Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
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Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
By Jean Shaoul
12 February 2000
At the beginning of February, the Israeli Knesset (parliament) held the
first public discussion on the country's nuclear arms programme for
nearly
40 years. It was greeted with deafening silence by the international
establishment.
Military censorship has always forbidden reports in the Israeli media
about its nuclear arsenal, and successive governments have refused to
discuss the issue. Finally, Issam Mahoul, an Arab Israeli MP who is a
member of the Hadash (Communist) Party, went to the Supreme Court
to seek a ruling forcing the government to permit a parliamentary
debate.
Parliament Speaker Avraham Burg backed down in order to avoid a
Supreme Court decision.
In the televised debate, Mahoul stated that according to experts'
estimates, Israel has stockpiled huge numbers of nuclear warheads. This
had increased to what he described as the "insane amount of 200-300".
The weapons had been developed with the help of the South African
apartheid regime.
He further alleged that three new German-built submarines just
purchased by Israel were to be fitted with nuclear weapons. Their stated
purpose was "to cruise deep in the sea and constitute a second strike
force in the event that Israel is attacked with nuclear weapons".
Mahoul said this undermined government claims that its nuclear arsenal
was a deterrent. "That means that not only do the hundreds of bombs
that Israel possesses not pose a defence, they have actually caused the
military establishment to fear a nuclear early strike, which escalates
the
spiral of the non-conventional arms race further and further, at the
cost of
billions of dollars," he said.
He declared that Iran and Iraq were "threatened by Dimona" [Israel's
nuclear reactor], and not the other way round. "The nuclear reactor at
Dimona in the Negev desert has produced a huge amount of nuclear
waste which, if leaked, would contaminate Israel for centuries," he
said.
He warned that the nuclear stockpile was a hazard turning "this little
piece
of territory into a nuclear garbage bin, poisoned and poisoning, that
could
send us all up in a mushroom cloud". He said that Israeli citizens were
kept in the dark about the nuclear stockpile and conditions at the
ageing
Dimona reactor that constituted a huge environmental threat.
The MP referred to reports that Israel had exported nuclear waste to
Mauritania in North West Africa. He attacked the cloak of secrecy
surrounding the nuclear missile sites near Kfar Zechariah on the
outskirts
of Jerusalem, and near Yodfat in the Galilee. He also said publicly what
has been widely known for years-that Israel was producing "biological
warfare" weapons at the government's Biological Institute in Ness Ziona.
Mahoul described the government's official policy of "nuclear ambiguity"
as "nothing but self-delusion". He said, "All the world knows that
Israel is
a vast warehouse of atomic, biological and chemical weapons that serves
as an anchor for the Middle East arms race."
He repeatedly referred to Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear
technician who worked at the Dimona nuclear reactor for nine years and
was subsequently jailed for publicly revealing the extent of Israel's
nuclear
arsenal.
In 1986, Britain's Sunday Times published Vanunu's photographs from
inside the reactor and his claim that Israel had stockpiled about 100
nuclear weapons. Vanunu's detailed allegations about the scope and
sophistication of Israel's nuclear weapons have never been denied or
challenged by Israeli officials or knowledgeable Israeli civilian
defence
experts. Indeed, independent assessments by international
arms-monitoring organisations have concluded that Israel's nuclear
stockpile is exceeded only by those of the United States, Russia, China,
France and the United Kingdom. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, citing
what it said was a classified United States Department of Energy study,
said only a few months ago that Israel has the sixth largest nuclear
arsenal
in the world.
Vanunu, having blown the whistle on Israel, was lured by Mossad, the
Israeli secret service, to Rome, where he was kidnapped and taken back
to Israel to stand trial as a spy and a traitor. He was sentenced in
1988,
after a secret trial, to 18 years in prison. He has served most of the
13
years since then in solitary confinement.
His revelations were deemed so sensitive that it was only last November
that the government finally released more than 1,200 pages of court
statements, albeit censored, to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot,
in order to avoid a legal challenge. Only recently has the government
allowed even a photograph of Vanunu in jail to be published.
Mahoul's hope that his comments would spark a debate within parliament
was mistaken. Although many representatives of international
anti-nuclear
groups and foreign governments attended the parliamentary session, few
Israeli MPs stayed for the debate. It was all over in 52 minutes.
Two dozen right-wing Knesset members walked out in protest and five
Arab members were expelled for heckling. Haim Ramon, a cabinet
minister speaking on behalf of the government, and the only other
speaker in the "debate", refused to respond to Mahoul. In effect calling
Mahoul a traitor, he declared, "To do so would aid the enemy. Do you
want us to tell Iran and Iraq exactly what we have and what we don't
have?... It's unheard of."
Yediot Aharanot devoted almost 10 pages to the case and the subject
dominated the airwaves within the region. While the international press
reported the debate, the absence of critical comments in the Western
media contrasted starkly with their almost relentless propaganda drive
regarding Iraq's supposed possession of "weapons of mass destruction,"
used to justify continuing air raids and sanctions which have killed
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Israel developed its nuclear programme in the 1950s. It was originally
claimed that the Dimona reactor would provide the cheap nuclear energy
required to make water desalination a viable project. But its real
purpose
was to enable the development of nuclear weapons.
Shimon Peres, who was Labour Prime Minister at the time of the Vanunu
trial and is a member of the present government, is credited with
organising the development of Israel's nuclear arsenal when he was an
aide to former Labour Premier David Ben-Gurion.
Under the present Labour Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the government
has followed the same nuclear policy as all its predecessors, one of
"ambiguity." As a Ha'aretz editorial noted, this ambiguity is backed by
a
long-standing understanding with the US administration, according to
which Israel will not reveal its nuclear capability and the US will
consider
Israel an exception to its global policy. Consequently Washington will
not
pressure Israel to join the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). As a
result, every arm of the state has worked for nearly 40 years to ensure
that no public debate of Israel's nuclear policy, or even
acknowledgement of its existence, takes place. Hence the secrecy of
Vanunu's trial.
This has allowed Israel to become the sole nuclear power in the Middle
East. Israel even bombed Iraq's nuclear plant in 1981 to ensure that it
would retain this status.
While discussion within Israel is very limited, considerable information
has become available through intelligence reports, books and
publications
like Jane's Defence Weekly. In 1991, journalist Seymour Hersh said in
his book The Sampson Option that Israel had "hundreds" of tactical and
strategic nuclear weapons, including more than 100 nuclear artillery
shells
and "hundreds of low-yield neutron warheads capable of destroying large
numbers of enemy troops".
In 1992, Israeli human rights activist Professor Israel Shahak wrote a
series of articles on Israel's nuclear and foreign policies, since
published
as a book. When dealing with the long-concealed events of the October
1973 war, he pointed out that the Israeli High Command, including
possibly the then-Minister of Defence Moshe Dayan, were in favour of
using nuclear weapons against Syria. They were only restrained by Prime
Minister Golda Meir and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
In 1997 Jane's Intelligence Weekly examined satellite photographs of
what it described as an Israeli military base at Kfar Zechariah. It
concluded that "Israel's nuclear arsenal is larger than many estimates".
The site was said to house about 50 Jericho-2 missiles, believed to have
a maximum range of about 3,000 miles with a warhead of about 2,200
pounds. The report also said the installation contained nuclear bombs
for
use from bombers. It claimed that the five bunkers could easily store
150
weapons. "This is more than other reports state and supports indications
that the Israeli arsenal may contain as many as 400 nuclear weapons with
a total combined yield of 50 megatons," the study said.
In 1998 the New York Times cited an article in Ha'aretz reporting a
Rand Corporation study commissioned by the Pentagon which
concluded that Israel had enough plutonium to make 70 nuclear
weapons.
In his book Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen traced the development
of Israel's nuclear bomb. He drew on thousands of American and Israeli
government documents, most of them only recently declassified, and
more than 100 interviews with key players.
Cohen described the assistance Israel received from France, which
provided the necessary sophisticated technology, and the initial failure
of
American intelligence to identify the Dimona project for what it was. He
revealed that Israel crossed the nuclear weapons threshold on the eve of
the 1967 Six-Day War, and the negotiations between President Nixon
and Prime Minister Golda Meir that led to the current policy of secrecy.
According to a special report by Jane's Defence Weekly, "Israel first
deployed its nuclear weapons in 1968 to deter an unconstrained Soviet
attack." Jane's continued, "For decades the Israeli Defence Force
general staff had to plan to execute stopwatch wars, knowing that the
USSR would intervene politically to rescue their client states when they
were on the verge of total defeat."
The evidence shows that Israel's nuclear arsenal has been an open secret
for years. It could hardly be otherwise, since the US has bankrolled the
country for decades to the tune of billions of dollars a year in
military aid,
most of which must be spent in the US. Israel's nuclear weapons have
gone unpublicised because the country serves as the custodian of US
interests in the Middle East.
But changing realities pose challenges to Israel's nuclear policy. The
peace process exposes Israel to questions, led by Egypt, as to why
Israel
needs strategic deterrence when it intends to open its borders. It has
intensified political tensions between Barak's increasingly beleaguered
government and the Arab MPs upon whom he depends for his majority
in parliament. The increasing polarisation within Israeli society,
moreover,
brings to the fore environmental questions concerning the treatment of
nuclear waste, reactor safety and the accountability of state
institutions
that, until now, have been shrouded in secrecy.
References
Cohen, A., Israel and the Bomb, Columbia University Press, New York,
1998.
Hersh, S., The Sampson Option, Random House, New York, 1991.
Shahak, I., Open secrets: Israeli Foreign and Nuclear policies, Pluto
Press,
London, 1997
See Also:
Israel and Palestine
[WSWS Full Coverage]
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/news/me-peace.shtml
State Department documents confirm
US hypocrisy on human rights-the case of Israel
[17 September 1999]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/hum3-s17_prn.shtml
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dltjxx
>Taken from the World Socialist Web Site of the International
>Committee of the Fourth International at: http://www.wsws.org
>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/isra-f12.shtml
Ah. Fountains of pure, unbiased truth.
>Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
>By Jean Shaoul
>12 February 2000
Where has everybody been? Israel has had nuclear capability for
decades.
>Military censorship has always forbidden reports in the Israeli
>media about its nuclear arsenal, and successive governments have
>refused to discuss the issue. Finally, Issam Mahoul, an Arab
>Israeli MP who is a member of the Hadash (Communist) Party,
>went to the Supreme Court to seek a ruling forcing the
>government to permit a parliamentary debate.
How patriotic of the Communist MK Mahoul. The question now is:
patriotic to what country?
>Parliament Speaker Avraham Burg backed down in order to avoid a
>Supreme Court decision.
>In the televised debate, Mahoul stated that according to experts'
>estimates,
Which experts? The Socialist International, or the Arab Communist
Party?
>The weapons had been developed with the help of the South
>African apartheid regime.
They were developed with the help of the French.
>He further alleged that three new German-built submarines just
>purchased by Israel were to be fitted with nuclear weapons. Their
>stated purpose was "to cruise deep in the sea and constitute a
>second strike force in the event that Israel is attacked with
>nuclear weapons".
Where has everybody been? Israel's deputy prime minister implied as
much back in 1970.
>He declared that Iran and Iraq were "threatened by Dimona" [Israel's
>nuclear reactor], and not the other way round.
Ah. This must be why the US and the UK countenanced Israel's strike on
Dimona in 1980.
>Dimona in the Negev desert has produced a huge amount of nuclear
>waste which, if leaked, would contaminate Israel for centuries," he
>said.
Of course Osiraq, is a model of containment like Chernobyl.
>He also said publicly what has been widely known for years-that
>Israel was producing "biological warfare" weapons at the
>government's Biological Institute in Ness Ziona.
The article doesn't state whether MK Mahoul obtained his info on Nes
Tzyona from the Socialist International or the Arab Communists.
>The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, citing what it said was a
>classified United States Department of Energy study, said
>only a few months ago that Israel has the sixth largest nuclear
>arsenal in the world.
Date of the Bulletin? Issue #? Source of this "classified US study"?
>Mahoul's hope that his comments would spark a debate within
>parliament was mistaken.
I doubt MK Mahoul's hope was merely for a Knesset debate.
>Two dozen right-wing Knesset members walked out in protest and five
>Arab members were expelled for heckling. Haim Ramon, a cabinet
>minister speaking on behalf of the government, and the only other
>speaker in the "debate", refused to respond to Mahoul. In effect
>calling Mahoul a traitor, he declared, "To do so would aid the enemy.
>Do you want us to tell Iran and Iraq exactly what we have and what we
>don't have?... It's unheard of."
The Rosenbergs were sentenced to death for revealing America's nuclear
arsenal.
>While the international press reported the debate, the absence of
>critical comments in the Western media contrasted starkly with their
>almost relentless propaganda drive regarding Iraq's supposed
>possession of "weapons of mass destruction,"
That's because Israel is far less likely to deploy its nukes than is
Saddam.
>Shimon Peres, who was Labour Prime Minister at the time of the Vanunu
>trial and is a member of the present government, is credited with
>organising the development of Israel's nuclear arsenal when he was an
>aide to former Labour Premier David Ben-Gurion.
>This has allowed Israel to become the sole nuclear power in the Middle
>East. Israel even bombed Iraq's nuclear plant in 1981 to ensure that
>it would retain this status.
Israel was allowed to bomb Osiraq with the blessings of the US and UK
because nobody wanted nukes available to a madman like Saddam.
>In 1992, Israeli human rights activist Professor Israel Shahak
Another fountain of pure truth.
>When dealing with the long-concealed events of the October
>1973 war,
What long-concealed events?
>he pointed out that the Israeli High Command, including
>possibly the then-Minister of Defence Moshe Dayan, were in favour of
>using nuclear weapons against Syria.
Shahak is as accurate as usual. In '73, all Dayan recommended was that
Israel retreat from all fronts. He also recommended his own
resignation.
>In his book Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen traced the development
>of Israel's nuclear bomb. He drew on thousands of American and Israeli
>government documents, most of them only recently declassified, and
>more than 100 interviews with key players.
>
>Cohen described the assistance Israel received from France, which
>provided the necessary sophisticated technology, and the initial
>failure of American intelligence to identify the Dimona project for
>what it was. He revealed that Israel crossed the nuclear weapons
>threshold on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, and the negotiations
>between President Nixon and Prime Minister Golda Meir that led to the
>current policy of secrecy.
Yup. Nixon was a real Friend of the Jews.
>The evidence shows that Israel's nuclear arsenal has been an open
>secret for years. It could hardly be otherwise, since the US has
>bankrolled the country for decades to the tune of billions of dollars
>a year in military aid, most of which must be spent in the US.
A good policy: "Here's billions of dollars, and you can spend it
however you wish, as long as you buy from us."
As to "decades", the US began providing weapons to Israel only in 1969,
after resolution of Congress in October 1968.
>Israel's nuclear weapons have gone unpublicised because the country
>serves as the custodian of US interests in the Middle East.
Dean Rusk said as much. Although I could be wrong, I presume Dean Rusk
has a clearer grasp of the situation than Vanunu, Shahak, or the Arab
Communist Party.
Deborah
rezkhal...@my-deja.com
no better than those they claim seek their eradication. Lets face it
Israel will never be at peace. It is occupying a country based on
fictional stories in a book written by humans. Religions suck, the bible
is fiction and Israel is fiction.
Maybe Lebanonshoud occupy northern palestine to protect against Israeli
forces
In article <8893i3$alf$1...@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>,
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Eugene F. Kent
Palestine Arab non Jew pledge allegiance to a theocratic Jewish district?
Get real Goldstein. As for the zionist stock pile of nuclear bombs, this is
more theory than reality. Not that the zion district doesn't have a
rudimentary bomb, but that zion doesn't have a international missal to
connect it to. Unless zion has a hidden missal base some where. And that
baby would piss off Yankee doodle something awful. Eugene Kent. A Labor
Voice from Ohio.
Martin Goldstein <marg...@coqui.net> wrote in message
news:38A8A1B0...@coqui.net...
> No country that exists ever tells its enemy what cards she is holding.
> Israel may or may not have nukes. There is just enough uncertainty to
> give Israel's enemies pause. Israel has NEVER used nuclear weapons, nor
> has she threatened to use them. As long as the Arabs do not attempt
> to carry out their threats of annihilating Israel, they have nothing
to
> fear from Israel's "nukes".
> MG
>
Eugene F. Kent
capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
Zionist state. Also the Zionist state was hand in glove with the appartite
South Africa state. Especially when there was an outcry that a nuclear
device was set off,off the South African State coast. Also the Zionist state
generates electricity via nuclear fusion. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
Ohio.
Red Herring <r...@gulfstream.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
news:38aa1ae3...@news.gulfstream.org...
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:59:19 GMT, regin...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >Taken from the World Socialist Web Site of the International Committee
> >of the Fourth International at: http://www.wsws.org
> >
> >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/isra-f12.shtml
> >
> >Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
>
>
> Israel has never publicly admitted (nor denied) having nuclear
> capabilities.
>
Juan Rodriguez
Eugene F. Kent <efk...@fuse.net> wrote:
>Because the Zionist state doesn't publicly admit that it has nuclear
>capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
>America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
>There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
>Zionist state. Also the Zionist state was hand in glove with the appartite
>South Africa state. Especially when there was an outcry that a nuclear
>device was set off,off the South African State coast. Also the Zionist state
>generates electricity via nuclear fusion. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
>Ohio.
Eugene Kent (if that is your name), I wonder; is English your first language?
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Seró; ja...@halcyon.com
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 - 2940, U. S. A.
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Avital Pilpel
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> In article <saloao...@corp.supernews.com>,
> Eugene F. Kent <efk...@fuse.net> wrote:
> >Because the Zionist state doesn't publicly admit that it has nuclear
> >capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
> >America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
> >There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
> >Zionist state. Also the Zionist state was hand in glove with the appartite
> >South Africa state. Especially when there was an outcry that a nuclear
> >device was set off,off the South African State coast. Also the Zionist state
> >generates electricity via nuclear fusion. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
> >Ohio.
>
> Eugene Kent (if that is your name), I wonder; is English your first language?
I'll bet it is. He's just stupid, that's all.
Avital Pilpel
Avital Pilpel
> America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
> There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
> Zionist state.
<yawn>
Except for utter and total lack of any hint of a shread of a shadow of a
pieace of evidence that the Rosenbergs had anything to do with Israel.
Avital Pilpel
BUSHBADEE
>There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
>Zionist state. Also the Zionist state was hand in glove with the appartite
>South Africa state
sure there is reason. The bomb for the most part was built by Jews who later
immegrated to Israel. You can even say that Israel gave the bomb to the US.
That they gave it to the french and south africans, who tested the bomb for the
Israeli's is beyond doubtl\\
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I DO NOT FOLLOW MANY OF THESE NEWS GROUPS
To answere me address mail to
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JACK GARBUZ
> capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
> Zionist state.<
Remember that it was mainly Jewish physicists like Einstein, Leo Szilard and
Oppenheimer
that gave America the A-bomb in the first place. As for the Rosenbergs, it
is come out that they had actually passed radar secrets top the USSR but
were scapegoated as nuclear spies.
> Also the Zionist state was hand in glove with the appartite
> South Africa state. <
Only because most African states, who had been helped by large amounts of
Israeli technical help during the '50s and '60s, chose to break relations
and stab Israel in the back for Arab petrodollar aid. But the oil money they
got was mostly squandered by their corrupt politicians. So Israel got even
by selling arms to the South Africans. But in fact, Israel was the first
country to denounce apartheid in the UN in 1958, but despite their
sentiments and their aid, they got very liitle appreciation from the black
African states.
Especially when there was an outcry that a nuclear
> device was set off,off the South African State coast. Also the Zionist
state
> generates electricity via nuclear fusion. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
> Ohio.
> Red Herring <r...@gulfstream.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
> news:38aa1ae3...@news.gulfstream.org...
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:59:19 GMT, regin...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > >Taken from the World Socialist Web Site of the International Committee
> > >of the Fourth International at: http://www.wsws.org
> > >
> > >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/isra-f12.shtml
> > >
> > >Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
> >
Eugene F. Kent
that is my name. Any way its the name that I have used for 67 years and its
the name that the IRS uses when they send me my income tax form . As I was
born and raised, and still reside in the greater Cincinnati area of Ohio, I
like the rest in Ohio who was born here speak American english. As my mother
and farther also spoke American english I certainly hope that they
understood me, considering that I lived with them for some 20 years. So just
what is the your problem? Are you saying that you can't follow my thread or
that your so besotted with Zionist propaganda that your mind is a dead end?
Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from Ohio
news:88eonh$ij1$1...@halcyon.com...
> In article <saloao...@corp.supernews.com>,
> Eugene F. Kent <efk...@fuse.net> wrote:
> >Because the Zionist state doesn't publicly admit that it has nuclear
> >capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
> >America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
> >There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
appartite
> >South Africa state. Especially when there was an outcry that a nuclear
> >device was set off,off the South African State coast. Also the Zionist
state
> >generates electricity via nuclear fusion. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
> >Ohio.
>
language?
>
>
>
>
>
>
Eugene F. Kent
opinion, yet you try to deny me my right to rebut your cagey remarks. Your
Zionist state is not a durable entity and when the out side influences that
keeps the Zionist flag flying dies so will Israel. Look what happened when
the Clintonetts tried to buy Assad of Syria. Looks like the brother of Assad
that is now going to succeed Assad when he steps down, is not a friend of
either the Zionist enclave of Palestine or a mouthpiece for the Clintonetts.
That's what the shrill propaganda outcry against Syria over the so called
Jewish Holocaust is all about. Believe it fellow the computer follows you
and exposes your misinformation as soon as you utter it. Eugene Kent. Anews:38AB4AE5...@coqui.net...
> "Eugene F. Kent" wrote:
>
> > Surely Issam Mahoul is loyal to the Palestine Arab State. Why would a
> > Palestine Arab non Jew pledge allegiance to a theocratic Jewish
district?
> > Get real Goldstein. As for the zionist stock pile of nuclear bombs, this
is
> > more theory than reality. Not that the zion district doesn't have a
> > rudimentary bomb, but that zion doesn't have a international missal to
> > connect it to. Unless zion has a hidden missal base some where. And that
> > baby would piss off Yankee doodle something awful. Eugene Kent. A Labor
> > Voice from Ohio.
> > Martin Goldstein <marg...@coqui.net> wrote in message
> > news:38A8A1B0...@coqui.net...
>
> It appears that you have not the slightest idea of what you write about.
Your
> words are unintelligible - I honestly can't tell which side you are
taking.
> Just tell me straight out, and I will attempt to read your letter again.
> MG
>
Martin Goldstein
> Surely Issam Mahoul is loyal to the Palestine Arab State. Why would a
> Palestine Arab non Jew pledge allegiance to a theocratic Jewish district?
> Get real Goldstein. As for the zionist stock pile of nuclear bombs, this is
> more theory than reality. Not that the zion district doesn't have a
> rudimentary bomb, but that zion doesn't have a international missal to
> connect it to. Unless zion has a hidden missal base some where. And that
> baby would piss off Yankee doodle something awful. Eugene Kent. A Labor
> Voice from Ohio.
> Martin Goldstein <marg...@coqui.net> wrote in message
> news:38A8A1B0...@coqui.net...
Dear "Labor Voice from Ohio", why not stick to labor from Ohio.
Red Herring
wrote:
>Because the Zionist state doesn't publicly admit that it has nuclear
>capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
>America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
>There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
>Zionist state.
ROTFL The "Zionists" did not need to steal nuclear secrets - they invented
the A-bomb!
dltjxx
>>America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to
>>Russia. There is no reason that they didn't also pass that
>>information on to the Zionist state.
Avital Pilpel after yawning and stretching, writes:
>Except for utter and total lack of any hint of a shread of a
>shadow of a pieace of evidence that the Rosenbergs had anything
>to do with Israel.
Mrs. Rosenberg had little to do with Mr. Rosenberg's activities.
AFAIUI, Ethel's main crime was loyalty to her husband, which isn't
such a crime. Depending what kind of man the husband is, that is.
Deborah
Eugene F. Kent
worked on developing a nuclear device. And to my understanding Oppenheimer
never betrayed America. Tho I believe (correct me if I am wrong) in the end
he had a change in conscience about his role in the development of the
nuclear device. But by then the cat was out of the bag. Also not to many
days past Puken Putin was stating that he would have no qualms in first
user of a Nuclear device. And Puken Putin is one crazy cat. Eugene Kent. A
Labor Voice from Ohio.
JACK GARBUZ <JGA...@email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:#Yw182Ne$GA.233@cpmsnbbsa05...
> > Because the Zionist state doesn't publicly admit that it has nuclear
> > capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
> > There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
> > Zionist state.<
>
and
> Oppenheimer
> that gave America the A-bomb in the first place. As for the Rosenbergs, it
> is come out that they had actually passed radar secrets top the USSR but
> were scapegoated as nuclear spies.
>
> > South Africa state. <
>
> Israeli technical help during the '50s and '60s, chose to break relations
> and stab Israel in the back for Arab petrodollar aid. But the oil money
they
> got was mostly squandered by their corrupt politicians. So Israel got even
> by selling arms to the South Africans. But in fact, Israel was the first
> country to denounce apartheid in the UN in 1958, but despite their
> sentiments and their aid, they got very liitle appreciation from the black
> African states.
>
>
> > device was set off,off the South African State coast. Also the Zionist
> state
from
> > Ohio.
> > Red Herring <r...@gulfstream.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
> > news:38aa1ae3...@news.gulfstream.org...
> > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:59:19 GMT, regin...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > >
Committee
> > > >of the Fourth International at: http://www.wsws.org
> > > >
> > > >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/isra-f12.shtml
> > > >
> > > >Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
> > >
Eugene F. Kent
You and your zionist buddies were still a unused cell in your zionist
daddy's tentacle. Or is it a female egg? Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
Ohio.
Red Herring <r...@gulfstream.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
> >capacity doesn't mean that it doesn't have that capacity. Remember that
> >America executed the Rosenbergs, for passing nuclear secrets to Russia.
> >There is no reason that they didn't also pass that information on to the
> >Zionist state.
>
Juan Rodriguez
>thoughts about betraying America to the Zionist state?
The Rosenbergs were good Communists, and consequently they were against all
forms of nationalism, and especially against Zionism.
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero; ja...@halcyon.com;
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155-2940, USA
--------------------------------------------------------------
It is our duty to make the best of our misfortunes, and not to
suffer passion to interfere with our interest and public good.
George Washington
Avital Pilpel
[NGs trimmed]
> Nor can you deny my statement.
Of course I can, and do.
Mainly, I deny it because there isn't a shread of evidence for it except
for your paranoid rant.
I don't have to prove it DIDN'T happen. You made the statement, YOU prove
it happened.
Avital Pilpel
Red Herring
wrote:
>Jewish Americans worked on the nuclear project along with other Americans.
The Manhattan project was pioneered by Jewish refugees from nazi-occuopied
EUROPE (Leo Szillard, et al.).
Roger Alexander
Roberta Hatch wrote:
> JACK GARBUZ <JGA...@email.msn.com> wrote:
>
> >without Szilard and Fermi (who was half-jewish) ...
>
> Hold on here. At one time you tried to claim Fermi
> was Jewish, now it's half-Jewish.
>
> He wasn't Jewish, period. His wife was Jewish, he
> was Catholic and his children were raised Catholic.
>
> Bobbi
>
> ---
> Roberta Hatch '65 Panhead
> Dykes on Bikes, San Francisco, CA (This space for rent)
when the Communists were riding high, they invented the radio,
and various other inventions. Let jack alone, he is happy in his
own little world.
RLA
Roberta Hatch
>Roberta Hatch <bha...@netcom.com> wrote in message
>> JACK GARBUZ <JGA...@email.msn.com> wrote:
>> >without Szilard and Fermi (who was half-jewish) ...
>> Hold on here. At one time you tried to claim Fermi
>> was Jewish, now it's half-Jewish.
>> He wasn't Jewish, period. His wife was Jewish, he
>> was Catholic and his children were raised Catholic.<
>Okay, you're probably right.
I'm right, period. If you look him up in Funk & Wagnalls
it mentions his wife, Laura, was Jewish. Richard Rhodes', _The
Making Of The Atomic Bomb_ mentions his wife being Jewish and him
being Catholic.
>But Fermi without Szilard would have gotten nowhere. But Fermi
>originally was given a lot of credit, and only in recent years
>has Szilard gotten some of his due.
Without Fermi, Szilard (how can you remember how to spell
his name?) wouldn't have gotten anywhere. Both held the patent
for the controlled chain reaction. Neither one of them would have
gotten anywhere without Ernest Rutherford, Isaac Netwon and hundreds
of others before them.
Eugene F. Kent
thing as the zionist rump state is and will be placed on the dump heap of
history. The worlds people have more serious problems " than did god really
give the Jews the promise holy land." Especially since Moses died before he
was able to fulfill the prophesy that the bible spoke of. REugene Kent. A
Labor Voice from Ohio.
dltjxx <dlt...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:88nmg4$h85$1...@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net...
> >>Einstein was a Jew who denounced Judaism.
>
> Balls.
>
> >No, he didn't. He wasn't a practicing jew, but he never denounced
> >judaism.
>
> Einstein wrote a letter scolding Freud for the latter's nonsense on
> Moses. It's in the Time-Life Science Library of 1968, I'm trying to
> find it.
>
> >>Also he was very vocal about the evils of Zion.
>
> >No, he wasn't. He refused the presidency of Israel in 1948, but was
> >hardly a vocal critic of Israel.
>
> From good ole Funk & Wagnalls Standard Reference Encyclopedia:
>
> "Einstein was a gentle, modest man with a profound sense of social
> responsibility. He was a humanitarian who believed passionately in
> social justic and who often championed cause which he deemed worthy of
> his support.
> [...]
>
> With reference to the above:
>
> "Einstein was an ardent supporter of the effort to establish a homeland
> for the Jewish people. In 1952 he was invited by the Israeli government
> to suceed Chaim Weizmann as president of Israel, but he declined
> regretfully, feeling himself unsuited for the office."
>
> Also:
>
> "Because he was a Jew and because of his outspoken stance against
> Nazism, the Nazi regime instituted many reprisals against him in his
> absence. He was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Science, his
> citizenship was revoked, his property confiscated, and a price was set
> upon his head. Many nations offered Einstein refuge. After spending a
> few months in England, he went to the United States and subsequently
> became an American citizen."
>
> The above may be due to the fact that Einstein attended the Zionist
> Congress of 1925, "a formidable gathering," according to H.M. Sachar
> s History of Israel, p. 161. "Among those present with Weizmann were
> Marshall, Leon Blum, Stephen Wise [rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in
> Portland, OR] Cyrus Adler, Chaim Arlosoroff, Ben-Gurion, Lord Melchett,
> Felix Warburg [can you imagine being a mother and naming your baby
> 'Felix'], Sir Herbert Samuel, Albert Einstein, and other renowned
> Jewish figures.
>
> In the last session of the four-day conference, Weizmann was elected
> president of the Jewish Agency. [...] Einstein was moved to tears and
> dashed off a note to Weizmann: 'On this day the harvest of Herzl and
> Weizmann is wonderfully reaped.'
>
> Weizmann shared Einstein's exultation. Leaving afterward, he recalled
> that 'I felt free from care, I anticipated confidently a future that
> would witness a great acceleration iin the building up of the National
> Home.'"
>
> Little did Weizmann or Einstein realize.
>
> Deborah
>
>
Eugene F. Kent
recognition and no water rights till you zionys return the Golan Heights.
Guess he figures that when the zionys get thirsty enough they'll return the
Golan Heights for a glass of water. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from Ohio.
Reuven Singer <reuv...@netmedia.co.il> wrote in message
news:88mm24$oul$1...@news.netvision.net.il...
> Which is why the Syrians are not going to get the Golan...
>
> Eugene F. Kent <efk...@fuse.net> wrote in message
> news:saml18...@corp.supernews.com...
> > Goldstein your type always amuses me. You claim the right to vent your
> bias
> > opinion, yet you try to deny me my right to rebut your cagey remarks.
Your
> > Zionist state is not a durable entity and when the out side influences
> that
> > keeps the Zionist flag flying dies so will Israel. Look what happened
when
> > the Clintonetts tried to buy Assad of Syria. Looks like the brother of
> Assad
> > that is now going to succeed Assad when he steps down, is not a friend
of
> > either the Zionist enclave of Palestine or a mouthpiece for the
> Clintonetts.
> > That's what the shrill propaganda outcry against Syria over the so
called
> > Jewish Holocaust is all about. Believe it fellow the computer follows
you
> > > "Eugene F. Kent" wrote:
> > >
a
> > > > Palestine Arab non Jew pledge allegiance to a theocratic Jewish
> > district?
> > > > Get real Goldstein. As for the zionist stock pile of nuclear bombs,
> this
> > is
> > > > more theory than reality. Not that the zion district doesn't have a
> > > > rudimentary bomb, but that zion doesn't have a international missal
to
> > > > connect it to. Unless zion has a hidden missal base some where. And
> that
> > > > baby would piss off Yankee doodle something awful. Eugene Kent. A
> Labor
> > > > Voice from Ohio.
> > > > Martin Goldstein <marg...@coqui.net> wrote in message
> > > > news:38A8A1B0...@coqui.net...
> > >
Eugene F. Kent
Arabia, and Iran has the American car loving citizens by their testicles.
With gas and heating fuel oil starting to skyrocketing, I believe that the
next American President will be leading the zionys to the negotiating table
even tho they will scream like hell. All so as the stock market is beginning
to crumble and when it reaches a certain level the average American is going
to spend more time looking for a job than listening to a bunch of Zionist
crap. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from Ohio.news:e2RHPl1e$GA.113@cpmsnbbsa02...
>
> Eugene F. Kent <efk...@fuse.net> wrote in message
> news:saml18...@corp.supernews.com...
> > Goldstein your type always amuses me. You claim the right to vent your
> bias
> > opinion, yet you try to deny me my right to rebut your cagey remarks.
Your
> > Zionist state is not a durable entity and when the out side influences
> that
> > keeps the Zionist flag flying dies so will Israel. Look what happened
when
> > the Clintonetts tried to buy Assad of Syria. Looks like the brother of
> Assad
> > that is now going to succeed Assad when he steps down, is not a friend
of
> > either the Zionist enclave of Palestine or a mouthpiece for the
> Clintonetts.<
>
> money and his
> disgusting, murderous life-style. But he won't go to war with Israel over
> the Golan.
> All he wants is his good life, women, drugs, etc.
>
>
joseph hobeika
joseph hobeika
*****************************************************
"Eugene F. Kent" wrote:
> Well as Assad gave Clinton his third finger and told him no discussion or
> recognition and no water rights till you zionys return the Golan Heights.
> Guess he figures that when the zionys get thirsty enough they'll return the
> Golan Heights for a glass of water. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from Ohio.
> Reuven Singer <reuv...@netmedia.co.il> wrote in message
> news:88mm24$oul$1...@news.netvision.net.il...
> > Which is why the Syrians are not going to get the Golan...
> >
> > Eugene F. Kent <efk...@fuse.net> wrote in message
> > news:saml18...@corp.supernews.com...
> > > Goldstein your type always amuses me. You claim the right to vent your
> > bias
> > > opinion, yet you try to deny me my right to rebut your cagey remarks.
> Your
> > > Zionist state is not a durable entity and when the out side influences
> > that
> > > keeps the Zionist flag flying dies so will Israel. Look what happened
> when
> > > the Clintonetts tried to buy Assad of Syria. Looks like the brother of
> > Assad
> > > that is now going to succeed Assad when he steps down, is not a friend
> of
> > > either the Zionist enclave of Palestine or a mouthpiece for the
> > Clintonetts.
> > > That's what the shrill propaganda outcry against Syria over the so
> called
> > > Jewish Holocaust is all about. Believe it fellow the computer follows
> you
> > > and exposes your misinformation as soon as you utter it. Eugene Kent. A
> > > Labor Voice from Ohio.
> > > Martin Goldstein <marg...@coqui.net> wrote in message
> > > news:38AB4AE5...@coqui.net...
> > > > "Eugene F. Kent" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Surely Issam Mahoul is loyal to the Palestine Arab State. Why would
> a
> > > > > Palestine Arab non Jew pledge allegiance to a theocratic Jewish
> > > district?
> > > > > Get real Goldstein. As for the zionist stock pile of nuclear bombs,
> > this
> > > is
> > > > > more theory than reality. Not that the zion district doesn't have a
> > > > > rudimentary bomb, but that zion doesn't have a international missal
> to
> > > > > connect it to. Unless zion has a hidden missal base some where. And
> > that
> > > > > baby would piss off Yankee doodle something awful. Eugene Kent. A
> > Labor
> > > > > Voice from Ohio.
> > > > > Martin Goldstein <marg...@coqui.net> wrote in message
> > > > > news:38A8A1B0...@coqui.net...
> > > >
joseph hobeika
Military Operations:
****************
May Tuesday 4 -1999:
IR hits enemy deep inside occupied zone; staff sergeant killed and soldier wounded
"The Islamic Resistance (IR) has once again infiltrated through all the "Israeli" occupation's military measures and sophisticated
radar hitting an "Israeli" army patrol in Naqoura near the border with occupied Palestine and killing an occupation staff sergeant
and seriously wounding a soldier".
"In light of the victory against "Israeli" aggression in 1996, "Grapes of Wrath", and marking the "Israeli" massacres in Qana and
Nabatieh, IR made a new qualitative achievement and proved its supremacy over the protective "Israeli" military's measures.
The Mujahedeen succeeded in reaching within few meters from the "Israeli" occupation's Radar outpost which is charged with
protecting and surveying the occupied zone's front-lines, an IR communiqué read.
"After infiltrating through the enemy's most advanced military surveillance technologies, IR planted a powerful bomb on the road
of Naqoura-al-Bayyada.
"At 6:45 a.m. Monday, IR's squad of Martyr Abbas al-Wazwaz detonated the bomb against a motorized "Israeli" foot patrol,
scoring definite hits in the ranks of the patrol, the communiqué added.
Also, the IR men spotted, at 18:00, enemy movements inside Ahmadieh position. Immediately afterwards, the IR team of
martyr Ahmad Al-Mousawi attacked them with the adequate arms. Direct and accurate goals were chalked up, the militants
reported.
Furthermore, the IR squad of martyr Ghassan Ghanem attacked, at 23:20, enemy movements inside Sojod outpost with the
machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The mujahedeen managed to score direct hits.
Ten minutes later, the IR group of martyrs Abbas Hassan and Osama Hakim attacked enemy movements inside Beaufort
Castle with the appropriate weapons scoring direct hits.
Moreover, the IR team of martyr Hassan Adnan Kheireddine attacked, at 23:40, enemy movements in and around Haddatha
compound with the suitable arms chalking up direct goals.
"After hours of discretion, the "Israeli" enemy acknowledged the death of staff sergeant Molo Naqato, 23, from the Atsiona
settlement and the injury of another soldier.
"An "Israeli" military spokesman said a bomb planted by Hizbullah inside the occupied zone was detonated against an "Israeli"
army unit which was "on a mission".
"Eye witnesses in the region told the "Voice of the People" Radio that they heard a powerful blast and saw black smoke
emanating from the area.
"Shortly afterwards, an "Israeli" armored back-up unit accompanied by three helicopters arrived at the scene. One helicopter
landed in the al-Bayyada area and transferred the enemy casualties to hospitals inside occupied Palestine, the witnesses added.
"In the meantime, the collaborating militia closed the Hamra Bridge's Crossing in both directions in the face of civilians and
UNIFIL soldiers".
"At around 10:00 a.m. the militia reopened the crossing for UNIFIL soldiers only".
"For its part, Agence France Presse reported that security officials said that IR's Mujahedeen detonated a powerful bomb as an
"Israeli" patrol was passing on the road of Naqoura-al-Bayada".
"Later, the Mujahedeen bombarded the reinforcements heading toward al-Hamra crossing, one of the five crossing points
linking the occupied zone to liberated areas"…(1)
However, "Israel" Wire said that "Sergeant Mulo Negato, 23, from Nes Tziona, was killed in the security zone of southern
Lebanon on Monday morning. One soldier was moderately injured. Sgt. Negato was critically wounded in the explosion and
died a short time later. Sgt. Negato became the ninth soldier to fall in battle in the security zone in 1999".
"An explosive device was detonated when an IDF* patrol was operating in the western sector of the security zone. The
wounded soldier was transported to the trauma unit of Rambam Hospital in Haifa. His wife told "Israel" Radio that she is
always concerned for his wellbeing and has asked him to leave his position many times because of the high element of risk
involved in his job".
"Dr. Tzvi Ben-Yishai, the hospital’s deputy director, listed the wounded soldier’s condition as moderate, explaining he was hit
with shrapnel in his left arm and abdomen"…(2)
For its part, The Daily Star reported that "An "Israeli" soldier was killed and another wounded Monday as Hizbullah continued
its campaign of high-profile attacks against the occupation forces with a roadside bomb ambush just meters away from the
coastal radar station at Bayada".
"It was the first roadside bomb attack in the immediate vicinity of the clifftop radar base since 1985.
The massive blast, clearly audible in Tyre and heard by Unifil peacekeepers at their headquarters in Naqoura, 3 kilometers to
the south, occurred at 6.45 A.M. as an "Israeli" foot patrol, backed by armored vehicles, walked along a road between the
radar station and the coastal road".
"In a statement, Hizbullah hailed the ambush as a “major new achievement,” in which its fighters had “triumphed over the
security measures behind which the enemy is hiding to protect its soldiers and reduce its losses” to detonate the explosive
charge.
"The latest casualties raised to eight (nine) the number of "Israeli" soldiers killed in the south this year while another 26 have
been wounded.
"It was not immediately clear how close the bomb was planted to the heavily fortified radar station. "The distance between the
"Israeli" base and the small village of Bayada is about 100 meters. The coastal road lies about 400-500 meters beyond the
village".
"Fijian Unifil soldiers manning an observation post nearby reported an explosion 5 meters from the entrance to the radar base,
although the blast could have been one of the handful of mortar rounds that were fired by the resistance moments after the
bomb explosion.
"The "Israelis” were “caught off-guard” by the bomb ambush, said a security source who likened the attack to 2 similar
ambushes last November when explosives were detonated near the Qobah outpost in the central sector killing five "Israeli"
soldiers.
"The Bayada radar station was traditionally one of the quietest "Israeli" posts in the zone. But since military operations against
the base resumed at the end of 1997, it has become a favorite target for the resistance".
"In response to the attacks, the "Israeli" army reinforced its defenses last year, constructing thick concrete roofs and additional
walls and barriers".
"The bomb attack was the latest in a series of headline-grabbing operations against the occupation forces. A week ago, eight
"Israeli" soldiers and three militiamen were wounded when Hizbullah guerrillas over-ran the Sojod outpost."
"On April 23, Joseph Karam, commander of the South Lebanon Army** militia in Jezzine, was critically wounded in a
roadside bomb which destroyed his car and killed his bodyguard".
"Elsewhere, an SLA militiaman was wounded in the Sojod outpost Monday in a Hizbullah mortar and rocket attack"…(3)
Earlier, the IR team of martyr Ali Saad in Snipers Unit targeted, at 5:55, an "Israeli" allied militiamen at Tohorra outpost striking
him directly.
Also, the IR group of martyr Ahmad Ali Ramadan attacked, at 12:45, an enemy engineering force as it was beefing up Sojod
outpost. The mujahedeen, who used the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, managed to bar it from achieving its
goal.
For its part, a squad of the Lebanese Resistance Brigades (LRB) attacked, at 6:00, Sojod outpost with the machine guns and
rocket-propelled grenades chalking up direct hits…(4)
Two militiamen hand themselves to IR
"The Islamic Resistance (IR) Sunday announced that two proxy militia members have fled the Beit Yahoun outposts and
handed themselves to IR".
"IR gave a brief statement about the two deserting militiamen".
"Ali Fayez Sharara, 26, military number 102122, joined the militia in 1998, was positioned in the new outpost in Beit Yahoun."
"Bassam Ali Hmadeh, 27, military number 101726, was forced to join the militia in 1997, was positioned in the old outpost in
Beit Yahoun"…(5)
"In response to the defections, "Israeli" troops Monday expelled three relatives of the two men from the zone. Sharara’s
mother, Zahra, 65, his sister, Ramzieh, 35, and Hamadi’s father, Ali Hussein, 70, were deported via the Beit Yahoun
crossing"…(6)
1- Al-Manar TV, 3-5-1999.
2- "Israel" Wire 3-5-1999.
3- The Daily Star, 4-5-1999.
4- IR statement, 3-5-1999.
5- Al-Manar TV, 3-5-1999.
6- The Daily Star, 4-5-1999.
* This term is absolutely unacceptable. "Israel's" Army is that of war and aggression for it protects land gained by
force, confiscation and war in contradiction with the simplest rights of human confessed by the international laws and
conventions.
** It is an "Israeli" nomination we absolutely reject for it contradicts with Lebanon's independence and sovereignty.
This army is not but an "Israeli" agent working for realizing "Israel's" goals in Lebanon.
May Wednesday 4 -1999:
IR hits the collaborators' command in Jezzine again; new 20th regiment chief killed…(1)
"Only a few days after targeting the chief of the 20th regiment in the collaborating militia agent Joseph Karam (alias Alloush),
the Islamic Resistance (IR) this afternoon dealt another hard blow to the command of the same regiment as a powerful roadside
bomb exploded against a car belonging to the regiment killing and injuring all those in it".
"A collaborating source confirmed that the attack took place and said that agent Mounah Toumah, who was appointed a few
days ago as the chief of the militia's security in Jezzine (replacing agent Alloush), was instantly killed and his bodyguard who
was driving the car was wounded"
"For its part, IR issued a statement about the operation, saying that after targeting the former 20th regiment chief agent Joseph
Karam, IR dealt another painful blow to the enemy's militia as the squad of Martyr Mohammed Haidar al-Jaohari detonated a
large bomb against the car of one of the high ranking officers in this regiment."
"The explosion, the statement continued, took place at 14:45 as the car was passing on the road of Dahr al-Ramleh-Jezzine,
killing the officer and his bodyguard".
"The enemy's radio acknowledged the IR operation and said that it killed a "senior commander" in the collaborating militia and
seriously injured his bodyguard".
Enemy acknowledged injury of three soldiers near Beaufort Castle by IR attack…(2)
"An "Israeli" military spokesman today (yesterday) affirmed the injury of three "Israeli" occupation soldiers in the Islamic
Resistance's (IR) attack last night on the occupation's outpost near the Beaufort Castle.
One of the injured was reported in serious conditions and the other two in moderate condition, the spokesman said, pointing
out that they were transported by a helicopter to the Rambam hospital in Haifa, inside occupied Palestine".
"IR's squad of martyrs Abbas Hassan and Oussama al-Hakim at Monday midnight attacked the occupation's outpost at the
Beaufort Castle with the appropriate weapons, inflicting many casualties in the ranks of the enemy troops manning the outpost".
"IR also targeted enemy movements inside the occupation's outposts in Sojod and Haddatha.
"On the other hand, security information from the occupied zone said the "Israeli" occupation army's northern command and the
"Israeli" intelligence services are conducting a largescale investigation to find out how the IR Mujahedeen infiltrated through the
occupied zone in al-Bayada Naqoura and planted a bomb then detonated it against an "Israeli" foot patrol killing a staff
sergeant and wounding three soldiers, especially as the area is unusually fortified by measures taken in land and at sea.
"Reports stated that the enemy's command deployed tens of soldiers in the area and the surrounding villages. They set up flying
checkpoints and thoroughly searched the cars of residents and those of the collaborating officers.
"For his part, UNIFIL spokesman Timor Goksel responded to reports published by the "Israeli" daily Ha'aretz which said the
"Israeli" army is conducting an investigation to know whether UNIFIL is involved in the Bayada-Naqoura bombing which killed
an "Israeli" staff-sergeant and injured three soldiers.
"We regret to see that accusations against UNIFIL are becoming traditional when "Israeli" soldiers are dead and when things
do not go the way they like them to go," Goksel said.
"A UNIFIL officer said, on condition of anonymity, "This is not new, when the "Israeli" liaison unit commander Major General
Erez Gerestein was killed 300 meters away from a UNIFIL post and on a main road used by hundreds of cars daily, the
UNIFIL was accused."
"The "Israelis" pretend to have forgotten that bombs are sometimes planted at the entrances of their outposts and positions," the
UNIFIL officer added.
1- Al-Manar TV, 4-5-1999.
2- Same source.
May Friday 7 -1999:
IR warns against further aggressions:
In a primary warning response to "Israel's" going too far in violating April 1996 Understanding and to air raids, the IR team of
martyr Mohammad Ali Ghazi Al-Husseini in the Artillery Reinforcement Unit (ARU) bombarded at 6:00, the border post of
Abbad scoring direct and certain goals.
At the same time, the IR squad of martyr Ibrahim Mohammad Faqih in the (ARU) targeted the border position of Ramia
chalking up direct hits. Several blazes were seen erupting inside it.
Also, the IR mujahedeen spotted, at 11:15, enemy movements inside Kfar Houna position. Shortly afterwards, the IR group of
martyr Mohammad Hammoud in the (ARU) bombarded the position. Direct and accurate hits were scored, the mujahedeen
reported…(1)
""Israel's" military radio claimed mortar bombs and rockets fired from southern Lebanon landed in "Israeli" territory early today.
UN peacekeeping sources in occupied southern Lebanon rejected the "Israeli" claims. They stressed, all mortar bombs and
Katyusha rockets fired by the resistance landed in Lebanese territory"…(2)
1- IR statement, 6-5-1999.
2- Future TV, 6-5-1999.
May Saturday 8 -1999:
RESISTANCE FIGHTERS CAPTURE TOP “ISRAELI” ALLIED MILITIA OFFICER FROM OCCUPATION
ZONE
Following an accurate survey of the area and obtaining the necessary information about the “Israeli” agent Botros Jirjis Wehbe,
the IR team of Al-Khiam Detainees in the Special Forces trapped, at 7:45, on the road of Deir Mashmoushi, Al-Sabah in
Jezzine area to the collaborator Wehbe and took him to the liberated areas (1).
For its part, Future TV reported that the " Lebanese resistance fighters have dealt “Israeli” occupation troops and their allied
militia in southern Lebanon yet another painful blow. Ten days after capturing an “Israeli” allied militiaman from occupied
Jezzine and bringing him to liberated territories, four fighters from Hizbullah’s special units seized an officer in the “Israeli” allied
militia. Resistance guerrillas infiltrated the zone “Israel” occupies and captured Botros Jirjis Wehbi, a fifty-year old lieutenant, as
he was driving towards occupied Jezzine. They brought him to areas outside the zone. Morale in the “Israeli”-financed and
maintained militia has been running low, following severe losses at the hands of the resistance"…(2
Also, the IR team of martyr Ibrahim Mohammad Faqih attacked, at 00:30, enemy movements inside headquarters of the 80th
Brigade Command at Jamoussa with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The militants managed to score direct
and certain goals.
Half an hour later, the IR squad of martyrs Ahmad Abdallah Qaranbash and Nouh Abdel-Razek Ayash attacked Sojod
outpost with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Direct and definite goals were chalked up.
At the same time, the IR group of martyrs Said Youssef Ayoub and Kamel Hassan Badreddine targeted Bir Kallab outpost
with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The mujahedeen were able to score direct and certain hits.
Furthermore, the IR group of martyr Mohammad Abdel-Hussein Moselmani attacked, at 15:00, enemy movements inside Blat
post. The militants, who used the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, were able to chalk up direct and definite hits.
For its part, Amal Movement fired several 120mm shells at Salaah position…(3)
1- IR statement, 7-5-1999.
2- Future TV, 7-5-1999.
3- IR statement, 7-5-1999.
May Wednesday 12 -1999:
One collaborator killed, 5 injured in IR attacks
"The Islamic Resistance (IR) today (yesterday) scored new qualitative hits and operations against the "Israeli" occupation and
its collaborators, inflicting more human losses in their ranks.
"The collaborating militia acknowledged the death of one militiamen and the injury of four others in a qualitative operation
staged by IR this morning.
"IR's attack targeted an armored jeep in which high-ranking militia officers were riding on the road to the occupation's outpost
in Baraasheit.
"The occupation's militia said a roadside bomb exploded while an armored patrol was heading to the outpost of Baraasheit.
"Collaborators also announced that another bomb had exploded an hour earlier while one of their patrols was passing in the
Jezzine area, but concealed the outcome of the attack.
"Collaborators' sources stated that a militiaman was injured when an armored personnel carrier transporting the militiamen
injured in the Baraasheit attack overturned. The casualties toll rose to one killed and four others injured.
"Security sources in the occupied zone said two militiamen were killed in IR attacks today (yesterday).
IR issued a statement saying, "Although the "Israeli" occupation is using the most advanced and sophisticated technologies to
protect its troops and collaborators and to raise their collapsed morale, IR continued its painful hits against the enemy forces, as
the squad of Martyrs Hussein Bahij Nasser and Mohammed Hussein Haidar al-Jaohari at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday detonated a
powerful roadside bomb against an armored Jeep carrying high-ranking collaborators on the road to the occupation's outpost in
Baraasheit."
May Thursday 13 -1999:
"Israeli" occupation fails to appoint new 20th regiment commander…(1)
"As-Safir newspaper's correspondent in the eastern sector of south Lebanon said that as a result of the Islamic Resistance's
(IR) qualitative operations against the "Israeli" occupation forces and their collaborators and due to the state of floundering and
fear that the collaborators are living in the Jezzine enclave and other areas, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the
"Israeli" security service in Hasbaya in the presence of "Israeli" military and security officers in the so-called "Israeli" northern
command and liaison unit command, in addition to "officers" in the "Lahdi security service".
"After the three-hour meeting which was held amidst high and extraordinary security measures, the "Israeli" commanders failed
to convince any Lahdi collaborating "officer" to take the commanding post of the 20th regiment," as-Safir said.
"The post was offered to several officers, but they said they would leave the collaborating militia rather than take what they
called the "suicide post".
"The former commander of the 20th regiment, Joseph Karam (alias Alloush), currently lies in a critical condition at an occupied
Palestine hospital after he was targeted by IR Mujahedeen. His successor Mounah Touma was killed in another IR operation.
"It seems the "Israelis" has decided to merge the scattered and floundering 20th regiment into the Hasbaya regiment and to
consider the Jezzine area a military extension of the Hasbaya area, as-Safir correspondent added.
"Israeli" general stresses south off electoral map…(2)
"Thrusting Lebanon back onto the "Israeli" electoral agenda five days before the polls, Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz,
"Israel's" chief of staff, said Wednesday that he hoped to oversee a troop withdrawal from the occupation zone before leaving
office".
"But Mofaz, who has two years left in his post, remained vague on how a withdrawal could be achieved. “I hope that as chief
of staff I will have the privilege of withdrawing soldiers from the security zone,” he told a group of business people in
Beersheba.
"It was not the first time that Mofaz has voiced support for a withdrawal. He made similar public comments in January when the
"Israeli" Army feared that Premier Benjamin Netanyahu was planning to launch a vote-winning military campaign against
Hizbullah. The army has ruled out an unconditional withdrawal but also opposes an escalation of the conflict".
"Although the general’s remarks offered nothing new, they come at a time when it appears that the candidates in the "Israeli"
polls are anxious to drop the thorny subject of Lebanon altogether.
"The Katyusha rocket attack on western Galilee last week, was conspicuous by its failure to provoke any reaction from
Netanyahu. Previous rocket strikes into ""Israel" have prompted "Israeli" officials to deliver threats of dire revenge".
Indeed, the "Israeli" Army even appeared in the role of apologist for Hizbullah, claiming that the attack had consisted of mortar
rounds rather than the more psychologically emotive Katyushas. It also argued that the shells had not been intended to strike
"Israel" but had overshot their targets in the occupation zone".
"The "Israelis" continued to play down the attack in a 30-hour session of the five-nation Monitoring Group which ended
Wednesday evening. The final statement referred to the Katyushas as “122mm artillery rounds” and concluded that the attack
had been an “unintentional” violation of the April Understanding. It was the first time since the Monitoring Group was
established that a casualty-inducing rocket attack into "Israel" has been considered “unintentional.”"
1- Al-Manar TV, 12-5-1999.
2- The Daily Star, 13-5-1999.
May Saturday 15 -1999:
3 more collaborators desert militia…(1)
"Emphasizing the state of fear the collaborating militia is experiencing, in addition to militiamen's refusal to obey their
commanders' orders, three militiamen from occupied Shibaa deserted the militia and surrendered themselves to the Lebanese
security services".
"One of the deserters is the militia's newly-appointed security chief in Shibaa, Mostafa Qassem Nabaa.
Following the desertion, the "Israeli" occupation forces imposed a blockade on Shibaa, preventing residents from traveling to
liberated areas "until further notice".
A battalion commander resigns from Givati Brigade…(2)
"The "Israeli" army announced the resignation of a battalion commander in the "Givati Brigade", following the brigade's
increasing losses in south Lebanon".
"A soldier in the brigade killed his colleague before taking his own life. Another got killed when his vehicle overturned. A few
days later, a fourth brigade soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack by the Islamic Resistance near an "Israeli" occupation
outpost in the western sector".
"Investigation revealed malfunction in the brigade's performance.
"This is the second time a battalion commander resigns from the Givati brigade.
1- Al-Manar TV, 14-5-1999.
2- Same source.
May Sunday 16 -1999:
IR captures 2 collaborators, kills another, seizes M113 APC in new qualitative achievement
"In a new qualitative operation against the Israeli occupation forces and their collaborators, the Islamic Resistance's (IR)
Squads of al-Khiam Prisoners in the Special Forces at 5:30 Saturday attacked the Beit Yahoun outpost and crossing with
various types of arms".
"The Mujahedeen successfully infiltrated through the enemy's defenses, barbed wires and mine fields, before storming the
outpost. The Mujahedeen warned the collaborating militiamen and gave them time to surrender"
"The militiamen refused to give up and tried to attack the Mujahedeen who stormed into the outpost, captured a wounded
collaborator and killed the rest.
"After taking full control of the outpost, the Mujahedeen raised IR flags and seized an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, while
another IR squad was targeting the Beit Yahoun crossing, killing the militiamen manning it in order to allow the first squad to
bring out the APC.
"In the meantime other IR squads attacked the Israeli occupation's outposts and artillery emplacements in Haddatha,
Baraasheit, the 70th Regiment's Headquarters, Radar, Tair Harfa, Blat, Hmayyed, Rshaf, Jamoussa, the 17th, Mohaibib, Dahr
al-Assi, Mashaaroun, Sojod and Bir Kallab.
IR's Mujahedeen used machine guns, mortars and rocket propelled grenades in the 15 attacks, scoring direct hits".
"The Mujahedeen who brought out the M113 APC from the Beit Yahoun outpost to the liberated areas, were met by a crowd
of cheering citizens who stood on the roadsides of the Beit Yahoun-Haddatha Turn and at the Tibneen square".
"Despite Israeli heavy artillery bombardment, citizens chanted "Allah Akbar (God is great) while throwing roses at the
Mujahedeen in celebration of this victory.
"On the top of the M113, stood some of the Mujahedeen, who participated in the qualitative operation, as the streets and
squares in the liberated areas turned to real festive grounds.
IR's announcement of today's (yesterday’s) operations prompted the Israeli enemy to admit them. The collaborating militia's
radio said one collaborator was killed while an Israeli soldier and seven other militiamen were injured during several attacks on
military outposts in the western and mid sectors.
"The radio added that at least four of the injured militiamen were stationed in Beit Yahoun outpost.
"On the other hand, IR showed a videotape of the Beit Yahoun storming on al-Manar Television and other local TVs".
"The collaborators' militia in the afternoon acknowledged that one of its militiaman was killed and seven others were wounded
during the Beit Yahoun operation and IR's attacks on other enemy outposts, while security sources said eight collaborators
were wounded".
"An Israeli military spokesperson admitted that an Israeli soldier was seriously wounded in an IR attack on one of the
occupation's outposts in the eastern sector of the occupied zone.
The source said the Israeli soldier who was taken to a hospital inside occupied Palestine was hit by the explosion a mortar
round that fell inside the outpost".
"Moreover, IR this evening announced that a squad from the al-Khiam Prisoners' unit infiltrated though the Israeli occupation
lines last night into the occupied town of Talloussa.
"The Mujahedeen lay in wait for collaborator Assad Turmos all night long. When he arrived this morning (Saturday) at the
ambush site, he was captured.
"The squad returned to the liberated areas with collaborator Turmos".
"IR pledged its brothers in the Israeli prisons that it will keep working until they are all freed"…(1)
Furthermore, the IR group of martyr Ahmad Ali Ramadan attacked, at 8:15, enemy movements near Kfar Houna position with
the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Direct hits were scored, the militants reported.
Also, the IR team of martyrs Ahmad Jadallah Qaranbash and Nouh Abdel-Razzak attacked, at 23:45, enemy movements
inside Sojod outpost with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades chalking up direct hits.
For its part, two squads of the Lebanese Resistance Brigades (LRB) targeted, at 6:00, Soweida outpost with rocket-propelled
grenades and machine guns chalking up direct goals…(2)
1- Al-Manar TV, 15-5-1999.
2- IR statement, 15-5-1999.
May Tuesday 18 -1999:
Hizbullah SG: Mujahedeen trod on an "Israeli" outpost on Nakba day…(1)
"Hizbullah Secretary General his Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hailed the Mujahedeen of the Islamic Resistance who
have "trodden with their feet and shoes on an "Israeli" occupation outpost and on the head of the occupation in Bait Yahoun".
"Speaking before tens of thousands of people who gathered at the Hizbullah Shura Square to receive the Islamic Resistance
Mujahedeen who had seized an "Israeli" Armored Personnel Carrier, Sayyed Nasrallah said, "I thank and appreciate the
Mujahedeen; we kiss the foreheads and hands of these heroes who have presented the Ummah with a great and terrific model."
"We have seen their movements on television, and so did the whole world. They were examples of the brave reassured
Mujahedeen who do not fear death".
"The Secretary General also hailed the Mujahedeen who have taken part in the Islamic Resistance since it was launched in
1982. He greeted the martyrs' fathers, mothers, wives and children "with whose blessing the Resistance proceeds and defeat
the Zionist enemy".
Moreover, his Eminence commended all those who took to the streets from Bait Yahoun, Tibneen and Sidon on the day the
Bait Yahoun operation took place to welcome the Mujahedeen.
"He also thanked those who gathered today along the streets from Uzai to Haret Hreik to greet the Mujahedeen and stress the
method of Resistance.
"On Nakba day (the 1948 Catastrophe - the day the "Israeli" entity was created) the Mujahedeen overran an "Israeli"
occupation outpost, for our hearts are no longer haunted by fear nor are they living the spirit of the Nakba defeat," he said.
"On the contrary, we will be creating Nakba for the occupation and its collaborators, until all that was lost in 1949, 1967, and
1982 is recovered," he added.
"The Hizbullah Secretary General stressed that "no matter who wins today's "Israeli" elections, they are all the same, they only
differ in slyness and maneuvering, no matter who wins, he has only one choice before the Islamic Resistance's sacrifices: to
withdraw unconditionally".
His Eminence launched a call to exchange the Lahdi prisoners in Hizbullah's possession for prisoners in enemy prisons."
"I announce that the Resistance has four Lahdis who are offered for exchange for as many prisoner brethren as possible, he
said.
"At the beginning of the honorary ceremony, one of the Islamic Resistance's Mujahedeen, the one who has driven the APC
which was seized by the Resistance, saluted the Secretary General and presented him with a machine-gun".
"Sayyed Nasrallah saluted the crowds, raising the gun, before granting the Resistance man a medal and a sword with a koranic
verse inscribed on it".
Captured APC, infiltrated through the "Israeli" air blockade and reached Beirut…(2)
"Cooperating with the Lebanese army, Hizbullah succeeded in bringing to Beirut the collaborating militia's M113 armored
personnel carrier (APC) captured by the Mujahedeen during the qualitative operation against the Beit Yahoun crossing and
outpost last Saturday".
"Bringing the APC from the south to Beirut required a task of maximum security precautions and alert.
At 22:30 Saturday, the M113 arrived at the city of Sidon aboard a bulldozer carrier covered by pieces of nylon and fabric to
make it look like blocks of imported marbles in order to hide it from the "Israeli" surveillance aircraft, especially MK drones."
"As soon as the APC's engine was started up in a coastal southern village, the southern Lebanese skies were full of "Israeli"
MK drones and helicopters which intensively hovered over the coastal area from Tyre to Sidon, according to sources who
followed up the process step by step"
"The bulldozer carrier departed with the M113 aboard, accompanied by seven cars full of Mujahedeen equipped with SAM 7
missiles and wireless communication devices to secure a safe passage for the carrier, the sources stated".
"Due to the importance of the APC, the carrier stopped in Sidon near former MP Nazih Bizri's residence and disappeared
between buildings, while the Lebanese army air defense artillery conducted a special deployment along the Sidon coast and
intensively fired to intercept the "Israeli" helicopters and gunboats," the sources added.
"At 2:00 a.m. Sunday, after the sky and the sea became clear, orders were given to the bulldozer carrier to proceed with its
journey, crossing Maksar al-Abed in Sidon then al-Awali River, heading to Beirut with the escort of the Lebanese army until it
reached the designated destination".
1- Al-Manar TV, 17-5-1999.
2- Same source.
May Wednesday 19 -1999:
IR avenges death of two civilians by shelling Katyusha rockets:
]"Tension escalated in south Lebanon Monday night as the "Israeli" occupation forces bombarded the town of Eastern Zawtar
killing two young men in a blatant violation of the April Understanding.
"The Islamic Resistance (IR) swiftly and fiercely retaliated by launching Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Galilee area north
of occupied Palestine".
"In retaliation for the "Israeli" occupation forces' persistence in violating the April Understanding, the Islamic Resistance (IR) at
1:35 a.m. Tuesday launched Katyusha rockets against the "Israeli" settlements of Kiryat Shmona, Naharaya, Doreen and
Shlomi, scoring accurate hits, an IR communiqué read".
"The retaliation came in reprisal to the "Israeli" occupation's air raids and bombardment against the city of Baalback, Zibqeen,
Khorbet Selem and Eastern Zawtar where two civilians were martyred as the "Israeli" artillery shelled the town last night", the
statement added.
"IR renewed its commitment and readiness to pay back and deter the enemy at any time.
We will not let our people and villages be targeted. We pledge God to defend them", the communiqué concluded.
"Hizbullah official in the south Sheikh Nabil Qawooq said the "Israeli" enemy will always be targeted as long as it is occupying
our land, pointing out that the enemy's violations and aggressions will not benefit it, but will fire back and result in more losses in
the enemy's ranks".
"The "Israeli" radio acknowledged that nine "Israeli" settlers and four soldiers were injured during the Katyusha attacks on
"Israeli" settlements.
"Moreover, the radio admitted that four housing units were damaged while schools were shut down and settlers went into raid
shelters where they hid overnight"…(1)
Also, the IR group of martyr Kamel Hassan Badran attacked, at 17:00, a Lahdi engineering force as it was beefing up
Baraasheit compound with the adequate arms. The attack came as several trucks, carrying construction materials, were
entering the same post. The militants managed to score direct hits
Also, the IR group of martyr Hussein Zahreddine targeted, at 20:00, Sojod outpost with the machine guns and
rocket-propelled grenades. Direct goals were scored, the militants reported. At the same time, the IR team of martyr
Mohammad Hussein Kassem attacked Bir Kallab outpost with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades chalking up
direct and certain hits…(2)
Barak reiterates pledge to withdraw from Lebanon within a year…(3)
""Israeli" enemy's elected prime minister Ehud Barak said he will "end the conflict in Lebanon" within a year".
"He did not provide specifics of his plan, other than to say it would involve renewing negotiations with Syria"
"Barak was speaking barely an hour after occupied northern Palestine was struck by dozens of rockets fired by the Islamic
Resistance in retaliation for the killing of two Lebanese civilians by "Israeli" shelling on Monday".
"We are here in Rabin Square thinking of the thousands of citizens who are in shelters on the northern border, and I hereby
commit myself to do everything to take the army out of Lebanon within a year, Barak said.
"For his part, the "Israeli" entity's president Ezer Weizman said he backs reaching a speedy settlement, adding that Barak has
appropriate ideas in this regard".
""Israeli" enemy's radio said the "Israeli" army viewed the rocket attacks on Galilee "as very serious".
1- Al-Manar TV, 18-5-1999.
2- IR statement, 18-5-1999.
3- Al-Manar TV, 18-5-1999.
May Thursday 20 -1999:
Top "Israeli" officers ‘want to go home’…(1)
Report says brigade commanders see no point in continuing occupation
"Senior "Israeli" officers serving in the occupation zone have for the first time called for an immediate withdrawal, claiming that
there is no longer any reason to remain in Lebanon, according to a report Wednesday from "Israel" Radio".
"The contents of the report were described by a senior security source as “probably the most important development of the
past decade for south Lebanon.”
But Beirut was unimpressed: The report is yet another "Israeli" “trial balloon,” Information Minister Anwar Khalil said after the
Cabinet session Wednesday.
President Emile Lahoud said during the meeting that Lebanon would not compromise on its right to resist occupation and keep
pressing for a total and unconditional withdrawal. Premier Salim Hoss said Lebanon was not concerned with the results of the
"Israeli" elections, indicating that he did not foresee imminent movement in the peace process".
"At a closed-door meeting Sunday with "Israel's" chief of staff, General Shaul Mofaz, the commanding officers of the Givati and
Golani brigades and two battalion commanders said that there was no longer any reason to remain in Lebanon".
"The officers reportedly pointed out that the "Israeli" soldiers in the zone were spending most of their time in bunkers while
operational activity against the resistance was being carried out primarily by the "Israeli" Air Force".
"They argued that the soldiers could just as easily man bunkers on the "Israeli" side of the border without offering themselves as
targets for the resistance.
"Mofaz, accused last week of preventing senior officers from voicing pro-withdrawal opinions, reportedly told the meeting that
he would listen to these views and decide accordingly".
"Playing down the radio report, an "Israeli" Army spokesman denied that officers supporting a unilateral withdrawal had been
prevented from speaking out.
"Yossi Beilin, a Labor MP and leading advocate for an immediate withdrawal, blamed the Netanyahu Cabinet for “"Israel's"
march of folly” in Lebanon.
"In his regular briefings to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, Mofaz has repeatedly maintained that the
occupation zone is essential for the security of northern "Israel" in the absence of an agreement with Lebanon and Syria. This
assessment has been the driving force behind "Israel's" decision to continue the occupation".
“What the "Israeli" Army has to say on Lebanon is very important,” Timur Goksel, Unifil’s political adviser, told The Daily Star.
“Staying in Lebanon or not is in the hands of the "Israeli" Army. No one will order a withdrawal until the army says it’s safe to
do so.”
"The views of the commanding officers will almost certainly have a major impact on "Israeli" Premier-elect Ehud Barak’s pledge
to withdraw from the south within a year".
1- The Daily Star, 20-5-1999.
May Friday 21 -1999:
Confusion in collaborators' ranks follow Barak's statements…(1)
“A state of confusion and concern has been overtaking the collaborating militiamen and Lebanese laborers who work inside
occupied Palestine following the “Israeli” elections and the statements made by “Israeli” prime minister-elect Ehud Barak about
a withdrawal from south Lebanon within a year, as-Safir daily reported today (yesterday)”.
“The newspaper stated that tens of militiamen held meetings away from the “Israeli” occupation and its security services to
discuss their future after Barak's statements which they think will be at their own expense, especially that the Lebanese
authorities had already issued arrest warrants against many collaborators”.
“The militiamen discussed a number of options, including formation of groups that declare intention to join the Lebanese
legitimacy besides organizing mass desertion operations to liberated areas in the south, preceded by pleas of mercy to the
Lebanese officials in an attempt to ease potential punishment that they will face”, the report added.
“It was also reported that tens of militiamen took decisions to resign form the so-called "South Lebanon Army" militia as a first
step to settle their legal status in the eyes of the Lebanese state.
Observers expect that the coming period will witness major "shakeups" inside the so-called "SLA" in Jezzine, Hasbaya, Bint
Jbeil and Marjeyoun”.
“They also expected a rise in the number of deserting militiamen who will flee to liberated areas”.
1- Al-Manar TV, 20-5-1999.
May Saturday 22 -1999:
IR tears down the Beit Yahoun outpost over enemy troops' heads, attacks several other outposts
"In a great security achievement and infiltration, an Islamic Resistance's (IR) engineering squad at 10:30 a.m. Friday detonated
several powerful bombs which were planted inside and around the "Israeli" occupation's outpost in Beit Yahoun, destroying the
outpost over the heads of the manning troops who were either killed or injured".
"Residents in liberated frontline villages said they heard an extremely powerful explosion and saw condensed clouds of smoke
covering the outpost's area.
"When the smoke cleared out, most of the outpost's ramparts and reinforcements were completely destroyed by the blast,
residents added.
"IR issued the following statement:
"In a new qualitative achievement, and in spite of the "Israeli" enemy's exceptional precautions in the outpost of Beit Yahoun
following last week's storming of the outpost and the crossing of Beit Yahoun by IR Mujahedeen, in spite of the military plans
supervised by high-ranking "Israeli" officers, including the commander of the western brigade, in addition to the increase in the
number of troops and Merkava tanks' deployment in the surrounding hills, in spite of the alert and readiness inside the
neighboring outposts of Haddatha and Baraasheit, in spite of the state of caution and maximum alert inside the outpost itself,
and in a measure aimed at defying the enemy, IR's Mujahedeen attacked the occupation's outpost in Beit Yahoun for the
second time in a week, placing the "Israeli" enemy's arrogance under their feet, as IR's squad of Martyr Zahi Haidar Ahmed
from the Brigade of Martyr Hadi Nasrallah in the Special Forces infiltrated through all these measures and planted several
powerful bombs inside the Beit Yahoun outpost.
"At 10:30 Friday, the squad detonated the bombs, destroying the outpost, killing and injuring the manning troops.
"IR distributed a videotape of the qualitative operation, which was shot by an IR cameraman, to local television stations.
"On the other hand, "Israeli" radio Friday admitted the injury of one "Israeli" soldier, saying he was hit when an "Israeli"
occupation force found itself trapped in an IR ambush in the Eastern sector.
"The clash resulted in the injury of the occupation soldier who was hit by a hand grenade shrapnel.
"The "Israeli" occupation is now investigating the incident, the Radio added.
"Moreover, IR's squad of Martyr Abdel-Amir Fadel at dawn Friday attacked an "Israeli" motorized force that was attempting
to take positions on the al-Rihan Hilltops with the appropriate weapons.
"The squad of Martyr Ali Oleiq, meanwhile, staged a similar attack against an enemy force in Kassaret al-Oroush.
"The Mujahedeen scored definite hits in both attacks.
"In addition, squad of Martyrs Mustafa Nathar and Ahmed Yassine targeted enemy movements inside the occupation's outpost
in Sojod with the adequate arms, scoring definite hits"…(1)
For its part, The Daily Star reported " Hizbullah guerrillas blew up the “old” Beit Yahoun outpost in the western sector, six days
after the position was over-run by the resistance.
"Security sources said that considerable damage was done to the northern fortifications.
"Two militiamen standing near the outpost at the time of the blast were seen running for cover. A short while later a car drove
out of the position. No casualties were reported.
"The South Lebanon Army*-run Voice of the South radio claimed that the post had been empty for two years, apparently
forgetting that one of their militiamen was killed, another captured and seven wounded when the post was stormed last
Saturday.
"Security sources said that three 106mm recoilless rifle rounds were fired at both the “old” and “new” Beit Yahoun outposts
Thursday night, providing cover for fighters to penetrate the perimeter and plant the charges. Al-Manar broadcast video
footage Friday night of the fighters approaching the outpost and planting the explosives...(2)
1- Al-Manar TV, 21-5-1999.
2- The Daily Star, 22-5-1999.
May Sunday 23 -1999:
"Israel" able to withdraw from Lebanon in a year, say Barak intimates…(1)
"An "Israeli" pullout from southern Lebanon within a year is quite "feasible", two "Israeli" retired generals close to enemy prime
minister-elect Ehud Barak said Saturday".
"The withdrawal of our troops from Lebanon within the next year is a perfectly feasible goal," Yossi Peled told "Israeli" army
radio.
"Peled, as a former commander of "Israel's" northern region, was at one time in charge of the occupation forces' military
activities in Lebanon.
"Dany Yatom, a former head of the "Israeli" Mossad secret service, told "Israel’s" public radio he hoped an agreement with
Lebanon and Syria would make the withdrawal possible, and lead to further "peace" moves with the two countries".
"Peled and Yatom are members of a circle of former officers who advised Barak during his election campaign".
"A pullout from Lebanon was one of Barak's key election promises. He did not provide specifics other than to say it would
involve renewing settlement negotiations with Syria".
Lahd militia disintegrating…(2)
"British Foreign Report , which is specialized in security affairs, reported that collaborator Antoine Lahd's militia is
disintegrating".
"This militia is unable to recruit members to man its outposts, while some of the militia's officers and members are "suspected" of
cooperating with Hizbullah, the report said.
"It stated that "Israel" had failed to find a replacement for the militia's chief agent Antoine Lahd and pointed out that the
commander of the militia's training camp, in addition to hundreds of militiamen, immigrated to Sweden."
"A number of militiamen in the militia's security service benefited from the amnesty offer and deserted the militia along with the
names of their collaborators to Hizbullah, the report added.
"It concluded that although the "Israeli" occupation is still paying the collaborators' wages in addition to feeding, training and
arming these militiamen, many of those have shifted their loyalty to Hizbullah".
1- Al-Manar TV, 22-5-1999.
2- Same source.
May Monday 24 -1999:
Collaborators refused to re-occupy Beit Yahoun post…(1)
"According to "Israeli" military sources, the SLA* militia has refused to re-occupy the ‘old’ Beit Yahoun outpost in the western
sector after it was over-run by Hizbullah fighters May 15 and blown up last Friday. The outpost remained empty until last
Wednesday while repair work was carried out. But Hizbullah guerrillas sneaked into the compound to lay explosive charges
which they detonated Friday morning. SLA militiamen fled the outpost and are refusing to return".
"In "Israel", Yossi Peled, a former army commander in Lebanon, said Barak’s pledge of withdrawal within a year “was a
perfectly reasonable goal.”"
Lebanon: Business as usual, but not diplomacy as usual…(2)
"The defense minister's bureau will soon have an occupant committed to an IDF** pullback from southern Lebanon within a
year. Naturally, this fact has not yet produced any changes in IDF planning. Even before he declared that the withdrawal would
be implemented within 12 months, the top brass knew that Ehud Barak never favored the defense zone concept. In 1985,
when Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin held discussions on the IDF's redeployment along "Israel's" northern frontier, Barak was
skeptical about the merits of a defense zone. Barak's election has not changed the general staff's assessment regarding the
security zone, which does not favor a unilateral withdrawal. This position was recently reinforced by the assessment of the
IDF's military intelligence branch that was presented to the general staff and which predicts that a unilateral withdrawal without
a written agreement can almost guarantee continued Hizbullah attacks on "Israel" from Lebanese soil. Nonetheless, the IDF
emphasizes, should the government decide on a unilateral withdrawal anyway, this assessment should not prove an obstacle".
"The general staff, so its members maintain, has not prepared a withdrawal dossier. Nonetheless, they deny the claim that a
withdrawal decision would generate a complicated, lengthy transition. Technically, the withdrawal is not a complex task. The
post-withdrawal situation is, of course, another kettle of fish".
"Certain investments related to southern Lebanon express "business as usual." These include the heavy investment in an
advanced electronic warning system specified in the IDF's annual work plan, which is unconnected to Barak's withdrawal
timetable".
"Operationally, an important change has lately been made concerning IAF activity in Lebanon. The head of Northern
Command is authorized to order helicopters and fighter planes to enter the defense zone, without requesting permission from
higher echelons, which is the usual procedure. The chances of hitting "instant targets" is thus greater" "Actually, it is "business
almost as usual" in Lebanon. Something is happening in the South Lebanon Army, the welfare of whose personnel and their
families is the IDF's responsibility. SLA commanders hear the public debate in "Israel" on the defense zone's future and are now
hearing an additional voice - that of Prime Minister-elect Barak who advocates withdrawal within a year. They are justifiably
worried. Hizbullah knows this fact and is now focusing - and will focus over the next few weeks - on eliminating SLA
outposts".
"Local SLA forces in the Jezzine enclave were confused when Hizbullah killed a battalion commander and the battalion
headquarters company commander. Last week, Hizbullah removed an armored troop carrier and a soldier from the SLA
outpost in Bet Yahoun, and this event is perhaps symptomatic of a general malaise. The kidnapped soldier was the ATC's
driver and there is a strong suspicion that there was no abduction and that he cooperated with his Hizbullah "captors." The affair
began a short while before, when two local SLA soldiers defected to Hizbullah, which explains the accurate intelligence
information in the hands of the Hizbullah raiders. The attack lasted less than 15 minutes and the report on the captured ATC
reached IDF headquarters after a considerable delay. The IDF thus entered the picture rather late and found it difficult to hunt
the ATC from the air. Hizbullah emerged victorious in this skirmish leaving no dead bodies on the ground."
"The fact that business is proceeding almost as usual in southern Lebanon was also reflected in the general staff's meeting with
senior commanders concerning the policy on the use of force in Lebanon. More and more senior officers are criticizing the
combat theory applied in the defense zone and their numbers will increase in the wake of Barak's withdrawal commitment. Two
regional regiment commanders now say that, given the many restrictions on IDF activities, the same operational results could be
obtained from behind the Green Line. When one of these commanders tried to express this view, attempts were made to
silence him with the argument that this subject was not being discussed; nonetheless, Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz allowed the
commander to finish his statement".
"Incidentally, the argument that Netanyahu's security cabinet did not meet senior Northern Command officers is untrue. In the
debate on the security zone, two divisional commanders appeared before the ministers (an unusual event). Even Mossad's
deputy chief, Amiram Levine, formerly head of the Northern Command, participated. Although the ministers were told that
some officers opposed a continued "Israeli" presence in Lebanon, they did not ask to see them, instead proceeding to Lebanon
for a field trip, during which they met regimental commanders, the head of the general staff and the Northern Command's chief
intelligence officer. After the visit, several officers felt that some of the ministers lacked a basic understanding of both the topics
presented to them and southern Lebanon's topography".
1- The Daily Star, 24-5-1999.
2- Haaretz, 24-5-1999.
* It is an "Israeli" nomination we absolutely reject for it contradicts with Lebanon's independence and sovereignty.
This army is not but an "Israeli" agent working for realizing "Israel's" goals in Lebanon.
** This term is absolutely unacceptable. "Israel's" Army is that of war and aggression for it protects land gained by
force, confiscation and war in contradiction with the simplest rights of human confessed by the international laws and
conventions.
May Tuesday 25 -1999:
"Israeli" occupation permanently shuts down Beit Yahoun crossing…(1)
""Israeli" occupation forces and their collaborators Monday permanently shut down the Beit Yahoun crossing and replaced it
with the al-Hamra crossing, following the refusal of the militiamen and their officers to return to the outpost, which was lately
attacked and destroyed by large quantities of explosives planted by the Islamic Resistance (IR), reports from the occupied zone
said.
"The reports stated that the "Israeli" occupation has adopted tight security measures around the al-Hamra crossing which the
enemy is reinforcing with personnel and surveillance equipment to prevent further IR attacks similar to the one staged in Beit
Yahoun".
"The crossing is one of six linking the liberated areas to the occupied zone. It is used by people crossing to and from the Bint
Jbeil district and Marjeyoun area villages".
"Security sources in Jezzine said the "Israeli" occupation and its collaborators have used a bulldozer to broaden the roadsides
form Roum to Azour, in a desperate attempt to curb the number of "Israeli" and collaborators' casualties inflicted by IR
bombs".
"These roadside bombs have recently killed and injured a large number of collaborating officers and militiamen".
1- Al-Manar TV, 24-5-1999.
May Wednesday 26 -1999:
Sayyed Nasrallah expects withdrawal from Jezzine…(1)
"Hizbullah's Secretary General his Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the "Israeli" enemy is likely to take a decision of
pullout from the Jezzine enclave in the near future".
"In a lecture at the Imam al-Qa'em (A.S) Mosque, his Eminence said, "This withdrawal will take place due to field conditions,
not a political ones."
"The number of militiamen in the collaborating 20th regiment, positioned along a 20-kilometer front, is now 175 only, Sayyed
Nasrallah stated, adding that the "Israeli" occupation has nothing left but to send its troops and tanks to replace the 20th
regiment".
"But such a move does not go along with the enemy's policy of reducing the number of soldiers and curbing the occupation's
human losses", the Secretary General concluded.
"Israeli" enemy admits collapse of collaborating militia, but no ready file for withdraw…(2)
""Israeli" media today (yesterday) reported that there is no ready file in the possession of the "Israeli" prime minister-elect Ehud
Barak about withdrawal from south Lebanon.
Ha'aretz said the opinion of the "Israeli" army general staff about south Lebanon, namely not advocating a unilateral pullout, is
still the same following Barak's election".
"General staff circles, however, say that if a withdrawal decision is taken, it will not take a long time to prepare for such a
measure, Ha'aretz added.
"Deputy head of the so-called "Israeli" army operation Maj - Gen Dan Halutz stated on Monday that the collaborating militia is
on the verge of collapse due to the Islamic Resistance Mujahedeen's blows".
"He told the "Israeli" cabinet that the militia is bearing the brunt of the (resistance's) attacks and is experiencing great pressure
from Hizbullah".
"As for the "Israeli" daily Ma'ariv, it said the "Israeli" army command is trying hard to make collaborating militiamen man the
outpost of Beit Yahoun after they fled from it refusing to return following the storming of the Islamic Resistance's Mujahedeen
of the outpost".
"Meanwhile, desertion of militiamen from the proxy militia and the occupied zone toward the liberated areas went on.
Militiaman Shadi Mansour fled Monday night from his outpost in the Jezzine area and surrendered himself to the Lebanese
army".
"Furthermore, former "Israeli" prime Minister Shimon Peres announced his support for a speedy withdrawal of the "Israeli"
occupation form south Lebanon".
"I am convinced that a military withdrawal from the south can take place in one year," Peres stated.
He added, "there is no reason to maintain the "Israeli" army in Lebanon until a settlement with Syria is reached if it is possible to
achieve this (withdrawal) in a short time."
"In an interview with the Kuwaiti al-Rai al-Aam Peres expected an "Israeli" pull out in one year".
1- Al-Manar TV, 25-5-1999.
2- Same source.
May Thursday 27 -1999:
"Israeli" occupation preparing to quit Jezzine…(1)
"In what is set to be the most significant shake-up in the occupation zone since 1985, "Israel's" proxy, the South Lebanon Army
militia, has begun making arrangements to withdraw from the embattled Jezzine district, a move that observers say could begin
as soon as the weekend"
"The first major alteration to the occupation zone in 14 years comes as "Israel's" premier-elect Ehud Barak begins to formulate
a diplomatic initiative allowing him to fulfill his electoral promise of withdrawing "Israeli" troops from Lebanon in a year" .
"Prime Minister Salim Hoss told Wednesday’s Cabinet session that Jezzine may well be part of the “difficult to predict” regional
developments resulting from Barak’s election victory.
The Lebanese, he said, “are more than ever required to close ranks to counter the challenges of this new phase and the dangers
that may ensue.”
"After the session, Information Minister Anwar Khalil said the government had “discussed the movement on the ground in
Jezzine, which so far has not pointed to any withdrawal.”
He ducked a question about the forces that would take over security duties in the enclave in the event of a withdrawal, insisting
that “the Lebanese Army will not be pushed into a conflict.”
“Let the enemy forces withdraw and then we’ll make our plans clear. We won’t be lured into exposing our cards,” he said.
“We need to establish whether "Israel" wants to withdraw, whether it’s a partial withdrawal and the circumstances for the
withdrawal,” he added. “Lebanon isn’t here to serve "Israeli" interests.”
"The anticipated pullback, believed to be a unilateral decision by the SLA and the "Israelis", is designed to relieve the pressure
on the battered militia while also providing an opportunity to observe the government’s reaction to the redeployment.
"The militiamen in Jezzine were informed of the decision two days ago and have begun packing their belongings prior to moving
their families to the "Israeli"-controlled part of the occupation zone further south.
"Reports from Jezzine said that the SLA has ordered a demonstration in support of the militia for Thursday. SLA commander
Antoine Lahd is expected to visit the district in the next few days to give further instructions to his militia."
"The "Israelis" have refused to comment officially on the purported withdrawal.
"A senior parliamentary source said Wednesday that the reports of a withdrawal were serious and that the SLA is expected to
pull out of the Jezzine area shortly".
"Observers said that the withdrawal was almost certainly an internal decision taken at the behest of Lahd and approved by the
"Israeli" Army, which no longer has a strategic military purpose in retaining the enclave".
"Military sources said that the withdrawal would take no more than two or three days, depending on the logistics of dismantling
equipment and transporting it to new positions. The location of the new front line is uncertain, although the most obvious option
would see a line follow the existing outposts running along the hilltops south of the Zahrani Wadi between Loweizeh and Kfar
Houna".
"The sources said that militiamen under the command of Hashem Aql in the zone’s western sector are on standby to deploy in
Jezzine to protect the withdrawal from resistance attacks".
HIZBULLAH SAYS LEBANESE AUTHORITIES IN CHARGE OF SECURITY IF "ISRAEL" WITHDRAWS
FROM Jezzine…(2)
"Sayyed Nawaf Mousawi of Hizbullah stressed, the Lebanese government would naturally be responsible for the security of
Jezzine following a pullout by "Israeli" occupation troops and their proxy militia. Sayyed Mousawi told Future Television,
"Israel's" allied militia is no longer capable of maintaining occupation outposts in the region, following successful resistance
operations. But he warned that one needs to wait and see the extent of any withdrawal from the Jezzine enclave. Mousawi
rejected any talk of security guarantees as previously demanded by "Israel", saying the Hizbullah resistance movement's mission
is quote solely the resistance of "Israeli" occupation troops, neither more nor less. Mousawi added, "Israel's" ran militia has
been increasingly deserting front-line posts, and the security situation did not deteriorate or lead to any conflicts as "Israel"
claims would happen in the absence of security guarantees granted by Beirut. The Hizbullah official praised Jezzine residents,
saying they have been refusing to collaborate with the militia, which led to a dwindling in the force and caused its collapse. The
withdrawal of occupation troops from Jezzine or from any other part of southern Lebanon, Mousawi stressed, is the fruit of
effective resistance attacks".
Deadly path to pullback…(3)
"Since May 1997, 39 militiamen have been killed in Jezzine, most of them from roadside bombs.
In recent months, Hizbullah’s improved intelligence in the Jezzine area has allowed resistance fighters virtual free rein in
attacking and even capturing militiamen. There are believed to be some 170 militiamen left in the enclave, most from outside the
area".
Key events that have led to the pullback:
• Sept. 18, 1998: SLA abandons the Toumat Niha outpost, east of Jezzine, after a wave of deadly resistance attacks.
• Dec. 28, 1998: Seventeen militiamen defect from their post at Anan. The SLA withdraws its frontline to Roum, pulling out of
seven villages.
• Apr. 23, 1999: SLA Jezzine commander Joseph Karam is critically wounded in a roadside bomb ambush.
• May 4, 1999: Karam’s successor, Mounah Touma, is killed in another roadside bomb blast. The militia in Jezzine is placed
under the control of the SLA in Hasbaya after a replacement for Touma cannot be found.
"Israel's" PROXY MILITIA QUICKLY CRUMBLING
""Israeli" allied militiamen have been refusing to take up posts in Jezzine and surrounding areas, fearing highly effective resistance
operations. The morale of the militia has been crumbling. Many top officers in the force are said to have guaranteed "Israeli"
citizenship and pledges from Western states to grant them asylum".
""Israel's" allied militia whose morale has dived to record lows recently, have been refusing to reoccupy front-line positions in
the Jezzine enclave. Top militia commanders have either been killed or captured by Hizbullah resistance fighters, or they have
defected to government-held territories. Earlier this month, resistance fighters captured Boutros Wehbeh when they infiltrated
occupied Jezzine. He was taken to liberated areas. Days before that operation, resistance fighters detonated a roadside bomb
on a Jezzine road, killing Monah Touma, who had yet to take his new position as "Israel's" top allied commander in Jezzine. He
was supposed to replace Jospeh Karam who was seriously wounded in a similar Hizbullah bombing. Some reports said Karam
died in an "Israeli" hospital. The demoralized militia has not only been crumbling in the Jezzine region. Militiamen have refused to
re-occupy a position at Beit Yahoun in the central sector of the occupied zone. The outpost was overrun by resistance fighters
on May 15, the commander of the outposts was killed. "Israeli" officers have tried in vain to persuade the militia to return to the
position. Hizbullah leaders have been calling on militia fighters to abandon the force and defect to government-controlled areas.
A growing number of men have abided by the call. "Israel" finances, trains, and controls the three-thousand man militia, headed
by Antoine Lahd since it was established in 1985. Lahd is a former army general, who has been sentenced to death by a Beirut
military court for collaborating with "Israel", and assisting "Israeli" occupation troops in their war against Lebanon. "Israel" has
been occupying parts of southern Lebanon since 1978. Some one thousand "Israeli" soldiers are stationed in the area"…(4)
1- The Daily Star, 27-5-1999.
2- Future TV, 26-5-1999.
3- The Daily Star, 27-5-1999.
4- Future TV, 26-5-1999.
May Friday 28 -1999:
“ISRAEL” GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR MILITIA WITHDRAWAL FROM Jezzine…(1)
"“Israel’s” Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak today (yesterday) said he will withdraw “Israeli” forces from Lebanon within a
year as part of a negotiated agreement. During a visit to northern “Israel”, Barak stressed, “Israel” will resume peace talks with
Syria.
Meanwhile, “Israeli” Chief of Staff Shaul Mohfaz today (yesterday) confirmed that the “Israeli” allied militia is preparing to
withdraw from the southern town of Jezzine. Mofaz claimed, the decision was taken independently by the head of the militia,
Antoine Lahd. Lebanon's Information Minister Anwar Khalil reaffirmed, “Israel” should withdraw from all occupied territories,
adding the government is capable of protecting the residents of Jezzine in the event the militia pulls out".
"Military sources in “Israel” were today (yesterday) quoted as saying the “Israeli”-allied militia could begin pulling out of Jezzine
as early as next week in what some “Israeli” leaders described as a trial run for a full withdrawal of “Israeli” occupation forces
from southern Lebanon. Sources were also reported as saying Antoine Lahd, the head of the militia will announce in a few days
the decision to withdraw occupation forces from Jezzine, a mountainous region covering about 200 square kilometers, to the
east of the port city of Sidon. “Israeli” television reported that Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak was informed of the planned
pullout from Jezzine and approved the move. The 3,000 militia force, which is trained, financed and controlled by “Israel”,
occupied Jezzine in 1985 when “Israeli” forces that invaded Lebanon in 1982 withdrew to the current fifteen-kilometer
occupied zone. Officials in Beirut denied an “Israeli” press report which said “Israel” and Lebanon held indirect talks to end
Jezzine's occupation. Beirut also said quote let “Israel” withdraw from Lebanon and the Lebanese government will take the
necessary step. But officials have not specified whether the Lebanese Army will move to fill in the security vacuum in the region.
“Israel” radio today (yesterday) reported that the occupation-backed militia has initiated steps for its withdrawal form Jezzine.
It cited security sources as saying the withdrawal would be a quote trial run for a total “Israeli” troops withdrawal from
Lebanon. “Israel” radio and witnesses in the Jezzine region said militiamen and their families have packed their belongings and
were waiting for the order to leave. Lahd has reportedly ordered all militia officers and their families to go to Marjeyoun and
other towns deep inside the zone “Israel” occupies. Jezzine notables have called on the government to immediately deploy the
Lebanese Army in Jezzine following a militia withdrawal. Jezzine residents said many trucks were seen leaving Jezzine, packed
with military ware. The “Israeli”-allied militia has been suffering heavy losses at the hands of the Lebanese resistance. In the past
few months, militiamen have deserted a five kilometer wide area in the Jezzine region, refusing to man posts there, as resistance
operations have become more effective and highly successful. Jezzine overlooks Sidon and is situated at the southern end of the
Beqaa Valley. “Israeli” commentators said “Israel” will be watching closely to see if the Lebanese Army will move into Jezzine
and if it will allow resistance fighters to use the area to launch attacks against occupation outposts in the south".
“Israel’s” ALLIED MILITIA WILL DISINTEGRATE THIS YEAR: SHEIKH KASSEM…(2)
“Hizbullah's deputy secretary-general Sheikh Naeem Kassem today predicted that 1999 will be the year of the disintegration of
“Israel’s” proxy militia. Kassem said the militia has failed to carry out the “Israeli” agenda in Lebanon, pointing out that recently,
“Israel” dispatched reinforcements to certain militia posts to replace inept forces. Some 1,800 “Israeli”-trained and financed
fighters aid “Israel” in its war against Lebanon and the occupation of Lebanese territory. But over the past few months, the
morale of the militia dipped to record lows as its high-ranking commanders were either killed or snatched by Lebanese
resistance fighters”.
1- Future, 27-5-1999.
2- Future TV, 27-5-1999.
May Monday 31 -1999:
Nasrallah: Militiamen should be tried…(1)
In response to what have been rumored about Hizbullah's intention in the recent days, Hizbullah Secretary General H.E.
Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah held a press conference in which he dismissed the attempts to put the resistance in dock "as if the
Islamic Resistance men, who sacrificed themselves, are group that terrifies some of the Lebanese. These attempts had been
fueled by "Israel" and the U.S. Embassy in Beirut".
Nasrallah wondered: "Do you ask us to reassure our people for whom we offered our brothers and sons so as to live in
freedom and restore them to the homeland?"
He demanded that "each one raised, badly, this point must apologize to the Resistance".
Nasrallah dismissed as "exaggerated fears of Jezzine notables that the town would be left in a dangerous security vacuum until
the deployment of the Lebanese Army personnel. "All this commotion is not for the protection of residents who refused to
collaborate with the enemy who are numerous, he said. "This artificial concern is intended to protect treacherous collaborators".
"No one can offer assurances or guarantees for the agents because Lahd's militia didn't end and is still serving the enemy", he
added.
Hizbullah leader, called on the collaborators to defect before "Israel's" retreat for "those who serve the enemy until the last day
and have not renounced that collaboration when the enemy drops them should not benefit from an amnesty".
Nasrallah was quoted as saying that "any pro-"Israeli" militiamen who will stay in Jezzine following the collaborator's withdrawal
should be turned over to the Lebanese competent authorities in order to be tried for their cooperating with the "Israeli" enemy".
He, finally, ended that "in spite we are a victory climate, I call on the supporters not to celebrate or harass Jezzine inhabitants
for the circumstances that escorted the decision of withdrawal were not good and healthy".
"Israeli" agent Lahd wants to resign…(2)
"Haaretz, an "Israeli" newspaper reported that the "Israeli" agent Antoine Lahd, wants to resign, a Channel One television news
report said last night. According to the report, Lahd foresees an early "Israeli" withdrawal from the security zone, in which he
has become a symbol of cooperation with "Israel"".
"The sources say that Lahd has mentioned the idea of retiring on a number of occasions in the past few years, naming both his
unease about the situation in Lebanon - and concern about his own future - as reasons. "Lahd already spends a couple of
months a year in Paris, where much of his family lives. He leaves the day to day operations of the militia in the hands of his top
officers."
1- As-Safir, 31-5-1999.
2- Haaretz, 31-5-1999.
May Saturday 29 -1999:
State's security authority is the one to hold militiamen accountable, Hizbullah…(1)
"Withdrawal (from Jezzine) is not a favor from those who are pulling out, but because they are forced to do so, the daily
al-Sharq al-Aossat quoted a Hizbullah source as saying".
"The source said, "there are some 185 collaborating militiamen in Jezzine," stressing that "Hizbullah is not, in any way,
concerned about the security situation, for this is the duty of the Lebanese army and the state's security services."
"However, Hizbullah does not acknowledge any "closed areas", the source emphasized, refusing the idea of closing Jezzine in
the face of the Resistance men".
"Moreover, the source pointed out "the Jezzine residents' cooperation and sympathy with the Resistance has had the most
impact in the supremacy over the "Israeli" occupation."
"He found it strange to hear that residents in Jezzine have some fears as the town is returning to be a part of the nation again".
"The source reiterated that the Lebanese authority, not Hizbullah, is the one entitled to hold Jezzine's militiamen accountable
after the withdrawal. But he did not rule out the possibility of information cooperation with the concerned services in this
matter".
"Elsewhere, "Israeli" commentator Ofer Shelah said the decision to withdraw from Jezzine highlighted the ambiguity in
""Israel's"" strategy".
"Hizbullah has won another battle,'' Shelah wrote in the daily Ma'ariv. "The SLA* is showing signs of collapse, and "Israel",
which has not yet prepared a real withdrawal program ... will find it even more difficult to close the gaps.''
President Lahoud: No guarantees or arrangements for any kind of withdrawal…(2)
"President Emile Lahoud was quoted by his visitors as saying that Lebanon has always made it clear that it will not offer security
guarantees or arrangements for any "Israeli" withdrawal outside the framework of a just peace which includes Lebanon and
Syria equally".
"The President added that the “security of Jezzine and its people was threatened by the presence of "Israeli" and SLA fighters
and not by the end of the occupation, contrary to what some are trying to say.”
Goksel: The withdrawal is direct result of militia collapse…(3)
"Timur Goksel, Unifil’s political adviser, dismissed speculation of a hidden purpose behind the pullback, arguing that the militia
had collapsed in Jezzine and that a withdrawal was therefore inevitable."
“It isn’t ‘Jezzine First’ or ‘Jezzine Last.’ It’s ‘Jezzine Must’,” he said, referring to the ill-fated U.S. proposal for a phased
withdrawal. “The SLA folks simply couldn’t hold it” any longer.
"Israeli" occupation soldiers fleeing Lebanon…(4)
"A large number of "Israeli" (occupation) troops are fleeing their units that are positioned in Lebanon, an "Israeli" daily said
yesterday".
""Israeli" Ma'ariv said the troops have been deserting their units over the last few months because their parents have threatened
to expel them from their (parents) houses if they returned to Lebanon".
"Investigations conducted by these "Israeli" units' commanders revealed that this phenomenon is spreading widely.
"However, "Israeli" high-ranking officers said, "It is hard to explain to the soldiers, what they are doing in Lebanon, while prime
minister-elect (Ehud Barak) announces that he will pull out the army (from Lebanon) within one year. It gets even harder when
we try to explain our presence in Lebanon to the soldiers' parents".
1- Al-Manar TV, 28-5-1999.
2- The Daily Star, 29-5-1999.
3- Same source.
4- Al-Manar TV, 28-5-1999.
May Sunday 30 -1999:
Militia dismantles another outpost in Jezzine…(1)
""Israeli" occupation's militia is proceeding with dismantling its outposts and facilities in the Jezzine enclave as a prelude for this
militia's retreat due to the state of collapse it has reached as a result of the Islamic Resistance's successive operations against the
collaborators.
"High-ranking sources expected the withdrawal of the enemy and its collaborators from Jezzine to take place within two or
three days.
"The proxy militia this morning evacuated an advanced position in Kroum al-Arz that overlooks the Bater-Shouf crossing,
security reports said.
"Large military trucks were seen moving equipment from the outpost to the Kfarhouna crossing; most of the outpost's ramparts
and fortifications have been dynamited, the reports added.
The militia yesterday dismantled the communications and surveillance devices at the Daher al-Ramla outpost; these were
transferred to a hilltop overlooking the Kfarhouna crossing.
"On the other hand, reports said a dispute has erupted between the militia chief agent Antoine Lahd and the "Israeli" military
northern area command over the positions that the militia is to evacuate.
Reports said the occupation army prefers a partial withdrawal from Jezzine to guarantee that "Israeli" positions remain in back
lines, away from the resistance's attacks.
"Elsewhere, a meeting in Marjayoun that was called upon by agent Lahd was aborted, as the Jezzine notables who had been
summoned by the collaborators' chief refused to attend the meeting.
Some of the summoned left Jezzine to Beirut, including the Roum Mayor Jirji Haddad.
"It was reported that Lahd will hold a press conference in Marjayoun on Monday to explain the decision of withdrawal from
Jezzine"
"On the other hand, collaborating militiamen last night arrested a Jezzine teacher.
Nabil Arheel was on is way back home when the militiamen abducted him because he called up Al-Manar Television's "Hadith
al-Sa'aa" talk show.
"During the talk show which hosted Hizbullah Deputy Secretary General and former Jezzine MP Edmund Rizq, Arheel praised
the Islamic Resistance "whose operations have liberated the enclave."
The militia questioned Arheel and kept him in custody until this morning.
1- Al-Manar TV, 29-5-1999.
joseph hobeika
Lebanese news
Hobeika says Hoss wasn’t on his hit list
Former Lebanese Forces militia leader Elie Hobeika denied Sunday that he sent two car bombs
during the civil war to kill Salim Hoss and Mustafa Saad, now respectively the prime minister and a
Sidon MP.
“When the attempt on Mr. Hoss’ life took place in 1985, Mr. Hoss was education minister,” said
Hobeika, who is now a Baabda MP. “He wasn’t a threat to the LF and I say this with due respect.
He wasn’t the leader of a militia.”
He called on Hoss to keep up his efforts to bring the case to court based on comments made by
Hobeika’s former bodyguard, Robert Maroun Hatem. “I’m ready for lifting my parliamentary
immunity,” the MP said.
In a live interview with former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s Future TV, Hobeika also denied that he
sent a car bomb to Saad’s home in Sidon.
“The LF was fighting in eastern Sidon and Iqlim al-Kharroub,” he said. “We wanted to keep Sidon
stable. Also, Mr. Saad was a moderate leader with whom we had good ties.”
Hobeika denied involvement in the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinians, drawing on
journalist Robert Fisk’s book Pity the Nation and Hatem’s book From Israel to Damascus to hint
that Saad Haddad’s pro-Israeli militia had a role.
Hobeika also said that President-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated under orders from PLO
leader Abu Iyad, the nom de guerre of Salah Khalaf.
Hobeika said that Nabil Alam, a Syrian Social Nationalist Party security official with loyalties to Abu
Iyad and not the SSNP leadership had ordered Gemayel’s 1982 killing: “There was a pro-Syria
group and an anti-Syria group. It was the second.”
Hobeika said he conducted interrogations of Habib Shartouni, the SSNP partisan who planted the
bomb in Achrafieh that killed Gemayel.
Hatem, alias Cobra, made the allegations in a book and an interview with Qatari-based Al-Jazeera
Television recently. Hobeika has filed a libel suit here against Al-Jazeera and similar suits against
Hatem here and in Paris, where Hatem is believed to be living.
According to an opinion poll by FTV over Hatem’s credibility, people who believed his allegations
dropped from 73.8 percent at the beginning of the interview to below 18 percent around the end .
joseph hobeika
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998
Arabs condemning Israel for its racism and violations of Palestinian
civil rights must apply those same standards to the Arab world, which
needs reform--democracy, greater individual liberties and rights for
women-- according to prominent Palestinian writer and professor Dr.
Edward Said.
In a well-received speech, "Strategies of Hope," delivered to a packed
auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently, Said
said, "Most of you share the general disillusionment with the Arab
regimes and you'll be able to talk about it." He cited the secondary
status of women, lack of minority rights, torture and censorship as
problems plaguing much of the Arab world. "The Palestinians are not
treated well," he said, "but so are many others [in Arab countries].
There is no free media in the Arab world. We are the only part of the
world which has not undergone a radical transformation in the past 10
years."
The presentation, part of a conference on the future of Arab Americans
sponsored by the Arab student associations at MIT and other Boston
schools, was continuously interrupted with applause from the largely
student audience. Said stated that Arabs studying in the West today are
better suited to seek change than was his generation.
After the 1967 war there was a sense of despair throughout the Middle
East, he said, since the war was widely seen as a defeat for all Arabs.
That produced the need to stand together and not criticize any Arab
regime.
"With the media totally against the Arabs, there was this sense that we
had to say, 'We're not that bad.' We had to advance a united front and
not talk of shortcomings of Arab governments."
Many Arabs educated in the West, who could have become leaders for
change, returned home instead to work for their governments, Said said.
Today that is no longer the case.
"You don't feel the need to speak for the entire Arab world," Said
explained. "It's possible to identify with writers, artists,
intellectuals and others who are victims of state and religious
persecution in the Arab world." Said noted that an Arab diplomat told
him recently that the Arab world did not want democracy, since it
brings with it undesirable social consequences. "What's this
democracy?" the diplomat asked. "It's drugs, it's gays, it's
pornography. We have a better system."
Many Arabs living in the U.S. do not understand the political system,
Said said. For example, many Palestinians living here know about events
in the West Bank in detail, but did not know who is mayor of the
American city in which they lived.
That isolation helps produce "a total sense of alienation" about
American politics, which has kept Arabs outside the political debate,
Said said.
When Arabs did try political action, there was often confusion. "Arabs
were their own worst enemies. Whenever there were three Arabs, there
were four organizations," he said to laughter.
After the Lebanese civil war, the Gulf war and the Oslo peace accords,
"There was a depoliticization of my generation," Said said. "We
descended into apathy and indifference."
The current generation of students is better suited not only to change
conditions in the Arab world, but also to promote more even-handed
policies in the West, Said suggested. "The first thing that strikes me
about you is that more of you are cultural. You participate in both
cultures, unlike Mrs. Albright who forgot about her past," he said to
laughter in reference to Secretary of State Madeline Albright's claim
that she did not know her family background was Jewish.
"Most of you know English a lot better than people of my generation,"
he stated, adding that today's students are less apt to feel the need
to blindly defend Arab governments.
Another trend praised by Said is the growing diversity of what Arabs
study in the U.S. In the 1960s, most Arabs enrolled in either Middle
Eastern studies, which was familiar and safe, but often unchallenging,
or in science. Engineering, computer programming and other technical
professions are relatively safe from prejudice, making them attractive
to those who are insecure about their positions in society.
Said urged greater diversity. "I met a young [Arab] man who had just
finished a Ph.D. in comparative literature," he said. "We've come out
of the ghetto. Why not come here and study American history?"
Said also said that young Arabs have a greater curiosity about Jews,
reminding the audience that a generation ago much of the Arab press did
not mention the name of Israel. He said a more realistic attitude and
willingness to talk with Jews would help the Palestinian and Arab cause.
He urged the students to use their education to increase Western ideas
in their native countries. "Science in the Arab world is a disaster,"
he stated. "No one is doing science the way it is being done here--or
in Israel, for that matter."
"How do you become a force for change?" he asked the students. First,
Said felt they must look for a solution to the Palestinian question,
which looms over all other policy questions in the Middle East. Because
of its importance to Muslims, Christians and Jews, Palestine is of
"unparalleled significance." Palestine has been the one common foreign
policy position of all Arab governments since 1948."
In addition, the role of the individual in the Arab world needs to
redefined. "We need a usable concept of citizenship," he said.
"Especially given the current conditions of the Arab world." Said urged
students to consider service to their own countries and to Palestine as
a way to improve life.
"People of your generation should work against apathy," Said said.
"That is a betrayal of the human condition." He deplored the suicide
bombers in Palestine as the tragic representation of utter hopelessness.
Said called for a vision of the future and a sense of what the future
should look like. The future of Palestine, he said, should be one of
tolerance and diversity. "We can offer a vision not of exclusion but of
inclusion."
The policy of separating different peoples, such as in the former
Yugoslavia, "has brought disaster," Said said. "People can live
together." One problem with Israel is that it provides democracy only
for Jews, he pointed out, when a truly inclusive state offers freedom
for everyone.
joseph hobeika
A former employee of Canada's security agency
has charged that Canadian spies once managed
to overhear the American ambassador to Canada
discussing a pending trade deal with China on
a mobile telephone and used that information
to undercut the Americans in landing a
$2.5-billion Chinese grain sale.
For decades they were guardians -- mysterious
warriors who straddled the globe searching for
secrets that would prevent a nuclear holocaust.
But now, the new technology of the post-Cold War
world has suddenly transformed the West's leading
spy masters into sinister shadows manipulating a
massive surveillance system that can capture and
study every telephone call, fax and e-mail message
sent anywhere in the world.
These high-tech espionage agents from Canada, the
United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand
-- backed up by a web of ships, planes and radar
and communication interception sites that ring the
earth -- have established the greatest spy network
in history. Its name is Echelon.
Originally devoted solely to monitoring the military
and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and
its East Bloc allies, today Echelon searches for hints
of terrorist plots, drug dealer's plans and political
and diplomatic intelligence. But critics claim the
system is also being used for crass commercial theft
and a brutal invasion of privacy on a staggering scale.
On Tuesday, the European Union's parliament will open
a major international debate on the spy practices of
the world's five leading English-speaking nations,
claiming that this electronic espionage ring, led by
the United States and Britain, is methodically going
where it has no right to go. The EU's civil liberties
committee is expected to accuse Britain of aiding the
United States in conducting economic and commercial
espionage on a grand scale at the expense of its
European partners. A special 112-page expose of the
spy network prepared for the EU last spring declares
that the rapid proliferation of surveillance
technologies presents "a serious threat to the civil
liberties in Europe" with "awesome implications."
"There is wide-ranging evidence indicating that major
governments are routinely utilizing communications
intelligence to provide commercial advantage to companies
and trade," declared Duncan Campbell, the report's
author, a Scottish physicist and researcher who has
devoted 20 years to studying electronic espionage.
Moreover, research about to be released by the EU's
Scientific and Technical Options Assessment office is
expected to document how deeply Echelon has penetrated
Europe. It will outline ways to combat the espionage assault.
At the same time:
- Jean-Pierre Millet, a Parisian lawyer, has launched
a class-action lawsuit against the governments of the
United States and Britain, claiming the Echelon spy
network has robbed European industries of some of their
most cherished trade secrets and undercut their bargaining
positions in trade deals.
- Parliamentarians in Italy, Germany and Denmark are
demanding public investigations of the spy network.
- Privacy advocates in the U.S. have launched a court
case demanding access to government documents on Echelon
under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Several leading politicians are calling for the first
Congressional hearings to review U.S. intelligence-gathering
practices since the Watergate era.
- On the Internet, privacy advocates, computer hackers and
journalists are engaged in near-hysterical searches for
signs of Echelon's presence. Several new Internet Web sites
have sprung up devoted solely to documenting information on
Echelon and pressing for public investigations into the
surveillance system.
"Echelon is a black box, and we really don't know what is
inside it," says Barry Steinhardt, of the American Civil
Liberties Union. "We don't know who is being targeted, what
they are being targeted for or what is being done with the
information."
The Echelon system is simple in design. All members of the
English-speaking alliance are part of the UKUSA intelligence
alliance that has maintained ties since the Second World War.
These states have positioned electronic-intercept stations
and deep-space satellites to capture all satellite, microwave,
cellular and fibre-optic communications traffic. The captured
signals are then processed through a series of super computers,
known as dictionaries, that are programmed to search each
communication for targeted addresses, words, phrases or even
individual voices.
Individual states in the UKUSA alliance are assigned
responsibilities for monitoring different parts of the
globe. Canada's main task used to be monitoring northern
portions of the former Soviet Union and conducting sweeps of
all communications traffic that could be picked up from our
embassies around the world. In the post-Cold War era, a
greater emphasis has been placed on monitoring satellite and
radio and cell phone traffic originating from Central and South
America, primarily in an effort to track drugs and thugs in
the region.
The United States, with its vast array of spy satellites and
listening posts, monitors most of Latin America, Asia, Asiatic
Russia and northern China. Britain listens in on Europe and
Russia west of the Urals as well as Africa. Australia hunts
for communications originating in Indochina, Indonesia and
southern China. New Zealand sweeps the western Pacific.
"Most people just don't understand how pervasive government
surveillance is," warns John Pike, a leading military analyst
with the Washington-based American Federation of Scientists.
"If you place an international phone call, the odds that the
[U.S.] National Security Agency are looking is very good. If
it goes by oceanic fibre-optic cable, they are listening to
it. If it goes by satellite, they are listening to it. If it
is a radio broadcast or a cellphone conversation, in principle,
they could listen to it. Frankly, they can get what they want."
Experts stress that Echelon is simply a method of sorting
captured signals and is just one of the many new arrows in
the intelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly
sophisticated bugging and interception techniques, satellite
tracking, through-clothing scanning, automatic fingerprinting
and recognition systems that can recognize genes, odours or
retina patterns.
The Americans dominate the UKUSA alliance, providing most of
the computer expertise and frequently much of the personnel
for global interception bases. The U.S. National Security
Agency, head quartered in Fort Meade, Md., just outside Washington,
has a global staff of 38,000 and a budget estimated at more than
$3.6-billion (all dollar figures US unless otherwise specified).
That's more than the FBI and the CIA combined.
By comparison, Canada's communications-intelligence operations
are conducted by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE),
a branch of the National Defence Department. It has a staff of
890 people and an annual budget of $110-million (Cdn). The CSE's
headquarters, nicknamed "The Farm," is the Sir Leonard Tilley
Building on Heron Road in Ottawa, and its main communications
intercept site is located on an old armed-forces radio base in
Leitrim, just south of Ottawa.
Though shrouded in secrecy to the extent that American
officials used to joke NSA stood for "No Such Agency" or
"Never Say Anything," few foreign-affairs analysts are
surprised by the sweep or appetite of electronic spies and
they caution against taking Europe's angry protestations of
dismay at face value.
"The EU hearings are a bit of a joke," says Wayne Madsen, a
former NSA employee and senior fellow at the Washington-based
Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC). "It's going to
be a bit like that scene in the movie Casablanca, where
Inspector Renault declares: 'I'm shocked to find gambling
in this establishment.' "
"The fact is the German Greens and the French Socialists and
Gaullists can pull their hair out and say, 'This is terrible,'
but their countries are involved in this stuff. The French have
an extensive signals intelligence network of their own. I think
what is going to happen is there will be a lot of wringing of
hands and gnashing of teeth, but then business is going to go
on as usual."
But the real issue is whether UKUSA's spies are using electronic
espionage to get commercial information.
"Since the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the
intelligence agencies have searched for a new justification for
their surveillance capability in order to protect their prominence
and their bloated budgets," says Patrick Poole, deputy director of
the Centre of Technology at Washington's Free Congress Federation.
"Their solution was to redefine the notion of national security to
include economic, commercial and corporate concerns.
"By redefining the term 'national security' to include spying on
foreign competitors of prominent U.S. corporations, the signals-
intelligence game has gotten ugly."
Lately there has been a frenzy of concern over possible American
economic espionage in Europe.
- Yesterday, a French intelligence report accused U.S. secret agents
of working with computer giant Microsoft to develop software allowing
Washington to spy on computer users around the world. It claims that
the National Security Agency helped install secret programs on
Microsoft software, currently in use of 90% of computers.
- In 1990 the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel claimed NSA intercepted
messages about a pending $200-million telecommunications deal between
Indonesia and the Japanese satellite manufacturer NEC Corp. George
Bush, then the U.S. president, is said to have intervened on the basis
of the intelligence intercept and to have convinced the Indonesians to
split the contract between NEC and U.S.-owned AT&T.
- Last spring's EU report on electronic spying says that U.S.
intelligence agencies intercepted phone calls between Brazilian
officials and the French firm Thomson-CSF in 1994 and used the
information to swing a $1.3-billion radar contract to the U.S.
corporation Raytheon.
Mike Frost, a former CSE employee and author of Spyworld, which is
about his career in Canada's secret service, claims that as far back
as 1981 Canada was using its U.S.-produced spy technology to eavesdrop
on the American ambassador to Ottawa. In one instance, Canadian spies
managed to overhear the ambassador discussing a pending trade deal with
China on a mobile telephone and used that information to undercut the
Americans in landing a $2.5-billion Chinese grain sale.
On another occasion, in 1983, Mr. Frost says British intelligence
officials invited their Canadian counterparts to come to London to
eavesdrop on two British cabinet ministers whose political loyalty
was doubted by Margaret Thatcher, then the British prime minister.
Since it would have been illegal for British officials to do the
surveillance themselves, they had the Canadians do the job using
eavesdropping equipment in the Canadian embassy. After three weeks
of snooping, the Canadians quietly turned over all their findings
to the British, Mr. Frost says.
"It should hardly be surprising that Echelon ends up being used by
elected and bureaucratic officials to their political advantage or
by the intelligence agencies themselves for the purpose of sustaining
their privileged powers and bloated budgets," says Mr. Poole. "The
availability of such invasive technology practically begs for abuse."
Ottawa bureaucrat Claude Hisson, the commissioner for the
Communications Security Establishment, is charged with investigating
any complaints into CSE operations. In his most recent annual report,
he admits that, on occasion, our spies intercept private conversations.
But he insists there is nothing to worry about. "The sophistication of
CSE's technology has led to speculation about the organization's
capability to intercept the communications of Canadians," Mr. Hisson
says.
"However, I have observed that CSE's activities are driven not by the
capabilities of the technology it deploys but by its mandate to fulfill
the foreign intelligence requirements established by the Government of
Canada. ... In keeping with the policy of the government, CSE goes to
considerable effort to avoid collecting Canadian communications."
Still, critics of Echelon warn the potential for abuse never goes away.
"This whole thing is so bizarrely powerful that the opportunity or
temptation for abuse is fairly substantial," says Mr. Pike of the
American Federation of Scientists. "How many people in your
organization
always obey the rules?
"The notion that NSA or any other of these spy networks is the only
large organization in human history in which everyone always obeys
the rules just flies in the face of common sense," he says.
joseph hobeika
Barak Appoints War Criminal to Top Ministry of Defense Post
Francis A. Boyle
Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has nominated former Major
General Amos Yaron to serve as director-general of the Israeli Ministry of
Defense, while Barak himself retains the portfolio of Minister of Defense.
According to the principles of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, Yaron is a
war criminal by virtue of his responsibility for the murder of some 2,000
Palestinian and Lebanese civilians during the 1982 Sabra and Shatila refugee
camp massacre in Beirut, Lebanon. Should Yaron s appointment be confirmed
by the Israeli Cabinet, the U.S. government will be aiding and abetting the
work of an infamous war criminal: In fiscal year 2000, Israel is slated to
receive $1.92 billion dollars in U.S. military aid (out of a total annual
U.S. aid package to Israel worth $2.94 billion).
The Sabra and Shatila Massacre: In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon,
driving as far north as the capital, Beirut, purportedly in an effort to
expel the Palestine Liberation Organization. In August 1982, U.S. Special
Envoy Philip Habib negotiated the withdrawal of Palestinian forces from
Beirut. According to that agreement, the U.S. government guaranteed the
safety of the remaining Palestinian civilians and obtained Israel s
assurance that its armed forces would not enter West Beirut. Israel,
breaking its own pledge, occupied West Beirut and surrounded the Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps on 15 September 1982.
On September 16, Brigadier General Amos Yaron, Israel s Beirut forces
commander, acting on orders from the Israeli Ministry of Defense under
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General Ariel Sharon, allowed Lebanese Phalangist troops to enter Sabra and
Shatila even though the same troops had previously engaged in massacres of
Palestinians living in Lebanon.
The killing in the camps went on for three
days. During nighttime Phalangist operations, Yaron s troops fired
illumination rounds so the Phalangists could continue their atrocities.
Yaron s troops also blocked the camps exits to prevent the refugees from
escaping and supplied the Phalangists with at least one bulldozer, which was
used to cover bodies with rubble.
According to the official Israeli Commission of Inquiry into the
massacre
(the so-called Kahan Commission),
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on the evening of September 16 Yaron was
present on the roof of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) forward command post
overlooking Shatila. He knew then that Phalangist militiamen, who had
entered the camps by prior arrangement with the IDF, were killing women,
children, and old people. Not until the morning of September 18 did Yaron
move to end the killings. Israeli military intelligence later minimized the
death toll to between 700 and 800. In his testimony to the Kahan
Commission, Yaron said he was "happy" about the decision to send the
Phalangist forces into the refugee camps because "the fighting serves their
purposes as well, so let them participate and not let the IDF do
everything."
International Law: Under the terms of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention,
signed by both the U.S. and Israel, Yaron s command responsibility for the
massacre permitted the willful causing of great suffering and serious
injury to the residents of the camps, who were legally protected persons
thereunder. In so doing, Yaron is guilty of grave breaches under Article
147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Because of his command
responsibilities during the massacre, Yaron is personally responsible for
the commission of war crimes under both customary and conventional
international law.
Diplomatic Consequences: On 1 August 1986, the Israeli government announced
that it was nominating Yaron as its Military Attachi to the U.S. and Canada.
A vigorous campaign against this appointment led the Reagan administration
to hold up Yaron s Letter of Accreditation for three months. Then, on 24
October 1986, despite the fact that the U.S. government was under an
absolute obligation under the Fourth Geneva Convention to prosecute Yaron
for war crimes should he set foot on U.S. soil, the Reagan administration
officially accepted Yaron s Letter of Accreditation. Canada, on the other
hand, declined to accept his credentials.
The Israeli daily Davar (22 October 1986) indicated that Washington and
Tel
Aviv had agreed that Yaron would be recalled but not immediately. Both
sides later denied that a deal had been made, although a spokesperson for
the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., Yossi Gal, confirmed that the
negotiations had indeed taken place.
On 28 March 1987, the Jerusalem Post reported that Yaron had asked his
superiors to cut short his Washington assignment. A cool reception from
the diplomatic community in the U.S., followed by Canada s refusal to accept
his appointment to Ottawa, were factors leading to Yaron s request to be
considered for a territorial command, according to their sources.
Apparently, Canada had rejected Yaron s credentials with Washington s
approval. Exactly one year after the Israeli government press office had
quietly announced the appointment of Yaron, the Jerusalem Post (1 August
1987) reported that Yaron was to resign his diplomatic position for reasons
related to a lingering controversy about his role in the massacre.
Civil Lawsuit: On 4 May 1987, a lawsuit against Yaron was filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of three Palestinian
women whose family members were murdered during the massacre. The lawsuit
stated that Yaron was guilty of violating the Fourth Geneva Convention of
1949, which prohibits the killing of civilians under military occupation and
incriminates an occupying power even if its agents carry out the killing.
Also citing the Nuremberg Principles, which were designed to prevent the
repetition of crimes against humanity such as were committed by the Nazi
occupying power in Europe during World War II, the suit alleged that Yaron s
position of authority, and knowledge of the ongoing massacre, rendered him
personally responsible for the actions of the Phalangists.
The U.S. Department of State took the official position that Yaron
possessed diplomatic immunity under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations and the U.S. Diplomatic Relations Act of 1978. The Federal
District judge who handled the Yaron case decided to defer to the wishes of
the State Department in this matter. The judge observed that this was not a
criminal tribunal, but only a civil action. Hence, the judge ruled that
Yaron was immune from civil proceedings in U.S. courts regardless of whether
or not he was immune from criminal proceedings in other fora.
U.S. Double Standard: During the same period when the Yaron case was being
litigated, the State Department was involved in efforts to put former UN
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on the so-called watch list in order to
bar his entry into the U.S. Waldheim allegedly was an accomplice to the
commission of war crimes during World War II, and the U.S. Department of
Justice so barred Waldheim as of 27 April 1987. By contrast, Yaron was
directly responsible for the murder of about 2,000 innocent Palestinian and
Lebanese civilians. Unlike Waldheim, however, not only was Yaron permitted
to enter the U.S., but the U.S. government also accorded him full diplomatic
privileges and immunities under the Vienna Convention.
Key Recommendations:
(1) Under basic principles of international law, the U.S. government must be
concerned about directing billions of U.S. tax dollars to the Israeli
ministry of which an acknowledged war criminal is director-general.
Accordingly, the U.S. government should discontinue all military aid to
Israel if Yaron s appointment is confirmed. (2) There is no statute of
limitations for war crimes. Should Yaron attempt to return to the U.S., the
U.S. government is obliged to prosecute him for war crimes, as is any other
state to which Yaron might travel.
Francis A. Boyle is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois in
Champaign. He was an Attorney of Record who filed the lawsuit against Yaron
in Ali Aidi v. Yaron, 672 Fed. Supp. 516 (D.D.C. 1987). This brief is
partially based on materials he prepared for publication in the Palestine
Yearbook of International Law, Vol. V, 1989. The Center for Policy Analysis
on Palestine also gratefully acknowledges the research assistance of Shifra
Stern. The above text may be used without permission but with proper
attribution to the author and to CPAP. This brief does not necessarily
reflect the views of CPAP or The Jerusalem Fund.
joseph hobeika
You should have the courage of posting these things on
soc.culture.israel so they have a chance to answer .
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Israel gets very little compared to what the US gives to
Arab countries directly and via UN and IMF and with no hope
of ever getting it back .
In fact Israel spends twice as much on oil imports from
Egypt as it gets in all aid , so stop blaming the Americans
and start blaming Arab countries which are doubling in
population every 17 years and expecting America and a non
existent Allah to provide..
joseph hobeika <hob...@attglobal.net> wrote:
Israel seeks "peace" on a war footing...
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Israel went into the latest round of "peace" negotiations
with
Syria with a request for $17 billion worth of new weapons,
reportedly including cruise missiles for the first time.(1)
The
idea of the U.$. compensating Israel for concessions to Arab
states goes back at least to the Israeli withdrawal from the
Sinai
desert in the 1970s, resulting in the continuously increased
militarization of Israel. According to the New York Times,
the
U.$. "has provided $100 billion since 1979 to support the
peace
deal between Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of
Israel."(2)
The latest request was delivered by the director-general of
Israel's defense ministry, Amos Yaron. Yaron is a war
criminal,
who commanded the troops who murdered 2,000 Palestinian and
Lebanese civilians during the 1982 Sabra and Shatila refugee
camp
massacre in Beirut, Lebanon. Yaron was fired after the
massacre,
but has made his way back, serving as military attaché to
the U.$.
in the late 1980s. Canada refused to grant him attaché
status
because of his record, but the U.$. calls his position an
"internal matter" and has worked with him directly.(3)
The request for weapons includes two wings of Apache
helicopter
gunships, Blackhawk helicopters that can carry troops,
Hercules
transport planes, three AWACS, refueling planes, a ground
station
for collecting information from U.$. satellites, and funding
for
missile defense systems.(4)
Total aid from the U.$. to Israel is about $3 billion per
year, of
which Israel is expected to spend $1.9 billion on U.$.
military
products. That makes Israel the largest recipient of U.$.
aid in
the world.(5) Last year Egypt was awarded $2 billion in
aid.(6)
Syria might also demand aid in exchange for a deal with
Israel,
but that might have to come from Europe or Japan, due to
anti-Arab
politics in Washington.(2) Still, together the aid packages
for
this "peace" deal are likely to result in a bonanza for U.$.
military contractors, and guarantee a heightened state of
militarization for the Middle East for years to come.
Notes:
1. The Independent (London) January 5, 2000.
2. New York Times, Dec. 17, 1999. p. A21.
3. Jerusalem Post, Sept. 23, 1999; Federal News Service,
Nov. 29,
1999.
4. UPI Jan. 4, 2000.
5. Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 18, 1999.
6. Associated Press, July 21, 1999.
joseph hobeika wrote:
> The words of DR.Kahl Murray are total & utter FABRICATIONS & LIES.RE: MP
Elie HOBEIKA.
>
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> Murray Kahl wrote:
> Arab land? The Jews taught the camel-fuckers how to read and
> write and wash occasionally! Even their admittedly illiterate
> Muhammad learned what bits he did know mainly from Jews. But the
> Jews in Israel never forced Arabs to convert, or any of that.
> THey're just a bunch of nomadic thieves who got what little
> civilization and doctoring they had before Muhammad from the
> Jews. LAter they progressed on their own, but it was the Jews in
> Arabia that gave them the miniscule initial amount of civilized
> behavior they had before Muhammad wrote his Quran.
> ***********************************************************
> These are the friends of DR.Murray Kahl & the www.cmep.com/cobra/wlo....
> ***********************************************************
>
> Murray Kahl wrote:
>
> > A Second Open Letter to Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss
> > Once again, Hobeika is trying to hide from the truth and the
ramifications
> > of his past. This time, he is trying to build something from a
technicality:
> > How my first letter was sent. I don't have an Internet account for
security
> > reasons, so that nobody will be able to track me down. That is why I
sent it
> > through a friend.
> > Prime Minister Hoss, you should look into the substance of my
revelations.
> > In my previous letter, I wanted to point to your attention that Said
Mirza
> > was on Hobeika's payroll. It is important for you to know this so that
you
> > can proceed accordingly in upholding the law.
> > Now, I wonder why Hobeika wants to send a copy of an e-mail message to
> > Deputy Mustafa Saad. After all, it was Hobeika who masterminded and
executed
> > the bombing against Saad in cooperation with Hariri. Essentially, Saad
was
> > the political opponent of Hariri in Saida. Hariri wanted him out of his
way
> > so that he, Hariri, will have the ground to manipulate clear in front
of
> > him.
> > Of course, Hobeika did not do it out of the goodness of his heart.
Hariri
> > financed a Real Estate project in Hobeika's name in the Terzaya area in
> > Joubeil. It is a housing project for Lebanese Forces officers. The
estimated
> > cost of this project was between 7 and 8 million US Dollars, and all
the
> > money was in Hobeika's name, not the LF.
> > Only then, Hobeika promised and executed the mission as promised to
Hariri.
> > He sent a team lead by Michel Zouein to carry out the operation against
> > Mustafa Saad.
> > Is Hobeika sending the e-mail to Deputy Saad in order to scare him not
to
> > pursue an investigation of the attempt on his life?
> > Once again, since I don't have an e-mail account my letter is coming to
you
> > through a friend. Please don't let this technicality divert you from
the
> > important issue. Please look at the substance and take the appropriate
steps
> > to clean up Lebanon. As for me, I have more information on these
matters and
> > I will bring it to your, and the public's attention, at the correct
moment.
> > Sincerely,
> > Robert Hatem "Cobra"@cmep.com
> *****************************************************************
Max Eid
joseph hobeika <hob...@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:38B1177B...@attglobal.net...
>
>
>
> Lebanese news
>
> Hobeika says Hoss wasn't on his hit list
>
> Former Lebanese Forces militia leader Elie Hobeika
denied Sunday that he sent two car bombs
> during the civil war to kill Salim Hoss and Mustafa
Saad, now respectively the prime minister and a
> Sidon MP.
> "When the attempt on Mr. Hoss' life took place in 1985,
Mr. Hoss was education minister," said
> Hobeika, who is now a Baabda MP. "He wasn't a threat to
the LF and I say this with due respect.
> He wasn't the leader of a militia."
> He called on Hoss to keep up his efforts to bring the
case to court based on comments made by
> Hobeika's former bodyguard, Robert Maroun Hatem. "I'm
ready for lifting my parliamentary
> immunity," the MP said.
> In a live interview with former Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri's Future TV, Hobeika also denied that he
> sent a car bomb to Saad's home in Sidon.
> "The LF was fighting in eastern Sidon and Iqlim
al-Kharroub," he said. "We wanted to keep Sidon
> stable. Also, Mr. Saad was a moderate leader with whom
we had good ties."
> Hobeika denied involvement in the 1982 Sabra and
dltjxx
It's amusing, in a bitter sort of way, that Hilary Clinton claimed the
late PM Rabin was "for" the establishment of a Palestinian state, as
well as giving the Golan to Syria. When it was pointed out to her that
PM Rabin was on record as being against a "Palestinian state", and that
he had signed a document, along with FM Alon, against giving up the
Golan, Ms. Clinton was speechless.
Deborah
joseph hobeika
*****************
dltjxx
For one, I am not a boy.
For another, I do not "re-write history"; I post corrections to false
history.
>The worlds people have more serious problems "
Such as killing Jews?
>than did god really give the Jews the promise holy land."
Actually, He did give us The Land. Look it up in your bible.
>REugene Kent. A
>Labor Voice from Ohio.
Learn to spell your name correctly, Eugene. Also, stop taking the name
of my father, peace to his soul, in vain.
Deborah
Roberta Hatch
>>than did god really give the Jews the promise holy land."
>Actually, He did give us The Land. Look it up in your bible.
Yeah yeah. Now prove that there is a god. If you can't, your
argument doesn't hold water.
Why is this being crossposted to nine newsgroups? Followup-To
set...
Eugene F. Kent
string.This was beginning to be very informative. As this was putting the
zionists to the water torture test. Eugene Kent.news:38B1118E...@attglobal.net...
Avital Pilpel
[NGs trimmed]
> Can anyone explain why certain messages are no longer available for this
> string.
Zionist conspiracy.
Avital Pilpel
Omri Schwarz
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Eugene F. Kent wrote:
>
> [NGs trimmed]
>
> > string.
>
We have BackOrifice trojan horses on every NNTP server on the planet.
Beware.
--
Omri Schwarz ---
Timeless wisdom of biomedical engineering:
"Noise is principally due to the presence of the
patient." -- R.F. Farr
Max Eid
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Eugene F. Kent wrote:
[NGs trimmed]
> Can anyone explain why certain messages are no longer available for this
> string.
Maybe it is the Hizbulla
Max Eid
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Eugene F. Kent wrote:
>
> [NGs trimmed]
>
this
joseph hobeika
For up to six years the operative, with
an impressive record in some of Israel's
best known operations, duped his superiors
into believing that Syria was not interested
in peace.
He built his deception around a supposed
reliable Syrian source, with whom he had
lost touch but kept "alive" in fictitious
reports to Mossad, complete with payments
for information. >>
Man, our CIA missed a good one here. They should have recruited him. A guy
with an imagination like that would be a real asset. Stopped the peace
process did he? Well, that's what Israel wanted anyway. One thing you can
be sure of is that Israel doesn't want peace.
joseph hobeika
joseph hobeika wrote:
> be sure of is that Israel doesn't want peace..... This is Insider info from Langley...!!!
joseph hobeika
Mossad Agent Faked Syrian "War" Reports
Motive Disinformation
****************************************
ISRAEL and Syria came to the brink of war last year because a senior Mossad official produced deliberately false
intelligence reports based on a fictitious high-level Syrian source.
The reports, which may have undermined an opportunity for a peace agreement, claimed that Damascus was
planning a lightning strike against Israeli forces occupying the Golan Heights.
For up to six years the operative, with an impressive record in some of Israel's best-known operations, duped his
superiors into believing that Syria was not interested in peace.
He built his deception around a supposed reliable Syrian source, with whom he had lost touch but kept "alive" in
fictitious reports to Mossad, complete with payments for information.
The suspicion is that he acted out of Right-wing beliefs to prevent a withdrawal from the Golan Heights. It was
unclear how he was finally discovered, and he apparently returned the fake payments.
His campaign of disinformation amounts to one of the worst scandals of Israel's battered secret services. The
almost disastrous climax came in the late summer of 1996, when Syria moved some of its divisions closer to the
Golan Heights. Mossad, apparently influenced by the reports, reported this as a preparation for war. But America
viewed the assessment as an exaggeration, if not a deliberate attempt by the newly-elected government of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to kill the suspended peace talks with Syria.
Damascus announced that its deployment was purely defensive and Israel's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Mordechai,
backed by a military intelligence assessment that the disposition was not aggressive, held his nerve. He declined to
order a general mobilization and issued soothing signals to Syria. The crisis eventually passed, but not before
spreading war fever through Israel.
A high-level committee has been appointed to investigate the scandal. It will seek to track down when the fake
information began and determine whether it has influenced Israel's decision-making. It is possible that during the
protracted peace talks with Syria, the chance for an historic peace agreement was lost.
Yitzhak Rabin, the late prime minister, froze the notion of peace with Syria in 1993, and concentrated on a deal with
Palestinians. His successor, Shimon Peres, severed direct talks with Syria in 1996, although Syrian officials later
said the countries were close to signing a peace treaty, based on Israel's full withdrawal from the strategic Golan
Heights.
Many details of the Mossad scandal remain censored but Maariv, the Hebrew daily, dropped a hint by running a
box about John Le Carré's novel, The Tailor of Panama, in which the protagonist feeds British intelligence with
invented reports about a Japanese plot to take over the Panama Canal. Embarrassed Israeli leaders have been at
pains to play down the damage. David Levy, the Foreign Minister, denied that Israel was close to war with Syria.
"Intelligence reports are only one working tool and are always cross-checked," he said.
Mr Peres said the disinformation had not influenced his decision to suspend talks with Damascus. "I didn't believe
that President Assad was ready to lead his country into war for a fourth time," he declared. But it is difficult to
avoid a sense that a deep rot has set into Israel's secret services. This extraordinary scandal has broken at a time
when a commission of inquiry is preparing to publish its findings into the Mossad's botched attempt to assassinate
a leader of Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist movement, in Jordan last September.
The domestic Shin Bet secret service is also living under a cloud after it failed to prevent the assassination of Mr
Rabin.
"Strategic, diplomatic and political decisions were taken based on these false assessments of the situation," said
Zeev Schiff, Israel's foremost defence analyst. "This affair represents an earthquake for Israel's intelligence
services, whose reputations are at stake. This is a gangrene that will be difficult to heal."
Mossad Agent Identified
Provider of False Info on Syria Taught Course "The Lie as Art"
****************************************************
Israel finally disclosed the identity of the Mossad agent who had fed his superiors false information on Syria as
Yehuda Gil, a retired agent whose services were sought by the Mossad over the past few years through a special
contract. His superiors claimed his performance was outstanding and noted they had to call him back to service
after his alleged Syrian agent had refused to cooperate with any other Mossad figure.
It was after the two television channels in Israel disclosed the identity of the agent that a magistrate court judge in
Tel Aviv agreed to release some of the information pertaining to the case but ordered that Gil's picture not be
published, for state security.
The damage caused by the false information, analysts in Israel said, was kept to a minimum since the information
he passed was cross checked by many other branches of the Israeli intelligence and was found to contradict other
assessments.
But so far, at least one person seemed to have won in this affair. That is the present head of the Mossad, Dani
Yatom, whose name and career were damaged in the ill-fated Mossad attempt on the life of Hamas political figure
Khaled Mishal in Amman.
Many Mossad officials did not hesitate to utilize the affair to enhance the credibility of Yatom, whose days in the
Mossad had apparently were being counted in light of the Mishal affair. But now, with the full backing the prime
minister given to Yatom and the press reports that spoke of Yatom's earnest decision to start the investigation into
the false information affairs, Yatom seems to have fortified his position and is likely to escape any further
repercussions from the Amman fiasco.
Yehuda Gil, 63, started his career in the Mossad as a minor agent responsible for handling other agents, known as
sources, who gave information to the Mossad. Gil's father was an officer in the Italian army who continued to serve
under the Fascist regime. In the 30s, after the forging of ties with Nazi Germany, the Italian army chief of staff
tried to defend Jewish officers and thus sent them to far-off parts of the empire. That is how Gil's father found
himself in Libya, which was then under Italian control. Yehuda was born in Libya and had shown talent for acquiring
languages learning Arabic and Italian and later learning other languages as though they were his mother tongue.
Upon arriving in Israel, young and active, Yehuda's versatility with languages made him an easy recruit by the
army intelligence. The same talents which impressed his superiors in the army led to his recruitment by the
Mossad.
Despite his professional accomplishments and the great esteem in which he was held, Yehuda became bitter toward
his employers. He believed the Mossad leadership did not sufficiently appreciate his talents. His ambition to be
included in the Mossad command was not fulfilled. He retired from the Mossad and began to work for the ultra
right wing Moledet party, which advocates the transfer of all Arabs out of mandatory Palestine.
Upon uncovering the false information affair, One Mossad veteran commented saying that if the Mishal Affair was
an earthquake for the organization, this affair is a disaster. "This is the worst affair in the Mossad's history," he
said.
Yehuda Gil is married a second time and is the father of three, one of whom is serving as an officer in an elite army
unit. In the Mossad he is often characterized as an official who made a good impression on his surrounding
colleagues, but also as a bit of a lone wolf, who was not good at supervising others. This is the main reason why,
according to sources in the Mossad, he advanced very slowly on the professional promotion scale. Despite his
strenuous efforts, his advance was too slow for his liking. Many years of service went by before Yehuda Gil
received a senior position in the Mossad. Then many more years went by before he received a promotion above
this senior spot.
In recent years, Gil continued to relay interesting information, seemingly from his source, but, as it turned out, he
concocted this data in his own brain. This material was interesting despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact,
that it involved a clear-cut contradiction of what was known from other sources. Sometimes his information was
questioned for its contents but for years nobody within the Mossad or outside of it suspected that Gil was
fabricating the information, inventing false information which mostly attested to Syria's alleged aggressive
intentions.
Only in the last three years did eyebrows start to rise in the intelligence community about something not being
right. Other bodies, especially the military intelligence corps, demanded that the Mossad clarify what was going on.
But the Mossad did not make haste to act. Suspicions started to circulate. In August 1996, when Syria's 14th
division started to move on the slopes of the Mount Hermon, Gil came with information from his source, even
though it was later found to be entirely concocted.
The information Gil conveyed to his superiors could have entangled Israel in an unnecessary war with Syria;
fortunately, however, the data was not taken in complete seriousness because it contradicted information obtained
from good sources and attested to the opposite scenario.
Investigators looking into the Gil affair have not sorted out conclusively the motives which compelled him to act as
he did. Did his extreme right-wing views cause him to fabricate information which might have, had it been treated
with utmost seriousness, led to a war? Did Gil intend to rattle the security system and cause it to understand the
dangers it faces from the north? Was there a financial motivation? Did Gil keep in his own pocket the considerable
funds he was allocated in order to pay off his sources? Or maybe the deviation was caused by some personality
disorder? No answers have been reached as yet but one thing is clear: the Mossad has run through another crisis
and its image, many believe, is beyond any repair, at least for the near future.
Gil, who was responsible for disseminating false information, served as one of the permanent instructors in a
professional course at the Mossad's college. He spoke in a number of courses for officers in both the Mossad and
the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency. One of his courses, ironically enough, was under the title: "The Lie
As Art." The course dealt with ways of lying in order to attain goals.
Gil was an experienced lecturer and routinely used stories and examples to illustrate successes and failures. The
course was a very successful one and was considered to be one of the most attractive ones on the training course
for agents. Generations of Mossad and Shin Bet agents took the course.
It was no accident that Gil was chosen to give the course. The Mossad considered him to be a master at attaining
information by using false identities and ruses. "The man of a thousand faces," one of his former colleagues called
him. "A man who could show up in an apartment for the first time in his life and convince the owner of the place that
all the property there really belonged to him."
joseph hobeika
The new space invaders
Spies in the sky
***********************
For decades they were guardians -- mysterious warriors who straddled the globe searching for secrets that would prevent a
nuclear holocaust. But now, the new technology of the post-Cold War world has suddenly transformed the West's leading
spymasters into sinister shadows manipulating a massive surveillance system that can capture and study every telephone call, fax
and e-mail message sent anywhere in the world.
These high-tech espionage agents from Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand -- backed up by a web
of ships, planes and radar and communication interception sites that ring the earth -- have established the greatest spy network
in history. Its name is Echelon.
Originally devoted solely to monitoring the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its East Bloc allies,
today Echelon searches for hints of terrorist plots, drug-dealer's plans and political and diplomatic intelligence. But critics claim
At the same time:
then processed through a series of supercomputers, known as dictionaries, that are programmed to search each communication
for targeted addresses, words, phrases or even individual voices.
Individual states in the UKUSA alliance are assigned responsibilities for monitoring different parts of the globe. Canada's main
task used to be monitoring northern portions of the former Soviet Union and conducting sweeps of all communications traffic
that could be picked up from our embassies around the world. In the post-Cold War era, a greater emphasis has been placed
on monitoring satellite and radio and cellphone traffic originating from Central and South America, primarily in an effort to track
drugs and thugs in the region.
The United States, with its vast array of spy satellites and listening posts, monitors most of Latin America, Asia, Asiatic Russia
and northern China. Britain listens in on Europe and Russia west of the Urals as well as Africa. Australia hunts for
communications originating in Indochina, Indonesia and southern China. New Zealand sweeps the western Pacific.
"Most people just don't understand how pervasive government surveillance is," warns John Pike, a leading military analyst with
the Washington-based American Federation of Scientists. "If you place an international phone call, the odds that the [U.S.]
National Security Agency are looking is very good. If it goes by oceanic fibre-optic cable, they are listening to it. If it goes by
satellite, they are listening to it. If it is a radio broadcast or a cellphone conversation, in principle, they could listen to it. Frankly,
they can get what they want."
Experts stress that Echelon is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many new arrows in the
intelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and interception techniques, satellite tracking,
through-clothing scanning, automatic fingerprinting and recognition systems that can recognize genes, odours or retina patterns.
The Americans dominate the UKUSA alliance, providing most of the computer expertise and frequently much of the personnel
for global interception bases. The U.S. National Security Agency, headquartered in Fort Meade, Md., just outside
Washington, has a global staff of 38,000 and a budget estimated at more than $3.6-billion (all dollar figures US unless
otherwise specified). That's more than the FBI and the CIA combined.
By comparison, Canada's communications-intelligence operations are conducted by the Communications Security
Establishment (CSE), a branch of the National Defence Department. It has a staff of 890 people and an annual budget of
$110-million (Cdn). The CSE's headquarters, nicknamed "The Farm," is the Sir Leonard Tilley Building on Heron Road in
Ottawa, and its main communications intercept site is located on an old armed-forces radio base in Leitrim, just south of
Ottawa.
Though shrouded in secrecy to the extent that American officials used to joke NSA stood for "No Such Agency" or "Never
Say Anything," few foreign-affairs analysts are surprised by the sweep or appetite of electronic spies and they caution against
taking Europe's angry protestations of dismay at face value.
"The EU hearings are a bit of a joke," says Wayne Madsen, a former NSA employee and senior fellow at the
Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC). "It's going to be a bit like that scene in the movie
Casablanca, where Inspector Renault declares: 'I'm shocked to find gambling in this establishment.' "
"The fact is the German Greens and the French Socialists and Gaullists can pull their hair out and say, 'This is terrible,' but their
countries are involved in this stuff. The French have an extensive signals intelligence network of their own. I think what is going
to happen is there will be a lot of wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, but then business is going to go on as usual."
But the real issue is whether UKUSA's spies are using electronic espionage to get commercial information.
"Since the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the intelligence agencies have searched for a new justification for their
surveillance capability in order to protect their prominence and their bloated budgets," says Patrick Poole, deputy director of
the Centre of Technology at Washington's Free Congress Federation. "Their solution was to redefine the notion of national
security to include economic, commercial and corporate concerns.
"By redefining the term 'national security' to include spying on foreign competitors of prominent U.S. corporations, the
signals-intelligence game has gotten ugly."
Kim Bebbington
wrote:
>Can anyone explain why certain messages are no longer available for this
>string.
Max Eid keeps stealing them and then posting them as his own....
Kim Bebbington
<hob...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>Barak Appoints War Criminal to Top Ministry of Defense Post
>
>Francis A. Boyle
>
Thank you for posting that, Joseph. I'm glad to see you are so
concerned with justice.....
Now, tell us, about Elie Hobeika (any relation?) the head of the
Christian forces who committed the massacre of 450 Palestinians (by
the Lebanese governments own estimeates) in Sabra and Shatilla in
1982. I know he was a Lebanese cabinet minister in 1991. What's he
doing these days?
And what about Nabih Berri, the head of Amal, whose forces went
through the same camps in 1986 and massacred thousands of
Palestinians? He was Minister for Justice (Hahahahahahahaha) in the
late 1980s and the Speaker of Parliament in the 90s. What's he doing
now?
Max Eid
wrote:
>Can anyone explain why certain messages are no longer available for this
>string.
Kim Bebbington keeps stealing them and then posting them as his own....
hob...@attglobal.net
Kim Bebbington wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:51:26 +0100, joseph hobeika
> <hob...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Barak Appoints War Criminal to Top Ministry of Defense Post
> >
> >Francis A. Boyle
> >
hob...@attglobal.net
killed and countless others maimed by the Palestinian Onslaught on Lebanon ,
over 2 Decades ....? For you the destruction of Lebanon does not count it seems???
Kim Bebbington wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:51:26 +0100, joseph hobeika
> <hob...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Barak Appoints War Criminal to Top Ministry of Defense Post
> >
> >Francis A. Boyle
> >
Eugene F. Kent
I have seen posts scrolled than lined out with the remark [no longer
available for this server] then later on they will reappear. The weirdest
happening was the one about the post Deir Yassin holocaust. I couldn't get
my server to respond to send the post off. Tho that may have been because a
heavy thunder-storm was passing thru Cincinnati and the server may have been
hiding under the bed. But the following day I was trying to re-subscrive to
Bluebird-l.cornell.edu. as for some reason I had been taken off that chat
group. Was I ever surprised when I saw the Palestine Holocaust item had been
posted to that e-mail. That must surely had made their mouth drop a full
foot in seeing that. Maybe some day some one can figure why a computer seems
to take a break and go for a cup of coffee. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from
Ohio.
Max Eid <Me...@ibm.net> wrote in message
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dltjxx
Death is always sad. But since when did the deaths of 120 people become
a "holocaust"?
>Was I ever surprised when I saw the Palestine Holocaust item had been
>posted to that e-mail.
I'm surprised too. When was this so-called "Palestine Holocaust"? Date?
Deborah
dltjxx
>>Kim Bebbington keeps stealing them and then posting them as his
>>own....
Globaloney. Mr. Bebbington steals nothing. He merely does his job as an
employee of the Earth Zionist Jewish Organization, who control news
media and various governmental organisations around the globe.
We employees of the Federation of Zionist Jewish Occupied Planets
appreciate their efforts. Keep up the good work!
Deborah
(Personal motto: Loose lips sink Zionist Jewish Interplanetary ships.)
joseph hobeika
joseph hobeika
2/22/00
Barry Chamish brought his reformist dynamism to my city, New
York. I attended his presentation on the assassination
conspiracy, both to personally assess the man and because he
keeps discovering new information on it. He made sense for
us out of films and documents dramatically and humorously,
keeping an audience attentive formally for 1 _ hours but
informally for individual questions afterwards.
The humor was of an ironic and sarcastic bent, for the
assassination reflects a tragic corruption in society. The
entire Israeli Media knows the truth, but is not allowed to
air it. This corruption "is a cancer in my country. If it
is not cut out, my country may not make it," he said.
Israel has to sweep out the Knesset. A new broom may
defeats the conspirators and reverse Israel's march to
suicide called "peace process."
How does Chamish operate? He consults public sources and
people volunteer information. He verifies data and double-
checks it. Then he compares the sources with each other and
with the official version. The official version is a
hodgepodge of self contradictions, impossibilities,
variations from demonstrable fact, and unlikely excuses.
Although Chamish has accused people of conspiracy and
murder, he never has been sued for slander or even
challenged on the facts or analysis. But riots were staged
to shut down his lectures in Israel. Most of his Media
interviews were inexplicably canceled at the last minute.
Witnesses have been threatened into silence, some begging
that their names not be revealed. That, alone, is evidence
of bad faith on the part of the GSS. Then there was the
Rabin bodyguard whose violent death was ruled suicide but
whose undertaker found 7 bullet holes in the chest. As
Chamish remarked, that is a difficult way to commit suicide.
Repression has its limitations. One of Chamish's breaks
came when his book was banned. Demand soared. It became a
best seller. Most Israelis now want the assassination re-
investigated. On hearing some new evidence that conflicts
with the official story, Rabin's daughter reiterated her
call for re-investigation. But oh how the authorities are
loathe to re-open what they thought they had squelched!
NBC did review the evidence and reached the same
conclusions, especially that there was another gunman, the
real killer. All the witnesses saw Amir shooting at Rabin's
back from a few feet away, with two major shots. They saw
Rabin, unbloodied, walk unhurt into the car. Yet when Rabin
reached the hospital, he had point blank wounds, some
frontal, requiring 21 units of blood transfusion!
The doctors saved him! At the hospital, the bodyguard,
whose gun later mysteriously disappeared, must have shot him
again, to prevent him from telling who shot him in the first
place. Rabin died of a shattered backbone, that would have
prevented him from walking into the car if he had been shot
by Amir, as the GSS would have us imagine. The Shamgar
Commission and then Yigal Amir's judge accepted a self-
refuting, official version that makes no sense, instead of
exonerating Yigal Amir of the killing, itself. What a case
that makes for instating trial by jury, in Israel!
We saw a televised screening of the film. It was clear
enough to show Peres, before the assassination, looking for
a long time with his guards at Rabin's car. We learned,
from a statement on TV, that a girl was sitting in that car,
waiting for a ride home. We saw the car door swinging shut
before Rabin, guard, and driver got into the car. Before
Chamish found out that a girl had shot the door, he
surmised that that person was the assassin. More likely, it
now seems to have been the bodyguard, whose testimony
Chamaish mockingly analyzed as a series of fantasies.
The film constantly focused on Amir, as if the mysterious
filmmaker were aware that he would pull a gun. The guards
were obviously turning away from Rabin and falling back from
him, to let Amir in. The film and photos made stark what
written reports, alone, could not drive home.
Furthermore, when Chamish repeated in Hebrew what the
various witnesses had heard guards shouting about Amir's
shots being blanks, I was struck by the variety of sounds of
the wording. That made it unmistakable that many different
guards were trying to calm people, instead of jumping into
action themselves. Likeliest conclusion: they expect a fake
shooting. For their various violations of procedure, GSS
guards and officials were not disciplined. (They were,
after all, just following orders and protecting the plot.)
Fear must not stop us; the country is too rotten to go on
without reform. We have to start Israel over, Chamish
concluded, "based on Jewish values."
Are the Jewish people up to revolutionary reform? Two in
the audience were not. One doubted that a high level
investigatory commission would have allowed a cover-up. The
other doubted that such conspiracies and crimes happen in
democracies. Those two people sat through almost two hours
of presentation of facts and logic, found nothing to doubt
in any of it, but end up unable to accept the fundamental
conclusion. Put a former Supreme Court judge on a
commission and call a country a democracy and they assume
that it is uncorrupted. But Israel is rotten and the US and
Western Europe lets our enemies have weapons of mass
destruction in return for commerce and campaign
contributions. The series of political scandals should have
alerted those two to the rot that has set in, in Israel.
How far will we let that rot penetrate?
*******************************************************
joseph hobeika
They still have Nightmares about BUSH & BAKER team in the White House.
****************************************************************
joseph hobeika
Little if any enthusiasm was ever shown to
confront Israel's ceaseless pursuit of more
weapons of mass destruction which have truly
made it the real threat to the future and
peace in the Middle East.
Special--------- - Israel's wealth of nuclear
weapons is certainly a known fact for many in
the Middle East as well as around the world.
Although such a finding was never declared as
a result of an extensive UN investigation such
as the one conducted for years to track alleged
Iraqi weapons, an abundance of evidence and
signs give such a claim all that is needed.
However, little if any enthusiasm was ever shown
to confront Israel's ceaseless pursuit of more
weapons of mass destruction which have truly made
it the real threat to the future and peace in the
Middle East and probably the world.
The exposed Israeli secret is brought up now and
then as a result of a leak of information or the
courage of an Arab state who dares to challenge
the world, and especially the west's indifference
and silence.
Egypt was the first to revive recent criticism of
the Israeli nuclear program. Ossama al-Baz, an
advisor to President Hosni Mubarak predicted in
an Egyptian Television interview that "the US's
double-standard policy regarding Israel's nuclear
arms will change after the implementation of peace
with all the Arab parties." He explained that
"Israel will then be incapable of repeating that
it is a small state surrounded by powerful and
aggressive states."
Al-Baz's statement was timely with Mubarak's
acceptance of his country's participation with the
multilateral Middle East peace talks held in Moscow
in early February. Earlier talks were doomed to
failure and were frozen for three and a half years
as a result of Israel's refusal to sign the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). Later on it
arrogantly refused to submit its nuclear facilities
to inspections by the International Atomic Energy
Agency.
Egypt's campaign was followed by an Israeli
parliamentary debate regarding Israel's top secret
nuclear weapons, Arab MP, Issam Makhoul warned the
world of up to 300 nuclear warheads, which Israel
currently possesses. While right-wing Jewish members
tried desperately to distract Makhoul from carrying
out his speech, the determined Arab member managed
to get his message through. "All the world knows that
Israel has a vast warehouse of atomic, biological and
chemical weapons which serves as the anchor for the
Middle East arms race."
It is Shimon Peres, the then Prime Minister of Israel,
who is credited for advancing Israel's nuclear weapons
program, whose existence is no longer a secret, at
least for those who bother to listen to Israel's own
leaders' remarks once confronted with a bold question.
The fact that those leaders are quite careless when
speaking of such a subject shows the level of confidence
which Israel has in terms of its "a special status" in
the eyes of the United States and thereafter the United
Nations.
Last November, the high Israeli court permitted the
publishing and distribution of the closed-door trial of
Mordechai Vanunu (the Israeli nuclear technician who
challenged the program's secrecy and revealed astonishing
findings to the London Sunday Times about Israel's nuclear
capabilities) held in Israel in 1986 after Israeli Mossad
agents kidnapped him and shipped him to Israel.
Shimon Peres, who is now perceived as a promoter of
peaceful reconciliation between Israel and its Arab
neighbors, was angered by the November court decision.
He told the court that his revelations "caused serious
damage to Israel and their publication led certain Arab
countries to harden their stance to our disadvantage."
It is evident from the Israeli prominent leader's
declaration that the revealing of such documents will make
"certain Arabs" able to confront Israel of its long ignored
weapons of mass destruction.
When Iraqi President's son-in-law Hussein Kamal fled to
Amman and uttered to the press that Iraq is still capable
of manufacturing nuclear heads, The United Nations was
outraged to hear of Iraq's nuclear capabilities (notice
that Iraq was alleged to have the capabilities to produce
weapons of mass destruction and has not yet obtained these
weapons).
An additional team was sent to Baghdad to investigate the
findings, and the proud United States strengthened its
arguments and therefore lengthened its sanctions.
Everyone had a reason to believe that Iraq is truly a
threat to its neighbors. In Vanunu's case however, the
shock quickly faded and the fate of the former Israeli
scientist who dared to speak is an occasional theme
embraced by human rights groups every now and then.
In Israel's case, speaking out against Israel's violation
to international laws and regulations and its threat to
the safety of its neighbors, is not enough to pressure
the Jewish state to change its policy.
If you simply find those who have the courage to speak,
will you find those with the courage to listen or to act?
Despite all of the clear signs which expose Israeli weapon
program with massive destruction capabilities, strangely
enough Israel is maintaining its image as the victim rather
than the bully.
It is yet another episode in a long series of Israel's
influence in a world than acts according to a previously
set agenda despite the ethical values that most countries
preach. And it is that influence that helped Israel avoid
the consequences of its greatest crimes, while others are
being punished for crimes for which they were never even
indicted.
joseph hobeika
INVESTIGATORS HAVE YET TO FIND EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT DEUTCH'S HOME
COMPUTERS, CONTAINING NATIONAL SECRETS, WERE COMPROMISED, BUT THEY HAVE
NOT RULED IT OUT. !!!
WASHINGTON As CIA director and the Pentagon's
No. 2 official, John Deutch routinely kept the
nation's most sensitive secrets on unsecured
computers vulnerable to hackers or intruders,
according to a newly declassified report.
The report by the CIA inspector general, an
edited version of which was released Tuesday,
covers Deutch's service at the Pentagon and
CIA.
But knowledgeable U.S. government sources
say the lax habits Deutch followed in storing
sensitive information about secret weapons
programs, ongoing military operations, covert
operations and sophisticated eavesdropping
intelligence apparently were developed even
earlier, as far back as the 1970s, when Deutch
was a senior Energy Department official dealing
with nuclear weapons in the Carter administration.
In the early 1980s, according to those officials,
Deutch had difficulty passing a security clearance
lie-detector test when questions turned to whether
he had always taken care to protect classified
information in his possession.
In the report, Deutch's claims to CIA investigators
that he thought he had deleted sensitive material
are portrayed as disingenuous. The report quotes
agency officials as calling Deutch an expert
computer user.
The first detailed account of Deutch's security
lapses was made public Tuesday in a 77-page
report by CIA Inspector General L. Britt Snider.
The basic elements of the report, written last
July, have been known for weeks and have emerged
piecemeal in news reports and comments by lawmakers
and CIA officials.
But a vote Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence
Committee to release a sanitized version of the
report provided the first public glimpse of its
devastating detail.
"We're all deeply troubled," said Sen. Richard
Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee.
Because Deutch used easily identifiable e-mail
addresses and identification names on a personal
America Online Internet account he stored on the
government-issued home computers, the report said,
hackers or foreign governments could have easily
found a pathway in.
Deutch was even more vulnerable to an actual
break-in at his homes in suburban Washington and
Belmont, Mass. The report quotes an internal CIA
memo as saying that "investigators determined the
likelihood of compromise was actually greater via
a hostile entry operation into one of Mr. Deutch's
two homes to `image' the contents of the affected
hard drives. . . . Such an entry operation would
not have posed a particularly difficult challenge
had a sophisticated operation been launched by
opposition forces."
CIA investigators have yet to find evidence
indicating that Deutch's computers were compromised,
but they have not ruled it out.
Deutch, making his first public appearance since
the controversy emerged over his handling of
classified material, was contrite in a closed session
before the intelligence committee, according to
senators who attended.
"I acknowledged and apologized for the mistakes I
made," Deutch said in a statement after the hearing.
"At no time did I intend to violate security rules,
and fortunately there is no evidence of compromise."
Acknowledging that the CIA chief should set the
highest example, Deutch said he hoped his four decades
of government service would be measured against "my
mistake."
But the report, and interviews with knowledgeable U.S.
officials, indicate that Deutch's lapses predate his
tenure at CIA.
Deutch maintained the same home computer habits while
serving as deputy defense secretary, according to the
report.
"Deutch stated that he fell into the habit of using
the (CIA) unclassified system (computers) in an
inappropriate fashion,' " according to the inspector
general's report. "Deutch indicated that he had become
accustomed to exclusively using an unclassified
Macintosh computer while serving at (the Pentagon)."
But the problems apparently go back even further.
Knowledgeable congressional and U.S. government
officials said that in the early 1980s, when Deutch
was serving on national security panels that required
clearances, he had trouble on at least two polygraph
exams in answering questions about his past handling
of classified material. When questioned further, Deutch
acknowledged that he may not always have been as careful
as he should have been. He was then emphatically told of
the need to protect secrets.
In 1996, Deutch expressed surprise that CIA computer
security experts found any classified information on
his computer, saying he routinely deleted this material.
He said he could not remember getting a briefing on
computer security
The report points out that Deutch was an expert computer
user--a "super user" in one agency official's term--who
had, on several occasions, been shown by technicians how
"lost" files could be recovered from hard drives. It also
turned up records of a detailed briefing Deutch received
on protecting computer-based information. And the report
quoted Deutch himself testifying to Congress about the
threat of computer terrorism and espionage.
The report details several instances in which Deutch
appears to have received preferential treatment in the
way the CIA handled its investigation of his computer
security lapses.
This and the involvement of two close Deutch associates,
Michael O'Neil, then the agency's general counsel, and
Nora Slatkin, then its executive director, brought a
highly critical assessment from a CIA attorney, according
to a 1997 e-mail quoted in the report.
"The investigation has been one in name only," the attorney
wrote. "I mean, geez, when was the last time a subject of
an investigation was not interviewed because he objected
to talking to security officers, and the EXDIR (Slatkin),
a personal friend, used her position to short-circuit an
investigation? Let's be honest with each other, this
so-called investigation has been handled in a manner that
was more designed not to upset friendships than to protect
the interests of the U.S.G. (government)."
The inspector general's report cleared Slatkin and O'Neil
of intentionally slowing the Deutch probe but said their
actions had had that effect.
Others who made mistakes similar to Deutch's were dealt
with severely. In the fall of 1996, during Deutch's tenure
as CIA director, a senior agency official was severely
reprimanded for writing classified documents on a home
computer that also had been used to access the Internet.
The case was immediately referred to the Justice Department,
though no prosecution ensued, and the employee was suspended
for a month without pay and barred from promotion for two
years.
joseph hobeika
The article header is : "CIA says "'lack of candor" ' not anti-Semitism, led to
firing of attorney".
It seems that one Adam J. Ciralsky is suing the CIA, claiming that he was
fired because he is an observant Jew and therefore was suspected of dual
loyalty to Israel. The CIA maintains that he was fired and had his top
secret security clearance revoked "after he failed two polygraph
examinations and exhibited a 'lack of candor' about relationships with
associates who may have been tied to Israeli intelligence."
But the real news in the article is that CIA Director George J. Tenet is
quoted as saying "I will not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of
discrimination at the agency". ... "Tenet has also ordered senior CIA
managers to undergo sensitivity training provided by the Anti Defamation
League."
Well. All I can say is that it is about time -- Those "senior CIA managers"
are overdue to have their noses rubbed in who their real bosses are. As the
intelligence agency of a subordinate state, they need to be taught proper
respect for their real masters....!!!?
joseph hobeika
<< By contrast, former CIA director John Deutch lost
his security clearance but was not prosecuted for
downloading classified information, including details
of covert operations, to an unsecured laptop computer.
Asian-American scientists say the different handling
of the two cases makes them cautious about trusting
defense executives who promise to eliminate
discrimination in the workplace. >>?????????????
Something really interesting came up on C-SPAN yesterday. I've been away,
and hadn't read my e-mail for a few days. Stop here if you've already
discussed this matter, but a caller commented that Mr. Deutch was Jewish, and
possibly was an operative the Israeli called MEGA. If this is the case in
this day of "dual citizenship," we could continue to have many problems.
What a simple way to pass information. The top man in our CIA just takes his
work home and puts in on his PC, and the contact only has to tap in.
Marvelous. I'm not for this dual citizenship thing. I'm pretty old, and I
can recall when voting in a foreign election was the key to giving up your US
citizenship. Now it's just a matter of running over and voting in Israel and
then returning to the US to vote for those who want to give more funding to
Israel. During WW2, we shoved our Japanese citizens into concentration
camps, because we feared they might feel ties to Japan.
To make matters even more interesting, it should be remembered that Mr.
Cohen, our Secretary of Defense is also Jewish. What materials is he taking
home? Remember that Mr. Deutch still had his Pentagon clearance even after
it was discovered that he had compromised classified at CIA. Things in
Washington are getting stranger and stranger. ???????????,
Subject:
The SPY who left the CIA in the Cold...."MEGA" Or Mr. X...
Date:
Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:22:35 +0100
From:
joseph hobeika <hob...@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups:
soc.culture.lebanon
The very fact that John M. Deutch, former director of the CIA, mishandled
large volumes of secret material may be quite upsetting to many Americans,
especially to those who served in sensitive government positions which
required stringent security clearances.
" The inspector general's report disclosed that just three days after Mr.
Deutch learned that his computer practices were under review, he deleted
more than 1,000 classified files from his personal computers." In my humble
opinion, the inspector general's investigation clearly established that Mr.
Deutch committed a felony and maybe some other crimes.
"The report also says that Mr. Deutch declined to be interviewed by the
C.I.A.'s security officials. " Well then, why didn't agents from the FBI
try to interview him? Incidentally, why wasn't the case presented to a
Federal Grand Jury for possible indictment of Mr. Deutch for the
unauthorized downloading of massive amounts of national secrets and for
obstructing justice?
If Janet Reno's so called Department of Justice can indict Ho Lee, the
former Los Alamos computer scientist who is being held without bail, "for
what prosecutors say is the unauthorized downloading of massive amounts of
nuclear secrets" then why let Mr. Deutch off the hook? Common sense tells
me that Mr. Deutch didn't just "forget" all that top secret material on his
laptop when he retired. I think he knew exactly what was on his computer
and "how much" it was worth possibly to a foreign power. Just ask Jonathan
Pollard about the going rate for top secret documents. Am I suggesting that
Mr. Deutch saved the classified "top secret stuff" in his laptop for a
"rainy day fund"? I guess that objective is what a real investigation
should have determined, had there been one conducted by Janet Reno's
Department of Injustice....!!!????????
piper
[snip]
>To make matters even more interesting, it should be remembered that Mr.
>Cohen, our Secretary of Defense is also Jewish.
[snip]
Secretary Cohen is a Unitarian. He is not a Jew in any way, shape, or
form. The Jews were _ancestors of his FATHER_, and one's identity as a
Jew goes through the MOTHER, ONLY.
Michael
To reply by email, please eliminate "NOSPAM" from my address. Personal messages only!
JACK GARBUZ
piper <piper...@interport.net> wrote in message
news:38b6928d...@news.rcn.com...
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:14:16 +0100, joseph hobeika
>
> [snip]
> >To make matters even more interesting, it should be remembered that Mr.
> >Cohen, our Secretary of Defense is also Jewish.
> [snip]
>
> Secretary Cohen is a Unitarian. He is not a Jew in any way, shape, or
> form. The Jews were _ancestors of his FATHER_, and one's identity as a
> Jew goes through the MOTHER, ONLY.<
True. But if he'd been in Nazi Germany he would have been considered
RACIALLY Jewish and most probably would have ended up in a concentration
camp despite his "aryan" looks. Though not Jewish according to Rabbinical
Jewish Law, he could still get permanent residency status in Israel if came
because he would have been considered racially jewish by the Nazis.
joseph hobeika
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By : Jack Calhoun PhD.
On Nov. 3, 1989, Ari Ben-Menashe was taking a shower at a
friend's house in Los Angeles when the police arrived. They
ordered the dripping-wet Israeli to step out of the shower.
After letting Ben-Menashe dress, the police took the stunned world traveler into
custody. He was charged with violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act by
trying to sell three C-130 transport planes to Iran with a false end user
certificate.
Ben-Menashe would later describe his reaction to his arrest as disbelief. He
considered himself a significant player in the world of intelligence, skipping
around the globe for more than a decade, putting together arms deals that the
Israeli government favored and disrupting those that Israel opposed.
Though little understood at the time, the arrest also created a dangerous moment
for a slew of top-secret U.S. and Israeli intelligence operations.
Behind the scenes, Israeli officials understood that Ben-Menashe's knowledge
could be a serious threat, according to Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of
the Mossad, a new book by British author Gordon Thomas.
Israeli leaders knew from debriefing legendary spymaster, Rafi Eitan, that
Ben-Menashe had worked on some of Israel's most sensitive projects, Thomas
reported based on his own interviews with Eitan.
"Rafi Eitan [told his Israeli debriefers] that Ari Ben-Menashe was in a position to
blow wide open the U.S./Israeli arms-to-Iran network whose tentacles had
extended everywhere: down to Central and South America, through London, into
Australia, across to Africa, deep into Europe," Thomas wrote.
Indeed, Ben-Menashe possessed information that, if corroborated, could have
shaken U.S.-Israeli relations and possibly destroyed the reputation of the sitting
president of the United States, George Bush.
But Ben-Menashe kept quiet initially, assuming that the embarrassing arrest
would be reversed. After he was transferred to the federal prison in New York
City, Ben-Menashe waited for the Israeli government to set matters straight and
arrange for his release.
Ben-Menashe soon discovered, however, that the Israeli government would not
be coming to his rescue. So, finding himself in deep trouble and on his own,
Ben-Menashe decided to talk with a few American reporters about what he
knew. He began to tell a complex tale of international intrigue and
arms-trafficking that involved top Israelis and senior U.S. officials.
Ben-Menashe's most dramatic claim was his insistence that he spotted Bush at a
Paris meeting with Iranians in October 1980 as part of a covert Republican
scheme to torpedo President Carter's negotiations for freeing 52 Americans then
held hostage in Iran.
Ben-Menashe also implicated senior CIA official Robert Gates in the so-called
"October Surprise" controversy as well as the Likud government of Menachem
Begin, who apparently feared that a second Carter term would lead to a
Palestinian state. [See David Kimche’s The Last Option.]
Beyond the Iran caper, Ben-Menashe dished up other juicy secrets. He
described a clandestine U.S. policy to funnel weapons via Chile to Saddam
Hussein's Iraq.
Ben-Menashe also claimed knowledge of Israeli intelligence penetration of the
U.S. government at top levels, Israel's use of press magnate Robert Maxwell as a
spy, and the distribution of rigged computer software to extract secrets from
other governments.
All told, Ben-Menashe's accounts represented what could have been a major
intelligence breach for both the Israeli and U.S. governments. If true, his
information would literally rewrite the history of the Reagan-Bush era and expose
President Bush, in particular, to charges of collaborating with Iranians to
fix the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in 1980.!
As the scope of Ben-Menashe's disclosures sank in, the Israeli government
initiated a campaign to discredit him. Government officials began telling Israeli
journalists that Ben-Menashe was "an imposter" who was fabricating his claims of
official Israeli connections.
In a typical account, The Jerusalem Post quoted an "authoritative" source as
stating that "the Defence establishment 'never had any contacts with Ari
Ben-Menashe and his activities'." [The Jerusalem Post, March 27, 1990]
That initial cover story, however, crumbled when reporter Robert Parry obtained
internal Israeli documents revealing that Ben-Menashe had worked from
1977-87 for an arm of Israeli military intelligence, called the External Relations
Department.
Faced with those documents, the Israeli government retreated, admitting that the
documents were real and that Ben-Menashe indeed had worked for Israeli
intelligence. But authorities in Tel Aviv still tried to minimize Ben-Menashe's
importance.
The Israeli government and the Bush administration grew more nervous after
Ben-Menashe won acquittal from a federal jury in New York City on Nov. 28,
1990 -- in part because he established that he had performed intelligence work
for Israel.
By early 1991, Israel and the White House were turning to their allies in the U.S.
press for help. The hope was that friendly reporters could make Ben-Menashe
into a laughingstock and consign his dangerous disclosures to the loony bin of
conspiracy theories.
Steven Emerson, a New Republic writer with contacts inside the Likud, traveled
to Israel where he was shown derogatory records about Ben-Menashe. Emerson
returned to Washington and began ridiculing Ben-Menashe as "a low-level
translator" who was "delusional."
Other U.S. reporters picked up the drumbeat of negative assessments about
Ben-Menashe. On three consecutive weeks in fall 1991, Newsweek ran articles
attacking Ben-Menashe's credibility. Emerson also repeated his critical reporting
in stories for CNN, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and the American
Journalism Review.
Despite the attacks, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh used Ben-Menashe
as a source in Hersh's 1991 book about the Israeli nuclear program, The
Samson Option.
Ben-Menashe provided details about the top-secret Israeli nuclear arsenal as
well as Maxwell's intelligence activities, information that Hersh managed to
corroborate with other sources. But even the renowned Hersh came under harsh
criticism from fellow journalists for citing Ben-Menashe.
In 1992-93, a House task force, headed by Reps. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., and
Henry Hyde, R-Ill., buried Ben-Menashe even deeper when the panel rejected
his allegations about the October Surprise case, including his eyewitness claim of
seeing Bush in Paris.
The Hamilton-Hyde task force reached those conclusions despite contradictory
testimony about Bush’s alibi for the weekend when Ben-Menashe and other
witnesses placed Bush in Paris. [For details about the problems with Bush’s alibi
and the gaps in the Hamilton-Hyde report, see Robert Parry’s Trick or
Treason.]
Over the years, other witnesses added support to Ben-Menashe’s claims that he
participated in clandestine Israeli intelligence operations. In the Israeli daily,
Davar, reporter Pazit Ravina wrote, "in talks with people who worked with
Ben-Menashe, the claim that he had access to highly sensitive intelligence
information was confirmed again and again."
American journalist Craig Unger described similar information in The Village
Voice. Unger quoted a senior intelligence official, Moshe Habroni, who stated
that "Ben-Menashe served directly under me. … He had access to very, very
sensitive material." [Village Voice, July 7, 1992]
Some of Ben-Menashe's key claims gained important factual corroboration, too.
After dying mysteriously at sea, Maxwell was unmasked as an Israeli operative.
In another instance, one of Ronald Reagan's national security aides, Howard
Teicher, submitted an affidavit in a federal criminal case describing a
CIA-backed covert operation to funnel military supplies through Chile to Iraq,
just as Ben-Menashe had claimed.
Other new evidence supported the October Surprise charges. [For details, see
Robert Parry's books, The October Surprise X-Files and Lost History.]
But the Washington news media did not reconsider its dismissive judgment of
Ben-Menashe. That attitude has continued despite the additional corroboration of
Ben-Menashe's bona fides published this year in Gideon's Spies.
Nevertheless, the book fills in an important new chapter of the Ben-Menashe
saga: how alarmed Israeli intelligence officials understood the danger posed by
Ben-Menashe's wide-ranging knowledge and how they mounted a disinformation
campaign to discredit him.
Thomas's principal contribution to the Ben-Menashe puzzle comes from the
author's interviews with Rafi Eitan, the Israeli master spy who engineered the
capture of Nazi fugitive Adolph Eichmann in Argentine in 1960 and served as
Mossad's deputy director of operations for 25 years.
In the interviews, Eitan, who is now in his mid-60s, acknowledged that
Ben-Menashe was one of his protégés. According to Gideon's Spies, Eitan and
Ben-Menashe worked together in the 1980s setting up a clandestine U.S.-Israeli
arms network to procure weapons for sale to Iran.
Eitan also disclosed that he and Ben-Menashe collaborated on a project using
so-called PROMIS software to collect sensitive intelligence about Israel's
enemies in the Middle East.
Ben-Menashe has claimed he worked with Eitan on the top secret Joint
Committee for Iran-Israel Relations, a combined effort by the Mossad and the
External Relations Department to rebuild their influence in Iran after the
overthrow of the Shah in 1979.
Ben-Menashe would have appeared a reasonable choice for the operation since
he had been born in Iran, spoke fluent Farsi and was a contemporary of young
Iranians rising to prominence under the Khomeini regime. But Thomas’s
interviews with Eitan now corroborate those assertions.
So, in the early 1990s, while most U.S. and Israeli journalists were accepting the
word of government sources and battering Ben-Menashe's credibility, the Israeli
government knew from Eitan that Ben-Menashe's accounts were largely
accurate, Thomas reported.
Asked for details about Eitan's confirmation of Ben-Menashe's intelligence role,
Thomas told me that he had sent Eitan a copy of Ben-Menashe's 1992 memoirs,
Profits of War. The book described Ben-Menashe's accounts of his intelligence
exploits and his claim about the Republican-Israeli secret Iran-hostage
collaboration in 1980.
Thomas said Eitan reported back that he had no criticism of the book. According
to Thomas, Eitan stated that Ben-Menashe "is telling the truth. … That's why they
squashed it." As for Ben-Menashe’s espionage skills, Eitan asserted that "as an
intelligence operative, [he was] tops,” Thomas said.
In the 1980s, some of Eitan's most controversial work was as head of
LAKAM, a military intelligence unit created to collect scientific and technological
intelligence.
In one of Eitan's daring operations, the spymaster authorized recruitment of
Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was a civilian intelligence analyst at the
U.S. Navy's Anti-Terrorism Alert Center. Pollard was assigned to spy within the
U.S. Defense Department and to steal sensitive U.S. documents.
"Over 1,000 highly classified documents, 360 cubic feet of paper, were
transmitted to Israel," Thomas wrote. "There Rafi Eitan devoured them before
passing over the material to the Mossad. The data enabled [its director general]
Nahum Admoni to brief [Prime Minister] Shimon Peres … on how to respond to
Washington's Middle East policies in a manner previously impossible."
But the operation backfired in 1985 when Pollard was arrested while fleeing to
the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. The operation was traced to LAKAM,
and Eitan was blamed for endangering U.S.-Israeli relations.
Apparently, Eitan was willing to disclose to Thomas other LAKAM-connected
intelligence successes to offset the damage that the Pollard case has done to
Eitan’s reputation.
In particular, Eitan touted an ingenious scheme for extracting secrets from the
computerized files of other nations, an intelligence coup that Eitan saw as a
crowning achievement to his career as Israel’s most famous spy.
According to Gideon’s Spies, Eitan confirmed Ben-Menashe's account that
Israel reaped an intelligence bonanza by exploiting a sophisticated American
software program called PROMIS. At the time, PROMIS was a state-of-art
program capable of complex data management; it was designed to track the
progress of federal criminal cases.
Eitan said he learned about PROMIS from Earl Brian, an American businessman
who had been secretary of health and welfare under California Gov. Ronald
Reagan in the early 1970s. Eitan knew of Brian because of the American's
business trips to Iran in the 1970s.
According to Thomas's book, Eitan invited Brian to Tel Aviv, where they met
"several times." Brian broached the subject of PROMIS software, which was
already being employed by U.S. intelligence agencies.
Fascinated by the intelligence possibilities, Eitan brainstormed a plan to adapt
PROMIS to Israeli intelligence needs. Eitan wanted to make PROMIS a
cyber-age "Trojan Horse" that would glean secrets about Palestinian militants and
political leaders from government files in Jordan and other nations.
Eitan soon got a copy of PROMIS from the United States, according to
Gideon's Spies. Ben-Menashe claimed that he was instructed to arrange for the
installation of a "trapdoor" or a "built-in chip" to permit the secret downloading of
data.
Eitan's next task was to find a front company to sell PROMIS to Jordan. Since
an Israeli company would not be trusted, "Earl Brian's company, Hadron, made
the deal," Thomas wrote.
With PROMIS software installed in Jordan's military intelligence headquarters,
Thomas reported, Eitan's strategy paid off in the downloading of sensitive
information about Israel's adversaries.
"PROMIS could track a terrorist's every step," Thomas wrote. He called Eitan's
project an intelligence "breakthrough" that enhanced his stature as "a powerful
figure in the Israeli intelligence community." [In testimony, Brian denied a role in
the PROMIS operation.]
Flush with success, Eitan decided to cast a wider net. Thomas reported that Eitan
developed an ambitious plan to market PROMIS worldwide to Israel's allies and
enemies alike. For that operation, Eitan needed a front company with greater
international reach. So, he turned to press magnate Robert Maxwell and his
access to world leaders.
"The power of his newspapers meant that presidents and prime ministers were
ready to receive him," an Israeli intelligence official told Thomas. Maxwell also
had close ties to top Israeli leaders and a formal relationship with the Mossad,
according to Gideon’s Spies.
Soon, Maxwell was marketing the doctored software through Degem
Computers, an Israeli company that Maxwell had purchased, Thomas reported.
He added that Eitan's operation sold more than $500 million worth of PROMIS
by 1989 to intelligence services in Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Guatemala,
Poland, South Africa, South Korea and even the Soviet Union's KGB.
Though Thomas says he has corroborated parts of Eitan's assertions, some
claims still rest heavily on Eitan's word.
In studying the complicated PROMIS issue for several years, however, I have
been able to confirm some additional elements of Eitan's account.
For example, the use of secret trapdoors to tap into a computer's files was a
well-established practice by the early 1980s, according to papers prepared by
U.S. military experts.
In an article in the Air University Review of January-February 1979, Lt. Col.
Roger Schell described the techniques used by special U.S. Air Force teams to
penetrate “secure” computer systems. Schell noted that the teams could install
undetectable trapdoors to “bypass the normal security checks.”
Navy Lt. Philip Myers made a similar observation in a 1980 masters thesis in
computer science written at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
Calif. "The attacker can construct the trapdoor in such a manner as to make it
virtually undetectable to even suspecting investigators," wrote Myers.
Myers also noted that trapdoors and "Trojan horses" can be "implemented in
either hardware or software." The reference to the PROMIS trapdoor as a
"built-in chip" suggests that the secret access could have been implanted in
computer hardware that could then have been sold with the PROMIS software
as a package deal.
I also discovered evidence of Brian's travels to Iran in the 1970s. I found proof,
too, that Brian's Hadron was linked to U.S. intelligence and did top-secret work
in Jordan.
Some information was in old newspapers. "Dr. Earl Brian reportedly is out to get
a little of that Middle Eastern oil money," the Sacramento Bee reported on Jan.
12, 1975. "Brian, the secretary of the Health and Welfare agency under Ronald
Reagan, is helping to write a proposal on health care for Iran."
I located other evidence at the National Archives in newly opened files from an
investigation by Independent Counsel Jacob Stein who examined the personal
finances of White House counselor Edwin Meese III. Brian was interviewed
because in 1981, he had given Meese a $15,000 interest-free loan that Meese
had used to buy stock in Brian's new Biotech Capital Corp.
Brian told one of Stein's investigators that he did "some corporate consulting" in
Iran in the 1970s.
Brian also was president of the Los Angeles-based Xonics, Inc. in 1975-77. An
FBI agent's memo to Stein described Xonics as a high-tech company with
"several contracts with the Department of Defense and the CIA." Xonics
specialized in telecommunications, radar techniques and X-ray imaging.
In 1978, Brian invested heavily in Hadron, a company based in Vienna, Va., that
did high-tech communications and computer work for the Pentagon and U.S.
intelligence. Two years later, Brian gained control of the company and began
acquiring small firms with their own national-security contracts.
One of those purchases in December 1981 was Telcom, a communications
engineering company that handled sensitive work for Jordan's armed forces and
King Hussein. Telcom had a contract with the Royal Jordanian Air Force to set
up a digital voice and microwave communications system, according to Hadron's
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1983.
Hadron's Form 10-K for 1984 described Telcom's upgrade of the
communications system of the Jordanian Royal Palace in Amman. Telcom also
operated the microwave network of the Special Communications Commission of
the Jordanian Armed Forces.
In 1985, Hadron reported that Telcom personnel operated "a number of
communications facilities" for "a proprietary U.S. Government agency," a phrase
meaning an intelligence cut-out.
In other words, Eitan's account of Brian's activities would fit with the
documentary evidence about Brian's businesses in the Middle East and in the
United States. By the early 1980s, under Brian's guidance, Hadron had grown
into a company with $30 million annual revenues, exclusively from
national-security contracts.
[In 1996, Brian was convicted of fraud in an unrelated securities case and was
sentenced to 4 ½ years in federal prison.]
Thomas told me that Eitan admitted that he was in direct contact with the
developers of the original PROMIS software, a small Washington, D.C.-based
company called Inslaw. Thomas said Eitan acknowledged that he was the
mysterious Israeli who visited Inslaw's office in February 1983, using the name
"Ben Orr."
Several years after the visit, Inslaw president William Hamilton learned from an
Israeli journalist that Eitan sometimes called himself, "Dr. Joseph Ben Orr." After
checking Eitan's photo, Hamilton and other members of his staff recognized Eitan
as their visitor.
Wittingly or not, Ronald Reagan's Justice Department appeared to have
facilitated that visit and Israel's procurement of PROMIS. In an ongoing federal
claims case filed by Inslaw against the U.S. government for unauthorized use of
PROMIS, a Justice Department official testified that he arranged for an Israeli
official, called Ben Orr, to visit Inslaw and to receive a copy of PROMIS in May
1983.
Ben Orr "was a professor in Israel and expressed interest in case tracking," said
C. Madison Brewer, the department's project manager for the PROMIS
contract. "I made arrangements for him to go to Inslaw for a demonstration. …
At a later date, he made a request for PROMIS," which Brewer said the Justice
Department provided.
I asked Thomas why he thought Eitan was going public now with these
disclosures. Thomas replied that Eitan simply considered his intelligence coups of
the 1980s among his greatest professional triumphs and wanted credit.
"Rafi Eitan wants to leave a legacy that he was Israel's greatest spymaster since
Gideon," said Thomas, referring to the Old Testament hero whose spying saved
the Israelites from destruction. "He [Eitan] thinks what he created with PROMIS
was the perfect climax to his career."
In asserting his claim to Gideon-like status, Eitan also burnished the reputation of
his understudy, Ari Ben-Menashe. It now appears that Ben-Menashe, who lives
in Canada, did possess real information despite the negative judgments by
Congress and much of the Washington press corps.
Jack Colhoun, Ph.D., is an investigative reporter and a Cold War historian.
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piper wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:14:16 +0100, joseph hobeika
>
> [snip]
> >To make matters even more interesting, it should be remembered that Mr.
> >Cohen, our Secretary of Defense is also Jewish.
> [snip]
>
> Secretary Cohen is a Unitarian. He is not a Jew in any way, shape, or
> form. The Jews were _ancestors of his FATHER_, and one's identity as a
> Jew goes through the MOTHER, ONLY.
>
joseph hobeika
Intelligence alert.....!
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What is it about this White House that makes it
impossible for Clinton administration members and
staffers to act responsibly when it comes to national
security? Are they daft? Is it something in the water?
Or is it the pervasive lack of respect for the military
and intelligence cultures of Washington that is at the
core? We have certainly seen that phenomenon
documented often enough during the Clinton terms.
This phenomenon now turns out to extend all the
way to the top of the intelligence community, to
former Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch,
who this week apologized to Congress for
mishandling top-secret documents on his home
computers. Though all this was purely unintentional,
of course, Mr. Deutch acknowledged that "the
director of central intelligence is not above the rules,"
and told the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, "I very much regret my actions." It is
gratifying to know that there is at least one member
of the Clinton administration who does not believe he
is above the law.
First there was the matter of the White House
staffers whose FBI security clearance could not be
processed because of past drug use. All this was
credibly documented by former FBI Agent Gary
Aldrich in his book, "Unlimited Access." Then there
was Filegate, which was never actually resolved. It
was a deeply serious breach of security and privacy,
involving the FBI background files of over 900
former Republican White House employees, whose
files were discovered in the White House basement
under the protection of two Democratic operatives.
Nor should we forget Chinagate. Here we had
Democratic fund-raiser John Huang pouring money
from the Indonesian Lippo Group into the pockets of
the Democratic National Committee. In return, he
was awarded with a post in the Commerce
Department with access to classified information.
Meanwhile, Charlie Trie was bearing gifts from the
Chinese government and getting Chinese arms
merchants a seat at the White House coffee table.
Add to that the seepage of nuclear secrets from the
Los Alamos nuclear laboratory to the Chinese
government, as documented by the Cox report. And
there was the decision to allow the Commerce
Department (rather than the Pentagon) to certify the
launching of U.S. satellites on Chinese rockets by
Loral Space & Communications and Hughes
Electronics.
Mr. Deutch's actions themselves are staggering.
According to a report by the CIA inspector general,
Mr. Deutch copied and stored 17,000 pages of
highly classified documents on his home computer
after he left the agency in 1996. Not only that, but
high-risk Internet sites had been accessed from these
computers, which could compromise the security of
the files stored there. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is
carrying on its own investigation as to whether Mr.
Deutch compromised ultra-sensitive Pentagon
programs by placing details about them in his home
computers.
What is almost as troubling is that it took Mr.
Deutch's successor at the CIA, George Tenet, 18
months before he notified the congressional oversight
committees of Mr. Deutch's appalling lapse. Even at
this late hour of the Clinton presidency, it remains up
to Congress to drag the truth out into the sunlight.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard C.
Shelby has promised to do just that. Goodness
knows what else he will find this time.!! Mega or MR.X.?
joseph hobeika
Reno Reviews CIA Probe of Ex-Director
Comparisons With Lee Case Prompt Concern at Justice.
Attorney General Janet Reno said yesterday she is reviewing former CIA
director John M. Deutch's home computer security breaches and the
CIA's failure to promptly report possible crimes by Deutch to the Justice
Department.
Reno is particularly concerned with public comparisons of Deutch's case
and that of Wen Ho Lee, a former physicist at Los Alamos National
Laboratory who was indicted in December on 59 felony counts for
downloading nuclear secrets to unsecured computers, officials said.
One law enforcement official said the Deutch case is being reviewed with
"the constant specter of Wen Ho Lee in this picture. . . . Look at the
disparity in the results."
Deutch, now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has
admitted violating Central Intelligence Agency security procedures by
drafting highly classified intelligence documents on unsecured home
computers linked to the Internet during his CIA tenure from May 1995
through December 1996.
CIA officials discovered the security breach the day after Deutch left office
and immediately began an internal probe. But the case languished in
mid-1997, and the CIA did not notify the Justice Department about
Deutch's security breach until a frustrated security official complained to
the agency's inspector general in February 1998.
In its initial review of the matter, the Justice Department decided against
prosecuting Deutch in April 1999. CIA Director George J. Tenet then
stripped his predecessor of his CIA security clearances in August. Tenet
acted after receiving the inspector general's report, which concluded that
top CIA officials had bungled, but not obstructed, the Deutch probe. The
report noted that the CIA's general counsel early on reported Deutch's
actions to the FBI's general counsel.
The Justice Department's new review of the issue, law enforcement
officials said yesterday, has been driven in part by congressional scrutiny
since portions of the inspector general's report were leaked to the news
media earlier this month.
"Reno is intimately involved in the process," one law enforcement official
said.
While Reno may be concerned about the public comparisons of the
Deutch and Lee cases, former senator Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.),
chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, has
drawn a sharp distinction between the two cases, contending that Lee
repeatedly lied about his downloads while Deutch merely displayed
"sloppiness."
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, said it is about time the Justice Department got involved.
"I know rules were broken. If laws were broken, that is a matter for the
Justice Department," said Shelby, whose committee is also investigating
Deutch's security breach and the CIA's botched investigation. "If there was
a coverup, as the evidence tends to suggest, I hope they will do their job."
CIA spokesman Bill Harlow declined to comment.
CIA attorneys began considering the possibility that Deutch may have
violated the law within weeks of his departure in December 1996. In early
January 1997, a veteran CIA attorney named James Archibald expressed
"disbelief" when the agency's principal deputy general counsel took the
position that Deutch could not be prosecuted for "gross negligence" in
mishandling classified information, a felony, according to an unclassified
version of the inspector general's report.
The principal deputy believed that the law did not apply to Deutch because
he had "the legal authority to declassify material under his control,"
according to the report.
But Archibald objected, reasoning that such a stance would put the
agency's director beyond the reach of the law, the report says. Archibald
also noted that Deutch would not have been able to declassify the
top-secret Defense Department documents also found on his computer.
Ultimately, the principal deputy and then-CIA general counsel Michael J.
O'Neill concluded that there was no need to file a "crimes report" with the
Justice Department--a decision for which they were faulted by the
inspector general.
Archibald continued to complain about the way O'Neill and the agency's
then-executive director, Nora Slatkin, both Deutch loyalists, had overseen
the CIA's security investigation, which was completed in July 1997. It
recommended only that Deutch be reprimanded.
The following month, according to the report, Archibald complained in an
e-mail to one of his bosses that no one at either the White House or the
Defense Department "had, so far, been notified about a possible
compromise of information."
Despite Archibald's complaints, no such notification was forthcoming,
Deutch was not reprimanded and no further action was taken until
February 1998, when Bill Fayerweather, chief of the agency's special
investigations branch (SIB), complained to the inspector general.
Fayerweather, who is not identified by name in the report, told the
inspector general that "he was unable to fully pursue his investigation
because of a problem with Slatkin and O'Neill," the report says.
Fayerweather "was frustrated because there had been no interview of
Deutch, a customary part of an SIB investigation."...Mega ? X ??..
Omri Schwarz
>
Jo, my man, why are you so obssessed with Deutch?
is there anything you eant me to ask him?
--
Omri Schwarz ---
Timeless wisdom of biomedical engineering:
"Noise is principally due to the presence of the
patient." -- R.F. Farr
joseph hobeika
His Lap Top^Computers & ALL the storage Disks.
Omri Schwarz
You'll have to look for another cool kid in the block.
joseph hobeika
Omri Schwarz wrote:
> Daddy took his toys away.
I think you are absolutely right ,
joseph hobeika
FAIR-L
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Media analysis, critiques and news reports.
ACTION ALERT: CBS Sees Immigrants as an "Army of Invaders"
February 25, 2000
CBS Evening News' February 17 "Eye on America" segment presented what Dan
Rather called "an in-depth report from the front lines of this country's
losing battle against unlawful immigration." That military metaphor
continued throughout the segment, with Rather and CBS correspondent Bob
McNamara referring to "an army of invaders," a "border battleground" and
"the daily invasion of illegal aliens." At one point, McNamara reported
that "Border Patrol agents have seen the illegal invasion here take on the
tactics and size of an advancing army."
The subject of the report was a resident of Texas who is under investigation
for allegedly shooting two Mexican immigrants in separate incidents. For a
supposedly "in-depth report," you don't learn much about either incident:
One of the victims, viewers were told, was killed while crossing back across
the Rio Grande after reportedly attempting to break in to the suspect's
house; the other, who survived, was apparently shot in the back while simply
standing in the river. Instead of providing information about these cases
or other evidence of immigration problems in Texas, the report relies on
vague references to people defending the border and defending their
property, concepts that seem to be used interchangeably.
No Mexican immigrants or advocates for immigrants are allowed to directly
present their viewpoints; instead, McNamara refers briefly to statements
made by two relatives of the victims. (In one of these, a brother merely
acknowledges participation in a burglary attempt.) There are a few comments
from a Border Patrol agent, and all other quotes in the segment are either
from the suspect in the shootings or from his neighbors who support him,
saying things like, "If my family or my property is threatened, I wouldn't
hesitate one bit."
Given the extended use of military language to describe immigration in the
piece, the segment leaves the impression that it might, in fact, be
justifiable to use violence against people trying to cross the border
illegally. McNamara concludes that "solutions are not simple at all here, a
land where the line between right and wrong can often be as murky as the Rio
Grande River." One-sided, sensationalistic reports like this one from CBS
certainly do their part to muddy the water.
ACTION: Write to Dan Rather and ask him whether he thought that this was a
fair and balanced presentation of an incendiary subject. Point out that
references to an "army of invaders," and the "murky" line between right and
wrong, seem to justify the use of vigilante violence.
joseph hobeika
Economic Information (an appraisal of technologies of political control)."
PDF: http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/pdf/98-14-01-1en.pdf
Volume 2/5: "The state of the art in Communications Intelligence (COMINT) of
automated processing for intelligence purposes of intercepted broadband
multi-language leased or common carrier systems, and its applicability to
COMINT targeting and selection, including speech recognition," by Duncan
Campbell:
PDF: http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/pdf/98-14-01-2en.pdf
Volume 3/5: "Encryption and cryptosystems in electronic surveillance: a
survey of the technology assessment issues," by Dr. Franck Leprévost:
PDF: http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/pdf/98-14-01-3en.pdf
Volume 4/5: "The legality of the interception of electronic communications: A
concise survey of the principal legal issues and instruments under
international, European and national law," by Prof. Chris Elliott:
PDF: http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/pdf/98-14-01-4en.pdf
Volume 5/5: "The perception of economic risks arising from the potential
vulnerability of electronic commercial media to interception: Survey of
opinions of experts," by Nikos Bogonikolos:
PDF: http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/pdf/981401-5en.pdf
joseph hobeika
DEUTCH BIOGRAPHY
Born: July 27, 1938 in Brussels, Belgium, the son of a pious Jewish couple known as early Zionist sympathizers. His father,
Michael Deutsch, an engineering executive with a Belgian construction company at the time, eventually worked with the CIA in
Vietnam.
Education: In 1941, the Deutsch family emigrated to the U.S. John was enrolled at Sidwell Friends, an exclusive private school
in Washington (now attended by Chelsea Clinton), subsequently at Amherst and finally at MIT. Deutsch earned a doctorate in
physical chemistry.
Employment: In 1961, Deutsch worked at the Defense Dept. and joined the "whiz kids" around Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara and Pres. John Kennedy as the stage for the Vietnamese war was set.
In 1965 Deutsch, a civilian employee of the Pentagon (he has no record of military service), was involved in planning
covert-action operations in Vietnam. In retrospect, almost all of the missions were failures.
In 1970, with the Vietnam war a lost cause, Deutsch bailed out of the government and joined the faculty of MIT. By 1973 he
was promoted to full professor. Three years later Deutsch was named acting chair of the chemistry department.
Deutsch was called in to take charge of the CIA's Technical Advisory Panel after the agency's covert action technicians
bungled an anti-Castro operation in 1976. The timer of a bomb designed to sabotage a Cuban airliner on the ground proved
defective. An unintentionally delayed explosion downed the plane after takeoff, killing 81 aboard.
The next year Deutsch was named to head the Dept. of Energy's nuclear weapons program, where another scandal was
brewing. The FBI warned that Israeli agents, with inside help, were stealing both the raw materials and design secrets of the
world's most powerful weapons.
1980: Deutsch, who has changed his name to Deutch, returned to MIT to teach and was eventually named provost of the
university.
1990: George Bush picked Deutch to head the President's Foreign Intelligence Board. Deutch later joined the Trilateral
Commission.
In 1992, Deutch was appointed deputy secretary of defense. The incoming Clinton administration extended and enriched
secret strategic pacts that grant Israel access to U.S. military and intelligence resources no other nation has ever received.
1994: Clinton put Deutch in full charge of the CIA and related intelligence agencies. Reassured at finding a spymaster who can
count on the Israel lobby's--and with it the mass media's--full support, the Senate confirmed Deutch as Director of Central
Intelligence with an enthusiastic 98-0 vote.
Spotlight 7/1/96, Zionist Takeover of Intelligence Infrastructure Nearly Complete, Warren Hough, Cambridge,
MA--Power is the name of the game in Washington, and the Clinton administration's top spy is a master gamesman.
CIA Director John Mark Deutch, 57, a foreign-born defense intellectual, one-time chemistry professor and lifelong Zionist, has
emerged as a bureaucratic empire-builder. He is "clearly becoming the most powerful spymaster Washington has ever seen,"
Time magazine announced recently. Until Deutch took charge of the cloak-and-dagger corps a year ago, the CIA was in
decline, leaking scandals and adrift on a tide of post-cold war doldrums. Congressional panels and "intelligence reform"
committees heard high-level proposals for cutting the espionage budget, slashing its staff, even breaking up the CIA and
merging its key divisions into the Pentagon and State Department.
But once Deutch took over, the storm suddenly abated and the national security bureaucracy enjoyed a new lease on life. To
be sure, there were changes. For instance, a presidential directive shifted the intelligence budget--estimated at about $30 billion
annually and long dominated by the Defense Dept.--to the personal control of Deutch.
GARNERS RANK
Deutch was granted cabinet status. His booming, often lecturing voice has already begun to dominate the closed-door
meetings of the president's top aides, White House sources say. Speculating on the reasons for the new CIA chief's sudden
stardom, Time noted that Deutch plays squash with other influential Clinton advisers and that he knows "how to make
stone-faced Sec. of State Warren Christopher laugh." But sources who came to know Deutch well in this academic
community voiced less innocent views of the forces behind his spectacular rise.
"Deutch owes his talent for intrigue to his father, his devotion to Zionism to his mother and his knack for self-promotion to the
example of former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger," says Dr. Judith DeVore, a systems analyst who worked for Deutch at MIT
in the late 1980s. That Kissinger and Deutch share a number of traits has been noted by knowledgeable sources interviewed
by Spotlight. "Kissinger came to symbolize the growing role of foreign-born theorists and analysts in American defense since
the end of WWII," observed Dr. Gerald McLachlan, a British biochemist who did research at MIT in the 1980s.
OUTSIDE LOYALTIES
The trouble was that the most deeply felt ethnic and emotional ties of these alien technocrats bound them "neither to the country
of their birth, nor to the U.S. but to Israel--an impossible position for, say, a strategic planner or intelligence officer,"
McLachlan explained. But supported by the Israel lobby, an alien pressure group heavily favored both in Congress and the
mass media, the network of dual loyalist administrators enjoyed a unique advantage: It was almost never penalized for the
mistakes and misdeeds of the national security establishment.
"When one of his programs fell apart, Deutch simply went back to teaching for a while," said an MIT faculty administrator who
worked for Deutch at both MIT and the Defense Department. "He knew that he'd be moving back to government--to
a new national security job nearer to the top--soon enough." Now Deutch, whose father--a Belgian refugee--was a member
of the CIA covert action team headed by Gen. Edward Lansdale during the Vietnam War, has arrived at the top. With the full
support of the Israel behind him, he is reaching for unlimited powers.
_______
Spotlight 9/2/96, CIA, CFR Write Saudi Obituary, Warren Hough - U.S. policymakers under the lash of the Israel
lobby have decided America should target the Saudi monarchy.
CIA Director John Deutch wields nearly unlimited power as the US intelligence czar. Now he has teamed with Leslie Gelb,
president of theCFR in mounting a campaign to destabilize the government of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi rulers, long a target of
militant Zionism's drive for undisputed regional supremacy, have met and withstood such attacks before. But this time, the
oil-rich monarchy is in for the fight of its life, warned a scholar who recently comleted his doctoral thesis on the political
economy of the Arabian Peninsula. other regional experts voice similar concerns.
"The CIA and the CFR wield greater behind-the-scenes influence on the Clinton administrtion's global strategy than just about
any other group," said Dr. Greta Moers, a former research assistant in national security studies at the Brookings Institute in
Washington. That these mainstream strongholds are now being directed by policymakers whose ethnic and emotional ties to
Israel outweigh any other commitment represents "a mortal threat" to any Arab nation they may target, Dr. Moers asserted.
Assuming command of the CFR, Gelb, a former foreign editor of the New York Times, left no doubt about where he would
aim his big guns. In the December '95 Foreign Affairs, the official CFR magazine, led its lineup of articles with a stunning
attack on the Saudi monarchy. "The most unmanageable risk facaing American interests in the Persian Gulf is neither Saddam
Hussein nor Iranian expansionism," the article began. "Rather it is the slow but sure decay ... of Saudi Arabia's economic and
political structures."
To prevent the collapse of the world's largest oil supplies, its "current regime"--that is, the government of King Fahd--must be
"replaced," argued the CFR study. If not "replaced" under pressure, then the Saudi monarchy should be overthrown. "Most
importantly, Washington should establish contact with the political movements opposing the [Saudi] regime," Gelb's publication
urged.
That the CFR, sponsored by the Rockefellers and their financial allies should abandon its traditional pro-Saudi stance and turn
on its erstwhile protégé was a bombshell. "it shook the State Department and quite a few European chancelleries," said Claude
Jouvet, a diplomatic correspondent. But at the CIA, Deutch and his newly installed directorate were not surprised. "They
were already 'in contact' with the most fanatical opponents of the Saudi regime," said a senior UN delegate.
The mainstream media were quick to follow the CFR's anti-Saudi lead. The Washington Post accused Prince Nayef, Saudi
Arabia's interior minister and most powerful official after King Fahd, of involvement in alleged incidents of torture and murder.
The Times reported a "widespread" anti-government conspiracy among Saudi military aviators, leading to the abrupt purge of
Air Force Commander-in-Chief Gen. Ali Bihairi.
The most frequently cited source for such troubling accusations was Dr. Muhammad al-Masari, a disaffected Saudi physics
teacher who fled into European exile and set up a propaganda center against his own government in London. "There is no
doubt Masari has turned into an American media star," a UN diplomat observed. "The Times even featured his photograph on
the front page. What it has not seen fit to print is that Masari's American-born wife is widely held to be a CIA asset." Other
militant enemies of the Saudi monarchy have also received CIA support, sources say. "There have been repeated reports
about Saudi volunteers who fought in Afghanistan turning their weapons against King Fahd," Jouvet said. "The fact is these
forces were organized, trained and equipped by the CIA."
The most frequently heard accusation against the Saudi regime involves widespread official corruption. "Greasing palms is a
way of life in tropical, underdeveloped and ex-colonial countries," Jouvet added. "of course, the CFR, launched and
dominated by the Rockefeller consortium and allied Eastern financiers should be the last ones to complain: Its donors, sponsors
and trustees are among the worst instigators and exploiters of global graft. And the CIa, notoriously the leading corrupter of
foreign officials, should hang its head in silent shame.
In the consensus of these sources, subverting Saudi Arabia is a dangerous game, and for the United States a losing bet. "Israel
may profit from manipulating and inflaming the Arab world into chaos," Dr. Moers cautioned. "But it will be the only
beneficiary of such a regional upheaval."...!!!???
Omri Schwarz
>
> Omri Schwarz wrote:
>
> > Daddy took his toys away.
>
> I think you are absolutely right ,
>
joseph hobeika
GARNERS RANK
OUTSIDE LOYALTIES
joseph hobeika
The understatement of the Millenium.
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Foreign intelligence services could have broken
into the homes of former CIA Director John Deutch
and copied the 17,000 pages of highly classified
intelligence documents stored improperly on his home
computers, according to a CIA report made public
yesterday.
The report by the CIA inspector general also
said that "high-risk Internet sites" had placed
"cookies" on the hard drive of Mr. Deutch's home
computer - software that lets remote computers obtain
personal information from systems connected to the
Internet.
However, CIA security investigators stated in a
memorandum partially reproduced in the report that it
would have been easier for spies to break into Mr.
Deutch's homes and copy the data than to access it by
remote computer.
Mr. Deutch had refused 24-hour CIA security
guards at his homes because of "privacy concerns" and
let a resident alien domestic servant with no security
clearance enter the Bethesda, Md., residence when the
Deutches were not home.
CIA investigators "determined the likelihood of
compromise was actually greater via a hostile entry
operation into one of Mr. Deutch's two homes [in
Bethesda and Boston] to 'image' the contents of the
affected hard drives," the memorandum said.
"Due to the paucity of physical security, it is
stipulated that such an entry operation would not have
posed a particularly difficult challenge, had a
sophisticated operation been launched by opposition
forces," the memo said.
A complete copy of the data on the hard drives
could have been made in a short time, the memo said.
The report stated that there was no clear
evidence the secrets were compromised, and that
determining the loss might take months.
The inspector general report concluded that Mr.
Deutch knew he was risking U.S. national security by
placing highly sensitive information on the
unclassified computers but did nothing to prevent it.
The report described the information as relating
to "covert action, Top Secret communications
intelligence and the National Reconnaissance Program
budget."
The material also included memos to the president
and top national security officials as well as "non-CIA
compartmented" information - a reference to extremely
sensitive Pentagon programs.
U.S. officials told The Washington Times last week
that besides CIA secrets, investigators found highly
classified information on Mr. Deutch's home computers
relating to Pentagon special access programs, known as
"black programs," because of their secrecy.
Mr. Deutch, meanwhile, appeared before a closed
session of the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday
to answer questions about how some 17,000 classified
intelligence and defense documents were improperly
stored on several computers used after he left the
agency in December 1996.
Mr. Deutch told reporters after a two-hour
appearance before the Senate committee yesterday that
"I very much regret my error."
"At no time did I intend to violate security rules,"
Mr. Deutch said. "The director of Central Intelligence is
not above the rules."
However, the inspector general report indicates that
the former CIA chief deliberately deleted classified files
on the computers after he was caught by security officials
improperly storing the data on his computers on Dec. 17,
1995.
Some of the deleted files that were retrieved by
investigators were dated Dec. 20, 1995 - three days after
the material was first discovered by a security official.
The report outlined a scheme by Mr. Deutch to keep the
CIA-supplied computers by entering a contract with the
agency that prohibited him from using them for personal
use - even though he said the reason he wanted to keep them
was because the contained personal financial records.
Senior aides to Mr. Deutch at CIA, namely CIA Executive
Director Nora Slatkin and Michael O'Neill, the agency's
general counsel, also took steps described in the inspector
general report as "anomalies" that appeared aimed at
protecting Mr. Deutch.
CIA Director George Tenet also waited 18 months before
notifying Congress of Mr. Deutch's improperly storing highly
sensitive intelligence and defense documents improperly, the
report said.
The report said the delay prevented the appointment of
an independent counsel investigation because "the allegations
of illegal behavior regarding . . . Deutch were received more
than one year after Deutch left office."
Mr. Tenet must notify the oversight committees of any
significant intelligence activities.
Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican and chairman
of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an interview
yesterday that the lapse was "troubling."
"I don't believe this was George Tenet and his staff's
finest hour," Mr. Shelby said. "All of the delay, the lack
of notification to the committees, the FBI, and so forth is
troubling and inexplicable."
Asked if Mr. Tenet should resign, Mr. Shelby said,
"We're doing our investigation right now."
joseph hobeika
Omri Schwarz wrote:
> joseph hobeika wrote:
> >
> > Omri Schwarz wrote:
> >
> > > Daddy took his toys away.
> >
> > I think you are absolutely right ,
> >
> If there's anything else, I can ask him on Monday.
YES:
ECHELON BOMBSHELL: NSA ACCUSED OF SPYING ON US POLITICIANS ...
Please Confirm ...
Developing hard...
piper
<JGA...@email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>piper <piper...@interport.net> wrote in message
>news:38b6928d...@news.rcn.com...
>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:14:16 +0100, joseph hobeika
>>
>> [snip]
>> >To make matters even more interesting, it should be remembered that Mr.
>> >Cohen, our Secretary of Defense is also Jewish.
>> [snip]
>>
>> Secretary Cohen is a Unitarian. He is not a Jew in any way, shape, or
>> form. The Jews were _ancestors of his FATHER_, and one's identity as a
>> Jew goes through the MOTHER, ONLY.<
>
>True. But if he'd been in Nazi Germany he would have been considered
>RACIALLY Jewish and most probably would have ended up in a concentration
>camp despite his "aryan" looks. Though not Jewish according to Rabbinical
>Jewish Law, he could still get permanent residency status in Israel if came
>because he would have been considered racially jewish by the Nazis.
Was it his paternal GRANDFATHER who was Jewish?
Omri Schwarz
> YES:
> ECHELON BOMBSHELL: NSA ACCUSED OF SPYING ON US POLITICIANS ...
> Please Confirm ...
> Developing hard...
Would the NSA tell the CIA, knowing that the
CIA is run by a dolt without any clue about computer security?
I think not.
joseph hobeika
joseph hobeika
*****************************************
Clearance Info On The Superhighway.
*******************************
Air Force members need to get clearance for information in electronic form the same as for hard
copy. That's what Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch reminded Department of Defense people
in a recent memo. He acknowledged DOD, like other federal agencies and private companies, has
quick and easy electronic ways to communicate with the general public. He mentioned electronic
bulletin boards and the growth of the internet system as part of the huge available worldwide
network. But even with the Clinton administration's theme of openness in government, Deutch
wants DOD to ensure the proper review and clearance of information on electronic systems,
whether it's placed on a publicly accessible computer server or in response to electronic mail
queries from the general public.
*******************************************************************************
joseph hobeika
***************************************
NICOSIA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The Cyprus
government said on Saturday it was satisfied
that top-secret British listening posts on
the Mediterranean island were not spying on
the islanders.
Foreign Minister Ioannis Cassoulides said he
had assurances from British diplomats that
no spying was directed against Cyprus.
A report recently submitted to the European
Parliament said the United States and Britain
used the so-called Echelon network for
industrial espionage on Europe. Both countries
denied the accusation.
The network is said to be capable of
intercepting phone conversations, faxes and
e-mail messages from around the world.
The European Parliament report followed
allegations that a station of the Echelon
system is located at one of two military
bases Britain maintains on Cyprus but the
officials said no surveillance was being used
against Cyprus.
"The British government has assured us that
Cyprus is not a target of bases' activity...the
(British) High Commission told us that Britain
has no reason to spy on Cyprus and said no more,"
Cassoulides told reporters.
"Within the Cyprus Republic there is no surveillance
operation going on....We consider Britain a friendly
country which supports Cyprus's EU entry. Until
proven otherwise we still consider it a friendly
country," Cassoulides added.
He said Cyprus would complain if it discovered
otherwise.
It has been well known that Britain has had
sophisticated listening posts on the island for
years.
Theories abound over whom they monitor, while
successive Cypriot governments have publicly shown
little inclination at rocking the boat with their
former colonial rulers, quietly accepting their
presence.
But opposition parties have seized on the opportunity
to renew their calls for Britain to pack up its military
and leave.
"Of course they are spying. What else would they be
here for?" asked Marios Matsakis, an opposition member
of parliament.
joseph hobeika
***************************************
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) _ Some professors at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
criticized former CIA director John Deutch's
return to a teaching position there in light
of accusations he mishandled classified
information after leaving the security agency
in 1996, The Boston Globe reported today.
Deutch, who served as MIT provost from 1985
to 1990, now works at the university as one
of about a dozen "institute professors."
The lucrative positions are awarded to top
professors, who are allowed to essentially
do as they please.
Molecular biology professor Jonathan King, an
MIT professor for 30 years, described Deutch
as a "Washington operative, skilled in the
federal bureaucracy," who should not have been
allowed to return to academia.
"The CIA reflects everything contrary to the
spirit of the university, such as openness,
international communication and cooperation,"
he said.
Deutch, 61, is under investigation by the
Justice Department for allegedly using
unsecured home computers to process classified
information.
Ted Postal, professor at MIT's security studies
program, said the accusations against Deutch
threaten the integrity of the university's
administration.
"When someone so recklessly leaves information
in such an unprotected situation, it's very
hard to know what was lost," he said. "It's
very serious."
Deutch declined the Globe's requests for comment.
In the past, he has expressed regret for his
errors.
His MIT defenders say, despite the ongoing
investigation, Deutch would never knowingly
compromise the country's security.
"Obviously, he messed up," said MIT chemistry
professor Timothy Swager. "But John's a patriot."
Eugene F. Kent
Israel has had is defined as not only a war criminal but by even a more
iniquitous term, a genocidest.
You have already admitted that zionists committed genocide at Deir Yassin.
Now let us comment on another point of light. Taken from Palestinian
Identity.
***At the base of the site, known in Arabic as al-Haram al-Sharif--- the
Noble Sanctuary--- encompasses a number of strikingly beautiful Islamic
structures, notably the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which have
dominated and adorned this space for the past thirteen centuries.
The entire area to the west of the wall, until 1967 a residential quarter
called Haret al-Maghariba, or the Moroccan quarter, was established as a
Muslim waqf, or inalienable pious endowment , in 1193 by al-Malik al-Afdal,
the son of the Ayyubid Sultan Salah al-Din (Saladin ) who retook the city
from the Crusaders. *** A few days after the zionists occupation of East
Jerusalem in 1967, the entire Moroccan quarter , including the four Muslin
religious sites it encompassed, was demolished, and its approximately 1000
residents either were evicted or murdered if they resisted as at Deir
Yassain, in order to create the large open plaza that now exists west of the
wall. In addition to its frequent use for Zionist religious gatherings. This
plaza has since 1967 become the site of zionist ultra nationalistic
gatherings. Such as, torchlight ceremonies celebrating graduation for
recruits to elite terrorist army units, and political demonstrations by
right wing parties.
Just as the Nazis have been hunted down and made to pay for their crimes
against humanity, so in time the zionist genocidists will be hunted down and
made to pay. Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from Ohio.
Kim Bebbington <ki...@gol.com> wrote in message
news:o4u4bscndc73s95c5...@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:51:26 +0100, joseph hobeika
> <hob...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Barak Appoints War Criminal to Top Ministry of Defense Post
> >
> >Francis A. Boyle
> >
> Thank you for posting that, Joseph. I'm glad to see you are so
> concerned with justice.....
>
> Now, tell us, about Elie Hobeika (any relation?) the head of the
> Christian forces who committed the massacre of 450 Palestinians (by
> the Lebanese governments own estimeates) in Sabra and Shatilla in
> 1982. I know he was a Lebanese cabinet minister in 1991. What's he
> doing these days?
>
> And what about Nabih Berri, the head of Amal, whose forces went
> through the same camps in 1986 and massacred thousands of
> Palestinians? He was Minister for Justice (Hahahahahahahaha) in the
> late 1980s and the Speaker of Parliament in the 90s. What's he doing
> now?
>
>
joseph hobeika
for 30 years, described Deutch as a ``Washington operative,
skilled in the federal bureaucracy,'' who should not have
been allowed to return to academia.
``The CIA reflects everything contrary to the spirit of
the university, such as openness, international communication
and cooperation,'' he said.
Notice that King's criticism makes no mention of the specific
controversy surrounding Deutch. His same argument would apply
to _any_ exDCI wanting to return (or enter for the first time)
an academic setting committed to upholding King's values.
Rather confusing for the journalist to mix this larger issue
with the smaller one.
Also, given MIT's history, it's a bit late to be proclaiming
openness and international communication as MIT standards.
MIT has been a major recipient of DOD funding for years,
and a lot of the research is not shared in anything close
to a free and internationally cooperative environment.
joseph hobeika wrote:
> 1. Was John Deutch the head of the CIA when it was disclosed that
> intercepted Israeli messages revealed that the Israelis had a high
> level source of sensitive information in the Clinton administration,
> whose codename was "Mega"?
>
> 2. If the head of the U.S. CIA was providing top secret information to
> Israel, the Israelis would certainly be justified in nicknaming their
> source as "Mega".!!!
> Check it out !!!
>
> Omri Schwarz wrote:
>
> > joseph hobeika wrote:
> > >
> > > Omri Schwarz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Daddy took his toys away.
> > >
> > > I think you are absolutely right ,
> > >
> > If there's anything else, I can ask him on Monday.
joseph hobeika
*********************************************
WASHINGTON - Reacting to a spate of charges,
a low-profile U.S. government spy agency is
defending to Congress controversial
information-gathering that allegedly includes
eavesdropping on ordinary Americans.
The National Security Agency mailed a letter
to all members of Congress last week that says:
"We want to assure you that the NSA's activities
are conducted in accordance with the highest
constitutional, legal and ethical standards,
and in compliance with statutes and regulations
designed to protect the privacy rights of U.S.
persons."
The letter, provided to The Associated Press,
was signed by Kenneth A. Heath, the NSA's chief
of staff for legislative affairs. It noted that
the CBS's 60 Minutes was airing a report on Sunday
that criticizes the agency's activities.
The NSA is less well known by the American public
than other U.S. spy agencies, such as the CIA.
A joke in the intelligence community was that NSA
was so secret that its initials stood for
"No Such Agency."
In the CBS broadcast Sunday, a former Canadian
intelligence agent said NSA cooperates with Canada,
Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand to run a
satellite listening operation. The eavesdropping
operation, known as Echelon, allegedly monitors
phone calls, e-mails and faxes in order to sift out
useful information about foreign governments, drug
trafficking and terrorism.
As an example, the Canadian, Mike Frost, said one
woman ended up in Echelon's database as a possible
terrorist because she told a friend on the phone
that her son had "bombed" in a school play.
In addition, the European Parliament in a report
last week accused the United States of using Echelon
for commercial spying - a kind of industrial espionage
- to help American companies win contracts over
European competitors.
State Department spokesman James Rubin refused in a
Feb. 23 briefing to confirm whether Echelon exists,
but said the NSA "is not authorized to provide
intelligence information to private firms," and
operates "in strict accordance with American law."
In its letter to Congress, the NSA said that, as a
matter of policy, it does not publicly confirm or
deny specific intelligence activities.
"However, we can tell you that NSA operates in strict
accordance with U.S. laws and regulations," the letter
said.
Attached to the letter are several pages that describe
legal constraints under which the NSA does its business,
including a flow chart showing how activities are
supervised by the Defense and Justice departments, as
well as House and Senate committees on intelligence.
Also, the papers note that Americans are entitled by
law to request to see all government records about
themselves, including the NSA's.
Nevertheless, the American Civil Liberties Union has
been requesting congressional hearings on Echelon for
nearly a year. In a letter sent to the House Government
Reform Committee in April 1999, the ACLU said:
"It is important that Congress investigate to determine
if the Echelon program is as sweeping and intrusive as
has been reported." ...!!!
The FOX is in Charge of the Hen Den....!!!!???????...!
*******************************************
Omri Schwarz
> from the Crusaders. *** A few days after the zionists occupation of East
> Jerusalem in 1967, the entire Moroccan quarter , including the four Muslin
> religious sites it encompassed, was demolished, and its approximately 1000
> residents either were evicted or murdered if they resisted as at Deir
> Yassain, in order to create the large open plaza that now exists west of the
> wall. In addition to its frequent use for Zionist religious gatherings. This
> plaza has since 1967 become the site of zionist ultra nationalistic
> gatherings. Such as, torchlight ceremonies celebrating graduation for
> recruits to elite terrorist army units, and political demonstrations by
> right wing parties.
> Just as the Nazis have been hunted down and made to pay for their crimes
> against humanity, so in time the zionist genocidists will be hunted down and
> made to pay.
Just a few streets down from the plaza was the Jewish Quarter
of the old city.
All the Jews were made to leave in 1948, and in the 19 years that
followed
every last trace of the Jewish presence there was destroyed.
But of course,
when Muslims do it, it's not a crime,
since Muslims can do no wrong.
Omri Schwarz
>
> 1. Was John Deutch the head of the CIA when it was disclosed that
> intercepted Israeli messages revealed that the Israelis had a high
> level source of sensitive information in the Clinton administration,
> whose codename was "Mega"?
If "Mega" exists, he would have been much smarter than
that bufoon Deutch.
After all, Deutch got caught. "Mega" didn't.
> 2. If the head of the U.S. CIA was providing top secret information to
> Israel, the Israelis would certainly be justified in nicknaming their
> source as "Mega".!!!
> Check it out !!!
"Mega" is such a passe codename.
I'd have gone for a cooler codename, like "Space Rogue"
or "Billy the Bionic Badger."
Omri Schwarz
>
> I call you a pathological liar. You are only harming Judaism and exposing
> your closest Nazism. The Jews only entered this area when the zionist
> terrorists cleansed it of its indigenous citizens. These lies only appear in
> zionist publications to mislead unsuspecting persons of zionist murderous
> genocidist intentions. (
Pull your head out of your ass, fool.
Read any book on the 1948 civil war. Any.
You know what books are, don't you?
The expulsion of the Jews from the Jewish Quarter of
the Old City was carried by General Abdullah Tell
of the Arab Legion during the cease fire, after the quarter was
surrounded and besieged.
After the expulsion, the Jordanian citizen Fawzi Al Kutub personally
undertook the task of demolishing the synagogues in the quarter
and those houses not used to house refugees were destroyed.
Idiot.
Eugene F. Kent
your closest Nazism. The Jews only entered this area when the zionist
terrorists cleansed it of its indigenous citizens. These lies only appear in
zionist publications to mislead unsuspecting persons of zionist murderous
Eugene Kent. A Labor Voice from Ohio.
news:38BA8BEE...@mit.edu...
joseph hobeika
N - Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
used a global surveillance network to spy on two cabinet ministers in 1983, former
Canadian agent Mike Frost was quoted on Thursday as saying.
The two unnamed ministers were not suspected of being traitors but Thatcher felt
they disagreed with her over certain policy matters, Frost said. He said they were
spied on by a Canadian agent.
Frost made his allegations to the CBS-TV program "60 Minutes," according to
released excerpts.
In London, no comment was immediately available from Thatcher but Prime
Minister Tony Blair's office said the government would draw the allegations to
her attention.
"We will make sure Baroness Thatcher is aware of these allegations so she
can judge whether they merit a response," a spokeswoman told Reuters.
Frost's allegations came in the same week that a European Parliament
report said the Echelon surveillance network, a series of listening posts
around the world run by the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and
New Zealand, was used for industrial espionage.
The British government denied on Wednesday that it used Echelon for
industrial spying in Europe that could help U.S. corporations win contracts
ahead of European companies. Echelon was designed to eavesdrop on
suspected terrorists, drug lords and other governments hostile to the five
members.
"(Thatcher) had two ministers that she said, 'they weren't on side,'...so my
boss went to London and did intercept traffic from those two ministers,"
Frost was quoted as saying in the excerpts released by "60 Minutes."
His comments are due to be broadcast on Sunday.
Frost, who said he worked for Canadian intelligence from 1972 until 1992,
alleged the five countries could circumvent domestic laws against spying
on citizens by asking another Echelon member to do it for them.
"The British Parliament now have total deniability," Frost said, referring to
the alleged spying on the two ministers, whom he did not identify. "They
didn't do anything... We did it for them."
A senior British Foreign Office official said in response to the European
Parliament report that "any surveillance that there is in Britain has to be
authorized in accordance with the law as does any American activity here."
Echelon was capable of intercepting phone conversations, faxes and
e-mail messages around the world but sometimes the communications of
ordinary, innocent civilians were also monitored, Frost told "60 Minutes."
He cited a woman whose name and telephone number went into the
network's database as a possible terrorist because she had told a friend
on the phone that her son had "bombed" in a school play.
"The computer spit that conversation out," Frost was quoted as saying.
"The analyst ... was not too sure what the conversation was referring to,
so, erring on the side of caution, he listed that lady."
joseph hobeika
Mossad is better informed than Clinton ever was , from day one 92.
And the USA Government has the GUTS to say that IT has " An
Intelligence Community " It Does not , It Has A LEAKING , wide OPEN
Intelligence Bonanza for Israel to CONTROL. Period.
joseph hobeika
is Just BRILLIANT , It's a maestro the one who figured that out ....
It's Total & Complete Deniability ....... Just Brilliant.
No one is fooled , ......... except for Clinton.!
Omri Schwarz wrote:
> joseph hobeika wrote:
> >
> > Trust the LAKAM Boys & Girls , they are doing just Fine.
> > Mossad is better informed than Clinton ever was , from day one 92.
> > And the USA Government has the GUTS to say that IT has " An
> > Intelligence Community " It Does not , It Has A LEAKING , wide OPEN
> > Intelligence Bonanza for Israel to CONTROL. Period.
> >
>
> It's a leaking intel bonanza for everyone but Andorra, Tuvalu and Syria.
>
> I mean, Joe, this twit Deutch was a workaholic. So he took work
> home. That's bad enough. But then he cruises the web on the
> same frikkin' computer!!
>
> Shit, *I* could have hacked into it if I were so inclined.
Omri Schwarz
joseph hobeika
joseph hobeika
every corner & problem on this Planet . !!!After the Facts....!!!!
American Committee for Chechnya Established.
****************************************************************
On February 2, 2000, General Alexander Haig, Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski and
Ambassador Max Kampelman founded the American Committee for Chechnya.
The Committee is still in the process of formation , but already
several dozens of highest level politicians, scholars, intellectuals and
public persons have joined it. The full list will be published later.
On February 10th, the Committee (ACC) issued the Founding Declaration,
published below, stating its purpose and calling upon the United States
to immediately announce a comprehensive plan to deter Russian aggression
in Chechnya, to provide humanitarian relief to the Chechen people, and
to begin a process of bringing the war to a negotiated end.
Attached you will find a copy of the founding declaration of the American
Committee for Chechnya which calls upon the United States to immediately
announce a comprehensive plan to deter Russian aggression in Chechnya, to
provide humanitarian relief to the Chechen people, and to begin a process
of bringing the war to a negotiated end. The declaration lists a series
of steps that should be part of such a plan.
I am writing to invite you to endorse this statement which makes clear
the urgency and importance of this issue. I hope that the establishment
of the Committee and the circulation of this declaration will help
generate policies and actions that will bring this terrible war to a
peaceful end and begin a process of reconstruction and reconciliation.
If you agree with the statement, please send a fax to (202) 466-7140, or
email to <id...@idee.org>. Please feel free to circulate it widely among
friends and colleagues.
You are encouraged to sign the declaration, to create your own Committees
if you live in other countries and to press your own governments to stop
the human rights abuses (genocide) presently going on in Chechnya.
FOUNDING DECLARATION AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR CHECHNYA
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Irena Lasota
Coordinator
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Max M. Kampelman
Co-Chairs
FOUNDING DECLARATION
We are American citizens of diverse and independent views who have come
together in opposition to the brutal war that Russia is currently waging
against the people of Chechnya. The ruthless bombardment and killing of
civilians, the leveling of cities and the destruction of villages, the
attacks on refugee convoys, the blocking of food aid and the denial of
access to humanitarian relief organizations and human rights witnesses
all belie Russian propaganda that this is a war against terrorism. It is
nothing of the kind. As Dr. Andrei Sakharov's widow Elena Bonner explained
to a Senate hearing last November, Russia's goal is "to annihilate a
large part of the Chechen nation and to drive out those who survive
from their native land. Their aim is to keep Chechnya as part of the
Russian Federation -- but without the Chechens. This is genocide. This
is not just another routine violation of human rights. This is a crime
against humanity."
This cruel war is a catastrophe for Russia as well as for Chechnya. The
historic challenge facing Russia today is to build a modern democratic
country after 70 years of communist totalitarianism. More than one third
of the population lives in abject poverty. Crime and corruption are
rampant. Life expectancy and general health conditions are appallingly
low. Yet instead of trying to address these daunting problems, the Russian
leadership has resorted to the worst and most self-destructive practices of
the past -- diverting scarce resources from the civilian to the military
sector, using the press as an instrument of propaganda and Orwellian
truth-twisting, inflaming nationalist passions and fears, and subjugating
through brute force a small non-Russian people. The war fever generated
by the government may enable Acting President Vladimir Putin to win the
March 26 election, but for the Russian people this war is a dead-end.
The passivity of the international community in the face of Russia's
inhuman assault on Chechnya has exposed the inconsistency of the policy of
humanitarian intervention enunciated last year during the Kosovo crisis
and subsequently in the effort to end the killing in East Timor. The
killing of noncombatants in Chechnya is even more extensive, yet the
United States and other Western countries have done nothing to oppose
Russia's unconscionable actions other than issuing half-hearted complaints
about the excessive use of force.
There is no excuse for inaction. The United States should immediately
announce a comprehensive plan to deter Russian aggression, provide
humanitarian relief to the Chechen people, and begin a process of
bringing the war to a negotiated end. The United States should:
-- Oppose the release of World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans
to Russia as long as the war continues. Since Russian government revenues
do not meet regular budget expenditures, these loans serve, in effect, as
an indirect subsidy for the war. There can be no justification for using
American taxpayer money for this purpose.
-- Initiate consultations with other members of the G-7 regarding the
suspension of Russia from participation in the Annual Summit. The G-7,
which became known as the G-8 with Russia's inclusion, is an association
of democratic societies with advanced economies. Although Russia is
not yet a liberal democracy or an advanced economy, it was invited
to take part in this summit to encourage its democratic evolution.
Russia's conduct in Chechnya violates the norms expected of members of
this community and thus argues for its disqualification from further
participation.
-- Call upon the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to appoint
a special rapporteur on Chechnya, with authorization to investigate
Russian violations of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection
of Civilian Persons in Time of War, including the carpet bombing of
cities, the bombardment of poisonous nuclear waste sites in Chechnya,
and the establishment of "filtration camps" -- otherwise known as
concentration camps -- for males between the ages of 10 and 60, who
are allegedly subjected to torture and other gross violations of
human rights. The United States should also insist that Russia
cease denying access to the war region to independent journalists
and human rights monitors.
-- Take the lead in mobilizing humanitarian relief to the hundreds of
thousands of civilians who remain in Chechnya and to the more than 250,000
refugees who have fled to neighboring regions, especially Ingushetia,
where the lack of medicines, food, drinking water, tents, warm clothing,
doctors, nurses, and surgical supplies has led to the death of thousands
from cold, disease, and wounds. The United States should insist that
Russia permit direct access to these areas by international humanitarian
agencies so that such relief can be provided immediately.
-- Call upon the OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya to act upon its
mandate -- which was reaffirmed at the last OSCE Summit by the
participating states, including the Russian Federation -- to negotiate
a political solution to the present crisis. Tragically, Russia has
chosen to disregard the Khasavyurt agreement ending the 1994-96 war and
the peace treaty which was signed on May 12, 1997, by Russian President
Yeltsin and Chechen President Maskhadov. That treaty stipulated that
"The High contracting parties, wishing to end many centuries of antagonism
and striving to establish durable, equal and mutually beneficial
relations, have agreed 1) To renounce forever the use or threat of force
to decide disputes; [and] 2) To construct their relations with the
generally-accepted principles and norms of international law..." It is
not too late to return to this agreement and to bring this pointless and
self-destructive war to a peaceful end. The United States must use its
influence within the OSCE and directly in its bilateral relations with
Russia to begin a process that will lead to a political settlement of
the war and the reconstruction of Chechnya's devastated society.
For Contact: E-mail: Ir...@idee.org
Fax: (202) 466-7140
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Letter of Elena Bonner TO THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR CHECHNYA
I wholeheartedly support the statement of Alexander Haig, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, and Max Kampelman, all of whom I greatly respect, announcing
the creation of an American Committee for Chechnya. I thank them for
their invitation to participate in its work, even though I am not an
American citizen. I agree with all the points of the Committee's
Founding Declaration, and I am confident that many human rights
organizations, disturbed by events in Chechnya, will collaborate with
the Committee.
I believe that
1. First of all, the Committee should work with the UN, the OSCE, the
Council of Europe, and the European Parliament to gain the Russian
government's agreement to stationing of permanent observers and
representatives of humanitarian organizations throughout the entire region
of Chechnya which is under the control of the Russian army. I consider
this a realistic demand if the international organizations I have listed
will not limit themselves to verbal scolding. The current tendency to
shift the Russian governments powers to the security forces and the
military poses no less of a danger to the international community than
the Austrian political situation. Only the presence of international
observers can protect Chechnya?s population from so-called "cleansing,"
arbitrary executions and looting. In particular, it is important that
representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross be allowed
to inspect the conditions of detention in "filtration camps." A refusal
to give permission for the presence of international observers should
lead to the presumption that Russia is hiding not only gross violations
of human rights and mass slaughter from bombing and shelling, but also
continuing crimes against humanity and genocide. The organization of
a special information center (called the Russian Information Center,
an imitation of Stalin?s Soviet Information Bureau), the refusal to
allow visits to the war zone by independent correspondents, and the
disappearance a month ago of Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Babitsky
with the later claim that he had been detained and exchanged for Russian
POWs heighten the fears I have expressed above.
2. All humanitarian assistance for Chechnya should be distributed by the
staff of international humanitarian organizations or under their direct
supervision. If it becomes possible in the future for international
financial institutions to provide assistance for the reconstruction of
Chechnya, such assistance should bypass Russian organizations, and be sent
directly to Chechnya for specific projects, in the first place, projects
connected with health services. Such assistance should also be monitored
by international observers.
During the last six years, in the course of two ferocious wars, the
Chechen population has been cut almost in half. If the international
community does not protect those Chechens who are still alive, we will
all share in the guilt for this crime against humanity - a crime of
the 21st Century!
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AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR CHECHNYA
Irena Lasota
Coordinator
2000 P Street, NW #400
Washington DC, 20036
Fax: (202) 466-7140
Email: <id...@idee.org>
Attached you will find a copy of the founding declaration of the American
Committee for Chechnya which calls upon the United States to immediately
announce a comprehensive plan to deter Russian aggression in Chechnya, to
provide humanitarian relief to the Chechen people, and to begin a process
of bringing the war to a negotiated end. The declaration lists a series of
steps that should be part of such a plan.
I am writing to invite you to endorse this statement which makes clear the
urgency and importance of this issue. I hope that the establishment of the
Committee and the circulation of this declaration will help generate
policies and actions that will bring this terrible war to a peaceful end
and begin a process of reconstruction and reconciliation.
If you agree with the statement, please send a fax to (202) 466-7140, or
email to id...@idee.org. Please feel free to circulate it widely among your
friends and colleagues.
Sincerely,
Irena Lasota
Coordinator
Date:_______________
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR CHECHNYA
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humanitarian relief to the Chechen people.
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joseph hobeika
- - The wave of concern in Europe about
U.S. intelligence services' intercepting
commercial phone, fax and e-mail messages
around the world has been surprising,
diplomats say, mainly because it seems to
demonstrate deepening international fears
about the global reach of U.S. power.
The only new element in the discussion,
triggered by a European Parliament report
last week, is that Washington has for the
first time dropped its denials that U.S.
agencies routinely tap private conversations
on a huge scale.
For more than a decade, after an earlier
report first raised questions about worldwide
U.S. electronic intelligence capabilities,
Washington has maintained officially that
the National Security Agency and National
Reconnaissance Office and other U.S.
listening agencies targeted only military
and political antagonists.
Now the European Parliament report, filed in
December and debated publicly last week, has
taken a fresh and deeper look at Echelon, as
the system is known.
While not entirely new, these disclosures -
that the United States and its closest allies
have developed a post-Cold War system that can
record up to 2 billion telephone messages daily
- fit a pattern of diffuse, persistent fears
that Washington is ready to use any means, fair
or foul, to advance toward U.S. global hegemony
in power and business.
In a bid to clear up some misapprehensions,
U.S. and European officials and specialists,
some with links to intelligence services, were
willing to disclose some aspects of current signal
intelligence, as electronic eavesdropping is known,
on the condition that they not be identified.
They all asserted that listening to private
conversations was common practice among governments,
including those of Britain, Australia and Canada,
which are associated with the United States in a
worldwide effort.
France, too, where the media and some officials
have gone furthest in accusing the United States
of commercial espionage, has its own worldwide
network to listen to international telephone
communications, the officials and specialists
said.
A secret facility in French Guiana is targeted
on the main commercial communications satellite
frequencies over North America and also has
antennas designed to pick up calls inside the
United States, they said.
Declining to comment on current French practices
- except to praise Paris for cooperation in this
area against international terrorists - the sources
said France had a record into the 1990s of turning
over secrets to French industry, which until recently
has been largely state-owned.
Similar charges have been leveled at the U.S.-run
worldwide program. In the European Parliament report,
this complaint - that information gleaned by the
National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence
agencies is given to American companies to help them
against foreign competition - cites two often-mentioned
cases where U.S. companies beat out French rivals at
the last minute.
Providing fresh detail about these deals, which
involved aircraft in Brazil and in Saudi Arabia, the
sources disclosed that the U.S. government did use
intelligence information and phone intercepts to
influence the outcome by proving that the French bids
involved bribery.
''We just gave them the stuff, the tapes, and
they were faced with the evidence,'' said a person
with access to the secret records of both cases.
Confronted with this proof, Brazil felt compelled
to award the contract to Raytheon and Saudi Arabia
to McDonnell-Douglas, the source said.
The United States, and more recently France and other
European countries, have passed laws against corruption
in sales to foreign governments. As a result, recent
U.S. administrations have felt entitled to use their
secretly acquired information to prevent American
companies from losing important deals because of
bribes from competitors, presumably from American
as well as international rivals.
But the sources vigorously denied, as U.S. officials
have consistently done, that intelligence information
about rivals is ever passed on to individual American
companies.
The clarifications were aimed at blunting suggestions
in France and other European countries about the uses
to which eavesdropping is put. In the widespread
European rumor, U.S. electronic intelligence,
developed as a military arm in the Cold War, has
been redirected at targets in allied countries for
commercial advantage.
U.S. officials have tried to dispel this suspicion,
but their efforts seem to be hindered by the reluctance
of the intelligence community, notably the branches
involved in signal intelligence, to open up radically
to allied services, even during joint operations in
the Gulf and the Balkans, the sources said.
Governments in Europe have responded to the growing
U.S. electronic reach by emulating it, albeit on a
smaller scale.
The secret facility in French Guiana scans across the
Caribbean in hopes of capturing phone traffic within
the United States. France has two other main
installations, one in Dordogne, in southwestern
France, and one in New Caledonia.
The distinctly muted official reactions in Europe to
the controversy over Echelon has other explanations,
too: Few of these countries have any substantial
safeguards against official eavesdropping on their
own citizens.
''If they go too far in denouncing us, they are liable
to end up with questions at home about the fact that
the French authorities, for example, can do almost
whatever they want,'' said an official involved in
bilateral intelligence.
Another hard-to-quantify factor is the changing European
perception of Britain. Echelon, in which Britain is the
technical linchpin and direct beneficiary in Europe, is
being viewed by some Europeans as confirmation that London
is a Trojan horse of U.S. power in Europe.
But that image is blurring now that the government of Prime
Minister Tony Blair is seriously exploring European military
cooperation with Paris and other EU capitals.
joseph hobeika
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PALESTINIAN SECURITY SERVICES CONTINUE TO ARREST BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS AND DENY LAW'S LAWYER ACCESS TO VISIT THEM
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28 FEBRUARY 2000
The Palestinian Security Services (PSS) are still maintaining illegal
and arbitrary arrest campaigns against a number of Birzeit students
who participated in stone throwing at the French Prime Minister,
Lionel Jospin, and his car while he visited the university campus on
26 February 2000. Jospin had earlier blasted the Hizbullah resistance
group as terrorists. His statements had triggered criticism in the
Arab world. Further arrests took place yesterday after a demonstration
took place in Ramallah in protest of the Birzeit university students.
Students were arrested from their homes, buses, the main entrances of
the university campus and from Ramallah.
According to LAW, the arrests have amounted 39 students until the
evening of Sunday, 27 February, whereas official security figures of
the Preventative Security Apparatus (PSA) and the General Intelligence
Apparatus (GIA) amounted to 30 arrests. LAW has compiled the following
list of arrested students:
1. Lo'ai Bayatna, 20, a resident of the village of Abu Qash
2. Firas Arrar, 29, a resident of the village of Bani Zeid
3. Tareq Arrar, 22, a resident of the village of Bani Zeid
4. Issam Arrar, 21, a resident of the village of Bani Zeid
5. Iyad Ariyahi, 26, from Al Jalazone Refugee Camp
6. I'tiraf Arimawi, 22, from Beit Rima
7. Rami Fadayel, 22, from Beit Rima
8. Asid Ashanti, 23, from Qalqilya
9. Nassar Abu Karsh, 24, from Doura
10. Jubran Azar, 21, from Ramallah
11. Shadi Al Ka'bi, 20, from Ramallah
12. Khader Adnan
13. Ibrahim Asabe'
14. Dia' Awad
15. Fares Arouri, 18, from Ramallah (released yesterday evening)
16. Mohannad Abu Ghosh, 21, resident of Al Bireh
17. Hazem Sha'lan,
20, a student at the Qalandia vocational school and a resident of
Birzeit
18. Wasta Tannous, 20, a student of the Evangelical high
school in Ramallah
19. Fahd Abu Zuluf, 15, a student of the
Evangelical high school in Ramallah
20. Iyad Mir'eb 21. Issam Hamarneh
22. Issam Anatsheh from Jerusalem
23. Hani Al Barghouti from Beit Rima
24. Rami Al Barghouti from Beit Rima
25. Rami Aslamin from Asamou'
26. Mahmoud Shreoteh from Yatta
27. Amer Birqawi from Burqa
28. Mu'ath
Samara from Ramallah
29. Naji Sider from Hebron
30. Mahdi Kharoub from
Halhoul
31. A'la' Jaradat from Jenin
32. Sa'ed Asirsawi
33. Mu'ayad
Arrar from Beni Zeid
34. Mohammad Abu Libdeh
35. Jamil Al Barghouti(released)
36. Firas Al Barghouti
37. Nassar Abu Ghosh
38. Israr
Ya'coub Hilaneh from Ein Arik
39. Sameh Asader from Nablus
According to LAW's field researcher who followed up the situation in
Ramallah, 4 students were later arrested by security services who had
been watching the students from a car with a government license plate.
Another student against whom a kidnap attempt by the PSS had failed,
said in an affidavit to LAW that the demonstration called by the
Birzeit students had started from Ramallah and proceeded to the
authority's headquarters where the students were met by a high ranking
military personnel. The students explained that they were very angry
at the arrest campaigns conducted against the Birzeit students and
handed in a petition of protest and returned to the center of
Ramallah. As soon as the demonstration dispersed, a number of the
demonstrators were chased by the security services. One student
identified as Mohannad Abu Ghosh, a Birzeit student and resident of Al
Bireh was kidnapped and pushed into a white car, believed to be used
by the presidential security. LAW's field researcher noted some red
marks on the neck of the student who gave the affidavit.
While representatives of the various political factions at Birzeit
University have denounced the attack on the French Prime Minister,
they also condemned statements made by Palestinian security officials
who have described the events as orchestrated attempts that could have
led to manslaughter. The students expressed astonishment at these
exaggerated statements, which were exploited as a pretext for the
detentions.
Relatives of the arrested students have complained that their sons
were arrested without proof that they had participated in the stone
throwing. They added that the arrests took place arbitrarily and
without arrest warrants. Other relatives complained that their sons
were only holding slogans condemning Jospin's statements and had not
participated in the violent acts.
It is feared that the arrests were carried out for reasons of
opposition with the mainstream and/or and upon political affiliation,
especially as some of the students have expressed direct commendation
of the use of violence. On the other hand, it was pointed out that
some of the detained university students are students of the
university but were not on campus on the date of the French Prime
Minister's visit.
LAW's lawyers have tried to visit the detained students in Jericho but
officials at the PSA and the GIA have denied them access without any
legal justification.
LAW condemns all acts of violence and considers the unfortunate events
at the campus as a contravention to the spirit of Palestinian
tradition and a contradiction to the international university norms
and standards. LAW wishes to reiterate its position on the
intervention of the security services in academic and student affairs,
which was reflected in the arbitrary and illegal arrests.
LAW affirms that some of the students were not involved in the acts of
violence.
LAW also expresses concern over the closure of the university and the
dismissal of some students.
LAW demands the following:
1. Reopening of the campus and the restoration of normal conditions
2. Abolition of the dismissal orders
3. The formation of a fact finding mission to investigate the events
4. Prevention of pressure and intervention from outside the
university
LAW calls on the PNA to
1. Refrain from further arrests
2. Immediately release all detained students
3. Follow legal procedures of arrest
4. Allow LAW's lawyer to visit the detainees
joseph hobeika
ECHELON BOMBSHELL: NSA ACCUSED OF SPYING ON US POLITICIANS in USA.
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The National Security Agency may be using the Echelon network to eavesdrop
on US politicians, says a shock report set for broadcast this weekend!
Everywhere in the world, everyday, peoples phone calls, emails and faxes are
monitored by Echelon, a secret government surveillance network. Former spy
Mike Frost cracks Echelon wide open, in an interview with Steve Kroft on CBS'
60 MINUTES.
MORE
American politicians have been eavesdropped on, says Margaret Newsham,
a woman who worked at Menwith Hill in England, the NSA's largest spy station.
She says she was shocked to hear the voice of Senator Strom Thurmond (Rep.
S.C.) on a surveillance headset.
The exposing of such possible abuses of Echelon will surely add to the growing
firestorm in Europe over the system. Earlier this week the European Parliament
issued a report accusing the U.S. of using Echelon for commercial spying to help
American companies win lucrative contracts over European competitors on two
separate occasions. The U.S. State Department denies such spying took place
and will not even acknowledge the existence of the top secret Echelon project.
Rep. Porter Goss (Rep.- Fla), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,
which has oversight of the NSA, does acknowledge that the U.S. has the capability
to pick up any phone call and that even his own conversations could have been
monitored. But Goss says there are methods to prevent the abuse of that
information. I cannot stop the dust in the ether but what I can make sure, is that
the capability is not abused, he tells Kroft.
MORE
The NSA runs Echelon with Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a
series of listening posts around the world that eavesdrop on terrorists, drug lords
and hostile foreign governments. But to find out what the bad guys are up to, all
electronic communications, including those of the good guys, must be captured
and analyzed for key words by super computers, a fact that makes Former spy
Mike Frost uncomfortable.
"My concern is no accountability and nothing, no safety net in place for the
innocent people who fall through the cracks," he tells Kroft.
As an example of those innocent people, Frost cites a woman whose name and
telephone number went into the Echelon database as a possible terrorist simply
because she told a friend on the phone that her son had bombed in a school play.
"The computer spit that conversation out. The analysts not too sure what the
conversation was referring to, so, erring on the side of caution, he listed that lady,"
Frost recalls.
Democracies usually have laws against spying on citizens, but Frost says
Echelon members could ask another member to spy for them in an end run
around those laws. Frost tells Kroft that his Canadian intelligence boss spied
on British government officials for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Developing hard...