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Oz Troops Urged,Don't Give Prisoners to the US.
Australian troops in Iraq are being urged not to hand-over prisoners of war to the United States unless they are certain their human rights will be protected. Former Human Rights commissioner Chris Sidoti says both the United States and Iraq have been mistreating captured enemy personnel by parading them before the media. Mr Sidoti says Australia must meet its international obligations on the protection of prisoners of war. When we know for a fact that American forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan routinely hand over captives to other forces who are habitual torturers with lists of questions that the Americans want answered, we can have the gravest doubts about how they will treat prisoners of war captured in Iraq, he said. AND Journalists' union condemns ADF censorship request The union representing journalists has condemned the Defence Department's attempt to censor the Australian media over images from the war in Iraq. British opt not to enter Basra A British spokesman says British troops would not enter the southern city of Basra to battle irregular Iraqi fighters, contradicting an earlier statement. Soldier's death brings British toll to 20 British defence officials have confirmed a soldier from its Black Watch 1st battalion has been killed in fighting in southern Iraq - the second soldier to be killed in action.
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One of the 'liberated.'of Southern Iraq. Rumsfeld's strategy under fire Mar 25 11:44 KRT Five days into the war, the optimistic assumptions of the Pentagon's civilian war planners have yet to be realised. The risks of the campaign are becoming increasingly apparent and some current and retired military officials are warning there may be a mismatch between Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld's strategy and the force he's sent to carry it out. The outcome of the war isn't in doubt: Iraq's forces are no match for America and its allies. But, so far, defeating them is proving to be harder, and it could prove to be longer and costlier in American and Iraqi lives than the architects of the American war plan expected. And if weather, Iraqi resistance, chemical weapons or anything else turned things suddenly and unexpectedly sour, the backup force, the Army's 4th Infantry Division, is still in Texas with its equipment sailing around the Arabian peninsula. Despite the aerial pounding they've taken, it's not clear that Saddam Hussein, his lieutenants or their praetorian guard are either shocked or awed. Instead of capitulating, some regular Iraqi army units are harassing American supply lines. Contrary to American hopes - and some officials' expectations - no top commander of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard has capitulated. Even some ordinary Iraqis are greeting advancing American and British forces as invaders, not as liberators. This is the ground war that was not going to happen in (Rumsfeld's) plan, said a Pentagon official. Because the Pentagon didn't commit overwhelming force, now we have three divisions strung out over 300-plus miles and the follow-on division, our reserve, is probably three weeks away from landing. Asked today about concerns that the coalition force isn't big enough, Defence Department spokesperson Victoria Clarke replied: ... most people with real information are saying we have the right mix of forces. We also have a plan that allows it to adapt and to scale up and down as needed. Knowledgeable defence and administration officials say Rumsfeld and his civilian aides at first wanted to commit no more than 60,000 American troops to the war on the assumption that the Iraqis would capitulate in two days. Intelligence officials say Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and other Pentagon civilians ignored much of the advice of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defence Intelligence Agency in favour of reports from the Iraqi opposition and from Israeli sources that predicted an immediate uprising against Saddam once the Americans attacked. The officials said Rumsfeld also made his disdain for the Army's heavy divisions very clear when he argued about the war plan with Army General Tommy Franks, the allied commander. Franks wanted more and more heavily armed forces, said one senior administration official; Rumsfeld kept pressing for smaller, lighter and more agile ones, with much bigger roles for air power and special forces. Our force package is very light, said a retired senior general. If things don't happen exactly as you assumed, you get into a tangle, a mismatch of your strategy and your force. Things like the pockets (of Iraqi resistance) in Basra, Umm Qasr and Nasariyah need to be dealt with forcefully, but we don't have the forces to do it. The Secretary of Defence cut off the flow of Army units, saying this thing would be over in two days, said a retired senior general who has followed the evolution of the war plan. He shut down movement of the 1st Cavalry Division and the 1st Armored Division. Now we don't even have a nominal ground force. He added ruefully: As in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, we are using concepts and methods that are entirely unproved. If your strategy and assumptions are flawed, there is nothing in the well to draw from. In addition, said senior administration officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, Rumsfeld and his civilian aides rewrote parts of the military services' plans for shipping US forces to the Persian Gulf, which they said resulted in a number of mistakes and delays, and also changed plans for calling up some reserve and National Guard units. There was nothing too small for them to meddle with, said one senior official. It's caused no end of problems, but I think we've managed to overcome them all. Robin Dorff, the director of national security strategy at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, said three things have gone wrong in the campaign: -A mismatch between expectations and reality. -The threat posed by irregular troops, especially the 60,000 strong Saddam Fedayeen, who are harassing the 300-mile-long supply lines crucial to fueling and resupplying the armor units barreling toward Baghdad. -The Turks threatening to move more troops into northern Iraq, which could trigger fighting between Turks and Kurds over Iraq's rich northern oilfields. Dorff and others
Full Spectrum Resistance.
British troops faced heavy mortar fire outside Iraq's second largest city amid fierce resistance from loyalist Iraqi troops and irregular militias, while a brutal sandstorm with howling winds stalled U.S. infantry troops to the north, near the holy city of Karbala. Coalition planes and U.S. helicopters targeted Republican Guard forces just south of Baghdad Monday in perhaps the largest assault to date on Saddam's highly trained troops, U.S. officials said. They said hundreds of sorties were planned. The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was responsible for the deepest known penetration in force of the Iraqi interior, a two-day dash that brought it toward Karbala, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad. Some Iraqis waved or gave a thumbs-up as the convoy passed, while others stood by stoically. The advance of long columns of thousands of vehicles was aided by heavy air protection that wiped out a column of Iraqi armor at one point and sent some of Saddam Hussein's outer defenses withdrawing toward the capital. The convoy passed bombed anti-aircraft guns, empty foxholes and berms dug for tanks that had been abandoned. But the advance was stalled for a time by the weather - a sandstorm that blew out of the desert Monday afternoon. Outside the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of Karbala, U.S. soldiers skirmished with Iraqi forces before dawn Monday. Iraqis shot rockets and anti-aircraft guns at the Americans. Mosques in Najaf and Karbala are the most sacred sites to Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims after those in Saudi Arabia. Najaf is the site of the tomb of Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Shiites aspire to bury their dead in its cemetery, which stretches for miles and is the largest in the Muslim world. Outside the southern city of Basra, British forces including the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the 7th Armored Brigade pulled away after coming under heavy mortar fire, according to British pool reports. British forces earlier had surrounded the city to prevent Iraqi forces from fleeing and regrouping elsewhere. While other coalition units swept west of the city, commanders had held off storming Basra, hoping its Iraqi defenders would give up, but they have held firm. The biggest danger has come from the paramilitary Fedayeen militia armed with powerful rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, press reports said. Many militia members have disguised themselves by wearing civilian clothes, mingling with civilians or flying white flags from their vehicles in order to get close to coalition forces before firing. This is not a video game where everything is clear and neat and tidy. Some enemy who feel that they want to carry on fighting will inevitably do so, said Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt, a spokesman for British forces in the Gulf, speaking at U.S. Central Command in Qatar Monday. In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Parliament that Basra is surrounded and cannot be used as an Iraqi base. However, he added that there are still pockets of security forces fiercely loyal to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. In addition to the Fedayeen, military officials said the elite Republican Guard and Special Security Organization forces were defending Basra. They are contained, but still able to inflict casualties on our forces, so we are proceeding with caution, Blair told lawmakers. Earlier Monday, the Ministry of Defense confirmed a British soldier was killed near the southern Iraq port city of Az Zubayr, Britain's first combat casualty in Iraq. A spokeswoman declined to provide details on soldier. Earlier, British officials reported two British soldiers missing after regular Iraqi units hit their convoy in southern Iraq. The top U.S. general overseeing the U.S.-led war effort said coalition troops are making rapid and in some cases dramatic progress, but they also have met sporadic Iraqi resistance. U.S. forces had intentionally bypassed enemy formations, and the Fedayeen militia had been harassing the U.S. rear in southern Iraq, Gen. Tommy Franks said in Qatar. Franks also confirmed that Australians and British troops were operating in the north and west of Iraq. Also, Iraq claimed to have shot down two U.S. helicopters and taken two pilots prisoner a day after more than 20 Americans were killed or captured. Iraqi television showed two men Monday said to have been the crew of a U.S. army helicopter forced down during heavy fighting in central Iraq. Outside An Nasiriyah - on the Euphrates River 230 miles (370 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad - a long convoy -including tanks, TOW missiles and armored personnel carriers - was backed up along the road leading to a pontoon bridge. The city, which is near the ancient town of Ur, birthplace of the patriarch Abraham, was also the site of the worst casualties sustained by coalition forces so far. Two bloody battles Sunday left nine Marines dead and a dozen U.S. soldiers missing
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Planetary ecologist Keynes advises that defeating the beast Rabin is vital to the future of the desert planet Dune.He says the CHAUM monoply must bring in micropayments soon so the Baron Harken can be assassinated. Both sides are girding for the coming battle of Baghdad as US armoured columns advanced from two directions, coming within 80km of the capital before sandstorms - and a formidable Iraqi army - forced a delay. The storms have cut visibility to as few as 20 metres, severely restricting the operations of air support. Columns of tanks, artillery and other vehicles were reduced to a crawl. Reports suggest the storms may intensify and possibly hamper operations for several days. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders vowed resistance, and US and British leaders warned that the contest for Baghdad could be bloody. Two divisions of Saddam's elite and loyal Republican Guard troops - about 20,000 fighters - were believed to stand between allied forces and the centre of Saddam's regime. There are unconfirmed claims by unnamed US officials that Saddam has given his hardened Republican Guard the authority to use chemical weapons. Five days into Operation Iraqi Freedom, resistance prevented American and British forces from securing the southern cities of Basra and Nasiriyah and thwarted efforts to extinguish burning oil wells. Saddam sought to rally his own country in a televised appearance. Be patient, brothers, because God's victory will be ours soon, he said, appearing in full military garb and seeming more composed than in a taped appearance broadcast last week.
Battle of Hamburg.
21 arrested after scuffles at Hamburg anti-war protest SpaceDaily - 17 hours ago ... police said. Police used water cannon after some demonstrators in the northern port city of Hamburg had pelted them with stones. The ... Violent Clashes in Hamburg at Anti-war Rally Novinite, Bulgaria - 19 hours ago An anti-US war demonstration by thousands of high school students led to violent clashes with police in Hamburg, resulting in the arrest of scores of protestors ... USWAR/Anti-US war protest in Hamburg turns violent, several ... IRNA, Iran - 20 hours ago Berlin, March 24, IRNA -- An anti-US war demonstration by thousands o high school students led to violent clashes with police in Hamburg, resulting in the ... War Protesters, Police Clash in Germany Albany Times Union, NY - 27 minutes ago FRANKFURT, Germany -- Anti-war demonstrators clashed with police outside the US consulate in Hamburg and peace rallies emptied schools across Italy on Monday ... Marine from Buffalo dies in Iraq Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 42 minutes ago ... Lance Corporal Orlowskis death brings our struggle in Operation Iraqi Freedom home for all of us, said US Rep. Jack Quinn, R-Hamburg, Erie County. ... IRNA -- An anti-US war demonstration by thousands o high school students led to violent clashes with police in Hamburg, resulting iin the arrest of scores of protestors, DPA reported Monday. Police were forced to deploy water cannons after students began to pelt security forces with stones, a police spokesman said. Several people were detained, according to the police official. The altercations began after a group of the demonstrators tried to drift away from the planned protest route, attempting to access the Hamburg-based US Consulate General. Some 20,000 demonstrators took part in the march, voicing their opposition to the American war in Iraq. Iran.I ran so far from you...flock of seagulls.
Use gloves and destroy the evidence.
Washington - US forces have successfully destroyed the Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter that went down during fighting south of Baghdad, officials with the US central command said on Tuesday. Sand storms limited visibility earlier on Tuesday, initially making it difficult for US forces to confirm they had hit the helicopter, preventing Iraq from seizing any of the sophisticated targeting equipment and weapons aboard. The helicopter has been destroyed, said one official, who asked not to be named. Iraqi television showed videotape on Monday of the two pilots of the helicopter, which came down while attacking an elite Republican Guard division southwest of Baghdad. The twin-engine Apache is the US Army's primary attack helicopter In Washington, the Pentagon identified the two pilots men as Chief Warrant Officer David Williams, 30, of Florida, and Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Young Jr, 26, of Lithia Springs, Georgia. Williams' home town was not identified. It said both men were now officially listed as prisoners of war, bringing the total of US POWs to seven, including five members of an Army maintenance unit who were shown on Iraqi television on Monday. Earlier on Monday, Iraqi television showed pictures of the grounded Apache sitting in a field next to a group of jubilant farmers waving old-fashioned weapons in the air. The Iraqi military said that a farmer had downed the twin-engine Boeing Co Apache, which is the US army's primary attack helicopter and one of the world's most effective.
A Giordano in the News.
A. Giordano, who is accused of sexually abusing two young girls while he was mayor of Waterbury Prosecutor calls Giordano story preposterous NewHavenRegister.com Giordano had already conceded he was immoral. Friday, the ex-Waterbury mayor unwittingly suggested he was corrupt too. Prosecutor calls Giordano story preposterous NewHavenRegister.com - 6 hours ago BRIDGEPORT A federal prosecutor called former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordanos claim that he wanted two young girls nearby when he received oral sex ... Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Jongbloed said the case comes down to credibility - and said Giordano has none. He has been untruthful in the most important personal and professional commitments of his life, Jongbloed said...Giordano violated the civil rights of two young girls by sexually abusing them...more on http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-25014501.apds.m0071.bc-ct--giormar25,0,3650381.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire
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Record-low ratings for Academy Awards Chicago Sun Times, IL - 2 hours ago The Academy Awards typically can be counted on to be the second-most-watched prime-time program of the television season, trailing only the Super Bowl. ... Oscars rocked by TV flop News24, South Africa - 5 hours ago Los Angeles - They vowed the Oscars show would go on and it did. But while the 75th Academy Award show was packed with raw emotion ... War coverage steals some of Academy Awards' thunder USA Today - 7 hours ago By Gary Levin, USA TODAY. The Oscars earned record-low ratings Sunday, reflecting in part the skittishness of TV viewers as they ... Audience for Oscars dips Financial Times (subscription), UK - 8 hours ago By Christopher Parkes. US demand for light entertainment fell sharply at the weekend as film fans stayed away from cinemas and the ... Oscars' ratings take beating News Interactive, Australia - 12 hours ago THIS year's Oscars have set a new record - for the lowest US television viewership in the ceremony's history. The usually glitzy ... TV Ratings For Oscars Plunge CBS News - 13 hours ago Best actor Adrien Brody, left, and best supporting actor Chris Cooper pose with their Oscars. (AP). (CBS) The wartime Academy Awards ... Oscars' TV ratings take beating from war ABC Online, Australia - 13 hours ago The Oscars broke a new record for the lowest US television viewership in history as the usually glitzy show was drowned out by the guns of war in Iraq, initial ... Wartime Oscars Suffer Lowest Ratings Ever Reuters, UK - 14 hours ago By Steve Gorman. With the conflict in Iraq weighing heavily on the minds of Americans, the subdued 75th anniversary edition of the ... Wartime Oscar Ratings Hit Record Low Washington Post, DC - 14 hours ago The wartime Academy Awards telecast on ABC Sunday night was the least-watched Oscar ceremony since Nielsen Media Research began keeping records in 1974. ... Ratings down for Academy Awards San Jose Mercury News, CA - 16 hours ago By Charlie McCollum. Airing against the backdrop of war, Sunday's Academy Awards on ABC took a sharp hit in viewership, attracting ... Ratings sharply down for Academy Awards USA Today - 20 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) The Oscars drew a 25.5 household rating and 37 audience share in Nielsen Media Research's overnight measure of the 55 biggest cities. ...
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hi, for every bomb that explodes in U.S,civil liberties will keep comming down.This is not the case in other countries were more bombs are hurled or exploded daily.Though they are less concerned about their citizens,they are concerned of their civil liberties(atleast to some extent). Regards Sarath. --- Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:37 AM 03/25/2003 +0100, Lucky Green wrote: But no, it's back to the same old same old, and so much for civil liberties in America as well. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
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Laurie Cousins: A senior legal adviser to the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, has quit the Foreign Office because of a difference over the legal advice sanctioning the war against Iraq. See guardian Tim Gillin in Sydney: Senator Robert Byrd's lonely voice in the Senate certainly needs to be listened to, but why not also listen to Congressman Ron Paul's lonelier voice in the US House of Representatives? Paul's anti-war record is more consistent, having opposed Gulf War 1, NATO's war on Serbia and other humanitarian invasions. Unlike Australia's peace movement, he opposes war with or without the figleaf of the UN. He is also a Republican from Texas. texasobserver Phil Teece: In her wonderful book 'The March of Folly' (the title of which I see you're using to good effect), historian Barbara Tuchman included a statement which has been stuck on my wall here for many years. It is: Three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, illusion of invulnerable status - are persistent aspects of folly. Was it ever more apposite? Andrew Asquith in Ji'nan, China: This war is f--ked. I have to ignore it now. I get angry and bitter and I don't like myself like that. Here in China there is concern that the US will start something nasty in North Korea and Taiwan. I feel that some of the stares I get from strangers (every westerner get stared at in China) have changed from smiling and open-eyed to sharp and suspicious. I'm 27 and this is the first war I've seen as an adult. I now understand much of the sentiments of social division and scepticism that my high school history books told me war brought to society. I still love webdiary. I read it as often as I can. It's my link with home. It's better than the press coz the voices of webdiary are so much more real and diverse. Like society itself. Brad Pollard: Four days ago I created a website that has in that time attracted 30,000 Australians to register their opposition to a war against IRAQ without UN approval. The register is supported by Senator Kerry Nettle and Senator Bartlett and will be jointly tabled in parliament on Tuesday. This register is shaping up to be the definitive register for Australians against this war. It will serve as a historical document. Many just want to go down in history as being opposed to this war. By the end of today there will be 4 - 5 on the register, at this rate the Senators will tabling a document with some 80,000 names on Tuesday and this will only go up as the war drags out. Go to notinourname Janine Ludvidioni in Leichhardt, Sydney: My husband and I started playing a new game, and the kids love it. They keep the shopping cart free from American products: soap, cereals, you name it. In the last month, they have learned to spot suspicious food, clothes, oil, even movies and magazines. I cannot believe my materialistic demons have turned into the anti-consumption brigade. We stopped buying American on a simple premise: The US doesn't listen to people; but they do listen to money. We are all customers of America. So if enough of us complain, the US economy will tank and someone over there will wake up. Besides saving lives, we have found that we are having more fun while spending less. *** Hans Peter Deitz It seems that Australians are at a total loss to explain our dear leader's behaviour vis-a-vis backing the US war on Iraq. I think I've just found a scenario that makes all of Howard's recent acts sound quite rational, while providing an explanation as to why he won't tell us. Charles Krauthammer in 'Time' recently warned of the impending 'age of proliferation' (of nuclear weapons) which the US are set to aggressively pre-empt with current policies. I think the age of proliferation is indeed upon us, and up close and personal. In Saturday's Der Spiegel (spiegel) there is an excellent editorial bearing the title Rulers of all nations, arm yourselves!. The main point is that any strategic planner in countries like Iran, Syria, Nigeria, Malaysia, even Brazil or Japan- or Indonesia!- would have to conclude that the only way to safeguard territorial integrity and political independence would be to acquire a credible deterrent, preferably nuclear warheads on (at least) medium- range ballistic missiles. It's not a new thought, just expressed particularly succinctly. Here's my translation: Rulers of all nations, arm yourselves! http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/24/1048354543004.html
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Rulers of all nations, arm yourselves! by Harald Schumann The US war of aggression and its blatant infringement of international law is going to provoke a global race for the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. This war does not strengthen democratic tendencies but radical islamists from Morocco to Indonesia. And those nations will know how to protect themselves from future attack. Osama bin Laden and his killers have a new date for future anniversary celebrations. Today, on 20.3.03, George W. Bush and his neo- imperialists are proving that they will break any law when they feel so inclined. It is true that the UN Security Council is an undemocratic body. Its members are determined by chance, the power of veto is a consequence of hopelessly outdated structures. The Security Council is in urgent need of reform. Nevertheless, international law is one of the most significant civilizatory achievements of the last century. The UN Charter and its prohibition of wars of aggression has provided basic security against external attack. Any state infringing this elementary principle had to face the ire of the Security Council and the great powers. This basic legal principle has been invalidated as of today. The arrogance of absolute power evident in such action is exactly what Bin Laden and other fanatical America- haters have accused Washington of. America's leaders do the opposite of what they claim as justification for a pre- emptive strike against a suppressed people that has lacked the capacity for threatening anybody for years. From Morocco to Indonesia this action does not strengthen the democrats of the Islamic world but their sworn enemies- clerico- fascists and prophets of terror advocating Holy War against 'crusaders and jews' which is how Bin Laden describes his mission. They are now certain to attract many more young men prepared for violent action. Consider Pakistan for the consequences of US ignorance of the need for repect for islamic culture and political autonomy. The religious Right now has the backing of the majority of the population. The strongest political force in the country, it has just organized the March of One Million in Karachi, in protest against this war. There have already been the first gun battles between US and Pakistani soldiers, and it is blatantly obvious that a democratic Pakistan would become an enemy of the US. How much is on the line here has been clearly expressed recently in a sermon by one of the country's religious leaders: Allah has told us to build nuclear weapons. America tells us not to. Fellow Muslims, who should we follow, Allah or America? This message has been published on cassette and is available all over the country. America's strategic shortsightedness may well make Pakistan ungovernable - the only Muslim state armed with nuclear weapons, warns the Pakistani physicist and pro- democracy campaigner Pervez Hoodbhoy. Iraq is a target precisely because Saddam doesn't have the bomb. This danger is not limited to Pakistan. There is a perilous message in this war of George W. Bush: Arm yourselves. This must be the highest priority for all governments and military planners unwilling to trust in eternal US benevolence. There is a fatal logic in the invasion of Iraq. Saddam Hussein isn't under attack because he owns weapons of mass destruction. The opposite is true. The Americans are invading precisely because the Butcher of Baghdad does not have access to such weapons. Even two or three ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads would make this war an incalculable risk, with Israel's very existence on the line. It is therefore inevitable that strategically- minded heads of government and military planners should conclude that the only guarantee against forced subjugation is the perverse Cold War logic of nuclear deterrence. This is precisely why a war against North Korea is not an option - its regime constantly shows off the reliability of its ballistic missiles. Such a threat deters even the greatest military power on Earth, as the consequence of war would be the annihilation of its ally South Korea. Iran's attempts at obtaining weapons- grade uranium from their own enrichment plant make perfect sense. Marked out as part of the Axis of Evil, Tehran is the next target for Bush and his apologists, although the local youth and academic and business elites are agitating for more democracy, not Holy War against the Great Satan like Chomeini in the past. Today Iran has to take the threats of the American Right at face value. Consequently not even Iranian democrats will argue against nuclear armament. Such considerations won't be limited to Tehran. Surely the strategy of nuclear deterrence is being debated in Riyadh and Damascus. And even in the most populous Muslim nation on earth, Indonesia, generals will have to reconsider their options. During the Asian financial crisis Indonesia was humiliated by American banking institutions and the IWF, and was
Despatching a Failed State.
Australia under the Howard regime begins to accrue some of the characteristics of a failed state. The leader of the government routinely uses the tactics of fear mongering and demonisation to discipline a population already worried about world events. The PM muddies issues, blurs the boundaries between one event (the Bali bombing) and another (participating in a war against Iraq). Virulent verbal attacks on a targeted group (indigenous peoples, asylum seekers) form the basis of the politics of domination. The truth has become a political commodity to be traded for votes and other forms of political acquiescence at critical times (children overboard). Sometimes the truth is simply treated as an obstacle to the fulfilment of personal political desire (the troops have not been committed to any conflict). The bureaucracy has been politicized and stacked with government loyalists. The ABC's capacity to report without fear or favor has been affected by the imposition of external political controls. And at the base of these and other insidious developments lies the complete rejection of diversity, the dismantling of liberal tolerance (which in itself is a problematic notion), secretiveness among the dominant group and a political culture that projects profound hostility towards any kind of attempt to tell a different political story. The government's refusal to heed public opinion which steadfastly opposes the war is in stark contrast to its slavish nurturing of the same public opinion that demanded asylum seekers be harshly dealt with. Any government unwilling to brook dissent and unable to leave independent institutions (bureaucracy, judiciary) free of political interference invites associations with the notion of a failed state. Under the Howard regime, Australia has taken significant steps in that direction.
Come to Jesus.
If is foolish to pretend the debate is all over and now we must come together and unite behind our troops. Last week I was handing out protest leaflets in Martin Place. The pro-war people are starting to get vocal and confident. One man said: get out of my way you c**t, another berated me in my face for supporting that f**king bastard terrorist. But for each of those there were ten people who went out of their way to get a leaflet, or who asked for a bunch to distribute themselves, or who thanked me for what I was doing. The Australian public is divided. That is a fact. At least 50,000 (not the 15,000 reported in the Herald) marched last Thursday on three hours notice. As people left their offices and saw the march they joined its ranks. These people are not only opposed to war, but very very angry at Howard and the Liberal party. We can't paper over this division. We can't pretend to unite when we are divided. What good would putting on a false facade do for our troops? They aren't stupid. They know that most Australians do not support their deployment. But at the same time they know that virtually all Australians blame the government, not them. The government is trying to hide behind the troops. It is using the support the troops line as a shield to deflect and avoid criticism and pacify the public. It is a disgrace and an insult to the troops. It reminds me of when Bob Carr accused you of dishonouring Bali when in fact he was doing exactly what he accused to avoid answering a question. Democracy in this country is under attack. Now is not the time to be quiet and accept the situation, to meekly hang our head in collective shame. Now is not the time to rally behind this plastic patriotism of Miranda Devine or the Liberal party or Channel Nine. Patriotism is not wearing a little Aussie flag on your lapel and singing the national anthem.Patriotism is not rallying behind the government no matter what your opinion. True patriotism is caring what happens in your country. True patriotism is getting active to defend the basic principles and decency of your country. Now is the time to take a stand. Now is the time to hand out leaflets, to make banners, to get out on the streets and be counted and make it clear that Australia does not attack other countries. Now is the time to make it clear to the members of the Liberal party that they are not born to rule, that in Australia the people rule, not just one day every three years, but all the time. Now is the time to be patriotic and defend democracy and the decency of Australia - to stand up for our rights, for our troops, for our reputation, and for the less fortunate of this world.
Solicitor to Solicitor.
Letter to the Prime Minister from Slater Gordon, solicitors, on behalf of the Victorian Peace Network 20 March 2003 The Hon John Howard MP Prime Minister Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Re: Complicity in potential war crimes We act on behalf of 41 affiliates of the Victorian Peace Network (listed in Appendix A, attached). Our clients are concerned that violations of international humanitarian law are likely to be perpetrated by United States military forces when the proposed military action in Iraq proceeds. In that event, and given that your government has committed Australian forces, we are instructed to put you on notice that our clients will seek to have you and senior ministers of your government investigated and, if appropriate, prosecuted for being complicit in excessive and unjustifiable loss of civilian lives and devastation of non-military infrastructure. 1. Crimes under the International Criminal Court Statute (the ICC Statute) Since the International Criminal Court (the ICC) was established in July 2002, jurisdiction has been created over the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. These include crimes against humanity and war crimes (Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the ICC Statute). Like offences have been created in domestic law by Division 268 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) (the Code). For the reasons set out in section 5 below, our clients hold grave fears that the proposed military action by US forces will involve the commission of the war crime of intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated. (Article 8(2)(b)(iv); see also s268.38 of the Code). Our clients are not alone in this view. Many of Australia's foremost international law experts have made a warning to similar effect (see Appendix B). 2. Complicity in war crimes You and your senior ministers can be held personally and criminally responsible for complicity in crimes committed during a military campaign. Article 25 of the ICC Statute provides for individual responsibility of persons who commit a crime within the ICC's jurisdiction and attributes criminal responsibility in a number of circumstances, including where a person: * orders, solicits or induces the commission of a crime; * for the purpose of facilitating the commission of a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or attempted commission, including by providing the means for its commission; or * intentionally contributes to the commission or attempted commission of a crime by a group of persons acting with a common criminal purpose. Division 11 of the Code is to similar effect in that it provides, inter alia, that: * a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of an offence is guilty of that offence; and * a person who incites the commission of an offence is guilty of an offence. Moreover, the ICC Statute specifically provides that official capacity is irrelevant to criminal liability: official capacity as a Head of State or Government, a member of a Government or parliament, an elected representative or a government official shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility under this Statute, nor shall it, in and of itself, constitute a ground for reduction of sentence. (Article 27) 3. Information will be provided to ICC Prosecutor The ICC Statute provides that the ICC Prosecutor may initiate investigations on the basis of information on war crimes, shall analyse the seriousness of information received, may seek additional information from non-government organisations (NGOs) and other reliable sources and may receive written or oral testimony (Articles 13(c) and 15). With a view to providing information to the ICC Prosecutor, our clients are committed to inviting, receiving and collating any evidence of war crimes committed by US forces in Iraq and of complicity in any such crimes by you and senior ministers of your government. Our clients propose to co-operate with NGOs and citizens' groups in other countries which will also be monitoring the actions of US forces in Iraq and any complicity of their governments in those actions. Pursuant to Article 17(1) of the ICC Statute, a case may proceed before the ICC unless Australian authorities have investigated the possible commission of an offence and have prosecuted that offence or made a genuine decision not to prosecute, or have shown themselves to be unable or unwilling to launch an investigation or prosecution. Accordingly, if there is evidence of US war crimes in Iraq, unless an Australian investigation into whether you or your senior ministers will have been complicit in the
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An explosion damaged part of the British Council building in Beirut in the early hours of this morning. One source claims that a small bomb weighing about 400 grams, was placed on one of the building's walls. Police said the explosion caused only light damage. They have begun an investigation. Security sources, however, said that an unknown assailant had thrown a stick of dynamite at the British building, located in the Ras Beirut district in the west of the Lebanese capital. There was a small explosion in the wall outside the British Council. There was a little damage in the wall outside, but no-one was hurt, a British embassy official said. A Reuters photographer said the blast left a small hole in the pavement and smoke had blackened the walls. Tuesday morning's attack was the first on British assets in Lebanon since the two countries began their invasion of Iraq. Several heated demonstrations have taken place near the US and British embassies in Lebanon to protest against the US-led war that began five days ago. Some of the demonstrations have led to clashes with security forces. Security has been boosted around the two embassies, as well as around those of Gulf Arab countries which are hosting US and British military forces which are attacking Iraq, particularly Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. A bomb has also been thrown at Britain's honorary consulate in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador in what may be a possible protest against the war in Iraq, officials said today. The explosive, which caused little damage, was thrown at Britain's honorary consular offices at about 0430 GMT Monday, a spokesman at the British embassy in Quito told Reuters. No one was injured in the blast. An investigation is underway. english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp...
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Amid the huge U.S. effort to guard against any future terrorist attack, the private sector faces particular challenges. As custodians of an estimated 85 percent of the nation's infrastructure, businesses are faced with a daunting list of tasks and questions on how to protect their buildings, systems and employees from an assault that, in the current geopolitical atmosphere, seems increasingly likely. Beyond headline issues such as the financial cost of counter-terrorism measures and the main areas of vulnerability lie a host of questions that further complicate management decisions on whether to invest time and money in anti-terrorist measures and that distract from the business of business. Managers may ask themselves, for example, whether certain anti-terrorist measures will be mandated by the federal government and, if so, whether that investment should be deferred until a decision is known. They may also fear a loss of competitiveness stemming from over-zealous regulation or from anti-terrorist investment that isn't reciprocated by the competition. Will a company have access to the best and latest thinking on protective measures if it is barred by antitrust laws from consulting with the competition? Is it getting the best advice from federal, state and local authorities? If some businesses are dragging their feet in attempting to protect themselves against terrorism, some blame may lie with the federal government. Among other headaches for business: Does management fully understand the interconnected nature of the systems that may be targeted by terrorists, and will any investment in them be pointless if other entities using those systems fail to install the right protections? If a company conducts a vulnerability risk assessment, will its stock price get punished by investors who fear it signals crucial weaknesses? The private sector is faced with some $150 billion a year in increased costs related to terrorism, Fortune magazine estimated in a February 2002 article. Within that, improved workplace security--including more guards, new ID systems and video surveillance equipment--is expected to cost $18 billion. IT measures such as new backup systems for disaster recovery could set the industry back around $15 billion. Higher insurance costs are expected to total another $35 billion a year, according to the report. Most of the spending has so far occurred in large corporations. Crucial industries such as utilities, transportation, IT and financial services have taken terrorism very seriously since Sept. 11, 2001, and have made some progress, while smaller companies have further to go. The private sector--energy, chemicals and financial services--is better prepared than it was two or three years ago, says Paul Kleindorfer, co-director of Wharton's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. Companies have begun to put in place global risk czars and they have done some work. But they haven't done enough rehearsal (for a terrorist attack). There is a gnawing sense that if (an attack occurs), we're in big trouble. A 'Maginot Line' approach That sense of vulnerability is only increased by the fact that businesses control most of the nation's infrastructure, a point made by Ron Taylor, director of the Naval Studies Board of the National Academies. Fears that the private sector is not yet fully engaged in the anti-terrorism drive were further fueled by a September 2002 survey by the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington-based group of CEOs, university presidents and labor union heads. The survey found that only 70 percent of senior executives said they were concerned about a terrorist threat to their businesses and just half of those had done anything about it. Of those who had recently improved security, many had invested in physical defense measures, such as hiring more security guards, but paid less attention to vulnerable areas such as transportation, telecommunications and IT, according to Debra Van Opstal, the council's senior vice president. Many were taking a 'Maginot Line' approach to their security, she said, in a reference to the French defenses that were relied on too heavily in World War II. The biggest threat exists in the networks, and the proportion of managers who had looked at vulnerabilities in those areas was in the low teens. Part of the problem, Van Opstal said, lies in a corporate culture that has traditionally assigned a low priority to security so that it's neither a boardroom issue nor an integral part of a company's mission. Like quality in the 1980s, security needs to be embedded, she said. Now that it has shot to the top of the corporate agenda, security is becoming the legitimate concern of top management, she added. Business may also be deterred from bolstering the security of their systems if the other parties in those systems aren't making the same improvements. In the case of Pan Am flight 103, for example, the bag containing the bomb was loaded on a
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A pox on FOX,Rupert Moloch needs (mercy) killing,anyway his wife is tired of watching old age creeping up on her. But the sheer amount of military and statistical detail coming from the Iraqi authorities is beginning to make the US Centcom information boys look like chumps. On Sunday, the Iraqi Minister of Defence, General Sultan Hashim, gave a remarkable briefing on the war, naming the units involved in front-line fighting the 3rd Battalion of the Iraqi army's 27th Brigade was still holding out at Suq ash-Shuyukh south of Nasariyah, the 3rd Battalion of the Third Iraqi Army was holding Basra. And I remembered how these generals gave identical briefings during the terrible 1980-88 war against Iran. When we set off to check their stories then, they almost always turned out to be true. Does the same apply now? General Hashem repeatedly insisted that his men were destroying US tanks and armour and helicopters. This was easy to dismiss until videotape of two burning US armoured personnel carriers popped up on the television screen. Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan has been obliging enough to explain the Iraqi army's tactics. It was Iraqi policy to let the Anglo-American armies roam around in the desert as long as they want, and attack them when they tried to enter the cities. Which seems to be pretty much what they are doing. In Baghdad, it's easy to see not just how badly the Americans and British have miscalculated, but it's also possible to imagine just how long President Saddam and his army and Baath party militias can endure, a sobering thought for those of us sitting in the Iraqi capital and only too well aware that the Stalingrad symbolism might turn out to be real. Saddam's tactics are clearly those of Stalin. Every day that passes is a day of further pain for Washington and London. You could observe this cockiness when Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Information Minister, spoke. Of Tony Blair, he said jovially yesterday: I think the British nation has never been faced with a tragedy like this fellow. Mr Sahaf then presented a casualty list, which, however imaginative it might turn out to be, was credible to the average Iraqi, and perhaps to anyone. Civilian wounded and dead respectively: in Baghdad, 194 wounded (13 less than estimated); in Ninevah, eight wounded; in Karbala 32 wounded and 10 killed; in Salahuddin, 22 wounded and 2 killed. In Najaf, the figures were 36 and 2; in Qadissiyah, 13 and 4; in Basra, 122 and 14. In Babylon, the Iraqi government claims 63 wounded and 30 killed. Sixty-two dead civilians if the statistics are correct is not a massacre. But there's nothing surprising about such a figure. It looks as if the Americans and British are bleeding to liberate a people who are not all that keen to be liberated by the Americans and British. A moral problem, of course. But not so big a moral problem as it would be if all this Iraqi suffering at the hands of the Americans and British turned out to be about oil. Alive and well? Saddam Hussein's appearance on television yesterday failed to convince British and American intelligence that the Iraqi leader was either alive or well. But those who have met him most recently believe the TV footage shows him to be in robust health. One hundred per cent it is Saddam Hussein, a Lebanese political activist, who met the President last month, said. This is his accent, these are his words, this is his speech and his style. This is his way. This is him, without hesitation. Toby Dodge, an expert on Iraq at Warwick University, said Allied scepticism was part of psychological warfare. He said: The whole American strategic plan is based on triggering a coup so they don't have to fight in Baghdad. He's alive and as well as you and me. The makeshift surroundings in yesterday's broadcast lent it credibility, Mr Dodge said.
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Howard's profound mistake By Margo Kingston March 25 2003 Several people I respect, including Webdiarist David Makinson and Australian Financial Review defence commentator Geoffrey Barker, believe the best parliamentary speech on John Howard's decision to invade Iraq was that of Kim Beazley. Mr Beazley is a long-time enthusiast of our alliance with the US, and his position on this war is conservative and pragmatic. It is focused on the interests of Australia, interests which have been forgotten or buried by most commentators on the war, and by all editorials in the Murdoch press. Here is his speech, delivered on Tuesday, March 18. KIM BEAZLEY (Brand) (5.52 p.m.) Eighteen months ago the world was united in horror at the events of September 11 in the United States. Right across the globe, among governments and among peoples, there was an outpouring of support for the United States, which subsequently manifested itself in practical measures to deal with terrorism. We saw a remodelling of the Western alliance. For the first time, ANZUS and NATO declared an attack on one of their members and demanded that all members cohere to support the United States in this particular instance against the threat which had occurred to them. All those members of the Western alliance defined the issues of international terrorism as a common security interest. The United States was joined by old enemies in the process. For me, the symbol of that was when I and others in the parliament visited Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan - an old part of the Soviet Union - and saw there, 150 kilometres from the Chinese border, a base in which there were Australian, French and American forces operating under an American commander. We saw the Chinese government acquiesce in what, in other circumstances at other times, would have been regarded as encirclement, and the Russian government support the diplomacy of the United States to get that base put in place. And the United Nations itself was activated in a comprehensive approach to the issues of terrorism, urging all countries to adopt measures specific to dealing with terrorism within their borders, dealing with international financing of terrorism and dealing with the international movement of terrorists. I suppose it reached a peak - this comity of nations' support; a comity shared by their peoples - in resolution 1441, passed by the UN in November last year. I think it is true to say that, while the United States saw that, in part at least, in the context of the campaign against terror, most other nations saw it as a different problem. They saw it as a problem of the continuing delinquency of Saddam Hussein and they were prepared to be supportive of the United States, whether or not they agreed with all the American conclusions, because the disarmament of Saddam Hussein was right. All that now lies in shattered ruins. We have the American alliance with Europe disintegrating; we have the support that had been raised among ex-enemy states of the United States, Russia and China, disintegrating; we have the popular support that was there globally for the United States and the war on terror disintegrating - as manifest by those demonstrations - and we have the CIA and the FBI warning against a heightened risk of terrorism. Whatever may be the long-term consequences of terrorists for this particular action, two things emerge with absolute clarity. The first is that the terrorist threat is now immediately augmented by these actions and the second is that the potential is there to create a further base within the Islamic world of those who feel a sense of injustice taken a degree further to the point where they may themselves as individuals commit to acts of terror. This is a disaster. Let us not walk away from it: what we are witnessing here is a diplomatic disaster of the first order. We need to have an analysis as to why we have got to this point and we need to understand the implications of it, because the implications are very serious indeed. The only person who is joyful today - and I hope he is joyful in the context of running from safe house to safe house with people in hot pursuit of him - is Osama bin Laden. Osama has no interest, of course, in the survival of Saddam's regime. He hates Saddam - regards him as an infidel. But Osama has a heck of an interest in building up a sense of injustice about all this to enhance his recruitment base. The point about getting UN approval and having the patience to get UN approval for all of this is that at least it mitigated the capacity of people like bin Laden to portray this as something which it is not: as an attack on the Islamic populations of the world. When the United Nations says, No, it is not; it is about disarmament of Saddam Hussein, it mitigates the propaganda. That is the whole point. Let me make it clear: it is not in our interests for the United States to lose this war; nor
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The prospects for IT spending in 2003 were already tight before the war in Iraq made mincemeat of last December's forecasts. But despite the turn of current events, companies continue to treat IT security as a special spending category, one that's seemingly impervious to the lingering economic slowdown and the prospect of even more global uncertainty in the months ahead. In fact, when it comes to equipping their companies with the latest and the greatest against future cyberattacks, IT managers are willing to open their wallets. But while technology no doubt plays a major role in overall information security management and defense in depth security, the application of technology alone is no substitute for a comprehensive security strategy. We've seen this technology overemphasis to the exclusion of other important considerations before. During the 1990s, many companies rushed out and bought HP OpenView, IBM NetView or Cabletron Spectrum to get a graphical representation of the network topology and capture network events. But once these systems were in place, IT managers had no idea how to use these systems or interpret the data. The tools only became useful when IT departments defined supporting policies and processes and dedicated teams of operational experts for management and administration. The same holds true of security. Companies are spending oodles of money on security technology, but tools are only beneficial if they work hand in hand with defined methodologies. I've had many conversations with Fortune 1,000 companies about their security practices, and here is what they would counsel: Make security a corporate objective The unfortunate truth is that security nerds within IT are viewed as nuisances who other employees routinely circumvent. The unfortunate truth is that security nerds within IT are viewed as nuisances who other employees routinely circumvent. That's a mistake because companies that embrace security within their corporate cultures are far more likely to be successful. The process starts with a commitment from senior management to spread the word. It ends with a well-defined set of security and training policies where security is defined as a perpetual process that requires a constant review of procedures, vulnerabilities and preparedness. Set up a real security team Firms with a real knack for security appoint a chief security officer who reports to the CEO and is responsible for both physical and information security. As far as information security goes, the security team is accountable for overall architecture, policy creation and auditing, but shares day-to-day security operations with the IT group. A separation between the IT and security groups creates a checks-and-balances relationship. There's an upshot: Security requirements get designed into applications and infrastructure architecture as well as day-to-day management. Establish IT governance and security best practices In spite of some wonderful security technology, companies continue to feel pain from the likes of Code Red, Nimda and the SQL Slammer. Why? Poor IT procedures when it comes to configuration management, change management and system administration. This is especially troubling because of the breadth of mature methods available for these activities. Companies should anchor their security with a solid foundation of IT governance like ITIL, ITSM or CobiT. These IT governance models provide obsessive detail on how to run a process-oriented, secure IT shop. To build upon this base, look to established security best practices from security honchos like CERT, NIST or the U.S. government. Prepare for the worst Even the most secure company will suffer a security breach at some point in its history. Like the Boy Scouts' motto suggests, it is important to be prepared. Create an emergency response team that includes security experts and functional IT technicians, as well as members from the human resources and legal departments. Everyone should know his or her individual roles and responsibilities. Companies fixated on security constantly drill their teams to judge their responsiveness and correct any process lapses. Even the most secure company will suffer a security breach at some point in its history. This is a simple list, and indeed lots of other things go into providing hardened security. Nevertheless, visit any security-conscious firm and you'll find that they've implemented several--if not all--of the items listed above. Before purchasing a lot of new tools and technologies, companies can achieve better protection and improve their security return on investment by taking all this into account. If a firm needs help, it should seek immediate assistance or outsource the whole ball of wax. Security is too critical to allow corporate politics or IT pride to get in the way. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-993944.html?tag=fd_nc_1
Marine PR grunt to CNN flack...We're losing guys left and right. And so are you.
Marine PR guy finally sees the value of war correspondents Weekly Standard Marine public affairs officer Maj. Chris Hughes tells Matt Labash: The thing I've always liked about having media present is it tells that Marine or soldier just how important their job is. If CNN is in your fighting hole, what you're doing is important. And that's tremendous. ...[Marines] don't want to die, and not have their story told. HUGHES' LAST WORDS TO LABASH: It's been a long night. We're losing guys left and right. And so are you. Gabler: WH knew embedded journos would be harmless (Salon/sub-ads) Hamilton: The embedded-reportage genie is out of the bottle (USAT) Posted at 8:50:10 AME-mail this item | QuickLink: A26717 Critic: Turn off TV and read Anderson's Letter from Iraq Washington Post Peter Carlson says Jon Lee Anderson's wonderfully nuanced and humane piece in The New Yorker describes what it felt like to be living in Baghdad in the days before and after the start of the bombing. He writes about the mad rush by reporters and U.N. officials to leave Baghdad after President Bush's 48-hour deadline, which caused gridlock at hotel checkout desks and drove the price of a taxi ride to Jordan from $200 to $700 to $1,300. Posted at 8:17:35 AME-mail this item | QuickLink: A26714 NBC execs hope war coverage will save struggling MSNBC USA Today NBC chief Robert Wright says of MSNBC: ''They're really in a league of their own right now. (NBC) is like the older brother who gets all the limelight. MSNBC doesn't get as much limelight or credit for what it does.'' David Lieberman writes: If NBC dominates the [war] story, the thinking goes, viewers may take another look at MSNBC -- much in the way the 1991 war boosted the public's view of CNN. OUCH!: ''CNN has a shaky video phone which looks like a bad video game, says NBC News boss Neal Shapiro. Fox has a camera that tilts and is grainy and gets blinded by the dust. Posted at 8:02:38 AME-mail this item | QuickLink: A26711 Pentagon briefings no longer well mannered, genteel affairs New York Times (reg. req.) David Carr says the quick end to the Pentagon-press honeymoon isn't without precedent. One week after the United States entered Afghanistan and encountered a surprising level of resistance, the word 'quagmire' began to appear in news reports. Defense Watch Magazine editor Ed Offley tells Carr that young, inexperienced reporters in Iraq are providing shrill and nervous coverage. PLUS: Amy Harmon on war weblogs, Jacques Steinberg on newspaper coverage of the war, and Jim Rutenberg on TV news and war. Pentagon losing its ability to control news, says Zurawik (Baltimore Sun) Pentagon claims journalists are taking the war out of context (Hearst) Posted at 7:45:44 AME-mail this item | QuickLink: A26708 Soldiers, others give eyewitness war reports via weblogs Wall Street Journal Relatives of soldiers are posting e-mails they're getting from Iraq, too. In all, the glut of information from the Gulf -- from the important to the trivial -- is creating a dizzying panoply of detail, as well as half-truths, write Matthew Rose and Christopher Cooper. They say the Army is considering incorporating blogging into its secure network where troops communicate with each other and their families. That system would shut out the public. Beam's putting together his own war coverage with assorted media (BG) Posted at 7:16:43 AME-mail this item | QuickLink: A26705 Additional items for March 25, 2003 Al-Jazeera launches bare-bones English-language Web site (WSJ) NY Post gossip Johnson gets a drink in his face at Oscars party (WP)
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Wow Colonel Flagg...glad to know you might post on this subject at some point in the future. I'll certainly be waiting... -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:29:42 -0800 Tim May wrote... the Jews will be destroyed and sent to Hell, and then JC will rise out of Babylon or Yonkers or someplace and will reign as King for 1000 years, at which point the Earth will be destroyed. Not exactly. At the last minute (ie, before Armageddon wrecks just about everything), the Jews are supposed to convert en masse as they recognize the jewish messiah (ie, Jesus). Or something like that. I will have something to say about this later... Flagg Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Big $$$ to be made with the HushMail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliatel=427 _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
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http://english.aljazeera.net/ At the minute...here's another sand nigger site... http://www.khilafah.com/home/index.php Al-Jazeera went live early Monday with its English-language Web site -- and the Qatar-based satellite network immediately assumed a posture likely to provoke Western readers. The site (english.aljazeera.net) has promised to offer a different perspective than those of Western media and has stuck to its word. Its graphic photos of dead U.S. soldiers, pointed headlines and opinionated articles -- many of them without reporters' bylines -- will provide plenty of fodder for critics of the Middle Eastern news organization. The content is produced separately from its Arabic-language counterpart. The al-Jazeera Arabic satellite channel, which drew criticism for airing Osama bin Laden's unedited comments after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijack attacks in the U.S., attracted further rebukes Sunday by broadcasting Iraqi television footage showing five U.S. prisoners of war. Articles on the English-language site's first day were sure to antagonize American readers. One feature looked at the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington. Another, headlined Coalition of the Willing Has Become a Joke, made light of the obscure countries in the U.S.-led coalition. Another, titled Misinformation Basra, cast doubt on American military assertions about its military success in the southern Iraqi city. Yet the site also showed its potential as an information resource. An eyewitness account from a correspondent in Baghdad described damage from U.S. bombing to civilian areas and a historic palace. Like many other articles, the item gave no information about its writer and was simply attributed to al-Jazeera. Managing Editor Joanne Tucker, a former BBC journalist who holds dual U.S.-British citizenship and speaks Arabic, has promised Western-style standards of journalism. She said she stands by all the articles but conceded that the site has to do more to clarify what is news and what is opinion. Al-Jazeera has correspondents in nearly all of Iraq's major battle zones, including Basra, Mosul and Baghdad, Ms. Tucker said. She said readers can expect bylined pieces, more breaking news and eyewitness reporting as the site develops. Right now, we just wanted to get the site live, she said. The site had a bare-bones appearance on its first day and was limited to coverage of the Iraqi conflict. In time, it plans to offer broader coverage of Mideast events. Traffic to al-Jazeera was light, Ms. Tucker said. I don't think anybody really knows about it. Write to Josef Federman at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CIA worried about Blogs.Planning Operation 'Liberate Internet'.
Web Logs Tell War Stories, Unfiltered and in Real Time By MATTHEW ROSE and CHRISTOPHER COOPER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The day allied forces began their invasion of Iraq, a Navy lieutenant based in the Gulf posted some news on his personal Web site: Saddam fired a couple of those Scuds that he doesn't have at me. On another personal Web site someone claiming to be a Baghdad resident wrote that there are more Ba'ath people in the streets and they have more weapons. Kevin Mickey, a Navy lieutenant commander at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, noted on his site that we had a minor dust storm yesterday and said the camp's missile alarms were going off repeatedly. On top of the 500 reporters traveling with the military and the three cable-TV news channels beaming 24-hour coverage there's a new element in this war: unfiltered eyewitness accounts online. Soldiers and citizens in the war zone are publishing in real time on their own Web sites. Families are posting on the Web the e-mails sent home by relatives in the service. And free-lance reporters -- not subject to restrictions by the Pentagon or large media outlets -- are writing online for a new world-wide audience. In all, the glut of information from the Gulf -- from the important to the trivial -- is creating a dizzying panoply of detail, as well as half-truths. For example, the Iraqis have fired missiles at U.S. forces but not Scuds. Not only reporters, but people on the battle front can communicate with the world, says Jeff Jarvis, the president of Advance Publications Inc.'s Internet operations. He is compiling a list of links to traditional and alternative news sources from the Gulf. Now I feel I am getting it faster, even faster than TV because it's coming through multiple channels, he says. The information barrage is being driven by Web logs, commonly known as blogs, the term for constantly updated personal Web sites that are much like online journals. An inexpensive and relatively simple form of technology, they have been a growing phenomenon in the U.S. for several years, and first cropped up in the military during the battle in Afghanistan. However, because many of their authors are anonymous, it's difficult to verify the information they supply. Among the most popular blogs from the front, L.T. Smash takes its name from a character who is both a Navy lieutenant and record producer on the TV show The Simpsons. On Friday, the author wrote of eight or nine missile alerts and the next day reported hearing distant jet engines, high up in the night sky. The site is full of details about life in camp, including a clash with an officer called The Dragon Lady, but there's little way of knowing if the author really is in the Gulf or is really in the Navy. He didn't respond to e-mails. Lt. Cmdr. Mickey says he has helped with some of the technical aspects of L.T. Smash's site and that L.T. is a real lieutenant. In a question-and-answer section on the site, L.T. Smash says, This is an anonymous journal. I'm being intentionally vague about who I am and what I'm doing. Such uncertainty apparently hasn't bothered the site's fans. The site is so popular it recently announced it was moved to new computer servers to accommodate the traffic. Lt. Cmdr. Mickey, a 39-year-old reservist, says in an e-mail that he runs his own Web log, The Primary Main Objective, on his camp's computer network. On it he has posted pictures, news of missile alerts and a recent trip in the Iraqi desert. Certain parts of the camp are off-limits for photography and Lt. Cmdr. Mickey says he doesn't write about where we are [exactly], details about what's going on. His immediate boss knows about the blog but hasn't seen it, he says. He trusts me not to do anything stupid, Lt. Cmdr. Mickey says. It's not hard to run this kind of Web site from the front. The armed services don't have centralized rules governing troops' Internet use, beyond restricting such obvious things as pornography and disclosure of military operational details. Each branch of the military has its own set of general guidelines, but typically delegates decisions about e-mail and Internet access to commanders in the field. There, soldiers can use the military's nonofficial network, the Nonsecure Internet Protocol Network, or Nippernet. Enlisted troops often have access to makeshift Internet cafés in the larger camps. Maj. C.J. Wallington, team leader for the Army's secure intranet system, Army Knowledge Online, says because of the volume, the Army can't spend a lot of time checking soldiers' e-mail. We put a lot of faith in soldiers to do the right thing, and apply the same discretion to their Internet communications that they'd use in personal conversations, he says. The Army is considering incorporating blogging into its secure network where troops communicate with each other and their families. If such a system were put into place, the general public would no longer have access to such blogs. One needn't run a Web
CIA watching Pacifica...planning Operation 'Liberate Radiowaves.'
Additional items for March 24, 2003 War journalists say TV's Iraq coverage is overly patriotic (Newsday) Pacifica Radio Network says its mission is peace, social justice (WSJ) War journalists looked ready to 'lets roll' some grenades into Centcom the other day. Some uppity frog even worked it into a (lame) question.It took THREE DAYs to get the 'set' firing.Things seem more relaxed today/tonite? without Tommy Frankenstein around and there was almost a laugh today when a bombastic Oz reporter asked how well the ARSE-IES (seppo pron.) were doing,(at drinking beer!?) Hardie Ha Ha. Where's Hunter S.Thomson when we really need him?
Another Empire Down?
Thousands stage Afghanistan's first demo against Iraq war uploaded 24 Mar 2003 Thousands of protestors Sunday took to the streets of eastern Afghanistan chanting slogans and demanding a halt to attacks on Iraq in the country's first-ever anti-US protests, officials said. More than 10,000 people swarmed through Laghman provincial capital Mehtarlam shouting Allah-o-Akbar (God is great), torching the flags of the United States, Britain and other coalition members, said General Asmatullah, Laghman divisional commander. Asmatullah, who like many Afghans has just one name, said the event began as a student protest at 9:30 am (0500 GMT) Sunday, but swelled into a massive demonstration as ordinary people and tribal elders joined in. They called for a ceasefire in Iraq, they burned the flags of the United States, Australia, Britain and Japan in the city. According to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press agency, many of the protesters were chanting death to America, death to Britain. The commander said the protest ended peacefully after only three hours, but more were expected in coming days. Sunday's demonstrations were Afghanistan's first public manifestations of disquiet over the US-led attacks on Iraq following Kabul's announcement last week that it backed military intervention. However, dissent has already begun to show in the government's ranks with at least one powerful regional leader voicing opposition. Ismail Khan, the governor of western Herat province, spoke out against foreign radio coverage of the conflict during speeches at Friday prayers. Khan, a leader in the US-led coalition that ousted the hardline Taliban regime in December 2001, also warned America it was making similar mistakes to the Soviets during their disastrous 1980s occupation of Afghanistan. If these radio stations are broadcasting the truth, why don't they say anything about the cruel operations of the United States, he said. The Afghan government last week came out firmly behind Washington's action on Iraq after days of deliberation during which it carefully weighed up support for its key ally with the risk of provoking an Islamic backlash. In an official statement released Friday the government called for a quick end to the conflict and urged Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to stand down. It is in the interest of the Iraqi people for Saddam Hussein to leave power. The interests of the people of Iraq are higher than the interests of Saddam and Hussein and his family, the statement said. The people of Afghanistan in two decades faced a lot of difficulties and problems because of despotic regimes. In the 24 hours after the US-led coalition troops began bombarding Baghdad, the American military presence in Afghanistan came under attack from 15 rockets fired by suspected extremists -- the largest assault in months. The US military, which launched a major offensive in southern Afghanistan coinciding with the start of the Iraq campaign, says it has no evidence that the attacks were linked to Iraq. Source: ProLog http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=6584TagID=2
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Boycotting the Unwilling
Wired News has an article on a US company refusing to honor winning eBay bids from Canadians because Canada doesn't support Shrub's war for Oil, Regional Hegemony, and a Greater Israel. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Seems like a bit of a double standard to me. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,58190,00.html - VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- On eBay, the highest bid wins -- unless the item on sale is a laser printer from CompAtlanta and the bidder happens to be Canadian. That's what a tax consultant discovered last week when he tried to buy a printer over eBay, but was refused by the vendor when it was iscovered he lived in Vancouver. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
Forget Saddam...IS LARRY ELLISON DEAD?
PC Forum, Day Two Back at PC Forum, where we got to dinner early last night because Larry Ellison was a no-show. I ran a straw poll, asking people if his reported excuse -- The plane wouldn't start -- seemed credible. Not credible was the nearly universal response. Seems to me that Ellison may have combined two cliches I didn't imagine possible to combine: The dog ate my homework and Let them eat cake -- any others you can think of? http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/ Um...there is an open source contract out on him? (my2$) Adam Osbourne is certainly deceased... Adam Osborne, RIP? Sad news if true: Adam Osborne, one of the personal computer industry's most important pioneers, seems to have died, according to this posting on Dave Farber's list. I'd owned other personal computers before buying the Osborne 1 in 1981; the minute I saw it I knew that my life was going to be improved. The machine was the first true transportable computer. It came bundled with enough software to make me immediately productive, and I used it to file freelance stories to the New York Times and Boston Globe. Adam Osborne, also an early publisher of computer books, was a leader in ways that changed an industry -- and many lives. (pic.) posted by Dan Gillmor 04:21 PM permanent link to this item
Re: US vs God?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:04:00AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Humm...I wonder if this book is encrypted? Duh! You've never heard of the Bible codes? Certainly the Old Testament is encrypted. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com We are now in America's Darkest Hour. http://www.oshkoshbygosh.org hoka hey!
Big Brother Inside.
2003 Big Brother Awards: The Winners By Drew Cullen Posted: 25/03/2003 at 08:49 GMT Privacy International today announced the winners of the 2003 Big Brother Awards. One of the judges, estimable Dr Ian Brown of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), writes: It was alternatively amusing and depressing to be one of the judges for these awards. RIP and data retention played a large part in our deliberations... Here is Privacy International/FIPR's press release in full. The judges of the 5th annual UK Big Brother Awards have today (Tuesday 25th March) announced this year's shameless winners. The awards are presented each year by Privacy International to the most persistent and egregious privacy invaders in Britain. From their inception in London in 1998 they are now an annual event in fifteen countries. The gold awards - in the shape of a boot stamping on a human head - will be presented in five categories. MOST INVASIVE COMPANY: CAPITA This category was a contest between Capita (the company behind many of the government's most controversial surveillance and data management schemes), Argos, which (among other transgressions) has participated in a customer thumb-printing scheme, and the credit reference giant Experian, which won the company category award in 1999. Capita won because of its long standing involvement in a vast range of government projects. MOST HEINOUS GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION - ASSOCIATION OF CHIEF POLICE OFFICERS (ACPO) This was a fiercely fought contest between our old favourite the Home Office, and two newcomers: the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). ACPO won because it has recently gone beyond merely being a patsy for bad government policy, and has taken a more active role in developing and promoting invasive schemes. WORST PUBLIC SERVANT - KEN LIVINGSTONE David Blunkett was consistently nominated for this category, but his transgressions against personal privacy have been so grave that the judges also unanimously promoted him to the Lifetime Menace (see below). He competed with Ken Livingston (nominated because of his obsession with travel and transport surveillance), and the government's secretive Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Swinton Thomas. MOST APPALLING PROJECT - PIU DATA SHARING REPORT The government's discredited Entitlement Card proposal went head-to-head with the Data Sharing scheme shepherded by the government's Performance Innovation Unit. The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win. The other short-listed nomination was Electronic Voting. LIFETIME MENACE AWARD - TONY BLAIR This was a fiercely contested category, but Tony Blair was always slightly ahead of the field because of his active involvement in the government's attack on civil liberties. David Blunkett was close on his heels. Capita becomes the second company ever to make it to the Lifetime Menace category. NEW AWARD: DOG POO ON A STICK Each year the judges consider a nomination that is so odious and contemptible that they are reluctant to agree to spending scarce money on an expensive gold award for the villain. These occasions deserve an appropriate award, and so this year we give the first Dog Poo On A Stick prize. It goes to David Blunkett. Privacy International's Director, Simon Davies, said the award winners reflected the prolonged and vicious attack on the right to privacy. He said privacy invasion in Britain has become a vast industry that threatens the rights of everyone in Britain. The judges were overwhelmed this year with a vast number of malodorous nominations. Many politicians and companies have since the September 11th attacks jumped onto the security bandwagon without any justification. He added The UK Government is attempting to systematically extinguish the right to privacy. Their plans should be resisted by everyone who cares about freedom. Privacy International also gave a Dishonourable Mention to the Office of the Information Commissioner, and accused the office of complacency and dereliction of duty. Because of its consistent failure to adequately promote and protect the principles of privacy the Office is rapidly becoming part of the problem said Mr Davies. THE WINSTON WINNERS On a more upbeat and encouraging note, the judges each year give a number of Winston Awards to individuals and organisations who have made an outstanding contribution to the protection of rights and privacy. This year those winners are: Posthumously, to the greatly respected Dr Roger Needham Teri Dowty, Joint national coordinator, Childrens Rights Alliance for England and Wales Marion Chester, Legal Director, Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales STAND Richard Norton-Taylor and Stuart Millar of the Guardian Undercurrents Privacy International offers its best wishes and gratitude to these champions of privacy. Their contribution has made a
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http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/25/8940162 U.S. Army officials have been quick to spin the puzzling, horrifying attack on his own superiors allegedly perpetrated by Muslim soldier Sgt. Asam Akbar, described as a disgruntled platoon leader with an attitude. The assault by fragmentation grenades and automatic rifle fire left 12 soldiers wounded and one dead at Camp Pennsylvania, a 101st Airborne base camp at Kuwait City, Kuwait on the Iraqi border. The next day George Heath, a civilian spokesman for the 101st, spoke from the unit's Fort Campbell, Kentucky headquarters, Incidents of this nature are abnormalities throughout the Army, specifically the 101st. I'll leave it for someone else to figure out how accurate Heath's statement is regarding today's Army. However, I can tell you that not that long ago attacks, very similar to the one at Camp Pennsylvania, on U.S. Army officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) by their own men were common even in the 101st Airborne. I haven't been reading about or listening to or watching much of the Warnography being transmitted by America's mainstream media lately, but after Camp Pennsylvania, I ratcheted up my news consumption because it rekindled memories that are not that distant. But as I listened and read and watched quite a bit more intently these past couple of days, no writer, no newscaster, no politician, pundit, or cabinet member, no so-called analyst once wrote or uttered the magic word that is, in my opinion, a key to the Akbar Case: Fragging. When an American soldier killed or attempted to kill one of his superiors in Vietnam the act was called fragging because the weapon of choice, as is the case in Kuwait City, was a fragmentation grenade. As the Vietnam conflict dragged on the Army rank and file, including many draftees, resorted to a variety of methods to endeavor to kill their superiors, so fragging became a comprehensive term that indicated any attempt on the life of an officer or non-commissioned officer (NCO) by one or more of their subordinates. These attempts, as you shall see, were often successful. Despite strident denials of its existence that continue to this day, fragging is a significant part of America's involvement in the Vietnam war, espeically the latter years of that involvement. According to 27-year army vet and former Vietnam combat commander Lt. Col. Robert Heinl Jr. writing in 1971 in ARMED FORCES JOURNAL, With extreme reluctance (after a young West Pointer from . . .Montana was fragged in his sleep) the Pentagon has now disclosed that fraggings in 1970 have more than doubled (to 109) from the previous year. Texas AM historian Terry Anderson adds, During the years of '69 down to '73 we have incidents of fragging--that is shooting or hand grenading your NCO or officer who orders you out into the field. The U.S. Army itself does not know exactly how many . . .officers were murdered, but they know of at least 600 cases, and they have another 1400 who died mysteriously. According to Anderson, in the latter stages of America's stay in Vietnam, the Army was not at war with a Vietnamese enemy but with itself. Perhaps the most infamous fragging incident in Vietnam actually involved the 101st Airborne when that unit's Lt. Col. Wendell Honeycutt ordered and led a fruitless, costly charge on Hamburger Hill, high ground with no strategic value. The U.S. took horrible casualties but won the hill, only to abandon it a short time later. Hamburger Hill is often viewed as a key event in bringing home the idea for officer and enlisted man, for Green Beret and peace protestor, for young and old all across America, that the country's involvement in Vietnam was futile and pointless. In the aftermath of Hamburger Hill, G.I. SAYS, one of many underground papers published by enlisted men in Vietnam at the time, offered a $10,000 bounty for the killing of Lt. Col. Honeycutt who, despite the heavy losses incurred by the 101st, bragged that he had been successful in his mission which was to kill the enemy and destroy his equipment. The colonel, despite several attempts on his life, probably mostly done by his own men, completed his Nam tour and returned home safely. Bounties on the heads of reckless, clueless field commanders who thought nothing of putting their troops in harm's way then became commonplace in Vietnam, but with much lower price tags, usually in the $50 to $1000 range. Hamburger Hill was not the only mutinous incident involving the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. A couple of years after the bloody battle for the worthless hill, 13 black soldiers with the 101st became known as the Phu Bai 13 after they refused combat orders, forcefully took over a barracks and issued a list of demands, some of which were met by the brass. Congressional hearings held in 1973 estimated that less than 3% of all NCO and officer deaths in Vietnam between '61 and '72 were the
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Re: [IP] Risks of Iraqi war emerging Some officials warn of a mismatch between strategy and force size. (fwd)
(snip) If these guys fight and fight hard for Baghdad, with embedded Baathists stiffening their resistance at the point of a gun, then we are up the creek, said one retired general. Exactly. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com We are now in America's Darkest Hour. http://www.oshkoshbygosh.org hoka hey!
Kursking the Weather.
Christopher Bellamy: How the resistance movement caught Allies in a trap 25 March 2003 As the Battle for Baghdad gets under way, the Iraqi defensive strategy is looking increasingly sound. In his speech yesterday, Saddam Hussein said the invaders were trapped by heroic Iraqi resistance. In a way, he may just be right. The pace of the US 3rd Mechanised Infantry Division's race up the Euphrates and towards Baghdad has been almost unprecedented in the history of war. But as this mighty armoured force heads for the capital, its main supply route looks increasingly vulnerable. The Iraqis have let the Americans, and, to a lesser extent, the British, roll over them and then appeared behind the invaders in small groups to harry them from the rear. The US and British formations pressing towards Baghdad and held on the Euphrates and Tigris have had to reconsolidate, and go into all-round defensive positions to guard against opposition coalescing behind them. In that sense they are, as President Saddam put it, trapped. The left flank of the Allied thrust has gone extremely fast; the right, far more slowly. The Iraqis have therefore achieved exactly what they need: they have identified the main enemy thrust. The Iraqi generals, including quite a few trained at Sandhurst, know what to do next. Counter-attack the isolated spearhead with a massive armoured reserve. Of the Republican Guard Force's six divisions the only Iraqi divisions to be at full strength three are in the area around Baghdad. A full-scale armoured battle is probably what the US planners want, because they would win it. The Iraqi generals know full well what happens when T-72s and BMPs come up against M1 Abrams and Bradleys, Apaches and A-10 Thunderbolts. That is why, so far, the Iraqi strategy of avoiding large-scale battle has been so successful. But the appearance of the Americans, tired and at the end of their supply lines, outside Baghdad might be too great a temptation. The resulting contest could be symbolic, with shades of the Battle of Kursk in 1943. The Allied attack, indeed, has much in common strategically with the German assault on Soviet Russia in 1941 and, from an operational viewpoint, with the invasion of France in 1940. In the former, the Germans, neglecting their flanks, tore across Belgium and northern France to the sea in a few days. Guderian's crossing of the Meuse at Sedan is considered to be the master-stroke which made this possible, and it is no coincidence that, before the present war broke out, US armoured divisions were instructed to study it. By a strange coincidence, the crossing over the Euphrates at Nasiriyah is much the same distance from Baghdad as Sedan is from Paris. In 1940, the British and French attempted to cut the advancing German spearhead off with a counter-attack from north and south. In fact, only the British attack, at Arras, had any chance of success. It failed, partly because they lacked air support, but gave the Germans, including Rommel, a real shock. The US commanders are no doubt confident that their overwhelming air superiority and the complete transparency of the battlespace will mean they can identify and destroy any Iraqi counter-attacks. The comparisons with 1940 are ultimately comforting to the American and British forces. Those with 1941 are less so. As they fanned out into the vast spaces of the western Soviet Union, the Germans encircled vast numbers of Soviet troops. But many of the troops were able to work their way out, and others, left behind by the swift German advance, joined local people to form partisan units. That is exactly what seems to be happening in southern Iraq at the moment. The Allied commanders must be worried at this continued resistance around and behind their advanced forces. They could deal with it, if they were more brutal in their use of the available weaponry or if they had more troops. If such resistance continues it will be necessary to deploy more troops, either regulars or reservists, or to use Iraqi units which have come over to the Allies for rear-area security. At the moment, the latter looks a very risky option. The forward formation the 3rd Infantry Division also faces problems. The troops are all very tired. It seems inconceivable that they will be committed to assaulting Baghdad itself. Baghdad is a city with a million more people than Rome. The idea of Allied troops getting involved in street fighting is terrible to contemplate. It is most likely that, having reached the edge of Baghdad, it will have to halt for resupply and for other formations to catch up. This may be the significance of the capture of the H2 and H3 airfields west of Baghdad, which could be used as jumping-off points for airborne and air-landed forces. Sunday night saw the heaviest bombing of Baghdad so far, although the media concentrated, understandably, on the capture of US troops. Reporters in the city told of
Battle of Richmond.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/25/8944804 ...the 4,000-strong march proceeded back down Monument Ave to Monroe Park, chanting Good for the rich, bad for the poor, we don't want your racist war and more. The mood was festive and defiant, with many in the crowd vowing to each other to begin organizing an even bigger march and more disruptive actions in the future. Drums were beating, Christians and Jews were marching in solidarity with Muslims, anarchists and communists chanted with union members, homeless folks and soccer moms; this is a *huge* success, beamed longtime Catholic Worker Sue Frankle-Strait. As many of the marchers filtered back into Monroe Park for a candlelit vigil led by the Women In Black, a large chunk of the crowd refused to leave the streets. As the legal protest permit expired 700 were still milling about in confusion on Franklin Street, when individuals began shouting disruption stops wars! and stay in the streets! The shouts and chants rose to a fevered pitch, and suddenly the crowd surged and began running towards downtown.MORE ON... http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/25/8944804
Sometime's a Great Notion.
If they call you a traitor, tell them, 'Yes, I am a traitor, a traitor against King George II. THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) - It's something not often seen in The Dalles: a line of protesters, mostly middle-age or beyond, marching behind an inverted flag, a harmonica and some drums, intent on closing down the armed forces recruiting station. The tune hinted at ``Yankee Doodle,'' but not too hard. ``We don't see it here,'' said a bystander who gave his name only as Jim. ``We have a parade sometimes, a rodeo or something...'' But when the marchers got to the recruiting station in a shopping center next to a K-Mart, it was closed, apparently because of advance notice. The Army Oregon National Guard recruiter at the armory also had closed up shop. ``They told us to make ourselves invisible,'' said Sgt. 1st Class William Smith. The 35 or so marchers carried signs demanding American troops be brought home from Iraq. Their ranks included many veterans. There was Don Shaw, 85, of Hood River, who flew 35 B-17 combat missions over Europe in World War II and sports what may be the most magnificent set of white whiskers in the Columbia River Gorge. ``I'm here to do civil disobedience in the tradition of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau,'' he said. ``This war doesn't make sense. It never did make sense.'' There was David Duncombe, 75, of White Salmon, Wash., who served in World War II and was called back for Korea. ``I feel these young men and women have not been given the full story,'' he said. ``In Korea, they told us we were up against some tin-horn dictator who would run when we came after them, and that we would be home by Christmas. ``They were right about one thing, we were home by Christmas. In body bags. We lost 90 percent of our unit in two weeks. I can't forget that.'' He said he figures he has nearly 100 arrests under his belt from decades of demonstrating, and counseled marchers on nonviolence. ``If they call you a traitor, tell them, 'Yes, I am a traitor, a traitor against King George II,''' he said, referring to President Bush. But as Duncombe and his fellow marchers blocked the locked doors at the center, a crowd of residents from this blue-collar town of about 11,500 gathered to protest the protest. ``Remember 9-11,'' shouted Annette Rysham. ``They can protest but they're not bringing home the troops no matter how long they stay here,'' she said. ``They should support the troops until they come home.'' She said she lives in The Dalles ``and I'm a 100 percent American citizen.'' ``This is a joke,'' said Jeannie Barker, whose son's Boy Scout troop works with the recruiters. ``They should support our troops. I don't want to live in a country like that (Iraq). I enjoy my freedom.'' A few police stood by, with more waiting in reserve. ``Since the recruiters went home and locked their doors, they aren't interfering with that business,'' and were not breaking the law, said The Dalles Police Capt. E. L. Goodman. Mark Nykanen, 51, of Hood River, who helped organize the march by the Columbia River Fellowship for Peace, said the station was targeted because it was the only one in the Columbia Gorge and should not operate as if it were business as usual. ``It's not business as usual when one country makes the decision to invade another,'' he said. ``We're not going to be good Germans and sit back and watch it happen...I mean Germans in the circa 1939 sense.'' Nykanen declared the effort a victory, since it closed the recruiting station. He said some of them might try again on another day. http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/24/4614400
Battle of Madrid.
The injuries against demonstrators were caused by rubber pellets and police bludgeons. Smoke bombs were used to create insecurity amongst the demonstrators and to prepare for police attacks. Police violence of this type has not been seen for decades in popular demonstrations in Madrid. It should be mentioned that the demonstrators started many spontaneous marches, which escaped the hand of the police and of the institutional political parties and trade unions. The six inner lanes of the Castellana, the main boulevard in the capital, were occupied by demonstrators for the first time ever spontaneously and without an official permit. SOME SLOGANS CHANTED IN MADRID OVER THE WEEKEND *This is what we get for having a fascist government. [Which some changed to this is what we get for having a government] *People, resign! The government doesn't accept you! *No, no, they [the government] don't represent us! No, no! [According to polls, only 4% of the Spanish population supported a unilateral attack against Iraq without UN security council approval] *Hey, hey, they call it 'democracy' but it isn't. *Freedom, freedom! *Illegalise the PP [conservative party in government] *Resign, resign! [referring to government] *No war, no war! *Assassins, assassins! Meanwhile, President Aznar, the visible face of the Spanish government was severely criticised: *Aznar's arse, a military target. *Hey, hey, Aznar is a vampire, he wants to suck our blood, ok, ok, ok, let him suck it, let him suck it. [untranslatable play on words] *Aznar, don't you realise, Bush is a married man? *The new Monica Lewinsky has got a moustache. *Aznar, send one of your sons. *The Five of cups is for Aznar [referring to a recent serial killer who leaves Spanish playing cards next to his victim, the next one will be the five of cups] And a new slogan was: *Police, join us! [Which some changed, using the same rhyme, to Police, die] Around three million people demonstrated in different cities in Spain on 22 March against the war in Iraq. There is a lot of anger and frustration. The flags of anarchosyndicalists, of anarchists, and homemade signs were prominent. http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/25/2814134
Battle of Montreal.
Montreal - Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets of Montreal in Opposition to the War on Iraq - Montreal Riot Police Brutalize Protestors Outside of American Consulate Montreal, Saturday March 22, 2003 More than 250 000 people gathered today in Montreal along with hundreds of thousands throughout the world to march in opposition to the US / British lead strikes on Iraq. The streets of downtown Montreal were filled with thousands who represent the growing anti-war movement around the world which stands in solidarity with Iraq and it's people who continue to be assaulted by massive pre-emptive military strikes. As the Montreal demonstration arrived in the thousands at the American Consulate, a main target for those in the streets, protestors shouted slogans like Bush, Blair Terrorist! and The People United Will Never by Defeated!. George Bush, Tony Blair and those governments such as Canada's, who stand in complicity with this war, were clearly seen by the thousands on the streets of Montreal today as International Terrorists for their military actions against Iraq and it's people. After the demonstration gathered for some time at the American Consulate, the Montreal riot police arrived in full force, while protestors continued to chant anti-war slogans, burn American British flags in opposition to the war. The flags of Palestine Iraq where held high and cheered by the crowds as people chanted slogans in support of the growing global revolt against the American war machine. As protestors confronted the American Consulate, the Montreal riot police began using pepper spray, clubs and shields to keep demonstrators from crossing over the barricades to confront the American Consulate directly. For sometime the riot squad continued to assault anti-war / anti-American demonstrators while protecting the American Consulate a clear symbol of the American Empire in Montreal. Around 3pm the riot police began a massive assault on demonstrators with peeper spray and beatings on those confronting the war. Protestors were eventually pushed back in the hundreds from the Consulate by riot police on to Rene Levesque street. Hundreds of demonstrators then began a spontaneous sit-down on the street and refused to move, at this point the first round of arrests took place on Rene Levesque. As the riot police continued their assault on Anti-war demonstrators, people began fighting back against the police repression in outrage. After the assault on protestors voicing their rejection to the war on Iraq continued those in the streets began to show serious bruises and bloody faces from the hits of the batons of the Montreal riot police. The cops at this point where also covered in mud from the gardens surrounding the American Consulate. Police continued to brutalize protestors and more arrests began to take place. Leila Mouammar a Palestinian activist in Montreal, was attacked by riot police and swiftly dragged off and arrested. Many other arrests went down and tonight in Montreal people are gathering at Police Station 20 where those arrested are currently being held, to show solidarity with those taken down on the streets of Montreal today. The demonstrations in Montreal today reflect a growing outrage with the American British lead war on Iraq and an escalation of street tactics, which directly confront symbols in our cities of the American Empire. As bombs continue to fall on Iraq and it's people, the streets of Montreal and many other cities throughout the world continue to be filled with those voicing their outrage toward this illegal attack on Iraq and it's civilian population. Reported by Stefan Christoff in Montreal - Stefan is an organizer with No One is Illegal in Montreal and can be reached at christoff @ tao.ca
Battle of Goteburg.
We've had a busy weekend here in Göteborg. On Saturday there was a large permited march against the war that drew over 40,000 people. There was a large anarchist bloc, which was a mixture of SAC militants and autonomous groups and individuals. This bloc had a music van which energized everyone. We marched from one square, Gustav Adolfs Torg, up Avenyn (where the riots were during the EU summit) to Götaplatsen. When the anarchist bloc reached Götaplatsen the music van was rolled away (which had been given to the bloc by the sanctioned march organizers and couldn't be part of an illegal march) and people began to put on masks and regroup. This obviously concerned the police a lot and maybe even more the peace police both of which tried to discourage us from leaving the square while at the same time trying to find out where we were going. As soon as we had the numbers and our drum group started up we began moving, the whole time follower by police and demo guards. It should be noted that although breakaway marchs are business as usual for anarchists in the states it is a new tactic in Sweden that we are just trying out. For this reason there was an amount of anxiety about the march which might have prevented a more pro-active sentiment. We had a succesful snake march through the financial district though. Lots of chanting and druming, along with handing out flyers. The frontline was a group of women carrying a banner that said in english 'Capitalism Is Endless War'. The only real confrontation of the day was when we went down a small side street with several porn shops which people targeted with spraypaint and rotten fruit. A squad of riot police was deployed but with quick thinking we turned around and ended the demo in a nearby square (Jarntorget) where people de-bloced and listened to a speach linking capitalism to the current war on Iraq. After the march people went to a nearby theatre where a conference called 'creative resistance' was continuing from the night before. This was a gathering that functioned as a forum for dialogue, presentaions and brainstorming. It was a very positive atmosphere with people who had never talked before interacting and getting to know each other. Towards the end of the evening people split in to groups to plan for actions on Sunday. The next day a group began at noon by creating different spectacles in Nordstan, the main shopping mall in the center of town. People played frisbee in stores, would line up and gawk at consumers through windows, etc. This action was succesful although people were kicked out of stores several times. I see this as a yippee type action that was mostly fun and surreal. Food Not Bombs also had there Sunday serving where several dozen people gathered. There was a heavy police presence in the city center, so we had to be creative. One group went to Stena Lines, a passenger boating company who has been renting out ships for the transport of military goods for the Britain, and did a die in. To create a distraction for the police so that this action could occur, other groups put on masks and ran through shops in the city center, doing basically nothing but looking as suspicious as possible. Of course we easily got police attention to the extent that a couple comrades were driven of in a police van only to be dropped off several blocks away! The Stena Line die in went off without a hitch and after a while the group decided to go to Nordstan (shopping mall) to do the same. Here though 13 people were arrested and held for several hours. I do not have any information on whether or not people are facing charges. The day ended with the 'people's kitchen' where there was a prenentaion of Anti-Facist Action over the past ten years. Afterwords there was a discussion of the weekends actions and how to continue the momentum. It was decided that people could meet regularly at a certain cafe to discuss and plan further. There is also a more formal group/network that is organizing more anti-capitalist actions against the war. We can be contacted at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] None of these autonomous actions have been published by the mainstream press here, and even Saturdays large permitted march received scant coverage relative to the coverage of our march on Feb. 15, which was smaller than this weekends. It seems the capitalist press instead of demonizing the anti war movement is trying to make it not exist. For photos check out: http://sweden.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=39368group=webcast http://sweden.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=39574group=webcast Although the resistance against the war on Iraq is currently very widespread and seemingly growing there seems a lack of information about what people are doing. The hope is that people are just too busy organizing and acting to be able to write about their actions. We hope to recieve more updates from around the world as the struggle continues. In solidarity with the people of Iraq, the resistance
Chicago Battle Fierce.
On the evening of March 20 at 5:00pm some 15,000 people took to the streets of Chicago to protest against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The diverse crowd outmaneuvered the police by taking two seperate routes out of Federal Plaza and converge on Lake Shore Drive (a six lane highway that runs North to South on along the shore of Lake Michigan) halting traffic on both northbound and southbound lanes. Hundreds of stalled motorists honked their horns and waved the peace sign to show support. Some even got out of their vehicles and sat on the hoods of their cars to join the festivities. The marchers surged north on LSD for about a mile and were finally corraled by the cops when they got off the Drive. After a stand-off of about 45 minutes the crowd turned around and marched back down LSD, which was now completely closed off by police. When the crowd turned onto Chicago Avenue and headed for Michigan Avenue (the main shopping district) with the intention of marching back to Federal Plaza the cops again barrricaded the streets and surrounded the demonstrators. Then the police begain to arrest people, targeting tactical leadership (ie, people with cell phones and megafones, etc) and people who looked like anarchists. In all some 800 people were hauled off to the hoosegow, some being detained for more that 23 hours before being released. The police finally allowed people to leave the streets three at a time. As it turned out, some 800 people managed to regroup and continued to march. Police learned their lessons on Thursday so Friday's demo was very different. A smaller crowd of about 5,000 met again at Federal Plaze and were completely surrounded by cops in riot gear. These riot cops accomplanied the march through downtown like a moving human protest pit and once you were in the march you couldn't get out unless you walked all the way to the very back of the line of march. You also could not get in. On Thursday's march many people joined the parade as it moved along. As a result of the police show of force the march was less spirited than the previous night. Saturday's event was even smaller and more humiliating. Again protesters rallied at Federal Plaze. This time they found themselve completely penned in by police barricades into a small corner of the Plazw, while a pro-war rally was granted the bigger share of the space. The pro-war and anti-war rallies had approximately the same number of people (about 1500 a-piece) but the police initmidation was obviously aimed at the anti-war crowd. Once the pro-war rally was over the police let the anti-war crowd out of their pen and allowed us to march around the Federal building only, with police in riot-gear once again completely surrounding us and remnants of the pro-war cowd heckling us. It is clear that police intimidation is having its effect, reducing the size of the anti-war demos from 15,000 to 1,500. The Chicago anti-war movement needs to re-group and develop new tactics to counter this police repression.
Battle of Vancouver.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Vancouver against the war on Iraq Saturday afternoon, March 22, 2003. Along the way demonstrators closed the doors of businesses on Robson Street, chanting When people are dying, how can you be buying? A group of demonstrators spray-painted the wall of a building, the street and the U.S. consulate building itself with Class War and Stop the war slogans. A CityTV corporate news van and a wall of the Art Gallery were spray-painted with the anarchist circle A. Demonstrators encircled the U.S. consulate and a group of students sat in the street and blocked a road near the building for a short time. The night before, on Friday, March 22, at 5pm about 200 people marched through the streets of Vancouver against the war on Iraq. A person in a red sports car drove right into the demonstration, speeding up, hitting demonstrators and nearly killing several of them. Luckily there were only minor injuries. Many people from the march chased after the car but could not catch up. Reportedly someone got the license plate of the vehicle. When one person who was hit by the car explained the event to a police officer the cop responded by saying I dont care. The shocked but defiant group marched on to the Burrard Street Bridge, stopped in the middle and blocked it off for a short time, yelling US out! The demonstrators then marched down to the US consulate and joined the anti-war camp there. On Thursday, March 20, hundreds of students walked out of classes, marched around their campuses and then boarded busses to head downtown to the US consulate. Throughout the day groups of students marched around the city, sat and blocked streets and at one point sat down in front of a Canadian Armed Forces Recruitment Centre. Two fights broke out during the day outside the US consulate over American flags. In the morning a man drove by in a car waving an American flag and a demonstrator grabbed it and threw it on the ground. The man got out of his car and a scuffle broke out as cops intervened and demonstrators tugged on the flag. Eventually the flag was grabbed and taken away. Later on, as demonstrators attempted to burn US and UK flags, peace activists violently assaulted the demonstrators, pushing and pulling, and grabbing the flags. At an anti-war rally later that night demonstrators managed to climb on a platform and burn the US and UK flags to the cheers of the crowd. A picture of George Bush was burned in effigy as the crowd chanted, burn Bush burn! On Wednesday night, hours after the beginning of the US-led war on Iraq, hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery in opposition. The march through the streets of Vancouver that Wednesday night arrived at the US consulate building, and the demonstrators expressed their rage at the latest US imperialist attack. Later that night a rock was thrown which smashed a window at the US consulate building. Link: http://vancouver.indymedia.org
Harsh Reality for Kofi Annan.
UN is being hampered by Annans weak leadership When George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations on Sept. 12, 2002 and threatened the world body with irrelevance if it did not grant him a license to invade Iraq, he achieved the opposite. Rather than becoming irrelevant, the UN proved that it could be the most important venue for resolving international conflicts. Very quickly, and at the direction of the Security Council, Hans Blix assembled an expert team that restarted weapons inspections throughout Iraq. In the opinion of almost the entire world, inspections were making significant progress toward Iraqi disarmament, even if progress on some issues was not as rapid as desired. Nevertheless, the shortcomings of the inspection process were considered infinitely preferable to the shortcomings of the other proposed method, war. In recent months, the UN Security Council took on a prominence unprecedented since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. All of a sudden, the arcane and formal proceedings of the council gathered worldwide television audiences who followed each word and facial expression around the table. If the council could not stop the United States from defying it and attacking Iraq, it at least prevented the US from gaining legitimacy and greater support for an unjust war. The absence of a Security Council endorsement means that the United States and the United Kingdom are effectively alone in their Iraqi adventure. That the United States would name as members of its coalition, such bastions of democracy and human rights as Albania, Uzbekistan and Georgia, and be unable to declare publicly the clandestine assistance of a small number of Arab governments whose identities are well-known, only underscores its isolation. The UN, therefore, proved that if it is not yet so, it can one day become a counterweight to the unilateralism of any single member. What undermines this is the weak and inconsistent leadership of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The statement he issued following the start of the war contains no forthright criticism of an action that seen by most of the world as an unlawful attack, a violation of the UN Charter and defiance of the Security Council. Rather than call for an immediate ceasefire, as he should have forcefully done, Annan, in his March 20 statement, merely said, Today, despite the best efforts of the international community and the United Nations, war has come to Iraq for the third time in a quarter of a century. It is as if war were not the result of human decisions, but rather a bad spell of weather. Underlining this passive approach, in which Annan transformed himself into a mere commentator, he said, My thoughts today are with the Iraqi people, who face yet another ordeal. I hope that all parties will observe the requirements of international humanitarian law, and will do everything in their power to shield the civilian population from the grim consequences of war. The one sure way to do that would be an immediate halt to US bombing which the United States has stated it is doing primarily for political and psychological purposes, rather than to achieve necessary military objectives. With such diplomatic phrasing, Annan avoided stating that, in fact, by attacking Iraq the United States, the most powerful member of the United Nations, had acted against international law and the expressed will of the vast majority of the dozens of member states whose representatives spoke in the extensive Security Council debates on Iraq. Annan went on to add, Perhaps if we had persevered a little longer, Iraq could yet have been disarmed peacefully, or if not the world could have taken action to solve this problem through a collective decision, endowing it with greater legitimacy and therefore commanding wider support than is now the case. Annan had previously stated his view that without explicit Security Council endorsement, the legality of a US attack on Iraq would be seriously impaired. Either the US attack on Iraq is legal or it is not legal. Annan has studiously avoided taking a position, resorting instead to formulas that are utterly devoid of content, but whose principal effect is to spare him Washingtons wrath. Worse still, Annan pleads, But let us not dwell on the divisions of the past. Let us confront the realities of the present, however harsh, and look for ways to forge stronger unity in the future. Does Annan seriously believe that the start of the US attack on Iraq suddenly renders irrelevant the fundamental issues raised by most of the world, and articulated most forcefully by Russia, France and Germany? The question of US unilateralism is not a minor dispute that can simply be swept under the carpet, but one with profound consequences for the future of the globe. Annan may be ready accept the harsh reality of the dangerous and unilateral new US approach to the world, but clearly, courageous US diplomats and British government ministers who resigned on
Iraqi Quicksand.
'We could sink in the swamp of Iraq' Ankara tests Washington's patience Tuesday March 25, 2003 The Guardian Sabah Turkey, editorial, March 22 US-Turkish relations are ... drifting towards very dangerous waters ... The US has revealed that it is fiercely opposed to Turkish soldiers entering northern Iraq ... Iraqi Kurds' threat [to take Kirkuk] ... shows that the aim of sending forces into northern Iraq has gone way beyond [providing] humanitarian aid. In other words, in the same way that the US has sent soldiers to Iraq as a 'pre-emptive war' strategy, Turkey must enter northern Iraq for a 'pre-emptive intervention'. Fikret Bil Millyet, Turkey, March 23 The US is placing its emphasis on negotiations with the groups in northern Iraq and ... has left Turkey's worries in the background. This is why [the Turks] distrust the US so much ... Acceding to all US requests by instantly saying 'with pleasure' is the sort of thing only seen in banana republics ... It is not realistic to be this afraid of America ... The foreign minister, [Abdullah] Gul ... has explained under what conditions and with what aims Turkey will enter northern Iraq ... [to maintain] border security, prevent large waves of refugees, and to intervene when confronted with attempts to massacre the Turkmens. Mensur Akgun Hurriyet, Turkey, March 24 The rejection of the motion [to allow US troops to be stationed in Turkey] ... gave the Kurds in northern Iraq a new hope ... If America cannot, or does not want to, obstruct the Kurds then Turkey could sink in the swamp of northern Iraq. Not only will our relations with America and Europe break down, we could also inadvertently help in the creation of a Kurdish state. Mahmut Sakar Ozgur Politika, March 24 Until Turkey changes its approach and comes to an agreement to integrate with its own Kurds, then [the situation] will become even more painful. Turkey must ... adopt a new political perspective that has peace and a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem at its core. · Ozgur Politika is a European-based Kurdish newspaper William Safire New York Times, March 24 The Turks ... insist that Iraqi Kurds plan to set up an independent state, which would then supposedly cause Turkish Kurds to secede and break up Turkey. That's strictly [Tayyip] Erdogan's cover story for an oil grab, undermining the coalition's plans for an Iraq whole and free. Even America's severest critics recognise Turkey's move as venal ... The novice wheeler-dealer in Ankara [has] succeeded in alienating both the transatlantic coalition of the willing and old Europe's union of the unwilling. Jordan Times Editorial, March 24 To be sure, Turkey has legitimate national concerns about the war against Iraq. But taking a unilateral decision to move troops into a neighbouring country is no way to deal with them. If all of Iraq's neighbours started taking international law into their own hands and began a process of direct military intervention in the Arab country, the result would be disastrous for regional stability and security. It would mean a breakdown of law and order in the region. Alon Liel Maariv, Israel, March 24 America's acceptance of a Kurdish state would be ... fatal for the historic alliance between Washington and Ankara, a heavy blow to the integrity of Nato, and imperil Israeli-Turkish relations ... The key is with Ankara, not Washington. Turkey will have to withdraw its objections to an independent Kurdish state, even if that seems impossible at the moment. The US will need Europe's help in this. Only the prize of full EU membership will make it possible for Turkey to agree to the formation of Kurdistan. But it is hard to see the Bush administration's clumsy diplomacy resolving this soon. Special report Iraq The Informer Sign up for our free 2pm daily email briefing Key documents 20.03.2003: Full text: George Bush's address on the start of war More key speeches and documents Interactive guides Click-through graphics on Iraq Voices on Iraq Read our collection of 30 exclusive interviews Comment and analysis Comment and analysis on Iraq History Iraq: archive special http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/story/0,12900,921115,00.html
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Special: Akron boys play mob - Teens get sources from (gasp) Internet. Akron youths try to build mafia Two juveniles were charged with setting up a Mafia-type group and threatening the Nordonia School District. The Summit County Sheriff's Department said the youths were part of a group that vowed to take over the school, fix grades, and transfer money into their bank accounts by hacking into computers. Detectives say the suspects had an organizational chart for members responsible for weapons, protection, money laundering, hustling, hit men and candy sales. Detectives found books and information from the Internet about organized crime in the the main suspect's possession. The two youths have been charged in Summit County Juvenile Court with inducing panic and criminal mischief. http://organizedcrime.about.com/?once=true If you publish strip my header please,tia.
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J.A. Terranson wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the land of the clueless Shrub may in fact be, I have yet to see anything that declares Israel a protected class. Of course, I could have missed it... I'd really like to see a citation if you can find one. Not only is there legislation against US companies boycotting Israel, but apparently, the Jews even have their own Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance (OAC) within the US Department of Commerce. Here are the results of some Googling. - COMPANY : L'OREAL After being fined $1.4 million by the US in 1995 for writing a letter to the Arab League claiming that they had stopped production in Israel, they have been engaged in actively courting Israel with investments and large-scale commerce. The American Jewish Congress has expressed keen satisfaction that L'Oreal has become a warm friend of Israel [Or at the very least, they are toadying lest another $1.4 million be picked from their pockets. -emc] - In 1977, Congress prohibited U.S. companies from cooperating with the Arab boycott. When President Carter signed the law, he said the issue goes to the very heart of free trade among nations and that it was designed to end the divisive effects on American life of foreign boycotts aimed at Jewish members of our society. - http://www.bxa.doc.gov/AntiboycottCompliance/OACRequirements.html What do the Laws Prohibit? Conduct that may be penalized under the TRA and/or prohibited under the EAR includes: * Agreements to refuse or actual refusal to do business with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies. * Agreements to discriminate or actual discrimination against other persons based on race, religion, sex, national origin or nationality. * Agreements to furnish or actual furnishing of information about business relationships with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies. * Agreements to furnish or actual furnishing of information about the race, religion, sex, or national origin of another person. * Implementing letters of credit containing prohibited boycott terms or conditions. The TRA does not prohibit conduct, but denies tax benefits (penalizes) for certain types of boycott-related agreements. What Must Be Reported? The EAR requires U.S. persons to report quarterly requests they have received to take certain actions to comply with, further, or support an unsanctioned foreign boycott. The TRA requires taxpayers to report operations in, with, or related to a boycotting country or its nationals and requests received to participate in or cooperate with an international boycott. The Treasury Department publishes a quarterly list of boycotting countries. How To Report: EAR reports are filed quarterly on form BIS 621-P for single requests or BIS 6051-P for multiple requests available from the Department of Commerces Office of Antiboycott Compliance (OAC) in Washington, D.C. To obtain these forms, telephone OACs Reports Processing Unit at (202) 482-2448. TRA reports are filed with tax returns on IRS Form 5713. This form is available from local IRS offices. Penalties: The EAR prescribe the penalties for violations of the Antiboycott Regulations as well as export control violations. These can include: Criminal: * The penalties imposed for each knowing violation can be a fine of up to $50,000 or five times the value of the exports involved, whichever is greater, and imprisonment of up to five years. During periods when the EAR are continued in effect by an Executive Order issued pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the criminal penalties for each willful violation can be a fine of up to $50,000 and imprisonment for up to ten years. Administrative: For each violation of the EAR any or all of the following may be imposed: * General denial of export privileges; * The imposition of fines of up to $12,000 See Footnote Below [INS: :INS] per violation; and/or * Exclusion from practice. Boycott agreements under the TRA involve the denial of all or part of the foreign tax benefits discussed above. Footnote from Imposition of Fines
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1887 -- France: At four oclock this afternoon, Clement Duval is deported from the military fortress of Toulon, bound for the prison vaults of Guyana. He had a ghastly anticipation of what to expect from the very first day of his stay in the fortress. Theft exists only through the exploitation of man by man...when Society refuses you the right to exist, you must take it... the policeman arrested me in the name of the Law, I struck him in the name of Liberty... Duval spent 14 years in Guyana. In this time, he tried to escape more than 20 times, seizing every chance, every means: on rafts, on stolen or patiently built boats, hiding in ships that passed. Every time something went wrong. Until http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DuvalClement.htm http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#21/1894 1894 -- Coxey's Army of ragtag bums (Common-Wealth Army) heads for Washington DC, demanding economic reform. When they busted all the unions, You can't make no living wage. And this working poor arrangement, Gonna turn to public rage. And then get ready . . . We're gonna bring back Coxey's Army And take his message to the street. Eddie Starr, The Return of Coxey's Army, from the CD War Zone, Union Jax. 1911 -- US: Triangle Shirt Waist Fire. The Triangle Shirt Waist Company, occupying the top floors of a 10-story building in New York, is consumed by fire. 147 people, mostly women young girls, age 13 to 23, working in sweatshop conditions, lost their lives. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ 1966 -- US: Demonstrations Vietnam War protests today through the 27th. 25,000 march down Fifth Ave, NYC. Others occur in seven US cities seven foreign cities. Civil Wars: From LA to Bosnia (The New Press, 1994), from which the following is adapted. Munich - We look at a map of the world. We pinpoint wars in distant lands, preferably in the Third World. We talk of underdevelopment, differences in cultural maturity, fundamentalism. We tell ourselves that this unintelligible struggle is happening far away. But we are deluding ourselves when we reason that we are at peace simply because we can still collect our bread from the bakers without being blown away by sniper fire. The reality is that civil war has long since moved into the metropolis. Its mutations are part of everyday life in our cities, not just in Lima and in Johannesburg, in Bombay in Rio, but in Paris Berlin, in Detroit Birmingham, in Milan Hamburg. The combatants are no longer just terrorists secret police, Mafiosi skinheads, drug dealers death squads, neo-Nazis cowboy security guards. Even ordinary members of the public are transformed overnight into hooligans, arsonists, rioters serial killers. as in the African wars, the combatants are becoming younger by the day. H a n s M a g n u s E n z e n s b e r g e r They too were storming heaven do you think they fought in vain; that because they lost a battle they would never rise again; that the man with the leaflets, the woman with a gun, did not have a daughter, did not have a son? Hugo Dewar From the Daly Bleed.(Daly into Europe.)
Pre-emption tenet battles for survival.
IT is tempting to believe the new orthodoxy that America's war of pre-emption against Iraq is the precursor to even more US-led wars yet this view is almost surely wrong. Far from Iraq being the precedent that launches a new US global strategy this war will represent the best and last demonstration of the pre-emptive faith that has guided America's neo-conservatives. The truth about pre-emption is that such a doctrine has severe limits strategic, economic and political. America's neo-conservatives, in denial about the costs of pre-emption, are about to be hit by their full force. The costs for the US in a relatively swift victory in Iraq will be immense (let alone a slow victory) and the purging of the Iraqi neurosis from the American mind will mean an end to foreign invasions rather than a start to them. Just examine the axis of evil realities. The US can invade Iraq and succeed for three reasons because Iraq is now a depleted and weak state; because its regime is discredited worldwide as evil; and because there are no regional or global powers to dissuade the US by making its actions prohibitive. Each condition is critical for pre-emption. Only one of these conditions applies to North Korea. Yes, it is evil. But it is a strong military state able to render incalculable damage to South Korea if attacked. It is surrounded by major powers Russia, Japan and China. China is the key player in any settlement with Pyongyang. It would not tolerate US pre-emption and such a move would force a US-China crisis. After all, China has previously gone to war against US penetration into North Korea. Two of these conditions are not applicable to Iran. Compared with Iraq, it is strong (65 million people as opposed to 23 million and a GDP of $US113 billion compared with Iraq's $US25 billion). Australian National University professor Amin Saikal says: Iran compared with Iraq is socially homogeneous with a more resilient nationalism. It has a degree of Islamic democracy and a broader political system than any in the Arab world. If the US resorted to surgical strikes Iran could retaliate by de-stabilising the American position in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Steven R. Weisman of The New York Times reported on March 23 that Secretary of State Colin Powell, when asked whether the Iraq war reflected a broader doctrine of pre-emptive attacks on enemies, replied: No, no, no. Powell's view will prevail (this time). The US is discovering in Iraq the difficulties of military pre-emption but Iraq is a picnic compared with any adventure in Iran or North Korea. Bush knows this. His 2003 State of the Union address said different threats require different strategies. Bush is about to document the cost of the Iraq war. But as Yale's Professor William Nordhaus argues, the President has failed to prepare his country for this burden which includes post-war occupation. If the US declines to pay then it would leave a mountain of rubble and mobs of angry people in Iraq and the region. Nordhaus offers a range of estimates over a decade from $US99 billion ($165.7 billion) to $US1924 billion. It seems the US will have years to reflect upon its misjudgment of the cost-benefit equation in Iraq. The true cost of Iraq, however, will defy arithmetic. The US will discover after Saddam Hussein is gone that the world remains a dangerously unsafe place with new risks replacing the old risks that it paid so much to solve. It will also prove a truth a truth documented in the latest issue of The National Interest by Columbia University's Jack Snyder, who surveys imperial temptations and concludes that a general strategy of preventative war is likely to bring about precisely the outcome that Bush and Condoleezza Rice wish to avert. The reason is because weak states on the hit list will develop new lethal capacities to save themselves. What else would they do? In summary, a theory of pre-emption at state-to-state level will not endure because its political gains cannot outweigh its costs and a democratic society such as the US will adjust accordingly. In the interim there are belated signs that the Howard Government now accepts the risks of pre-emption. This shift follows Defence Minister Robert Hill's embrace of the idea last November and John Howard's infamous late 2002 application of pre-emption to the region. The facts, however, are that the Howard cabinet has not endorsed the doctrine of pre-emption as such; in their statements on Australia's war decision neither Howard nor Alexander Downer supported this principle; and the Government justifies the Iraq war in its own right not as part of any broader pre-emptive game plan. Indeed, Howard's remarks last weekend warned against any pre-emptive theory and Downer assured the house this week that Australia had no plans to mount military action against Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or whoever. Downer's public line is to cast doubt on whether such a doctrine exists at all. But it does. Bush's
Cake Walk Bogged Down.
Bogged-down cakewalk. March 26, 2003 THE story thus far. In 1991 a large and largely landlocked nation, coveting its neighbour's coastline as much as its oil, planned an invasion. One secular Arab nation against another. Religion was irrelevant. The invader had in the past enjoyed the goodwill of Washington. So it mentioned its plans to the US ambassador and, far from receiving a stern admonishment, might have felt he'd got the diagonal nod. But the world was so appalled by its thuggery and the US so concerned for the stability of neighbours such as Saudi Arabia that an impressive coalition was cobbled together, endorsed by the UN, to drive them out. For all the arrogance of the leader, a man notorious for his brutalities and his ambitions to become the greatest pan-Arabic leader since Nasser, what followed was a rout. The retreat of his army became a turkey shoot. At least 100,000 of his troops were slaughtered as, burdened by the loot they'd stolen, they headed for home. The US failed to press its advantage and stopped short of Baghdad. Ever since they've been steaming with anger. Given the shock and awe of bin Laden's attacks on New York and Washington, a group of so-called neo-cons, who'd been dreaming of revenge, conflate the issue of a war against terror with a war against Iraq. Deaf to regional concerns and unwilling to be honest brokers in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict they decide to use the Pearl Harbor of September 11 as their excuse. They prepare for the biggest military action in half a century. Aghast at the new US foreign policy the pre-emptive strike the wider world protests. Washington tries some inept and insincere diplomacy characterised by bullying, bribery and blundering to achieve UN backing. They fail ignominiously. So the US goes it alone. Almost alone. Because the British and, astonishingly, the Australians sign up. And why not? The enemy is a tawdry, run-down nation that's been pulverised in the first Gulf War, pauperised by a decade of sanctions and effectively disarmed by a decade of UN weapons inspections. The loyal PMs are promised a quick, clean, 24-hour war. Massive bombings of Baghdad will lead to implosion of the regime. There will be mass defections, mass surrenders, insurrection. Baghdad will be transformed into a Disneyland democracy. Not only will Hussein's hierarchy be shocked and awed by US might but so will recalcitrants in the region. It will be a war without mistakes, a war without body bags, a war that will demonstrate the US's dominance of the 21st century. More importantly, it will be a demonstration war, a rehearsal for future pre-emptive interventions. That is why the Australian PM thinks it's a good idea to go along for the ride. Consider the pay-offs in the electorate, in military protection, in trade deals. But things start to go wrong, with the examples of US miscalculations and ineptitudes that bring back memories of fiascos and failures from Vietnam to Somalia via the Bay of Pigs. As critics warn, the war isn't a series of set pieces in the desert but promises a Stalingrad-style battle in the city. From day one, the so-called Arab street gets increasingly restless and angry with rulers who've agreed to facilitate Washington's war. Even neighbours who detest Hussein's regime are outraged by the behaviour of the US bully. And what is the big excuse? The weapons of mass destruction? They're neither found nor deployed. Yes, Baghdad will fall. (After all, if Hussein won't follow the script, the US can always nuke him.) But it's time to ask the question the question that should have kept us out of this mess in the first place. What's in it for us? Apart from troubles we didn't have and certainly don't need. Apart from moving up the al-Qa'ida hit list, we're on the nose in the region with neighbouring Muslim countries seeing us as US lapdogs. Not bad for the first six days of a war that was meant to be surgical, a foregone conclusion. Another turkey shoot. A cakewalk. Fish in a barrel. And where will we be in a fortnight? In a month? In a year? Up the Euphrates without a paddle? Internationally regarded as a nation of 20 million affluent whites in an endless ocean of brown and yellow faces? A nation with just one big and powerful friend? Don't miss the next exciting episode. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6187347%255E12272,00.html
One Law for White English Speaking Christians...
One rule for them... March 26 2003 The US is angry at Iraqi breaches of the Geneva Convention, but is itself guilty of breaking the rules of war, writes George Monbiot. Suddenly, the Government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty that impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of Iraqi television cameras, Donald Rumsfeld immediately complained that it is against the Geneva Convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them. He is, of course, quite right. Article 13 of the third convention, concerning the treatment of prisoners, insists they must at all times be protected... against insults and public curiosity. This may number among the less heinous of the possible infringements of the laws of war, but the conventions, ratified by Iraq in 1956, are non-negotiable. If you break them, you should expect to be prosecuted for war crimes. This being so, Rumsfeld had better watch his back. For this enthusiastic convert to the cause of legal warfare is, as head of the US Defence Department, responsible for a series of crimes sufficient, were he ever to be tried, to put him away for the rest of his natural life. His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba, where 641 men are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the third convention. The US Government broke the first of these (article 13) as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and earmuffs. In breach of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72). They were not released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities (118), because, the US authorities say, their interrogation might, one day, reveal interesting information about al-Qaeda. Article 17 rules that captives are obliged to give only their name, rank, number and date of birth. No coercion may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. In the hope of breaking them, however, the authorities have confined them to solitary cells and subjected them to what is now known as torture lite: sleep deprivation and constant exposure to bright light. The US Government claims these men are not subject to the Geneva Convention, as they are not prisoners of war, but unlawful combatants. The same claim could be made, with rather more justice, by the Iraqis holding the US soldiers who illegally invaded their country. But this redefinition is itself a breach of article 4 of the third convention, under which people detained as suspected members of a militia (the Taliban) or a volunteer corps (al-Qaeda) must be regarded as prisoners of war. Even if there is doubt about how such people should be classified, article 5 insists that they shall enjoy the protection of the present convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal. But when, earlier this month, lawyers representing 16 of them demanded a court hearing, the US court of appeals ruled that as Guantanamo Bay was not sovereign US territory, the men had no constitutional rights. You would hesitate to describe these prisoners as lucky, unless you knew what had happened to some of the other men captured by the Americans and their allies in Afghanistan. On November 21, 2001, about 8000 Taliban soldiers and Pashtun civilians surrendered at Konduz to the Northern Alliance commander, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. Many of them have never been seen again. As Jamie Doran's film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death records, some hundreds, possibly thousands, of them were loaded into container trucks at Qala-i-Zeini, near the town of Mazar-e Sharif, on November 26 and 27. The doors were sealed and the trucks left to stand in the sun for several days. When they departed for Sheberghan prison, 130 kilometres away, the prisoners, many of whom were dying of thirst and asphyxiation, started banging on the sides of the trucks. Dostum's men stopped the convoy and machine-gunned the containers. When they arrived at Sheberghan, most of the captives were dead. The US Special Forces running the prison watched the bodies being unloaded. Many of the survivors were loaded back in the containers with the corpses, and
Fascist USA Tightens its STASI State Censorship.
The role of the mainstream media as mouthpieces of the White House and Pentagon has become even more blatant since the start of the attack on Iraq. Protests receive scant coverage as many corporate news websites and newspapers shift their focus to coverage of the invasion itself, which the military restricts or manipulates. Despite all this, protests continue to rage across the country in San Fransisco, New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. Reports indicate that the corporate media has been skewing protest size estimates, inflating pro-war protests while underestimating the size of antiwar protests. But the media has been not just been misreporting news, but actively creating it in many cases: ClearChannel Communications, which owns over 1200 radio stations in the US, has sponsored pro-war rallies in Atlanta, Cleveland, San Antonio, Cincinnati and other cities. [ FAIR | ClearChannel Sucks ]
Kiwi's Say they Steer Clear of Echelon's Anglosphere Saturation Spying.
NZ outside secret intelligence coalition 26.03.2003 By JOHN ARMSTRONG New Zealand is not among the coalition of the willing who secretly provide intelligence support to the United States for the war against Iraq, Parliament was told yesterday. Green MP Keith Locke tabled a US Congressional document showing that intelligence gathered by the Waihopai communications station near Blenheim was used in the Afghanistan war. He asked the Prime Minister whether New Zealand was one of the countries that do not want to be named as supporting the US-led coalition, but which, according to the White House, are providing intelligence assistance. Speaking for an absent Helen Clark, Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen replied no. He then referred MPs to a statement by the public watchdog overseeing New Zealand's intelligence agencies, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Laurence Greig. He had affirmed that New Zealand retained sovereign control over its intelligence-gathering capabilities. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3300550thesection=newsthesubsection=general
Deep psychological hatred for the AngloChristian Whites.RaHoWa.
Searching for the truth about the terror threat March 26 2003 The PM must share with Australians his plans for coping with postwar Muslim anger, writes David Wright-Neville. A simple truism belies the continuing exchange between the Federal Government and Opposition on whether Australian involvement in the invasion of Iraq increases the risk of terrorist attack. In brief, nobody knows. Despite the collective efforts of governments and researchers since the attacks of September 11, 2001, knowledge in this area still contains too many gaps to say with certainty that Islamic terrorists will seek to retaliate against Australian interests. But this lack of analytical precision does not absolve the Government from an obligation to share in a general way what its own analysts are telling it. The question the Prime Minister should answer is simple: will our involvement in Iraq heighten the risk of terrorist attack, both within Australia and to Australians travelling overseas? For months John Howard has been trumpeting the threat to our safety posed by terrorism. Indeed, he is so concerned he has spent almost $20 million to drive home his point and, in the new ASIO legislation, judged that we need to give up some fundamental civil rights to better equip the authorities to ensure our safety. However, despite his clear responsibility to be upfront with Australians on their security, I for one am not expecting the Prime Minister to respond. After four years of working in the Australian intelligence community under the Howard Government, I have long ago jettisoned the naive assumption that governments do not grotesquely twist intelligence to serve base political goals, or that bureaucrats do not adopt similar tactics to increase the size of their empires. So, in the face of the Government's deliberate obfuscation of the issue, and without the resources that the Government's own analysts can bring to bear, the following analysis is offered as an admittedly poor substitute. On the domestic front there is little evidence to suggest our participation in Iraq will increase the likelihood of a terrorist attack within Australia. This is because there is little evidence Australia is host to any group capable of launching a mass-casualty attack similar to the hijackings that brought down the World Trade Centre. To the extent that groups affiliated with al-Qaeda have contacts in Australia, they are most likely involved in low-level operational activities - such as fund-raising, recruitment for jihadist activities overseas, or, at worst, the provision of safe-houses for overseas-based operatives needing to lie low for a while. So even though possible terrorist sympathisers within our midst will be further enraged by the war in Iraq, they are unlikely to be in a position to launch even technically crude attacks (by terrorist standards), such as fertiliser-based car or truck bombs. It is overseas that the heightened risk of terrorist attack should most concern Australians. Especially worrying are parts of our own neighbourhood - Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and even southern Thailand. In all these places, the Howard Government's foreign policies have revived negative images not seen since the bad old days of the White Australia policy. I am not only referring to the predictably puerile antics of Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad; in other parts of the region traditionally less antagonistic towards Australia, such as the Philippines and Thailand, we are increasingly on the nose. The Government disputes this assessment and points to bilateral counter-terrorism co-operation and free-trade talks as evidence of our neighbours' fondness for Howard's Australia. But this misses the point. Terrorism grows not out of dislike in government circles, but out of a deeper existential animus at the community level. Neighbouring governments co-operate on counter-terrorism and trade because they are interested in addressing their own security concerns and in making more money out of Australian consumers. But the ordinary folk from whose ranks terrorists draw their recruits are not disciplined by the perquisites of government. They are motivated more by emotion and gut feeling, and it is here the real danger lies. Although we shouldn't over-estimate the extent to which our role in Iraq has been acknowledged by the rest of the world, Howard's support for the Bush Administration's embrace of a foreign policy based on belligerence and brute force has attracted the attention of many who already harbour a pathological hatred of the United States and all it stands for. It is overcoming this deep psychological hatred that looms as the most difficult component of any counter-terrorism strategy. Everything else is a short-term palliative measure. Unless it is overcome, the persistence of this hatred means that fresh recruits will replace terrorists arrested or killed,
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Battle of Sydney.
School kids carry a home-made placard at today's rally against the war in Iraq. Photo: smh.com.au Running scuffles broke out with police as an estimated 5000 school students protested over the war at Sydney's Town Hall Square today. Eggs, tomatoes and bottles were thrown, while one student was arrested as protesters rushed the entrance to the town hall. Police on the barracades pushed protesters towards George Street after they attempted to burn an American flag. One police officer has been injured. Hundreds of school-aged protesters have begun a loud anti-war protest in the Sydney CBD. Up to 500 students, some claiming to be as young as 10, have crammed into Martin Place, screaming, No War, No War. They have burned at least three American flags during the energetic protest. Police have attempted to form a human barricade of up to 100 officers around the youths after they began running back and forth across George Street. Some protesters threw fire crackers, prompting screams as students fled in all directions. AAP www.infoshop.org/inews
Operation Enduring Fascism.
Operation American Freedom continues In what was reported to be heavy fighting, Supreme Court storm troops held off ACLU and coalition forces yesterday. The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a preliminary challenge to the government's expanded powers to wiretap and search people who are suspected of having links to foreign terrorists. The justices refused to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to appeal on behalf of Arab Americans and others who believe they may be being secretly monitored. Monday's dismissal leaves open a possible future legal challenge brought by someone who says he was wrongly wiretapped and had his house searched. But the move nonetheless left ACLU lawyers disappointed and frustrated. This is a strange situation where you have a broad ruling and no one can appeal it, said Ann Beesonan ACLU lawyer who represented the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. [:: LINK :: by melior . 11:26 AM :: Send :: Comments? ::] Update: Gitmo and the Geneva Conventions [The U.S.] prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13) as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and earphones. In breach of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72). They were not released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities (118), because, the US authorities say, their interrogation might, one day, reveal interesting information about al-Qaida. Article 17 rules that captives are obliged to give only their name, rank, number and date of birth. No coercion may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. In the hope of breaking them, however, the authorities have confined them to solitary cells and subjected them to what is now known as torture lite: sleep deprivation and constant exposure to bright light. Unsurprisingly, several of the prisoners have sought to kill themselves, by smashing their heads against the walls or trying to slash their wrists with plastic cutlery. http://www.libertythink.com/
Turkey set for a Pre-Emptive first strike...Iran?
A U.S. envoy has failed again to reach agreement with Turkey on its plan to send more 26/03/2003 04:05 VOA The U.S. special envoy to the Iraqi Kurdish opposition, Zalmay Khalilzad, said his talks with Turkish officials in Ankara are about a difficult and complicated issue. Washington opposes what it calls any unilateral military action in northern Iraq. Turkey told the European Union Tuesday its forces are massed along the border with Iraq for humanitarian reasons and that it has no intention of taking military action. There have also been discussions at NATO headquarters on whether to support Turkey's plan to send Turkish troops 20 kilometers inside northern Iraq to create a buffer zone if a refugee crisis develops. Kurds in northern Iraq have been running their own affairs since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991, and they have threatened to fight any Turkish incursion into their semi-autonomous region. Turkey fears the end of Saddam Hussein's government could lead to the creation of an independent Kurdish state. Turkey's Kurdish rebels fought a 15 year war for autonomy in southeastern Turkey. The Kurds say an independent Kurdistan would include parts of Turkey as promised in a 1920 treaty that followed World War I. http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=3501 Iran? First in best dressed. Iran to be US next target: CIA Report LAHORE, March 24 (Online): The next target of US after capturing Iraq will be replacement of religious government in Iran with a secular government as the US forces in Afghanistan have already started implementation on action plan in this regard. According to reliable sources, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had submitted a detailed 300 pages long report to President George Bush in which it was pointed out that during possible US attack on Iran religiously motivated Jehadi (holy warrior) organizations would support Iran from the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
How Angels Earn Their Wings.
Academy Boss Has Distinguished Record Kansas City Star, MO - 3 hours ago DENVER - Brig. Gen. Sylvanus Taco Gilbert, one of four Air Force Academy officials being ousted over the school's sexual assault ... Sen.: Air Force to Replace Academy Bosses Yahoo News - 4 hours ago By ROBERT GEHRKE, Associated Press Writer. WASHINGTON - Four top officers at the Air Force Academy will be replaced at least ... Sen.: Air Force to Change Academy Leaders Kansas City Star, MO - 11 hours ago WASHINGTON - US Air Force leaders told senators Tuesday they will replace four top officers at the Air Force Academy because of the sexual assault scandal, a ... Shakeup coming at Air Force Academy United Press International - 13 hours ago DENVER, March 25 (UPI) -- Four of the top officers at the Air Force Academy will be removed from their posts and reassigned in the wake of a sexual-assault ... Officers No Gentlemen Salt Lake Tribune, UT - 18 hours ago Now that the war in Iraq has made Support Our Troops the national motto of the hour, there are signs that some appropriate people are finally starting to do ... Leadership change sought at Air Force Academy Boston Globe, MA - 24 Mar 2003 By Colleen Long, Associated Press, 3/24/2003. ENVER -- Senators John Warner and Wayne Allard are asking for a change in leadership ...
Deep in the Arse of Texas.
The gay equal rights movement, which has been growing in strength, faces a crucial test in the Supreme Court this week. The court has never said gays and lesbians are entitled to equal rights, and has upheld laws branding them as criminals for having sex. Adding insult to injury, in a 1986 opinion the court described abhorrence of homosexuality as time-honored and traditional. It would cast aside millennia of moral teaching to say sex between gay men is somehow protected as a fundamental right, then-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger said in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick. Now, 17 years later, the court is being asked to cast aside Burger's view as bigoted and archaic. Gay civil rights leaders say public opinion regarding homosexuality has changed dramatically since 1986. These days, the real social and legal deviants are not gay people but homosexual sodomy laws that remain on the books in 13 states, says the Human Rights Campaign, which calls itself America's largest gay and lesbian group. On Wednesday, the court will hear a Texas case that asks the justices not just to throw out the prosecution of two men who were arrested for having sex in the Houston home of one of the men, but to declare that the Constitution gives same-sex couples the same rights to privacy and equality as heterosexuals. Such a statement would be a milestone on the road to full equality, rights lawyers say. This is the most important gay rights case in a generation, says Ruth E. Harlow, a lawyer for the Lambda Legal Defense Fund. We believe America has moved beyond these (antisodomy) laws. And we're hoping the court will say all adults have the same right to privacy, and you can't have a different rule for gay people. On Sept. 17, 1998, police received a false report of a man with a gun at an apartment complex, and they broke into the residence of John Lawrence. They found him with Tyron Garner, and arrested both for violating the Texas law against deviate sexual intercourse. Most states repealed sodomy laws during the 1970s and 1980s. But not Texas, which prosecuted Lawrence and Garner and secured fines of $200 each. We think the court is behind the times and Texas is behind the times (on this issue), says Harlow, who appealed Lawrence's case to the high court. The symbolic significance of these antisodomy laws goes well beyond their role as regulator of sexual conduct, legal experts say. These laws don't send people to jail, but they are a brand of disapproval for gay people. They are used across the board as arguments against them, said William B. Rubenstein, a UCLA law professor and an expert on sexual orientation law. Often, in cases involving child custody, adoptions and public employment, antisodomy laws are invoked against gays or lesbians, he said. For example, Linda Kaufman, an Episcopal priest and a lesbian who lives in Arlington, Va., said she and her partner were trying to adopt a second foster child from the District of Columbia. Adoption workers agreed they had a good home and family, but Virginia officials cited the crimes against nature in saying Kaufman and her partner were unfit to adopt. Kaufman is suing the state. If the Supreme Court were to say these laws are irrational and discriminatory, it would have an impact on a wide variety of such cases, Rubenstein said. About 2.8 percent of adult men and 1.4 percent of women identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, according to the government's National Health and Social Life Survey. If accurate -- and the Human Rights Campaign cites this survey as the most reliable of its kind -- it means the nation has about 4 million openly gay men and 2 million lesbians. The case, Lawrence v. Texas, has split conservatives. Traditionalists have sided with Texas and say marriage and family are threatened by an equal-rights ruling for gays. But libertarian conservatives say the government has no business in the bedroom. Texas state lawyers say the court should consider dismissing the case. Failing that, they said the justices should rule there is no constitutional right to engage in extramarital sexual conduct. If the court were to recognize such a right, it could undercut or even invalidate laws against adultery, polygamy, prostitution and incest, they say. Such a ruling would strike at the institution of marriage itself and further push this nation toward sexual libertinism, says the American Center for Law and Justice, which is based in Virginia Beach, Va. Lawyers seeking equal rights for gays respond that they are arguing only for a constitutional right of privacy among consenting adults. Public or commercial transactions with prostitutes are not included, they say. Two prominent libertarian groups -- the CATO Institute and the Institute for Justice -- say the government should not be allowed to meddle in purely private matters. This case is about the proper scope of and limits on government power more than it is about
Hitting Americans Where it Hurts.
Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains Pace Tue March 25, 2003 11:40 AM ET By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro, no American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to protest the Iraq war. Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of bars and restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German cities are telling patrons, Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any more due to the current political situation. The boycotts appear to be part of a nascent worldwide movement. One Web site, www.consumers-against-war.de, calls for boycotts of 27 top American firms from Microsoft to Kodak while another, www.adbusters.org, urges the millions of people against the war to Boycott Brand America. Consumer fury seems to be on the rise. Demonstrators in Paris smashed the windows of a McDonald's restaurant last week, forcing police in riot gear to move in to protect staff and customers of the American fast-food outlet. The attackers sprayed obscenities and boycott on the windows. In Indonesia, Iraq war opponents have pasted signs on McDonald's and other American food outlets, trying to force them shut by sealing them and urging Indonesians to avoid them. In the Swiss city of Basel, 50 students recently staged a sit-down strike in front of a McDonald's to block customers' entry, waved peace signs and urged people to eat pretzels instead of hamburgers. Anti-American sentiment has even reached provinces in Russia, where some rural eateries put up signs telling Americans they were unwelcome, according to an Izvestia newspaper report. A German bicycle manufacturer, Riese und Mueller GmbH, canceled all business deals with its American suppliers. Americans only pay attention when money is on the line, director Heiko Mueller told Reuters, whose firm buys $300,000 worth of supplies from half a dozen American firms each year. We wanted to make a statement against this war and told our American partners that unless they renounce what their government is doing we won't do any business with them anymore. SMALL BUT SYMBOLIC ACTS The German restaurant boycotts of American products started small but spread rapidly after the Iraq war began on Thursday. The conflict has struck a raw nerve in a country that became decidedly anti-war after the devastation of World War II, which it initiated. If people all around the world boycott American products it might influence their policies, said Jean-Yves Mabileau, owner of L'Auberge Francaise which joined 10 Hamburg restaurants in banning Coke, Marlboro, whiskey and other American goods. This started as a light-hearted reaction to Americans dumping French wine in the gutter and renaming 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries', he said. But it feels good to take a stand against this war. It is just a small gesture, but a good one. Diners at the Osteria restaurant in Berlin are finding that things go better without Coke and are ordering Germany's long overshadowed imitation of the real thing -- the slightly sweeter Afri-Cola -- to express their outrage. We wanted to do something to express our annoyance, Osteria owner Fabio Angile told Reuters. We want to hit America where it hurts -- in their wallets. None of the customers have complained. On the contrary, most thought it was a great idea. Herve Keroureda, owner of a French restaurant in Hamburg known as Ti Breizh, said he was astonished by the massive media coverage of their small-scale anti-American protest. It was only intended as a small gesture but has turned into a gigantic issue, he said. And the reaction from the patrons has been tremendous. Most have called it a brilliant idea. In Bonn, bartender Bruno Kessler said he was refusing to sell American whiskey or American beer at his Eifeler Stuben. I asked myself 'What can I possibly do to show my anger over this barbary?', he told Germany's N-24 television network. STARBUCKS, BIG MACS AVOIDED Sarah Stolz, a 22-year-old German student majoring in American studies, was headed for a Starbucks coffee shop in central Berlin when her anti-war conscience got the best of her. I was thinking about going into Starbucks, which I love, when I realized it was wrong, she said. I'm backing the boycott because the war is totally unjustified. Rita Marschall was avoiding McDonald's and Burger King. I'm boycotting American products because their policy on Iraq is totally wrong, said Marschall, 26, in front of a Berlin McDonald's. It's just one of many ways we can take a stand. Some German bakeries have renamed a local cake known as Amerikaner -- a disk-shaped pastry with icing on top -- as Peace-ies, bearing a peace sign piped in chocolate sauce. The boycotts are having only a negligible business impact. Establishments linked to the United States and the American way of life
Fascist USA Torture Camp.Guantanamo Bay.
Afghans recently released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have told how they were kept in tiny cages and subjected to interrogations for more than a year to prove their innocence. Some of the 18 have also described how they suffered brutal treatment at the hands of Afghan jailers, before being transferred to Cuba as suspected Al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters. They are only the second batch of prisoners released from the detention centre, which holds hundreds of people captured during the coalition's campaign in Afghanistan, including two Australians. US authorities have described the detainees as unlawful combatants who can be held indefinitely without trial. Afghans claim they were mistreated in detention centre in Cuba ABC Online - 1 hour ago Afghans recently released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have told how they were kept in tiny cages and subjected to interrogations for more than a year to prove their innocence. 18 Guantanamo prisoners freed Financial Times (subscription) Afghans reveal Guantanamo ordeal BBC Daily Times - Voice of America - International Herald Tribune - Washington Post - and 86 related »
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I prefer the social hack meself... Hackers Claim NSA Breach By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Mar 20 2003 3:21PM Hackers claim to have compromised a computer at the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland. But their target was the least secretive organization imaginable within the massive intelligence agency: the public affairs office. And instead of scoring a cache of highly-classified documents about the NSA's global surveillance work, the purported hackers mostly just obtained a few biographies of agency personnel, and a handful of private, but routine, correspondences between NSA spokespersons and media outlets, including CNN and Forbes. The letters arrived at SecurityFocus Thursday morning as attachments to a short e-mail message listing the Internet IP and e-mail addresses for the agency's public affairs office, and the message Please find attached some documents from Don and Trisha Weber, NSA. A NSA spokesperson confirmed that Don Weber works in the office, but otherwise declined to comment. In addition to the press material, the documents included a short NSA phone directory, and a four-page reference guide on handling outgoing e-mail problems, with advice on how to respond if an e-mail is rejected for foul language, or for user errors like attempting to send [a] SECRET message from a SECRET to Unclassified destination. A more recent version of the same document is available publicly from a Defense Department website. Journalist and NSA expert James Bamford says the apparent breach probably isn't a threat to national security. I haven't heard of an NSA computer being hacked into before, says Bamford. I certainly don't think that it's acceptable that even unclassified computers can be hacked into there, but it doesn't sound like they've gotten beyond the non-classified computers in public affairs. An e-mail message sent to the hackers' address in Switzerland was not immediately answered Thursday. The group signed their message Nescafé Open Up, the slogan of an ad campaign for flavored instant-coffee. The hackers' motives aren't clear, but may be related to the United States' military action against Iraq, which, like past conflicts, has already spurred a rash of protest website defacements. The hackers' e-mail included a distribution list of approximately 500 e-mail addresses, most of which belong to the U.S. military. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3291
