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The Dunces of Doomsday, investigative journalism The Bin Laden tapes: Paul L. Williams and David Dastych were right By Judi McLeod Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Paul L. Williams, author of the new book, The Dunces of Doomsday and Poland-based journalist David Dastych were right on the money when they leaked out word of Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir's claim that not only is Osama bin Laden alive, but was preparing his next video to be aired on al-Jazeera. The Williams-Dastych duo had discovered the fate of the world's most elusive terrorist in an exclusive interview with Mir. WorldNetDaily ran the story of their Mir interview on Friday. Two days later, bin Laden had issued new threats against the West, including a taped warning that ordinary Western citizens had become the chosen targets of his terrorist organization. In the tape, the Al Qaeda leader tried to justify targeting ordinary Western citizens because of their support for governments that he said were conducting a "crusader war against Islam." Then on Monday, three terrorist bombs hit the Egyptian resort of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 60. How could Williams and Dastych be so right? William's research is infinite and his book, The Dunces of Doomsday is destined to be a best seller. Dastych, who Canada Free Press (CFP) proudly includes as a regular columnist, is a veteran international journalist and a former intelligence operative of the Polish Intelligence and the CIA. His CFP column on February 27, The Iraqi WMDS and <http://www.yoursite.com/dastych022706.htm> the Russian Military Strategy in the Middle East, has been posted on websites the world over. Dastych has a veteran's history for tracking terrorism at close range. In the 1970s and 1980s, he had frequent contacts with Palestinian terrorist groups, with the Saddam Hussein regime's diplomatic, intelligence and commercial personnel, as well as with Soviet officials, diplomats and intelligence operatives (some of them serving in Iraq and other Arab countries). Dastych paid a huge personal price for his courage. Arrested by the then Polish Communist Security Service (SB) in 1987, condemned by a secret Communist Military Court to eight years in special prison wards for allegedly working for the CIA, Japanese Prime Minister's Intelligence Service and for conspiring against the Warsaw Pact, he was released only by virtue of general amnesty on February 28. 1990 after the regime change in Poland. Never a quitter, Dastych was back on spy duty soon after his release when he resumed his journalist and business activity, cooperating with American diplomacy and intelligence and with Israeli diplomats and nuclear experts. Adopting the cover of businessman and tour-operator, the Polish journalist traveled extensively, collecting ample evidence of the illegal trade in nuclear materials, weapon parts and technology between Russia and other post-USSR states and Arab and Muslim countries, through a variety of intelligence, military and mafia channels. The combination of Paul Williams and David Dastych in finding whistleblowing intelligence has proven itself in the chilling incidents of the last four days. While the West could only hope that the health-hampered bin Laden was dead, Mir, the only journalist who interviewed the terrorist post-9/11, revealed to Williams and Dastych that bin Laden is still in indirect contact with al-Qaida officials. Bin Laden boasted to Mir about how he had managed to acquire nuclear weapons for use in the great jihad against the United States. "It is not difficult (to obtain tactical nukes)," the al-Qaeda chieftain said, "not if you have contacts in Russia with other militant groups. They are available for $10 million and $20 million." (WorldNetDaily, April 21, 2006). Bin Laden seems to have made good on his threat against ordinary Western citizens. Police said the Dahab explosions hit at 7:15 p.m.. when the streets were crammed with holidaymakers strolling the streets, shopping or looking for a restaurant or bar for their evening activities. Eyewitnesses said that an explosion took place in an area dominated by restaurants and bars. Three Americans and 17 other foreign tourists were among the 60 wounded. Meanwhile, the Williams and Dastych combo prove that investigative journalism can provide valuable intelligence against world terrorism. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? 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