[CTRL] Britain Admits No WMD's in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/040703C.shtml Britain Admits There May Be No WMD's in Iraq Ruben Bannerjee Al Jazeera Saturday 05 April 2003 Well into the war that was supposed to rid Iraq of its alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, a senior British official admitted on Saturday that no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons of mass destruction may after all be found. Making the startling confession in a radio interview, British Home Secretary, David Blunkett, added in the same breath that he would in any case rejoice the fall'' of Saddam Hussein and his regime -- regardless of whether any weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq or not. The confession reconfirms the worst fears of opponents of the war that weapons of mass destruction'' is only a ruse for the US and the British to go to war against Iraq. At the very least the admission certainly deals a serious blow to the moral legitimacy that the US and the British have been seeking in prosecuting the war. Critics of the war across the world have been accusing the US and the British of aiming for regime change in Baghdad under the guise of unearthing and dismantling weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.'' There have been constant accusations that the US and the British are eyeing Iraq's huge oil wealth, promoting Israeli interests, and that its campaign against weapons of mass destruction'' is only a convenient cover-up. Even countries like Germany, Russia and France had been less than impressed with the US-led war against Iraq saying all along that the task of unearthing weapons of mass destruction, if any, is better left to UN weapons' inspectors. In making the confession in an interview with BBC radio, the British Home Secretary however admitted that the non-discovery of any weapons of mass destruction would lead to a very interesting debate'' about the war. We will obviously have a very interesting debate if there are no biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear weapons or facilities to produce them found anywhere in Iraq once Iraq is free,'' the home secretary added. The US-led forces stand to face a huge global uproar if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq. US-led forces moving across the Iraqi deserts have been under pressure since the start of the war to find evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. But instead of solid evidence, the they have so far raised only false alarms. From time to time, the US-forces have claimed to have unearthed suspicious'' substances. And each time, the claim has turned out to be without substance. Today Saturday 5 April, US Marines were reported to be digging up a suspected chemical weapons hiding place in the courtyard of a school in the southeast of Baghdad. Western media reported that the US Marines were digging after being tipped off by an Iraqi informer. We don't have a clue now but we are going to dig it up and check,'' said General James Mattis, the commander of the Marine division at the scene. Iraq has always insisted that it does not possess any weapons of mass destruction. UN weapons inspectors, who scoured the country for several months until the US asked them to leave last month, had repeatedly certified that they had found no credible evidence of Iraq possessing any weapons of mass destruction. [2.ClrSpc.indent_2.gif] Go To Original Banned Iraqi Weapons Might Be Hard to Find By Barton Gellman Washington Post Saturday 05 April 2003 Suspicious Sites Provide No Proof Yet U.S. forces in Iraq yesterday found sites and substances they described as suspected components of a forbidden Iraqi weapons program. But the discoveries that U.S. troops displayed, and the manner in which they were described at a Central Command briefing, struck experts in and out of government as ambiguous at best. Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants. Nearly all of them are dual-use facilities, capable of civilian or military employment, but most were devoted to legitimate activity even at the height of Iraq's secret weapons programs. Moving warily through that industrial landscape, U.S. and allied ground forces will inevitably find, as U.N. inspectors have found since 1991, thousands of potential weapons sites but few, if any, that could be nothing else. Iraq's continued concealment of such weapons is the allegation at the core of the Bush administration's case for war. If the hunt for them relies on that sort of survey, experienced investigators said, it faces a long road to an uncertain result. In the first of yesterday's discoveries, the 3rd Infantry Division entered the vast Qa Qaa chemical and explosives production plant and came across thousands of vials of white powder, packed three to a box. The engineers also found stocks of atropine and pralidoxime, also known as 2-PAM
[CTRL] Blair and Friends Staring Into War's Political Abyss
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/040703H.shtml Blair and Friends Staring Into War's Political Abyss By Paul Daley Sidney Morning Herald Saturday 05 April 2003 As the Iraq war enters its third week, European leaders who supported America's push to disarm Saddam Hussein with or without the support of the United Nations are beginning to count a heavy political cost. None more so than the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who six months ago sometimes looked close to a decade younger than his 50 years. Today, the firm flesh around Mr Blair's cheeks and eyes has noticeably sagged, his hair appears greyer and thinner and he is visibly wearing each of his 50 years. Sections of the British union movement, already deeply suspicious of Mr Blair, are openly calling for Labour to remove him as leader, over Iraq and a range of domestic policy issues. Mr Blair is a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders. His troops are dying in ever greater numbers alongside - and too often at the hands of - their US counterparts. Public support for the war is drifting the longer it proceeds. Support for Mr Blair in his own Labour Party is becoming flimsier by the day. Mr Blair tied his political fortunes to the Bush Administration's when he made it clear Britain would support the forced disarmament of Iraq without a second UN Security Council resolution. He then survived one of the biggest parliamentary mutinies in history after convincing waverers in his party that the war against Iraq would be quick, relatively bloodless and Iraqi soldiers would throw down their weapons in droves to embrace their liberators. If the war is quick, lasting a month or so, and we move on to sorting out the Palestine-Israel problem then I think people will say that the Prime Minister was right, a prominent backbench Blair supporter reportedly said this week. If this war is still going on in three months' time, then I think there will be acute concern. But having committed 40,000 personnel to Iraq, Mr Blair is not afforded the luxury of other European leaders like Italy's Silvio Berlusconi. A vocal supporter of the US before the war, he may well have been spooked by the mass anti-war protests across his country in the past fortnight. Initially he said that the US could have overfly rights and access to NATO bases in Italy. A fierce public backlash later prompted him to qualify support with an assurance that no attacks on Iraq would originate in Italy. We can see the negative trends not only for Mr Berlusconi himself but his party ... But I don't think at the end of the day they will bring big damage to the coalition Mr Berlusconi is leading, Lucio Caracciolo, editor of the influential political periodical Limes, said. Mr Berlusconi is trying to balance loyalty to the US with passionate opposition to the war from Italy's Catholic majority - an opposition which has strengthened with the Pope's anti-war position. Spain's Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, is realising just how much, in domestic political terms, he could pay for casting himself as the third man - alongside Mr Bush and Mr Blair - in the countdown to the war. The most recent poll, by his state's official pollsters, showed that 91 per cent of Spanish voters were opposed to their country's support for the war. The Aznar Government's popularity has slumped massively in recent months. In Portugal, which also supported US policy, the Foreign Minister was clearly trying to distance himself from the military campaign by pointing out that Portugal has not declared war on Iraq. In Germany, the economy might be flat-lining, but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder won moderate electoral gain and media support after his decision to become the first European leader to openly challenge America's Iraq policy. Germany has allowed wounded coalition troops to be evacuated to Germany and as the war becomes protracted, bloody and ugly, Mr Schroeder has resisted any gloating. Despite all the evidence of years of corruption and his prior reputation as a policy flake, France's President Jacques Chirac's staunch anti-war position has made it the most popular government position in France since 1938. Mr Chirac has ignored the wave of anti-French sentiment from the US Government and the British media which followed his decision to vote against forced disarmament of the Iraqi regime unless weapons inspectors were given more time. Now he has made it his duty to ensure the UN - rather than the US - takes the lead role in administering postwar Iraq before self-government. And in so-called new Europe - that is, the countries lining up for European Union membership - there is widespread caution even among those nations which the US is promoting as coalition members. Croatia has denounced the war as illegitimate, the Czech Republic's previously strong support is waning and the Polish Government faces criticism over its decision to commit a small number of elite troops. A
[CTRL] Red Cross Horrified by Number of Dead Civilians
-Caveat Lector- Red Cross Horrified by Number of Dead Civilians Canadian Press http://truthout.org/docs_03/040603A.shtml Friday 4 April 2003 OTTAWA Red Cross doctors who visited southern Iraq this week saw incredible levels of civilian casualties including a truckload of dismembered women and children, a spokesman said Thursday from Baghdad. Roland Huguenin, one of six International Red Cross workers in the Iraqi capital, said doctors were horrified by the casualties they found in the hospital in Hilla, about 160 kilometres south of Baghdad. There has been an incredible number of casualties with very, very serious wounds in the region of Hilla, Huguenin said in a interview by satellite telephone. We saw that a truck was delivering dozens of totally dismembered dead bodies of women and children. It was an awful sight. It was really very difficult to believe this was happening. Huguenin said the dead and injured in Hilla came from the village of Nasiriyah, where there has been heavy fighting between American troops and Iraqi soldiers, and appeared to be the result of bombs, projectiles. At this stage we cannot comment on the nature of what happened exactly at that place . . . but it was definitely a different pattern from what we had seen in Basra or Baghdad. There will be investigations I am sure. Baghdad and Basra are coping relatively well with the flow of wounded, said Huguenin, estimating that Baghdad hospitals have been getting about 100 wounded a day. Most of the wounded in the two large cities have suffered superficial shrapnel wounds, with only about 15 per cent requiring internal surgery, he said. But the pattern in Hilla was completely different. In the case of Hilla, everybody had very serious wounds and many, many of them small kids and women. We had small toddlers of two or three years of age who had lost their legs, their arms. We have called this a horror. At least 400 people were taken to the Hilla hospital over a period of two days, he said -- far beyond its capacity. Doctors worked around the clock to do as much as they could. They just had to manage, that was all. The city is no longer accessible, he added. Red Cross staff are also concerned about what may be happening in other smaller centres south of Baghdad. We do not know what is going on in Najaf and Kabala. It has become physically impossible for us to reach out to those cities because the major road has become a zone of combat. The Red Cross was able to claim one significant success this week: it played a key role in re-establishing water supplies at Basra. Power for a water-pumping station had been accidentally knocked out in the attack on the city, leaving about a million people without water. Iraqi technicians couldn't reach the station to repair it because it was under coalition control. The Red Cross was able to negotiate safe passage for a group of Iraqi engineers who crossed the fire line and made repairs. Basra now has 90 per cent of its normal water supply, said Huguenin. Huguenin, a Swiss, is one of six international Red Cross workers still in Baghdad. The team includes two Canadians, Vatche Arslanian of Oromocto, N.B., and Kassandra Vartell of Calgary. The Red Cross expects the humanitarian crisis in Iraq to grow and is calling for donations to help cope. The Red Cross Web site is: http://www.redcross.ca http://truthout.org/docs_03/040603A.shtml A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Masks 'no protection from SARS'
-Caveat Lector- Masks 'no protection from SARS' By Australian Associated Press 04 Apr 2003 Surgical and cheap masks won't provide sure-fire protection against the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a health expert warned today. But they could slow the spread of the disease by limiting hand to face contact. Surgical masks are designed to keep wounds sterile during surgery when a surgeon talks or coughs, Griffith University respiratory protection specialist Dr David Bromwich said. They are not designed to protect the wearer. Dr Bromwich said the material used, and the fit of the masks, would offer almost no respiratory protection from airborne particles. But they could be helpful as a barrier that might stop people who've touched infected droplets of saliva, for example, from then touching their faces and becoming sick. Scientists have said the virus is spread by droplets, through coughing and sneezing. But the World Health Organisation now believes it may also be spread by the environment, such as by water or sewerage systems, not just by close personal contact. Dr Bromwich said concerned travellers should consider using a special toxic dust mask with a class P2 particulate filter, which sells for less than $10. But he warned even that would not provide 100 per cent protection. There is no such thing as complete protection from viruses - or even chemicals for that matter, Dr Bromwich said. The warning comes as seven people in Australia, including a south-east Queenslander, wait for tests that will determine if they have SARS. Meanwhile, Queensland Health today gave a middle-aged woman the all-clear, after earlier believing she could have contracted the virus. We can now confirm it's not SARS nor is it even remotely connected to SARS, she said, of the woman. The spokeswoman said the other south-east Queensland case involving a 21-year-old man was yet to be determined. He has voluntarily confined himself to his home, she said. NSW has two suspected cases, with one in the Northern Territory and three in Victoria - a girl and her two young brothers who are visiting from Canada. http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6236401%255E421,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush executive order allows SARS quarantine
-Caveat Lector- All dissidents to Bush Dictatorship to be quarantined. Bush order allows SARS quarantine Illness 'could have severe public health consequences' Friday, April 4, 2003 Posted: 6:49 PM EST (2349 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush issued an executive order Friday adding Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome to the list of communicable diseases for which a person can be quarantined. The order reads that SARS, a disease first recognized late last year in China, is associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences. SARS -- characterized by high fever and breathing difficulties -- has infected more than 2,270 people, killing 79, according to the World Health Organization's Web site. It has spread to 16 countries, including the United States. No U.S. deaths have been reported. Friday's executive order brings to eight the number of diseases covered under possible quarantine orders by the federal government. A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the order should not be taken as any indication that the government wishes to quarantine anyone. Health experts at the CDC still feel that quarantines are not necessary now, although they could become necessary if the situation gets worse. Also on Friday, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, urged the CDC to get directly involved in containing the spread of SARS in the United States. While commending the CDC's efforts in investigating SARS worldwide, Schumer said it was time to deploy the center's epidemiologists and health experts to New York and others areas in the United States where the virus has recently spread. The CDC is doing great work by sending our experts to other countries to help with SARS outbreaks there, said Schumer. But as more and more SARS cases are discovered here at home, it's time for us in New York to get the same expert advice to prevent a full-blown outbreak. Researchers say SARS probably began spreading from China's Guangdong province -- where there have been at least 1,000 cases -- to other countries in mid-February. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/04/sars.bush/index.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The High Cost of War
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/040603H.shtml The War's Dirty Secret: It's About Changing United States, Not Iraq Steve Lopez LA Times Sunday 30 March 2003 Much to her surprise, the federal government is promising to do everything Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters has spent years fighting for. Education for the neediest souls will be transformed, quality health care will be guaranteed, damaged roadways and bridges will be rebuilt, and millions of dollars will be spent to spur new business. Waters just never figured the beneficiaries would be residents of Iraq. A few weeks ago, when I spent several hours with her in Washington as the start of the war approached, Waters had begun to fear the worst. I'm very worried about the long-term impact, she said, predicting that as the cost of the war grows, states, counties and cities will get stiffed. Waters wasn't talking about the weeks and months ahead, but the years and decades to come. The cost of the war and rebuilding Iraq, she said, could drastically limit what government can do. The effort to turn Iraq into a democracy, in other words, is making the U.S. less of one. Our opposition party has disappeared, corporate interests dictate public policy, and the feds may be rummaging through your e-mail. There's a dirty secret no one has told you, and here it is: This war is not about changing Iraq, it's about changing America. Unless you're lucky enough to be an investor in one of the corporations that will win multimillion-dollar contracts to rebuild Iraq, you may be hurting when the cost of the war and a new era of deficit spending put even more of a drag on the economy. If you don't earn enough to hit the jackpot on President Bush's proposed tax cuts, you're just going to have to fend for yourself. The whole idea is to train you to expect less and to feel patriotic about it. If things get really bad, you can always move to Iraq. I think it's terribly arrogant and overly ambitious for this president to think he can invade that country, turn it into a democracy, and use American taxpayer dollars to build an infrastructure that still is not built in some parts of this nation, Waters said. In addition to that, he wants to go ahead with tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. To clarify, Waters isn't against sending American dollars to other countries. I believe in foreign assistance, and I think the richest nation in the world should certainly help our neighbors in other parts of the world, she said. But I dislike the idea that we tear up Iraq first, bombing it to smithereens, and then we go back and put in the water systems, the health-care facilities and the other things we've torn up. Last week, Waters and the rest of the country got the first bill for Operation Iraqi Freedom when the president asked Congress for $74.7 billion to cover war-related costs. Empire-building isn't cheap. That's probably going to underwrite about one month's cost of the war, said Waters. And it's just the tip of the iceberg. Waters got nervous when she saw Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, grab one of the first rebuilding contracts before we'd even begun knocking things down. To help prevent a feeding frenzy by corporations with political connections, Waters introduced two amendments. The first would have put a four-year hold on the awarding of military contracts to companies that helped draft the Iraqi war policy or employed high-level administration officials. It was shot down like a sputtering Scud. Waters went back to the drawing board and came up with a softer amendment. This time I just said, 'OK, let's say the person who's worked for that company in the last four years can't do the negotiating. He'd have to recuse himself from that discussion.' Now that's as simple as it can get, and they voted against that one, too. One night last week, I called Waters' Capitol Hill office at 9 p.m. her time and she answered the phone herself, having just returned from a House session. I was on the floor for an hour, helping educate people about the cuts being made to veterans' programs, she said. So let's review. We're asking 200,000 troops to risk life and limb in Iraq, and the White House and Congress are preparing a welcome-home party by slashing veterans' benefits. Last week, I visited the Veterans Affairs dorms in West L.A., where I met a Vietnam vet who was wounded six times. He had a brace on his leg and shrapnel scars from head to toe, and he'd finally given up on his fight for
[CTRL] Bush signs executive order on SARS quarantine
-Caveat Lector- THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 4, 2003 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act: (a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named). (b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences. Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order. Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267(a)) are assigned to the Secretary. Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person. Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, April 4, 2003. # # # A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The War For Truth
-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: John Pilger: The War For Truth John Pilger: The War For Truth Apr 05, 2003 http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=50418list=/home.php; By John Pilger The Mirror Via Islamic Community Net We had a great day, said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. We killed a lot of people. He added: We dropped a few civilians, but what do you do? He said there were women standing near an Iraqi soldier, and one of them fell when he and other Marines opened fire. I'm sorry, said Sgt Schrumpf, but the chick was in the way. For me, what is remarkable about this story is that I heard almost the same words 36 years ago when a US Marine sergeant told me he had killed a pregnant woman and a child because they had got in the way. That was in Vietnam, another country invaded by the US military machine, which left up to two million people dead and many more maimed and otherwise ruined. President Reagan called this a noble cause. The other day, President Bush called the invasion of Iraq, another unprovoked and piratical act, a noble cause. In the years since Vietnam, the Americans have invaded and caused, directly and through stooges, great suffering in many other countries, but none tells us more about the current war than their enduring atrocity in Vietnam, known as the first media war. Like their attack on Iraq, their invasion of Vietnam was accompanied by a racist contempt for the people. The Vietnamese were gooks and slits who would never fight, who would be crushed within weeks. As in Iraq today, the uncensored evidence of America's killing was not shown on TV but covered up. General Colin Powell, Bush's liberal Secretary of State, was promoted swiftly because he was given the job of covering up the infamous My Lai massacre. In the end, the Vietnamese defied the Hollywood script and expelled their invader, but at great cost. The Iraqis, up against two western air forces and a Disneyworld of weapons of mass destruction, are unlikely to share the same honour. And yet they, too, are not keeping to the script; and their extraordinary resistance against such overwhelming odds has required intensified propaganda in Washington and London: aimed not at them, but at us. Unlike in Vietnam, this propaganda, lying that is both crude and subtle, is now dispensed globally and marketed and controlled like a new niche product. Richard Gaisford, an embedded BBC reporter, said recently: We have to check each story we have with (the military). And the captain, who's our media liaison officer, will check with the colonel, and they will check with Brigade headquarters as well. David Miller, a media analyst at Stirling University, calls it public relations genius. It works like this. Once the official line is agreed and manufactured at the Coalition Press Information Centre in Kuwait and the $1million press centre in Qatar, it is submitted to the White House, to what is known as the Office of Global Communications. It is then polished for British consumption by Blair's staff of propagandists in Downing Street. Truth, above all, is redundant. There is only good news or no news. For example, the arrival in Iraq of the British ship Sir Galahad with a miserable few hundred tons of humanitarian aid was a good story given wide coverage. What was missing was the truth that the Blair government continues to back Washington's deliberate denial of $5.4billion worth of humanitarian aid, including baby milk and medical supplies. This is aid which Iraq has paid for (from oil receipts) and the UN Security Council has approved. What was also missing from such a moving tale of Britain-to-the-rescue was that, under pressure from Bush and Blair, the United Nations has been forced to close down its food distribution system in Iraq, which barely prevented famine in the pre-war period. BLAIR'S lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and its alleged links with al-Qaeda have been exposed and rejected by the majority of the British people. He has since played his conviction card. Perhaps his last propaganda refuge is a call to support our boys. On September 3, 1967, the Sunday Mirror published a dispatch of mine from Vietnam under the front page headline: How can Britain approve a war like this? Today's Mirror asks the same question of the invasion of Iraq. The difference is that, unlike Blair, Prime Minister Harold Wilson denied an American president the use of British troops for his coalition. A poll in yesterday's Mirror said that 78 per cent insist British forces must not be brought home until the war is over. Polls themselves can make propaganda, with the question predetermining the answer. What if the question asked had been: Do you support British forces being in Iraq given the absence of any 'liberation' and the rising number of civilian casualties? I doubt whether it would have been anywhere near 78 per cent. There is undoubtedly a traditional reserve of
[CTRL] Mysterious Baghdad Web log keeper captivates cyberspace
-Caveat Lector- Posted 3/31/2003 11:33 AM Mysterious Baghdad Web log keeper captivates cyberspace SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) . Every day, tens of thousands of people turn to the Web seeking updates from a mysterious scribe whose detailed accounts of life in besieged Baghdad have made him a cyberspace celebrity. Little is known for sure about Salam Pax, whose nom de plume means peace in Arabic and Latin. But his Web journal . ostensibly written from his Baghdad home . vividly criticizes the authoritarian rule of Saddam Hussein and the U.S.-British war on his nation. Houses near al-salam palace ... have had all their windows broke, doors blown in and in one case a roof has caved in, Salam wrote in his journal (dear_raed.blogspot.com). I guess that is what is called 'collateral damage' and that makes it OK? Salam's Web log, or blog, has become so popular that the company that hosts it upgraded his account last weekend gratis so he could continue writing and posting photos. Thousands of e-mails . from fans as well as skeptics who believe he's a hoax . have paralyzed his mailbox. Salam's journal and others focused on the war have boosted the profile of the so-called blogosphere, which includes more than 1 million blogs on everything from wireless networking to sex. American and British soldiers, German anti-war advocates, and even human shields are providing unique slants on the conflict in their warblogs. But few are as intriguing as Salam, who went silent last week, even before U.S. bombs knocked out telecommunications in Baghdad. Fans are concerned for the safety of the normally prolific pundit. His last posting was Monday. Several e-mails from The Associated Press to Salam bounced, and his provider, Google, doesn't share information about individual bloggers for privacy reasons. Salam has mentioned in his blog the need to protect his identity, refusing to send people his phone number or other details. According to his blog . and intelligence from other bloggers and journalists . Salam is a 28- or 29-year-old Iraqi architect and native Arabic speaker who spent his formative years in Europe. Raised as a Muslim, he seems to be a secularist. As a gay man living under a repressive regime, he pokes fun at fundamentalism with a wry, profane wit. He also ridicules the Bush administration: How could 'support democracy in Iraq' (come) to mean 'bomb the hell out of Iraq'? ... Nobody minded an undemocratic Iraq for a very long time, now people have decided to bomb us to democracy? Well, thank you! how thoughtful, he wrote. Dozens of online discussion forums buzz with speculation. Fans worry Saddam's henchmen got wind of Salam's sardonic accounts of life in Baghdad and his description of Iraqi leaders as freaks. One particularly cybersavvy Salam-seeker tested the code behind the Internet address of his blog, called Where is Raed? and determined it most likely hailed from Iraq. Other readers insist descriptions of the price of tomatoes and damage from bombings are too detailed to be faked. Some bloggers don't care if he's a hoax. They think his writings chronicle a conflict too often obscured by breathless war reporters, generals and politicians. They identify with his cross-culturalism, educated sarcasm and middle-class sensibilities. Salam's writings captured a palpable sense of anxiety and frustration . Baghdadis running to the local bakeries and dealing with the price gouging of bread, police standing guard around town trying to keep order, said Andy Carvin, a Washington blogger who regularly checks Salam's site. He serves as a real-time storyteller who's trying to capture a moment in history for the world to see. ... He's humanizing the experience of war, as good storytellers do. Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A
[CTRL] Our Flag, Too
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/040403A.shtml Our Flag, Too By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Thursday 3 April 2003 The residents of an unassuming house, tucked away in a quiet corner of a small New England college campus, have found themselves at the center of a disturbing fight for the basic right to express their opinion as Americans. Seven students at 44 Howard Street on the Wheaton College campus, located in the rural community of Norton, Massachusetts, have discovered, with suddenness and fury, how difficult it is today to speak your mind in a nation divided by war. It started on the day the Bush administration took this nation to war in defiance of the international community and with little, if any, justifiable rationale. The American attack upon Iraq, fraught with all the terrors of American and civilian casualties, spiraling regional hostilities and the surety of reciprocal attacks here at home, convinced these students that their beloved country was in grave danger. The leadership of this nation, and the deadly course they chose, motivated the seven in this small house to make a large statement of disapproval. And so, on that day, the young men and women of 44 Howard hung an American flag upside-down outside of their house. There is no question but that this is a loaded symbol. Generation after generation of Americans have saluted this flag, served under it, died under it, and have been wrapped in it when finally delivered to the darkness of the earth or the depths of the ocean. The flag represents, for many Americans, all that is great and true and noble about this nation; it is a snapshot of our idealized hopes and dreams for the country we are and the country we wish to be. Of course, these kids were asking for trouble by doing this. People do not react rationally when confronted with an American flag flying in anything other than an upright, orderly fashion. 44 Howard got trouble, in spades. Some days after placing the flag on their house in this manner, a truckload of local men pulled up to the front door. This took some doing; the house is not located on any road easily accessible by the main streets of Norton, but is buried in the campus near the central quadrangle. Six men, whose ages ranged from between forty to fifty years old, stormed into the house while two of the residents were there. The residents locked themselves in a room and called campus security, while them men crashed through the house, pounding on bedroom doors and yelling, Come out, you cowards! It was clear from their actions that these men intended violence. Rocks have been thrown through the windows of 44 Howard. Death threats have been telephoned to the house and left on answering machines. Cars from the town of Norton have constantly driven passed the house with passengers screaming threats and insults. A dead fish was strapped to the front door, symbolizing a death threat as per the movie 'The Godfather.' The harassment grew to such a fevered intensity that the residents of the house were ordered by campus security to leave the premises for three days, because their safety could not be guaranteed. As of this printing, there has not been one arrest made in these matters by the Norton police. One might feel that the people who have so vigorously attacked the seven Wheaton students have a moral basis for their actions, as it appears on the surface to be a case of righteous and patriotic citizens defending the American flag from desecration. This is not, in fact, the case, because hanging an American flag upside-down is not an act of desecration. It is an act of desperation, and indeed, of patriotism. The seven students of 44 Howard have family and friends serving in the war at this moment. They do not wish to see their loved ones killed in an irresponsible act of military adventurism, nor do they wish to see harm done to their own country because of this, nor do they wish to see the innocents of Iraq slaughtered in the mayhem. This is the very definition of patriotism: the defense of family, friends, country and life itself. The basic message behind an upside down flag is, Distress. Send Help. The symbolism of the reversed flag began in the nautical realm; sailors at sea in distress would fly the flag upside-down before abandoning ship, or as a signal to other passing ships that they were in dire need of help. More recently, this symbol was used by troops in the field in Vietnam, who flew the flag in reverse to signal their distress over the manner in which they were being used by their commanders and political leaders. In 2001, the use of the American flag as a symbol of
[CTRL] Children Killed in US Assault
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/040403B.shtml Children Killed in US Assault Ewen Mackaskill and Suzanne Goldenberg The Guardian UK Wednesday 02 April 2003 Dozens of Iraqi villagers were killed and injured in a ferocious American air and land assault near the Iraqi city of Babylon, hospital officials in the town said yesterday. Reuters reporters on the scene confirmed the deaths of at least nine children, two other civilians and two Iraqi fighters at Hilla in a bombardment on Monday night and early yesterday morning. An Iraqi hospital official said the death toll stood at 33 civilians, with more than 300 wounded. Unedited TV footage from Babylon hospital, which was seen by the Guardian, showed the tiny corpse of a baby wrapped up like a doll in a funeral shroud and carried out of the morgue on a pink pallet. It was laid face-to-face on the pavement against the body of a boy, who looked about 10. Horrifically injured bodies were heaped into pick-up trucks, and were swarmed by relatives of the dead, who accompanied them for burial. Bed after bed of injured women and children were pictured along with large pools of blood on the floor of the hospital. All of these are due to the American bombing to the civilian homes. Hundreds of civilians have been injured, and many have been killed, said Nazim al-Adali, an Edinburgh-trained doctor at the hospital, who appealed to his colleagues in England to protest against the bombings. Among the injured in the women's ward was Aliya Mukhtaf, who said her husband and her six children were killed in the attack. The TV pictures also showed a teenage boy with bandages over the stump where his right hand was sheared off by shrapnel. There are not any army cars or tanks in the area, said Dr al-Adali, who claimed cluster bombs had been used. Several of those interviewed on TV described large tank movements as the US tried to advance the final 50 miles to Baghdad. God take our revenge on America, a stunned man said repeatedly at the hospital. Hospital staff said the man's whole family was wiped out. What has he done wrong, what has he done wrong? the driver of a pick-up truck ferrying the dead said as he held the body of an infant. Residents said US forces had attacked the town on Monday but were pushed back by regular and irregular Iraqi forces. As the Americans retreated, they shelled the town, the residents said. One US soldier was reported killed in the action on Monday. The US marines are fighting for control of Kerbala, Hilla and Najaf. Najaf, the third holiest city of Shia Muslims, is regarded as strategically important by the US in its attempts to try to win over Shia Muslims against the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim. Any damage by a stray bomb to the Tomb of Ali in Najaf risks incurring the wrath of the Shia Muslims not only in Iraq but in Iran. US intelligence claims Iraqi fighters have holed up in the tomb . The task of dislodging the Iraqi forces from Najaf is proving daunting. For the first time in the conflict, US forces have been forced to engage in street fighting, which could become more difficult the closer they get to the centre: there is a warren of alleyways round the tomb. The American servicemen, their technological advantage neutralised by the narrow streets and lanes, face having to resort to more crude weapons: US infantrymen have already been seen in Najaf with fixed bayonets. The US and British governments have expressed disap pointment that, contrary to expectations, the Shia Muslims have failed to embrace them. US Brigadier General Benjamin Freakley, of the 101st Airborne division fighting in Najaf, told the New York Times that by taking Najaf we want the oppressed to feel hopeful and the oppressors to feel hopelessness. Hope can put bravery in the hearts of men. US army intelligence, according to a Washington Post reporter with forces in Najaf, estimates that there are about 2,000 Iraqi fighters in the city, made up of Saddam's Fedayeen and Jerusalem Army militia. The 101st Airborne division exchanged rounds with Iraqi artillery yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Bennett, commander of the division's artillery, told reporters: I've got 30 cannons and I'm shooting them all. I never shot so much in my life. I need some more bullets. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used
[CTRL] Call For An End to The Sick Insanity
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/040403E.shtml Kucinich Takes to the House Floor to Call For An End to The War Wednesday 2 April 2003 Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), who leads opposition to the War in Iraq within the House, today, issued the following statement on the House floor: Stop the war now. As Baghdad will be encircled, this is the time to get the UN back in to inspect Baghdad and the rest of Iraq for biological and chemical weapons. Our troops should not have to be the ones who will find out, in combat, whether Iraq has such weapons. Why put our troops at greater risk? We could get the United Nations inspectors back in. Stop the war now. Before we send our troops into house-to-house combat in Baghdad, a city of five million people. Before we ask our troops to take up the burden of shooting innocent civilians in the fog of war. Stop the war now. This war has been advanced on lie upon lie. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for any role al-Qaeda may have had in 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax attacks on this country. Iraq did not tried to acquire nuclear weapons technology from Niger. This war is built on falsehood. Stop the war now. We are not defending America in Iraq. Iraq did not attack this nation. Iraq has no ability to attack this nation. Each innocent civilian casualty represents a threat to America for years to come and will end up making our nation less safe. The seventy-five billion dollar supplemental needs to be challenged because each dime we spend on this war makes America less safe. Only international cooperation will help us meet the challenge of terrorism. After 9/11 all Americans remember we had the support and the sympathy of the world. Every nation was ready to be of assistance to the United States in meeting the challenge of terrorism. And yet, with this war, we have squandered the sympathy of the world. We have brought upon this nation the anger of the world. We need the cooperation of the world, to find the terrorists before they come to our shores. Stop this war now. Seventy-five billion dollars more for war. Three-quarters of a trillion dollars for tax cuts, but no money for veterans ' benefits. Money for war. No money for health care in America, but money for war. No money for social security, but money for war. We have money to blow up bridges over the Tigris and the Euphrates, but no money to build bridges in our own cities. We have money to ruin the health of the Iraqi children, but no money to repair the health of our own children and our educational programs. Stop this war now. It is wrong. It is illegal. It is unjust and it will come to no good for this country. Stop this war now. Show our wisdom and our humanity, to be able to stop it, to bring back the United Nations into the process. Rescue this moment. Rescue this nation from a war that is wrong, that is unjust, that is immoral. Stop this war now. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Where is Raed ?
-Caveat Lector- http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/ Where is Raed ? -- the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. -- :: Monday, March 24, 2003 :: The last two days we didn.t have internet access. I thought that was it and started what a friend called a .pblog., what you will read is what should have been the entries for the 22nd and 23rd. Blogger and Google have created a mirror to this weblog at [dearraed.blogspot.com] for those of you who have trouble with the underscore in the URL. There are not enough words to thank the people at Blogger for their help and support. 22/3 4:30pm (day3) half an hour ago the oil filled trenches were put on fire. First watching Al-jazeera they said that these were the places that got hit by bombs from an air raid a few miniutes earlier bit when I went up to the roof to take a look I saw that there were too many of them, we heard only three explosions. I took pictures of the nearest. My cousine came and told me he saw police cars standing by one and setting it on fire. Now you can see the columns of smoke all over the city. Todat the third in the war, we had quite a number of attacks during daytime. Some without air-raid sirens. They probably just gave up on being able to be on time to sound the sirens. Last night, after waves after waves of attacks, they would sound the all-clear siren only to start another raid siren 30 minutes later. The images we saw on TV last night (not Iraqi, jazeera-BBC-Arabiya) were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were on fire. The only thing I could think of was .why does this have to happen to Baghdad.. As one of the buildings I really love went up in a huge explosion I was close to tears. today my father and brother went out to see what happening in the city, they say that it does look that the hits were very precise but when the missiles and bombs explode they wreck havoc in the neighborhood where they fall. Houses near al-salam palace(where the minister Sahaf took journalist) have had all their windows broke, doors blown in and in one case a roof has caved in. I guess that is what is called .collateral damage. and that makes it OK? We worry about daytime bombing and the next round of attacks tonight with the added extra of the smoke screen in our skies. 23/3 8:30pm (day4) we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first day of the bombing it worked precisely. Yesterday we were a bit surprised that after 6 hours bombs didn.t start falling. The attacks on Baghdad were much less than two days ago. We found out today in the news that the city of Tikrit got the hell bombed out of it. To day the B52s took off at 3pm, on half an hour we will know whether it is Baghdad tonight or another city. Karbala was also hit last night. Today.s (and last night.s) shock attacks didn.t come from airplanes but rather from the airwaves. The images Al-jazeera is broadcasting are beyond any description. First was the attack on (Ansar el Islam) camp in the north of Iraq. Then the images of civilian casualties in Basra city. What was most disturbing are the images from the hospitals. They are simply not prepared to deal with these things. People were lying on the floor with bandages and blood all over. If this is what .urban warefare. is going to look like we.re in for disaster. And just now the images of US/UK prisoners and dead, we saw these on Iraqi TV earlier. This war is starting to show its ugly ugly face to the world. The media wars have also started, Al-jazeera accusing the pentagon of not showing how horrific this war is turning out to be and Rumsfeld saying that it is regrettable that some TV stations have shown the images. Today before noon I went out with my cousin to take a look at the city. Two things. 1) the attacks are precise. 2) they are attacking targets which are just too close to civilian areas in Baghdad. Looked at the Salam palace and the houses around it. Quite scary near it and you can see widows with broken glass till very far off. At another neighborhood I saw a very unexpected .target. it is an officers. club of some sorts smack in the middle of [...] district. I guess it was not severely hit because it was still standing but the houses around it, and this is next door and across the street, were damaged. One of them is rubble the rest are clearing away glass and rubble. A garbage car stands near the most damaged houses and help with the cleaning up. Generally the streets are quite busy. Lots of cars but not many shops open. The market near our house is almost empty now. The shop owner says that all the wholesale markets in Shorjah are closed now but the prices of vegetables and fruits have gone down to normal and are available.
[CTRL] TRAPPED IN ENDLESS WWIII UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW!
-Caveat Lector- TRAPPED IN ENDLESS WWIII UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW! http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/2003_10-19/2003-13/this_wk.html EXCERPT: We are, therefore, now trapped in a war for which no foreseeable exit is provided. It is not an Iraq War; it is a virtually endless world war, unless we stop it: unless you, personally, contribute to stopping it. It is a war already spreading, as the military forces of Turkey invade northern Iraq, in preparation to deal with a Kurdish campaign to carve a Kurdish state out of a region including large chunks of Turkey and Transcaucasia. This is a war of incalculable implications, being pushed by dangerous, and largely morally demented lunatics, such as Mother Cheney's Chickenhawks. War, Hitler, Cheney by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The immediate situation of the U.S. is summed up as follows: At this moment, as I had forewarned you in 1999-2000, we are plunging into a world depression comparable to, but worse than that of the Herbert Hoover Depression of 1929-1933. As I forewarned you in an address, broadcast at the beginning of 2001, new would-be Adolf Hitlers have now appeared, this time inside the U.S.A. Those would-be Hitlers now threaten the whole world with the kinds of wars for which the world later hung Nazi leaders, at Nuremberg: the new Hitlers from inside the U.S.A. and Blair's government, who act exactly as Hitler threatened Czechoslovakia in 1938, and invaded Poland in 1939. The pivotal feature of that warfare, into which an already bankrupt U.S. has just been plunged, is the de facto usurpation of the function of a still-sitting President by Halliburton's Vice President Cheney, and by a gang of his organized-crime-linked lackeys polluting not only the Departments of Defense and State, but also polluting, and virtually castrating elected and other leaders of the nominal opposition, the Democratic Party. Ironically, but not accidentally, the present war-like situation in the Department of Defense, including the public rug-chewing exhibitions by Secretary Rumsfeld, reminds today's serious historians of the way in which Adolf Hitler and his Roman Legions-modelled SS, ultimately destroyed that German military which would-be Caesar Hitler's gang feared and hated so intensely. All too obviously, the leading war-makers inside the Bush Administration today are mere lackeys, nasty pimps like the Leporello of Mozart's famous opera. These real-life Leporellos, such as the politically pimpish Wolfowitz and Ashcroft, were spawned, chiefly, by Chicago University and associated circles of a prominent fascist ideologue, the late Professor Leo Strauss. This Strauss was a follower of the Carl Schmitt who crafted the law under which Hitler became dictator of Germany; so, are Strauss's ardent followers inside the Bush Administration today. This fascist, Strauss, who created Wolfowitz, was imported to the U.S. from the Germany of Carl Schmitt and Hitler-midwife Hjalmar Schacht, at the time that also the later Robert Hutchins-sponsored Strauss was already known to be a fanatical follower of the leading Nazi ideologue Martin Heidegger. However, like the Nazi SS enforcers, lackeys Wolfowitz, Perle, Bolton, Wurmser, Feith, and so on, are merely expendable hoodlums adorned with political motley. To understand them, you must look to those who created them and put them into their present positions. You must look to the London-backed Hjalmar Schachts and von Papens of the modern U.S.A., including the likes of the Conrad Blacks, the Rupert Murdochs, George Shultz, and the Shultz-allied forces behind the Halliburton firms' government and other connections. The essence of the matter is exactly what I warned you might happen, in a broadcast address I delivered just before the inauguration of President George W. Bush, Jr. We are in an accelerating world depression, while this year's U.S. Federal deficit already soars in the direction of the $1 trillions mark. The U.S.A. experienced its Reichstag Fire on September 11, 2001, and the storm-trooper legions of Vice President Cheney marched forth from those smoking ruins, brandishing their Mein Kampf doctrine of preventive nuclear war. This is the Nazi-like doctrine which Cheney had adopted in 1991, then in his capacity of Secretary of Defense. Led by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's lackeys, the depression-wracked U.S. is presently marching down the road toward self-inflicted Hell, unless the war is stopped about now. We are, therefore, now trapped in a war for which no foreseeable exit is provided. It is not an Iraq War; it is a virtually endless world war, unless we stop it: unless you, personally, contribute to stopping it. It is a war already spreading, as the military forces of Turkey invade northern Iraq, in preparation to deal with a Kurdish campaign to carve a Kurdish state out of a region including large chunks of Turkey and Transcaucasia. This is a war of incalculable
Re: [CTRL] SHOCKING EXPOSE OF SO-CALLED 'PEACE' MOVEMENT
-Caveat Lector- On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Flash Gordon wrote: So the question here is: which posters on this list are agents (witting or useful idiots) of these organizations promoting Communism, anarchy, large-scale urban rioting, financial disruption, and violent attacks and what is the FBI doing to root them out, arrest, and prosecute them? FBI hasn't got the balls to arrest George Bush, so you'll just have to put up with him. :P A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush
-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Joshua Tinnin wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush Last Update: Sunday, March 30, 2003. 2:55am (AEST) ... Sunday's is Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding. Monday's reads Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics. I think that is just standard brainwashing techniques. 1) Asking the soldiers to excuse the President's illogical behaviour on the basis of him having God's divine guidance. 2) Asking to ignore his critics. The president can not err. He has God on his side. The bullets they shoot are his holy divine instruments, blessed by Jesus. Such as: US Marines Fire On Civilians At Bridge Of Death: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-628258,00.html http://www.counterpunch.org/franchetti03312003.html I think Sanity has left the government building. Either that or they've been run over by Jews Satanists. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] US Carpet Bombing Baghdad, F*ck Civilians - Jewish Apocalyptic Dreams Come True with MOAB
-Caveat Lector- http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=6685TagID=1 When Cracks Appear . the reality of War reporting 31 Mar 2003 The first week of the war to .liberate. Iraq, remove Saddam and remove the scourge to the world of weapons of mass destruction is stalling. It is often said that truth is the first casualty of war. That being so, then this surely is a most brutal of openings. Yet the tensions surrounding the obvious and impressive resistance offered by the Muslims of Iraq to the invasion, is causing the governments of the .coalition. . in reality only American and Britain . great difficulty. The purposes of war reporting are to maintain morale and a positive backing for war in the West, demoralise the enemy whilst winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis, and last but surely least provide actual coverage of the events on the ground. Taking these objectives in turn it is clear that the Anglo Americans are facing problems. A good sign of domestic confidence in a war is the stock market. In the euphoric run up to this bold faced aggression, the US and UK markets rallied, dramatically rising by 14% and 16% since mid March.s uncertain lows, a move which clearly exposed the real reasons for invasion. Yet one week in, the markets are spiralling back down with confidence again draining from investors. Last Monday the markets plummeted by 3.5% and the dollar had its biggest drop against the Euro in eight months. House prices are dropping in the UK, as is general consumer and business confidence in the US. The supposed 4 week romp through Southern and Northern Iraq culminating in glorious parades through a liberated and cheering Baghdadi populace look a distant dream. We remember the urgency with which the Anglo-Americans were forcing through their UN debates, mid March was always the latest feasible start date of a war that had to be over before the heat of summer arrives. The high temperatures of May are now not so far away as Anglo-American forces struggle to maintain their supply lines over the 400 kilometre stretch from Umm Qasr to Baghdad. For how long will domestic public opinion in London and Washington hold for a war they were not really behind in the first instance, as the mounting costs rise and military set backs increase? It is not surprising to see even amongst the Western journalists the signs of angst over the folly of waging yet another old style colonialist war in a land with such a staunch history of repelling aggressors as Iraq. Most in the West cannot even remember the US inspired quagmires of Vietnam or have blinkered views of fiascos like the humiliating withdrawals from Beirut in 1984 or Mogadishu in Somalia, the latter defeat even being reversed and glorified in a Hollywood blockbuster .Blackhawk Down.. It is also only a matter of time before the Western public grow tired of the ingratiating, grating styles of their current leaders. Bush.s simplistic rantings .WE (long pause) will prevail., or .God has no better liberators than.. and so on, may go down to rapturous applause to the Central command forces in Tampa Bay, but the public at large will soon notice the ballooning budget deficit, and returning body bags. Blair too has been exposed this past week for over dramatising the death of two British soldiers contradicting the military confirmation of .death in action. with his media circus portrayal of death by execution. Desperate indeed, to play with the emotions of grieving families to bolster support for his colonialist campaign. The domestic propaganda campaigns are also suffering as the clear evidence of gross under-estimates of resourcing needs and poor military tactics are highlighted. There were severe doubts before the war started; those doubts were perhaps partially assuaged by expectations of a short, sharp, surgical campaign and rejoicing in the streets of Baghdad together with Wall Street and the City. Those expectations are rapidly melting away. So, what of the campaign to demoralise the regime in Baghdad and shape Muslim public opinion throughout the region? It is one of the most bizarre of expectations to think that the Iraqis (whether Shia, Sunni or Kurdish) have sat for the last 12 years under the most oppressive of sanctions regimes, witnessed the no-fly regions policed by UK/US planes which have bombed weekly, watched as their water supplies were contaminated and seen hundreds of deformed babies or thousands of cancerous deaths by the depleted uranium left by the previous liberators, and after all of this welcome the aid and guidance of the kuffar in looking after them and their resources! The phrase .over my dead body. easily springs to mind. The Guardian reported the first much vaunted aid distribution in the South where locals shouted: Take it back. We want the Americans to go back home. We do not need them here. Go back home. I do not need this. The Anglo . Americans have been naïve in believing their own spin. Equally strange is
[CTRL] LIARS, SCOUNDRELS AND TRAITORS
-Caveat Lector- LIARS, SCOUNDRELS AND TRAITORS BUSH, BLAIR AND THEIR MINIONS By: Henry Makow Published in the April 1, 2003 issue of Ether Zone. Donald Rumsfeld lied Friday (March 28) when a reporter asked if the US was misleading the public about its casualties in Iraq. Rumsfeld feigned indignation. Looking straight into the camera, he said something like: That's a terrible thing to suggest. We always tell the truth. The official US death toll at the time was about 30. Does he seriously expect us to believe that after only 30 deaths, the U.S. would postpone the assault on Baghdad and bring in an additional 120,000 soldiers? The Iraqi ambassador to Moscow claimed March 28 that over 500 Americans died in the last 24 hours alone. In An-Nasiriya alone last Sunday (March 23) as many as two-dozen US soldiers were killed and over 60 wounded, the largest one day loses since the Vietnam War. According to MSNBC: 'Each unit takes its turn being sacrificed,' said Sgt. Chris Merkle, 31, from Irvine, Ca, 'everybody gets torn apart the same way.' (The report continues:) Nasiriyah ... became a killing field ... with a pair of grisly disasters for U.S. troops. An Army convoy that made a wrong turn drove into an Iraqi ambush that left 12 soldiers dead or captured. In a separate incident, at least nine Marines died in the fighting. Sound to me like Rumsfeld was lying. A stench of lies emanates from Bush, Blair and their minions. HOUSE OF CARDS The American people cannot conceive how traitorous and corrupt their leadership is. For example, last week the Bush Administration failed to approve $11 million funding for the (9-11 Investigating Commission.) This was a minuscule (.00015) part of a $75 billion appropriation for the Iraq war that was passed. Obviously Bush doesn't want us to learn that 9-11 was a CIA-Mossad inside job intended to justify this war. The purpose is to steal Iraqi oil; advance Israel's strategic interests and to destroy Islam. Islam represents a barrier to the totalitarian secular-materialist system (new world order) promoted by world bankers and their lackeys. The US and Israel are under no threat. While feigning self-defense, both pursue aggression on behalf of the banking-oil cartel and its new world order. Bush boasts that 46 countries have joined his coalition. He fails to mention that six have no army. In terms of actual fighting, the coalition consists of only three countries: the US, Britain and Australia. See The Coalition of the willing but Not Able. Even Canada is sitting out this war. I am Canadian and for once I agree with my government. I have ripped up my membership in the opposition Canadian Alliance Party that thinks we are bad friends and trade will suffer. Someone talked about the true meaning of friendship on the radio: When a friend wants to drive inebriated, you try to stop him. The US is drunk with power. The US is completely isolated and on course for World War Three. China is talking about resisting US neo imperialism. When a mistake is made, the smart thing to do is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. To stubbornly persist in hope of saving face only makes matters worse. When traitors have hijacked your country, patriotism consists in defiance. Someone suggested that Americans should withdraw their savings from banks in protest. This is completely legal. A run on the banks would indeed send a message. Every day that war continues, more soldiers die. More wives lose their husbands; more children lose their fathers. Americans join the army to serve their country: not to serve Israel, oil and a deranged criminal master class. The best way to support the troops is to bring them home. http://etherzone.com/2003/mako040103.shtml A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy
[CTRL] So much for Americans' tolerance and the underdog's point of view
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29984.html Al Jazeera's web site - DDoSed or unplugged? By John Lettice Posted: 27/03/2003 at 16:17 GMT The launch of Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera's new Web site on Monday drew immediate hack attacks, but this has been swiftly followed up by the disappearance of the site's DNS records. These now point to mydomain.com nameservers, but this company's site is also currently inaccessible; as you might expect, under the circumstances. Al Jazeera (aljazeera.net, for the record) could have been taken offline by DDoS attacks, but considering the timing one is also drawn to the possibility that something involving a Big Red Switch might have been involved. Prior to the site's complete removal company IT manager Salah Al Seddiqui told Reuters that its Qatar-based vendor had said US-based DataPipe could no longer host its site from the end of this month, and that Al Jazeera would be moving its servers to Europe. Al Jazeera had two listed nameservers - one at datapipe.com and one at nav-link.net. NavLink has offices in the US (it's incorporated in Delaware), Europe and the Middle East (the UAE and Lebanon), so there's a logic to Al Jazeera using it. However if the dual-server system is intended to provide some form of resilience it clearly hasn't worked. The problem seems to have taken Al Jazeera unawares. When The Register spoke to the company's London office earlier today they said that their most recent information from Qatar had been that the site was unavailable because of heavy demand, and that they were trying to get through to Qatar for an update. Al Jazeera is not, as you will no doubt have noticed, universally popular, and today in particular it has been heavily criticised by UK military spokesmen for screening pictures of dead British servicemen. But even at the best of times the network is not a customer that many hosting companies in the US would want to boast about. At the worst of times - which probably includes now - it's unlikely the company would stand any chance whatsoever of being accepted by US providers. So it's perfectly possible that someone along the line decided, owing to pressure and/or common prudence, not to continue involvement with the company. This sort of thing might of course trigger legal action, but Al Jazeera itself is well-aware that it treads a very tricky line, so probably won't want to make unnecessary waves. And as its site was already pretty unavailable because of the attacks, and it's said it's heading off to Europe, what difference would it make? That you will note is one of two possible conspiracy theories, and does not necessarily involve US.gov. But we expect that if the site hadn't disappeared already, pretty soon US.gov would get involved until it did - which is conspiracy theory two. The alternative to the conspiracy theories is that weaknesses in Al Jazeera's DNS meant they were vulnerable to load, and that the disappearance of the DNS was therefore a consequence of the attack. As we understand it, this is technically possible, although it has also been suggested to us that the company's DNS did not come under an insupportable load during the attacks. So right now we think the jury is still out. But in the long run the question of whether the company was DDoSed or unplugged will be fairly academic. Given that it's pretty much unthinkable that it could have been allowed to continue running via US companies, it was going to go anyway, one way or the other. Europe might be some form of solution, but one might estimate that here too quite a few hosting outfits will view Al Jazeera as a poisoned chalice, a customer with a profile several notches to high. And even if it does get itself sorted out on the other side of the pond, it will still be likely to gain experience of how much of the Internet, when it comes down to it, is actually US-owned. But perhaps it has some cards. US companies wanting to play in the Middle East are unlikely to find their local operations going down a storm if they're refusing to do business with a popular TV station like Al Jazeera, so they'll be pressured in both directions. That's the trouble with the Internet - it connects things that sometimes you'd rather didn't get connected. ® A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] REALITY REPORT: World and America Watching Different Wars
-Caveat Lector- from the March 25, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0325/p01s04-woiq.html WORLD AND AMERICA WATCHING DIFFERENT WARS CNN vs. Al Jazeera: Seeing is often believing By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CAIRO, EGYPT - The Hamouda family is gathered around the TV, sipping sugary tea and glued to the pictures of captured US soldiers being interrogated by Iraqis on the popular Qatar-based satellite station Al Jazeera. What's your name? A terrified young female POW is asked. How old are you? The camera moves to her feet, which are bloody and bare. Yieee!, cheers eldest son Ahmed, knocking over a fake geranium plant as he shoots up from the couch in excitement. Show it how it is! It is not that they are happy to see suffering, says Hellmy, the father, somewhat apologetically, as the camera weaves between several bodies. But the other side of the story needs to be told. The gruesome video shown Sunday on Al Jazeera - reaching 35 million Arab-speakers worldwide, including about 20 percent of the Egyptian population - will probably never be seen by the average American TV viewer. In fact, American audiences are seeing and reading about a different war than the rest of the world. The news coverage in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, reflects and defines the widening perception gap about the motives for this war. Surveys show that an increasing number of Americans believe this is a just war, while most of the world's Arabs and Muslims see it as a war of aggression. Media coverage does not necessarily create these leanings, say analysts, but it works to cement them. The difference in coverage between the US and the rest of the world helped contribute to the situation that we're in now,'' says Kim Spencer, president of WorldLink TV, a US satellite channel devoted to airing foreign news. Americans have been unable to see how they're perceived. For example, most Americans, watching CNN, Fox, or the US television networks, are not seeing as much coverage of injured Iraqi citizens, or being given more than a glimpse of the antiwar protests now raging in the Muslim world and beyond. In the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia, by comparison, the rapid progress made by US led troops has been played down. And many aspects of the conflict being highlighted in the US - such as the large number of Iraqi troops surrendering, the cooperation between US-led forces and various Gulf states, commentary on America's superior weapons technology, and the human interest angles on soldier life in the desert - are almost totally absent from coverage outside the US. Sure, the news we get in the Arab world is slanted, admits Hussein Amin, chair of the department of journalism and mass communication at Cairo's American University. In the same way the news received in the US is biased. The view from Europe Some analysts note that European press ownership is less concentrated than its counterparts in the US, and is seen as providing more perspectives than either the Arab or American outlets. In Frankfurt, for example, readers have access to 16 different German language newspapers - many of which present different vantage points, which makes for a more lively and varied debate. European journalists also seem to ask different, more skeptical, questions of this war, often being the ones at White House and Pentagon press conferences to ask whether the invasion of Iraq has turned up any of the weapons of mass destruction that used to justify the invasion - even as their American counterparts repeatedly focus on such questions as whether Saddam Hussein is alive or dead. Media watchers say the European press has tended to be more balanced than the US media in dealing with the war, in part because Europe is so much closer to the Muslim world. John Schmidt, a former reporter for the International Herald Tribune, who has just returned from Europe, notes that in Marseille, France, 30 percent of the population is Muslim. In Berlin, the biggest minority population is the Turks. These are countries in Europe that live cheek by jowl with Islamic people, they know how deep the dislike for the West can be, they know how sensitively some of these issues have to be transmitted, says Mr. Schmidt, who is now an economics writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. There are really two stories unfolding here, one is the war and its progress and the second one is the progress of world opinion, says Tom Patterson, a media expert at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. That second dimension is there in the American press, but it's clearly way underreported. For instance, American media outlets may report on the demonstrations in other countries, particularly if there are violent clashes. But they don't devote as many resources to covering in depth the growing anti-American sentiment - even among American allies - or its implications for the future, says Professor Patterson.
[CTRL] US Reporters Terrorized for Being Anti-War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/30008.html Tech writer iced for expressing opinion By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 29/03/2003 at 11:21 GMT Much-loved computer columnist Henry Norr has been suspended by the Hearst Corporation - owners of The San Francisco Chronicle - for expressing political views on his day off. Along with two thousand other citizens, including the former head of the Pacific Stock Exchange, Norr was arrested in San Francisco last week as he was protesting the US-British invasion of Iraq. He emailed the paper to say he would be late the next day. But the cowardly Chronicle insisted on calling creating a time card dispute, and Norr is currently suspended without pay. This is a bogus, after-the-fact cover for an act of political retaliation and an attempt to intimidate other employees, Norr wrote in an email to Jim Romensko. That his employer should take on the role of policing what employees do in their own time is a remarkable act of corporate coercion. Norr doesn't even do political reporting. I write about things like (e-mail) spam, he told Reuters. Don't be so modest, Henry. His Monday tech column Tech 21 is a rare beast: the former MacWeek editor completely eschews the kind of gushing, techno-utopioan advertorials that are now the norm for mainstream publications in favor of a gentle and wise, and hugely-well-informed skepticism. He also breaks stories. In other words, he one of the paper's best assets. But the punishment lasts for a minimum of two weeks. Norr's shabby treatment highlights one of the absurdities of the US media: it requires its staff to behave like eunuchs. This strange hangover from the days of the Puritan ducking stool baffles visitors, but keeps a mini-industry of Journalism Schools and ethics committees busy. Which is why, after the long editorial filleting process of removing anything that might cause offense to anyone has been completed, you end up with newspapers that don't have any news in them. Total objectivity is an illusion, Norr eloquently explained yesterday. Everybody has views on important issues, at least most people do. Objectivity - a word you only hear in the USA - isn't just an illusion, it's a metaphysical impossibility. Although your tolerance for objectivity is bound to be highly selective. Clear Channel Communications - which dominates commercial radio in the USA - recently sponsored pro-Invasion rallies and yesterday a Fox News Channel anchor opened a news segment with the words 800 Iraqis ... and we pasted them! But you know that these voices are human, they may be slanted, that owners exert influence, but hey - you're grown up adults. Take your pick. The best journalism comes from people who are engaged in the world around them, added Norr, who are not just blinkered scribes who sit there at the keyboard and write stories, but people who have passions and feelings and engagement. The ducking stool treatment meted out to Norr by the Hearst Corporation, which owns the Comical, has already rung alarm bells in the Macintosh community, where where Norr is widely respected:- Punishing him at work for expressing a political view on what he thought was his own time is a dangerous way to proceed in a democracy, writes Applelinks' John Farr. Yesterday, San Francisco citizens made their own protest at their city paper's anodyne coverage of the Invasion - no pictures of civilian casualties, but lots of light, color pieces from embedded correspondents - by dumping fake blood at the newspaper's offices. Reporters without Borders, an international organization which tries to measure coercion against the free press, ranks the USA at17th in its estimation of press freedom - behind Costa Rica. ® A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to
[CTRL] US Arms Trader to Run Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925309,00.html US arms trader to run Iraq Ex-general who will lead reconstruction heads firm behind Patriot missiles Oliver Morgan, industrial editor, The Observer (UK) Sunday March 30, 2003 Jay Garner, the retired US general who will oversee humanitarian relief and reconstruction in postwar Iraq, is president of an arms company that provides crucial technical support to missile systems vital to the US invasion of the country. Garner's business background is causing serious concerns at the United Nations and among aid agencies, who are already opposed to US administration of Iraq if it comes outside UN authority, and who say appointment of an American linked to the arms trade is the 'worst case scenario' for running the country after the war. Garner is president of Virginia-based SY Coleman, a subsidiary of defence electronics group L-3 Communications, which provides technical services and advice on the Patriot missile system being used in Iraq. Patriot was made famous in the 1991 Gulf war when it was used to protect Israeli and Saudi targets from attack by Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles. Garner was involved in the system's deployment in Israel. SY Coleman has also worked on the Arrow missile defence system, deployed in Israel, and is involved in the US national missile defence programme. Garner joined SY Technologies, taken over last year by L-3, in 1997, after leaving the US army. Defence analyst David Armstrong of the Washington-based National Security News Service says: 'It seems inappropriate for somebody to step into a humanitarian and administrative role from a company with a role in providing equipment which, albeit defensive, is vital to the success of the US operation.' Phil Bloomer of Oxfam said 'The worst case scenario would be to put in charge of the reconstruction someone from the US or UK linked to the arms or oil industries.' According to its website, SY Coleman provides technical services such as missile system engineering and target system design for a wide range of US military programmes, and also makes some components. It also provides operational services such as battle management and 'warfighter support'. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it was a Patriot missile that was involved when a British Tornado was hit last week. Jack Tyler, an SY Coleman senior vice-president, confirmed that Garner still held his position at the company. http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925309,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Tony Blair - Fooled Him Once, Fooled Him Twice, and Yet Again
-Caveat Lector- Tony Blair was been conned by Bush and he's been had once again. Poor Tony is now left alone to watch how british are used for target practice and his whole political career is shot. All he has left is a few empty promises from the Bush family business partners. What's he to do? Admit to the British in public that he was had? That he believed a liar and acted in good faith? Or pretend that he still believes his cause is just, even though the whole world sees him for what he is. A conned man standing naked! The honorable thing would be to admit he was fooled and call back the British troops, stop committing any more war crimes without justice or just cause. Does Britain's Tony Blair have any guts left to stand up to his own words, or will he poolde-along, yapping when his master tells him to? Can Britain be said to be an independent state at all in this stage? I do not think so any more. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-626898,00.html March 29, 2003 Are we witnessing the madness of Tony Blair? Matthew Parris Most of us have experienced the discomfort of watching a friend go off the rails. At first his oddities are dismissed as eccentricities. An absurd assertion, a lunatic conviction, a sudden enthusiasm or unreasonable fear, are explained as perhaps due to tiredness, or stress, or natural volatility. We do not want to face the truth that our friend has cracked up. Finally we can deny it no longer ? and then it seems so obvious: the explanation, in retrospect, of so much we struggled to reconcile. Sometimes the realisation comes fast and suddenly. It did for me at university when my Arab fellow student Ahmed, who for months had been warning me of the conspiracies of which he suspected we might be victims, pulled me into his room to show me the death-ray he could see shining through his window. It was somebody?s porch-light. Likewise, the madness of King George III, which came in spells, was undeniable when it came. At other times the realisation is a slow, sad dawning of the obvious. Sometimes it is a friend about whom we worry. Sometimes it is a prime minister. I will accept the charge of discourtesy, but not of flippancy, when I ask whether Tony Blair may now have become, in a serious sense of that word, unhinged. Genius and madness are often allied, and nowhere is this truer than in political leadership. Great leaders need self-belief in unnatural measure. Simple fraudsters are rumbled early, but great leaders share with great confidence tricksters a capacity to be more than persuaded, but inhabited, by their cause. Almost inevitably, an inspirational leader spends important parts of his life certain of the uncertain, convinced of the undemonstrable. So do the mentally ill. It can be extremely difficult to distinguish between a person who is sticking bravely to a difficult cause whose truth is far from obvious, and a person who is going crazy. It took us quite a while to explain David Icke?s beliefs in the only useful way in which they could be explained ? and he was on the political fringe. A national leader commands vastly more respect and will be given the benefit of many more doubts than Mr Icke ever was. Colleagues, commentators and the wider public are usually late to face up to evidence that the boss has gone berserk, even though the evidence may have been around for quite some time. There are good reasons for this. To call somebody mad is bad manners even when fair comment. To tackle your opponent?s argument by questioning his sanity can look like a childish copping- out from sensible discussion. How can the victim answer back? But the charge is sometimes germane. It may become the only thing worth considering. Winston Churchill had lost the plot long before the proper public discussion this deserved got under way. And I myself believe that one of my political heroes, Margaret Thatcher, began to lose her mental balance well before the end, and before those close to her allowed themselves to consider this explanation of her behaviour. For me the suspicion first dawned when the then Prime Minister devised for the Lord Mayor?s banquet a dress with such an extravagant train that she needed someone to help her with it into the Mansion House. This was when she was beginning to refer to herself as ?we?, and treating friends who warned her of her fate as treacherous. A telltale of incipient insanity is when the victim begins to take a Manichaean view of the universe. There are good reasons why those at the top can go quietly bonkers before their inferiors wake up to the warning signs. The first is obviously deference. ?The Madness of King Tony? might ? I accept ? seem an impertinent way of discussing our leader during a war when, whatever application it may have in Tony Blair?s case, it applies to Saddam Hussein in spades. Beyond deference, however, those at the top of the pyramid who are anxious to impress us with truths which are not obvious have another
Re: [CTRL] So Called Anti American Emails (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, cybervoyager wrote: -Caveat Lector- In response to who is behind the anti-American messeges 1) those who are not brainwashed by the CIA CNN controlled media. 2) those who have a mind of their own 3) those who do not buy into American Imperialism 4) those who are fed up with the American Industrial Military complex. ... I am sure many could add a lot more to this list, that is just a few that come to my mind. I think those are the real pro-Americans here. Anti-Americans are those who are running the US Government right now. They have no real patriotism in their blood, They do not work for the good of America, but for their own personal profit. It is indeed their only motive. 1) They are purposefully provoking the whole Arab world to conduct terrorist attacks against America. It is indeed their very business plan. Published in the open even. 2) They are aggressively working to make a minority of a few rich people much richer. 3) They are actively ripping the legislature apart and promoting polluting for short term profits of a few corporations, and in the process destroying the American environment. 4) They are covering up major corporate crime and past crimes. 5) They are sabotaging the investigations of 9-11. True patriots work for the good of all of America, and that means ALL AMERICANS. The cowardly liars leading the country, are working for the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA. Indeed, they have a history of shirking their patriotic duty, a history of inside dealings and outright governmental fraud (Bush Energy Policy Meetings) costing BILLIONS to California. True American patriots are ashamed of their conduct and for a reason. The fact that the true Patriots of America are seeing them for the lying bastards that they are, and are brave enough to stand up and say so, should make you proud. Open your own eyes if you are brave enough to stand up for the values and constitution which you swear and vow to defend. Be true to those words, your conscience clear, if you dare. If you want to see a real anti-american you can go meet CNN journalists or some other organization devoted to spreading lies and covering up the truth from the Americans. America, living true to it's values should have nothing to fear from seeing the truth, for it would have nothing to be ashamed of. America's current government has nothing but lies and contempt to offer the world, for it has nothing but conduct and values to be ashamed of. So if you are looking for REAL ANTI-AMERICANS, look no further than the Prince of Lies leading the Cabbal of War in the name of Christ. We have only TRUE PATRIOTS here. - Original Message - From: Flash Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Depleted Uranium Makes Good Mutant-Slaves - I am new to this list. Some of the messages on this list are treasonous and anti-American. I wonder who is behind these messages? /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_ /_/_/_/_/_/_/ NO BLOOD FOR OIL! - DROP BUSH, NOT BOMBS! - PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS! SUPPORT THE TROOPS BY BRINGING THEM HOME! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] UK: Police Can Take DNA Samples From Anybody They Want Under New Law
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2890047.stm Police DNA powers 'to be extended' BBC News Thursday, 27 March, 2003 Police will be able to take fingerprints and DNA from anyone they arrest, whether they are charged or not, under new UK Government plans. Civil liberties campaigners have already attacked the measures, accusing the government of treating innocent people who are wrongly arrested as guilty by implication. Under current rules, police can only take DNA samples from people once they have been charged with an offence. Ministers argue that extending the current database will ensure suspects on the wanted list cannot pretend to be somebody else if they are arrested. The change is being added to the Criminal Justice Bill but has raised concerns from opposition MPs. Jack Straw, then home secretary, sparked controversy in 2001 when he proposed keeping all fingerprints and DNA samples even if a suspect was acquitted or never charged. The Court of Appeal last year ruled that police could keep DNA and fingerprints from people charged with a crime and never convicted. More than 1.5 million DNA profiles are held on the national database and the government wants to increase that number to three million by April 2004. In 2001-2002, there were 1.27 million arrests for recordable offences. Home Office Minister Lord Falconer said forensic science was helping the police to achieve great results. Taking the fingerprints of an arrested individual means police can be 100% certain about the identity of the person in their custody, he said. This stops suspects getting away with lying about their identities and prevents the release of those wanted for a previous offence. The samples could also potentially help to crack serious unsolved crimes, such as rape or murder, he said. Debate call The idea came under fire from John Wadham, director of human rights group Liberty. If the government wants a national DNA and fingerprint database of all innocent citizens, and wants to treat us all as suspects not citizens, it should come out and say so, said Mr Wadham. Fingerprints and DNA could already be taken if there was significant evidence that somebody was involved in a crime, he said. This simply treats everyone who has ever been wrongly arrested as guilty by implication, added Mr Wadham. The Home Office says police will have discretion about when they take samples and fingerprints. It would be particularly useful in big towns and cities where there was a more transient criminal population, a spokeswoman told BBC News Online. The move was backed by Ian Blair, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He said it would allow vulnerable or violent people to be identified more quickly and dealt with more effectively. Concerns Lord Falconer denied that the proposals would compromise civil liberties by creating a national database of information. There is absolutely no problem for those that are innocent, he said. A balance is to be struck as to from whom do you take fingerprints and DNA samples. We say the balance should be struck in respect of those that you arrest for serious offences. That seems like a very sensible balance to strike. But the plans prompted concerns among the opposition parties. Conservative frontbencher Dominic Grieve did not object to the change if it was intended to help police discover whether an arrested suspect was wanted for other crimes. But the samples should be destroyed once someone was cleared, he argued. There would be serious civil liberties connotations if the move was part of efforts to build up a database about people never charged with any offence, said Mr Grieve. Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Simon Hughes said: This is another step on the road to holding every citizen's DNA on the national database, and it is being done with virtually no public debate. DNA is an increasingly valuable tool in the fight against crime. But we should not allow the success stories to dazzle us into forgetting that our civil liberties are at stake. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2890047.stm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] CIA Covert Teams Set Bombs to Kill Iraqi Elite
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44793-2003Mar28.html U.S. Teams Seek to Kill Iraqi Elite Covert Missions Target Hussein's Inner Circle By Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 29, 2003; Page A01 U.S. covert teams have been operating in urban areas in Iraq trying to kill members of President Saddam Hussein's inner circle, including Baath Party officials and Special Republican Guard commanders, according to U.S. and other knowledgeable officials. The covert teams, from the CIA's paramilitary division and the military's special operations group, include snipers and demolition experts schooled in setting house and car bombs. They have reportedly killed more than a handful of individuals, according to one knowledgeable source. They have been in operation for at least one week. The previously undisclosed operation suggests U.S. efforts to destroy the Iraqi government's leadership are far more extensive than previously known, and have continued since the March 20 airstrike on a residential compound in the suburbs of Baghdad. That attack was launched after CIA Director George J. Tenet presented President Bush with fresh intelligence that Hussein and his two sons, Qusay and Uday, were sleeping in the complex. CIA officials declined to comment. Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said, As we have said before, we have Special Forces in the north, west and south of the country. As conventional U.S. and British forces have encountered fiercer than expected Iraqi resistance, the CIA and the Pentagon's covert units are under increasing pressure to fire the silver bullet that will kill Hussein and bring down his government, thereby bringing the ground war to a quick conclusion. The agencies have stepped up a fierce psychological operations campaign to rattle key members of Hussein's government in an effort to get them to turn on the Iraqi leader. The covert teams are just one feature of the largely invisible war being waged in Iraq by the CIA's and Pentagon's growing covert paramilitary and special operations divisions. CIA units and special operations teams are also involved in organizing tribal groups to fight the Iraqi government from the north. They are secretly hunting for weapons of mass destruction and missiles sites, and are looking to interrogate Iraqi defectors and prisoners of war. The CIA, the National Security Agency and foreign intelligence services cooperating with the agency are helping to identify leadership targets; the homes, offices and other sites inhabited by the officials who make up the government's infrastructure. Provided with a detailed account of the contents of this article, U.S. government officials made no request to The Post to withhold any of the story's details from publication, as they have sometimes done in other cases involving ongoing covert operations. While many of the missions performed by the CIA in Iraq illustrate a deep integration of intelligence into battlefield operation -- made possible largely through advances in high-speed, wireless data transmission -- the covert killing teams are an example of what one source called the real-life [expletive] stuff. The teams carry sophisticated weapons and communications equipment capable of receiving near real-time targeting intelligence to guide them to locations where sought-after individuals are located. Not all the explosions in Baghdad captured by western television cameras are the result of aerial bombs and missiles, the source said, implying that some have been planted by the teams. For decades, since the assassination scandals and consequent legal restraints of the 1970s, neither the CIA nor the military undertook such selective targeting of individuals. But after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the CIA in particular has been given the go-ahead to undertake much more risky and sensitive operations that do just that. The agency maintains a list of about 30 terrorists, the so-called high value targets, and has assigned paramilitary teams, sometimes working in tandem with covert military units such as the Delta Force, to track down, capture or kill these individuals, most of whom are members of the al Qaeda organization. In November, Hellfire missiles launched from an unmanned CIA Predator drone killed six suspected al Qaeda operatives as they drove through the desert in Yemen. One of them, Ahmed Hijazi, was a naturalized American citizen. The main target of the strike was Abu Ali al-Harithi, who was suspected of masterminding the October 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole. Yemen is considered a friendly country, not at war with the United States. While much of the legal authority to carry out targeted assassinations remains shrouded in secrecy, the CIA and military derive their legal authority to carry out such operations from two classified legal memoranda, one written for President Bill Clinton in 1998 and one
[CTRL] KillerFlu Spreading More Wildly
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsmyst283195362mar28,0,1118642.story?coll=ny-health-headlines SARS No-Fly Rule Sought By Laurie Garrett STAFF WRITER March 28, 2003 The World Health Organization yesterday called for new travel restrictions on all flights leaving locales hard hit by the mysterious illness known as SARS: China, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and Toronto. The agency advised that passengers should be screened for any signs of severe acute respiratory syndrome and asked whether they have recently been in contact with anyone with the disease, and that those who appear symptomatic should not be allowed to fly. A passenger who becomes ill during a flight can be isolated from other passengers and crew, can wear a mask, and can then be assessed when they arrive at their destination for signs of SARS, WHO's Dr. David Heymann said in a news briefing in Geneva. He added that people living in areas with identified SARS cases should avoid people who are coughing. So that if you're standing next to someone on an escalator who's coughing, you ought to move back two or three steps, he said. ... People who have cough and fever have just as much responsibility to go to a health worker as do people who are standing near them to protect themselves. These WHO guidelines come on the heels of heightened restrictions on patients and their contacts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada. Singapore and Toronto have imposed quarantines on such individuals, and both countries have asked citizens to defer travel to China or Hong Kong. The Rolling Stones canceled this weekend's Hong Kong concerts. So far, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sees no need to impose travel restrictions or quarantine. But CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding encouraged Americans to defer vacations to Asia if possible. As of yesterday, 51 U.S. cases have been identified. No deaths have been reported. Worldwide the number of reported cases hit 1,408 yesterday, with 53 deaths. Most of the increase was reported in China, where the government says cases extend beyond Guangdong province to interior regions around Beijing and Shanxi. Global health experts neared agreement that a type of virus responsible for some common colds is the likely cause of the outbreak, now in 14 countries. And most of the world's cases can be traced to a single hotel in Hong Kong. Though at least three types of viruses have been theoretically linked to SARS, all indications point to coronaviruses, Dr. James Hughes, director of the national Center for Infectious Diseases, said in a news briefing. And Dr. Klaus Stohr, who is running the WHO effort to find the cause, said yesterday, We believe that the coronavirus is the major causative agent. Now the data that is forthcoming from very many different laboratories which investigated samples from Vietnam, from Hong Kong, from Singapore, from Germany, and from Canada - all these laboratories are consistently finding coronaviruses in those patients. Though most common colds are caused by a family of microbes called rhinoviruses, a subset is caused by coronaviruses. Scientists at Hong Kong University have invented two tests for the virus - one that uses blood samples, the other, saliva. So far, the tests appear reliable, Stohr said. The CDC, in collaboration with colleagues in Asia, yesterday published a road map of the epidemic, showing that most known cases after Feb. 15 can be linked to the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong. The hotel outbreak started when a man from Guangdong, China, traveled to Hong Kong and stayed on the hotel's ninth floor. He died on Feb. 22. That first case spawned many of the subsequent Hong Kong cases, mostly among health care workers. As of yesterday morning Hong Kong had 367 cases, 10 of them fatal. The disease appears to have spread when another hotel guest, a 47-year-old Chinese-American businessman, traveled to Hanoi, where he became ill. He was then evacuated to Hong Kong, where he died on March 12. Fifty-nine Vietnamese cases have been linked to Cheng's treatment at a Hanoi Hospital, four of them fatal. One of the Vietnamese patients went to Thailand, spawning three cases there. Three travelers from Singapore who stayed at the Metropole Hotel are believed to have sparked 70 cases when they returned home, mostly in health care workers. Another visitor to the Metropole was a Chinese-Canadian, who took ill after flying home to Toronto. Canada now has 28 cases, three of them fatal, most believed linked to that first traveler. Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread
[CTRL] Reality Not Wanted - People Isolated From Carnage
-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ian Henshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: War report and news sources 27.03.03 / United Kingdom Here is a short update on the war. The UK media have been largely taken over by war propaganda which contains an indeterminate amount of straightforward lies. This is the site with the military news from the Iraqi side, it is getting millions of hits: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news076.htm Other sites independent of the US/UK disinformation system are: http://www.wsws.org http://www.rense.com http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com Al Jazeera, the station run by ex-BBC employees broadcasts out of pro-war Qatar, now host to the Blair/Bush attack. They show pictures banned in the US/UK media of civilian casualties and have exposed the more obvious US/UK lies. http://www.aljazeerah.info/ WAR UPDATE The Bush/Blair forces are facing fierce resistance from all Iraqis including Shias, so far the Republican Guard has hardly been engaged. The supply lines are overstretched and the possibility of a damaging Iraqi counter-attack is looming. Battles are raging all over Southern Iraq and nobody except the respective military commands has the full picture. The official casualty figures are almost certainly false, the US/UK deaths and serious injuries are probably running into the hundreds. Dozens if not scores of vehicles are lost and many hitech systems are not withstanding the desert conditions. The Iraqis have evolved tactics to overcome some of the technical US/UK superiority and there is fury from US/UK that they have acquired communications and night vision technology from the Russians which should have been banned by sanctions. The Russians have also supplied jamming technology that has apparently thrown off the GPS targeting system of some of the smart missiles causing them to land on civilian targets... a ruthless propaganda weapon for Saddam. As well as lying about casualties, US/UK are lying about damage to civilian targets which have probably caused hundreds of deaths and serious injuries by now. There is a complicity here with the Iraqi regime which also wishes to understate civilian casualties so as to maintain morale. The most spectacular lie was over the `insurrection` in Basra, carried as fact in all the UK newspapers except The Guardian and the Mirror where coverage has remained reasonably objective. The `insurrection` was probably concocted to distract from the real story: that the US/UK invaders are blockading the city and have interfered with water and electricity supplies, creating a massive humanitarian crisis there. Promoting this lie on BBC Radio 4 a military PR officer spent some time explaining that this was a war of liberation and went on to tell interviewer Nick Clarke that Basra would soon be `captured - I mean liberated`. If as appears the US/UK invaders are already running low on precision weaponry they may resort to indiscriminate bombardment and lie about it, as happened in the 1991 war. The pattern was repeated again in Kosovo where a war promoted by Blair to teach Milosovic a lesson caused a massive humanitarian crisis and was escalated to a criminal bombing campaign against civilian targets. At one point NATO falsified film footage to excuse an attack on a civilian train. The 1991 Iraq war ended when US pilots destroyed two large convoys fleeing Kuwait, killing tens of thousands of Iraqi military and civilians along with their Kuwaiti hostages. Then the attackers had the cover of a large coalition of complicit states. If US/UK forces conduct similar atrocities this time the war could escalate. It is now clear that Bush/Blair have made a horrendous strategic error in assuming the Iraqis won't fight, a similar error to that made by Hitler in his attack on Russia. Many Arabs are optimistic that Baghdad could prove to be Bush/Blair's Stalingrad. If Iraq holds out for long there will certainly be renewed moves against US/UK in the UN which will make it clearer than ever that the attacks are illegal. In the UK, opinion polls are claiming a swing back to support for Blair who plans to promote himself again as Mr Nice and blame all the problems on Bush. UK citizens are some of the most gullible in the world: egged on by the pro-war media, a section feel that `our` troops should be supported right or wrong once the war has started. This will not survive a military failure. The anti-war movement should concentrate on Blair as much as the war, reminding everyone that he got us into this. ### A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and
[CTRL] Dark Days and Shiny Shoes
-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dark days and Shiny Shoes Date: 25 Mar 2003 Dear Friends, I doubt many people in Iraq heard the ominous comic book assertion this morning from U.S. Central Command that there were Dark days ahead for the dark side in Iraq. A quick glance at the news this evening suggests that the dark days are here... for all sides. CLIP Out of Baghdad this morning, we have a brief reflection from Shane Claiborne called Dark days and Shiny Shoes: I have grown especially close to one of the 'shoeshine boys', a homeless boy (about 10 years old), named Mussef. The first day I met him, he was begging me for money to eat. When I stubbornly said 'no' to his relentless attempts on my wallet, he turned away and muttered, 'Son-of-bitch-mother-fucker.' I whipped my head around in shock, as he took off running. Not the best first impression. Day after day, we have grown on each other. We go for walks, turn somersaults, and yell at the airplanes 'SALAAM!' (PEACE!!!). Now everyday when I walk outside he runs at full speed, jumps into my arms, and kisses me on the cheek. And I have the shiniest shoes in Baghdad. One day Mussef joined our group on a walk into the center of town, carrying pictures of Iraqi children and families suffering from the war and sanctions. Press and journalists took pictures and talked to us as we stood in one of Baghdad's busiest intersections, and Mussef begin to internalize what was happening. His shining face became bleak. Nothing I could do made him smile. As the group went home, and the cameras left, we continued to sit. He motioned with his hand the falling of bombs, and made the sound explosions, as tears welled up in his eyes. Suddenly, he turned, and latched onto my neck. He began to weep; his body shook as he gasped for each breath of air. I began to cry. Somehow I was glad all the cameras were gone. We wept as friends, as brothers, not as a peacemaker and victim. Afterwards I took him to eat, banquet style (tipping everyone extravagantly so my guest would be welcome). Every five minutes he would ask me, 'Are you okay?' I would nod, and ask, 'Are you okay?' And he would nod. To be honest I think we were both scared out of our minds but we each wanted to assure that the other did not start weeping again. In these dark days, we are anxious for a new beginning in Iraq. It was new beginnings that Andrew Mandell - who traveled to Iraq with VitW two years ago - had in mind recently when he penned an open letter to a friend in Baghdad. It is time for a modest sunrise for the people of Iraq. That sunrise, he writes, will slip around to my children's dawn as well. There is no seam to divide the dawns of this confused species. The only way to promise my daughter a morning will be to promise yours one as well. Until tomorrow, Jeff Guntzel, for Voices in the Wilderness and Iraq Peace Team A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Energy Market Manipulated, Regulators Say - Americans Scammed
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903H.shtml Energy Market Manipulated, Regulators Say By Jonathan Peterson and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Los Angeles Times Thursday 27 March 2003 FERC moves to increase California's refund to $3.3 billion, still far less than the state seeks. WASHINGTON -- Taking a tough new stance, federal energy regulators said Wednesday that more than 30 private firms manipulated natural gas and electricity prices during the California energy crisis, and moved to increase the state's refund to about $3.3 billion. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission threatened to revoke the trading authority of eight subsidiaries of troubled Enron Corp. for allegedly gaming the natural gas market. The commission also said it's prepared to strip the trading authority of Reliant Energy Services Inc., now known as Reliant Resources Inc., and BP Energy Co. for allegedly engaging in coordinated efforts to manipulate electricity prices at Palo Verde, a key Arizona trading hub. Both companies denied the charges. California officials expressed some satisfaction with the FERC decision, but emphasized that the remedy fell far short of the $8.9 billion in refunds sought by a coalition of state agencies and its major utilities, including Pacific Gas Electric and Southern California Edison. The commission also stopped short of approving the state's request to renegotiate $20 billion in long-term energy contracts that were signed during the period of feverish prices in 2001. Show me the money, Gov. Gray Davis declared. Where's the $9 billion that we've been asking for, for two years? That is when I'll finally feel vindicated, when we get the money back that these energy companies stole from this state. Davis said the state is prepared to keep pressing its case in court if California's refund isn't boosted when the matter goes back to a federal administrative law judge, the next step in the process. FERC officials, long criticized for an easygoing approach toward the corporations they regulate, insisted that their 13-month investigation into the causes of California's energy crisis proves the agency is taking its oversight role seriously. This is all part of our role as the cop on the beat, said FERC Chairman Pat Wood III. We have said from the beginning that a belief in the free enterprise system goes hand in hand with a responsibility to see that the playing field is level and that everyone plays fair. If there was ever any doubt that this was part of our core philosophy, that doubt should now be dispelled. As part of its action Wednesday, FERC asked more than 30 companies and utilities to justify actions that may have violated anti-gaming provisions. These companies and utilities included some of the out-of-state actors that were branded during the energy crisis as preying on California, including Reliant, a Williams Cos.-AES Corp. venture and Mirant Corp. But FERC also singled out a number of in-state companies and utilities for possible wrongdoing. Among them: Southern California Edison; the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power; and Sempra Energy, the parent of San Diego Gas Electric and Southern California Gas Co. In fact, Southern California Edison is one of the major players in the state's quest for refunds, thrusting it in the awkward position of being both accuser and accused. We will certainly file a response, to the market manipulation allegation, said John Bryson, chief executive of the utility's parent, Rosemead-based Edison International. He added that the FERC allegation related to no more than about $7,000 of power charges. The most important thing today, Bryson said, is that the staff report shows pervasive unlawful and unethical manipulation of the power market, causing California consumers billions of dollars of direct damages. Edison officials believe their utility would qualify for up to 25% of the refund money, which they expect would ultimately be returned to customers through lower rates in the future. Other companies and utilities reached for comment Wednesday roundly denied FERC's allegations. Brad Church, a spokesman for Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams said a fact-based analysis of its alleged role in gaming the state's electricity market would find no wrongdoing. Steven Prince, chief executive of Sempra's wholesale-trading unit, said he is confident the FERC will conclude that our activities in the California energy market were proper. Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn on Wednesday ridiculed the FERC decision to include the city's DWP among the possible price
[CTRL] Wounded U.S. Soldiers Shocked at Iraqi Resistance
-Caveat Lector- If Iraqi's were to invade US, would americans fight back because Bush threatened them, or would they fight back because they are americans and they are at home in America? http://truthout.org/docs_03/032903E.shtml Wounded U.S. Soldiers Shocked at Iraqi Resistance By Jeff Mason Reuters Thursday 27 March 2003 For them, the war is over. A few U.S. soldiers were half the way home on Thursday, bearing wounds inflicted by Iraqis they thought they were liberating. Two army soldiers and one marine recounted to journalists how they came under fire at the weekend from Iraqi troops in civilian dress at the city of Nassiriya, scene of some of the fiercest fighting to date. We were very surprised. We were told when we were going through Nassiriya that we would see little to no resistance, Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Menard told a news conference at the U.S. military's medical facilities at Landstuhl, Germany. A group of Iraqis in civilian clothes opened fire on Menard as he and six other marines approached them on a bridge near Nassiriya on Sunday, he said. We were more prepared for what happened in the Gulf War when they turned over and surrendered most of the time... They weren't rolling over like we thought they would, Menard, 21, from Houston, Texas, said, with his left hand bandaged. Beside him, in hospital robes, sat Army Staff Sergeant Jamie Villafane and Sergeant Charles Horganof the First Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment. They told of being hurled out of their Humvee jeep by an Iraqi missile in a separate attack. The amount of resistance, some of it I don't understand. I mean we're there to help them to get them out of the regime. But you have to understand they are being threatened to fight against us, said Villafane, 31, from Long Island, New York, his heavily bandaged left arm resting on a pillow. JUST LIKE THE MOVIES Villafane said his battalion had been briefed that Iraqi soldiers might disguise themselves in civilian clothes, but he was still surprised when it happened. It was a shock that they would actually do that given the treatment we try to give them. We try to treat them fairly... I guess they have to do whatever they have to, Villafane said. Horgan, 21, from Helena, Montana, said he was less surprised to see Iraqi troops fighting back. Horgan, whose right leg and foot were ripped open when he was blown from his gunning position, described seeing an incoming missile and barely having time to warn his colleagues before it struck. It was just like in the movies. I thought 'Oh my God, I'm going to die', he said, adding he feared as he was thrown to the ground that he might lose his legs. I looked down and saw I had my legs. I was pretty relieved about that. The three wounded men said they felt a sense of guilt at leaving friends behind in Iraq. I'm relieved that I'm out of that sort of thing. I'm also kind of sad that I'm not with the guys who protected me, Horgan told reporters. All three will head for the United States for further treatment, Horgan needing extensive physiotherapy if he is to walk again. Villafane said that before the war he had already had thoughts about ending his term in the military, after 12 years of service. I made a decision before this actually started with my family that I was going to get out... This kind of just put the icing on the cake, he said. Horgan said his thoughts were more on recovering. Nobody can be shot and say 'Wow, I really want to go back out there. That was great', he said. The three also said they hoped any anti-war sentiment at home would not turn into acrimony against soldiers. You may be against the war, but don't be against the soldiers there who are fighting it. I joined to serve my country but when I was there I was fighting to protect my friends, Horgan said. Landstuhl, America's largest military hospital outside the United States, is currently treating 72 patients from Operation Iraqi Freedom, 24 of them wounded in combat. Five are in intensive care. The hospital is expanding to 320 beds, doubling its normal capacity. __ Go to Original Families of Ft. Bliss Soldiers Begin Asking Hard Questions by Scott Gold and Tom Gorman Los Angeles Times Thursday 27 March 2003 FT. BLISS, Texas -- Jamaal R. Addison, 22, a straight-A student who joined the Army days after graduating from high school to secure a future for his infant son, is dead. And for what? That's what Addison's relatives wanted to know late Wednesday as they struggled to
[CTRL] Blair expresses 'horror' at al-Jazeera while World Expresses Horror at US UK Slaugtering Iraqi Civilians
-Caveat Lector- Blair like's it nice and clean. Please don't show me the bodies. They're in bad taste. Tony Blair: GET A BLOODY GRIP ON YOURSELF! THIS IS WHAT WAR IS ABOUT: KILLING! IF YOU CAN'T STAND TO SEE IT, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT! http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,922884,00.html Blair expresses 'horror' at al-Jazeera Jason Deans Thursday March 27, 2003 Prime minister Tony Blair and the commander of UK forces in the Gulf have expressed outrage at al-Jazeera's decision to broadcast footage of what are believed to be dead British soldiers. Mr Blair expressed horror at the deaths and the broadcast of pictures of the bodies on the Arab satellite TV network, according to a spokesman. Air Marshall Brian Burridge, the commander of UK forces in the Gulf, added that al-Jazeera's decision to show the footage was deplorable and a flagrant breach of the Geneva convention. All media must be aware of the limits of taste and decency, Mr Burridge said at a briefing at the Allied Command Centre in Qatar earlier today. He also urged journalists not to become unwitting tools of the Iraqi propaganda machine. The video footage broadcast by al-Jazeera yesterday shows what is believed to have been the ultimate fate of two Desert Rats who went missing in fighting around the town of Zubayr, 15 miles outside Iraq's second city of Basra. They had been classified as missing after their Land Rover was ambushed on Sunday. Al-Jazeera also broadcast footage of what it said were two UK prisoners but there was no confirmation the men were British. The footage showed the two dead soldiers spreadeagled in a dusty road on their backs near their vehicle. One of the soldiers appeared to have been shot in the chest while the other's wounds were unclear. The footage, which lasted less than 30 seconds, also showed people climbing over the vehicle as the camera filmed the bodies. One man shifted one of the bodies around with his foot. After showing the two dead soldiers, the film cut to show the two prisoners. They were both thick-set black men, one with dreadlocked hair. The prisoners were indoors and surrounded by people as they both stared straight into the camera without saying anything. This is the third time in four days that shocking film of allied soldiers, captured or killed, has been shown on television. Seven US army mechanics died and five were taken prisoner on Sunday after they took a wrong turn and ran into an ambush in Nasiriyah. A video broadcast later on al-Jazeera showed several of the troops with bullet wounds to the head which suggested they may have been executed. The five captured soldiers, including a woman, were paraded on TV in breach of the Geneva convention governing PoWs, which states they cannot be shown on television if it is to degrade them or expose them to public curiosity. A day later footage of two US pilots was broadcast after their Apache attack helicopter came down near Karbala, south of Baghdad. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Blair expresses 'horror' at al-Jazeera while World Expresses Horror at US UK Slaugtering Iraqi Civilians
-Caveat Lector- This is exactly the problem with today's leaders. They can't stand to see what they make their minions do. DO NOT LET YOUR LEADERS ISOLATE THEMSELVES FROM THE REALITY OF WAR AND SUFFERING THAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE CAUSED AND ORDERED ON THE WORLD!!! TONY BLAIR: YOU ARE A DESPICABLE SWINE AND A COWARD IF YOU CAN NOT STAND TO SEE THE BODIES OF PEOPLE WHO DIED BECAUSE OF YOU! On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jei wrote: Blair like's it nice and clean. Please don't show me the bodies. They're in bad taste. Tony Blair: GET A BLOODY GRIP ON YOURSELF! THIS IS WHAT WAR IS ABOUT: KILLING! IF YOU CAN'T STAND TO SEE IT, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT! http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,922884,00.html Blair expresses 'horror' at al-Jazeera Jason Deans Thursday March 27, 2003 Prime minister Tony Blair and the commander of UK forces in the Gulf have expressed outrage at al-Jazeera's decision to broadcast footage of what are believed to be dead British soldiers. Mr Blair expressed horror at the deaths and the broadcast of pictures of the bodies on the Arab satellite TV network, according to a spokesman. Air Marshall Brian Burridge, the commander of UK forces in the Gulf, added that al-Jazeera's decision to show the footage was deplorable and a flagrant breach of the Geneva convention. All media must be aware of the limits of taste and decency, Mr Burridge said at a briefing at the Allied Command Centre in Qatar earlier today. He also urged journalists not to become unwitting tools of the Iraqi propaganda machine. The video footage broadcast by al-Jazeera yesterday shows what is believed to have been the ultimate fate of two Desert Rats who went missing in fighting around the town of Zubayr, 15 miles outside Iraq's second city of Basra. They had been classified as missing after their Land Rover was ambushed on Sunday. Al-Jazeera also broadcast footage of what it said were two UK prisoners but there was no confirmation the men were British. The footage showed the two dead soldiers spreadeagled in a dusty road on their backs near their vehicle. One of the soldiers appeared to have been shot in the chest while the other's wounds were unclear. The footage, which lasted less than 30 seconds, also showed people climbing over the vehicle as the camera filmed the bodies. One man shifted one of the bodies around with his foot. After showing the two dead soldiers, the film cut to show the two prisoners. They were both thick-set black men, one with dreadlocked hair. The prisoners were indoors and surrounded by people as they both stared straight into the camera without saying anything. This is the third time in four days that shocking film of allied soldiers, captured or killed, has been shown on television. Seven US army mechanics died and five were taken prisoner on Sunday after they took a wrong turn and ran into an ambush in Nasiriyah. A video broadcast later on al-Jazeera showed several of the troops with bullet wounds to the head which suggested they may have been executed. The five captured soldiers, including a woman, were paraded on TV in breach of the Geneva convention governing PoWs, which states they cannot be shown on television if it is to degrade them or expose them to public curiosity. A day later footage of two US pilots was broadcast after their Apache attack helicopter came down near Karbala, south of Baghdad. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Differing TV Images Feed Arab, US Views
-Caveat Lector- Look here and see what your hands are doing, Tony George. This is your hands work. This is your hands doing: http://www.aljazeerah.us/News%20Photos/Photos%20of%20Iraq%20war%20victims.htm The best thing is that you can make it stop. You have the power to stop your hands. http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,922884,00.html Tony Blair thinks dead people are in bad taste. Well, war isn't about good or bad taste, Tony. It's about killing. If you can't stand to see any more dead people, you can order the killing to stop. It's that simple. If you can't stand the hideous look of people dying being killed, stay thy hand Tony, and stop killing people. http://truthout.org/docs_03/032803F.shtml Editor's Note: This is shaping up to be one of the central stories of this war. CNN, for one, has basically become a de facto arm of the Defense Department. Seldom has one been able to watch skewed propaganda delivered in real-time, as we have seen from these 'embedded' reporters. It is, without hyperbole, one of the most shameful chapters in the long history of journalismand as Mencken would note, that is saying quite a mouthful. - wrp Differing TV Images Feed Arab, US Views By John Donnelly and Anne Barnard Boston Globe Wednesday 26 March 2003 The Arab world sees pictures of bloodied bodies of young children. They watch scenes crowded with corpses, including gruesome images of dead American soldiers. Americans see almost none of that. Their view of the war in Iraq, through television and print, is dominated by long-distance photos of bombs going off in Baghdad and intimate battlefield scenes conveyed by reporters who are traveling with US and British soldiers. The two contrasting visions of this war, one seen by Americans and the other seen in the Middle East, help to sharpen differences over the conflict, say analysts and diplomats. ''Friends from Syria are sending e-mails to me, asking what are the people in the US telling you about the images of civilian casualties,'' said Imad Moustapha, chief of public diplomacy at the Syrian Embassy in Washington. ''My answer to them is very simple and sad: `Sorry, no one is seeing those images here.' '' In the Middle East, one US diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, spoke of watching CNN and Fox News one minute and Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV the next, thinking he was watching different battles. ''The Arab world is seeing trips to the hospitals, grieving parents, while the American cable stations and networks are showing the troops in the field,'' said the diplomat. ''The trouble is, it is creating different memories of the war, and it will reinforce the anger here about what the US is doing.'' US media have shown pictures and written stories about civilian casualties, especially from Baghdad. Television stations and print publications have also shown still photographs and edited video footage of seven US prisoners of war. News executives have said that their ability to independently cover civilian casualties, especially in the southern city of Basra, has been limited because of the dangers of battle there. In contrast, Arab newspapers and television stations in Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Dubai, Qatar, and elsewhere in the region have placed a heavy emphasis on civilian casualties, especially those involving children. One station showed the scalp of a child that reporters said had been blown off in a bombing. The segment showed the scalp from three different angles. In recent days, both television and newspapers have featured the image of a young girl being pulled from rubble by an older man in a kaffiyeh. It was impossible to know if the girl was dead or alive. She was wrapped in a purple shawl, and both her legs were partially cut off. Some US stations have approached Iraqi casualties with skepticism. In some segments of children in a hospital, reporters have added a caveat that there was no way to independently verify whether the victims had been hurt in air raids. In the most controversial broadcast, Al-Jazeera decided to air gruesome pictures taped by Iraqi television of dead American soldiers outside of Nasiriyah. American television stations declined to do so. During a televised briefing in Qatar, Army Lieutenant General John Abizaid, deputy commander of Combined Forces Command, chided a reporter for Al-Jazeera for the network's decision to air the video. ''The pictures were disgusting,'' Abizaid said, adding that he would not want other stations to show the video. A reporter from Xinghua News Agency of China asked whether such pictures would badly influence the morale of the US troops or the American people. Abizaid said he
Re: [CTRL] It's Not About Oil Or Iraq
-Caveat Lector- On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Dale Stonehouse wrote: http://homepage.eircom.net/~gulufuture/news/eurozone_war030323.htm An Economic Perspective On The War It's Not About Oil Or Iraq. It's About The US And Europe Going Head-To-Head On World Economic Dominance. By Geoffrey Heard, Australia Summary: Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war with Iraq. The war in Iraq is actually the US and Europe going head to head on economic leadership of the world. America's Bush administration has been caught in outright lies, gross exaggerations and incredible inaccuracies as it trotted out its litany of paper thin excuses for making war on Iraq. Along with its two supporters, Britain and Australia, it has shifted its ground and reversed its position with a barefaced contempt for its audience. It has manipulated information, deceived by commission and omission and frantically bought UN votes with billion dollar bribes. Faced with the failure of gaining UN Security Council support for invading Iraq, the USA has threatened to invade without authorisation. It would act in breach of the UN's very constitution to allegedly enforced UN resolutions. It is plain bizarre. Where does this desperation for war come from? There are many things driving President Bush and his administration to invade Iraq, unseat Saddam Hussein and take over the country. But the biggest one is hidden and very, very simple. It is about the currency used to trade oil and consequently, who will dominate the world economically, in the foreseeable future -- the USA or the European Union. I think this deduction is wrong. The war and the US government is about hard cash only. For everyone involved. And short term profits at that. No long term plans there. Wreck the car, wreck the economy, destroy the environment and kill the Iraqi's if you have to, as long as they get as much money as they can as fast as possible. Israeli's are also involved. Without their help in controlling the media, they couldn't be doing this. Everyone involved is profiting personally. Every big-wig. Every corporation and every lobby-group, both the individuals in them and each entity as a group. A thousand individuals who are all profiting from these events big-time. Even Tony Blair is getting a nice big nice chunk of green as a thank you from the Carlyle Group. Idealism may help form a strategy, but ideology only motivates the crazy people. It certainly does not motivate corporations or the people leading US. Money and oil runs in their veins. Fanaticism on our leaders part is only as hard as the currency they are getting to shovel into their own pockets, and lasts equally just as long as it's flow. The facts are plain and out there for everyone to see. Only the US government is very busy hiding everything it can and writing new laws to help it act in more secrecy and eliminating anyone and anything who threatens to expose how big-time the americans are being conned out of all their money. The lie is too big to believe. It is out there in the plain open. $500 billion dollar scam is being pulled on the Americans. All to the profit of the richest men on this planet. It's only imprudent to point out that the people in charge don't have their pants on when it comes to the reasons for this war. It's been pointed a million times already. All to death ears. They don't care! They are too busy counting the $. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI to Rely on Rumor Hearsay Database to Catch Criminals
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-03-25-fbi-database_x.htm Justice Dept.: FBI database info no longer has to be accurate WASHINGTON (AP) . The Justice Department lifted a requirement Monday that the FBI ensure the accuracy and timeliness of information about criminals and crime victims before adding it to the country's most comprehensive law enforcement database. The system, run by the FBI's National Crime Information Center, includes data about terrorists, fugitives, warrants, people missing, gang members and stolen vehicles, guns or boats. Records are queried increasingly by the nation's law enforcement agencies to help decide whether to monitor, detain or arrest someone. The records are inaccessible to the public, and police have been prosecuted in U.S. courts for misusing the system to find, for example, personal information about girlfriends or former spouses. Officials said the change, which immediately drew criticism from civil-liberties advocates, is necessary to ensure investigators have access to information that can't be confirmed but could take on new significance later, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. The change to the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act was disclosed with an announcement published in the Federal Register. The Privacy Act previously required the FBI to ensure information was accurate, relevant, timely and complete before it could be added to the system. It's a pretty big job to be accurate and complete, said Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who specializes in technology and surveillance issues. On the other hand, these are potentially very significant records for people, and if it's not accurate and complete, it can mean trouble. Critics urged Congress to review the change, arguing that information in the computer files was especially important because it can affect many aspects of a person's life. This is information that has always been stigmatizing, the type of data that can prevent someone from getting a job, said Marc Rotenberg of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center. When you remove the accuracy obligations, you open the door to the use of unreliable information. Critics have noted complaints for years about wrong information in the computer files that disrupted the lives of innocent citizens, and the FBI has acknowledged problems. In one case, a Phoenix resident was arrested for minor traffic violations that had been quashed weeks earlier; in another, a civilian was misidentified as a Navy deserter. The system is replete with inaccurate, untimely information, but everybody does their best to keep it up to date, said Beryl Howell, former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. That's a goal we shouldn't just throw out. In the change, the Justice Department said earlier restrictions on information would limit the ability of trained investigators and intelligence analysts to exercise their judgment in reporting on investigations and impede the development of criminal intelligence necessary for effective law enforcement. It added that, because the system collects its data from so many other organizations, it is administratively impossible to ensure compliance. Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] THE BIG 9-11LIE: Overcoming 9-11 Myths with Science (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/media_release_030304.html 9/11: The Enlightenment Can Science overcome Myth? (in time to stop the next war) MEDIA RELEASE 4th March 2003 Professor A.K. Dewdney, author of `Ghost Riders in the Sky', has released the results of an experiment testing the feasibility of claims that cellphone calls were made from `hijacked' airplanes on September 11th 2001. The cellphone calls from hijacked planes were a crucial element of the 'official version' of the horrific events of '9/11', as they directly corroborated the notion that all four planes were hijacked by Arab terrorists. Dewdney's experiment suggests that it is highly unlikely the cellphone calls took place as reported... Dewdney's `Ghost Riders in the Sky' hypothesis has been available on the web since early 2002. Now in its fourth version, it can be viewed HERE. http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/ghost_riders_1-4_1.html Dewdney is a Canadian Mathematician and Computer Scientist who holds the position of Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Ontario and has some 100 academic papers to his name. He proposes that the four `hijacked' airplanes on 9/11 were taken over by remote control after all crew and passengers were disabled (probably killed by a poisonous gas such as sarin). Professor Dewdney further suggests that the `Arab hijackers', whose identity has been shrouded in mystery since it was discovered that eight supposed hijackers' are in fact alive and well, were patsies. A crucial objection to Dewdney's hypothesis has been the cellphone calls reportedly made from the `hijacked' planes. These cellphone calls appear to substantiate the official version of events. If they took place as reported, Dewdney's hypothesis is clearly incorrect. In version four of `Ghost Riders', Dewdney went to great lengths to analyze the numerous reports of cellphone calls, and showed how they could have been faked. Now he`s gone one better On Tuesday 25th February 2003, Dewdney chartered a light plane and flew up into the airspace above London Ontario an area extensively serviced with cellphone stations. His goal was to test the essential feasibility of the claim that cellphone calls could have been made from planes at high altitude. Dewdney's report on this private experiment, entitled 'Project Achilles', is HERE http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/project_achilles_report_2_0302 25.htm l His report concludes: To the extent that the cellphones used in this experiment represent types in general use, it may be concluded that from this particular type of aircraft, cellphones become useless very quickly with increasing altitude. In particular, two of the cellphone types, the Mike and the Nokia, became useless above 2000 feet. Of the remaining two, the Audiovox worked intermittently up to 6000 feet but failed thereafter, while the BM analog cellphone worked once just over 7000 feet but failed consistently thereafter. We therefore conclude that ordinary cellphones, digital or analog, will fail to get through at or above 8000 feet abga. The light plane used by Dewdney for the experiment could be expected to yield much better results for cellphone use than large commercial airliners of the type `hijacked' on 9/11, because the carbon fiber skin of the test plane is 'radio transparent' and offers little attenuation of the signal - unlike the aluminum surface of a Boeing 757 or 767. If cellphones fail at a given altitude in the test plane, one may be confident they won't work at equivalent altitude in an airliner with a metal surface. Dewdney's experiment suggests that if cellphone calls from `hijacked' airplanes on 9/11 happened at all, they must all have occurred at very low altitude. This is inconsistent with the `official version' of events. The implications that 9/11 was a spectacular hoax are, of course, staggering. Many journalists and commentators may be reticent to dissect the official version of events, because to do so opens a veritable Pandora's Box. If 9/11 was not carried out by Arab terrorists, the perpetrators clearly must have influence within the highest levels of the US Administration. Key elements of the mass media must also have been complicit in perpetrating the fraud. Whoever was ultimately responsible for these crimes against humanity apparently intended, inter alia, to portray terrorism as a quintessentially Muslim phenomenon and trigger long-term western hostility towards the Arab and Moslem world. With war looming in the middle east, justified largely on the basis of the events of '9/11', the immediate contemporary relevance of this possibility is self-evident. Giving credence to this view is not, perhaps, conducive to a successful career in the western media. Nevertheless, journalists worthy of the title should start seriously investigating the many anomalies surrounding 9/11 - and stop uncritically regurgitating officially-sanctioned myths which fail to withstand
[CTRL] US UK in a Fight Over Iraqi's Money
-Caveat Lector- http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921154,00.html Brown rejects US bid for Iraqi cash David Leigh, The Guardian (UK) Tuesday March 25, 2003 The chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, is unwilling to comply with a US demand that he should turn over £200m Iraqi assets frozen in Britain to an American-controlled account. Britain wants the UN to control the funds, which have been frozen since the first Gulf war began 12 years ago. The Treasury said yesterday that Mr Brown has been in talks with his US opposite number, the treasury secretary John Snow, and wanted the money to be used for the benefit and welfare of the Iraqi people. Cash totalling more than £400m has been frozen in British bank accounts under UN resolutions since 1990. The British stance is that both in the UK and the Cayman Islands, which have also been the subject of a US demand, there is no legal authority to hand the cash over to the US. The British government is still owed more than £1bn for defaults on credit sales to Iraq backed by the export credit guarantee department on the orders of the then Conservative government. The US government has ordered 17 banks in the US to hand over $1.7bn in frozen Iraqi government money, saying it will use it for humanitarian purposes. They include both US banks such as Citigroup and Bank of America to American subsidiaries of foreign banks, such as Deutsche Bank, the Arab Banking Corporation and the Commercial Bank of Kuwait. The cash is to be transferred to a new account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The US asked eight countries to seize $600mn (£380m) in frozen Iraqi assets and turn it over to the American fund. US officials say the offshore Caribbean tax havens of the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands hold sizeable deposits. The Bahamas, whose administration remained silent last night, are independent and not under British control. White House officials have threatened to prevent foreign banks doing business in the US if they refused to turn over Iraqi government money and what they called blood money belonging to President Saddam or his associates. Saddam Hussein is alleged to have spirited away more than $6bn for his own benefit. The Swiss bank UBS said yesterday that it would hand over some money in blocked accounts at its US branches. The funds stem from payments of US oil companies to Iraqi ones for deliveries ahead of the implementation of sanctions against Iraq in 1990, its spokesman Serge Steiner said. But officials in Switzerland said they would be unable to hand over $364m from Swiss accounts without a security council resolution. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921154,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Bungles: Pensioner in Most Wanted Arrest
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2795055.stm Pensioner in 'most wanted' arrest Mr Bond was arrested and imprisoned in Durban A 72-year-old retired charity worker has been arrested on a wine-tasting holiday in South Africa on suspicion of being one of America's most wanted men. Derek Bond, a grandfather from Bristol, is being held in custody in Durban after he was detained at the request of FBI officials investigating fraud in the United States. The father-of-three and his family insist it is a case of mistaken identity. But the FBI told the BBC it believed the pensioner was Derek Sykes, a man they are looking for in connection with a telemarketing scheme which defrauded people of millions of dollars. We're terribly upset - he's been kept in prison for more than two weeks, but it's not the fault of the South African authorities Gillian Bond, daughter The Clifton-based Rotarian was arrested at gunpoint as he arrived in the country two weeks ago for the wine-tasting tour with his wife Audrey. Mr Bond's son Peter, 45, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, said his father's health had deteriorated since the ordeal began. We believe that he is the victim of an identity fraud where some person in the United States obtained details of his identity, including his passport number, and has used them for fraudulent purposes in the US, he said. He said Mr Bond had agreed to be extradited to the US on legal advice, in order to get the problem sorted out quickly. 'Fraudulent purposes' The situation is entirely unacceptable, but our immediate concern is to secure the safe release of our father, he said. Mr Bond's daughter, Gillian, 46, from Norwich, Norfolk, flew to South Africa to join her 71-year-old mother. She said: We're terribly upset. He's been kept in prison for more than two weeks, but it's not the fault of the South African authorities. The FBI have had all the paperwork, but they don't appear to have read it until now. It wasn't until yesterday morning that an FBI officer was sent to speak to him. She said a statement had only been taken from him on Monday. Identity dispute Despite the family's pleas that they have arrested the wrong person, the FBI now wants to extradite Mr Bond to America. Agent Bob Doguim, of the FBI field office in Houston, Texas, told the BBC it would take a few more days positively to identify him. A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Pretoria said: We are actively involved in attempting to establish whether Mr Bond is in any way identifiable with Derek Sykes. If he is identified as being an individual charged with fraud in the US he will be extradited, if not he will be released. Earlier, an FBI press office spokesman said a man called Derek Bond appeared on one of their wanted lists some time ago for fraud-related activities in Texas. The Foreign Office has been in contact with the British consul in Durban to try to improve conditions for Mr Bond. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Reality TV - Free World Flocks to al-Jazeera
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032703E.shtml Editor's Note: The rest of the planet is watching a far, far different war on television than we are here in America. - wrp Europeans Flock to al-Jazeera Claire Cozens The Guardian Tuesday 25 March 2003 The Arabic-language TV network al-Jazeera has seen its European subscriber numbers double since the start of the war in Iraq amid huge demand for an alternative to western media coverage. The controversial broadcaster said it has signed up 4 million new subscribers in Europe since last Wednesday, doubling its viewership on the continent. We had 4 million subscribers in Europe and I would estimate we have added another 4 million over the last week, said Alan Marmion, al-Jazeera's media consultant. There are a lot of Arabic speakers in Europe - around 4 million in France alone. Canal Plus have even given us a transponder just so they could broadcast us. It's not just because of the war - we were already pushing out our distribution before the war began. But the fact that we provide alternative images means people are coming to us rather than us going to them. Al-Jazeera had around 35 million Arabic-speaking viewers before the start of the war in Iraq but the vast majority of these were in the Arabic world, where it is free. Outside the Middle East, only 10 million people had access to the network, but this figure has swollen since the outbreak of hostilities last week. Al-Jazeera has been given greater freedom than western broadcasters in Iraq, with as many as eight camera crews operating outside the confines of the military although it does also have some journalists embedded with the allied forces. Although western TV crews remain in Baghdad, al-Jazeera has the only camera crew known to be operating in Basra, Iraq's second city which is still under attack. It also has crews in Baghdad and Mosul. It was an al-Jazeera camera crew that helped ITN establish the whereabouts of Terry Lloyd, the veteran reporter who died after coming under fire on Saturday. He was taken to a Basra hospital where al-Jazeera were allowed to film. The channel has also been at the centre of the controversy surrounding the broadcasting of footage of Iraqi and American casualties that many western news organisations considered too shocking to screen. One image shown repeatedly on Sunday showed the head of a child aged about 12 that had been split apart, reportedly in the US-led assault on Basra. Others came from northern Iraq, where American missiles targeted the Kurdish Islamist Ansar al-Islam organisation. Al-Jazeera made its name in the west during the war in Afghanistan, when its exclusive access to Osama bin Laden made it the envy of its European and US rivals. Although the channel is available free of charge throughout the Arab world, in Europe it is mainly a pay-TV channel. In the UK, where 87% of Arabic-speaking households have access to al-Jazeera, it is available on BSkyB's family package of channels, although it is also possible to pick up the French signal via satellite. An English-language version of al-Jazeera is planned and could launch by the end of this year. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Killing 2 Million Civilians With Thirst - over half of them children under 15
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032603A.shtml Annan Seeks Urgent Steps to Get Water to Basra Reuters Monday 24 March 2003 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday called for urgent measures to help the people of Basra in southern Iraq obtain adequate water supplies amid heavy fighting between U.S. and British forces and Iraqi defenders. I have heard a report from the (International) Red Cross that the people in Basra may be facing a humanitarian disaster in that they have no water and they have no electricity, Annan told reporters at U.N. headquarters. I think urgent measures should be taken to restore electricity and water to that population, he said. A city of that size cannot afford to go without electricity or water for long. Apart from the water aspect, you can imagine what it does for sanitation. Basra's main Wafa al-Qaed water treatment plant on the northern edge of the city has been out of action due to a power outage since Friday and although other plants are able to supply some 40 percent of usual needs, the quality of the water is poor, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in Geneva. This is an emergency situation. We need to restore the full supply, Red Cross spokeswoman Nada Doumani said. She said she did not know the reason for the power cut. Adequate drinking water is vital for the local population because day time temperatures in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, can soar toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), she said. Basra has a population of around 2 million. Tamara al-Rifai, ICRC spokesperson in Kuwait, told Reuters the ICRC was waiting for guarantees of safe passage from the combatants in order to be able to repair Wafa al-Qaed. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Why do you do this to us?
-Caveat Lector- Counting Iraq's dead civilians By Jackson Thoreau Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullahs eight-year-old son. Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bushs and Cheneys Blood for Oil, Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care less. Welcome to the New World Order. U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts, especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bushs claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them. But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book. Hes number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs continues to rise. Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants them painted. I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from Londons Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the United Kingdoms Independent Media Centre. And Im here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians many of them children, as almost half of Baghdads population is under age 14 - have been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals. At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers. Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among those with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheneys oil company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq with oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions imposed by the UN on Husseins regime. To repeat: Cheneys company can make millions in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines. Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys was struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both legs. Her toddler suffered head injuries. Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile struck a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most of whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured. One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and putting POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S. officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international laws such as the UN charter that states one country cannot invade another without provocation or the blessing of the UN Security Council. These are the same officials who ignore international treaties like those governing nuclear weapons and global warming. So its unfair for Iraq to put prisoners on television or use civilians as soldiers or women and kids as shields? Tell me, whats fair about one side spending $400 billion annually on nuclear weapons, high-tech weapons, etc. and the other spending some $1.4 billion on scud missiles and other low-tech weapons after years of economic sanctions that has wracked its strength? Thats like
Re: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us?
-Caveat Lector- You ask us to predict a hypothetical future for 10 years to come and justify it with facts? You don't ask for much, do you? But for one thing, maybe International Law and sovereignity of nations would still be respected. Now, we can only rely on the force of arms and weapons of mass destructions to protect the people and nations on this planet from brutal business warriors and nutcases in charge of armies. As for the facts to support this conclusion, the US handling of North Korea vs US handling of Iraq are an excellent example. One is getting silk gloved treatment, while the other is going to be raped for all it's worth. I bet no WMDs will be found in Iraq, lest it says Made in USA or Israel, painted over with crosses and Irag stamped in place. As for the future we will experience, it is one of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and unlimited warfare for the reasons of business and making money, with total disregard for any treaties and laws. Anarchy, some might call it. But, it is explicitly clear that US and Bush co are keen on pissing on any and all treaties they don't like, and will keep on doing so if and when they can make fast profits for small numbers of people by doing so. On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Zuukie wrote: -Caveat Lector- A serious question. The Iraqi leadership has brutalized its people for many years. Now it appeared to be on the verge of brutalizing the western world in connection with other powerful leaders outside of the Arab world. If the US had not taken the action did, what do you think the world and US situation would look like ten years from now and please justify your answer with some factual information. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jei Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us? -Caveat Lector- Counting Iraq's dead civilians By Jackson Thoreau Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullahs eight-year-old son. Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bushs and Cheneys Blood for Oil, Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care less. Welcome to the New World Order. U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts, especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bushs claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them. But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book. Hes number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs continues to rise. Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants them painted. I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from Londons Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the United Kingdoms Independent Media Centre. And Im here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians many of them children, as almost half of Baghdads population is under age 14 - have been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals. At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers. Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student
Re: [CTRL] Hostages to fortune
-Caveat Lector- On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Prudy L wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the Iraqi prisoners of war who were shown being searched, handcuffed, and walking in lines with their hands above their heads could also be said to have been shown in a humiliating light for the purpose of public curiosity. 'There's been a little violation on each side', concludes Dentley F Vagts, a specialist on the laws of war at Harvard University Law School (5). I too found this interesting. If we expect our prisoners to be treated in total compliance with the Geneva Conventions, then what about all those guys we're holding in Cuba. I guess we don't have to, but they have to--or something? Maybe there's been a lot of violation on each side. And in Afghanistan even before they were aware that Walker was an American, he was being very roughly interrogated by our CIA agents. I know that the one agent's family totally blame Walker for his death, but just how an unarmed man in handcuffs with two bullet wounds could have killed anyone has always been a mystery to me. It's always been true that nations at war cheat on the Geneva Conventions. Still since we are doing what we do, it might be a good idea not to fuss too loudly about the behavior of others. Prudy Hey! Beware! That is exactly what is called being un-american. If you can't accept the double standard, stay out of America, as the saying goes here. Do onto others, but don't let them do it to you. - has been the New American Motto of foreign policy for the last Bush years and is exactly the reason why so many Arabs are pissed at you. Fucking others as much as you can, sooner or later has that effect. What you sow is what you reap as the saying goes. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] THE BIG LIE: So Big, So Bold, So Often Told, Masses Believe it!
-Caveat Lector- THE BIG LIE: So Big, So Bold, So Often Told, Masses Believe it! The twenty lies of George W. Bush By Patrick Martin 20 March 2003 Monday night's 15-minute speech by President Bush, setting a 48-hour deadline for war against Iraq, went beyond the usual distortions, half-truths, and appeals to fear and backwardness to include a remarkable number of barefaced, easily refuted lies. The enormous scale of the lying suggests two political conclusions: the Bush administration is going to war against Iraq with utter contempt for democracy and public opinion, and its war propaganda counts heavily on the support of the American media, which not only fails to challenge the lies, but repeats and reinforces them endlessly. Without attempting to be exhaustive, it is worthwhile listing some of the most important lies and contrasting Bush's assertions with the public record. All of the false statements listed below are directly quoted from the verbatim transcript of Bush's remarks published on the Internet. Lie No. 1: My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. The decision for war with Iraq was made long ago, the intervening time having been spent in an attempt to create the political climate in which US troops could be deployed for an attack. According to press reports, most recently March 16 in the Baltimore Sun, at one of the first National Security Council meetings of his presidency, months before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Bush expressed his determination to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his willingness to commit US ground troops to an attack on Iraq for that purpose. All that was required was the appropriate pretext - supplied by September 11, 2001. Lie No. 2: For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. The US-led United Nations regime of sanctions against Iraq, combined with no-fly zones and provocative weapons inspections, is one of brutal oppression. The deliberate withholding of food, medical supplies and other vital necessities is responsible for the death of more than a million Iraqis, half of them children. Two UN officials who headed the oil-for-food program resigned in protest over the conditions created in Iraq by the sanctions. The CIA used the inspectors as a front, infiltrating agents into UNSCOM, the original inspections program. The CIA's aim was to spy on Iraq's top officials and target Saddam Hussein for assassination. Lie No. 3: The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and advantage. It has uniformly defied Security Council resolutions demanding full disarmament... Iraq has never defied a Security Council resolution since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. It has generally cooperated with the dictates of the UN body, although frequently under protest or with reservations, because many of the resolutions involve gross violations of Iraqi sovereignty. From 1991 to 1998, UN inspectors supervised the destruction of the vast bulk of the chemical and biological weapons, as well as delivery systems, which Iraq accumulated (with the assistance of the US) during the Iran-Iraq war, and they also destroyed all of Iraq's facilities for making new weapons. Lie No. 4: Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime have failed again and again because we are not dealing with peaceful men. According to the Washington Post of March 16, referring to the 1991- 1998 inspection period: [U]nder UN supervision, Iraq destroyed 817 of 819 proscribed medium-range missiles, 14 launchers, 9 trailers and 56 fixed missile-launch sites. It also destroyed 73 of 75 chemical or biological warheads and 163 warheads for conventional explosives. UN inspectors also supervised destruction of 88,000 filled and unfilled chemical munitions, more than 600 tons of weaponized and bulk chemical weapons agents, 4,000 tons of precursor chemicals and 980 pieces of equipment considered key to production of such weapons. Lie No. 5: The Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. The Washington Post article cited above noted that CIA officials were concerned about whether administration officials have exaggerated intelligence in a desire to convince the American public and foreign governments that Iraq is violating United Nations prohibitions against chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons and long-range missile systems. The article quoted a senior intelligence analyst who said the inspectors could not locate weapons caches because there may not be much of a stockpile. Former British Foreign Minister Robin Cook, who resigned from the Blair government Monday in protest over the decision to go to war without UN authorization, declared, Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term. Even if Iraq is concealing some remnants of its 1980s
[CTRL] [infowars] Terrorism and War provides the EXCUSE FOR TYRANNY (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:09:34 -0500 From: John Perna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Birch Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [infowars] Terrorism and War provides the EXCUSE FOR TYRANNY In every call for more power for government there should be a reminder that nothing in the measure will abrogate the constitutional rights of American citizens. We must not destroy freedom in the name of defending freedom. Be careful about elimination of rights, or the setting up of totalitarian instruments. Creating terrorism provides the EXCUSE FOR TYRANNY. The sequence of steps that have been taken, in this country, is the most common pathway to dictatorship. For Hitler, the national emergency was the burning of the Reichstag Building. Then he set up the Gestapo. We have 9-11 and HomeLand Security. It even sounds like Fatherland Totalitarians gain power through techniques that have been developed over the entire history of mankind. Most of these techniques have been written down in training manuals for would be dictators. Examples are: And Not a Shot is Fired by Jan Kozak, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto - $3.00 http://aobs-store.com/books/title/c_title.htm and The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli. These techniques have also been revealed by defectors such as Eric Blair, who wrote 1984, under the pen name of George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) by Orwell - $5.95 http://aobs-store.com/books/title/n_title.htm The book called Tragedy and Hope was written by Dr. Carroll Quigley. Carroll Quigley claimed that he was not a defector but that he wrote Tragedy and Hope to PROMOTE what he called the network. Dr. Quigley is an authority on the world's secret power structure because HE IS ONE OF THE INSIDERS. He boasts that he has been a part of this network for most of his life. He writes approvingly of their power, and influence. To assure his readers of his own qualifications for the writing of this book, Dr. Quigley states: I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies. . . but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time - $39.95 Liberal university college professor Carroll Quigley praises the efforts of an international Anglophile network whose goal is to rule the world. He boasts of having been permitted to examine its papers and secret records, and confirms the existence of an over-arching conspiracy, and details the origin and eventual power of the CFR and allied groups. (1997 ed, 1348pp, hb) http://www.aobs-store.com/books/title/t_title.htm How to become a dictator The creation of emergencies is a part of the totalitarian agenda. The creation of emergencies gives the government an excuse to crack down. Then the creation of tyranny becomes justifiable and inevitable. When emergencies erupt the population accepts totalitarian measures as the only alternative to the chaos. The action is in the REACTION. This tactic is called pressure from above and pressure from below. The Communist book, called And Not a Shot is Fired by Jan Kozak , explains this entire strategy. Jan Kozak, who was then a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee, explains how a free government was actually transformed into a totalitarian dictatorship - legally. And Not a Shot Is Fired originated as an internal Czechoslovak Communist Party strategy paper. And Not a Shot is Fired is a 'how-to' manual for takeover of a free and elected system of government, through legal means. Kozak's discussion is not theory about what might be possible to accomplish the seizure of power. It is a history of a technique that was actually proven, by its implementation. And Not a Shot Is Fired by Kozak - $6.95 Jan Kozak explains http://aobs-store.com/books/title/a_title.htm Pressure from above is what Jan Kozak called revolutionary parliamentarianism. Revolutionary parliamentarianism means working INSIDE of the system to change laws in such a way as to increase the power of government. Pressure from below consists of the creation of the emergencies; which are then used as the excuses to increase the power of government. Karl Marx referred to pressure from below as the proletarian struggle. Pressure from below might involve violence, or it might simply be the creation of the appearance of popular support for the increase in the power of government. Our government leaves our border WIDE
[CTRL] URANIUM WARFARE: A Crime Against Humanity
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:26:41 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: URANIUM WARFARE: A Crime Against Humanity Forwarded by Hans Karow [EMAIL PROTECTED] on March 19 From: http://www.GuluFuture.com/future/nothing_depleted.htm URANIUM WARFARE: A Crime Against Humanity 17th March, 2003 What if they announced the inevitable deaths from depleted uranium weapons at the actual time of war? Nightly News might go like this: Coalition forces today captured a key enemy stronghold. Thirty enemy combatants were killed and 150 babies horribly malformed. President Bush says it proves that US strategy is working. In a statement, Mr. Bush said that only 75,000 more deformed babies could secure the capital for the US. Ed Carnage reports from Washington... Depleted uranium is the US empire's weapon of choice. But the word 'depleted' is a public relations spin. It makes it sound like the nuclear material is worn out. It's not. It's Uranium. So, let's just call it Uranium. It's a nuclear warhead of solid uranium 238 in a bullet or a shell. It minimizes wartime casualties among US forces. Casualties that would be hard to sell to domestic opinion. Instead, the military casualties are transferred to the future --as deaths of US military forces from uranium exposure. Civilians will die too from these toxic effects. For years to come the Uranium Babies of toxic Kosovo, or Iraq will die from it - whatever its name. In Yugoslavia after the NATO war, as in Iraq after the last Gulf war, uranium dioxide dust now contaminates the environment. The future casualties of modern US warfare are unborn babies, civilians and the US military forces who wield the weapons. The Uranium Babies will be with us for a very long time. For countless millions of years to come, Iraq, Kosovo and indeed the uranium test firing ranges in the USA, will be lands of poison harvest. So will all war theaters of this slow, hidden nuclear holocaust. Uranium nuclear war is a crime against humanity. I will say it again: Uranium nuclear war is a crime against humanity. Dr. Doug Rokke Major Medical Service Corps US Army WMFO FM Nov 13, 2002 CLIP - go read the transcript of this exceptionally revealing interview with Doug Rokke at http://www.GuluFuture.com/future/nothing_depleted.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Environmental Destruction Global Warming Now Irreversible
-Caveat Lector- [Note: Some sources say the oil wells were lit up for propaganda purposes by US commando forces.] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57503-2003Mar19.html Environmental Damages a Concern Experts Fear Effects of War on Persian Gulf Region Could Be 'Irreversible' An Iraqi tank destroyed in the 1991 Persian Gulf War sits amid oil well fires in northern Kuwait set by Iraqi forces. Experts fear worse environmental damage from the new conflict. (David Longstreath -- AP) By Eric Pianin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 20, 2003; Page A21 Environmental experts warned this week that war in Iraq will cause massive and possibly irreversible damage to the Persian Gulf region and significantly add to global warming. The environmental leaders said the ensuing damage to Iraq's ecosystem and food and water supplies may eclipse the destruction during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. I think it will be comprehensive damage, and I don't think it will be localized to the area of Iraq, regardless of how precise and surgical our bombing campaign will be, said Ross Mirkarimi, a San Francisco-based environmental analyst who made two trips to Iraq shortly after U.S.-led forces drove the Iraqis from Kuwait. The pollution will travel in areas that will compound the damage that still remains from the 1991 military campaign. During the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi forces set fire to more than 600 Kuwaiti oil wells, creating toxic smoke that choked the atmosphere and blocked the sun. The Iraqis dumped 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Persian Gulf, tarring beaches, killing more than 25,000 birds and driving millions more away, according to data compiled by the World Resources Institute and other organizations that monitor the environment. Spills of 60 million barrels of oil in the desert formed huge oil lakes and percolated into aquifers. More than 80 percent of Kuwait's livestock perished during the war, and fisheries were heavily polluted, according to the monitoring groups. The burning oil fields released nearly a half-billion tons of carbon dioxide, an amount of greenhouse gas that many scientists say is the leading cause of the earth's rising temperature. To date, a dozen nations affected by the Gulf War have submitted environmental damage claims to the United Nations totaling $79 billion. The U.N. has ruled so far on $1.9 billion of the claims, awarding about $1 billion, most of it to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Environmental groups and experts said a new war in Iraq could do even more harm to the region's environment and water resources, and kill off dozens of endangered species of birds and animals. The first Gulf War was the biggest environmental disaster in recent history, said Gar Smith, former editor of Earth Island Journal and a spokesman for Environmentalists Against the War. Unfortunately, with advances in military technology, a new Gulf War has the potential to be even worse. Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, said in a recent interview with MTV that, To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war. Environmentalists say that U.S. fighter jets, tanks, armor-piercing shells and ground-shattering Massive Ordnance Air-Burst (MOAB) bombs likely will destroy or seriously damage Iraqi water and sewage treatment plants and dams; ruin ancient archaeological sites and harm what little remains of the Mesopotamian Marshlands, the primary source of fresh water in southern Iraq that was systematically destroyed by government engineers during the past 30 years. Iraqi officials have said that they expect to maintain 10 percent of their water supply in a war. But aid agencies say taps could run dry within 12 hours of the first airstrikes on Baghdad, and they are stockpiling large quantities of drinking water for the capital's residents. Environmentalists are particularly concerned about the use of armor-piercing munitions tipped with depleted uranium, a heavy metal that can penetrate tanks but also spreads radioactive dust to soil and water. During the 1991 conflict, U.S. forces fired 320 tons of depleted uranium, most of it from cannons mounted on Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, or Warthogs. Radioactive material was spread across Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, often in tiny fragments that some civilians picked up. Defense Department officials last week said there is little evidence that depleted uranium poses a serious threat to public health or the environment, and they stressed the metal's ability to penetrate enemy armor. Nobody goes into a war and wants to be even with the enemy, Col. James Naughton of the U.S. Army Materiel Command told reporters. If oil wells are set ablaze again, they could do far more environmental damage than was inflicted in 1991, experts said. The Kuwaiti oil wells burned for as many as nine months, generating soot, sulfur and acid rain that covered croplands as many as 1,200 miles away. Over the last
[CTRL] China Condemns US Attack
-Caveat Lector- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200303/20/eng20030320_113636.shtml China Strongly Calls for Immediate Stop of Military Actions Against Iraq China issued an urgent appeal for the immediate halt of military actions against Iraq and a return to the right track to seek a political solution to the Iraq issue, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Thursday. China strongly calls for immediate stop of military actions against Iraq, return to track of political solution to Iraq issue, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said at the press conference Thursday. The military actions against Iraq, carried out despite opposition from most governments and peoples across the world and bypassing the United Nations Security Council, violated the United Nations Charter and the basic norms of international law, he stressed. China is very concerned about, and keeps a close watch on, this situation and Chinese government's position on Iraq issue accords with world people's strong aspiration for peace, according to the spokesman. Kong Quan also said China will continue to call for world peace and will take actions with other countries to make the countries concerned stop their military actions in Iraq. China's concern lies in three aspects Firstly, China is concerned about the military actions that relevant countries have launched against Iraq, disregarding the strong hope and appeal of most countries and their people for peace and bypassing the United Nations Security Council, Kong said at the regular press conference. China is also concerned about the lives and property of the Iraqi people and the profound influence the military actions may bring to regional and global peace. The spokesman said in resolving the Iraq issue, China keeps in mind that the unity and authority of the UN Security Council should be maintained and the seriousness of the Council's Resolution 1441 and other previous resolutions upheld. Among the 190-plus members of the United Nations, the overwhelming majority stand for a political solution of the Iraq issue, and so do most members of the Security Council. China evacuated all its nationals, including diplomats and journalists, from Iraq and closed its embassy in Bagdad two days ago. Kong said that the safety of foreign citizens and embassies in China will be ensured, as the Chinese government attaches great importance to the safety of foreign citizens, embassies and organizations in China. On Japan's support of the military actions against Iraq, Kong said China hopes Japan would be very prudent in participating inany military actions overseas. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] American Attack Against Humanity
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,918056,00.html China and Russia condemn US attack Paul MacInnes Thursday March 20, 2003 As the world responds to the onset of conflict in Iraq, there has been widespread criticism of the outbreak of war and a common plea that care is taken to minimise casualties. China led international response to the declaration of war, accusing the United States of starting an illegitimate conflict and violating the norms of international behaviour. The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, told a regular press briefing the attack had been carried out in disregard for the opposition of the international community. We express regret and disappointment, Mr Kong said. We urge the relevant countries to stop using force, to stop military action. The Iraqi question must return to the track of political settlement within the UN framework. Stressing that China believed the situation in Iraq could still be solved peacefully, Mr Kong went on: We are deeply concerned about the loss of lives and property that might follow. We are also worried about its impact on peace and the development of the world. As to the next step, the Chinese government will continue its efforts towards peace. These views were supported by Russia, whose prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov addressed a weekly government meeting this morning. The Russian leadership expresses regret that the Iraqi crisis is being resolved by military means without a decision by the UN security council, he said. That is to say by the system of international security. France, the country widely blamed by the US and Britain for a failure to secure a second UN resolution to authorise war, was measured in its response. A brief statement by the foreign ministry concentrated solely on the humanitarian aspect of the conflict, saying that French leaders hope that everything will be done to spare the civilian population more hardships. They call on the countries of the region to abstain from any acts that would aggravate the situation. Islamic countries lined up to attack the legitimacy of the war. There was a strong response from Iran, where the foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, was quoted by the Islamic Republic News Agency as saying: American military operations on Iraq are unjustifiable and illegitimate. Mr Kharrazi stressed that Iran would not take action in the conflict to the benefit of either side. Iran, along with Iraq and North Korea, forms part of the axis of evil identified by President Bush last year. Asian Islamic leaders addressed the press within minutes of President Bush's declaration of war, saying the US would pay a heavy price for the conflict. This is not an attack on Islam but an attack on humanity, said Syafii Maarif, head of the 30-million-strong moderate Muhammadiyah Muslim group in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. His views were echoed by Abdul Hadi Awang, the president of the conservative Islamic opposition in Malaysia, who said: This despicable war exposes the ugliness of America and its allies. . The sole voice of support for American action so far has come from Australian prime minister John Howard, who announced that his country's troops were entering into combat in the Gulf. I want to take the opportunity on behalf, I am sure, of all Australians of expressing our hope that all of our men and women will return home safe and sound, Mr Howard said. We should all be united in our hopes and prayers for their safe return. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,918056,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Inspectors say US intelligence was wrong
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,917854,00.html Inspectors say US intelligence was wrong Owen Bowcott in Larnaca, Cyprus Thursday March 20, 2003 The Guardian One of the UN weapons inspectors evacuated from Baghdad yesterday accused the US of providing the mission with wrong and misleading information about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Speaking from the hotel in Cyprus where the inspectors have regrouped since leaving Iraq on Tuesday, Jorn Siljeholm dismissed the US intelligence reports as political instead of factual. None of their hot tips were ever confirmed, he said, adding: I don't know about a single decontamination truck that didn't turn out to be a fire engine or a water truck. Mr Siljeholm, 48, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was angry at assertions made by US administration officials about the extent of the Iraqi arsenal. When you find nothing and repeat the hypothesis that [the Iraqis] are hiding something, it just weakens the hypothesis, he said. Disheartened, and in several cases angry, at the decision to abort their four-month mission to disarm Saddam Hussein, the inspectors acknowledged that the climate of fear inside Iraq had frustrated their weapons search. If an Iraqi scientist revealed to us everything he knew, he and his family would be liquidated, said one official with the UN's monitoring, verification and inspection commission (Unmovic). Iraqi scientists were warned to be careful. Taking them out of the country, taking them to heaven, would not have made any difference in convincing them to talk. Another inspector who took part in face-to-face interviews with Iraqi scientists came to understand their predicament. They were feeling a little guilty, he said, but they insisted they had been ordered by the government to take part in chemical and biological research for the army. Saddam has militarised the whole country, everywhere you go there are policemen. Another UN source said: There were clearly signs the Iraqis were not willing to let some of them be interviewed in private. Even at the end scientists insisted on bringing tape recorders with them. The tapes, it was suspected, would have been handed to Iraqi intelligence as proof that nothing compromising had been betrayed. This raises doubt over whether the Iraqi authorities have something to hide or were fearful of these people exposing what we didn't already know. But most of the inspectors stressed that the mission had been making progress right up to the moment when the order to evacuate was issued. [On Monday evening] we were conducting a private interview about biological weapons which went on for two and a half hours, said Miroslav Gregoric, the head of Unmovic's mission in Baghdad. It's sad to see unfinished business being completed by other means, not necessarily within the UN system. Asked whether more time would have averted war, he replied: I'm not sure. We were removing weapons of mass destruction. In four months it was difficult to achieve everything. Our inspectors were working seven days a week, but the system inside Iraq is very closed; people are frightened. Our work was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle: when you put all the pieces together you hope to see the whole picture. Among the inspectors and support staff the prevailing mood was disappointment that their efforts had been overtaken by the political rift in the UN security council. Their private opinions reflected the full spectrum of international debate: some said the Iraqis deserved freedom, others feared the consequences of the imminent US onslaught. When you live in a country for some time it becomes your home, said one worker, looking out over the windswept Cypriot beach. Bedereldine Ahmed, a translator, said: I wish we had stayed. The Iraqi people feel disappointed. They wanted us to complete the job. A colleague added: People are a little angry, but mostly sad. We hope to go back to Baghdad. After two days' rest and time to finish their final reports, the UN team will learn at the weekend whether the mission is to be suspended or abolished. Some hope they will be allowed back after the war to complete a final audit of President Saddam's weapons. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] US Spying on It's Allies: Phone bugs found at EU-HQ
-Caveat Lector- http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6154944%255E25778,00.html Phone bugs found at EU-HQ March 19, 2003 TELEPHONE bugging systems have been found targeting a number of delegations at EU headquarters, notably the French and the Germans, an official said. The illegal systems were found in the Council building, where meetings of EU ministers and leaders are held. An EU summit is to be held tomorrow and Friday, overshadowed by Iraq. Intelligence services from the council and the countries concerned have launched an investigation into the bugs, but it is impossible at this stage to determine who planted them, said the official. According to the French daily Le Figaro, Belgian police have identified Americans as those responsible. But Belgian authorities said police had not been involved in the case, and declined any further comment. The investigation has only just started and we know nothing yet about who has benefited from this crime, said Dominique-Georges Marro, head of the council's press service. A spokesman for the US mission to the EU declined to comment on the report immediately. I don't have anything on it right now ... it's something which just came to our attention, he said. France and Germany have been in a fierce standoff over the looming war on Iraq, notably with EU members Britain and Spain who support the US threat of conflict. Marro said the bugging systems were found in recent days during regular inspections by security services. Attempts had previously been made but this is the first time that we have found a system already in place, he said. The investigation should determine how long it has been in place, he added. A small number of delegations were targeted, including the French and German, he said, declining to list any other countries involved. The bugging system was apparently put in place via the council's switchboard to monitor telephone lines to rooms used by delegations inside the building. EU political leaders and their civil servants meet in such rooms in the sidelines of ministerial meetings and summits. The French and German delegations declined immediately to comment on the investigation. Agence France-Presse http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6154944%255E25778,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush Clings To Dubious Allegations About Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032003G.shtml Bush Clings To Dubious Allegations About Iraq By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday 18 March 2003 As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week, it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged -- and in some cases disproved -- by the United Nations, European governments and even U.S. intelligence reports. For months, President Bush and his top lieutenants have produced a long list of Iraqi offenses, culminating Sunday with Vice President Cheney's assertion that Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons. Previously, administration officials have tied Hussein to al Qaeda, to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and to an aggressive production of biological and chemical weapons. Bush reiterated many of these charges in his address to the nation last night. But these assertions are hotly disputed. Some of the administration's evidence -- such as Bush's assertion that Iraq sought to purchase uranium -- has been refuted by subsequent discoveries. Other claims have been questioned, though their validity can be known only after U.S. forces occupy Iraq. In outlining his case for war on Sunday, Cheney focused on how much more damage al Qaeda could have done on Sept. 11 if they'd had a nuclear weapon and detonated it in the middle of one of our cities, or if they had unleashed . . . biological weapons of some kind, smallpox or anthrax. He then tied that to evidence found in Afghanistan of how al Qaeda leaders have done everything they could to acquire those capabilities over the years. But in October CIA Director George J. Tenet told Congress that Hussein would not give such weapons to terrorists unless he decided helping terrorists in conducting a WMD [weapons of mass destruction] attack against the United States would be his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him. In his appearance Sunday, on NBC's Meet the Press, the vice president argued that we believe [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. But Cheney contradicted that assertion moments later, saying it was only a matter of time before he acquires nuclear weapons. Both assertions were contradicted earlier by Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who reported that there is no indication of resumed nuclear activities. ElBaradei also contradicted Bush and other officials who argued that Iraq had tried to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes to use in centrifuges for uranium enrichment. The IAEA determined that Iraq did not plan to use imported aluminum tubes for enriching uranium and generating nuclear weapons. ElBaradei argued that the tubes were for conventional weapons and it was highly unlikely that the tubes could have been used to produce nuclear material. Cheney on Sunday said ElBaradei was wrong about Iraq's nuclear program and questioned the IAEA's credibility. Earlier this month, ElBaradei said information about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium were based on fabricated documents. Further investigation has found that top CIA officials had significant doubts about the veracity of the evidence, linking Iraq to efforts to purchase uranium for nuclear weapons from Niger, but the information ended up as fact in Bush's State of the Union address. In another embarrassing episode for the administration, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell cited evidence about Iraq's weapons efforts that originally appeared in a British intelligence document. But it later emerged that the British report's evidence was based in part on academic papers and trade publications. Sometimes information offered by Bush and his top officials is questioned by administration aides. In his March 6 news conference, Bush dismissed Iraq's destruction of its Al Samoud-2 missiles, saying they were being dismantled even as [Hussein] has ordered the continued production of the very same type of missiles. But the only intelligence was electronic intercepts that had individuals talking about being able to build missiles in the future, according to a senior intelligence analyst. Last month, Bush spoke about a liberated Iraq showing the power of freedom to transform that vital region and said a new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region. But a classified State Department report put together by the department's intelligence and research staff and delivered to Powell the same day as Bush's speech questioned that theory, arguing that history runs counter to it. In his first major speech solely on the Iraqi threat, last October, Bush said, Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and other nations -- in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members
[CTRL] Midas Ears: Unspeakable Truth
-Caveat Lector- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:25:30 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EXCERPT: If it is proven now beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jews of France secretly bought and subverted French media for many years in order to distort the national discourse and eventually push unprepared France into the horrible and unneeded World War Two, is it impossible to consider that the Jews of the US have secretly taken over their national media and are now pushing the US into a horrible and unneeded World War Three? An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public pressure. - Edward Said Midas Ears By Israel Shamir A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected boardrooms of newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers. It is the spectre of glasnost: the dark secret of Jewish power is out. Just recently it was third rail, touch-and-die, deadly dangerous to mention, certain end to a career. Just recently, Joe Public snapped his TV from an eminence with an Israeli passport to a member of a Jewish think-tank, and muttered to himself: Surely it is just a coincidence that so many important and largely unelected people in our country happen to belong to this small minority group. Surely it is just a coincidence that they belong to different parties but reach the same conclusions. Surely it is just a coincidence that ninety per cent of American foreign aid goes to their cousins in prosperous Tel Aviv. Surely it is just a coincidence that they run our newspapers, television, cinema, universities. Anyway, we are not allowed to notice this elephant in our sitting room. Only rare desperados comment, as Edgar Steele did on Rense.com: The silence in America concerning Jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The old adage has it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain who really runs things, one need determine only who is spoken about in whispers, if at all. Judged by this measure, the Jews rule supreme. Indeed, when I referred to Jewish media lords during a UNESCO conference in the summer of 2001, the audiences hearts missed a beat. The yet-unfought War on Iraq changed this. The American Ultimatum date was set on 17 March, the Jewish feast of Purim. Purim, 1991 saw destruction of Iraqi armies and death of 200,000 Iraqis. Too many coincidences for a purely American war. The Americans peeped into the bottomless abyss of World War Three and woke up from their generation-long stupor. Thus the first victim of the Iraqi War is not truth, but the strongest taboo in the West. A Democrat member of Congress, usually a most docile specimen, one James Moran, dared to tell his supporters: If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this. He was immediately slapped by a Jewish overseer: It is simply stunning to hear Representative Moran make such accusations, said National Jewish Democratic Council Executive Director, Ira N. Forman. First, a number of the current leaders of the anti-war movement are Jewish, and Jewish organizations have clearly not been at the forefront among those groups actively and stridently supporting a war in Iraq. Forman had spoken, and the media reported and amplified his view, and Moran duly recanted, slapped. But he is not the only one. The secret is out, and like the secret of King Midas and his long ears, it is being sung now from coast to coast, despite the frantic efforts of the organized Jewish community to clamp the lid back on the boiling cauldron. Kathleen and Bill Christison,[i] two ex-CIA experts, exposed the link between right-wing American Jews and the Bush Administration. Edward Said, the most celebrated American thinker of Palestinian origin, stated the cause: An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public pressure.[ii] He was seconded by courageous Herman, Neumann and Blankfort. These Americans of Jewish origin object to the un-elected, anti-democratic Jewish power as they would object to any disproportionate minority power. Their presence, as they were not afraid of the anti-Semitic label, was instrumental in turning the tide and saving the intimidated majority from its browbeating. Edward Herman, the author of Manufacturing Consent (together with Noam Chomsky), wrote of the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States, which advances Israeli interests by pushing for U.S. aid and protection to Israel, and, currently, by pressing for a war against Iraq, which again will serve Israeli interests. This lobby has not only helped control media debate and made congress into `Israeli occupied territory, it has seen to it that numerous officials with dual loyalties occupy strategic decision-making
[CTRL] Al-Qaida to Use Flumonia As BioWeapon Against America?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAN28 19 Mar 2003 11:52 U.S. boy in Vietnam contracts mystery pnuemonia By Christina Toh-Pantin HANOI, March 19 (Reuters) - An American schoolboy in southern Vietnam has contracted a fast-spreading pneumonia that has killed at least 14 people, but he was not known to have been exposed to anyone else infected, health officials said on Wednesday. A Vietnamese nurse and a French doctor have died from the virus in Hanoi, termed an atypical pneumonia, after treating a U.S. businessman who was hospitalised in Vietnam's capital city following trips to Shanghai and Hong Kong. The American businessman died in Hong Kong on Thursday. Nearly 60 people have fallen ill in Vietnam from the virus, which is believed to have originated in southern China late last year. Most infections are in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam, but it is fast spreading to Singapore, Canada and Taiwan, with linked cases in Australia, Britain, Brunei, Canada, Spain and the United States. Most of the cases have been medical staff at hospitals or relatives of people who have fallen ill. The World Health Organisation said the boy, believed to be 11 years old, had travelled to the northern resort town of Sapa on a school trip before falling sick. U.S. ambassador Raymond Burghardt told a meeting of diplomats that the boy, who lives in Ho Chi Minh City, had also been in Hanoi but had no apparent link to any health care workers or other victims. He said doctors from the Centers for Disease Control who are helping with the crisis concluded he had symptoms that meets completely the profile of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). Pascale Brudon, a representative of the WHO in Hanoi, said: It's too early to have a definite conclusion that the illness was spreading beyond the medical worker community who had been directly infected. She also said doctors had not ruled out the virus being spread from animals to humans. However, Brudon stressed that the disease was not believed to be spread by casual contact. The early symptoms are similar to influenza, and include high fever and respiratory problems. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=117art_id=qw1048070161267B215set_id=1 Frantic search for 'flumonia' cause continues March 19 2003 at 01:46PM Hong Kong - Scientists on Wednesday reported promising leads in the frantic search for the cause of a baffling respiratory illness as the death toll climbed and infections continued spreading in three continents. At least seven deaths directly attributed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been reported by health authorities over the past week, three in Hong Kong, and two each in Vietnam and Canada. Another two victims in Hong Kong have died after contracting SARS, but were also suffering from other problems, while seven fatalities in mainland China are under investigation as possible SARS cases. Singapore's ministry of health (MOH) said preliminary findings by experts at the Singapore General Hospital and the Defence Medical Research Intitute showed that the likely infective agent belongs to the paramyxovirus family. Spain has also reported its first suspected case of the disease This corroborates early investigation results by overseas centres in Germany and Hong Kong, the MOH said in a statement. More than 250 reported SARS infections have now been monitored by health authorities in Asia, Europe and North America over the past week. Over 300 similar cases from an earlier outbreak in China are still under study. A French doctor who treated the first case of SARS diagnosed in Vietnam died on Wednesday in Hanoi, the French embassy said. Jean-Paul Derosier, a 65-year-old anaesthetist, had been in critical condition for several days at the French Hospital in Hanoi. He had been in direct contact with a 48-year-old American who fell ill during a business trip to Hanoi and died in hospital last week in Hong Kong. A Vietnamese nurse who was also involved in the treatment died last weekend. 'No restrictions on travel to any destination are necessary' Hong Kong Health Secretary Yeoh Eng-kiong said on Wednesday that five people including the US businessman have died in the territory after they were stricken with SARS, and the number of infected people had risen to 145. Two of them died following complications that included heart and liver diseases and further tests needed to determine whether SARS was the main cause of death. Two Canadian family members in Toronto who had visited Asia have also died of SARS. Experts believe that five deaths out of 305 infections from an earlier outbreak in southern China which peaked last month were also caused by SARS, but further tests are being conducted to confirm this. In another incident, a man and his wife died in Beijing this month from atypical pneumonia but health officials in China could not
[CTRL] Into the Darkness
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031903A.shtml Into the Darkness By William Rivers Pitt T r u t h o u t | Perspective Tuesday 18 March 2003 An associate of mine, a former political appointee, recently spoke to a Republican friend of his who serves in a senior position in what has become the Office of Homeland Security. He reports that this official, along with many of his colleagues across the political spectrum within the apparatus of government, are absolutely terrified of George W. Bush. According to this official, the consensus is that Bush has completely lost touch with reality, and is bringing us to a place where politics will no longer matter. A London newspaper, the Guardian, has quoted a source close to the administration as saying, This has been the worst diplomatic debacle of our lifetime. A senior White House official is also quoted as saying, in a voice reportedly awash with sarcasm, There's a recognition that this has not been our finest diplomatic hour. There is no calculating the understatement here. There was never any diplomacy involved here to begin with. This has been a disaster, and it is about to get worse by orders of magnitude. The weapons inspectors, empowered by UN resolution 1441 to ferret out the weapons everyone is so concerned about, have packed their bags and fled Iraq. They have been betrayed by the Bush administration, by Tony Blair and by Spain, as they worked to protect us from both these weapons and from the dreadful effects of a war in the Middle East. The inspections were working . weapons were being dismantled, Hussein was under control, and no mass destruction materials were found. The fact that the hammer has come down before these inspectors were even half done with their work means, simply, that those pushing for war never wanted the inspections to work in the first place. Welcome to the timeline. Very soon now, perhaps within the next 72 hours, the Pentagon's Shock and Awe battle plan will be put into effect. 3,000 munitions, including some 800 cruise missiles, will rain down on Baghdad, a city inhabited by some 5 million civilians. This will be done in the hope that the Iraqi army will surrender, thus avoiding the need to send U.S. troops in to fight a ruinous house-to-house battle. The Arab news service Al Jazeera, operating out of Qatar, will capture images of thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians sprawled and shattered and bloody in the Baghdad streets, in a manner quite like the bodies we saw in New York on September 11. The resulting explosion of rage within the moderate and extremist Muslim world will be immediate and ferocious. The terrorism alert status in America will rise to red. Troops will appear in the streets. Saddam Hussein will not flee, and his forces will stand in Baghdad. American troops will be forced to fight downtown. The oilheads in Iraq will be fired, and the pipeheads will be opened. Israel will be attacked, much to the dismay of Bush administration officials who have pushed this war in the erroneous assumption that such action will serve to protect that nation. Unlike the first Gulf War, this time Israel will strike back. American homeland security forces . police, fire fighters and emergency rescue personnel . will watch their radios nervously, waiting for the inevitable call. They know, better than anyone, that this country is not ready to defend itself against an attack. Their budgets have been gutted, the promised funding to augment their preparedness has not come. They are not ready, but they stand and wait regardless, because that is what they have pledged to do. Somewhere in America . perhaps in New York, perhaps in Washington DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Miami, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, San Francisco, Cleveland, Atlanta, perhaps in all of them simultaneously . there will be an explosion. A group that cares nothing for the well being of Saddam Hussein will take responsibility, in the name of those thousands of Iraqi Muslims slaughtered in the initial aerial bombardment of Baghdad. The body bags will come out, here at home and across the sea in Iraq, as Americans begin to die in terrible numbers. Martial law will be declared, habeas corpus will be suspended, posse comitatus will be left aside, and the strictures outlined by both Patriot Acts will come to full bloom. 227 years of constitutional law in America will draw to a close. An oil shock will roll across the global community, ripping through an already precarious economic situation. Here at home, the financial cost of this war will hurl us further into deficit. More explosions will echo across the streets of America. They could be nuclear or biological or chemical in nature, because in the effort to overthrow Hussein we have ignored completely the fact that al Qaeda
[CTRL] Russia Says War in Iraq a Mistake and Illegal
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031903E.shtml Russia Says War in Iraq a Mistake and Illegal By Viktor Korotayev Reuters Monday 17 March 2003 Russia called for last-minute attempts to solve the Iraq crisis peacefully on Monday, saying any resort to force would be both a mistake and illegal. Russia has aligned itself with France and Germany in calling for further U.N. arms inspections to ensure that Iraq is free of what the United States says are illegal weapons. Like France, a fellow permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, it has threatened to veto any new resolution endorsing military action. President Vladimir Putin, speaking before the United States and Britain said they would no longer seek a vote for a new resolution endorsing force, said any approach other than peaceful disarmament would be a mistake. We would like to resolve it through political and diplomatic means, he told reporters. I am convinced that any other solution would be a mistake. Putin, who has made infrequent statements at home on the crisis, said war will not only bring about human casualties but also destabilise the international community in general. There are 20 million Muslims living in Russia. We cannot afford not to consider their opinion and we fully share their alarm, he added. Both Washington and Britain say military action now against Iraq would be legal. But Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, speaking after the abandonment of Washington's bid to seek U.N. endorsement for war, said existing U.N. Security Council resolutions gave no one any legal right to launch a strike on Iraq. We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds, Ivanov told reporters. NO ENDORSEMENT FROM CURRENT RESOLUTION Ivanov said resolution 1441 of last November, under which U.N. weapons inspections were resumed, gave no endorsement. Resolution 1441, to which so many references are made, does not give anyone the right to use force automatically, he said. That resolution, approved unanimously, spoke of serious consequences if Iraq failed to comply with demands to disarm. Ivanov said the resolution contained a clause obliging Security Council members, if necessary, to meet immediately to ensure Iraq's strict implementation of its terms. There was still a chance, he said, for diplomacy to succeed. The Foreign Ministry said no decision had been made on whether Ivanov would fly to New York to press an 11th hour case. France, Germany and Russia called at the weekend for a Tuesday meeting of ministers of Security Council members. Georgy Mamedov, a deputy foreign minister, said Russia would do its best to minimise differences with Washington. Russia will not launch an anti-American campaign, but will try its utmost to return the situation to a proper legal basis, Mamedov was quoted as telling Itar-Tass news agency. We will not gloat over a tragic mistake by the United States or start a noisy campaign. Our relations are too important for international peace to hold them hostage to differences over the Iraq problem. Go to Original France: Most on Council Oppose War CNN Monday 17 March 2003 France said Washington and its allies abandoned their proposed U.N. resolution on Iraq after they realized they lacked a majority on the Security Council. French U.N. ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said the United States, Britain and Spain realized that the majority in the council is against and oppose a resolution authorizing the use of force. The U.S., UK and Spain announced Monday that they had abandoned efforts to seek a vote on their proposed second U.N. resolution on Iraq. (No resolution) A short time later, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said weapons inspectors and humanitarian workers were to be pulled out of Iraq. (U.N. withdrawal) De La Sabliere said a huge majority of the Security Council remained opposed to war. He said: It would not be legitimate to authorize the use of force now while the inspections set out by resolution are producing results. The co-sponsors made some bilateral consultation last night and this morning and the result is that the majority of the council confirmed that they do not want to authorize the use of force. Later Monday, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said France regretted the decision by the United States and its allies to abandon diplomacy. Despite the clearly expressed will of the international community, the United States, Great Britain and Spain are today underlining their determination to resort to force, Villepin said in a statement. France regrets a decision which nothing justifies
[CTRL] UN Resolution 1441 Does Not Authorise Force
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031903F.shtml Sorry, Mr Blair, but 1441 Does Not Authorise Force Keir Starmer The Guardian Monday 17 March 2003 The attorney general has a tricky task in defending the legal basis for war The legal community is deeply divided on the question of the legality of using force against Iraq in the absence of a further UN resolution. There are two camps. The first takes the view that military action can be justified without a further resolution either on the basis of self-defence or on the basis that previous UN resolutions, including resolution 1441, authorise the use of force. The second takes the opposite view that, as things stand, there is no actual or imminent threat from Iraq that would justify a self-defence response by the UK and that nothing in resolution 1441, or any other UN resolution, authorises the use of force without a further resolution giving clear authority to do so. The government has been advised on the issue by Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general. His advice is to be disclosed today. All the prime minister has been prepared to say so far is that the UK will not take any action that does not have a proper legal basis, as he made clear in his answers in parliament last week. Time is now running out. In the very near future British troops are likely to be committed to battle. They, their families and the public have a right to know what the proper legal basis for their action is. Engaging in armed conflict in breach of international law is a precarious business. The idea that the prime minister would end up before the international criminal court for participating in a US-led attack is far-fetched. But military commanders on the ground will not thank the government if any action they take is later judged to have been in breach of international law. The limits of the potential arguments available to the government are clear. According to the UN charter, there are only two possible situations in which one country can take military action against another. The first is in individual or collective self-defence - a right under customary international law which is expressly preserved by Article 51 of the UN charter. The second is where, under Article 42 of the charter, the security council decides that force is necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security where its decisions have not been complied with. In other words, where a UN resolution clearly authorises military action. The question whether the Article 51 self-defence route justifies a pre-emptive attack has been keenly debated. Article 51 itself is silent on the matter. But even if it does justify a pre-emptive strike, which is surely the sounder position in a nuclear world, any threat to the UK or its allies would have to be imminent and any force used in response to that threat would have to be proportionate before Article 51 can be relied on. The mere fact that Iraq has a capacity to attack at some unspecified time in the future is not enough. The problem for the government is one of credibility. No one believes that Iraq is about to attack the UK or its allies, and any self-defence claim by the government would sit very uncomfortably with the US position that military action is justified to destroy such weapons of mass destruction as Iraq may have, and to bring about a change of leadership. The second route, which depends on Article 42 of the UN charter, appears more promising for the government. There are two strands to this argument. The first is that resolution 1441 itself authorises the use of force against Iraq. It warns Iraq that it will face serious consequences if it continues to violate obligations spelled out in that resolution. But, critically, the words all necessary means have not been used. They are important words because they are the formula used by the UN to indicate that the use of force is authorised. They were the words used to justify military action against Iraq in 1991 and, subsequently, when the security council authorised intervention in Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. The argument that all the security council members, including France and Russia, intended to authorise the use of force when they voted for resolution 1441 is hardly compelling, and arguments that resolution 1441 implicitly authorises the use of force run into the same difficulty. The only real alternative for the government is to argue that Iraq's failure to comply with the ceasefire requirements of UN resolution 687, passed at the end of military action against Iraq in April 1991, justifies the renewed use of force. But that, too, is not without its difficulties. Like resolution 1441, resolution 687 does not itself authorise the use of force. The only security council resolution expressly authorising the use of force against Iraq was 678, which was passed at the start of the Gulf war in November 1990, and the
[CTRL] Analysis: The U.S. is almost alone in its war on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=274223contrassID=1subContrassID=1sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y Analysis / The U.S. is almost alone in its waron Iraq By Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz Correspondent According to a new joke in Jordan, U.S. President George W. Bush will announce Tuesday that the final oppotunity to prevent a war against Iraq is if French President Jacques Chirac and his family leave France of their own volition and be exiled to Baghdad. Arab commentators are not taking the real American ultimatum seriously, according to which Saddam Hussein's departure from Iraq could actually prevent war. It also appears as if the U.S. president has no illusions regarding Saddam's intentions, which have already been clarified by Iraq. The ultimatum will provide a short delay for anyone wishing to leave Iraq before the bombing gets underway. UN inspectors already received the first evacuation warning on Sunday, and on Monday received a public order; diplomatic delegations, UN monitors and foreign businessmen were also ordered to leave Iraq. For Washington, the diplomatic window has closed, after it said that it has no intention of submitting its doomed proposal to the UN Security Council. But it is possible that on Tuesday the council's foreign ministers, especially Russia, will try to make an effort to get another postponement. Another possibility is that the Security Council will attempt to undertake a resolution condemning the unilateral step taken by the United States and Britain, which according to the UN Secretary General, will be in violation of the organization's treaty. This proposal does not have a real chance to be accepted, and if it is submitted, it would serve only as a declarative step by the opposing countries. By the end of the week, the United States (together with 40,000 British troops) will launch a war to oust Saddam's regime. This will be an American war, and it seems as if an American military victory would constitute only the first part of the campaign. This time around the war against Iraq will take place without an international coalition (while crushing the UN's status), without a northern front in Turkey and without Arab support; but with a British ally whose status is threatened by internal political dissent, with negative world opinion and American public opinion that is, at best, divided on the military step, and with a good chance of generating two internal civil wars parallel to the war on Iraq - amid Iraqi factions that will race for control over the country, and between Turkey and the Kurds. Washington warned Turkey on Monday not to launch its army into Kurdish areas, and in talks held between Kurdish and Turkish officials, the two sides promised not to sabotage the U.S. war efforts. But according to Turkish sources, too many suspicions exist, and if Turkey learns that Kurdish forces, trained by U.S. troops, intend to move south, it may violate its commitment to the United States and send forces to the Kurdish enclave. Turkey is also concerned by the entrance of several thousands of armed Shi'ite opposition members, belonging to the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, also known as the Badr Brigades. These people arrived in northern Iraq from Iran and plan to join the Kurds as a fighting force. Against all these threats the U.S. has to win not only a resounding and mainly quick victory, but must also demonstrate the ability and willingness to conduct a civilian conquest that would not stir regional unrest in Arab countries and among terror organizations. Regarding the preparations in Iraq, Saddam Hussein has ordered his troops to refrain from any response during the first stage of the war, and to try and ride out the stage of heavy bombings with minimal losses. The Iraqi president is taking his chances on the second stage, the ground assault, and especially on the exhausting strategy of urban warfare. According to a senior Jordanian source, Saddam understands that he does not have the military strength to deal with American power and technology, but he believes that a high number of U.S. casualties may increase internal U.S. opposition to the the war and curb the offensive before it is complete. Saddam has divided his country to four military regions, and appointed his close aides to head them. This division is intended to ensure his presence on all the fronts, and to allow for decentralization among his close associates, in the event that U.S. bombs break communications between Saddam's headquarters and field HQs. Under such conditions, each of the supreme commanders is entitled to activate forces according to his understanding, without prior consultations with Saddam. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and
Re: [CTRL] [U-S-A] Anti-Americanism Taboo in U-S-A (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- The annual US spy-budget is ~$80 billion USD, and the defence budget well over 1 billion per day. And I believe Bush was allocating what $30 Billion annually for the Homeland Security, to spy over Americans (with Bush having dictatorial powers and no union or whistleblower rights or protections for it's employees.) And they have asked for $70 billion for the costs of this war. It will include costs for dealing with anti-war people. = They have the kind of file that has everything. *E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g* -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:57:32 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U-S-A] Anti-Americanism Taboo in U-S-A And what kind of file do you think they have on those of us who criticize U-S-A online? POC -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:37:23 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Canadian CPTer Denied Entry to USA Those nasty Canadians! Trying to foment rebellion in the states again! -- John Wilmerding CPTnet March 14, 2003 TORONTO/CHICAGO: Canadian CPTer denied entry to USA, questioned by FBI Matthew Bailey-Dick, 30, from Waterloo ON, was denied entry into the USA early on March 7, 2003, after U.S. immigration officials at Port Huron MI found literature from Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in the trunk of his rental car. The immigration officers claimed that the CPT newsletters, printed in Chicago IL, were anti-American. They also raised concerns about a sticker on Bailey-Dick's guitar case that read, Question authority. Bailey-Dick is currently studying at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Goshen, IN. He had been in Waterloo, ON, speaking at the church he had pastored for the previous two years -- Waterloo Kitchener United Mennonite Church -- about his participation in the recent CPT delegation to Iraq. Bailey-Dick was carrying a J-1 student visa, valid until the end of August 2003. U.S. immigration officers confiscated the visa, insisting that he needed a new type of visa document. They then finger-printed and photographed him. Later that day, an immigration supervisor told Bailey-Dick that his student visa was valid, but that he was still denied entry into the USA. The supervisor said that Bailey-Dick needed to go to Detroit for an interview with an even higher-echelon U.S. immigration official. When he arrived at the Detroit border crossing on March 8, Bailey-Dick was questioned for an hour by FBI agent Tom Morisi and immigration officer John Owen about the work of Christian Peacemaker Teams and the CPT delegation to Iraq. They then informed him that his student visa would be reissued. At the end of the questioning, Owen cautioned Bailey-Dick, Don't bring any of that literature across the border any more. It's one thing for an American citizen to distribute such literature. It's quite a different thing for a foreign national to come into the USA and promote such ideas. For more information contact Doug Pritchard, tel 416-423-5525, cellular 647-297-7079 Christian Peacemaker Teams is an initiative among Mennonite and Church of the Brethren congregations and Friends Meetings that supports violence reduction efforts around the world. Contact CPT, POB 6508 Chicago, IL 60680; Telephone: 773-277-0253 Fax: 773-277-0291. To receive news or discussion of CPT issues by e-mail, fill out the form found on our WEB page at http://www.prairienet.org/cpt/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] British embargo grounds Israel's nuclear capability
-Caveat Lector- http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=238435lang=edir=news British embargo grounds Israel's nuclear capability 06-01-2003 The unofficial but rapidly growing British and European embargo on supply of military equipment to Israel is causing grave concern to Israeli military planners. Following the refusal of Germany to provide critical parts for the local production of the Israeli Army's Merkava battle tanks, a British embargo on ejector seat parts is threatening to seriously damage Israel's much feared nuclear capability. Britain has been holding back on delivery of many military-related supplies to Israel since the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifadah over two years ago. Among the items that are being denied to Israel are key parts for the Martin-Baker ejection seats that equip Israel's American made F-4 Phantom jets. Ejector seats allow pilots of the jets to escape their aircraft in case of emergency, and without them Israel will have to ground its Phantom jet fleet. Rachel Niedak-Ashkenazi, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, told Israel's Haaretz daily that she didn't know how soon the planes would have to be grounded, but indicated it was a matter of weeks or months. We are desperately searching for other sources but haven't located any yet, she said. The ejection seat parts are now at the center of a major diplomatic row between Israel and Britain. The British Daily Times has recently reported that Victor Harel, a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official, called the embargo .a major cloud in our bilateral relations with Britain.. The strong Israeli reaction included several accusations against Britain, not least of which was the charge that Britain was hurting Israel on the eve of potential war with Iraq. The harsh Israeli reaction may seem puzzling in view of the seeming unimportance of the Phantom jets. These are old airplanes, designed in the 1950s, and the Israeli Air Force has hundreds of much newer combat aircraft its inventory. However, despite the introduction of much newer and more advanced aircraft, such as the F-16 and F-15 fighters Israel used to attack Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981, the Israel Air Force continues to operate the aging Phantom fleet. The Israeli army has even invested large sums of money in upgrading the Phantoms into a new and improved version, the Phantom 2000. Some experts explain that the reason the Phantom is still in service with Israel is its apparent nuclear capability. As early as the 1973 October War, Israeli Phantoms were armed with nuclear bombs and prepared to deliver an Atomic attack as Syrian and Egyptian forces defeated Israeli troops on the frontline. In September 2002, former senior U.S. officials told The Washington Times how eight Israeli Phantoms were set to attack the military headquarters near Damascus and Cairo with nuclear weapons. It must also be realized that despite its age, the Phantom is still a highly capable bomber, with the extremely long range needed to attack countries such as Iraq and Iran. According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Israel's improved Phantoms have a range of 2,575 kilometers, which means they can fly over 643 Kilometers further than the Israeli Air Force's newer but smaller F-16 fighter-bombers. The Phantom also has another advantage in that it carries a navigator as well as a pilot, giving it an important advantage when attacking targets far off from Israel. Last, but far from least, the large Phantom can carry the Israeli Popeye missile, a large and heavy weapon that in the United States Air Force is carried by the gigantic B-52 bombers. The Popeye is a precision guided missile that allows the Phantom to deliver its attack through strong defenses, and that also carries a much larger warhead then the smaller precision guided missiles that most modern aircraft carry. In view of the atomic role of the Israeli Phantom fleet, the connection Israeli spokespersons have made between the British embargo and a confrontation with Iraq takes on a much stronger meaning. However, it must be remembered that in addition to the Phantom jets, Israel still has several other means to deliver nuclear weapons throughout the Middle East, including the F-16 and F-15 jets that have already attacked Arab targets as far away as Iraq and Tunisia. . (albawaba.com) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's
[CTRL] Massive Human Slaughter
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031703A.shtml Massive Human Slaughter By Marc Ash Sunday 16 March 2003 What George W. Bush and Tony Blair are planning is the greatest act of human slaughter since Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge orchestrated the Cambodian genocide in the mid 1970s. That act killing some 1.5 to 2 million largely defenseless and quite peaceful Cambodians. Civilian Iraq is utterly defenseless and totally unprepared for the carnage that is about to be visited upon them. It is murder plain and simple, murder on an unimaginable scale. There is no war looming, no conflict with Iraq, and no standoff. What exists is a vast military force poised to inflict death and destruction on a major population center. Those who live there will attempt to defend themselves, but they will fail, and the dead will cover the ground like a fallen forest. Should this act of insanity proceed, it will stand as one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever recorded. Know now, it can be stopped. This deadly drama now playing out on the United Nations stage is not for diplomacy or disarmament or for some vague resolution. They joust for one thing: the hearts of common men. All that stands between Baghdad and unprecedented destruction is our favor, and nothing more. The world does not oppose America; it opposes unbridled aggression. While their leaders disagree on what course to take, the people of France, England, Spain and the United States do not. It is not the collective will of these nations that Baghdad be destroyed and it's sons and daughters slain. We are tolerant and reasonable; we will allow the process of inspections to proceed. Men like Bush and Blair, small in numbers and spirit, beat the drum for invasion in the hopes that many will follow. If those many stand firm, their call will go unanswered. The blood of innocents once shed cannot be unshed. Should the US military set about killing these people, the deed remains our doing for all time. We are given now a precious moment for reflection. Let us use it wisely. The voices of true American friends all over the world are clearly calling to us: Be patient... work as a group... you are not alone. Let us not taint the American experience for all time by answering, instead, a drumbeat to madness. We hear day after day that Time is running out. Running out on what, on who? On Saddam Hussein? On a five thousand year old city? On 24 million men, women and children? Or is time running out on the spirit of America? On the soul of our people? Why is it that the world no longer cherishes American values? Could it be because we no longer cherish them ourselves? The right way is the American way. America's great gift to the world is fair play and due process. Democracy is not a sales slogan. It is a commitment to tolerating dissent and yielding to consensus. Genocide, on the other hand, is true anarchy. __ You can send comments to t r u t h o u t Editor Marc Ash at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Demonstrations in Spain and Around the World Against an Iraq War
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031803B.shtml Demonstrations in Spain and Around the World Against an Iraq War By Emma Daly New York Times Sunday 15 March 2003 MADRID, March 15 Angered at their government's unwavering support for United States policy on Iraq, Spaniards took to the streets here today, one of hundreds of antiwar demonstrations around the world. For the second time in a month, crowds of demonstrators jammed the center of Madrid, waving antiwar placards and chanting insults against President Bush and one of his strongest allies, Prime Minister José María Aznar of Spain. We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world, José Saramago, the Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate, told the crowd, estimated by news organizations at about half a million, gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. Another demonstration was held in Barcelona, where the police said 300,000 people demonstrated, some of them forming a three-mile human chain. The events were part of a largely coordinated worldwide effort to rally support against the war. While the Spanish demonstrations drew large crowds, some others were more sparsely attended. In Seoul, South Korea, 3,000 protesters held towering candles as they paraded through the capital. About 15,000 rallied in Athens, accompanied by a giant reproduction of Guérnica, Picasso's antiwar painting. And in Moscow, 1,000 people demonstrated in front of the American Embassy. In London, where an estimated one million people marched against the war in January, there were protests in several residential neighborhoods and a scheduled concert tonight for 2,000 people aimed at raising money for the Stop the War coalition. Muslims in London organized walk-bys at the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Qatar and Pakistan, countries they accuse of collaborating with the United States. The governments of the Muslim world have the power to stop this war by disallowing America and its allies from using their land, airspace, waterways and logistics to perpetrate it, said one of the organizers, Dr. Imran Waheed. In Montreal, about 250,000 people marched through the streets shouting antiwar slogans, in the largest of 30 demonstrations in Canada. About 100,000 people demonstrated in Berlin, according to police estimates, while 50,000 demonstrators gathered in the Place de la Nation in Paris. More than 5,000 people marched in Marseille, France's second largest city. In central Tokyo, an estimated 10,000 people filed through downtown streets to applause from passers-by. According to polls, more than 80 percent of the Japanese people oppose an attack on Iraq, but the government has supported the United States demand that Baghdad disarm or face military action. In Madrid, few demonstrators saw much hope of persuading Mr. Aznar to change course. Hope is the last thing to go, said Ernesto Cano, a student attending with his parents and family friends. If we keep making an effort there is still a possibility to avoid war. But Maria Conde, marching with her three labrador dogs, was pessimistic. I don't think this will change anything, she said. In the Middle East, some of the demonstrations were in support of Saddam Hussein. In Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, for example, 10 men in black hoods, wearing mock versions of the explosives belts of suicide bombers, led a march in support of the Iraqi leader. In Cairo, several hundred people, surrounded by 1,500 police officers, protested outside the University of Cairo chanting, With our blood, with our soul, we will defend Baghdad. In Nicosia, 2,000 people marched on the American Embassy demanding no more blood for oil. They also condemned the presence on the island of the largest Royal Air Force base outside Britain, at Akiroti, which is scheduled to play a support and logistics role in any attack on Iraq. __ Go to Original Hundreds of Thousands March Against Iraq War By Eric Lichtbau New York Times Sunday 16 March 2003 Antiwar demonstrators gathered yesterday near the Washington Monument before marching to the White House. Similar actions were staged in other cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. WASHINGTON, March 15 In what many saw as a last chance to head off military action, tens of thousands of antiwar protesters
[CTRL] Their Last Days: Activists in Baghdad Brace for Consequences of War
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031803E.shtml Activists in Baghdad Brace for Consequences of War by Greg Barrett Gannett News Service Wednesday 12 March 2003 BAGHDAD - If the invasion that the Pentagon has dubbed Operation Shock and Awe commences, Charlie Liteky is unlikely to feel either. He expects the United States to bomb Iraq. He expects noise and destruction more powerful and frightening than he has ever known. He expects the Earth to shake and houses to go dark and children to scream themselves hoarse. But Liteky sounds more determined than frightened. Like 20 other members of the Chicago-based Iraq Peace Team who remain in Baghdad even as hostilities appear certain, Liteky abhors cluster bombs, cruise missiles and the civil unrest that combat causes. As a decorated Vietnam veteran, he knows firsthand the chaos and carnage of war. That's precisely why he sounded elated Tuesday morning when he told his wife that the Iraqi government had extended his tourist visa 10 days and is likely to extend it again, long enough for him to help Iraqi children through the difficult time. Most of the peace activists who descended by the hundreds on Baghdad this fall and winter have fled. Those who remain have no intentions of leaving. They are anchored to the bull's-eye despite the fact - or maybe because of it - that the World Health Organization predicts 100,000 Iraqis could die. I'm here because I hear the children cry, Liteky said. In my mind ... I imagine the bombing and the noise and the windows shattering and something coming down from the ceiling and children looking up and parents grabbing them and fear being transferred from parents to children. Save yourselves Washington has warned the activists to clear out. The Pentagon has said its assault will leave no place in Baghdad to hide. So the rundown hotels that enjoyed full houses as recently as February are shuttering their windows. At the Hotel Al-Fanar on the Tigris river, the Iraq Peace Team is moving to the lower floors because the eight-story building is old and seems unsteady. Its bomb shelter is a musty basement that stores the hotel's chemical cleaning supplies. Members of the peace team have signed an ominous-sounding contract: In the event of your death, you agree to your body not being returned to your own country but being disposed of in the most convenient way. They have had awkward discussions about what to do with the corpses that might collect around them. Wrap the dead in hotel drapes, they decided. Pray for help. Iraq Peace Team founder Kathy Kelly had a photo enlarged that shows her with some of her dearest friends - the family of an Iraqi widow and her nine children. The photo is being mailed to Kelly's mother in Chicago. She can see by that photo that I am very, very happy, Kelly said, sounding serenely calm despite the gathering storm. On Monday, Kelly helped an Iraqi friend pack to leave. Teacher and artist Amal Alwan rushed her three young children into a taxi and paid $300 for the 10-hour drive from Baghdad to Damascus, Syria. Alwan doesn't have relatives in Syria and couldn't tell the cabbie exactly where to go. She doesn't have a clue where she will stay, but she can't possibly stay in Baghdad, not with children, Kelly said. Her house is next to a communications center. As Kelly spoke it was almost 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Baghdad and she was awake reading A Fine Balance, a novel about civil war in India. She planned to rise six hours later for a daily prayer meeting then go with the peace team to the United Nations offices in Baghdad. They would hold aloft several enlarged photos of Iraqi families. Each photo would carry a single question: Doomed? I don't have the slightest sense of not belonging exactly where I am right now, said Kelly, 50, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee. The thought of leaving has not even crossed my mind. The Pentagon says the presence of U.S. pacifists will not deter the course of war. Although there are no plans to arrest them for violating sanctions on Iraq by traveling to Baghdad, officials throughout the U.S. government, from the White House to the State Department to the Pentagon, sound confused about how to best to deal with them. There's not a whole lot of precedence, said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Dan Hetlage. It's not like you had human shields protecting the Taliban. Armed for war Members of the Iraq Peace Team say they are as prepared for war as they will ever be. They have crash kits packed neatly and set by their hotel doors. Liteky's is the
[CTRL] The New American Centry of War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V14/4/dreyfuss-r.html The American Prospect, Volume 14, Issue 4.  April 1, 2003. Just the Beginning Is Iraq the opening salvo in a war to remake the world? Robert Dreyfuss For months Americans have been told that the United States is going to war against Iraq in order to disarm Saddam Hussein, remove him from power, eliminate Iraq's alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Baghdad from blackmailing its neighbors or aiding terrorist groups. But the Bush administration's hawks, especially the neoconservatives who provide the driving force for war, see the conflict with Iraq as much more than that. It is a signal event, designed to create cataclysmic shock waves throughout the region and around the world, ushering in a new era of American imperial power. It is also likely to bring the United States into conflict with several states in the Middle East. Those who think that U.S. armed forces can complete a tidy war in Iraq, without the battle spreading beyond Iraq's borders, are likely to be mistaken. I think we're going to be obliged to fight a regional war, whether we want to or not, says Michael Ledeen, a former U.S. national-security official and a key strategist among the ascendant flock of neoconservative hawks, many of whom have taken up perches inside the U.S. government. Asserting that the war against Iraq can't be contained, Ledeen says that the very logic of the global war on terrorism will drive the United States to confront an expanding network of enemies in the region. As soon as we land in Iraq, we're going to face the whole terrorist network, he says, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and a collection of militant splinter groups backed by nations -- Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia -- that he calls the terror masters. It may turn out to be a war to remake the world, says Ledeen. In the Middle East, impending regime change in Iraq is just the first step in a wholesale reordering of the entire region, according to neoconservatives -- who've begun almost gleefully referring to themselves as a cabal. Like dominoes, the regimes in the region -- first Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon and the PLO, and finally Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia -- are slated to capitulate, collapse or face U.S. military action. To those states, says cabal ringleader Richard Perle, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an influential Pentagon advisory committee, We could deliver a short message, a two-word message: 'You're next.' In the aftermath, several of those states, including Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, may end up as dismantled, unstable shards in the form of mini-states that resemble Yugoslavia's piecemeal wreckage. And despite the Wilsonian rhetoric from the president and his advisers about bringing democracy to the Middle East, at bottom it's clear that their version of democracy might have to be imposed by force of arms. And not just in the Middle East. Three-thousand U.S. soldiers are slated to arrive in the Philippines, opening yet another new front in the war on terrorism, and North Korea is finally in the administration's sights. On the horizon could be Latin America, where the Bush administration endorsed a failed regime change in Venezuela last year, and where new left-leaning challenges are emerging in Brazil, Ecuador and elsewhere. Like the bombing of Hiroshima, which stunned the Japanese into surrender in 1945 and served notice to the rest of the world that the United States possessed unparalleled power it would not hesitate to use, the war against Iraq has a similar purpose. It's like the bully in a playground, says Ian Lustick, a University of Pennsylvania professor of political science and author of Unsettled States, Disputed Lands. You beat up somebody, and everybody else behaves. Over and over again, in speeches, articles and white papers, the neoconservatives have made it plain that the war against Iraq is intended to demonstrate Washington's resolve to implement President Bush's new national-security strategy, announced last fall -- even if doing so means overthrowing the entire post-World War II structure of treaties and alliances, including NATO and the United Nations. In their book, The War Over Iraq, William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and Lawrence F. Kaplan of The New Republic write, The mission begins in Baghdad, but it does not end there. ⦠We stand at the cusp of a new historical era. ⦠This is a decisive moment. ⦠It is so clearly about more than Iraq. It is about more even than the future of the Middle East and the war on terror. It is about what sort of role the United States intends to play in the twenty-first century. Invading Iraq, occupying its capital and its oil fields, and seizing control of its Shia Islamic holy places can only have a devastating and
[CTRL] Deadly Pneumonia Spreads to Canada
-Caveat Lector- http://www.canoe.ca/WinnipegNews/ws.ws-03-16-0023.html WHO officials warn of deadly pneumonia By CP and AP TORONTO -- Health officials have confirmed a ninth Canadian case of atypical pneumonia and are preparing to test hundreds of potential patients as worries grow around the world about the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease. Doctors don't know what causes the illness, which is believed to spread through close contact with an infected person. Yesterday, Toronto officials confirmed a seventh local case, a day after announcing that six family members had been infected, including a mother and son who died. The seventh patient had come in close contact with the family, but officials wouldn't say what the connection was. There have also been two cases in British Columbia -- unrelated to the Ontario infections -- where one person remained in hospital yesterday and the other has recovered. No cases of the disease have been reported in Manitoba, the province's chief medical officer confirmed last night. TRAVEL ADVISORY Dr. Joel Kettner said the provinces and Health Canada are developing a plan to combat the disease. It is expected to be made public in the next day or two. In the meantime, Kettner said physicians have been made aware of the disease and are watching for it. The World Health Organization made the rare decision yesterday of declaring a worldwide travel advisory, based on reports of the disease's spread around the globe. The organization said that in the past week it has received more than 150 reports of atypical pneumonia, which it is calling severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). SARS is now a worldwide health threat, said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, WHO director general. The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread. The growing list of countries reporting cases of the illness include China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Most cases involve medical workers. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Rot at the Center of the Empire
-Caveat Lector- On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Ray Boeche wrote: -Caveat Lector- On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 03:43 PM, BillK wrote: But if it?s the U.S. government contributing to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children through the most brutal set of economic sanctions in history, Why does it always fail to dawn on people like Hornberger, that Saddam Hussein is the one who could have, at any time in the last 11 years, lifted the sanctions imposed on his country by the multi-lateral conglomeration of the United Nations. All he had to do was disarm to allow his people to live like free humans rather than the slaves and pawns he desires them to be. Are you a total dork? Disarm yourself to be free!? The same principle of power applies equally well to humans as well as to governments. When one of the parties has a gun and the other is disarmed, which one do you think is free and which one is the slave? The world respects only those who have power, guns or nuclear weapons to defend themselves. This is a fact and Bush himself has shown us the proof of this, observing how he treats Iraq and North Korea differently. - The wife with a gun is getting the silk gloved sugartalk treatment, while the other is getting continuous beating and raping, never satisfying her husband. - How did she ever dare to pick up and point a knife at him!?! Beat her till she subjugates! In this world only those who have weapons of terror seem to have any sort of power at all. Be it husbands with muscles or wives with guns/knives, or governments with terror weapons. We are about to witness Bush proving us this very principle of power in action, and it also explains why US Government is so keen to disarm it's own citizens when their power threatens officials in power. If you still think there's nothing like disarming yourself for freedom, I can provide you with a nice cage together with my dogs in my back yard. However, What you sow is what you reap. I am sure we will all come to thank American politicians for authorizing the sales of their bioweapons around the world, just like a bad husband may come to thank his wife for the rat poison in his food. God Bless America. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Declaration Against Iraq War, No Justification Exists
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031703B.shtml Paris, Moscow and Berlin Issue Declaration Against Iraq War, Call for Ministers' Gathering By Kim Housego Associated Press Saturday 15 March 2003 France, Russia and Germany called for the Security Council to set a timetable for Saddam Hussein to disarm but issued a strong statement Saturday rejecting a war on Iraq, a day before President Bush and his top allies backing military action were to meet. France's foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, said his country would accept a very tight timetable for Iraqi disarmament - but not an ultimatum that would automatically trigger war, as Washington wants. Still, he said, war appears increasingly inevitable. It is difficult to imagine what could stop this machine, he told France 2 television, before adding one does not have the right to be discouraged. France, Russia and Germany have led opposition to military action against Iraq and blocked a U.S. attempt to set a deadline for Saddam to disarm or face war. With some 250,000 U.S. and British troops in the Persian Gulf ready to attack Iraq, President Bush meets with prime ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Jose Maria Aznar of Spain - his top proponents of military action against Saddam - on Sunday in the Azores islands to plan their next step in the standoff. The joint declaration was issued by France and its allies in a clear move to present their case against war before the Azores summit. We reaffirm that nothing justifies in the present circumstances putting a stop to the inspection process and resorting to the use of force, said the declaration, issued by the Foreign Ministry in Paris. The use of force can only be a last resort. The three nations called for Security Council foreign ministers to meet on Tuesday to focus on disarmament priorities and draw up a strict and realistic timetable to certify Iraq free of alleged weapons of mass destruction. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix is to present his latest report on Iraqi disarmament on Monday and lay out his plans for upcoming inspections. He is expected to present the U.N. Security Council with his list of top priority questions that Iraq must answer about its chemical, biological and missile programs as early as Tuesday. The three nations said previous reports by Blix and the chief nuclear inspector, Mohamed El Baradei, indicated that inspections were producing results. The disarmament of Iraq has started, the declaration said. Everything indicates that it can be completed quickly. The declaration was agreed upon Saturday by the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Russia, a German foreign ministry spokeswoman said. The three were in telephone contact with one another, she said. In Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov told the Interfax news agency that Blix's report should outline the key remaining tasks in the area of disarmament, criteria that could be used to assess Iraq's cooperation with inspectors in the future. He said the inspections should not have a limitless character and pointed to a 120-day period outlined in a joint Russian-French-German memorandum submitted earlier to the Security Council. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] True Patriotism - Article from The New American
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/03-24-2003/vo19no06_patriotism.htm True Patriotism by William F. Jasper Constitutionalists are challenging UN entanglements and the call to war. Some false conservatives are denouncing this principled stand as unpatriotic, even treasonous. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. -Theodore Roosevelt ''TRAITORS! That was the headline screaming in huge yellow letters from the cover of a supermarket tabloid. Below the headline was a short list of familiar names of Hollywood stars opposing President Bush's rush to war in Iraq. Now, there are indeed many specimens of the Hollywood Left with long records of despicable, even treasonous, behavior. But does opposing war - whether verbally, in writing, or by marching or demonstrating - in itself constitute treason? That is the frightening implication from the escalating incendiary rhetoric of those most ardently arguing for war and for blind, mute submission to any and all of President Bush's demands concerning Iraq and Saddam Hussein. The words treason and sedition are being applied promiscuously to any and all who dissent from the president's position. Nationally syndicated shock radio host Michael Savage apparently leads the charge on this note, seconded by a host of lesser lights who have turned their radio microphones into non-stop war tocsins. Mr. Savage's website features a section titled: The Sedition Act - Time to Act. Time to Arrest the Leaders of the Anti-War Movement, Once we Go to War. A February 6th New York Sun editorial took up this treason theme relative to the planned anti-war march in front of the UN. The Sun editors first quoted the U.S. Constitution concerning treason: Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. The Sun averred that there is no reason to doubt that the 'anti-war' protesters . are giving, at the very least, comfort to Saddam Hussein. Thus, the Sun opined, the New York City police should send two witnesses along for each participant, with an eye toward preserving at least the possibility of an eventual treason prosecution. Can goose-stepping, heel-clicking, and Sieg heil salutes be far behind? Many of those beating the war drums have not yet gone so far as to equate all dissent with treason, but they appear to be only a millimeter or two from that position. For the moment, at least, they are content merely to question the patriotism or rationality of those refusing to march in lock-step behind the Bush banner. And they conveniently dispose of principled opponents by disingenuously lumping them together with the motley menagerie of misfits and malcontents who have flocked to the phony peace standard held aloft by the Hollywood Left. Who Is the Real Patriot? It does seem extremely ironic that this country's staunchest patriots, warning for decades about the very dangers that now beset us, are being accused - by those who earlier disregarded their warnings - of being unpatriotic, or even of siding with the enemy. For those unfamiliar with our record and willing to examine it, allow us to make perfectly clear several important points: 1) THE NEW AMERICAN (like its predecessors, American Opinion and The Review of the News) takes second place to none in patriotic zeal, and in exposing and opposing America's enemies - foreign and domestic. 2) From the Vietnam War to the present, we have been on the frontlines credibly documenting and exposing the Communist and subversive influences behind the so-called peace movement and other Red fronts. We did the heavy lifting on these issues during less patriotic times, and for these efforts we frequently were derided as super-patriots and extremists. 3) We led the fight against the long-running subversive campaigns to cripple our nation's intelligence and internal security defenses against terrorism and espionage. 4) Far from siding with Saddam Hussein, we have for more than two decades exposed his tyrannical, pro-Communist regime, and we vigorously opposed the folly (or worse) of previous Republican administrations in the 1980s that showered him with financial, technological, and military
[CTRL] Confronting Iraq: Might Doesn't Make Right
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031603D.shtml Confronting Iraq: Might Doesn't Make Right By Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina International Herald Tribune | Commentary Friday 14 March 2003 People of faith belong on the side of peace. But it is more than just those of all religions who stand against an attack on Iraq. It is also those who put their trust in law. The current moment confronts the world with a terrible decision: will we stand by reason and law or act in force and aggression? There has never been a more important test of the values of average people around the globe. At stake is whether might makes right. The United States is indeed a mighty country. But its real strength resides in its proud history of standing for what is just. In figures such as Martin Luther King, the world draws moral fortitude and an example of the effectiveness of non-violent struggle. With the grassroots boycotting efforts of everyday Americans, and the eventual diplomatic pressure of their government, South African apartheid was ended. The prison doors would still be shut around Nelson Mandela were it not for the help of the United States. These traditions have spoken recently on the streets. Never has there been such a popular and peaceful outpouring of opposition, even before the act war has taken place. This is truly the moral meaning of preemption. There is no dishonor in the willingness to slow things down for the inspections to run their course. Few doubt that the United States has established a credible threat of force. Now the United Nations must be permitted to do its job. Disarmament is an absolute necessity. Nothing will undermine it more than a brazen disregard for the one institution which can actually achieve it. It is not a vote against the war which threatens the United Nations with irrelevance. It is the unilateral cajoling by the sole remaining superpower which risks corrupting this otherwise democratic and international institution. It is the inconsistent application of its resolutions, whereby some violators operate above the law, while others lack due process. It is the threat that money will dictate votes where only law and evidence should hold sway. The question is not whether the United States has the ability to change the current heinous regime in Baghdad. It does. The question is whether it is worth the cost not just in terms of the fate of diplomacy and law, but also in terms of the thousands of innocent victims which will result now and down the road in the repercussions to come. President George W. Bush is a man of faith. We can only hope that he believes in law as well. Archbishop Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. Ian Urbina is associate editor at the Middle East Research and Information Project. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WTO fears Bush go-it-alone role
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031603G.shtml WTO Fears Bush Go-it-alone Role by Elizabeth Becker International Herald Tribue Saturday 15 March 2003 U.S. policy could threaten international trade, aides warn GENEVA - In a break from years of unwavering public faith in the United States, top officials at the World Trade Organization are worried that the Bush administration's go-it-alone policy is threatening international trade. In the normally closed, clubby world of the WTO, envoys and officials said they feared that American moves within the organization and toward a war in Iraq would weaken respect for international rules and lead to serious practical consequence for the world economy and business. In the past months the United States has compiled one of the worst records for violating trade rules and has single-handedly blocked an agreement to provide medicines for the world's poorest nations, a rare accomplishment in this institution that never openly votes on agreements but painstakingly builds a consensus behind closed doors. Supachai Panitchpakdi, director-general of the WTO who is required to strike a neutral pose as head of the institution, said an upcoming war could have a devastating practical impact as the world is grappling with a slowdown in trade, the rise of oil prices and the rising cost of transportation and insurance. I can feel the sense of trepidation, Supachai said in an interview. Whatever happens, if the U.S. will maintain the way we use multilateral solutions, it will be highly appreciated. That delicate expression of concern about the effect of waging war without explicit approval of the United Nations was repeated by some of America's strongest allies. They said they were worried that all international institutions would suffer a loss of credibility if the one superpower appeared to be choosing which rules to obey and which to ignore. Normally you can't go to war without the cover of the UN, but Americans are doing quite a few things alone - even here, said Carlo Trojan, permanent representative of the European Union at the WTO. The most glaring example here of going-it-alone was the United States' last minute refusal to sign off on an agreement that would help poor nations buy generic medicines through exemptions from trade rules. Developing nations had pinned their hopes on this agreement to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases that are ravaging their countries and destroying their plans to climb out of poverty. But the United States, with the strong approval of the American pharmaceutical industry, exercised its veto, which every nation possesses, and destroyed the deal. That upended the timetable for this round of trade negotiations that is dedicated to solving the problems of a developing nations, a cause identified with Supachai. As the former deputy prime minister of Thailand and first director-general of the WTO, Supachai is in the same position as former Vice President Al Gore was to environmental issues. At the top of his agenda is the reduction of agriculture subsidies in rich nations and helping poor nations gain access to inexpensive, generic medicine. Now he has lost the first battle. That was a great pity, he said. It would have sent a powerful message that we talk not only about trade deals but humanitarian deals. Diplomats said they found it striking that Europe was willing to stand up to its pharmaceutical industries and support the agreement while the United States was not. Sergio Marchi, permanent representative of Canada to the WTO, said that U.S. behavior not only put millions of lives at risk but threatened the organization itself. No one can criticize the fact that all politics are local. But you can't operate 100 percent on local politics if you're part of a multinational organization, he said. Otherwise one day it's your politics, next year it's mine and then there is no more international organization. For its part, administration officials said they, too, want an agreement that helps provide medicines. But they consider the current agreement too open-ended and say it could lead to developing nations buying generic versions of drugs under U.S. patents to treat diseases such as asthma, obesity and impotence. Linnet Deily, U.S. permanent representative at the WTO, said that developing nations understood the United States wanted to help those suffering from the worst epidemics, especially the HIV/AIDS
[CTRL] Bush Domino Theory Falls Down
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031603B.shtml Classified State Department Report: Bushs Democracy Domino Theory 'Not Credible' By Greg Miller LA Times Friday 14 March 2003 A State Department report disputes Bush's claim that ousting Hussein will spur reforms in the Mideast, intelligence officials say. WASHINGTON -- A classified State Department report expresses doubt that installing a new regime in Iraq will foster the spread of democracy in the Middle East, a claim President Bush has made in trying to build support for a war, according to intelligence officials familiar with the document. The report exposes significant divisions within the Bush administration over the so-called democratic domino theory, one of the arguments that underpins the case for invading Iraq. The report, which has been distributed to a small group of top government officials but not publicly disclosed, says that daunting economic and social problems are likely to undermine basic stability in the region for years, let alone prospects for democratic reform. Even if some version of democracy took root an event the report casts as unlikely anti-American sentiment is so pervasive that elections in the short term could lead to the rise of Islamic-controlled governments hostile to the United States. Liberal democracy would be difficult to achieve, says one passage of the report, according to an intelligence official who agreed to read portions of it to The Times. Electoral democracy, were it to emerge, could well be subject to exploitation by anti-American elements. The thrust of the document, the source said, is that this idea that you're going to transform the Middle East and fundamentally alter its trajectory is not credible. Even the document's title appears to dismiss the administration argument. The report is labeled Iraq, the Middle East and Change: No Dominoes. The report was produced by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the in-house analytical arm. State Department officials declined to comment on the report. Intelligence officials said the report does not necessarily reflect the views of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell or other senior State Department officials. Daunting Challenges The obstacles to reform outlined in the report are daunting. Middle East societies are riven by political, economic and social problems that are likely to undermine stability regardless of the nature of any externally influenced or spontaneous, indigenous change, the report said, according to the source. The report is dated Feb. 26, officials said, the same day Bush endorsed the domino theory in a speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. It's not clear whether the president has seen the report, but such documents are typically distributed to top national security officials. A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region, Bush said. Other top administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, have made similar remarks in recent months. But the argument has been pushed hardest by a group of officials and advisors who have been the leading proponents of going to war with Iraq. Prominent among them are Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, and Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an influential Pentagon advisory panel. Wolfowitz has said that Iraq could be the first Arab democracy and that even modest democratic progress in Iraq would cast a very large shadow, starting with Syria and Iran but across the whole Arab world. Similarly, Perle has said that a reformed Iraq has the potential to transform the thinking of people around the world about the potential for democracy, even in Arab countries where people have been disparaging of their potential. White House officials hold out the promise of a friendly and functional government in Baghdad to contrast with administration portrayals of President Saddam Hussein's regime as brutal and bent on building his stock of biological and chemical weapons. The domino theory also is used by the administration as a counterargument to critics in Congress and elsewhere who have expressed concern that invading Iraq will inflame the Muslim world and fuel terrorist activity against the United States. But the theory is disputed by many Middle East experts and is viewed with skepticism by analysts at the CIA and the State Department, intelligence officials said. Divisions in Iraq Critics say even establishing a
[CTRL] Norm Solomon on MEDIA OBEDIENCE
-Caveat Lector- THE CONVENTIONAL MEDIA WISDOM OF OBEDIENCE To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln EXCERPTS: Judgments at Nuremberg and precepts of international law forbid launching aggressive war -- an apt description of what the U.S. government has in store for Iraqi people this spring. The deadening lockstep of obedience is easier to fault in other societies. Close to home, as the adrenaline of unfathomable violence pulses through the televisions of America, the siren of deference to authority may seem irresistible. But it isn't. By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate As the possibility of a U.S. invasion turns into the reality of massive carnage, the war on Iraq cannot avoid confronting Americans with a tacit expectation that rarely gets media scrutiny. In a word: obedience. When a country -- particularly a democracy -- goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter. Silence is a key form of cooperation, but the war-making system does not insist on quietude or agreement. Mere passivity or self-restraint will suffice to keep the missiles flying, the bombs exploding and the faraway people dying. On the home front, beliefs are of scant importance. Antiwar sentiment is necessary but insufficient to halt a war. Much more is needed than expressions of dissent that stay within the customary bounds. Daily media speculation about the starting date for all-out war on Iraq has contributed to widespread passivity -- a kind of spectator relationship to military actions being implemented in our names. We can't just blame the media conglomerates and Washington spinners for the prevailing stupor. After decades of desensitizing propaganda, we routinely crave the insulation that news outlets offer. We tell ourselves that our personal lives are difficult enough without getting too upset about world events. The conventional wisdom of American political life has made it predictable that editorial writers and politicians cannot resist accommodating themselves to expediency by the time the first missiles reach Baghdad. Conformist behavior -- in sharp contrast to authentic conscience -- is notably plastic. A pathetic case in point is Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who voted for the congressional war resolution last October while trying to pass himself off as a critic of President Bush's enthusiasm for war. While campaigning in Iowa the other day for his party's presidential nomination, Kerry told a New York Times reporter: When the war begins, if the war begins, I support the troops and I support the United States of America winning as rapidly as possible. When the troops are in the field and fighting -- if they're in the field and fighting -- remembering what it's like to be those troops, I think they need a unified America that is prepared to win. Prepared to win. Such a phrase rolls off an oily tongue with ease. As a consequence, of course, many blameless people must die. Howard Dean, a former governor of Vermont, is supposedly an antiwar candidate for the Democratic presidential slot. On the campaign trail in Iowa, he stopped short when asked what he would say if there was a war, according to the Times. You know, I don't know the answer to that yet, Dean said. Certainly I'm going to support American kids that are sent over there. Obviously, I'm going to wish everybody well. You know, you root for your country. You root for your country. No matter how horrific its actions. Billions of buds on countless flowers and trees will wondrously open across the United States during the next weeks. Meanwhile, the Pentagon's firepower will destroy uncounted human beings in Iraq during what will be, to put it mildly, a war of aggression. Judgments at Nuremberg and precepts of international law forbid launching aggressive war -- an apt description of what the U.S. government has in store for Iraqi people this spring. We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it, said Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson, a U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials at the close of World War II. He added that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy. Last November, more than 300 law professors in the United States signed a statement pointing out that the international rule of law is not a soft luxury to be discarded whenever leaders find it convenient or popular to resort to savage violence. The deadening lockstep of obedience is easier to fault in other societies. Close to home, as the adrenaline of unfathomable violence pulses through the televisions of America, the siren of deference to
[CTRL] Wanted Dead or Alive: Osama Hussein or Saddam Bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- Wanted Dead or Alive: Osama Hussein or Saddam Bin Laden By Mike Schelstrate [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 13, 2003 The recent scripted press conference hosted by President Bush included a very interesting question by a reporter; If you order war, can any military operation be considered a success if the United States does not capture Saddam Hussein, as you once said, dead or alive'? This is a very interesting question. To my knowledge, the current President Bush has never said he wanted Saddam Hussein dead or alive, at least not that has been widely distributed in the mainstream media. The party line has been restricted to the stated policies of Weapons of Mass Destruction Disarmament and Regime Change. Bush has famously declared he wants Osama Bin Laden dead or alive. In fact, this is one of his more popular quotes, replayed repeatedly in the media for months following the September 11 terrorist attack. I clearly remember Cowboy Bush leaning back in his chair in the Oval Office, and declaring in a gruff voice something similar to, I remember a poster from the old west; Wanted Dead or Alive. This is my intention for Mister Osama Bin Laden. People all over the world saw this video clip, and is one of the reasons the Cowboy nickname was attached to our fearless leader by the Europeans. Could the reporters question have possibly been an innocent mistake? Not likely in a scripted press conference where all questions are approved beforehand by Ari Fleischer and his staff. This press conference is a great example of professional lies and disinformation propagated by the media in conjunction with the current administration in Washington. If the Iraqi regime are not connected to the terrorist attacks, we have no reason to invade Iraq at this time. The entire Bush Administration has been working furiously during the last year in an attempt to link Osama Bin Laden with Saddam Hussein in order to legitimize the previously planned attack on Iraq. Thus far, they have failed to find a single shred of credible evidence to support this claim. Every time they produce another flimsy counterfeit link, it is exposed immediately as being false. Establishing this link is imperative to sway public opinion in favor of the war. Obviously, they are growing sufficiently desperate in their pursuit to resort to Orwellian doublespeak in an attempt to get their message across. My greatest concern regarding this incident is that this scripted attempt at impressing a falsehood on a trusting public goes beyond propaganda. This is a sublime form of mind control. Implant a blatantly false suggestion in the minds of the listeners, followed by an enforcement of the suggestion with supporting comments. Repeat as necessary. Eventually the listeners will be convinced that the greatest absurdity is in fact truth. Two plus two equals five, or whatever the government wants it to equal. Bushs hundred year War on Terrorism is a war against a faceless enemy. This makes it difficult to retain the public support necessary to continue the war effort. Immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the press vilified Osama Bin Laden as the mastermind. Putting a face on the enemy provides people with a focal point; now the American public had a despicable individual to hate. This worked well for our invasion of Afghanistan, President Bushs approval rating remained over 70% for many months during this aggressive action. The daily papers were filled with ominous pictures of the villain, and breathtaking accounts of how we almost caught him on numerous occasions. After the takeover of Afghanistan was complete, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden faded into the background. The Bush Administration focused their attention on the next phase of their attempt to establish a New World Order, conquest of Iraq, repossession of the oil reserves, and the remaking of the Middle East. Documents have been uncovered detailing the campaign for this illegal action by members of the current administration dating as far back as 1998. A massive public relations ploy was required to convince a gullible public to support the invasion. The government has found it desirable to transfer the malignant feelings people felt towards Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein in order to put a familiar face on this enemy, and retain public support for action. We have witnessed multiple efforts to accomplish this falsehood. A report that suspected hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi intelligence officers in Europe was one of the first attempts, and shows how long ago the plans to link Iraq to Al Qaeda were set in motion. This report was not credible, and was swiftly debunked by most credible experts. Many additional attempts to fabricate this link have followed. To date, all have been unsuccessful. President Bush stated in the press conference, Even if the fiendish Iraqi dictator was not involved with Al Qaeda, he has supported Al Qaeda type
[CTRL] Security Council Members Say No to War - Bush to Go to War Alone, Breaking International Law?
-Caveat Lector- Security Council Members Say No to War By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writers March 14, 2003, 3:31 AM EST UNITED NATIONS -- A U.S.-backed resolution for war in Iraq was in serious doubt as a majority of Security Council members openly acknowledged they wouldn't support the measure despite weeks of intense negotiations. With hundreds of thousands of troops poised for action in the Persian Gulf, the White House was forced to consider withdrawing the resolution it filed three weeks ago or calling a vote it seemed certain to lose. Either way, the United States would be heading into battle, and possibly a protracted occupation of Iraq, without the backing of the United Nations and its member states. While some council ambassadors pledged to work through the weekend to find a way out of the impasse, others declared the diplomatic process dead. Amid a swirl of 11th-hour posturing, the White House began planning for a possible summit this weekend between President Bush and his two staunchest council allies, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Senior U.S. officials said the meeting, tentatively planned for a neutral nation overseas, would allow the leaders to review final diplomatic and military strategies. Meanwhile, the president and his advisers debated Thursday whether to press forward with a Security Council vote or withdraw the measure and turn toward final preparations for war. We are still talking to members of the council to see what is possible, Secretary of State Colin Powell said. The options remain, go for a vote and see what members say or not go for a vote. Powell's comments marked a sharp change of policy since last week, when Bush said in a televised news conference that he could call a vote no matter what the count was. Since the appearance, U.S. officials have claimed they were picking up the nine necessary council votes needed for the resolution. which threatens war unless Iraq disarms by Monday. But at a tense council session late Thursday, it became evident that the United States didn't have more than six of the 15 council members on its side and that nothing had swayed France, and possibly Russia, from vetoing the resolution. This is not going to fly, Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press. China's ambassador, Wang Yingfan, suggested it was time for the resolution to be taken off the table. To me it's clear, they just don't have the votes, he said. France, China, Russia, Germany and several other council members oppose the resolution because it would automatically authorize force if Saddam Hussein failed to disarm by Monday. Britain had sought to alleviate those fears by transferring the ultimatum to a side paper that wouldn't be voted on. But France, which led a verbal assault against the resolution, saw the move as a ploy. We will say no to any resolution that authorizes the use of force, French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said at the end of a tense council meeting. The United States began the week with the expectation of a vote Tuesday but by Friday it was unclear when one would be held, if at all. In Washington, U.S. officials said President Bush could drop the resolution in the face of a veto and fight Iraq without Security Council authorization. Several top administration officials said a growing number of advisers believe the resolution is doomed and they want the president to cut his losses and withdraw it. Others still hold out hope for the measure. The officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, agreed that a decision will partly depend on whether the British prime minister wants to give diplomacy another weekend. Blair, who is facing a massive revolt inside his own party because of his pro-U.S. stand on Iraq, desperately needs U.N. authorization in order to sell a war at home. U.N. backing would lend international legitimacy to any military action and guarantee that the world body would share the costs of reconstruction. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte left the 4 1/2-hour council meeting Thursday saying that time is running out. In light of Britain's efforts, he said Washington was prepared to go the extra mile as far as seeing if we can reach some kind of basis for understanding within the council. Ambassadors said informal consultations would continue Friday and possibly through the weekend, but they held out little hope for a breakthrough. In Iraq, Saddam's government exulted in the diplomatic turmoil. The allies have lost the round before it starts while we, along with well-intentioned powers in the world, have won it, the popular daily Babil, owned by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's son, Odai, said in a front-page editorial. Six uncommitted nations -- Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Mexico and Pakistan -- tried Thursday to bridge the deep divide. Washington had been counting on the support of Mexico, Pakistan and at least two of the African
[CTRL] FBI Probes Fake Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Plans
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031503D.shtml Editor's Note: Another brick in the wall here. After Powell's use of a plagiarized British dossier, and after Hans Blix's refutation of virtually every piece of 'evidence' offered by the United States regarding Iraqi weapons, there is now this. Decide for yourself how solid the case for war is at this point. - wrp FBI Probes Fake Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Plans By Dana Priest and Susan Schmidt Washington Post Thursday 13 March 2003 The FBI is looking into the forgery of a key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program, including the possibility that a foreign government is using a deception campaign to foster support for military action against Iraq. It's something we're just beginning to look at, a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. Officials are trying to determine whether the documents were forged to try to influence U.S. policy, or whether they may have been created as part of a disinformation campaign directed by a foreign intelligence service. We're looking at it from a preliminary stage as to what it's all about, he said. The FBI has not yet opened a formal investigation because it is unclear whether the bureau has jurisdiction over the matter. The phony documents -- a series of letters between Iraqi and Niger officials showing Iraq's interest in equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons -- came to British and U.S. intelligence officials from a third country. The identity of the third country could not be learned yesterday. The forgery came to light last week during a highly publicized and contentious United Nations meeting. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the Security Council on March 7 that U.N. and independent experts had decided that the documents were not authentic. ElBaradei's disclosure, and his rejection of three other key claims that U.S. intelligence officials have cited to support allegations about Iraq's nuclear ambitions, struck a powerful blow to the Bush administration's argument on the matter. To the contrary, ElBaradei told the council, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indications of the revival of a nuclear program in Iraq. The CIA, which had also obtained the documents, had questions about whether they were accurate, said one intelligence official, and it decided not to include them in its file on Iraq's program to procure weapons of mass destruction. The FBI has jurisdiction over counterintelligence operations by foreign governments against the United States. Because the documents were delivered to the United States, the bureau would most likely try to determine whether the foreign government knew the documents were forged or whether it, too, was deceived. Iraq pursued an aggressive nuclear weapons program during the 1970s and 1980s. It launched a crash program to build a nuclear bomb in 1990 after it invaded Kuwait. Allied bombing during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 damaged Iraq's nuclear infrastructure. The country's known stocks of nuclear fuel and equipment were removed or destroyed during the U.N. inspections after the war. But Iraq never surrendered the blueprints for its nuclear program, and it kept teams of scientists employed after U.N. inspectors were forced to leave in 1998. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send
[CTRL] FW: UK Unions warn of mass revolt if Blair joins war without UN resolution
-Caveat Lector- Well, Tony is being linked to a known peedophile-ring. I wouldn't be surprised if Mossad had some pictures of Tony and a few choir boys. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:20:58 - From: World-Action [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [A] WORLD-ACTION [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [infowars] FW: UK Unions warn of mass revolt if Blair joins war without UN resolution I think the writing is on the wall. The writing seems to say that Blair must be being black-mailed. Blair is having so much opposition from so many places (probably even his own heart and brain), and yet he is pursuing war like a mad man. His arguments for war don't stand up against the principles being argued back at him; and also he has a mass of people against him - including a majority of the British people - therefore Tony Blair must be being black-mailed. Michael BIG opposition against Tony Blair (so, WHY doesn't he back down??!!!) ... -Original Message- From: Bea Bernhausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 March 2003 02:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UK Unions warn of mass revolt if Blair joins war without UN resolution : Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:49:12 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pr-x] Unions warn of mass Labour revolt http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,912489,00.html The Guardian Wednesday March 12, 2003 Unions warn of mass Labour revolt Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent Union leaders yesterday warned Tony Blair that he will be deserted by the labour movement if he goes ahead with a war in Iraq without a second security council resolution. A union delegation, led by the TUC general secretary-elect, Brendan Barber, distanced themselves - for the moment - from leftwing moves to hold a special party conference at which Mr Blair's leadership could be challenged. But a union source said that all bets are off if Mr Blair ignores the demand from the party for a second resolution: There will be mayhem if he does this without the UN. The pressure for a special party conference is coming from the hard left, especially the Campaign Group of MPs. The unions are reluctant to be embroiled in any leadership manoeuvre so close to military action. The Campaign Group last night issued a statement saying: It is time for the prime minister to consider his position. We are now placing at risk the entire fabric of the international community. Blair is not the issue, the future of the UN is. The group, claiming the backing of 40 MPs, accused Mr Blair of signing up to the reckless ambitions of US militarism. Its uncompromising stance may help Mr Blair in the short term, but the mood within the labour movement is tense. Earlier, veteran MP Tam Dalyell, the father of the house, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: As soon as it becomes clear that the UN is disregarded, yes, certainly a letter will go out to our colleagues asking for a special conference of the Labour party. I don't think it is possible to exaggerate the degree of concern about the illegality of what is proposed. There are many constituency Labour parties who ... will put forward a resolution that if there is no UN mandate and if there is not a vote in the Commons before the commitment of British troops, then we ask the prime minister to consider his position as leader of the party. Following the TUC's talks at Downing Street, Mr Barber refused to speculate about whether there would be a leadership challenge to Mr Blair if he went ahead with an attack without UN backing. I want to focus on the efforts that need to be made now to try to resolve this through the UN and with international agreement, he said. That is what the prime minister is concentrating on, that's what we are concentrating on. Privately union leaders said they were not impressed by the Downing Street argument that a military strike would have legitimacy if Mr Blair secured a numerical majority on the security council, but the resolution was vetoed by the French or Russians. Project-X list: initiated for the (re)building of the Left. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as
[CTRL] Israel Refuses to Disarm Nukes, Not Allowing Inspectors
-Caveat Lector- http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1149mode=threadorder=0 ''Is the United Nations irrelevant?'' Printed on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 @ 08:09:31 EST ( ) By Firas Al-Atraqchi YellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada) (YellowTimes.org) . In recent weeks, the United Nations has come under assault from various U.S. Senators as well as members of the U.S. State Department concerning the issue of Iraq and disarmament. The U.N. has been accused of being a debating society by U.S. President George Bush, and has been ostracized as being irrelevant unless it specifically carries out one function, and one function alone: authorize an invasion of Iraq. Many Americans who do not know of the U.N.'s great achievements in the past 58 years, nor of specific U.S. actions to undermine the Security Council in this period, tout the official U.S. government hook, line and sinker. On mainstream North American media, the U.N. is scolded for allowing members diplomatically to defy U.S. actions and edicts. The uninformed viewer will immediately take the position that the U.N. acts against the interests of the U.S. and is a threat to national security. However, for many people around the world, most notably the impoverished third world and developing countries, the U.N. is a source of hope and stability. By no means is the U.N. a perfect system, and this author will be first in line demanding reform within U.N. chambers. However, it is the most global, most influential, and most binding international organization ever established in mankind's modern history. To compare it to the League of Nations, which was governed primarily by colonial powers and completely disregarded lesser African and Asian countries, is to celebrate historical ignorance. Since its establishment in the wake of the horrors of World War II, the U.N. has negotiated peaceful resolutions to some 172 conflicts and deployed more than 42 peacekeeping missions around the world. Free and fair elections have been sponsored, monitored, and endorsed in more than 45 countries with resounding success in bringing democracy to Cambodia, Namibia, El Salvador, Eritrea, Mozambique, Nicaragua and South Africa. In non-political terms, UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) has spent more than $800 million a year, primarily on immunization, health care, nutrition and basic education in 138 countries. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) currently operates in 170 member states and helps design and implement more than 5000 projects for agriculture, industry, education, and the environment. Listing all of the U.N.'s achievements would be too cumbersome; however, the U.N. currently has projects that promote human rights, combat illegal people smuggling, maintain arms control, promote nuclear non-proliferation, provide education on ways to protect the environment, provide humanitarian aid, eradicate smallpox and other diseases, promote women's rights, protect the ozone and prevent over-fishing, protect valuable earth resources, and on and on. This is an irrelevant organization? Indeed, the U.N. has thrived despite U.S. efforts and not because of them. While the U.S. press reminds France who liberated it in World War II and warns France not to use the veto, it is the U.S. who has used the veto more than any other nation in the past 20 years. In fact, according to research conducted by the BBC, the Soviet Union and Russia have used the vote 120 times, the U.S. 76, the U.K. 32, France 18, and China 5 times. Thirty-five of the U.S. vetoes have explicitly focused on Israeli policies in the Middle East. According to the BBC, the latest U.S. veto in December 2002, was a draft resolution criticizing the killing by Israeli forces of several United Nations employees and the destruction of the World Food Program warehouse in the West Bank. The U.S. vetoed this resolution, thereby implying that the murder of U.N. personnel and destruction of U.N. infrastructure was permitted. (The draft resolution concerned itself with the murder of one Ian Hook, a British citizen working for the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA). A U.N. investigation refuted Israeli claims that shots were fired from the UNRWA compound which necessitated fire on the compound. Hook was shot three times by Israeli gunfire.) The current U.S. administration says Iraqi defiance of 17 U.N. resolutions within the past 12 years makes Iraq a pariah, an outlaw state that must be dealt with forcibly. However, by the same token, the U.S. administration does not reveal that Israel is currently in violation of 32 U.N. resolutions since 1968. According to U.N. transcripts, Turkey has violated 24 resolutions, and Morocco has violated 17 resolutions concerning the Western Sahara conflict and the plight of people of Western Sahara. There is no threat of invading the aforementioned countries. Indeed, the issue of Iraq is not simply about U.N. resolutions. However, the fallacy of violations is
[CTRL] EU Warns Bush on Go-It-Alone War
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031403D.shtml European Union in New Warning on Bush Go-It-Alone War By Elaine Sciolino New York Times Wednesday 12 March 2003 In another call for the Bush administration to slow its march toward war, the foreign relations head of the European Union warned today that Europe might withhold money for the reconstruction of Iraq if the United States waged war without the approval of the Security Council. It will be that much more difficult for the E.U. to cooperate fully and on a large scale also in the longer-term reconstruction process if events unfold without proper U.N. cover and if the member states remain divided, said Chris Patten, the European Union's External Relations Commissioner. Speaking during a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the British official added that an American war campaign without the legal support of the United Nations would do enormous damage to the authority of the United Nations, the NATO alliance and relations between Europe and the United States. The specter of war has caused a deep and bitter split in the 15-country European Union the world's biggest aid donor with Britain and Spain embracing the American call to war and France and Germany calling for continued international weapons inspections under United Nations auspices. The heads of state of the European Union will meet for a regularly scheduled meeting in Brussels next week and Iraq is expected to dominate the agenda. In the past I have sometimes been accused of issuing a threat of E.U. noncooperation if the United States chooses to proceed with U.N. backing, he said. That is not my point, he said. I am making, rather, a simple observation of fact: that if it comes to war, it will be very much easier to make a case for generosity if there is no dispute about the legitimacy of the military action that has taken place. Mr. Patten noted that the European Union's budget is already heavily committed, adding, It is of the greatest importance that if a war is waged in Iraq, the U.N. should authorize the decision to attack. Mr. Patten made his remarks during a debate in the European Parliament in which deputies expressed their overwhelming opposition to a war waged only by the Untied States. The European Union would be more willing to spend money on postwar reconstruction and relief aid in Iraq if the legitimacy of the war was clearly authorized under a Security Council mandate. The Bush administration has said that it is impossible to predict the cost of postwar reconstruction. But Mr. Patten's remarks follow an assessment made by the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations that estimates the cost of reconstruction and peacekeeping at $20 billion a year. The E.U. had so far earmarked 15 million euros ($16.5 million) in relief aid for Iraq this year. Mr. Patten also questioned the Bush administration's assertion that the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq by war will help combat terrorism and spread democracy in the Middle East. As a general rule, are wars not more likely to recruit terrorists than to deter them? he said. It is hard to build democracy at the barrel of a gun, when history suggests it is more usually the product of long internal development in a society. What I'm absolutely sure about, he added, is that to invade Iraq, while failing to bring peace to the Middle East, would create exactly the sort of conditions in which terrorism would be likely to thrive. And Mr. Patten joined a chorus of other European leaders in criticizing the United States for failing to publish a much-promised road map for Israeli-Palestinian peace drawn up last year by the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. During the debate today, all of the principal parliamentary groups underscored the need for Security Council authority to go to war. Unilateral action would be a violation of the charter of the United Nations, said the Socialist floor leader, Enrique Baron Crespo. An attack under these conditions would create fertile ground for international terrorism. The Liberal group leader, Graeme Watson, said: It is claimed in London, Washington and Madrid that war could be short, swift and successful. With U.N. support this could indeed be the case. But without it, in a conflict which divides the international community, we could be on the brink of another Hundred Years' War which could bring down regimes well beyond Iraq. A
[CTRL] Cheney Raking in Blood Money from Pentagon Contractor
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031403C.shtml Editor's Note: Read it again - Blood Money. Cheney is Still Paid by Pentagon Contractor Robert Bryce and Julian Borger The Guardian Wednesday 12 March 2003 Bush deputy gets up to $1m from firm with Iraq oil deal Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney. The payments, which appear on Mr Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure statement, are in the form of deferred compensation of up to $1m (£600,000) a year. When he left Halliburton in 2000 to become George Bush's running mate, he opted not to receive his leaving payment in a lump sum but instead have it paid to him over five years, possibly for tax reasons. An aide to the vice president said yesterday: This is money that Mr Cheney was owed by the corporation as part of his salary for the time he was employed by Halliburton and which was a fixed amount paid to him over time. The aide said the payment was even insured so that it would not be affected even if Halliburton went bankrupt, to ensure there was no conflict of interest. Also, the vice president has nothing whatsoever to do with the Pentagon bidding process, the aide added. The company would not say how much the payments are. The obligatory disclosure statement filled by all top government officials says only that they are in the range of $100,000 and $1m. Nor is it clear how they are calculated. Halliburton is one of five large US corporations - the others are the Bechtel Group, Fluor Corp, Parsons Corp, and the Louis Berger Group - invited to bid for contracts in what may turn out to be the biggest reconstruction project since the second world war. It is estimated to be worth up to $900m for the preliminary work alone, such as rebuilding Iraq's hospitals, ports, airports and schools. The contract winners will be able to establish a presence in post-Saddam Iraq that should give them an invaluable edge in winning future contracts. The defence department contract awarded to the Halliburton subsidiary, Kellog, Brown Root (KBR), to control oil fires if Saddam Hussein sets the well heads alight, will put the company in an excellent position to bid for huge contracts when Iraq's oil industry is rehabilitated. KBR has already benefited considerably from the war on terror. It has so far been awarded contracts worth nearly $33m to build the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for al-Qaida suspects. Asked whether the payments to Mr Cheney represented a conflict of interest, Halliburton's spokeswoman, Wendy Hall, said: We have been working as a government contractor since the 1940s. Since this time, KBR has become the premier provider of logistics and support services to all branches of the military. In the five years Mr Cheney was at the helm, Halliburton nearly doubled the amount of business it did with the government to $2.3bn. The company also more than doubled its political contributions to $1.2m, overwhelmingly to Republican candidates. Mr Cheney sold most of his Halliburton shares when he left the company, but retained stock options worth about $8m. He arranged to pay any profits to charity. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Elite Race to War Amidst High-Profile Opposition
-Caveat Lector- Date: 10 Mar 2003 From: Ian Henshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blair Races to War as Cabinet Crumbles by Ian Henshall Publisher: http://www.dumpblair.co.uk - http://www.911dossier.co.uk The Blair government was rocked last night as Clare Short, a popular Labour politician and key ally of Chancellor Gordon Browne, confirmed that she will resign if Bush and Blair attack Iraq without an express UN mandate. Short clearly believes that Bush/Blair are resigned to rejection by the UN and have decided to start illegal attacks on Iraq as soon as possible, before opposition has time to build further. There is no longer a rush to war, there is a race to war. The BBC reports that US/UK raids on Iraq are up to 500 sorties per night. This resignation threat in itself could be shrugged off by Blair's dwindling band of allies, but the tone of Short's criticism makes a move to depose Blair inevitable. The British political world has not seen such a scathing attack on a Prime Minister by a cabinet colleague since Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe condemned Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Within weeks Thatcher was out of power. Short was scathing of Blair's `recklessness` which she described as `very surprising`. In case there could be any doubt as to her planned resignation, Short made it a condition of her support that there should be not only UN approval for the planned attack, but also that there should be a UN refugee plan in place, an issue which so far pro-Blair UK media whores have barely mentioned. In contrast to ex-cabinet minister Chris Smith, who led the massive rebellion against Blair in the House of Commons two weeks ago, Short is adopting a tone of contempt for Blair, making it clear that she sees him as an emotionally immature liar. Unable to breach Cabinet secrecy openly, Short gave a clue to the Bush/Blair war strategy by stating that Blair was telling the cabinet one thing while his spin doctors (Bilderberg plotter Peter Mandelson and reformed alcoholic Alaistair Campbell) are telling the world something quite different. Short's intention to resign is not the only indication that Blair's days are numbered. The New Statesman, the house magazine for Labour intellectuals, recently carried a readers poll splitting 80 to 20 against Blair. The current issue has devastating articles by moderate opinion-former David Marquand, saying that Blair has played Rumsfeld's game to destroy Europe in a remarkably juvenile and clumsy way and intellectual John Gray explaining that US power is overstated and the rest of the world is likely to keep on saying no to Bush/Blair's plans. Even in the staunchly pro-war Observer influential columnist Andrew Rawnsley drew a shocking picture of Blair personally, portraying him as isolated, plagued by flu, desperately short of sleep, and unable to stop obsessive meddling in irrelevant government business. The implication was that Blair is headed for a breakdown. Meanwhile in the US opinion is similarly settled against war in defiance of the UN, but with the tv networks still loyal to the Bush Junta and corrupt Senators controlled by pro-war slush funds, attention is shifting to the financial markets where it is feared that the US cannot finance the war on its own. Even looted Iraqi oil will not be on a scale to staunch the flood of dollars needed to pay for the US trade deficit, conquer Iraq and as Tony Blair puts it deal with North Korea and Iran. Financial markets are more concerned with the truth than politicians and the media whores, and they have noticed that the world may refuse to accept trillions of freshly printed dollars at face value, especially with Euros underpinned by real wealth and oil producers starting to accept them. The last time the world was confronted by a bankrupt country armed to the teeth? Yes, it was Nazi Germany. And the country which helped them to invade Czechoslovakia for its wealth? Britain, of course. Plus ca change... ### From Ian Henshall, chair of INK and proprietor of The Tea and Coffee Plant. INK is the umbrella trade organisation for the UK alternative press. Comment is written in a strictly personal capacity. To get future Crisis Newsletters, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For an archive go to http://www.911dossier.co.uk A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Looting of Iraq not Enough to Cover War Costs - Massive Recession to Follow
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/12/international/middleeast/12COST.html POSTWAR PLANS Panel Faults Bush on War Costs and Risks By PATRICK E. TYLER he cost of postwar reconstruction of Iraq will be at least $20 billion a year and will require the long-term deployment of 75,000 to 200,000 troops to prevent widespread instability and violence against former members of Saddam Hussein's government, a panel of national security experts say in a new study. The panel, consisting of senior American officials from Republican and Democratic administrations, was organized by the Council on Foreign Relations. It concludes that President Bush has failed to fully describe to Congress and the American people the magnitude of the resources that will be required to meet the post-conflict needs of Iraq. The panel was led by James R. Schlesinger, secretary of defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and Thomas R. Pickering, ambassador to the United Nations under Mr. Bush's father. Others on the panel included Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997 and is now retired, and Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick, who served in senior positions in the Reagan administration. They urged Mr. Bush to make clear to Congress, the American people and the people of Iraq that the United States will stay the course in Iraq by financing a multibillion-dollar reconstruction program and seeking formal Congressional endorsement of it. In Washington, meanwhile, Pentagon officials said yesterday that the Bush administration was planning to put Iraqi soldiers to work and to pay the salaries of more than two million Iraqi civil servants to enable them to rebuild their country if Saddam Hussein is ousted. But the officials declined to estimate how much such support would cost. Through the Council on Foreign Relations report, the panel of experts and the council sounded an alarm that the Bush administration needed to be more forthcoming about the risks and costs of an extended occupation of Iraq. One risk arises from the aspirations for independence by ethnic Kurds in the north, which could set off a conflict with Turkey. Another stems from the deep grievances of the Shiite population against the Sunni minority that has dominated the country since its founding. How political leaders are chosen and how Iraq's oil resources are managed also carry the seeds of conflict that will demand significant American resources. Mr. Schlesinger, who also served President Nixon in the Office of Management and Budget, and later ran the C.I.A., said in an interview that while he was reasonably confidant that United States military forces would prevail in a brief war against the degraded army of Saddam Hussein, he was deeply worried about the unwillingness of the Bush administration to speak plainly about the much larger postwar costs and tasks. It is not clear to me that the American people understand we are engaged in the long haul if we are to be successful, he said. The report calls particular attention to the lack of planning and inadequate resources devoted to the humanitarian front after the war. Though Mr. Bush has created a new Pentagon Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, overall planning by international agencies like the World Food Program shows that only $30 million of a $120 million initial requirement for Iraq has been financed. The panel suggested that the White House request an immediate $3 billion for Iraq reconstruction tasks and food aid for the initial postwar phase. To the extent the United States fails to move quickly to address the security and food needs of the more than 16 million Iraqis now dependent on the United Nations' oil-for-food program, Washington will quickly be blamed. It would fuel the perception that the result of the U.S. intervention is an increase of humanitarian suffering, the report says. In appended comments, James F. Dobbins, who served as a special envoy to Afghanistan in the current Bush administration, said that even the lowest suggested requirement of 75,000 troops to stabilize Iraq would mean that every infantryman in the U.S. Army spend 6 months in Iraq out of every 18 to 24. The report gave credence to a recent estimate by Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, that 200,000 troops would be needed to police Iraq after a war. If that many troops are needed, the report says, the $20 billion a year estimate of costs would be much greater. At the Pentagon yesterday, two senior Defense Department officials, speaking to reporters on condition that they not be identified, said the new office charged with establishing a postwar administration hoped to be able to turn over control to an interim Iraqi government within months. But they did not say how they planned to root out the thousands of intelligence and security service agents that Mr. Hussein is known to have placed within virtually every government ministry. The
[CTRL] US to Attack Alone, No Approvals, No Peace, Against World Opinion
-Caveat Lector- http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/12/sprj.irq.international/ U.S. suggests war without Britain Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Posted: 0841 GMT ( 4:41 PM HKT) LONDON, England (CNN) -- Pressure is growing on UK Prime Minister Tony Blair after U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld raised the idea that America might be prepared to go to war against Iraq without Britain. Rumsfeld suggested the British force could be mere spectators -- taking up a peacekeeping role after a U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. Blair is under political pressure from anti-war forces within his own Labour Party, including the threat of ministerial resignations, and polls showing the British public wants U.N. sanction for military action. He has been pushing for a new U.N. resolution that would set a March 17 deadline for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to demonstrate compliance with U.N. demands to disarm. Officials in London are now considering extending that deadline and setting out tests to measure Iraqi compliance, in order to bolster support on the Security Council. But with both France and Russia threatening to veto the resolution, Rumsfeld was asked at a news conference on Tuesday whether the role of the British in an initial assault on Iraq might be scaled back. Their situation is distinctive to their country and they have a government that deals with the parliament in their distinctive way and what will ultimately be decided is unclear as to their role, he said. That is to say their role in the event a decision is made to use force. The second issue of their role in a post-Saddam Hussein reconstruction process or stabilization process which would be a different matter. I think until we know what the resolution is we won't know the answers to what their role will be. He said British participation would be welcomed but added: To the extent they are not able to participate, there are work-arounds and they would not be involved, at least in that phase of it. His words prompted a flurry of phone calls between London and Washington and Rumsfeld later issued a statement clarifying his remarks. In the event that a decision to use force is made, we have every reason to believe there will be a significant military contribution from the UK, he said. However, observers say the comments highlight Blair's precarious position and he is expected to face a testing Prime Minister's Question Time in the Commons on Wednesday. Rumsfeld's words were seized on by leading rebel Labour member of parliament Graham Allen, who urged Blair to seize the heaven sent opportunity to avoid further conflict with his party. He told CNN: Mr. Rumsfeld's comments allow the prime minister an exit strategy with dignity which I hope he will seize on. Allen said there should now be a vote in the British parliament, not dictated by party lines, on whether Britain should support a war. CNN's European Political Editor Robin Oakley said: Rumsfeld was trying to show consideration for Tony Blair's political difficulties at home, but by suggesting the Amercians might go ahead without British particiaption, he has just redoubled the effort of all Blair's critics in his own party, who are now saying there is an exit strategy. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Kurds Prepare for Independency, Turks Prepare to Destroy Kurds, Israel Prepares to Annihilate Palestinians, US Ready to Kill Iraqis
-Caveat Lector- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030311/1/38saa.html Tuesday March 11, 10:50 AM Kurdish forces mobilise to counter feared Turkish incursion: commander Kurdish fighters in the Dahuk region near the Turkish border returned to their base at the weekend to prepare to counter a feared Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, the Kurdish commander in the region said. All the fighters returned to their base this weekend from all across the Dahuk region, of Iraqi Kurdistan, General Babaker Zebari, the head of the Kurdish forces in the region, told AFP. In fact, they are there (to act against) Iraq. But as the Turks have moved to the border, we are also ready for that, he said, referring to movements of hundreds of Turkish military vehicles toward the Iraqi border in recent days. He said the large-scale Turkish deployments constitute a threat and if the Turks are looking for problems, they must take responsibility. We will strike them as soon as they arrive. We only have RPGs (hand-held rocket launchers) against their tanks. We will perhaps be unable to hold the front, but we can stage guerrilla attacks, the general said. The Kurdistan Democratic Party, which shares control of northern Iraq with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), fears Turkey will exploit the US-led war on Iraq to move into the region, and has been concerned by reports already of Turkish troop, vehicle and equipment movements on the Turkish side. Ankara is worried that a war may encourage Iraq's Kurds to break away completely and set up an independent state, offering a rallying point for Turkey's own restive Kurdish population just across the border. The Iraqi Kurds fear that Washington may be prepared to allow Turkey more leeway in the region in return for using Turkish bases in the long-threatened attack on Baghdad. KDP chief Massoud Barzani warned Saturday of serious consequences if Turkish troops moved in and said he hoped the Kurds would not be betrayed by Washington. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Iraq Pleads for Support, Says Committed to Disarming
-Caveat Lector- http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2842181.stm Iraq pleads for support Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammed al-Douri, has appealed to the international community to prevent what he called the inevitable catastrophe of a US-led war against his country. Speaking at an open meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mr al-Douri said Iraq was committed to abandoning banned weapons and accused the United States of possessing ulterior motives. Dozens of countries spoke out against the prospect of military action, piling pressure on the US and Britain, which have intensified their efforts to win support for a second resolution paving the way for the use of force against Iraq. Still lacking sufficient backing among Security Council members to ensure their resolution passes, Britain and the US were working on amendments to the draft text which could extend a 17 March deadline for Iraq to prove it is disarming. UK PROPOSALS Deadline, possibly 10 days, for Iraq to make strategic decision to disarm 17 March deadline to be postponed Destruction of banned weapons Evidence of previous claims of destroyed weapons Interviews with Iraqi scientists abroad Pressure on world leaders Earlier, the United States rejected a suggestion by the six undecided, non-permanent members of the Security Council to extend the deadline for Iraq to disarm by 45 days. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the American people were becoming increasingly impatient with the UN, and he insisted the resolution would be put to a vote this week. An opinion poll carried out by the New York Times and CBS television suggested 66% of Americans support going to war with Iraq. Fifty-five per cent said they would still approve even without the backing of the UN. The US, Britain and co-sponsor Spain still need the support of the undecided members - Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Mexico and Pakistan - to win a so-called moral majority vote. In a televised speech on Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali said it would be very difficult for Pakistan to support war against Iraq, but stopped short of saying Pakistan would vote against the resolution. France and Russia have said they are prepared to veto the resolution, while China, which also has veto power, has said it backs Russia's position. US 'seeking oil' Opening the council meeting on Tuesday, Mr al-Douri said the goal of the United States and Britain was not Iraq's disarmament, but to lay their hands on our oil, to control the region, to redraw our borders. Iraq has taken the strategic decision to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction... and reiterates its readiness to co-operate, the ambassador said. QA: Iraq briefing The majority of the 28 speakers who addressed the council called for a peaceful solution to the crisis. Australia was the only country to support the US unequivocally, saying the UN weapons inspectors will never be able to do their job properly - it is time that all the members of the Security Council acknowledged this. Canada, which has been influential over undecided council members, suggested a three-week deadline for Iraq to demonstrate it had fully complied with the UN's disarmament demands. About 40 nations are likely to speak in the debate, which was adjourned until 1500 local time (2000 GMT) on Wednesday. Military build-up The US and Britain have built up a massive military presence in the Gulf region. BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says American and British planes patrolling longstanding no-fly zones over Iraq are stepping up raids on air defences in the country to weaken them ahead of a wider conflict. And the US army says earth fortifications along the Iraq-Kuwait border are being removed to allow an overland assault to begin. Meanwhile, the US and Turkey are holding talks about the use of Turkish airspace by American forces in the event of war. In other developments: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld qualifies remarks suggesting US forces might act without British military support, saying the US had every reason to believe there will be a significant military contribution from the United Kingdom. The US military says it has successfully tested a massive 21,000 pound bomb - known as the Moab: Massive Ordnance Air Burst or, unofficially, the Mother Of All Bombs - which may be used in any conflict with Iraq UN inspectors' spokesman Hiro Ueki says Iraq has destroyed three more of their banned al-Samoud II missiles, bringing the total destroyed to 55 out of about 100 Mr Ueki says three pilotless drones, which the US says can deliver weapons of mass destruction, have been discovered Two American U-2 spy planes supporting UN inspections are withdrawn from Iraqi airspace after Baghdad complains they flew in from Saudi Arabia, breaching an agreement with inspectors A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion
[CTRL] WAR TO START MARCH 18?
-Caveat Lector- Tuesday, March 11, 2003 EYE ON THE GULF Government monitor intercepts order to troops from U.S. Central Command Israeli official claims war starts March 18 Posted: March 11, 2003 6:08 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com An Israeli official said in a televised report today that the U.S. military has been ordered to launch a war against Iraq on March 18, reports WorldTribune.com. Michael Gurdus, an Israeli government monitor, reportedly said the order was relayed by U.S. Central Command to all American forces in the Persian Gulf. According to the report, Gurdus told Israel's Channel 2 television that he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications he intercepted. Gurdus is considered the leading communications monitor in the Middle East. According to the WorldTribune.com report, he has broken numerous stories because of his ability to intercept and understand foreign-language civilian and radio broadcasts and communications. He said the U.S. military, in its radio communications, refers to Iraq as bad cows and kabab, Middle East Newsline reported. Israel's media reported that the United States had demanded that senior Israeli officials stop issuing predictions of when the war would erupt. The latest proposal from the U.S. and UK to the United Nations Security Council called for a March 17 deadline for Saddam to disarm or face consequences. Some media reports indicated the U.S. was considering extending that deadline, but White House spokesman Ari Fleischer described a plan to extend it as a a non-starter. The U.S. had hoped to vote on the resolution today but were forced to delay action since the required nine votes for passage had not been secured. In addition, France has threatened to veto the measure. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31474 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer4mar04,1,6834172.column Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink We have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of the American people, since the war in Vietnam, - John Brady Kiesling By Robert Scheer Even some in government can no longer be silent in the face of falsehood. So the truth is out: George W. Bush lied when he claimed to be worried about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Otherwise, Iraq's stepped-up cooperation with the U.N. on disarmament would be stunningly good news, obviating the need to rush to war. Instead, the U.N. weapons inspectors' verification of Iraq's destruction of missiles, private meetings with Iraqi weapons scientists, visits to locations where biological and chemical weapons were destroyed in 1991 and a series of unfettered flights by U2 spy plans have been met with a shrug and sneer in Washington. The White House line is that even if the Iraqis destroy all their slingshots, Goliath is still bringing his tanks and instituting regime change. The arrogance is breathtaking. We have demanded that a country disarm -- and even as it is doing so, we say it doesn't matter: it's too late; we're coming in. Put down your guns and await the slaughter. Abraham Lincoln once observed that even a free people can be fooled for a time -- and this, mind you, was long before Fox News existed -- and in his chaotic two-year presidency, Bush has pushed the Big Lie approach so far that we are seeing dramatic signs of its cracking: an international backlash, a domestic peace movement and whistle-blowing from inside our own intelligence and diplomatic corps. We have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of the American people, since the war in Vietnam, wrote John Brady Kiesling, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service in his letter of resignation last week to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Kiesling, who was political counselor in U.S. embassies throughout the Mideast, added that until this administration, it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president, I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer. And this brave man is not the only one who has caught on. The entire world is astonished that our president is lying not about a personal indiscretion but about the most sacred duty of the leader of the most powerful nation in human history not to recklessly endanger the lives of his own or the world's people. Yet lie he has. The first lie, claimed outright, was that Iraq aided and abetted the Sept. 11 terrorists. There is no evidence at all for this claim. It is also interesting to note that not a single leading Al Qaeda operative has turned out to be Iraqi. The latest to be nabbed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was living in Pakistan, was raised in Kuwait and studied engineering -- and presumably the physics of explosives -- at a college in North Carolina. The second lie was that Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction represent an imminent threat to U.S. security. Despite the most hugely expensive but secret high-tech spy operation in human history -- estimated by most at well over $100 billion a year -- and a vast network of defectors and spies, we have not been able to find their supposed weapons. The third and most dangerous lie is that our mission now is to bring lasting peace to the Mideast by a devastating invasion of Iraq, which will end, as the president outlined last week, in U.S. dominance over the structure of government and politics throughout the region. After abandoning promising efforts by the previous administration to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the Bush team now claims that changing Muslim governments around the world will end the downward spiral of violence there. Which leads us to another lie: that this is all good for our ally, Israel -- the claim of the cabal of neoconservative ideologues running our Mideast policy. In fact, however, Israel will be placed in a terribly dangerous position, serving as a fig leaf for U.S. ambitions, further ensuring that it remain forever an isolated military garrison. This construction of a new world order comes from a naive and untraveled president, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse. Bush insiders Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld are all members of something called the Project for a New American Century that has been pushing for a U.S. redesign of the Mideast since 1997. After Sept. 11, they seized on our national tragedy as a way to enlist George W. in support of their grand design. Not only was this reckless scheme never mentioned by Bush during the
[CTRL] Urgent Diplomacy Fails to Gain U.S. 9 Votes in the U.N.
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[CTRL] How the U.S. Kills It's Own Soldiers
-Caveat Lector- From: John Draper To: Dr Clark-egroup Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 Subject: [DrClark] fw: THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES NOTE: This is one of the most shocking subjects the controlled media won't touch, how 30% of the 1st Gulf War vets are dead or dying from depleted uranium from OUR shells, and in one State where studies were made, almost a third of babies being born to Gulf War vets have serious disfiguring mutations and health problems. This stuff makes Agent Orange seem rather benign in comparison. The only way it makes any sense, like the chemtrails across America, is to weaken us, our resistance to invasion here in the U.S., as is planned by the Sino-Soviet alliance, following the Iraq attack and retaliation with nukes and biologicals across America. God forbid that this prophetic 3rd Great Peril vision of George Washington comes to pass (at www.heartcom.org/3rdperil.htm ) but you can't say we haven't been warned! -CR from: http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES An Interview with Major Doug Rokke Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, traveling the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, supplemented with questions from YES! editors. (EXCERPT FROM DR. ROKKE'S INTERVIEW: We also bombarded Vieques, Puerto Rico, with DU in preparation for the war in Kosovo. That's affecting American citizens on American territory. When I tried to activate our team from the Department of Defense responsible for radiological safety and DU cleanup in Vieques, I was told no. When I tried to activate medical care, I was told no.) QUESTION : Any viewer who saw the war on television had the impression this was an easy war, fought from a distance and soldiers coming back relatively unharmed. Is this an accurate picture? ROKKE : At the completion of the Gulf War, when we came back to the United States in the fall of 1991, we had a total casualty count of 760: 294 dead, a little over 400 wounded or ill. But the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002. Many of the US casualties died as a direct result of uranium munitions friendly fire. US forces killed and wounded US forces. We recommended care for anybody downwind of any uranium dust, anybody working in and around uranium contamination, and anyone within a vehicle, structure, or building that's struck with uranium munitions. That's thousands upon thousands of individuals, but not only US troops. You should provide medical care not only for the enemy soldiers but for the Iraqi women and children affected, and clean up all of the contamination in Iraq. And it's not just children in Iraq. It's children born to soldiers after they came back home. The military admitted that they were finding uranium excreted in the semen of the soldiers. If you've got uranium in the semen, the genetics are messed up. So when the children were conceived -- the alpha particles cause such tremendous cell damage and genetics damage that everything goes bad. Studies have found that male soldiers who served in the Gulf War were almost twice as likely to have a child with a birth defect and female soldiers almost three times as likely. Q: You have been a military man for over 35 years. You served in Vietnam as a bombardier and you are still in the US Army Reserves. Now you're going around the country speaking about the dangers of depleted uranium (DU). What made you decide you had to speak publicly about DU? ROKKE: Everybody on my team was getting sick. My best friend John Sitton was dying. The military refused him medical care, and he died. John set up the medical evacuation communication system for the entire theater. Then he got contaminated doing the work. John and Rolla Dolph and I were best friends in the civilian world, the military world, forever. Rolla got sick. I personally got the order that sent him to war. We were both activated together. I was given the assignment to teach nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare and make sure soldiers came back alive and safe. I take it seriously. I was sent to the Gulf with this instruction: Bring 'em back alive. Clear as could be. But when I got all the training together, all the environmental cleanup procedures together, all the medical directives, nothing happened. More than 100 American soldiers were exposed to DU in friendly fire accidents, plus untold numbers of soldiers who climbed on and entered tanks that had been hit with DU, taking photos
[CTRL] America Led by A Sick Lunatic
-Caveat Lector- http://www.willthomas.net/isbushnuts.htm IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas Senior reporter Lifeboat News Feb. 12, 2003 What drives a man to go against the wishes of his countryfolk and the entire world community - including the presidents of Russia, China, France and Germany? How can a professed Christian continue to defy church leaders worldwide - including the Bishops of Britain and the Pope? How does he rationalize breaking the commandments of his God, which clearly prohibit coveting another's property, theft of their oil, and mass murder of defenseless populations? How can he ignore his own generals when they complain, We're advocating a policy that says we will invade another nation that is not currently attacking us or invading any of our allies. [Capitol Hill Blue Jan, 22, 2003] To those who deem it unseemly to count the brick's on one man's load, let us recall that this unelected President is one brick short of killing what the UN fears could be up to a half-million people in Iraq. This massacre could easily see Pakistan's government - and its 30 to 40 nukes - falling to an al Qaeda/Taliban majority. Bush's announced plans to attack North Korea and Iran have already prompted both countries to hit the nuclear gas pedal, virtually assuring a nuclear event. And his $5 trillion blowout has taken the American economy to a $2 trillion deficit in two short years. As ignored global warming triggers Extreme Weather Events, frightened Nobel price-winning economists warn that GW's proposed $600 billion tax cut is fiscal madness - a very serious economic error that will collapse the country in exactly the same way the ex-Soviet Empire went bust buying and deploying so many arms in so many places. Ditto Imperial Rome. Are these the acts of a rational person? Not since Nixon's famous freak-outs in the White House, which saw National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger ordering military commanders to ignore nuclear launch orders from their Commander-In-Chief, is it so urgent that we examine a president's cognitive capacities. [The Trial of Henry Kissinger] It might be useful to scrutinize the following findings. While everyone goes nuts from time to time, the salient question is whether traits described below dominate and drive today's presidential decisions. Is a man called by other government reps, an idiot an imbecile dangerously incompetent and a moron competent, capable and qualified to direct America's unchallenged military might? Read on. If you dare. PATTERN RECOGNITION Is The 'President' Nuts? asks Carol Wolman, M.D. Many people, inside and especially outside this country, believe that the American president is nuts, and is taking the world on a suicidal path. [Counterpunch Oct. 2, 2002] A board-certified psychiatrist in practice for 30 years, Dr. Wolman feels compelled to understand the psychopathology of man under tremendous pressure from both his family/junta, and from the world at large. Dr. Wolman wonders if GW is suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder, as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fourth Edition: There is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others: 1) failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest; 2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure; 5) reckless disregard for safety of self or others; 7) lack of remorse by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen from others. DRY DRUNK GW Bush is highly regarded for kicking the twin demons of cocaine and alcohol addiction. If he is still off both wagons - and there is no proof that isn't - such a triumph, encouraged and aided by his wife, is commendable. When probing the mysteries of GW's brain chemistry, a key point to ponder is that damage done to brain cells from drug abuse is permanent and irreversible. Quaker and university professor Katherine van Wormer co-authored the definitive, 2002, Addiction Treatment. This expert writes that George W. Bush manifests all the classic patterns of what alcoholics in recovery call 'the dry drunk'. His behavior is consistent with being brought on by years of heavy drinking and possible cocaine use.
[CTRL] Bush's Napoleon Complex
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61350-2003Mar8.html For Bush, War Defines Presidency Response to Iraq Reflects Convictions By Dana Milbank, Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 9, 2003; Page A01 In the coming weeks, all signs indicate, President Bush will launch the first war without direct provocation in the nation's history. The consequences of invading Iraq, supporters and opponents agree, will extend far beyond the Tigris and Euphrates. Repercussions of the war are likely to define not just the Bush presidency, but also the U.S. role in the world and even the course of domestic policy for years to come. It is the largest of gambles -- except that Bush, in rhetoric and in temperament, sees it not as a gamble but as a historical inevitability. As he has upped the ante in Iraq by linking the war to the future of the United Nations, NATO and American leadership in the world, he appears confident and serene in the face of bitter worldwide protest. This is his moment; this is his Omaha Beach, said Craig Stapleton, a close friend who is ambassador to the Czech Republic. He knows exactly what to do. This confidence despite the risks and the overwhelming opposition reveals much about Bush's personality and worldview. Those close to Bush say the Sept. 11 attacks gave him not just new meaning to his presidency but a new purpose to his life. The nation must understand, this is now the focus of my administration, he said two days later. Bush has come to view his leadership of post-9/11 America as a matter of fate, or of God's will. He has said the country is called to defend our nation and to lead the world to peace, and he often says the mission is to extend liberty, God's gift to every human being in the world. With that assumption, it is almost impossible to imagine Bush confining the war on terrorism to al Qaeda. Instead, he quickly embraced the most sweeping foreign policy proposal his most hawkish advisers had developed -- a vision of American supremacy and preemption of emerging threats -- and that policy leads inexorably to Iraq, and beyond. Bush's aides believe the president made up his mind about Iraq in the early days after Sept. 11. He resolved to do everything possible to prevent it from happening again. September 11 gave him a never-again sense, one senior aide said. He never wants to stand again before another pile of rubble. He'll err on the side of being overly vigilant. Bush has said as much himself. The price of doing nothing exceeds the price of taking action, he said in his Thursday news conference. Though Bush asserts with certainty that he is taking the least risky option, there is much at stake. If all goes well, Bush's Iraq war may be compared to President Harry S. Truman's Berlin Airlift, which represented the implementation of a new U.S. foreign policy that ultimately won the Cold War. If it goes badly, it may be remembered in the same way as President Woodrow Wilson's war to end wars, which instead was followed by instability, economic collapse and genocide. Historian Walter Russell Mead, of the Council on Foreign Relations, said Bush and his aides are aware that major issues are at stake and they're playing for very big stakes. At the very least, they're aware that their political lives are at stake. In the worst-case scenario, a protracted, messy war and rebuilding in Iraq lead to mass U.S. and Iraqi civilian casualties, more terrorism at home, an oil crisis, radicalization of the Middle East and the fall of friendly governments, and an isolated and disliked United States whose alliances -- even highly valued free-trade arrangements -- disintegrate. Potentially, it is the deconstruction of alliances as we have known them throughout the postwar period, said Leon Fuerth, who was Vice President Al Gore's national security adviser. Bush has done a best-case analysis of what's going to follow here. But every good thing he projects could be turned on its head, and there's no way of knowing for sure which way the odds run. Even friends caution Bush against naive optimism. This is the first hyperpower war, where the dominant power in the system sees a huge problem that it is determined to resolve even with quite serious opposition of major players, said Eliot Cohen, a theorist at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Publicly, at least, Bush has left no room for such concerns. He and his aides have outlined a quick and successful overthrow of Hussein and rebuilding of a democratic Iraq that spreads peace through the Middle East. Establishing unchallenged world dominance for the United States, it cows the leaders of Iran, North Korea and al Qaeda. In this view, the domestic economy would soar, and help Bush and his party in 2004 to a victory that would realign the country's political allegiances. One reason for Bush's confidence under pressure is the unshakeable belief of his advisers that this scenario is likely.
[CTRL] The 39th US President Jimmy Carter: Just War -- or a Just War?
-Caveat Lector- Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States: http://truthout.org/docs_03/031003A.shtml Just War -- or a Just War? By Jimmy Carter New York Times| Op-Ed Sunday 09 March 2003 ATLANTA -- Profound changes have been taking place in American foreign policy, reversing consistent bipartisan commitments that for more than two centuries have earned our nation greatness. These commitments have been predicated on basic religious principles, respect for international law, and alliances that resulted in wise decisions and mutual restraint. Our apparent determination to launch a war against Iraq, without international support, is a violation of these premises. As a Christian and as a president who was severely provoked by international crises, I became thoroughly familiar with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards. This is an almost universal conviction of religious leaders, with the most notable exception of a few spokesmen of the Southern Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment to Israel based on eschatological, or final days, theology. For a war to be just, it must meet several clearly defined criteria. The war can be waged only as a last resort, with all nonviolent options exhausted. In the case of Iraq, it is obvious that clear alternatives to war exist. These options -- previously proposed by our own leaders and approved by the United Nations -- were outlined again by the Security Council on Friday. But now, with our own national security not directly threatened and despite the overwhelming opposition of most people and governments in the world, the United States seems determined to carry out military and diplomatic action that is almost unprecedented in the history of civilized nations. The first stage of our widely publicized war plan is to launch 3,000 bombs and missiles on a relatively defenseless Iraqi population within the first few hours of an invasion, with the purpose of so damaging and demoralizing the people that they will change their obnoxious leader, who will most likely be hidden and safe during the bombardment. The war's weapons must discriminate between combatants and noncombatants. Extensive aerial bombardment, even with precise accuracy, inevitably results in collateral damage. Gen. Tommy R. Franks, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf, has expressed concern about many of the military targets being near hospitals, schools, mosques and private homes. Its violence must be proportional to the injury we have suffered. Despite Saddam Hussein's other serious crimes, American efforts to tie Iraq to the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been unconvincing. The attackers must have legitimate authority sanctioned by the society they profess to represent. The unanimous vote of approval in the Security Council to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction can still be honored, but our announced goals are now to achieve regime change and to establish a Pax Americana in the region, perhaps occupying the ethnically divided country for as long as a decade. For these objectives, we do not have international authority. Other members of the Security Council have so far resisted the enormous economic and political influence that is being exerted from Washington, and we are faced with the possibility of either a failure to get the necessary votes or else a veto from Russia, France and China. Although Turkey may still be enticed into helping us by enormous financial rewards and partial future control of the Kurds and oil in northern Iraq, its democratic Parliament has at least added its voice to the worldwide expressions of concern. The peace it establishes must be a clear improvement over what exists. Although there are visions of peace and democracy in Iraq, it is quite possible that the aftermath of a military invasion will destabilize the region and prompt terrorists to further jeopardize our security at home. Also, by defying overwhelming world opposition, the United States will undermine the United Nations as a viable institution for world peace. What about America's world standing if we don't go to war after such a great deployment of military forces in the region? The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory. American stature will surely decline further if we launch a war in clear defiance of the United Nations. But to use the presence and threat of our military power to force Iraq's compliance with all United Nations resolutions -- with war as a final option -- will enhance our status as a champion of peace and justice. Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is chairman of the Carter
[CTRL] Bush about to do to Iraq what Saddam did to Kuwait
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/030803B.shtml Editor's Note: Bush gave only the eighth formal news conference since taking office in 2001 on Thursday night. There was speculation beforehand that this might be the moment when a declaration of war against Iraq would be made. Some even thought Bush would be announcing the capture of Osama bin Laden. Neither came to pass. Instead, Bush ran through a familiar litany of accusations and threats directed at Saddam Hussein. There were two factors to note. The first was that Bush all but promised that America would go to war without a UN resolution approving such action. The second pertained to the nature of the press conference itself. The reporters clearly asked scripted questions. Bush himself referenced a list at his podium before calling on reporters, making it clear that he knew the order of the questions to come, the name of the questioners, and the questions themselves. April, did you have a question or did I call on you cold? said Bush to a reporter after referencing his notes. At the end of the day, this press conference was designed to do one thing - to get rhetorically out in front of Hans Blix before he reports to the UN on Friday. Twice now the administration has waited for Blix to report, expecting from him a basis for war, and twice they have been burned. On Thursday, Bush attempted to set the terms of debate for this next report. - wrp Bush Commits to Second Resolution Vote Mark Oliver Guardian UK Friday 7 March 2003 The US president, George Bush, said today that he would insist on a vote on a new resolution authorising war on Iraq, saying it was time for UN security council members to show their cards. Speaking at a televised White House news conference, Mr Bush committed to the vote for the first time, saying the US would seek it regardless of the prospects for success - which is in doubt because of opposition from council members Russia, France and China. The US, Britain and Spain last month tabled a second resolution, which would effectively authorise war, which followed previous UN resolution 1441 which ordered Iraq to disarm. However, there had been doubt about the US pushing the new resolution to a vote amid fears it may not get passed or be vetoed by France, Russia or China. However today Mr Bush said: No matter what the whip count is [the tally of expected votes], we're calling for the vote ... we want to see people stand up and say what their opinion is about Saddam Hussein and the utility of the United Nations security council. It's time for people to show their cards, to let the world know where they stand when it comes to Saddam. However, he indicated the US would go it alone regardless. When it comes to security, we certainly don't need anybody's permission, Mr Bush said. He said President Saddam was engaged in a willful charade to deceive UN weapons inspectors and that the United States and its allies were involved in the last phase of diplomacy. He said: If he does not disarm, we will disarm him. Mr Bush said President Saddam had made a big show of destroying a few missiles, referring to Iraq's Samoud missiles, which the regime has destroyed around 10 of in recent days after the UN said they exceeded a banned range. But Mr Bush added our intelligence indicates he has ordered the production of the very same missiles. He accused Iraq of hiding materials for weapons of mass destruction. These are not the actions of a regime that is disarming. These are the actions of a regime engaged in a willful charade. These are the actions of a regime that systematically and deliberately is defying the world, he said. Mr Bush denied he was worried about failing to get UN support for military action and indicated the US would act without it. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to
[CTRL] On the Eve of Destruction: Counting Down the Days
-Caveat Lector- On the Eve of Destruction by Adrian Banks 3/05/03 Victims of the bombing of Dresden (original mail: black and white photograph of a huge mound of mangled bodies) This morning's local newspaper stated that, tomorrow morning at 6am, the 400 local guardsmen of the 151st Signal Battalion will be leaving for the Middle East. Among those guardsmen is a friend in his early forties named Donald, whom I've worked with on several residential construction jobs. He will leaving South Carolina and will be joining around 300,000 troops that are already in the Middle east region. They are there for one purpose, and that purpose is to wage war. The presumption is strong that the war will erupt soon, for billions of dollars have been spent already, and soon the weather in Iraq will be unfavorable for ground forces. By mid-April, dust storms are frequent in Iraq, and the temperatures will be prohibitive for wearing haz-mat suits. Also, we are told almost daily about more military deployments to the Middle east region. Let's face the truth about this whole mess that has been created by the current administration. It has been well said many times that the first casualty of war is the truth. The truth is that Iraq's military doesn't stand a chance against the military might of the United States or Great Britain. Iraq's population is around 22 million people; the United States has a population of over 250 million; and Great Britain has a population of around 60 million. This means that the United States and Great Britain outnumber the Iraqi people 14 to 1. The bulk of the Iraqi population is also poor. What is the strength of Iraq's navy and air force? How many aircraft carriers do they have? How many battleships do they have? How many heavy bombers do they have? How many fighter jets do they have? I have seen no news reports on this. The reason is obvious. Iraq no longer has an air force or a navy worth mentioning. As a marine soldier on the front lines in Kuwait told a news reporter recently in an interview, They don't stand a chance. He is indeed correct. Yesterday on Fox news I learned that around 1200 B-52 heavy bombers will descend upon Iraq in the opening of the military campaign. Iraq will be powerless to stop this. The blitzkrieg that will be unleashed upon Iraq will be far greater than the one that the Nazis unleashed upon Poland in September of 1939. When I look at this scenario, I am reminded of Polish soldiers on horseback going up against German tanks. Also, think of the carnage that 1200 heavy bombers will create upon a defenseless people. In the 1940 blitz on London, casualties were estimated at: 43,000 Killed 51,000 Seriously injured 88,000 Slightly injured. In July and August of 1943, the bombing of Hamburg resulted in firestorms that caused the deaths of around 50,000 people. As a result of these raids over a million people fled the city. In 1945, the fire bombing of Tokyo began on March 9 and 10. The area of Tokyo selected was four miles by three miles, a zone with a civilian population density of 103,000 per square mile. A high concentration of incendiary bombs dropped from the huge U.S. B-29 Superfortresses ignited a series of fires, fanned by brisk winds, which raged out of control within half an hour, the result of which was that more than 15 square miles of Tokyo was burned out. About 100,000 men, women and children were killed and another 100,000 people were made homeless. According to the U.S. Army Air Forces: No other air attack of the war, either in Japan or Europe, was so destructive of life and property. The bombing of Dresden was also horrifying. The Allies brought out many of their best planes and most destructive bombs for the raid. Many of the bombs were incendiaries, which are fire bombs constructed with magnesium that are dropped in clusters and spread over the drop site. 13 February, 1945 brought 796 Lancaster bombers and 9 Mosquitoes from the Royal Air Force (RAF). In 3 hours, they dropped 1,478 tons of explosive bombs and 1,182 tons of incendiaries . Likewise, the American Flying Fortresses and Liberators dropped 1,800 explosive bombs and 136,800 fire sticks. American planes completed the raid when they returned and unleashed 3,700 more explosive bombs on Dresden. As a cultural center, not a military stronghold, Dresden held few obstacles that could interfere with the pilots' missions. Not only did the incendiary explosives increase the severity of the bombing, but also the timing stimulated controversy. The Allies were aware of the mass of refugees, yet they still machine-gunned the fleeing population as they ran to escape the flames and explosions. The citizens were in an equally hopeless situation. When the first bombs started falling, the citizens were merely warned to keep sand and water handy. Incendiaries caused the temperature to climb to degrees previously unheard of in Germany or Europe, 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. The fires depleted oxygen and
[CTRL] A Real Policy For Peace
-Caveat Lector- A Real Policy For Peace Charley Reese Friday, March 7, 2003 There is only one nuclear power in the Middle East: Israel. There is only one country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Israel. There is only one country in the Middle East that refuses to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities: Israel. There is only one country in the Middle East that stands in defiance of more than 60 United Nations resolutions: Israel. There is only one country in the Middle East that invaded and continues to occupy land belonging to its neighbors: Israel. I am not setting out to bash Israel, but merely to point out undeniable facts that most of the America media and American politicians studiously ignore. Is it too difficult for Americans to grasp that the United States has a blatant double standard and that the people in Arab countries justifiably resent that double standard? The Arabs do not expect or demand that the United States become the enemy of Israel. They recognize the close ties between the two countries. All they ask for is simple fairness. It's not fair to threaten Iraq with war for allegedly violating U.N. resolutions while protecting Israel from any consequences for violating more U.N. resolutions. It's not fair to go to war to undo the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq while condoning the continued occupation by Israel of portions of Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. It's not fair to threaten Iraq and Iran about weapons of mass destruction while remaining silent about those possessed by Israel. It's not fair to harp on the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein while rationalizing the crimes committed by Israel. Do you realize that in just the past week, as of this writing, the Israelis have killed 33 Palestinians? Do you realize that if the United States announced that its policy is to rid the entire Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, including those possessed by Israel, that the United States would receive the overwhelming support of the Arab world? Fairness was once the characteristic of the American republic. It consists simply of doing exactly what our great founder, George Washington, recommended: treat all countries the same, showing neither favoritism nor enmity to any. Moreover, he pleaded, do not involve yourself in other people's feuds and quarrels. And finally, he warned against the evils of foreign influence in our domestic affairs. Every single foreign-policy problem we face, including the threat of terrorism, is a result of violating those three admonitions: We don't treat all nations the same; we do involve ourselves in other people's quarrels; and we have allowed foreign influence to exert tremendous influence on our policies. Far from being the republic Washington and his contemporaries gave us, we have become an empire, very much like Rome. There are nearly 40,000 permanent lobbyists in Washington, swarming over our 535 elected officials like flies on roadkill. We have the bizarre ritual of practically every candidate for president making a visit to the Israeli lobby and pledging undying support for a foreign country. While millions in Africa and Latin America suffer terrible poverty, not to mention 30 million of our own people, we pour billions of dollars of aid into Israel, which has a comfortably high standard of living. Again, foreign influence is the reason. The truth is, we have no natural enemies except the North Koreans, who are taught from the cradle to hate us. Islam is not our enemy. The Arab world is not our enemy. Iran is not our enemy. Russia and China are not our enemies. Except for the North Koreans, the only enemies we have in this world are those we created with our unjust policies and actions. President Bush fancies himself a Christian. It's too bad he isn't, but then most Christians would not be recognizable to Christ if he returned to Earth. Peace, love and justice are not very fashionable in many Christian circles these days. Many of them prefer war, provided they don't have to fight it. http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030307/index.php A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] From the Shadows Ruling the U.S. - Israeli Empire
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030305/index.php Charley Reese Wednesday, March 5, 2003 EXCERPT: If you watch the silly cable-news shows, you will recognize many of these names as part of the parade of experts in favor of war with Iraq. The American people are being played for suckers. Their sons and daughters will be cannon fodder in a war that might benefit a foreign country but will greatly damage the interests of our own. NOTE: These are the names of those who have betrayed America for their own gain. Name the names in your invocations to Higher Power for adjudication of this treasonous treachery. Call for the binding of the Christian fanaticism that has believed the lies of Bush's moral imperative and religious posturing, believing religiously that this is a righteous war when it has been created and managed out of Zionist empire ambitions and Machiavellian/Hegelian manipulation of the masses through terror and tyranny. Political correctness with these flimflam imposters is morally wrong. The force of anti-love as antichrist that preys on people while praying In the name of the Christ. If you didn't read the recent post on George Bush, Alter Boy you should. These guys running the show are Illuminati Satanists. It's time we pulled the curtain on that show and produced another one. -CR Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli empire. -- Moshe Dayan 1952 The Flimflam Still think you are not being flimflammed by the Bush administration? Take heed of this: Newsweek has reported that Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect and Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, told the United Nations, the CIA and Britain's MI-6 in 1995 that Iraq destroyed all of its chemical and biological stocks, as well as the missiles to deliver them, in 1991. Yet the U.N. arms inspectors, the CIA and MI-6 chose to keep that secret. If it's true -- and there's no reason to believe it isn't -- then it's pretty hard evidence that the Bush administration is lying through its teeth when it keeps insisting that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. It also bolsters the credibility of former chief arms inspector Scott Ritter, who has likewise insisted that Iraq's weapons were destroyed. For that matter, it bolsters the credibility of the Iraqi government, which insists it no longer has any weapons of mass destruction. [This war is psychological at this point; it's all about credibility. -CR] You might recall that Kamel defected to Jordan and about six months later made the mistake of returning to Iraq, where he was killed. This coming war with Iraq gets murkier and murkier. Let's see if we can sort it out. First, we have a chief executive so naive about the world outside of Texas, he probably couldn't find a lot of countries on a map. Second, he has surrounded himself with American Likudniks -- supporters of Israel's right-wing government. Even The Washington Post reported recently what I've been saying for months: that Bush's policy is identical to that of Ariel Sharon's, the Israeli prime minister. I've said that Bush has been acting like Sharon's puppet; The Washington Post story quoted a U.S. official as saying Sharon has played Bush like a violin. The Israelis have long feared Iraq, Iran and North Korea (because they fear it will sell missiles to Iran). What a coincidence that those three countries are Bush's axis of evil. Before Bush's election, Dick Cheney (now vice president), John Bolton (now undersecretary of state for arms control), Douglas Feith (now third-highest-ranking official in the Defense Department), Richard Perle (now chairman of the Defense Policy Board) and James Woolsey (former CIA director) all had one thing in common: They served as advisers to the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. This is according to an article that appeared in the magazine The Nation. Bush recently appointed as director of Middle Eastern affairs for the National Security Council Elliott Abrams, a protégé of Perle and a man convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair. In 1996, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, now an assistant to Bolton, wrote a policy proposal for Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's prime minister. Included in their advice were tips on how to manipulate the American government (OK, even the Haaretz reporter says the report comes dangerously close to dual loyalty) and advice to drop the peace plan, drop the idea of land for peace and concentrate on toppling Saddam Hussein and eventually replacing other Middle Eastern governments in order to create a safe environment for
[CTRL] Pope to Bush: Go into Iraq and You Go Without God
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/030703A.shtml Pope to Bush: Go into Iraq and You Go Without God Capitol Hill Blue Wednesday 5 March 2003 Pope John Paul II has a strong message for President George W. Bush: God is not on your side if you invade Iraq. But the President told the pope's envoy the leader of the world's Catholics is wrong. Pleading for peace, an emissary from Pope John Paul II questioned Bush Wednesday on whether he was doing all he could to avert what the envoy called an unjust war with Iraq. Bush said removing Saddam Hussein would make the world more peaceful. The president met with Cardinal Pio Laghi, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and a Bush family friend, on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian Lenten season of penance and spiritual renewal leading up to Easter. Bush told the envoy in a 40-minute meeting that if it comes to the use of force, he believes it will make the world better, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who attended the private meeting. Removing the threat to the region will lead to a better, more peaceful world in which innocent Iraqis will have a better life. Laghi came bearing the pope's message: A war would be a defeat for humanity and would be neither morally nor legally justified. The Pope also questioned the President's statements invoking God's name as justification for the invasion. God is a neutral observer in the affairs of man, the Pope said. Man cannot march into war and assume God will be at his side. In Rome, the pope called for common efforts to spare humanity another dramatic conflict. The Vatican stands by its view that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq is immoral unless backed by the United Nations, Laghi said. It's illegal, it's unjust, Laghi told reporters after the session with Bush. There are still peaceful avenues within the context of the vast patrimony of international law and institutions which exist for that purpose, Laghi said. There is great unity on this grave matter on the part of the Holy See, the bishops in the United States, and the church throughout the world, he said. Laghi posed a series of questions to Bush that reflected the differences between the White House and the Vatican on Iraq, said a senior administration official. The questions included the importance of an international effort to confront Saddam and what the envoy said was a gulf between the Western and Muslim worlds. Bush disagreed on the last point, saying the U.S. effort to expand education opportunities to children had brought the Muslim and Western nations closer together, the administration official said. Laghi delivered a letter in which the pope urged Bush to listen carefully to the envoy. Neither the letter nor the envoy specifically urged Bush to avoid war, the U.S. official said. Laghi said he left the White House with hope in spite of the fact that the situation is what it is. Bush has rarely met with opponents of his Iraq stand in recent months. He almost always meets with leaders who agree with him, but has spoken by phone with adversaries. Bush, a Methodist, has taken pains throughout his presidency to court Catholic voters, who made up a quarter of the electorate in 2000 and split their votes between Bush and Democrat Al Gore. White House officials pointed out that Bush and the envoy also discussed abortion and cloning, two issues on which the administration and the Vatican generally agree. The polite exchange described by White House aides reflected the careful language of diplomacy used by both sides, even when they disagree. In a May visit to the Vatican, Bush told the pope he was concerned about the Catholic church's standing in America, where the church has been rocked by sex-abuse scandal. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] US Refuses to Comment on Dirty Tricks to Win UN Vote on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/030603B.shtml Editor's Note: This is a massive story internationally, and yet there has been virtually no coverage of it here in the States. - wrp US Refuses to Comment on Report of 'Dirty Tricks' to Win UN Vote on Iraq by the Agence France Presse Tuesday 4 March 2003 The United States steadfastly refused to comment on a report it is waging a secret dirty tricks campaign against UN Security Council members to win votes for a resolution opening the way for war against Iraq. Neither the White House nor the State Department would be drawn into making any statement on the report in London's Observer newspaper that said it had obtained a document detailing US surveillance of the home and office telephones and e-mails of UN delegates. The administration never comments on anything involving any people involved in intelligence, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. The administration does not answer questions of that nature. At the State Department, spokesman Richard Boucher repeatedly declined to respond to questions about the report and stayed mum even when asked if he could deny it. It doesn't matter what the paper is or whether it's true or not, I wouldn't have any comment on that kind of allegation, he told reporters. I would not have any comment whatsoever on that kind of question or allegation because we never comment on intelligence matters, and I'm not going to do it now, Boucher said. The paper said the disclosures were made in a memorandum written by a top official at the National Security Agency (NSA), the US body which intercepts communications around the world, and circulated to senior agents in his organization and to a friendly foreign intelligence agency. The memo describes orders to staff at the agency to step up surveillance particularly directed at ... UN Security Council members to provide up-to-the-minute intelligence on the voting intentions of UN members regarding the issue of Iraq, according to the Observer. The leaked memorandum, dated January 31, makes clear that the target of the heightened surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York, it said. Along with Spain and the United States, Britain has sponsored a new UN resolution declaring Iraq in non-compliance with earlier UN demands that it disarm, which would in effect authorize the use of force against the Baghdad regime. The resolution needs nine votes to pass while avoiding a veto by any of the five permanent members, and Britain and the US are lobbying feverishly for support. The votes of the so-called middle six delegations are being fought over by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing for more time for UN inspections in Iraq, led by France, China and Russia. Chile's foreign minister Soledad Alvear ordered Chile's embassy in London to look into The Observer's claims after meeting with Chile's UN Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and 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 please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] Iraq Continues to Disarm as US Prepares to Attack
-Caveat Lector- Russia Refuses to Rule Out UN Veto to Save World Peace http://truthout.org/docs_03/030603G.shtml Russia Refuses to Rule Out UN veto Independent UK Tuesday 4 March 2003 The Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, has refused to rule out the use of Russia's power of veto in the event of a UN security council vote on Iraq. If this is necessary, Moscow can resort to using this right, Mr Ivanov told the BBC World Service in London today. But he stressed that unanimity among the security council members was preferable. Earlier, US officials said that a vote on a new UN resolution intended to clear the way for an invasion would probably come next week. It is likely to take place after the chief UNN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed El Baradei, address the security council. Washington has ordered an additional 60,000 troops to the Gulf, bringing the total allied fighting force to more than 300,000. The force is comprised of around 17,000 troops from the 1st Cavalry division, based at Fort Hood, Texas; 26,000 from the 1st Armoured division, based in Germany and Kansas; and 10,000 from the 2nd Armoured Cavalry regiment based in Fort Polk, Louisiana. Senior officials told the New York Times that the force was unlikely to be intended for an initial invasion. Instead, it may form a second wave of attack or part of a post-war peacekeeping force. Turkey's government, meanwhile, says that it is considering a second attempt at winning approval for US troops to be based there during any attack on Iraq. Saddam warns US The Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, today marked the Islamic new year with a warning to would-be western attackers. In a letter read out on state-run television, President Saddam said that Iraq will defeat any invaders, and accused the US of trying to turn Arabs into slaves. We believe, with the coming of the Islamic new year and with God's help, we will be victorious against the tyrant. The believers will triumph over tyranny and its accomplices, he said. Meanwhile, Iraq continued to destroy its stock of banned Samoud 2 missiles, in compliance with the demands of UN weapons inspectors. A ministry of information official said that at least two of the missiles, described by UN weapons chief Hans Blix as having a range greater than the UN-mandated limit of 150km, and a missile launcher were being destroyed at a site north of Baghdad. Hiro Ueki, a spokesman for the inspectors who are supervising the destruction, confirmed that it was continuing but refused to give details. Iraq has destroyed 16 of its stock of around 100 Samoud 2 missiles since beginning the process on Saturday, not including any that may have been destroyed today. Iraq has also destroyed casting chambers used to make another missile, the Fatah, in a flurry of activity intended to prove that it is disarming ahead of Mr Blix's update to the security council on Friday. Workers have unearthed buried bombs, which they say are loaded with anthrax, aflatoxin and botulin toxin, and inspectors are analysing the contents. Iraq was also preparing a letter to the UN, that proposes verifying it has rid itself of anthrax and deadly VX nerve agent. Arab leader pursues exile plan Muslim leaders are gathering for an emergency summit amid increasing calls for Saddam Hussein to go into exile. Leaders must decide whether they will discuss an initiative by the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, urging Saddam to step down. It is the third high-level gathering in a week for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which is desperately trying to avert war. Kuwait's minister of state for foreign affairs, Mohammed al Sabah, said that the UAE initiative, which also calls for international supervision of post-Saddam Iraq is not only of historical importance, but is timely and the only peaceful exit for this dangerous crisis. Iran, meanwhile, called for UN-supervised elections, and urged the divided Iraqi opposition to reconcile with President Saddam. Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi announced the plan in Tehran, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. We want a referendum to be held in Iraq, and the Iraqi opposition [to] reconcile with the current regime in that country under the supervision of the United Nations, Mr Kharrazi was quoted as saying.
[CTRL] Memo Exposes Bush's New Green Strategy
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/030503G.shtml Memo Exposes Bush's New Green Strategy Oliver Burkeman The Guardian Tuesday 4 March 2003 The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding frightening phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable. The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has lost the environmental communications battle and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases. The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science, Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation. Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. The phrase global warming should be abandoned in favour of climate change, Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its policies as conservationist instead of environmentalist, because most people think environmentalists are extremists who indulge in some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters. Words such as common sense should be used, with pro-business arguments avoided wherever possible. The environment, the memo says, is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general - and President Bush in particular - are most vulnerable. A Republican source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said party strategists agreed with Mr Luntz's conclusion that many Americans believe Republicans do not care about the environment. The popular image is that they are in the pockets of corporate fat cats who rub their hands together and chuckle manically [sic] as they plot to pollute America for fun and profit, Mr Luntz adds. The phrase global warming appeared frequently in President Bush's speeches in 2001, but decreased to almost nothing during 2002, when the memo was produced. Environmentalists have accused the party and oil companies of helping to promulgate the view that serious doubt remains about the effects of global warming. Last week, a panel of experts appointed at the Bush administration's request to analyse the president's climate change strategy found that it lacked vision, executable goals, clear timetables and criteria for measuring progress. Rather than focusing on the things we don't know, it's almost as if parts of the plan were written by people who are totally unfamiliar with where ecosystems science is coming from, panel member William Schlesinger told the Guardian. Mr Luntz urges Republicans to emphasise the importance of 'acting only with all the facts in hand', in line with the White House position that mandatory restrictions on emissions, as required by the Kyoto protocol, should not be countenanced until further research is undertaken. The memo singles out as a major strategic failure the incoming Bush administration's response to Bill Clinton's last-minute executive order reducing the permitted level of arsenic in drinking water from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion. The new administration put the plan on hold, prompting the biggest public relations misfire of President Bush's first year in office, Mr Luntz writes. The perception was that Mr Bush was actively putting in more arsenic in the water. A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth, Mr Luntz notes in the memo. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread
