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"Terror Suspect" Appears in Court
After the Jim Bell and Carl Johnson festivities, I would imagine most readers of this list have an above average ability to recognize bovine effluent in the rantings of federal prosecutors, whose Chicken Little bellowings about conspiracies and threats to public safety often bear little resemblence to actual events. "Illegally discharging firearms during a conspiracy" The mind boggles. Conspiracy is to defendants rights what goose droppings are to traction on grass. - Ujaama lashes out at prosecutors in public hearing Man accused of aiding al-Qaida to be transferred to Seattle jail Saturday, August 31, 2002 By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Terror suspect James Ujaama unleashed an angry outburst in federal court yesterday during his first public court appearance since being charged with conspiracy and weapons counts. After weeks of being held in secret as a "material witness," the former Seattle man wasted no time showing his disdain for Justice Department prosecutors who filed the case Wednesday in Seattle. "These guys have lied -- they've always lied," Ujaama said during a terse exchange cut short by Magistrate Judge Barry Poretz. During the 10-minute court appearance, a prosecutor read the charges against Ujaama, then Poretz ordered the U.S. Marshal's Service to transfer him from a Virginia jail to Seattle. He is expected to be moved by Monday or Tuesday, although defense attorney Greg Stambaugh said Ujaama would like to return to a jail in Seattle even earlier if possible. Ujaama stood quietly through most of the proceedings. He appeared gaunt and unshaven, wearing a green jumpsuit marked "PRISONER" on the back. After the routine business was done, Stambaugh complained to the judge that a courthouse guard referred to Ujaama as "bin Laden boy," a reference to al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Before being placed in isolation Thursday, Ujaama had been held among other prisoners in the general population, and such a label could cause Ujaama problems, Stambaugh said. "Clearly, everybody is entitled to respect in this court," Poretz said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg questioned whether the name-calling actually happened, and alluded to Ujaama's repeated complaints about his treatment in statements released through his attorney and a family spokesperson. "His client has repeatedly lied to the public before to manipulate the public," Kromberg said. "It's not beyond the realm of possibility he's lying again to manipulate the public." That drew Ujaama's ire, and he asked the judge for permission to respond. Poretz told him to talk to his attorney first, and then Ujaama spoke loudly and angrily. "These guys have lied -- they've always lied," Ujaama said. "For them to refer to me as a liar when they've leaked material to the press " Poretz interrupted, suggesting he speak through his attorney. Ujaama remained quiet. Outside the courtroom later, Stambaugh read a brief statement in which Ujaama, 36, repeated his criticism of prosecutors: "They literally kidnapped me using a material witness warrant. This is further proof of what I've been saying all along: They are criminals posing as 'statesmen.'" Ujaama, who was arrested in Denver on July 22, is accused of providing "training, facilities, computer services, safe houses and personnel" to al-Qaida in a conspiracy to "destroy property and murder and maim persons located outside the United States." He also is accused of illegally discharging firearms as part of a conspiracy, when he allegedly was scouting a training area for terrorists at a property in Bly, Ore. Kromberg said Ujaama could face up to life in prison for the conspiracy charge, although Stambaugh said that would not be consistent with the wording of the indictment. During yesterday's appearance, Ujaama waived a routine identification hearing, where prosecutors must show that the person named in the indictment is the same as the person in custody. The indictment refers to him by his birth name, James Ernest Thompson; the name he took as a Muslim, Earnest James Ujaama; and aliases Bilal Ahmed, Abu Samayya and Abdul Qaadir. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
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Re: Mitigating Dangers of Compromised Anonymity
At 01:21 AM 8/31/02 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: >Just wondering ... in a life & death situation (say, blackmailing att. >general), what would be the choice of readers of this forum: > > >a) use mixmaster remailer from their home/business/friend. Like that one-degree of separation is comforting... >b) use an internet cafe Your face might be recognized later. Willing to shave for the transmission and then go on vacation to regrow the mane? >c) use an open wireless AP Bingo. Use a rented car. Or better, stolen :-) > >b and c assume, of course, one-time use of a throwaway e-mail acct. Why bother even establishing one? Simply use a fake name and domain that your SMTP server takes. Works for me :-) [1] though I don't get personal replies -not something you want anyway for your task. [1] Though header-stripping lne.com can trace me ---real anonymity would require b) or c) or a trusted a) (only without my end being observed before the fact). >c) makes most sense to me, provided that you fake your radio card's MAC and do >it while walking by, with folded laptop in a bag running a script. Or treat your fixed-MAC card as a one-time-use disposable and torch the thing. Along with the laptop, probably. Separately.
Create a PAYCHECK with your COMPUTER
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Holidays in Columbia.
A top figure in a terrorist group has told his armed fighters to target American interests and to extort, kidnap and murder American citizens. "The United States has declared war," he said in a radio message to armed followers. "Your obligation is to fight them." Instructions from a bin Laden deputy holed up in a cave somewhere? Maybe a radical Islamic band in Pakistan? Or extremists in the land of our "ally" Saudi Arabia? None of the above. Wrong region. The threat comes from our very own hemisphere, and was issued by Jorge Briceno, military chief of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC. The communication was intercepted by Colombian police and reported by a television station in Bogota. So far, indications are that the FARC plans to attack American citizens in Colombia itself. So far, no one is saying FARC plans to bring terrorism to American soil. And the best way to assure that that horror does not happen is for the United States to fully support the efforts of Colombia's new president, Alvaro Uribe, to defeat the terrorists who have brought his nation 38 years of war in which more than 100,000 people have died. There might be doubts about the real motives of Middle Eastern governments that are supposedly part of the struggle against terrorism, but there can be no doubt about Uribe. Aside from his very personal motivation - Uribe's father was killed by terrorists two decades ago - the new president of this Andean nation was elected by a landslide after promising voters a hard line against terrorism. His predecessor, Andres Pastrana, had made the mistake of believing FARC would be open to a reasonable dialogue and would negotiate in good faith. Pastrana turned over to the rebels a Switzerland-sized chunk of Colombia, which FARC used as a base to conduct terrorist attacks in the rest of the nation. Pastrana came to his senses when he called off talks this past February. Violence has intensified since. In fact, earlier this month FARC attacked the Colombian Congress while Uribe's inauguration ceremony was being held, killing 21 people in a shower of mortars. It was FARC's way of showing off, of telling the nation that even an event as supposedly secure as the swearing-in of a president was within reach of their violence. Although the attack sowed fear among the long-suffering people of Colombia, it also showed FARC's own fears. Its leaders know that Uribe is no Pastrana, not someone about to be hoodwinked into thinking Colombia's terror groups will settle for anything short of the imposition of a Marxist dictatorship. That Uribe means business is clear from the measures he has taken barely a month in office. He wants to double the size of the professional army to 100,000 and add $1 billion to annual defense spending of $3.1 billion. He has imposed a special war tax on people and businesses with assets of more than $60,000 and has promised to train a network of 100,000 civilians to act as police auxiliaries. http://www.colombiatimes.com/ PUERTO ASIS, Colombia (AP) -- Black spirals of buzzards mark the fresh corpses that turn up in this frontier town and in the nearby coca fields, jungle and pastures, where paramilitary death squads roam freely, killing suspected rebel collaborators or anyone else who gets in their way. Despite patrols by Colombian soldiers and police, the carnage is mounting, and terrified residents don't know where to turn for help. "We are in Puerto Asis, where there is no justice, no law," snapped a medical worker, who asked not to be named for fear he might be killed for speaking out. "Someone could come into this office right now and shoot me, and nothing would ever come of it." The paramilitaries have waged a war of terror across Colombia in their zeal to combat the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and a smaller rebel group. Their bloody battle is among the greatest obstacles to President Alvaro Uribe's promises of finally bringing peace to this country after years of bloodshed. The FARC is fighting its own war against the government, a conflict that has stretched 38 years. In the meantime, Colombian civilians -- like the residents of Puerto Asis -- are caught in the middle. In only a few months, dozens of civilians, including two mayoral candidates, have been shot dead in this town in the steamy southern lowlands of Colombia's cocaine heartland. Many wind up buried in body bags in the trash-strewn "nameless" section of the town cemetery. Police and soldiers set up checkpoints and patrol streets filled with snarling motorcycles, smog-belching buses and horse-drawn carts. But they seem unable to stop the bloodshed. Even the presence in town of an U.S.-trained army counternarcotics battalion has had no effect. Planes and U.S.-donated Black Hawk helicopters regularly fly along the horizon on their way to fumigate the coca fields. Authorities say the killers get away scot-free becau
Re: Cyberpunks: Seattle "Activist" Is Not an Innocent Webmaster,
Bravo Eric! A classic of deconstruction! James... An au citizen goes to Kosovo and becomes a hero protecting helpless locals from serb tanks,he then travels to 'Ghan and is protecting local women there from rapists and murdering slave/opium traders in the North,when he is taken prisoner and kidnapped to Cuba.He is still there,no visitors except ASIO agents,no letters,no rights,no rules.Did I mention he is an AUSTRALIAN.An ALLY.The US ambassador,a crooked shrub crony from Arlington condemns and smears the au citizens name much as you did with similar sounding diabolical scaremongering that was old when tailgunner joe was alive.Actually it was old when they were burning witches at Salem. Another au citizen was kidnapped from Pakistan,he was taken to X-ray as well and is suffering the same cruel,unusual punishment as the other for arguably even less 'reason.' No charges,no trials,no geneva convention rights.No human or civil rights at all.FUCK AMERIKKKA all to HELL! You deserve poison for all your crimes,who poisoned the indigenes? Take your 'intelligence' and shove it up your ass. In a genuine democracy, the rights of even a minority of one are sacred and cannot be violated with impunity. V K Narasimhan.
Create a PAYCHECK with your COMPUTER..
You get emails every day, offering to show you how to make money. Most of these emails are from people who are NOT making any money. And they expect you to listen to them? Enough. If you want to make money with your computer, then you should hook up with a group that is actually DOING it. We are making a large, continuing income every month. What's more - we will show YOU how to do the same thing. This business is done completely by internet and email, and you can even join for free to check it out first. If you can send an email, you can do this. No special "skills" are required. How much are we making? Anywhere from $2000 to $9000 per month. We are real people, and most of us work at this business part-time. But keep in mind, we do WORK at it - I am not going to insult your intelligence by saying you can sign up, do no work, and rake in the cash. That kind of job does not exist. But if you are willing to put in 10-12 hours per week, this might be just the thing you are looking for. This is not income that is determined by luck, or work that is done FOR you - it is all based on your effort. But, as I said, there are no special skills required. And this income is RESIDUAL - meaning that it continues each month (and it tends to increase each month also). Interested? I invite you to find out more. You can get in as a free member, at no cost, and no obligation to continue if you decide it is not for you. We are just looking for people who still have that "burning desire" to find an opportunity that will reward them incredibly well, if they work at it. To grab a FREE ID#, simply reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of the email, write this phrase: "Grab me a free membership!" Be sure to include your: 1. First name 2. Last name 3. Email address (if different from above) We will confirm your position and send you a special report as soon as possible, and also Your free Member Number. That's all there's to it. We'll then send you info, and you can make up your own mind. Looking forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Gary Willett P.S. After having several negative experiences with network marketing companies I had pretty much given up on them. This is different - there is value, integrity, and a REAL opportunity to have your own home-based business... and finally make real money on the internet. Don't pass this up..you can sign up and test-drive the program for FREE. All you need to do is get your free membership. Unsubscribing: Send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "Remove" in the subject line. 2099OvRe3-461tQQu5851BMig4-082qQbc7731qAXk1-7l42
The Cincinnati syndrome.
http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/08/29/loc_two_more_hotels_pull.html Two more hotels pull sex movies By Michael D. Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Cincinnati Enquirer NEWPORT Two more Tristate hotels have agreed, under pressure from a local prosecutor and police, to remove adult, in-room movies after complaints from anti-pornography activists. It's an unusual strategy, say its proponents and national experts, and a further sign that Greater Cincinnati continues to take a leading role nationally in battling the distribution of sexually explicit materials. Newport (Enquirer photo) Campbell County prosecutors this month warned owners of the Comfort Suites hotel on Riverboat Row in Newport that they should cease offering adult movies to guests or face criminal charges. Spurred by complaints from supporters of local anti-pornography activists from Sharonville-based Citizens for Community Values, Campbell County Prosecutor Justin Verst, working with Newport police, had officers secretly check into the hotel and videotape six adult movies. Mr. Verst then sent a letter, dated Aug. 7, warning Comfort Suites officials that he believed that offering the movies, which he described as hard-core pornographic material, violated Kentucky law regarding distribution of obscene matter. Two days later Comfort Suites officials responded by removing the adult movies. Soon after, Mr. Verst said, other complaints prompted a Newport police investigation of the Travelodge, 220 York St. Officers told owners to stop offering explicit adult videotape rentals to adult guests for viewing on in-room VCRs, and the owners complied. Phil Burress, president of CCV, said his group's new strategy of targeting explicit adult movies offered by hotels is the first of its sort in the nation, and that more Tristate hotels will soon be investigated by CCV supporters. The snowball is rolling now, said Mr. Burress of his group's tactic that has affected three Tristate hotels in a month. Bruce Taylor, president and chief counsel for the National Law Center for Children and Families, said no other anti-pornography group in the country has successfully pressured three hotels within one region to drop adult movies. That's unique, Mr. Taylor, a former federal prosecutor, said Wednesday from the center's Fairfax, Va., headquarters. He said that the Tristate's history of prosecuting obscenity made famous beginning in the 1970s with Hamilton County's legal battles with Hustler publisher Larry Flynt adds to the leverage the CCV wields. You have such a commitment and successful history of prosecution ... that the prosecutors only have to tell the hotels to remove the movies, he said. Earlier this month CCV officials grabbed national attention when they announced that their supporters had videotaped adult movies in the Marriott Northeast hotel in Deerfield Township and forwarded them to Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver. Mr. Oliver said be believed the movies violated Ohio's obscenity laws and warned Marriott officials of possible criminal charges, prompting them to remove the movies. I'd be very surprised if other actions are not taken by other prosecutors against hotels that are dealing in hard-core pornography, said Mr. Burress, who declined to reveal any details. The CCV, which was founded in 1983 as an anti-pornography, pro-family advocacy group, has been a high-profile lobbying force against Tristate pornography and what it claims are its detrimental effects on families, individuals and society. But civil liberties advocates blasted CCV's strategy as unfair to adults who say actions against their limited entertainment options might soon be followed by other restrictions imposed by watchdog groups. The CCV is trying to export their own Taliban style of fundamentalism, said Scott Greenwood, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and a Cincinnati-based attorney. Mr. Greenwood said the anti-pornography group's latest strategy, focusing on mostly out-of-town travelers and tourists, points out to a more pressing problem of why does the CCV find it so necessary to go after people who don't even live here. He said he is not surprised that hotels quickly choose to remove such adult entertainment rather than engage in litigation. They don't have deep pockets and these hotels are in business to make money, not to defend the First Amendment, he said. CCV officials estimate that 40 percent of the nation's hotels offer adult movie options, accounting for about 90 percent of pay-per-view revenue. An Enquirer phone survey last year showed that more than half of 20 Hamilton County hotels queried provided such entertainment. H. Louis Sirkin, a First Amendment and Cincinnati trial attorney, described CCV as a vigilante group whose only power comes from prosecutors he claims are not protecting citizens' rights. What's really frightening about this is that there are local prose
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Mexican Mafia contract out on 'arbusto.'
"We deal in drugs, contracts of assassination, prostitution, robberies of the highest degree, gambling extortion, weapons or any and every other thing criminally imaginable," http://organizedcrime.about.com/library/weekly/aa082002a.htm The Mexican Mafia From its humble beginnings as a prison gang in Texas, the Mexican Mafia has taken its bloody business far beyond the prison walls. In the first RICO prosecution of a prison gang, prosecutors brought a two-count RICO case against the top tier of La Eme, including Huerta, who was in prison in Colorado at the time of the French Place slayings. The fact that he was still directing his gang from several hundred miles away allowed prosecutors to charge Huerta as a conspirator. After a high-profile trial, Perez, Herrera and the eight other defendants who went to trial (the others plea bargained) were convicted on federal racketeering charges and given life terms with no chance of parole. Despite the decimation of the highest ranking Mexikaneme, the Mexican Mafia remains to this day a formidable organized crime operation with branches throughout the American Southwest on both sides of prison walls. Jim bell charged with Operation Soft drill direction? Only in america. Did You Know? Judges at the state and federal level issued a total of 1,491 wiretap authorizations -- the lion's share came from state judges, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts's 2001 Wiretap Report, issued at the end of May. Tap in here... 2 peso's for the head of the shrub.
Terrorist-Mob Two headed Horseman.
http://organizedcrime.about.com/library/weekly/aa082902a.htm Part 1: The Drug Connection Much has been written in the last year about the connection between terrorism and organized crime. Shortly after September 11, President Bush came out and directly cited narcotics trafficking as a source of revenue for terrorist organizations. The United States government reported that the Taliban allegedly helped finance Osama bin Laden's terror network by giving him 10 percent of the $8 billion Afghanistan reaped from its opium crop. In return, Al Qaeda was to use its "formidible" international network to market the crop. Nonsense, says McGill University organized crime expert professor R.T. Naylor. (no relation.) "It is likely that the informal banking system used extensively in the region, usually referred to as the hawala or hundi system, is also used by drug traffickers," Hutchinson said. "This system is an underground, traditional, informal network that has been used for centuries by businesses and families throughout Asia. This system provides a confidential, convenient, efficient service at a low cost in areas that are not served by traditional banking facilities. The hawala or hundi system leaves no "paper trail" for investigators to follow." That reminds me there was a quite long story on Ithaca dollars,esp interesting as I lived there for a year once.There's another horseman loose there,the net sex killer,I shit you not... http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/47084.htm Hey remember when meyer and lucky helped stamp out nazi sabotage on the waterfront? Well some wiseguys just got knocked back on a similar deal to watch out for Al Quim frogmen. That's too bad. The Coast Guard and Customs Service are woefully understaffed to keep an eye on every ship that comes into the 1,500-square mile Port of New York and New Jersey. By the Coast Guard's own admission, they can inspect just 1 percent of the cargo containers that enter the Harbor. "Do we have all the people we need? No," Vice Admiral James D. Hull, the Commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic area, said in a telephone interview. "But we have prioritized our missions." The Port Authority and the Waterfront Commission of New York and New Jersey have done a great job of cleaning out organzied crime from the harbor, but let's face it: where there is money, there is the mob. The same methods used to keep the Harbor clear of Nazis 60 years ago could work today. All the government has to do is ask. Sure this is a simplistic solution and in many cases goes against the self interest of the mobsters, but it worked in the 1940s, it can work today. Hell the port authority is just a WASP mob anyways,right?
S. Roach is dead
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"Criminal degenerate Bush"
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/ The stealing of the Presidency 2000 has been swept under the rug by the Democratic establishment. The media would like us to believe that we should move on but that would be rewarding criminal actions by the Bush gang. Already history is being rewritten with Gore being attacked for running a poor campaign and being ridiculed as loser who should get out of the way, and while the criminal degenerate Bush is admired for being a winner. Every democratic candidate for President must be forced to address what happened in 2000 so that history does not repeat itself, and to remind the 1000s of voters in Florida who were disenfrachised that they have not been forgotten. More Reba Shimansky Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler examine modern America's most controversial political contest: the Election of George W. Bush. What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate brother. George W. Bush stole the presidency of the United States and got away with it. " the movie highlights those on the front linesfrom the African-Americans who were turned away from the polling booths for assorted reasons. In one memorable scene the filmmakers freeze-frame a 'protest' against the ballot recount, identifying participants as staff members of Republican elected officials." --Elaine Dutka, Los Angeles Times Also see,"The best democracy money can buy," Greg Palast.Gold and Coup expert and excellent writer.
YAPC::Europe::Munich - Last call for participation (fwd)
Anyone is going? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:12:57 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: YAPC Orga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: de.comp.lang.perl.misc, it.comp.lang.perl, fr.comp.lang.perl Subject: YAPC::Europe::Munich - Last call for participation Last call For Participation YAPC::Europe::2002 - September 18-20 http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2002/registration.html Conference fee is set at 89 Euros. YAPC is an inexpensive 3-day grassroots perl conference, where users, and developers, can mingle, listen, talk, and exchange ideas about the perl programming language. This year's conference will be held in Munich, capital city of Bavaria, (as near to the continental centre of Europe as you can get, without spotting the sea), Germany. There will be a mixture of short and long tutorials and talks, covering a wide variety of subjects. This year's theme is 'The Science of Perl', which means that we talk about science as well as everything else :-) A huge variety of speakers and subjects on our favourite language is gathering in Munich in 2002: The author of perl, Larry Wall, is slated to attend his first European YAPC, Damian Conway, perl evangelist and speaker par-excellence, will also be participating, among many other leading perl personalities and contributors. We look forward to seeing you there too! -- Ciao Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen! YAPC::Europe::2002 http://www.yapc.org/Europe/ 18-20 Sept.
Terrorists rife in the State Dept.The FBI is on it:)
Senators to give FBI records on contacts with media By The Associated Press 08.30.02 Printer-friendly page WASHINGTON Most members of a Senate committee investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have agreed to provide the FBI with details of their contacts with reporters as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information. Contacted yesterday by the Associated Press, the offices of 13 of the 17 Senate Intelligence Committee members said they were complying with the FBI request. No office said it wasn't. In the other four offices, information wasn't available because the senator was traveling. The FBI is trying to determine who leaked details of conversations intercepted by the National Security Agency that were discussed June 18 at the House and Senate intelligence committees' closed-door inquiry. Details of the Arabic intercepts on Sept. 10 the day before the September 2001 terror attacks were initially broadcast by CNN the day after the closed hearing. The committees had requested the FBI investigation. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., the committee's chairman, has instructed his staff to compile the material requested, his spokesman, Paul Anderson, said. Anderson said Graham supported the FBI investigation because the leak of classified information violated the law. The FBI also could examine whether the leaks may have come from outside Congress, he said. An internal investigation might not be able to do so. Graham "has said that he has nothing to hide," Anderson said. But Paul McMasters, First Amendment ombudsman for the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center, said the FBI investigation could go beyond the leaks and uncover unrelated communications between lawmakers and journalists. "That's where this problem comes in," he said. Caesar Andrews, president of the Associated Press Managing Editors, said the request for information about press contacts "creates a mood of fear and dread among those people who should be helping to put the U.S. efforts in context." "I think it's more the climate that's created when there's a sense of overly aggressive efforts to clamp down on information," said Andrews, editor of Gannett News Service. "Obviously it's an issue that ultimately has a chilling effect on the flow of information from official sources to the public," said Douglas Clifton, editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Information Committee. The FBI investigation comes as the Justice Department seeks to block public disclosure by Congress of the results of its investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. In court papers unsealed yesterday in Alexandria, Va., prosecutors said they didn't object to plans by the House and Senate intelligence committees to disclose what the government knows about the planning and execution of the attacks or what was known about two of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers who met with al-Qaida operatives in Malaysia in January 2000, shortly before they came to the United States. But the government said planned hearings next month into the FBI's investigation of Moussaoui while he was in custody before the attacks could jeopardize his trial, now set for January. Lawyers for the committees said the hearings would not delve into Moussaoui's guilt or innocence. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema refused for the time being to interfere with the hearings. But she asked prosecutors to propose new rules for handling sensitive material from the Moussaoui case that might be made public during congressional hearings. In connection with the FBI's investigation of leaks, the Justice Department sent a letter to the Senate counsel's office Aug. 7 requesting that members of the Senate committee and their press staff submit telephone logs, memos, visitor sign-in sheets and other material showing communications with the news media between noon June 18 and 3:15 p.m. June 19, when CNN broadcast details of the intercepts. The letter also called for calendars, appointment books and e-mails for the senators and their press staff during that period. No similar request was made of House Intelligence Committee members. Some lawmakers, including the panel's top Republican, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, have said the FBI investigation of the committees breached the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches particularly while the committee was examining intelligence shortcomings at the FBI and other agencies. Sen. Richard Durbin, R-Ill., told the Chicago Sun-Times this week that in requesting personal schedules, the FBI was "trying to put a damper on our activities and I think they will be successful." He was unavailable for comment yesterday. Related Is the press guilty of treason? Ombudsman Many regard robust exercise of First Amendment rights by either the press or the people as a da
Stormin' Norman see's another Somalia or Lebanon in Iraq.
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=18218 Whats happening in the heart of darkness? American Muslims remain in the dock one year after 9/11 NEW YORK, 31 August As America prepares to mourn the tragic events of Sept. 11, anxiety of the countrys seven million plus Muslim population is increasing every passing day. The Muslim population in US will be remembering the tragedy with mixed feelings of grief and fear.Muslim organizations across the... (full story). http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=18228
They get letters,WTF do we ALLIES get?
Parents happy over efforts to win release of Guantanamo prisoners By a Staff Writer JEDDAH, 31 August The parents of two Saudis held at a US military base in Cuba have expressed happiness over efforts made by the Saudi authorities to win freedom for their sons. The two Saudi fathers told Al-Watan daily that they had received letters from their sons Jaber Hasan Al-Qahtani, 24, and Abdullah Hamid Al-Mosleh, 23, in Guantanamo. "They said they were in good health and were treated well by the Americans," the daily quoted the parents as saying. In their letters, Jaber and Abdullah expressed optimism that their ordeal would end soon. http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=18214 AU's Hicks and Habib are incommunicado,no lawyers,no letters. US authorities have refused to give the detainees in Guantanamo prisoner-of-war status as set out under the Geneva Conventions and are reserving the right to present them before secret US military tribunals that have the power to impose the death penalty.
4 billion dollar fine on the US,how do ya'll like them apples?
The World Trade Organization ruled Friday that the European Union may impose record sanctions of some $4 billion on U.S exports, creating a major incentive for Washington to abandon special tax breaks for U.S. companies. Read the full text of the World Trade Organization ruling . The $4 billion sanction threat -- 20 times the amount imposed in any previous WTO disputes -- is a major victory for the EU over what it calls the "huge illegal export subsidy" provided to U.S. exporters. But EU officials have indicated that they will hold off on imposing the sanctions if the U.S. changes its tax policies and comes into compliance with WTO rules. "We are satisfied by today's decision that makes the cost of non-compliance with the WTO crystal clear," Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamay said in a statement issued by the European Commission. The U.S. tax break program, known as "Foreign Sales Corporations," allows U.S. companies with foreign interests to exempt between 15 and 30 percent of their export income from U.S. taxes. Approved by Congress in 2000, the provision allows major U.S. exporters such as Boeing, Microsoft and Disney to pay less tax, making their products cheaper and giving them an advantage over foreign competitors. The EU asked the WTO for the right to retaliate on $4.043 billion worth of goods, based on the amount of damage done to EU companies struggling to compete with U.S. corporations taking advantage of the tax breaks. A special panel of trade arbitrators decided on the sanctions figure after a series of starts and stops on the case since January. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/wto_08-30-02.html
Satellites can't track the dacoit down
STF suspends hunt for Veerappan TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2002 11:02:20 PM ] KOLLEGAL/BANGALORE: Amid mounting pressure from various quarters, who fear threat to hostage H Nagappa's life, the Karnataka Special Task Force (STF) on Friday suspended its combing operations to track Veerappan. STF sources told The Times of India the directive came from the state government on Thursday night. "Since Friday morning we are not carrying out any operations and have asked the men inside the forest to return to their respective camps," they added. THE STORY SO FAR August 25: Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan abducts former Karnataka minister H Nagappa. August 26: Veerappan sends a cassette in which he says Nagappa will be killed if the government tries to rescue him. August 27: Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna meets Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to discuss the situation. They decide to ask the Centre for helicopters and sensors to track Veerappan. August 28: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu special task forces intensify combing operations to nab Veerappan. Members of the bandit's gang are sighted in the Ramapura forest range. Advocate Venugopal offers to act as mediator to negotiate Nagappa's release. August 29: There are reports of Veerappan sending another cassette with demands for the release of former Karnataka minister. Chief Minister S M Krishna, police deny receiving the second tape Fearing threat to Nagappa's life, Karnataka government suspends STF operations to track Veerappan This was the demand of Veerappan in his first cassette of 54 second duration where he had threatened to kill Nagappa if combing operations were not stopped. There were reports of Veerappan sending the much-awaited second cassette expected to contain his demands. Both government and the police denied it. Apart from the government's efforts, the JD(U) leaders are also on the job as Nagappa is their partyman. JD(U) MLA P G R Sindhia is in touch with Suttur math seer Sri Shivarathri Desikendra, who in turn is tapping sources who can get in touch with Veerappan, sources said. Meanwhile, advocate Venugopal, who has offered his services to mediate with Veerappan, has sent his "own message" to Veerappan in an interview to All India Radio, Coimbatore station. "I have cited reasons to Veerappan of my offering to be an emissary and also reminded him of the number of people who have suffered on account of him," Venugopal said. Chief Minister S M Krishna, who called on Nagappa's family at Kamagere on Friday declining to say anything concrete on the issue, hinted of suspending the operations. "We will take necessary action required to get Nagappa back," he stated. Queried on the kind of action, Primary and Secondary Education Minister B K Chandrashekar said: "Here action means strategy and the government is working out a suitable strategy which will ensure Nagappa's release." Substantiating the statement, Krishna said: "Action necessarily does not mean only gun battle." Later addressing the gathering, Krishna said the government was serious in its efforts to get back Nagappa safely. "We will use all tactics adopted by the government in a similar situation two years ago when Rajkumar was kidnapped," he maintained. Notwithstanding the suspension of combing operations, three senior police officers - S T Ramesh (IGP), K Suresh Babu (IGP) and Gopal B Hosur (DCP) - were asked to report at the M M Hills base camp of STF. The officers left Bangalore following a message from DGP V V Bhaskar, who is personally supervising STF operations, dressed in commando style uniform and armed with binoculars and AK-47 rifles. Around 10 police officers from the city police and several others from CoD and KSRP have been drafted for the STF work. Gopal Hosur, who had served in the STF earlier had survived an attack on him by Veerappan from a close range 10 years ago. However, Hosur's colleagues, Harikrishna (SP) and others were shot dead. A bullet was stuck in Hosur's body, which was operated and removed. Related stories Satellites can't track the dacoit down Nedumaran ready to negotiate with Veerappan The brigand's area of operationThe story so far Sandalwood smuggler's road to notoriety
Most Incompetent agency,IRS,CIA,ATF,NSA,SS,or FBI?
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,54857,00.html
Did FBI Bungle E-Mail Evidence?
A Hotmail account used by suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui expired,
and its contents lost, before the FBI has a chance to look at it. By
Michelle Delio.
"...The FBI has openly admitted that its agents have difficulties
collecting evidence from computers. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a
House committee this summer that the agency lacks the technology skills and
understanding that would allow agents to conduct complete computer
forensics searches."
Paging chris McNorton,paging chris McNorton.
Hunter S. Thompson tells the Aussie radio program: "Overall, American
journalism I think has been cowed and intimidated by the massive
flat-sucking, this patriotic orgy that the White House keeps whipping up.
You know if you criticize the President it's unpatriotic and there's
something wrong with you, you may be a terrorist." ("The Media Report")
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Justice delayed.
Hicks in for the long haul By MICHAEL McKENNA 31aug02 AUSTRALIAN terror suspects David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib face a likely wait of more than a year for their legal battle against detention in a Cuban jail to be resolved American lawyers for the two men yesterday said the appeal process, expected to be completed in the US Supreme Court, was facing extensive delays under the weight of the legal system. The appeals, and counter appeals, follow the US District Court decision this month to detain the men without trial. Hicks, captured in Afghanistan, and Habib in Pakistan by local authorities, are being held in a maximum security prison at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Both are accused, with the 596 other detainees at the navy base, of having links to al-Qaeda. "The legal system here is very slow at the moment and the appeal to the District Court decision alone will take a few months," said their lawyer, Joseph Margulies. Some good news though... Whale free of nets 31 August 2002 A HUMPBACK whale thought to have drowned after being caught in shark nets on the Gold Coast found some new friends yesterday as it was finally untangled by rescuers. 'Enduro," was towing an anchor,shark net and ropes/chains on a slow trek south...
Mutant Rat?
Fallout deaths By NICK RICHARDSON 31aug02 RADIOACTIVE fallout from the British nuclear tests in the 1950s might be linked to an alarming rise in infant deaths in some Victorian towns.Fallout deaths By NICK RICHARDSON 31aug02 RADIOACTIVE fallout from the British nuclear tests in the 1950s might be linked to an alarming rise in infant deaths in some Victorian towns. Approaching the 50th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion on October 3, 1952, at the Monte Bello Islands off the West Australian coast, research reveals several towns in Victoria, NSW and Queensland recorded higher-than-usual infant death rates in the late 1950s. Each of the 12 tests conducted in and around Australia from 1952-57 generated a nuclear cloud. In some areas, the nuclear plume met rain clouds, forming a potentially lethal solution. According to official radioactivity monitoring stations at the time, Sale, Echuca, Hamilton, Mildura, Nhill, Swan Hill and Warrnambool were exposed to some radiation - especially after the final bomb at Maralinga in October 1957. Australian and British authorities maintained at the time the exposure was minimal and there was no threat. But in the past 50 years, evidence has emerged there is no safe level of radiation exposure. A survey of infant mortality rates in the Victorian towns reveals a circumstantial link between the nuclear rain and a rise in deaths. Sixteen children aged up to two died in Mildura in 1958. In 1959, the number was 20, before dropping to 13 the next year. Warrnambool had a similar pattern. The number of infant deaths in 1958 was 27. It increased to 34 in 1959, then dropped to 16 in 1960. Mt Isa in Queensland and Tamworth and Armidale in New South Wales mirror the Victorian results. The initial alarm about fallout was raised by Australian scientist Hedley Marston in 1957. Mr Marston found a radioactive cloud from the third nuclear test passed over Adelaide and left debris in the city's northern suburbs. His research on sheep and cattle, which had eaten fallout-tainted pasture, indicated the presence of a lethal nuclear by-product, strontium 90. Approaching the 50th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion on October 3, 1952, at the Monte Bello Islands off the West Australian coast, research reveals several towns in Victoria, NSW and Queensland recorded higher-than-usual infant death rates in the late 1950s. Each of the 12 tests conducted in and around Australia from 1952-57 generated a nuclear cloud. In some areas, the nuclear plume met rain clouds, forming a potentially lethal solution. According to official radioactivity monitoring stations at the time, Sale, Echuca, Hamilton, Mildura, Nhill, Swan Hill and Warrnambool were exposed to some radiation - especially after the final bomb at Maralinga in October 1957. Australian and British authorities maintained at the time the exposure was minimal and there was no threat. But in the past 50 years, evidence has emerged there is no safe level of radiation exposure. A survey of infant mortality rates in the Victorian towns reveals a circumstantial link between the nuclear rain and a rise in deaths. Sixteen children aged up to two died in Mildura in 1958. In 1959, the number was 20, before dropping to 13 the next year. Warrnambool had a similar pattern. The number of infant deaths in 1958 was 27. It increased to 34 in 1959, then dropped to 16 in 1960. Mt Isa in Queensland and Tamworth and Armidale in New South Wales mirror the Victorian results. The initial alarm about fallout was raised by Australian scientist Hedley Marston in 1957. Mr Marston found a radioactive cloud from the third nuclear test passed over Adelaide and left debris in the city's northern suburbs. His research on sheep and cattle, which had eaten fallout-tainted pasture, indicated the presence of a lethal nuclear by-product, strontium 90. END professor rat was born in 55 at Ballarat,country Vic.French tests raised cesium levels in milk around the late 50's early 60's.
Re: Mitigating Dangers of Compromised Anonymity
Just wondering ... in a life & death situation (say, blackmailing att. general), what would be the choice of readers of this forum: a) use mixmaster remailer from their home/business/friend. b) use an internet cafe c) use an open wireless AP b and c assume, of course, one-time use of a throwaway e-mail acct. c) makes most sense to me, provided that you fake your radio card's MAC and do it while walking by, with folded laptop in a bag running a script. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
Northwoods Homeland Security.
Bush wrong to use pretext as excuse to invade Iraq By James Bamford As the Bush administration raises prospects of war with Iraq, USA TODAY asked experts to explore critical military, diplomatic and political factors involved and the possible consequences. This is part of that occasional series. Vice President Cheney's speech this week showed that the administration has no new evidence to support its claim that Iraq poses an immediate threat to the United States. Instead, Cheney used standard, vague terms: "no doubt" Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction or will acquire nuclear weapons "fairly soon." The administration also points to the possible presence of fleeing al-Qaeda members in northern Iraq, perhaps of senior rank. But it has difficulty tying them directly to Saddam because the area is largely under the control of Kurdish opposition leader Jallal Tallabani, who has worked with the Bush administration against Saddam. Without convincing evidence of imminent danger, administration officials have been dusting off old cases that hint at Iraqi plots and conspiracies, but are unsupported by facts. Many worry that such incidents will be exploited as pretexts to justify pre-emptive strikes. The Navy, for instance, is considering changing the status of a pilot shot down over Iraq during the Gulf War from missing in action to captured. But, given no known physical evidence to support that possibility nor any new facts, some see this as one more cynical political pretext for invasion. Bush administration officials also have been reviving the old story that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met in the Czech Republic capital of Prague with an Iraqi agent five months before the attacks a possible link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. An unnamed senior administration official told the Los Angeles Times that evidence of such a meeting "holds up." A federal law enforcement official, the Times reported, said the FBI has been reviewing Atta's records with "renewed vigor" for a possible link to Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently added at a news conference that Iraq "had a relationship" with al-Qaeda. But senior U.S. intelligence officials have discounted the meeting. "We ran down literally hundreds of thousands of leads and checked every record we could get our hands on," said FBI Director Robert Mueller. The records revealed that Atta was in Virginia Beach during the time he supposedly met the Iraqi in Prague. While the administration is under increasing pressure to make its case for invasion, using as pretexts supposed instances such as these carries grave dangers. The past holds lessons about pretext and making the right and wrong decisions. One of the most outrageous uses of pretext took place during the Kennedy administration after the failed Bay of Pigs operation, in which the CIA wrongly underestimated the amount of internal support for Fidel Castro. With the CIA out of the picture, the Joint Chiefs of Staff saw a grand opportunity for the military to launch an all-out war against Cuba. But they needed a pretext. The answer was Operation Northwoods: The Joint Chiefs would secretly launch a war of terror on the U.S. public then blame it on Castro. According to long-hidden top-secret documents I obtained from the National Archives, Operation Northwoods called for innocent people to be shot on U.S. streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk; for waves of terrorism in Washington, Miami and elsewhere. Using phony evidence to blame Castro, the Joint Chiefs would get their needed pretext. Each member of the Joint Chiefs signed off on the plan. Then the chairman hand-carried it to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara who promptly rejected it. Two years later, U.S. generals were looking for another pretext to go to war, this time in Vietnam. In the summer of 1964, President Lyndon Johnson sought to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam's civil war. The decision was made to launch hit-and-run attacks against coastal North Vietnamese targets while a slow-moving destroyer, the USS Maddox, sat just off the shore in international waters. Knowing the North Vietnamese would associate the nearby warship with the attacks, the Pentagon likely hoped to provoke a retaliatory strike against the vessel the perfect pretext for a declaration of war. Indeed, North Vietnamese patrol boats fired torpedoes at the ship but missed. The Maddox sailed safely away. McNamara ordered the largely useless coastal attacks to continue and sent the ship back to its original dangerous position. Two nights after the first attack, the USS C. Turner Joy, escorting the Maddox, sent messages to Washington indicating the ship was under attack. It was later found that no such attack took place; the messages were blamed on nervous crewmembers and radar "ghost images." But it was the excuse Johnson and McNamara sought. They pressed Congress for a declaratio
Shrub the jesus freak.
Interview with playwright Harold Pinter - 'I think that when you look at a man like our prime minister - who I gather is a very sincere and serious Christian - he, we understand at the moment, is considering another bombing of Iraq, which would be an act of premeditated murder because if you bomb Iraq, you're not just going to kill Saddam Hussein. In fact, you won't do that anyway; he has his resources. What you will do, as usual, is kill thousands of totally innocent people. How Tony Blair can work that one out morally himself is actually beyond me. I just wish he would decide if he was a Christian or he wasn't a Christian' ( Guardian ) Is shrub a christian? Inquiring minds etc... Chief executives should be screened to weed out psychopaths: researcher Coverage of a recent keynote presentation by psychopathy expert Robert Hare, during which he suggested that corporate leaders should be screened for psychopathic behaviour disorders ( CP via The Record ) See also this blog entry from earlier this month AT http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
Cheney badly needs killing.
"Highly risky and wrong" is one assesment of the groundhogs spittle laced declaration of war.Declaring the US in 'mortal danger' like a cross between JE Hoover and tricky dickie on speed,the veep dished up some rubber platitudes to go with the rubber chicken;he should have remembered that you are what you eat. I trust chicken hawk will be on the next geriatrics menu.Garnish with a little valium. "The monopoly on the decision and action in this question lies with the United Nations," said Edmund Stoiber, conservative candidate for chancellor There seems to be a little mutiny among the 'usual suspects.' The US is resembling nothing so much as a pitiful helpless giant,cyclops has been gored and the sheep are hiding all those escaping argonauts.If he's lucky he may live...for a while. 52 per cent of Labour supporters believe Britain ought not to support any military action against Iraq.Thats even slightly higher down here I believe,a clear majority against,all the way with the USA.Maybe not,"YANKEE go HOME",just yet but it's only been a year so far in the 'war on Terra.' "Using force or threats of force is unhelpful in solving the Iraq issue and will increase regional instability and tensions," Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan was quoted as saying in Beijing. Taku Yamasaki, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said that Tokyo had a duty as an ally to oppose Washington. "If the U.S. attacks alone it will produce distrust of the United States throughout the world," Yamasaki said. "As an ally, we should oppose this." India, a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, said its opposition to a war on Iraq had not wavered. "There is a consistency in our policy, and it is not going to change in the next few days or weeks," a foreign ministry official said. In the Middle East, U.S. foes, or nations branded by Washington as sponsors of international terrorism, denounced American threats against Iraq in predictably harsher terms. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Mero said his country, along with Iraq and all Arabs, would view any U.S. strike as part of "policies that seek more U.S. hegemony and to inflict harm not just on the people of Iraq but the Arab nation as a whole," Syria's state media reported. Iran, like Iraq branded by Bush as a member (with North Korea) of an "axis of evil," reiterated its opposition to any U.S. attack on Iraq. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami urged an "arrogant" Washington to drop its hostility and improve ties with Iran, saying his country would defend itself if it too came under threat. "We hope Iraq will not be attacked, and if this occurs we hope that (America) will not try its luck by attacking other countries and realize that American public opinion will not tolerate this policy for very long," Khatami said. A global Maniac cop running around starting wars will not be long for this world,pr
