Big fish was dead already - Asia Times report
Whoare yougoing tobelieve? Big fish was dead already - Asia Times reporthttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ30Df01.htmlArticle dated October 30 2002By Syed Saleem Shahzad "KARACHI - Ever since the frenzied shootout last month on September 11 in Karachi there have been doubts over whether Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed head of al-Qaeda's military committee, died in the police raid on his apartment. snipNow it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain. "Asia Times is Hong Kong based and not prone to Fox style fact checking. This could be a very serious set-back even by Ari's mendaciously low standards. A dead man is supposed to have been arrested this weekend. Was he dug up for this purpose or what?See if you can get these people to realise they may be sitting on a great story. I have already (politely) asked for them to confirm if they screwed up or if (shock) the Bush administrationis lying yet again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] More on this BIG, BIG LIE from this LYING, CROOKED ADMIN! News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government March 2, 2003 http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_newsUS Lying About Shaikh Mohammed's Capture: He Died in 2002 (Oct. 30, 2002, Asia Times) Now it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain. Major Catch, Critical Time (The New York Times, Mar. 2, 2003) Of all the milestones in the Bush dictatorship's 18-month campaign against terrorism, the apprehension of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, possibly the most fearsome of Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenants, came at a critical juncture. Dictator Bush's critics have been complaining that his focus on President Saddam Hussein had distracted the nation from the war against Al Qaeda. We May Never know For Sure Pakistani police captured eight suspects alive and killed two in three raids on homes in a middle-class suburb of Karachi that triggered a four-hour battle with rifles, grenades and tear-gas. Pakistani police officers at the scene initially insisted that one of the dead men was an Arab, naming him as Khalid bin Mohammed.Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was born in Kuwait, is known to have been in Karachi this year. He was interviewed there in June by al-Jazeera, the Arabic television network, in the company of Binalshibh.On Saturday, US officials told the Washington Post newspaper that they did not believe that the dead man was Mohammed.On Sunday, Condoleeza Rice, the US national security adviser, told ABC News: "I wouldn't rule anything out here, but I think that we'll just wait and see how this unfolds.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/16/wpak116.xml A chilling inheritance of terrorBy Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Ever since the frenzied shootout last month on September 11 in Karachi there have been doubts over whether Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed head of al-Qaeda's military committee, died in the police raid on his apartment. Certainly, another senior al-Qaeda figure, Ramzi Binalshibh, widely attributed as being the coordinator of the September 11 attacks on the United States a year earlier, was taken alive and handed over to the US. The latest information is that he is on a US warship somewhere in the Gulf. Now it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain. More:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ30Df01.html Further circumstantial evidence from the CIA-fed Voice of America, now blowing smoke by claiming that 'conflicting sources' make it unclear whether the US even has him in custody or not.http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=A84AED3F-87D0-4D3B-A52304825ED216C1 (11 hours ago, via Google News) Further circumstantial evidence from the CIA-fed Voice of America, now blowing smoke by claiming that 'conflicting sources' make it unclear whether the US even has him in custody or not.http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=A84AED3F-87D0-4D3B-A52304825ED216C1 (11 hours ago, via Google News) Yeah Riiight. Uh huh. There are conflicting reports Sunday over who has custody of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks who was arrested in Pakistan Saturday. Some Pakistani officials say he was turned over to U.S. officials and taken outside the country for questioning. But Pakistan's interior minister says Pakistani officials continue to hold him inside Pakistan. He says officials have no intention
War by Howard Zinn
Published on Thursday, February 27, 2003 by CommonDreams.org War by Howard Zinn As I write this, it looks like war. This, in spite of the obvious lack of enthusiasm in the country for war. The polls that register "approve" or "disapprove" can only count numbers, they cannot test the depth of feeling. And there are many signs that the support for war is shallow and shaky and ambivalent.. That's why the numbers showing approval for war have been steadily going down. This administration will not likely be stopped, though it knows its support is thin., In fact, that is undoubtedly why it is in such a hurry; it wants to go to war before the support declines even further. The assumption is that once the soldiers are in combat, the American people will unite behind the war. The television screens will be dominated by images showing "smart bombs" exploding, and the Secretary of Defense will assure the American people that civilian casualties are being kept to a minimum. (We're in the age of megadeaths, and any number of casualties less than a million is no cause for concern). This is the way it has been. Unity behind the president in time of war. But it may not be that way again. The anti-war movement will not likely surrender to the martial atmosphere. The hundreds of thousands who marched in Washington and San Francisco and New York and Boston - and in villages, towns, cities all over the country from Georgia to Montana - will not meekly withdraw. Unlike the shallow support for the war, the opposition to the war is deep, cannot be easily dislodged or frightened into silence. Indeed, the anti-war feelings are bound to become more intense. To the demand "Support Our GIs", the movement will be able to reply: "Yes, we support our GIs, we want them to live, we want them to be brought home. The government is not supporting them. It is sending them to die, or to be wounded, or to be poisoned by our own depleted uranium shells". No, our casualties will not be numerous, but every single one will be a waste of an important human life. We will insist that this government be held responsible for every death, every dismemberment, every case of sickness, every case of psychic trauma caused by the shock of war. And though the media will be blocked from access to the dead and wounded of Iraq, though the human tragedy unfolding in Iraq will be told in numbers, in abstractions, and not in the stories of real human beings, real children, real mothers and fathers - the movement will find a way to tell that story. And when it does, the American people, who can be cold to death on "the other side", but who also wake up when "the other side" is suddenly seen as a man, a woman, a child - just like us - will respond. This is not a fantasy, not a vain hope. It happened in the Vietnam years. For a long time, what was being done to the peasants of Vietnam was concealed by statistics, the "body count", without bodies being shown, without faces being shown, without pain, fear, anguish shown. But then the stories began to come through - the story of the My Lai massacre, the stories told by returning GIs of atrocities they had participated in. And the pictures appeared - the little girl struck by napalm running down the road, her skin shredding, the mothers holding their babies to them in the trenches as GIs poured rounds of bullets from automatic rifles into their bodies. When those stories began to come out, when the photos were seen, the American people could not fail to be moved. The war "against Communism" was seen as a war against poor peasants in a tiny country half the world away. At some point in this coming war, and no one can say when, the lies coming from the administration - "the death of this family was an accident", "we apologize for the dismemberment of this child", "this was an intelligence mistake", "a radar misfunction" - will begin to come apart. How soon that will happen depends not only on the millions now - whether actively or silently -- in the anti-war movement, but also on the emergence of whistle blowers inside the Establishment who begin to talk, , of journalists who become tired of being manipulated by the government, and begin to write to truth. . And of dissident soldiers sick of a war that is not a war but a massacre --how else describe the mayhem caused by the most powerful military machine on earth raining thousands of bombs on a fifth-rate military power already reduced to poverty
Monitoring Iraq Airwaves - Shortwave?
Monitoring Iraq Airwaves Guide to monitoring radio transmissions to and from Iraq. Shortwave and mediumwave radio offer a unique chance to get alternative, first hand accounts and opinions on the crisis - at least if you speak Arabic or Kurdish. Here you can find a listing of radio stations involved in the crisis, complete with frequencies and audio samples. http://www.dxing.info/articles/iraq.dx#top bookmark for future reference "Black" Radio Exposed Recently, shortwave radio enthusiasts picked up a new and extremely strong radio signal being broadcast in Iraq. Dubbed "Radio Tikrit," the station which broadcasts on 1584 kHz has been exposed by radio specialists and confirmed by such eminent venues as The Wall Street Journal and the Guardian (UK)--and by the stony silence of the CIA--as a "black operation." http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=726
Executive Order Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions, in Connection
All, looks to me like a seat of fantastic powers. kenhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030228-8.html Executive Order Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions, in Connection with the Transfer of Certain Functions to the Secretary of Homeland Security.url Description: Binary data
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Moscow Times editorial
This was printed in the Monday online edition of the Moscow Times Monday, Mar. 3, 2003. Page 11 Clamping Down StatesideBy Matt Bivens WASHINGTON -- On the evening of Feb. 13, Andrew O'Conner, 40, was at St. John's College library in New Mexico when city police arrested him at his computer terminal, cuffed him and took him to the state capital, Santa Fe, for questioning by federal Secret Service agents. According to the American Library Association, O'Conner said they accused him of having made threatening remarks about President George W. Bush in an Internet chat room. O'Conner said he recalled saying Bush is "out of control," and added, "I'm going to sue the Secret Service, Santa Fe Police, St. John's and everybody involved in this whole thing." That same evening on the opposite coast, New York police arrested two young people, Lytle Shaw and Emilie Clark, for taping up photos of everyday life in Baghdad. Shaw and Lytle say they were told putting up posters was a "quality of life" infraction, i.e. a minor one. They both had identification on them -- driver's licenses -- and Emilie was seven months' pregnant, so they asked if they could just be written tickets. Police instead cuffed them, took them to jail and hassled them all night about how they ought to avoid a planned anti-war protest. In Chicago a week later, immigration officials detained Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, 55, a well-known Irish political activist who has been coming to the States for more than 30 years. McAliskey had previously been handed the "key to the city" -- an honor that symbolizes one is always welcome -- of New York and San Francisco. At age 21, she was the youngest person ever elected to the British Parliament. But on Feb. 21, immigration police said they had paperwork warning she was a "national security" danger; they deported her. "Somebody in Washington, with the mind of a rodent, has to order that," complained Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin. "This has to be all about her making a speech against the war someplace and the British put in a complaint to our authorities." A man complaining about the president in a chat room. Two young people taping up anti-war posters. A famous Irish moral authority. All of them targeted by teams of government and/or police agents. It's tempting to dismiss these incidents as contemptible, but isolated. Yet the pattern grows ever-harder to ignore. Three days after McAliskey's deportation, cable news channel MSNBC fired its top-rated anchor, Phil Donahue. (Russians will remember the American-Soviet talk-show bridge Donahue built with journalist Vladimir Pozner.) Donahue, it seems, is "a tired, left-wing liberal out of touch with the current marketplace ... a difficult public face for [parent network] NBC in a time of war. ... He seems to delight in presenting guests who are antiwar, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administration's motives." So says an internal NBC report obtained by a television industry journal, Allyourtv.com. The report warns Donahue's show could become, gasp, "a home for the liberal antiwar agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity." They certainly are. Antiwar groups complain they can't get national networks to accept ads questioning the drive to invade Iraq. And CNN confirmed as much to The Washington Post: CNN spokeswoman Megan Mahoney is quoted saying the news channel's policy is that "we do not accept international advocacy ads on regions in conflict." (What?) An NBC spokeswoman tells The Post the network refused an antiwar ad because "It pertained to a controversial issue which we prefer to handle in our news and public affairs programming." (What?) Fox, hands-down the most pro-war and partisan of all the major networks, apparently shrugged and smirked -- it declined to even comment. Over at the UN, they've hung a blue curtain to hide Pablo Picasso's antiwar masterpiece "Guernica," which depicts the horrors of carpet-bombing. Meanwhile, the worst case of pro-government censorship my generation has seen -- a refusal by the Washington area's main cable company, Comcast, to run some innocuous antiwar ads on CNN and other channels the night of the president's State of the Union speech -- has been met with a big fat yawn. Check out the ads yourself at awvf.org, you'll see a series of Americans voicing concerns that aren't
Trial of Henry Kissinger
Tonight I happened on a program on the Sundance channel on C Band Satellite called the Trialsof Henry Kissinger. This will be replayed again on Sundance on Sunday, March 9 at 4 pm. This is on C Band C-4, T 20 and 4DTV on C-3, T 117. Strangely a lawsuit was filed against him on Sept 11, 2001 for his crimes. Any of you who have satellite might want to tape it. One hour long.
