from a loved one to make you feel like
you've got a little piece of what's natural and normal.  (Courtesy of U.S.
Air Forces in Europe News Service)



0223.  Safety day will focus on risk management

by Staff Sgt. A.J. Bosker
Air Force Print News

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force is observing a safety 'down day' because of an
increase in mishap rates, the service's top military leader told troops in a
Feb. 6 letter.

(We) have witnessed an increase in our mishap rates and it's time to pause
and focus on what we can do to reverse this, said Gen. John P. Jumper, Air
Force chief of staff.

In fiscal 2002, officials said there have been 13 Class A flight mishaps
with five fatalities, three on-duty Class A ground mishaps with two
fatalities, and 25 off-duty Class A ground mishaps with 27 fatalities.

Air Force officials categorize Class A mishaps as any incident that results
in more than $1 million in damage to government property or kills a person
involved.

During the same time in fiscal 2001, there were six Class A flight mishaps
with one fatality, three on-duty Class A ground mishaps with one fatality
and 23 off-duty Class A ground mishaps with 20 fatalities.

Most of 2002 mishaps are the result of people taking unnecessary risks, said
Col. Greg Alston, deputy chief of safety at the Pentagon.

There has not been one single factor causing the rise in mishaps and
fatalities other than people not using risk management, Alston said.

Risk management is balancing the risks against the benefits to be gained in
any situation and then choosing the most effective course of action,
officials said.

The upcoming safety down day is a great opportunity to refocus attention on
and reiterate the importance of risk management, he said. I am confident
that this year can still be one of the safest years in the service's
history.

This safety down day is a pre-emptive strike intended to reduce future
mishaps, Alston said.

Awareness is the key to safety and mishap prevention, he said. If this
down day can get people to pay attention to what they are doing, both on-
and off-duty, and to weigh the associated risks, it will make a difference.



0227.  Assistance fund campaign starts Feb. 25

RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Commitment to Caring is the theme
of the 29th annual Air Force 

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By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor



 NEW YORK -- The world now thinks the U.S. has lost its mind. This
response to President George Bush's bombastic state of the union
address did not come from axis of evil Iraq, Iran, or North Korea,
but from former U.S. secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She is
dead right.

America's allies and friends were initially reluctant to openly
criticize Bush's philippic, but in recent days the president's
aggressive, triumphalist policies have come under fierce attack
around the world, and particularly so in Europe.

France's normally cautious foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, called
Bush's views on terrorism simplistic. He warned about Bush's policy
that reduces all problems in the world to the struggle against
terrorism, predicting Europe would go its own way if the U.S.
maintained its policy of unilateralism.

More sharp criticism came from Germany, Italy, Spain, the EU, Asia
and America's Mideast allies. Even Britain, America's most faithful
satrap, warned against attacking Iraq or Iran. South Korea's
government angrily blasted Washington for derailing efforts to
promote better relations with North Korea.

European leaders also took aim at American-Israeli efforts to eclipse
Yasser Arafat and crush Palestinian resistance.

European countries do not agree with the White House Middle East
policy and think it is a mistake to support Ariel Sharon's purely
repressive policies, said Vedrine, speaking for the entire European
Union.

Bush administration spokesmen reject all foreign criticism. Secretary
of State Colin Powell increased war fever by blasting Iran
for meddling in Afghanistan. This is rich, coming from the U.S.,
which just invaded Afghanistan, overthrew its government, installed a
client regime in Kabul, and is setting up permanent military bases
there. Threatening war against Iran for seeking to advance its
interests in neighbouring Afghanistan shows just how irrational and
imperially arrogant the Bush administration is becoming. India and
Russia are also deeply involved in Afghanistan; in fact, Russia has
virtually taken over the north. Yet there was not a peep from
Washington about these interlopers.

ISRAELI ARGUMENTS

As part of the growing merging of policy between Washington and
Jerusalem, the Bush administration has adopted two longstanding
Israeli arguments to justify aggressive actions. First: we have
suffered enormously. This gives us the absolute right to attack
anyone we deem a threat, including assassinating potentially
dangerous individuals.

Second: we are faced by a mortal threat from terrorists. To hell with
the world, we'll do precisely as we see fit. The UN, the EU, the
Geneva Convention, international law - all of them be damned.

Fifty years of painful efforts to build a framework of international
law are being swept away by the Bush crusaders, who seem to have
convinced themselves they are re-fighting World War II rather than
dealing with a dangerous criminal conspiracy made up of a few
thousand individuals.

Listening to the Bush people preach about the need to liberate
Iranians and Iraqis from oppression is Olympic-class hypocrisy. If
Bush really wanted to promote justice and human rights abroad, he
should begin with those nations that are American protectorates:
Morocco, a medieval police state with a frightful record of poverty,
torture, and abuse; Tunisia and Egypt, both military dictatorships
with odious human rights records; Turkey, another military state
disguised as a democracy, where torture and murder of political
opponents are the norm; Arabia's oil monarchies, which are propped up
by U.S. troops. And last, but certainly not least, Palestine, where
an entire people are being crushed by a brutal army using U.S.-made
tanks, and U.S.-made helicopter gunships, financed by U.S. taxpayers'
dollars, and sheltered from worldwide condemnation by America's oft-
used UN veto.

While most Americans continue to cheer Bush's bellicose, adolescent
rhetoric and crusading zeal, quiet opposition is developing,
particularly among the thinking classes. Given the current climate of
war fever, hysteria, fear and anti-Muslim paranoia being whipped up
by the White House and parts of the media, few Americans are ready to
criticize government actions.

Liberals, moderate Democrats, and their powerful media, who would
normally be flaying the Republican Dr. Strangeloves now directing
U.S. foreign policy, are absolutely silent. Many liberals are ardent
supporters of Israel. The Bush White House is perceived to be
smashing Israel's enemies, so liberals are mum.

This loud silence and war fever have unbalanced the U.S. political
system, allowing a coterie of ideological super-hawks to monopolize
policy and drive the U.S. toward highly irrational behaviour.
Congress and the media have become mere cheerleaders for the so-
called war. 

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THE FOUNDATION

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution,
are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them
against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from
our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger
and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark
of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we
should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a
struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and
designing men. -- Samuel Adams

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INSIGHT

The means by which enlightened rulers and sagacious generals moved
and conquered others, that their achievements surpassed the masses,
was advance knowledge. Advance knowledge cannot be gained from ghosts
and spirits, inferred from phenomena, or projected from the measures
of Heaven, but must be gained from men for it is the knowledge of the
enemy's true situation. --Sun-Tzu

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GOOD NEWS

Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when
it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot
from being caught. (Proverbs 3:25-26) ++ Riches do not profit in the
day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. (Proverbs 11:4)
++ A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool throws
off restraint and is careless. (Proverbs 14:16) ++ He who is of God
hears the words of God; the reason why you do not hear them is that
you are not of God. (John 8:47) ++ [B]e steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor
is not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:58) ++ If we live by the Spirit,
let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no
provoking of one another, no envy of one another. (Galatians 5:25-26)

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ICTUS IMPRIMIS

Jesus grew up with the callused hands of a carpenter and the very
fact that he worked gives dignity to our work. ...Work embraced as a
calling expresses the glory of God, and it's part of -- very literally
-- following Jesus. Through our work God provides for us and for our
families, contributes to the common good, and also gives us a sense of
fulfillment and satisfaction. He has given us work as the way to
fulfill his mandate to us as humans -- to take dominion over the world
he has created. As we work, we extend God's reign and influence as his
agents or stewards. And the way that we take that dominion,
confronting the challenges and difficulties that 'go with the job,'
is, in itself, our witness to the reality of God and our faith in
Christ. --Charles Colson

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FAMILY

One thing about being pope: You can call a spade a spade and not lose
a wink over your popularity ratings. Thus, Pope John Paul II came
right out and uttered the God's-awful truth: Divorce is a plague
ripping apart modern society. --Kathleen Parker


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CULTURE

But actually, 9-11 marked a cultural watershed, not an economic one.
Although a case can be made that there has been a gradual return to
more traditional and virtuous cultural values over the past several
years, certainly a new spirit of patriotism and faith arrived in
response to the terrorist war against the United States. Just take a
quick inventory: American-flag lapel pins by the thousands; heart-felt
renditions of 'God 

[CTRL] Chinese test new missile threat to US shield

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Chinese test new missile threat to US shield
From Oliver August in Beijing



CHINESE scientists are close to a breakthrough in rocket technology that
would allow Beijing to overcome President Bush’s proposed anti-missile
shield, American military analysts say.
The People’s Liberation Army is believed to be in the final stages of
developing an intercontinental ballistic missile with multiple warheads,
matching Russian, American and British nuclear technology. One Washington
analyst said: “It looks like the Chinese are much further (ahead) than we
originally thought.”

China’s most advanced missiles have a range in excess of 8,000 miles, which
puts them within striking distance of the continental United States. Chinese
scientists are working on equipping these missiles with multiple
independently targeted re-entry vehicles (Mirvs), meaning that the warhead
can separate into more than a dozen individual weapons in space.

At present China has around 20 long-range missiles, a number that experts say
would allow the American shield to protect against the Chinese arsenal.
Washington aims to be able to guard against attacks by rogue states employing
up to 24 missiles.

If Beijing upgraded all its missiles with multiple warheads, the analyst
said, “it could easily overwhelm the shield. That would change the balance of
power in Asia.”

US government agencies have followed China’s pro-gress in missile technology
closely before a decision on the development of the missile shield.

Beijing is said to have stepped up Mirv tests in recent weeks. Earlier this
month the Japanese media reported a test flight, during which a Chinese
missile completed the first half of its trajectory before disintegrating upon
the deployment of the separate warheads.

It was a Dongfeng-31, which has a range of more than 5,000 miles. China is
also said to be preparing for a test of the naval version. US intelligence
officials are said to have spotted preparations for the test at a Chinese
naval port.

Washington first highlighted China’s attempt to develop Mirv technology in
1998, when it claimed that Beijing had obtained Russian SS18 missile
technology.

The topic is expected to be discussed during President Bush’s visit to
Beijing next week.






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[CTRL] The IRS 1st Amendment police

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The IRS 1st Amendment police

by Joseph Farrah

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© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com


It has been nearly six years since the Internal Revenue Service came after me
for exercising my First Amendment rights, but the paper trail on the case
continues to grow.

Only last week, the U.S. Justice Department turned over to my attorneys at
Judicial Watch some 500 pages of documents it has collected on the IRS's
audit of my non-profit group, the Western Journalism Center, in 1996 – a
nine-month ordeal that ended with a clean bill of health and an extension of
the group's non-profit status.

The IRS audited the group in direct response to a letter it received from
Bill Clinton requesting an investigation of our non-profit status when we
began investigating various Clinton administration scandals. From the moment
the audit began, the agent in charge of the investigation warned that it was
a political case and that the decision about our fate would be made at the
national level. A Treasury Department investigation later found that the
audit was triggered by the letter from the White House.

For the last five years, Judicial Watch has been helping me pursue justice
through civil actions. The response of the government has been to release
batches of documents to us ever-so slowly over a period of years.

Here's the way it works with our federal government:

The IRS turns over a few documents, claiming that's the entirety of the file.
Ridiculous, we say. The file doesn't even include the IRS's previous
correspondence with me. How can it possibly be complete?

Then the Treasury Department turns over some documents, including some IRS
papers that weren't turned over by this agency of the department.

Now the Justice Department is turning over documents – six years later –
gathered by the IRS way back when and never turned over despite our filing
several lawsuits to get them.

That's the process. It's frustrating. It's time-consuming. It's expensive.
And the bureaucrats' entire objective is to wear you down – hope you get
tired of waiting and refiling and run out of money and energy at some point.

Of course, when you're dealing with Joseph Farah and Larry Klayman, that
strategy doesn't work.

Now, let's talk about the content of the latest document drop.

Mostly it's a collection of letters to and from congressional offices in
response to the case. Congressional constituents would write their senators
and representatives about the high-profile case, and the elected officials
would, in turn, write to the IRS for explanations.

It's quite an enlightening collection – with a few surprises among the
redacted pages.

A wide variety of members of Congress took the time to get explanations of
the case from the IRS. That means many of you wrote letters to your senators
and representatives. And for that I am truly appreciative.

For instance, here are some of the members of Congress who questioned the
IRS's actions in the case: Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va.; Sen. Barbara Mikulski,
D-Md.; Rep. John Larson, D-Conn.; Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb.; Rep. Dennis Moore,
D-Kan.; Sen, Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.

It also turns out that Bill Clinton was not the only official who asked the
IRS to poke around in WJC's affairs. Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
D-N.Y., was another. And there is some sketchy evidence that the IRS tried to
enlist Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., in the case in some mysterious way.

And that's about all this investigative reporter could glean from the latest
release of sanitized documents from the government. No doubt there will be
more a year from now, or two years from now, as we continue to pursue
justice.

We think this remains an important case – as important today as it was during
the Clinton years. Somebody's ox will always be gored by political
apparatchiks who abuse government authority. So, we'll keep fighting the good
fight.

We're not going away. And, unfortunately, neither are the IRS and the bloated
federal bureaucracy.




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[CTRL] Putin OKs calendar glorifying communism

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Putin OKs calendar glorifying communism
Document includes Soviet holidays, founder of intelligence service

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By Toby Westerman
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com


Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken another step in the glorification
of his nation's communist past and the exoneration of communism's bloody
history, according to a recent report published in the Italian news daily
Corriere della Sera.

The Putin government has allowed Russia's internal security organization, the
FSB, to issue a calendar – meant only for use within the organization –
commemorating several former Soviet holidays, while portraying Russian
security headquarters on Lubyanka Square as it appeared before the collapse
of the USSR.

Corriere della Sera obtained a copy of the spy calendar after a Russian
newspaper secretly photographed it.

The calendar's issuance follows several actions by the Putin government
re-establishing Soviet customs and usage, which include the Russian
military's use of Soviet insignia and revival of the Soviet anthem – but with
different lyrics.

Featured prominently in the new FSB calendar is the statue of the founder of
the Soviet secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, generally regarded in the West
as a purveyor of terror and murder.

In reality, the statue was one of the first Soviet monuments to be toppled as
the USSR collapsed. Its removal – accompanied by cheering crowds – is
considered one of the defining moments of the fall of the Soviet state.

The Communist Party and the Russian intelligence community have sought – so
far in vain – to have Dzerzhinsky's statue placed back on its pedestal. It
now lies rusting in a grassy area in front of a Moscow art gallery.

At the request of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, Dzerzhinsky,
on Dec. 20, 1917, organized an intelligence service referred to as the
Cheka, the abbreviation for the Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle
against Counterrevolution, Espionage, Speculation and Sabotage. All
subsequent Russian intelligence organizations, including the notorious KGB,
are traced back to the Cheka.

Corriere della Sera points out that Putin, as well as Russian intelligence
officers both past and present, observe Dec. 20 as the common anniversary
date for all Russian intelligence services. The date is marked in red on the
new FSB calendar.

All Russian intelligence service officers also refer to each other as
Chekists.

Ironically, no mention is made of the very effective Tsarist intelligence
service, the Okhrana, whose methodology was copied by Dzerzhinsky's
communists.

Putin asserts that the Russian secret police only went bad under Josef
Stalin, who took power following Lenin's death in 1924.

This is not true, Corriere della Sera reminded its readers, recounting
instances that earned Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka a well-deserved reputation
for terror and mass murder before Stalin.

Corriere della Sera rhetorically asked, Aren't the Chekists … ashamed to
commemorate the very individual who followed to the letter Lenin's
directives on the elimination of the Russian middle class?

Seeking to hold present-day Chekists accountable for the pride they
demonstrate in the early Soviet past, Corriere della Sera invoked an often
quoted slogan of the Dzerzhinsky era: We are not fighting a war against
individuals, we are exterminating the bourgeois as a class.

The bloody early Chekist history became more vivid as Corriere della Sera
provided additional historical information.

In Kharkov prisoners were flayed alive; in Poltava priests were impaled; in
Odessa captured white officials (Tsarist opponents of Lenin's communists)
were slowly fed into furnaces, Corriere della Sera reminded its readers.

Observed Corriere della Sera, The Cheka was exactly what Lenin wanted it to
be – an army of devastation.



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[CTRL] Thatcher urges Bush to 'finish business of Iraq'

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Thatcher urges Bush to 'finish business of Iraq'
By Toby Harnden in Washington
(Filed: 12/02/2002)


LADY Thatcher praised President Bush's leadership yesterday and called for
the war on terrorism to focus on the unfinished business of Iraq.

The former Prime Minister used an article in the New York Times to back
vigorously the policy outlined in Mr Bush's State of the Union speech.

Describing Saddam Hussein as the most notorious rogue, Lady Thatcher said:
How and when, not whether, to remove him are the only important questions.
She urged Britain to extend strong support to Mr Bush.

Lady Thatcher compared the threat of Muslim fundamentalism to that of
communism. Islamic extremism today, like Bolshevism in the past, is an armed
doctrine.

It is an aggressive ideology promoted by fanatical, well-armed devotees.
And, like communism, it requires an all-embracing long-term strategy to
defeat it.

She identified the second phase of the war against terrorism as involving
strikes against centres of Islamic terror groups in Africa and South-East
Asia, presumably references to Somalia and the Philippines.

A third phase, she argued, should deal with Mr Bush's axis of evil - Iran,
Iraq and North Korea - and other states.

These included Syria, which she described as an enemy of Western values;
Libya, which still hates the West, and Sudan, which undertakes genocide
against its own citizens in the name of Islam.

Lady Thatcher was critical of Western policy on global terrorist networks.
We have harboured those who hated us, tolerated those who threatened us and
indulged those who weakened us.

She used the words of the poet Milton to describe America after September 11
as like a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after
sleep.

America should resist being drawn into peacekeeping and nation-building
efforts because it is best that the United States, as the only global
military superpower, deploy its energies militarily rather than on social
work.

Lady Thatcher, who had a close friendship with Ronald Reagan but relatively
cool relations with George Bush Snr, indicated that the present president had
won her esteem in a way that his father failed to do.

The West needed to strengthen its resolve, she concluded. The good news is
that America has a president who can offer the leadership necessary to do so.




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[CTRL] An Economist Rethinks Free Trade

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An Economist Rethinks Free Trade
by Paul Craig Roberts

February 12, 2002

A belief in free trade is part of being an economist, and a belief in
America’s competitiveness is part of the economist’s commitment to the
global economy.

Economists note that no other country has the depth and breadth of our
capital markets, political stability, rule of law protecting contracts and
property rights, strong currency, and accumulation of scientific and
technological knowledge that makes the U.S. the high tech leader.

All of this stability and leadership causes foreigners to send their money
here for safe haven and secure investments. The inflow of money keeps the
dollar strong, which encourages imports from abroad and a trade deficit year
after year after year.

These arguments are reassuring and make sense. Still it comes as something
of a shock to discover that the U.S., the world’s high tech leader, has the
export profile of a 19th century third world colony.

Twenty years ago when I was a U.S. Treasury official, the U.S. trade deficit
came mainly from oil imports. Today our trade deficit is driven by imports
of energy, consumer goods, and manufactured goods.

A table prepared by MBG Information Services in Washington, D.C., from U.S.
Dept. of Commerce data shows the U.S. trade balance for 85 separate
industrial and commodity classifications. The only high tech goods of which
the U.S. is a net exporter are airplanes and airplane parts, military
technology and specialized machine tools. In 2000 the U.S. was a net
importer even of spacecraft.

What does the high tech U.S. economy export? Are you ready for this? Hides
and skins, metal ores and scrap, pulp and waste paper, tobacco and
cigarettes, rice, cotton, coal, meat, wheat, gold, animal feeds, soybeans
and corn.

We can’t even make our own clothes. Clothing is the third largest
contributor to our trade deficit, after vehicles and crude oil.

Even our agricultural exports are declining as the “green revolution” takes
hold abroad and U.S. farming shuts down.

The case for free trade rests on comparative advantage. Each country is
supposed to specialize in what it does best. Where does the U.S. have a
comparative advantage? Apparently, our comparative advantage lies in a
political system that doesn’t mind if foreigners buy up our assets.

Very little of the foreign money flowing into the U.S. is for the purpose of
building Toyota and BMW plants. Eighty to eighty-five percent of direct
investment by foreigners in the U.S. economy goes into mergers and
acquisitions. In 2000, 97 percent of direct investment by foreigners went
for the purchase of existing U.S. Assets.

We are not only losing industrial jobs, we are losing ownership of our
companies.

This is bad news for Americans training for engineering and high tech
occupations. The jobs are moving out. Recently, Motorola announced the
company was moving more of its manufacturing and research and development
jobs to China.

The jobs that remain in the U.S. are being filled with engineers imported
from India at half the salary.

As capital and technology are now completely mobile, the only comparative
advantage lies in labor costs. Companies are chasing the lowest labor costs.
For awhile, the move was to Mexico, but before Mexico could get on its feet,
the move shifted to China.

Propagandists call the move to China “free trade” and “globalization.” But
the Chinese don’t see it that way. They say, “you can’t sell here unless you
produce here.” That’s blackmail, not free trade.

Few companies are making money in China, but the hype is that with 1.5
billion consumers China is the market of the future. If it doesn’t work out
that way, equity shares will suffer another pricked bubble.

The U.S. is on its way to becoming a country whose corporations are
foreign-owned and foreign-based. The U.S. will decline as a consumer market
as there will be no high productivity jobs to support consumer demand.

The U.S. is importing a new population that will help it on its way to third
worldism. Every year millions of poor and uneducated immigrants, both legal
and illegal, pour into the U.S. from alien lands that have never been part
of the rational scientific culture of the West. Today 20 percent of the U.S.
population is foreign born or children of foreign born.

This massive influx drives up the demand for income support programs while
driving down the taxable wages in retail and service sector jobs, where
Americans are forced to seek employment as higher paying automotive,
electronic, textile and manufacturing jobs leave the country.

The U.S. is still a superpower, but it is a country with very little, if
any, control over its future and its destiny, a country whose time is
running out.



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[CTRL] Convention center section collapses; worker killed

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Convention center section collapses; worker killed

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette








A section of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center that is under
construction collapsed this afternoon, killing a Moon ironworker and injuring
two others.






 One worker died and two others were injured when steel girders for part of
the new David L. Lawrence Convention Center collapsed this afternoon. Click
to more images from the scene. (Steve Mellon, Post-Gazette photo)









Steel girders that were to be part of the second phase of the center's
reconstruction apparently fell before 3 p.m. in an area near the Allegheny
River and a railroad bridge. One worker, tentatively identified as Paul
Corsi, was trapped under the falling material and died.

Two other workers were injured and taken to Allegheny General Hospital.

A security guard at the 11th Street entrance to the site who wouldn't give
his name said, I heard a rumbling, a noise like thunder.

The dead man was trapped under several steel girders and crushed according to
a witness at the scene. The victim reportedly was from Moon Township.

One witness arrived at Allegheny General's emergency room and showed several
large bolts that he said apparently had snapped during the accident. The man
said two or three workers were atop the girders with safety harnesses when
the structure collapsed.

The man who was killed was working on the ground, he said.

I got a call from the Ironworkers (Union). I know it's one of their guys,
said Rich Stanizzo of the Pittsburgh Building and Construction Trades
Council.

One of the injured at AGH apparently rode the structure to the ground and
another may have been dangling for a time from the girders. Hospital
spokesman Dan Laurent said a 39-year-old worker treated there was able to
walk around the scene and never lost consciousness. His injuries appeared to
be minor.

Information was not immediately available on the second injured worker.

Steve Leeper, head of the Sports and Exhibition Authority, which is building
the convention center, confirmed that one worker was killed and he knew of
one injured. He did not have identities.

Leeper was in the finished part of the building and heard a loud noise like
the collapse of structural steel. . . . It was a shocking event.





 Location of the expanded David L. Lawrence Convention Center Downtown,
bordered by the Allegheny River on the north. (Post-Gazette)







The large section that collapsed was to have been part of the 13th column
line out of 15 main support structures that run north to south between the
Allegheny River and Penn Avenue.

Federal and local inspectors are on the scene.

The section that collapsed was not part of the almost-finished first section
that is to host its first convention Feb. 23. Leeper does not believe that
show, for recreational vehicles, will be delayed.

Construction on the $331 million center, designed by New York City architect
Rafael Vinoly, began in April 2000. Delays pushed back the opening from
January 2002 to February, and workers have been hurrying to finish sections
of the building in time for the RV show.

The second event, the Pittsburgh Home  Garden Show, is scheduled for March
8-17.

The complete convention center, including a 35,000-square-foot ballroom and
52 meeting rooms, is scheduled to be open by March 2003. When finished it
will be a 1.6 million-square-foot convention center, four times as large as
the old facility.



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[CTRL] Former CIA spy calls for overhaul

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Former CIA spy calls for overhaul
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



 Robert Baer, who spent 21 years as a CIA spy working against terrorists
in the Middle East and South Asia, said in an interview that the CIA
directorate of operations needs to be restructured to better fight in the war
against terrorism.
 A lot of people did some very good work and I'm sure they still do, but
you've really got to revamp the system, Mr. Baer said of the CIA's
directorate of operations, the elite espionage branch. Mr. Baer left the CIA
in 1997.
 You have to have a strong director of operations who understands
operations, who can separate good intelligence from bad intelligence, knows
what a source is, knows how to vet a source and knows when someone is taking
unnecessary risk and what's a necessary risk, Mr. Baer said.
 Mr. Baer discussed his CIA experiences that are contained in his new
book, See No Evil, published last month.
 The key to defeating terrorists, he writes in the book, is to go out
and start talking to people who can see and hear what the CIA cannot.
 The CIA needs to let its spies perform their jobs, no matter how murky
the swamp is, he wrote.
 Mr. Baer said that in 1995 he became the focus of a FBI criminal
investigation after a false Iranian intelligence report reached the White
House. It stated that the CIA was plotting to assassinate Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein.
 White House National Security Adviser Anthony Lake ordered the FBI probe
at the time, and it focused on Mr. Baer, who was in charge of Iraqi
operations and who was accused under a federal murder-for-hire law.
 Eventually the Justice Department cleared Mr. Baer of the accusations.
But the damage to the CIA's spying division caused by the investigation
lingers, Mr. Baer said, because of the message that sent through the CIA.
 Mr. Baer said the incident has hampered spies' efforts to track down
Osama bin Laden.
 Mr. Baer said he was viewed by agency spies as a bit of wild man who
basically did his accountings and didn't break the law.
 But after the FBI probe, other case officers were left saying that if
he can be hauled up on murder-for-hire charges, are you going to tell me to
go out and assassinate bin Laden if I see him? I say no, Mr. Baer said.
 Mr. Baer said all CIA officers are required to sign a statement saying
they will abide by a ban on assassinations contained in a presidential
executive order.
 He said the CIA's foreign-agent recruitment system discourages field
officers from hiring or running agents, and the entire intelligence
collection system relies too much on electronic spying and information
provided by foreign intelligence services.
 The agency also is hampered by management practices that discourage
risk-taking and focus on non-intelligence issues, he said. You have too much
of the CIA going after touchy-feely things, Mr. Baer said.
 Mr. Baer said that in numerous cases risk-averse CIA managers refused to
take action that could have stopped terrorist attacks.
 Case officers often are sent to staff colleges instead of foreign posts,
he said, and those who speak foreign languages fluently — a vital skill for
recruiting agents — have been sent to regions where the langages can't be
used, simply because CIA managers felt they had become too close to one
region.
 It's so cumbersome — the bureaucracy, the personnel review boards, the
promotion system, security, the counterintelligence center, the
counterespionage group — that people are just totally and completely
frustrated, Mr. Baer said.



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Hitler Secretary Recalls
Dictator as Pleasant Man


By DAVE GOLDINER
Daily News Staff Writer

dolf Hitler's secretary recalls the Nazi dictator as a pleasant older
gentleman in a new documentary and insists she knew nothing of his plan to
exterminate millions of Jews.

Traudl Junge says she was awed by Hitler's magnetic personality and was later
racked with guilt for falling under the spell of the greatest criminal who
ever lived.

I never had the feeling that he was consciously following criminal aims,
said Junge, now 81 and in failing health. No one ever spoke about [the
Holocaust] — at least not in our presence.

Junge is one of the last surviving members of Hitler's inner circle. She
spoke to Austrian director Andre Heller for the movie Blind Spot: Hitler's
Secretary, which opened this week at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Hitler was friendly, with a soft voice, she recalled — completely different
from the raging Nazi hate spewer she had seen in his speeches.

Hitler and other Nazi leaders practically never mentioned the word 'Jew'
during scores of meetings she attended, Junge said. The only reference to
concentration camps came from SS chief Heinrich Himmler on a visit to
Hitler's Bavarian Alpine retreat.

Some of Junge's most vivid memories date to the chaotic collapse of the Nazi
regime in 1945, when a delusional Hitler rode through the streets of Berlin
with the curtains in his limousine drawn.

Hitler had her write out his will as Soviet mortars exploded outside his
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China 'extreme' on sects
By Tom Carter
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


 China's communist government, working with the explicit approval of top
leaders including the likely next president, is orchestrating a brutal
crackdown on unauthorized religious groups, says a report released yesterday
by the human rights group Freedom House.
 The report's release comes just days before President Bush makes his
first state visit to China.
 These documents are irrefutable evidence that China remains determined
to eradicate all religion it cannot control, using extreme tactics, said
Nina Shea of Freedom House, who also serves on the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom.
 President Bush, who has repeatedly voiced concern for religious
oppression in China, must speak out forcefully and publicly in support of
religious freedom during his state visit to China next week, she said.
 Based on secret documents obtained in China by a Christian human rights
group, the report said state-sponsored violence against underground
Protestants, Roman Catholics, members of Falun Gong and members of a dozen
other unorthodox religious sects is state policy and is increasing.
 The human rights group — called the Committee for Investigation on
Persecution of Religion in China, Freedom House — also released the documents
yesterday in Beijing.
 The group told reporters there that the government had killed at least
129 worshippers and arrested some 24,000 others, but it offered no supporting
documentation.
 The documents released by Freedom House indicate that the brutality,
which includes rape, beatings and electric shock, has been approved by Vice
President Hu Jintao, who is widely expected to become China's president when
Jiang Zemin steps down this year.
 Mr. Hu was well-known in the human rights community for his suppression
of Tibetans from 1988 to 1992, when he was Communist Party chairman in Tibet.
 He also was accused of being one of the hard-liners who called for the
use of Chinese troops in the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Human rights
advocates protested in European cities during Mr. Hu's recent visit to the
continent.
 One document, distributed throughout the state security apparatus, said
Mr. Hu ordered that Falun Gong be put under police scrutiny before striking
it down by law.
 A minister in public security, Jia Chunwang emphasized the need for
gathering intelligence and working undercover. We need to work more, talk
less to smash the cult quietly, he is quoted as saying.
 In a conciliatory gesture during the weekend, China released a Hong Kong
businessman who had been jailed since May for bringing Bibles to a banned
church. Li Guangqiang was sentenced to a two-year prison term three weeks
ago, but he was released in an abrupt turnaround.
 China, which asserts that it has freedom of religion, says it does not
detain people for their religious beliefs, only for breaking Chinese law. It
rejects international condemnation as a matter of course, saying human rights
issues are internal matters.
 Calls to the Chinese Embassy in Washington yesterday were not returned
as officials there prepared to celebrate the Chinese lunar new year.
 Mrs. Shea said the United States had lost what little leverage it had on
human rights in China when it delinked human rights from U.S.-China
relations, granted Beijing normal trade relations and did not object to
Beijing's hosting the Olympics in 2008.
 China has been dealing with the explosive growth of new religious
movements. Some scholars say as many as 60 million Chinese have joined the
groups, while official Christian groups have some 15 million members.
 Falun Gong, an exercise and meditation group, was banned in 1999 after
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[CTRL] Official: U.S. Should Leave Asia

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Official: U.S. Should Leave Asia


By Vladimir Isachenkov
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, February 12, 2002; 3:06 PM

MOSCOW –– Russia's defense minister said Tuesday that the United States
should abandon its military presence in former Soviet republics in Central
Asia once the war in Afghanistan is over.

Sergei Ivanov said the U.S. troop deployment in Central Asia was necessary
for the success of the anti-terrorist operation and largely positive.

But Russia, he said, assumes that these bases are there on a temporary basis
and only until the end of the anti-terrorist operation.

President Vladimir Putin's decision to welcome the U.S. troops into Central
Asia dramatically bolstered Russia's relations with the United States and
other Western countries, but has provoked concern at home.

Some representatives of Russia's political elite have voiced fear that the
United States might use its military presence to end Russia's sway over the
region, which was conquered by the Russian Empire in the 19th century.

I wouldn't raise the degree of our concern to an unnecessarily high level,
Ivanov said at a news conference, pointing to statements by U.S. officials
who have said that no permanent bases are planned.

Assistant Secretary of State Beth Jones said Monday in Washington that
military-to-military ties with countries of the region are growing but that
the United States is not interested in having its own bases in Central Asia.

We want access to bases for as long as we need them, she said.

With Russia's blessing, U.S. troops have been deployed at an air base in
Uzbekistan and at an airport in Kyrgyzstan, and other allied forces are
expected to move to bases in Tajikistan and Kazakstan.

Ivanov, flanked by visiting Afghan Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim, said
Russia would help bolster Afghanistan's military capability by providing
spare parts for its Soviet-built weapons and other assistance.

We aren't talking about weapons, enough of which have piled up there during
20 years of war, but about organizational assistance, supplies and spare
parts, Ivanov said. He said Russia was also ready to provide training
aircraft and transport helicopters for the Afghan air force.

Ivanov said that Russia had no immediate plans to send military experts to
help train the Afghan army and wasn't seeking to gain any influence there.

We aren't going to enforce our will on anyone, especially as we know the
history of Afghanistan quite well, he said. We will provide assistance only
when we are asked for it.

Still, the daily Izvestia said that new weapons supplies would push Kabul
back into Moscow's political embrace.

Following the 1979-89 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Kremlin was a key
arms supplier for the anti-Taliban forces in the late 1990s. Last year,
Moscow supplied an estimated $34 million worth of Soviet-era weapons to the
Afghan forces fighting the Taliban.

We have enough weapons and don't need to buy more, but we need assistance in
repairing them, Fahim said.

Neither Ivanov nor Fahim would put a price tag on Russian supplies, but some
Russian media noted promises by the United States and other countries to
allocate tens of millions of dollars to upgrade the Afghan military.

Fahim hasn't come to Moscow with empty pockets, said the daily Nezavisimaya
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[CTRL] Millions in Iran Rally Against U.S.

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Millions in Iran Rally Against U.S.
Tue Feb 12, 8:57 AM ET
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR The New York Times

TEHRAN, Feb. 11 Millions of Iranians galvanized by President Bush's branding
of their nation as part of an axis of evil marched in a nationwide pep
rally today that harkened back to the early days of the Islamic revolution,
with the American flag burned for the first time in recent memory.



  Iranians Rally Against United States (AP)



Amid the dirgelike chants of Death to America! marking the revolution's
23rd anniversary, President Mohammad Khatami tried to display Iran's milder
face, stressing his government's interest in détente.

Ever since Mr. Bush designated Iran part of an international terrorist
network open to American attack, conservatives in Iran have been greatly
buoyed, trying to use a resurgence of disgust with America to quash reform at
home, daily denouncing Washington and exhorting Iranians to follow suit. This
has made it difficult for President Khatami to preserve his reformist agenda
of promoting democracy and rooting out corruption an agenda he emphasized
today before he, too, criticized American foreign policy.

Our policy is a policy of détente, Mr. Khatami told the throng clogging all
avenues to Freedom Square in Tehran. We intend to have ties and peaceful
relations with all nations in the world, except Israel.

Although less strident than his old guard foes, Mr. Khatami suggested that
the United States was partly to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The American people, he said, should ask today how much of the awful and
terrifying incidents of Sept. 11 were due to terrorist acts, and how much of
it was due to the foreign policy adopted by American officials.

The threat to Iran originates from the fact that America, or at least some
of its officials, see themselves as masters of the world, Mr. Khatami said.
Since they have power, they want to force the world to obey them and exert
pressure on countries that disobey. Your revolution threatened America's
illegitimate interests in the region, so it is obvious that you are the
target of its animosity.

After each important line, the orderly crowd burst into another round of
Death to America! and waved a variety of signs, including one in English
quoting the late revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
saying, The U.S. cannot do a damn thing.

The chanting switched occasionally to Death to Bush! One man wrapped his
white donkey in a hand- painted American flag with Bush written on the
side, while a truck carried a huge poster mounted with five large close-up
photographs of the American president next to five similarly sized pictures
of an ape.

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, Mr. Bush singled out Iran for
trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and for its support for groups
like Hezbollah that the United States labels terrorists. In addition,
Washington has recently accused Iran of sending weapons to the Palestinians,
of trying to undermine the effort to build a stable central government in
Afghanistan and of helping Al Qaeda members to escape.

In suggesting that the United States review its own foreign policy rather
than cast aspersions, Mr. Khatami specifically cited what he depicted as the
plight of Palestinians denied human rights because of American support for
Israel.

The threats expressed by Mr. Bush and other administration officials over the
last two weeks surprised many in Iran. In some ways, they have united the
reformists and the old guard here in criticism of the United States; in other
ways, they have strengthened the hand of the conservatives.

Any time we face international problems, democracy stops, said Ali Reza
Haghighi, a political science professor. Now all the discourse must be
against the Americans.

Mr. Khatami worked to keep his reformist agenda alive.

Some people must not object that we are talking so much about democracy,
religious democracy, he said. The stress on democracy is the soul of the
Islamic revolution.

Mr. Khatami's supporters had envisioned the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan as
a kind of side door to re- establishing ties with Washington, a prospect that
alarmed the hard-liners who still control many of the levers of power here.

Mr. Bush's remarks thus delighted the old guard, which gleefully presented
them as evidence that the American attitude toward Tehran remained unchanged,
no matter that Iran helped in toppling the Taliban.

The reformists, while critical of America, have tried to suggest that the
actions Mr. Bush criticized were the work of shadowy groups within the
Iranian elite who want to keep the country isolated and autocratic.

Possibly reflecting uncertainty over how to deal with an American- backed
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Clinton Diverted Billions From Pentagon to U.N. Peacekeeping
Lawrence Morahan, CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002
CNSNews.com -- A draft report by the General Accounting Office reveals that
former President Clinton contributed over $24 billion for U.N. peacekeeping
missions around the world between 1995 and 2001, money that wasn't officially
credited to the U.S. account by the United Nations.
The report shows that America's debt to the United Nations was more than
compensated for by extra peacekeeping assistance that the world organization
never gave the United States credit for, U.N. critics said.

This new GAO report makes it absolutely clear that the U.S. debt to the U.N.
was a complete fraud, said Cliff Kincaid, a journalist and president of
America's Survival, who released a copy of the draft report.

And remember that this report only covers the fiscal years 1996 - 2001,
Kincaid added. If the complete years of the Clinton administration were
taken into account, the figure could rise by several more billions.

The Clinton era saw an explosion in the number of U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping
missions carried out by U.S. forces that were not necessarily supported by
Congress.

Those peacekeeping operations were the cause of heated disagreements over
dues, including debates on whether the United States had accumulated
sufficient back dues to be voted out of the U.N. General Assembly.

Between fiscal years 1996 and 2001, the United States directly contributed an
estimated $3.45 billion to support U.N. peacekeeping, the report states.

During the same period, however, U.S. indirect contributions to U.N.
peacekeeping amounted to $24.2 billion.

Of the $24.2 billion figure, the GAO found that the largest indirect
contribution - about $21.8 billion - was for U.S. military operations and
services. This meant military personnel and equipment had to be diverted from
Pentagon operations to the United Nations.

The GAO defined indirect contributions as U.S. programs and activities that
are located in the same area as an ongoing U.N. peacekeeping operation, have
objectives that help the peacekeeping operation achieve its mandated
objectives, and are not an official part of the U.N. operation.

For example, estimated U.S. indirect contributions to U.N. operations in
Kosovo and East Timor, which involved nation building and the training of
local government agencies, amounted to over $5.1 billion and included
military operations to help provide a secure environment and programs to
provide food and shelter for refugees and train police and court officials.

Congress Limits U.S. Contribution

The United Nations assesses member states a percentage share of the total
cost of peacekeeping operations. The U.S. assessed share has historically
been over 30 percent of total peacekeeping costs.

In November 1994, Congress limited the amount the United States could pay to
25 percent of peacekeeping costs, beginning in fiscal year 1996, the report
noted. However, the United Nations continued to bill the United States at its
historically 30 percent of total costs, leading to U.S. arrears.

In 2000, U.N. member states agreed to change the assessment formula and to
drop the U.S. share of the peacekeeping budget over a three-year period to 27
percent, the report said.

Between fiscal years 1996, which began October 1995, and June 30, 2001, the
United Nations conducted 33 peacekeeping operations in 28 countries,
according to the report. As of January 2002, 15 of these operations were
still ongoing in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, involving over
47,000 military personnel, civilian police, and observers.

When you're spending American taxpayer dollars you need accountability for
American taxpayer dollars, and the procedure that the U.N. has of requesting
donations and the practice of the Clinton administration to categorize
expenditures as donations removes that accountability, said a senior
official familiar with the GAO report.

Speaking at Heritage Foundation in Washington, U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations John Negroponte said of U.S. involvement in peacekeeping operations:
If there is a threat to international peace and security out there, and it
needs to be dealt with, it is better that we do it where possible with other
partners who are picking up part of the cost.

He added: So I would say that while we always want to be careful about the
costs and we always want to be careful about where it is that we decide to
undertake U.N. peacekeeping operations, there are demonstrable benefits for
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Iraq Calls on Iran to Face 'Common Enemy'
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Monday, Feb. 11, 2002
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi Deputy President Taha Yassin Ramadan called on Iran
Monday to join with his country to confront their joint enemy -- the United
States.
Iraq and Iran, who were at war with each other from 1980-88, seem to be
improving relations after U.S. President George W. Bush accused them, along
with North Korea, of being an axis of evil.

What we are hearing from the Iranian leadership and its evaluation of the
U.S. administration, which it calls the Great Satan, solidarity and joint
action will have a larger role at least within the framework of confronting a
joint enemy (United States), Ramadan told United Press International.

He said Bush's statement requires that both countries look with all
seriousness into developing their capabilities to confront the common enemy.

Ramadan said Iraq was fully ready to confront any military strike that could
be launched by the United States.

Our leader, command, people and nation will face any unjust aggression with
all faith and capability and the defeat will be the aggressors, he said,
dismissing Washington's pretexts to justify its expected attack on Iraq. He
added that, Iraq is as far away from any links to terrorism as U.S.
officials.

Ramadan said the United States knows Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction
and has destroyed all of them and there are documents proving that.

Asked about improved ties between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Ramadan said he
preferred not to make hasty comments but as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
said, We are giving priority to the inter-Arab relations in all fields,
especially economy, without one single exception -- including Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia.

He said attempts to get Iraq and Kuwait, which was invaded by Iraq in a move
that set off the Gulf War, closer were continuing and we believe it's not
impossible to achieve this.

On a possible conflict between Iraq and the United Nations when the 11th
phase of the oil-for-food program ends in May, he said: We have a memorandum
of understanding that we are applying in line with what we have agreed with
the U.N. secretary general. We will not approve any change or addition to
this memo in the future and Iraq will refuse anything that would harm its
security and stability.




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[CTRL] Report: U.S. Readies Tougher Iraq Strategy

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Report: U.S. Readies Tougher Iraq Strategy
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Monday, Feb. 11, 2002
LOS ANGELES -- The current U.S. strategy of trying to contain Saddam
Hussein's regime isn't tough enough to prevent the development of weapons of
mass destruction, the Bush administration has concluded as it nears
completion of a review of U.S. policy toward Iraq, the Los Angeles Times said
Sunday.
Administration officials told the newspaper that the policy review should be
finished by the time Vice President Dick Cheney visits the Middle East next
month and appears to lean toward increasing the threat of military action
against Baghdad.

There's an evolving consensus that a sizable U.S. military activity will be
required, a well-placed source said.

Current U.S. policy is limited to aerial patrols of the so-called no-fly
zones in southern and northern Iraq, as well as naval patrols on the lookout
for smugglers in the Persian Gulf. That containment policy, however, is not
strong enough, in the opinion of U.S. planners, to stifle Iraq's efforts to
develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

President Bush in his State of the Union address denounced Iraq last month as
being part of an axis of evil, along with Iran and Korea, for developing
weapons of mass destruction.

While the details of the new policy are still under development, the U.S.
victory in Afghanistan has many senior officials now convinced that a
military strike against Saddam's regime has a solid chance of succeeding.

As we learned in Afghanistan, some regimes are not as solid as they pretend
to be, a senior State Department official told the Times. The trick is
finding the pressure points that can break the structure.

U.S.-Funded Oposition

Washington apparently is looking to the U.S.-funded opposition group, the
Iraqi National Congress, to develop into a viable fighting force that could
topple Saddam in much the same way the Northern Alliance routed Afghanistan's
ruling Taliban with the assistance of U.S. commandos and fierce air power.
The scenario also apparently assumes that large numbers of Iraqi government
troops will defect to the INC.

The INC could still be a useful umbrella to bring other political forces
together, but not as it is currently constituted. We need an INC that is more
representative of all the forces in Iraq, a senior administration official
suggested.

The Times said that unleashing the INC is a strategy largely favored by
political appointees at the Pentagon while senior military officers and State
Department officials are not convinced that the INC will be able to stand up
to Saddam's well-established and ruthless military.

Other options being seriously considered include convincing Iraq's neighbors
to tighten their political pressure on Baghdad, and a diplomatic offensive to
allow United Nations arms inspectors back into Iraq. Some U.S. officials
believe it will be difficult to convince nations such as Jordan, Iran, Syria
and Turkey to clamp down on the smuggling of Iraqi oil through their
territories.

Whatever its final form, the new policy proposal will have to be sold by
Cheney during his nine-nation Middle East trip. According to the Times, Arab
nations are already concerned that the Americans will once again
underestimate Saddam's staying power, and haven't thought through a viable
plan for a post-Saddam Iraq.

Our problem is that we see much of it as wishful thinking or a leap of
faith, particularly relying on (Iraqi military) defections, an anonymous
Arab envoy told the newspaper. This doesn't have the feel of a workable
plan.

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[CTRL] Dr Pepper Censors 'Under God'

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Dr Pepper Censors 'Under God'
Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002
The Dr Pepper/Seven Up soft-drink company (DPSU) is under fire for skipping
the phrase under God in a partial quotation of the Pledge of Allegiance on
its patriot can.
The graphic design of the can, created to show the world that we are a
united nation of people who place a high value upon freedom, according to
the company, includes an artist's rendering of the Statue of Liberty and the
phrase One Nation ... Indivisible.

American Family Association learned of the omission of the phrase under God
when a 12-year-old girl wrote the group to complain.

I am very concerned with Dr Pepper's new design on their cans, wrote Alyssa
Haynie of Colt, Ark., whose letter is posted on AFA's Web site. I noticed
they have 'one nation ... indivisible' on their cans and left out 'under
God.'

Haynie had e-mailed the company and was told there was not room on the can to
include the complete phrase.

But Randy Sharp, director of special projects for AFA, doubts that reasoning.

Because they're trying to be politically correct they're being patriotically
incorrect, Sharp told CNSNews.com. By doing so, they're becoming divisive
themselves, because they're alienating a major portion of the nation.

Dr Pepper (the period was dropped from the name in the 1950s) has been
hearing from its customers, as well, based on the home page of the soft
drink's corporate Web site.

Dr Pepper responds to consumers regarding its patriot can is the headline
stretching across two-thirds of the page.

The special packaging was designed to reflect our pride in this country's
determination to stand together as one. The Statue of Liberty and Pledge of
Allegiance were chosen as two of the greatest symbols of American freedom,
the site explains. Due to space limitations on the can, only a few of the 31
words from the Pledge of Allegiance could be used.

The explanation continues describing the verbiage limitations imposed by
the size of the graphics on the can, echoing the reason Haynie was given. It
also notes that 90 percent of the pledge's content was omitted.

Sharp still doubts that space restrictions caused the edit to be made.

I think anyone who looks at the can could see that there is plenty of space
to include 'under God' very easily, he said. They could drop their
nutrition label a little bit and boom, they'd have plenty of room.

Haynie made that exact point in a second email to DPSU but says she received
no response.

Despite the controversy, the soft-drink maker says it believes it
accomplished its goal with the special edition container.

We at Dr Pepper/Seven Up strongly believe that the message on these cans is
a resoundingly patriotic, bipartisan message that we are a united nation,
the letter to consumers concludes.

Sharp says DPSU might be surprised to learn that he has received complaints
from a number of people identifying themselves as non-Christian or not
religious who are also offended by the slight.

They may not be religious, but they do recognize and respect religion and
God as major factors in our culture and in our society, he said. It's clear
this is a company that has decided not only to leave God out of its corporate
philosophy, but also has decided to offend a great number of the citizens of
this country.

DPSU says the claims made against the can's design are incomplete or
inaccurate. AFA is asking anyone offended by the omission to contact the
company.

Forty-one million of the cans were distributed in a dozen states. The regular
Dr Pepper can design will return later in February.




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[CTRL] Rep. Ron Paul, Friend of the Taxpayer

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 Rep. Ron Paul, Friend of the Taxpayer

Rep. Ron Paul
Monday, February 11, 2002
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos


WASHINGTON — Failing to get elected as a Libertarian Party presidential
candidate, Rep. Ron Paul turned to the Republican Party to win Texas' 14th
Congressional District, but now often finds himself defending his politics
not only against Democrats but against his own GOP colleagues in the House.


He's really a libertarian and he pays the price for that, said Libertarian
Party spokesman George Getz.

Despite the obstacles, Paul's brand of strict constitutionalist, limited
government sensibility and hard-charging campaign style have afforded him
easy wins in his rural district over the last three election cycles.

Facing two Democrats with no political experience who will face each other in
a primary next month, Paul is a shoe-in for 2002 since the Democratic Party
is not expected to put too much effort into trying to unseat him, political
experts say.

But as an iconoclast who voted against honoring both Pope John Paul II and
civil rights icon Rosa Parks with Congressional Gold Medals, how does Paul
continue to win over the electorate? Supporters and critics alike have their
theories.

Ron Paul campaigns as a person who is 180 degrees opposite from his writing
and his record, charged Texas Democratic consultant Ed Martin, who works
with congressional and state candidates in Texas.

Most people in my district would probably say that wasn't true, Paul
responded when confronted with Martin's claims of his duplicity.

It's the way you frame things, and I convince them that I care about their
problems, Paul said of his constituents, primarily farmers.

Martin said Paul's maverick record in Congress — he is often the one lone
dissenter in the House on issues like foreign policy, taxes and budget
spending — appeals widely to libertarians across the country who feel they
have a vested interest in keeping him in Washington.

But at home, contends Martin, Paul campaigns as a middle-of-the-road
politician, one who promises senior citizens that he will fight to protect
Social Security.

He is really well-funded from a network of libertarian and right-wing types
and he is spending that money making ads with him sitting like a liberal
Democrat, said Martin.

His fundraising lists are indeed filled with thousands of libertarians,
translating his popularity into campaign funds, said Getz. He's got a
nationwide network of small 'l' Libertarian [Party] members who are happy to
send him money.

But given the demographics of his district, Paul doesn't really need to be a
shape-shifter to gain the confidence of his constituents. Located in east
Texas along the Gulf of Mexico, the 14th District is mostly rural and has
leaned Republican since the Reagan era.

Paul said he's straightforward with farmers when they ask why he doesn't
support subsidies. He said seniors know he doesn't approve of federal Social
Security, but he helps them fight the bureaucracy when they need it, while
encouraging them to see the light on privatization.

Paul served four terms in the House before running for the Senate and losing
to Phil Gramm in 1984. He then ran for president on the Libertarian Party
ticket in 1988. He lost after garnering 432,000 votes, but nonetheless
established a foundation for the network of support he enjoys to this day.

In 1996, he beat out the GOP-favored candidate in the primary and then won
narrowly against the Democrat, who attacked Paul as being pro-drug
legalization, pro-prostitution and anti-minimum wage.

Here I am in the Bible belt, he recalled, noting that voters there warm to
his pro-civil libertarian message. But I convinced them they don't want
[government] in their business.

He admits his budget-cutting zeal has kept him from getting plum committee
assignments, but he knows he has been helpful on procedural votes with his
party and doesn't feel much antagonism from his peers.

I would say if they are really nasty to me it's behind my back. On a
one-to-one basis, I figure its pretty cordial, he said. I mean, I don't
yell and scream, but I'm sending a subtle message that maybe Republicans
might have lost their way when it comes to limited budget.

Though Paul blames meddlesome U.S. foreign policy for the current terrorism
crisis, he said he voted for the authorization of defense funds, keeping a
critical eye on how the new laws may affect civil liberties. And that's what
his constituents want to hear.

I vote the least amount of taxes and the least amount of government and that
people should be left alone, he said. Every time I campaign I have the same
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[CTRL] Mystery force pulls old space probe toward sun

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Mystery force pulls old space probe toward sun
By Robert Matthews
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH


 LONDON — A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the
influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws
of physics.
 Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of
Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the
sun by an unknown force.
 The effect shows no sign of weakening as the spacecraft travels deeper
into space, and scientists are considering the potential that the probe has
revealed a new force of nature.
 Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said:
We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of, and so far
nothing works.
 If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and
spacecraft navigation, said Mr. Laing, of the Aerospace Corp. of California.
 Pioneer 10 was launched by NASA on March 2, 1972, and with Pioneer 11,
its twin, revolutionized astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and
Saturn. In June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our
solar system.
 Both probes are traveling at 27,000 mph toward stars that they will
encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to
monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than 7 billion miles from
Earth.
 Research to be published shortly in a leading physics journal, however,
will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph
per century — a barely perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than
gravity.
 Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors
aboard the probes or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be
responsible. Both now have been ruled out.
 The team says no current theories explain why the force stays constant:
All the most plausible forces, from gravity to the effect of solar radiation,
decrease rapidly with distance.
 The bizarre behavior also has eliminated theories that the two probes
are affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the solar
system.
 Assertions by some scientists that the force is the result of a quirk in
the Pioneer probes also have been discounted by the discovery that the effect
seems to be affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in
the solar system.
 Data from these two probes suggest the force is of the same strength as
that found for the Pioneers.
 Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University in Manchester,
England, says even such a weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic
scale.
 It might alter the number of comets that come toward us over millions
of years, which would have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the
question of whether we know enough about the law of gravity.
 Until 1988, Pioneer 10 was the most remote object made by man — a
distinction now held by Voyager 1.
 Should Pioneer 10 make contact with alien life, it carries a gold-plated
aluminium plaque on which the figures of a man and woman are shown to scale,
along with a map showing its origin that NASA calls the cosmic equivalent of
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[CTRL] School District Sued for Forcing Gay Propaganda

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School District Sued for Forcing Gay Propaganda
Dawn Rizzoni, CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002
Angry parents are suing a California school district for authorizing
pro-homosexual presentations to be shown to elementary school pupils as
young as eight.
The parents say school employees forced the kids to attend the play Cootie
Shots, even though the parents had signed opt-out forms to prevent their
children from being exposed to sexually-oriented discussions.

The play was performed last year at two elementary schools that are part of
the Novato Unified School District in California's Marin County.

Fringe Benefits, a group describing itself as a coalition of theater
activists dedicated to building bridges between gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender youth and their straight peers, teachers, and parents, presented
Cootie Shots on Feb. 26, 2001 at Pleasant Valley Elementary School and on
Mar. 2, 2001 at San Ramon Elementary School. The audience was third, fourth
and fifth graders.

Cootie Shots, also the title of a book, refers to the schoolyard taunt that
children use to brag that they have been inoculated against the cooties of
other children who might be different from them in some way. The book is
meant to promote tolerance and celebrate diversity, according to its
authors, Norma Bowles and Mark E. Rosenthal.

The Novato School District Diversity Program has similar objectives.

The [Novato Unified School] District's goal is to make sure that children
feel safe in school and part of that feeling of security comes from knowing
that unkind things will not be said to you or about you by other children or
adults, according to a statement from the minutes of a March 20, 2001 school
district meeting.

However, Brad Dacus, spokesman for Pacific Justice Institute, a non-profit
legal defense organization representing the eight parents in the lawsuit,
said the play contained homosexual overtures that led children to believe
that homosexuality is acceptable and that those who don't approve are
hate-filled bigots.

Despite the opt-out forms the parents had signed and returned to the schools
to exclude their children from programs such as Cootie Shots, Dacus said
that no students were excluded and that school staff members ended up telling
the parents that many of the opt-out forms had gotten lost.

Dianne Pavia, a spokeswoman for Novato Unified School District, was unable to
comment about the lost forms. Nor would she comment on specifics of the play,
because of the lawsuit, except to say that it was not meant to advance any
agenda other than the safety of children.

The assembly's purpose was to work with kids around the issue of bullying,
name-calling, and harassing of all kinds, Pavia said. These issues are a
national concern for all parents and the school district is dedicated to
making their schools as safe a place as possible for all students.

Undermining Parents' Rights

Dacus insists that the core issue is parental rights and that his clients'
rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
were violated.

This lawsuit is the first in a major litigation campaign to combat school
districts who attempt to undermine the statutory and constitutional rights of
parents, Dacus said. We intend to aggressively sue every school district
that similarly violates the rights of parents.

The parents seek unspecified financial damages in their lawsuit, plus a
permanent injunction to prevent programs such as Cootie Shots from being
shown to students in the future without parental notification and written
consent, Dacus said.

Whenever irreconcilable damage has been done to children, Dacus said,
Pacific Justice Institute will make it as costly and painful as possible for
offending schools. Dacus said his organization wanted schools to know that
there's a high price to be paid for ignoring parental rights.

One skit in the play that angered the parents was The Parable of the
Stimples, during which a group of funny noise-making people are ridiculed.
The script states, BUT the BIG PROBLEM was that everyone was taught that
making funny noises was BAD! Wrong! Something to be afraid of!

During the play, Stimple Gilbert is sent to the principal's office after
making a funny noise, only to discover that the principal himself is a secret
noisemaker.

When Gilbert's parents discover that Gilbert is a noisemaker, they react with
embarrassment. They tell Gilbert not to make the noise so that he can be
normal like them. Soon, Gilbert discovers that people are afraid of the
noise.

At that point, the narrator encourages the audience to save Gilbert by making
a loud noise themselves.

Make a noise for Gilbert! the narrator says. Make a noise for all of the
Stimples in the world.

In an interview with TCG Books, Norma Bowles, one of the book's 

[CTRL] Israeli Troops Storm West Bank Town

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By STEVE WEIZMAN

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops raided a West Bank town early Tuesday,
killing a Palestinian gunman in an exchange of fire and destroying a house
before withdrawing five hours later.

Israeli media, meanwhile, reported that the military is preparing for a
large-scale ground assault on Palestinian territory in the event of renewed
firing of Qassam-2 rockets at Israel by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Palestinian militants
raised the stakes in the Mideast conflict by firing the new, longer-range
rockets into Israel.

In Tuesday's raid, an Israeli infantry unit went into the
Palestinian-controlled northern outskirts of Hebron and arrested a wanted
gunman from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, the Israeli
military said.


During the operation, there were exchanges of fire with the Palestinians. At
one point, troops spotted an armed man fleeing a building and shot him dead,
the military said in a statement. Palestinian security officials said the
dead man was a member of the Palestinian National Guard.

Israeli army bulldozers also destroyed a house, leaving a Fatah member, his
wife and four children homeless. A second building was damaged, with the wall
on the first floor smashed in and closets and furniture visible from the
street.

In a separate raid in the same area, soldiers arrested an alleged member of
the militant Islamic Jihad organization, the army said.

The Hebron-area raid followed airstrikes on Gaza City on Sunday and Monday in
retaliation for the firing of a pair of Qassam-2 rockets at southern Israel.

The daily Maariv reported Tuesday that Ben-Eliezer and Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon are considering establishing a so-called security zone in Gaza, a
stretch of land reoccupied by Israel, to move the rockets out of range.

Establishing such a zone in the West Bank would be more difficult because it
would require reoccupying Palestinian towns close to Israel, such as Tulkarem
and Qalqiliya, Maariv quoted security officials as saying.

Sunday's rockets ploughed large craters in two farm fields. The Qassam-2 has
a range of three to five miles, enough to hit Israeli towns from the West
Bank and Gaza Strip. In the past, Hamas has fired several shorter-range
Qassam-1 rockets that caused no damage.

Ben-Eliezer said the rocket attacks represented a new level of threat.

You try to deal with it in all sorts of ways - by intelligence, by
prevention and by struggling against those places where you suspect and
discover that there are factories or workshops for manufacturing those
rockets, Ben-Eliezer said.

In Monday's Israeli airstrike, warplanes fired six missiles into the walled
Saraya security compound in downtown Gaza City, setting buildings ablaze and
sending black smoke into the sky.

More than 30 people were injured, most of them lightly, including George
Kochaniec, a photographer for Denver's Rocky Mountain News. Kochaniec was
treated for a hand injury.

Hundreds of Palestinians ran to the stricken compound, demanding that
suspected Islamic militants jailed there be released immediately. Some threw
stones at officers, who fired in the air to keep back the crowd. Palestinian
police said all detainees were moved to another prison shortly after the
Israeli attack.

In Washington, State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher criticized Israel's
bombing in populated areas, warning that they could intensify the fighting.
He also called on Arafat to make efforts to stop the rocket attacks.

Israel warplanes blasted a separate Gaza City security compound Sunday night
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always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.

Let us